The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

After entering the winery, Statham issued an order through the communicator: "According to the international anti-ghost organization action standards, form a group of seven people, equipped with ghost energy detectors, combat personnel and medical personnel. Continue to maintain the safety rope connection, report any situation immediately, and nearby teams will provide support immediately. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir!"

"Yes, sir!"

The troops immediately divided into teams according to Statham's orders and began to spread out in a fan-shaped formation, searching the winery.

As the strongest fighter in the army, Shen Ge assigned the most important people in the army, such as Emily, to his group to ensure that the reconnaissance mission could be completed smoothly.

"Here!" Emily, who was walking in front of the paranormal energy detector, found a secret room in a manor-like building based on the paranormal energy fluctuations.

"Captain Shen Ge, Captain Statham, I found a secret room at the location of '****'. The safety rope is numbered 57. Please ask the surrounding team members to provide support immediately." The anti-evil agent of Emily's team immediately informed the entire team of the latest situation through the communicator.

Statham arrived quickly with his men. After investigating the situation around the secret room with everyone, he ordered, "Well done, Mark. You lead the men to guard the entrance. Emily, follow me. Captain Shen Ge, please come down with us."

"it is good."

Shen Ge entered the secret passage with everyone else, passed through the narrow tunnel and soon arrived at the door of a basement.

When the ghost warrior pushed open the door of the basement, a pungent smell mixed with disinfectant and decay hit him in the face.

Emily subconsciously covered her mouth and nose, while the others raised their detectors vigilantly.

"The energy readings are abnormal, be careful." The strange energy detector warned.

Someone tried to find the switch on the wall and turned on the light successfully. However, the light in the basement flickered and made an unsettling buzzing sound. The walls were covered with some kind of biological tissue-like substance, which squirmed slightly as they moved.

"These... these are alive!" Emily scanned the wall with a detector and said in surprise: "They seem to be a new type of substance... They look a bit like fungal mats, but they are not fungal mats."

As they continued to go deeper, the scene before them became more and more disturbing. On both sides of the corridor were lined with cylindrical culture chambers, in which various strange biological tissues floated. Some looked like mutant human organs, while others were completely beyond their cognition.

The surrounding area was filled with various experimental equipment, most of which were rusted and aged. The most eye-catching one was a huge culture chamber with some unknown biological tissue floating in it.

Emily called up the weird energy detection instrument, and after some detection, she said in surprise: "This is... Oh my God, this is actually an artificially synthesized weird cell!"

While Emily was conducting the detection, Xiaoqi was also monitoring the data, but the conclusion it came to was different from Emily's.

Shen Ge had seen this kind of weird cells before in the Rongshan Mental Hospital in the fragment world. They were the internal organs packed in bottles.

"Look at this!" Emily stopped in front of a culture chamber, her voice trembling. Inside was a half-human, half-plant creature, with grape-like eyes all over its "face".

Shen Ge carefully observed the label on the incubator. Statham came up and read: "Experimental subject X-27... Consciousness fusion degree 87%... Are they trying to transfer human consciousness to these monsters? So those weirdos with a little intelligence before were actually created in this way?"

As we all know, monsters are created by implanting strange cells into matching human bodies for fusion.

However, the monsters created in this way face two major problems. One is the damage to human cells caused by the strange energy; the other is the problem of strange cells devouring human cells.

Therefore, the monsters born in this way not only have a short lifespan, but also lose their ability to reproduce.

And if the new type of monster in the incubator is really as Emily and Statham guessed, it is created by transferring human consciousness into a strange body, then the key issue of the "human body" being eroded and damaged by strange energy is perfectly skipped.

"But... can this really be done?" a detective asked doubtfully.

If it were in the past, Shen Ge would also doubt the feasibility of this method, but don’t forget that the "creator" in the Ark successfully uploaded his consciousness to the server, which means that it is not completely impossible to implant consciousness into a strange brain!

Suddenly, Emily's weird energy detector issued a shrill alarm. She pointed forward in fear and shouted, "Captain, there... there's a bigger one!"

At the end of the laboratory, a huge culture chamber occupied an entire wall. Inside floated a huge creature made up of countless plant vines and human limbs. The most terrifying thing was that its "head" was a huge human brain with glowing patterns all over its surface.

"Oh my God, what on earth is this?" Emily said with a trembling voice.

Shen Ge's face was extremely solemn. Combining what he had seen along the way, he realized that the weird research that appeared here might really be something that had never appeared before.

Recalling the internal organs seen in the Rongshan Mental Hospital in the Fragmented World, it is certain that this place must have some connection with the Monster Association.

Shen Ge approached the incubator and noticed a control console next to it. The screen displayed a complex neural network diagram and constantly jumping data.

Mark said doubtfully, "Don't you find it strange? The entire manor, no, the entire area is trapped in the strange fog, but the equipment and instruments here can still be used normally. The most suspicious thing is that these equipment look abandoned for at least ten or twenty years, right?"

Emily tried to hack the console and quickly browsed the data: "They are trying to create a super consciousness, combining human wisdom with weird abilities to avoid the weaknesses of weirdos."

At this moment, the creatures in the incubator suddenly opened countless eyes, and a powerful mental shock wave hit them. Emily covered her head in pain.

Alive, alive?

Except for Emily, everyone who went down to the basement was a seasoned ghost fighter. But when the ghost opened its eyes, more than half of them showed symptoms similar to Emily's. Even the strong Statham was no exception. He covered his aching head with one hand and tried to activate the ghost energy equipment with the other.

Shen Ge stood motionless in front of the culture tank, opened the strange eye on his forehead and "looked" at dozens or hundreds of strange eyes.

At the same time, Xiao Qi was secretly helping Emily's computer crack the control terminal and quickly download the research data here.

