Dark Light Chaser.

Chapter 625 Change
As Bell said.

These mutants look very intimidating, but their actual combat effectiveness is not high.

Bell deftly blocked the opponent's attack with his shield, then raised his hand and plunged the syringe into the opponent's waist.

After doing all this, Bell quickly retreated back to Yang Xingguo's side.

The three-legged mutant was seen wildly waving its four arms in place, but soon it collapsed and fell into a deep sleep.

He was then dragged to a corner by Bell, who had come forward again, and secured with restraint devices.

Yang Xingguo watched all of this silently.

He could understand the reasons why the Countermeasures Bureau created the Flame Demon Puppet and the Flame Winged Angel.

After all, both of them are highly lethal and have a deterrent effect.

But Yang Xingguo couldn't understand the mutant in front of him.

It's easy to tell from Bell's practiced movements that they've dealt with aberrations more than once or twice.

This is obviously the product of a failed experiment, so why bother storing it?

Yang Xingguo was unfamiliar with the supernatural and the Countermeasures Bureau.

He viewed this place like a goat guarding a gate, only able to guess and speculate about its meaning.

Aberrations are indeed the easiest products to obtain.

If you place a living being near something eerie, the human or animal that comes into close contact with the eerie aura will experience physical distortions, similar to those caused by radiation exposure.

With such simple raw materials, there is an abundance of aberrations available.

However, the importance of the aberration variant is no less than that of other projects. In fact, research on aberration reversal is one of the top priorities, on par with Yue Yangyan's DX project.

If the goal of the DX Project is to end all the Apostles and prevent the Thousand-Faced Man from ushering in a new era of the bizarre, then it is a positive and proactive confrontation.

Therefore, research on aberrations is a passive contingency plan following the return of the bizarre era, and it is crucial for the continuation of humanity.

If Project DX fails, the bizarre era will return.

Most people on this planet will either be devoured on the spot or become mutants under the influence of the strange phenomenon because they lack the strange adaptability.

Therefore, experiments to reverse aberrations are very important.

After dealing with the aberration, Bell walked over to Yang Xingguo: "The laboratory that created the Balrog is in the central area, and that strange object that can suppress Him is also there."

Yang Xingguo was silent for a moment, then looked at the deformed creatures that were fixed in place not far away and asked, "Were they originally human?"

"Uh, yeah, what's wrong?"

Bell was puzzled by this puzzling question: "The aberrations are failed experiments, but they are of great help to subsequent experiments, so we usually try to keep them intact and will not deliberately harm them."

"Do they still retain human consciousness?" Yang Xingguo asked again.

Bell touched his head through his protective suit: "We're not too sure about this either. Their minds are very confused, and we can't detect them using conventional mental abilities."

It's certain that they are mostly unconscious... and it's unknown when a way to restore the mutants will be found.

At the end, Bell grumbled, seemingly bored with the endless repetition of experiments.

However, most researchers go through a similar mental journey, constantly conducting repetitive experiments, which would exhaust anyone.

After listening to Bell's explanation, Yang Xingguo glanced at the aberration again.

If the mutants possessed the original human consciousness, what would they think if they discovered that their bodies had become like this?
It's probably worse than death.

The thought of killing the other person and freeing them from their predicament arose subconsciously in Yang Xingguo's mind.

This is the thought that almost any normal person would have after seeing that twisted flesh and the painful screams.

Rather than being studied in such a miserable state, death would be a relief.

Yang Xingguo had this thought because he was worried that if he accepted the gift of the mysterious black bead, he would also become this inhuman and ghostly state.

More importantly, what will become of Yang Xingyue and Yue Qihua, the experimental subjects mentioned by Yue Yangyan?

This underwater base is constantly redefining Yang Xingguo's understanding of what it means to be a human being.

He couldn't even imagine what he would see when he arrived at the DX Project laboratory.

Bell, who was leading the way, turned around and glanced at Yang Xingguo, whose expression was complicated.

As if guessing Yang Xingguo's thoughts at this moment, he asked, "You want to kill that mutant?"

Yang Xingguo ignored it, but did not deny it either.

Bell didn't ask any more questions, but chatted with Yang Xingguo while leading the way.

"It seems Dr. Yue hasn't explained the internal workings of the Countermeasures Bureau to you yet, has he?"

As Bell cautiously made his way forward, he said in a low voice, "Don't deny it, when I first became a member of the experimental zone, I was just as confused as you are now."

"Let me give you a simple example: a disease has appeared in the world, but it is being suppressed by special methods and has not spread on a large scale."

But in the not-too-distant future, the disease will kill everyone except for a very small number of people with innate antibodies.

For humanity to continue, it is necessary to infect some people with diseases, observe the effects of these diseases on their bodies, and then find ways to reverse this process.

"The 'mystery' is the disease that can destroy all of humanity. Finding a way to turn those who have been corrupted by the 'mystery' back to their original state is one of the main research areas in the experimental zone."

Three years at most, or perhaps five? No one knows the exact time when the strange phenomenon will appear on a large scale.

However, we absolutely cannot leisurely search for a way to immunize against this strange invasion during this period; we must use human experiments to speed up the research.

You might call this cold-blooded, but survival is built on sacrifice, just as medical advancements are built on countless bones.

Yang Xingguo was not unaware of, nor was he unable to comprehend, the principles Bell was referring to.

But the premise is that this matter doesn't happen to me.

When your sacrifice becomes the consensus of everyone, when others choose to remain silent in order to survive, or offer a few hypocritical protests before quietly casting their votes of approval...

Not many people want to be that victim.

Yue Qihua and Yang Xingyue were sent to the Yue family for upbringing for more than ten years from a young age.

Bell said that the strange thing would happen in three to five years. What does it mean to have been nurtured for ten years?
They are undoubtedly indispensable key figures.

People always change.

If it were the Yang Xingguo of the past who would abandon his beloved for his ideals, he might sacrifice his own interests for the greater good and choose to give up his daughter.

But now that he's entered middle age, with a sense of family responsibility and affection, he only responds with one sentence: Even if the sky falls and all the tall people die, I won't let my daughter hold it up!
(End of this chapter)