"Captain, Captain... My, my, my head... It hurts so much..." Emily and the anti-ghost warriors groaned in pain.

Statham endured the discomfort and quickly activated a portable electromagnetic barrier, forming a light blue barrier in front of everyone to try to block the attack in the incubator. "Hold on!" Statham supported Emily and called on everyone to leave quickly: "We have to leave here immediately!"

But it was too late. The door of the laboratory suddenly closed automatically, the biological tissue on the wall began to wriggle violently, and countless vines stretched out from the culture chamber.

"Damn it!" Statham quickly assessed the situation and asked everyone to gather together and prepare for battle: "Emily, can you operate that console?"

Emily nodded reluctantly and controlled the computer again: "I...I'll try..."

"I'll cover you!" Statham activated his ghost energy equipment and started to clear the approaching vine tentacles with the surrounding anti-ghost warriors.

After some operations, Emily stumbled to the control console and quickly tapped on the keyboard: "Sure enough, there are defense measures against strange events here. I found it... There is an emergency shutdown procedure here, but it requires a password! Hang on, I'm deciphering it!"

Real code cracking is not as simple as launching a software to read a bar in the movies. It not only requires a lot of time support, but also requires powerful computing power.

However, just three seconds later, Xiao Qi's voice rang in Shen Ge's ears: "Master, I have cracked the code of the defense measures. Do you want to try it?"

Shen Ge's strange eyes were still trying to analyze the real reason why everyone in the room was affected after the strange eyes opened.

According to his judgment, this should be a kind of erosion by strange energy, similar to a special mental fluctuation, which will only affect people with lower will and strength, just like the situation when Fang Mingyue had hallucinations after being eroded by strange energy in a high-level strange body.

"Let's give it a try." Shen Ge also wanted to see whether the defensive measures installed here could really control this level of weirdness.

"Success!" With the secret help of Xiaoqi, Emily successfully cracked the code of the defense system. In an instant, metal walls descended around the culture tank, and the outer periphery was transparent bulletproof glass. The pressure in the culture tank began to decompress rapidly, and the monster inside made a deafening "swallowing sound".

Chi-

After some strange liquid was injected into the incubator, the strange creature that had opened countless eyes closed again.

When the pain in everyone's heads disappeared, peace returned to the basement.

Statham gasped and said, "Well done, Dr. Emily, you saved us all."

Emily sat on the ground exhausted, her mind full of doubts: "Strange, according to my detection, the code should not be that simple, why... was it successfully deciphered? This is too strange. I feel it is a little unreal."

The group tried to stay away from the incubators as much as possible and searched the underground laboratory, trying to find some new clues.

"Report to the commander, we have made a discovery!" Mark's men found a secret compartment in the filing cabinet where the research files were stored.

The ghost warriors brought out these documents, and Shen Ge, Statham and others picked up the documents and looked through them.

The dusty documents revealed a shocking truth - the owners of this manor, the Granger family, began studying "weird people" as early as twenty years ago.

Emily carefully opened a yellowed diary, blew away the dust on it, and read out the vague words: "This is the note of William Granger, the head of the previous generation of the Granger family. He recorded a strange incident twenty years ago!"

The Grangers are one of Australia's leading families, involved in both business and politics, with the most successful one having served as a cabinet minister.

Australia's largest biopharmaceutical company is also owned by the Granger family.

The family also owns a large number of wineries that produce a variety of delicious wines, and this winery is just one of their many industries.

Statham took the diary. The yellowed pages were filled with dense handwriting. The most eye-catching one was a hand-drawn picture of a strange creature with the words "perfect life form... the next step in human evolution... new humans" written next to it.

Mark pointed to one of the documents and said, "This seems to be the genealogy of the Granger family. Most of the people listed on it participated in this plan."

Statham pondered and said, "I remember Commander Wilson mentioned before that the international anti-evil organization had long wanted to enter the evil disaster area in advance to control it. At that time, it was the politicians led by the Granger family members who rejected this proposal, which led to the spread of the evil disaster."

Emily continued to look through the documents, and as more documents were decrypted, a huge conspiracy gradually surfaced.

The Granger family used their influence in Australia to secretly control multiple research institutions, and their hands even reached into government and military research institutions.

"These are the records of the Granger family's capital flows from 20 years ago. They invested billions of dollars every year!" Emily pulled up an electronic document. This was only the flow of funds that the Granger family invested in the biopharmaceutical company openly, and no one knew how much they had invested secretly.

Emily said in a deep voice: "Bah, are you using the government's money to conduct research on freaks, and then secretly using the research data to transform the bodies of Granger family members?"

Mark was surprised and said, "So, most of the members of the Granger family have weird physiques, right?"

"That's possible." Statham murmured.

Emily said nervously: "Should we report this information to Commander Wilson immediately? I think..."

Statham flipped through an experimental plan, his face becoming more and more serious. "They are not studying weirdness... they are trying to control the evolution of weirdness! The Australian government and the Granger family are inseparable. It is not yet certain whether Commander Wilson is also involved. I decided to report the intelligence directly to the headquarters after we have investigated it thoroughly!"

The plan in Statham's hand describes in detail a project called the "New Human Project", which aims to create a new life form by combining human consciousness with strange abilities. John Granger is the final executor of this plan.

"Look here," Emily said, pointing to a video recording. "This is John Granger's last public appearance."

In the video, John stood in front of a huge incubator with a fanatical expression on his face, and excitedly said to the researchers around him: "We have finally found the key to human evolution. By uploading human consciousness..., we can achieve immortality!"

Wow, cyber ascension, huh?

Watching John Granger's crazy speech, Shen Ge thought of the group of creators. (End of this chapter)