I'm the Demon King in Marvel

Chapter 596 Coercion and inducement

Chen Che, who was puzzled, suddenly thought of his old colleague Xu Gaohua, and immediately opened his personal terminal and made a call.

Xu Gaohua seemed to have been waiting for him and soon answered the call.

"The real person experiment failed?"

"Why is this happening?" Chen Che asked angrily, "Have you been hiding something from me?"

"That's not right! We all read the work log and notes left by Mr. Lin thirty years ago. We were all there. There's no way you could have tampered with it!"

"After studying for so many years, do you still think that humans are just life forms composed of elements?" Xu Gaohua sneered: "As early as the last century and the century before last, humans have already discovered the influence of consciousness on the body."

“Consciousness!” Chen Che’s eyes lit up, and he was immediately delighted: “That’s right, it’s the function of consciousness!”

"Could it be that consciousness affects the process of genetic recombination? These specimens collapsed because his consciousness could not support the recombination process?"

"No! Why doesn't this happen with mice? Animals also have consciousness!"

Xu Gaohua had already hung up the phone, leaving Chen Che alone talking to himself.

As a biology expert, Zou Chun could understand the conversation between the two and Chen Che's mumbling, so his occupational disease took effect and he also fell into deep thought.

"The drug destroyed the original genome. Does the process of reconstruction require self-awareness?"

Tang Xinrong didn't quite understand, but he obviously couldn't give up his hope of immortality, so he immediately ordered the security guard beside him: "Go get another batch of samples!"

"Second Master, your movements are too big. I'm worried that someone might notice you." His trusted subordinate quickly advised, "Why don't you slow down and take your time?"

"It's too late!" Although Tang Xinrong was irritated, his mind was clear: "I'm afraid that what I did has attracted other people's attention. Now I have to race against time!"

Wherever you walk, you will leave traces.

When children of aristocratic families enjoy abundant resources, they are inevitably surrounded by hostile eyes both inside and outside the family.

You have to fight for resources within the family, and you have to fight even more for resources outside the family!

Not to mention the distant past, the news that Tang Xinrong took Xie Yong and Jiang Tao away from the hotel last night has most likely been reported by the hotel owner to the family behind the scenes.

Today he mobilized a large force again to surround the "Spark" laboratory. Not only outsiders, but also the Tang family's own people must have noticed his movements, including but not limited to his eldest brother.

"Keep arresting them, in the name of 'sweeping the underworld'!" Tang Xinrong resolutely ordered: "Also, find that Xu guy for me!"

Chen Che’s bad reaction made Tang Xinrong feel uneasy, so he planned to “invite” Xu Gaohua back to work as an extra layer of insurance.

"Move Xu's family to my villa immediately. When you find him, tell him that as long as he is willing to help me, you can ask for anything!"

At this time, Xu Gaohua was hiding in the basement of a high-rise building, which was a safe house that had been prepared for him long ago.

Thirty years ago, when Mr. Lin gave the research ideas for genetically modified drugs, Xu Gaohua was not only astonished, but also realized the huge impact that this drug would have on human society if it was successfully launched.

At that time, he thought that the reason why Mr. Lin built the laboratory on an alien planet was to avoid the Earth where conservative forces were deeply rooted.

But who could have imagined that the current "Yuanchu Star" is actually controlled by one family, and the blockade is even more intense than that of Earth, where multiple forces are entrenched but can form a check and balance situation with each other.

Xu Gaohua believes that Mr. Lin ultimately underestimated human nature and the greed in human nature.

The noble families were able to complete the "privatization" of an entire planet, obviously because the upper class had tacitly approved of this behavior. All the noble families were trying to get a complete planet for themselves as a foundation, so naturally no one would jump out to oppose it.

Even if there really were such warriors, they would certainly be strangled by the noble families without mercy. Therefore, before the development of the drug was completed, Xu Gaohua had already anticipated the possibility of today's situation and prepared several safe houses many years in advance. All of them were located in basements not far from the sewer network and connected by privately dug passages.

The safe house contained some pre-prepared food, water, precious metals, and the hard-earned false identity information.

"We must find a way to bring the experimental data back to Earth!" Xu Gaohua frowned and thought to himself, "But the Tang family must have blocked the spacecraft launch center. Even with a fake identity, it will be difficult to pass the security check..."

As I said, Xu Gaohua is just a biological researcher, not a professional agent. The methods he is using now are all learned from books in his spare time over the years.

He is well aware of the truth that "don't use your hobbies to challenge the professional skills that others rely on for survival."

The Tang family must have already deployed professional personnel to guard the security checkpoint at the launch center. It would be too easy for a wealthy family to recruit a group of professionals!

drop by drop...

A shrill alarm sounded, and Xu Gaohua hurried to the old electronic screen. On one of the surveillance images, he saw that Tang family security personnel in uniform were breaking into a safe house where he had been before.

"Damn it!" Xu Gaohua felt a sense of urgency: "They are too fast!"

The team leader quickly checked the basement and soon locked onto the surveillance camera on the wall. He then took two steps forward and spoke loudly.

"Mr. Xu, your wife and children have been invited back to the Tang Family Villa by the Second Young Master. If you are willing to serve the Second Young Master, you can go to see them at any time."

"Beast!" An angry Xu Gaohua punched the basement wall with a distorted expression and struggled in pain.

The team leader in the surveillance video calmly opened his personal terminal and showed the screen to Xu Gaohua.

In a room, he saw his wife, son and daughter huddled on the sofa, looking at the burly men around them with nervous expressions.

"Mr. Xu, if you want to talk to your family, you can call this number. I guess they really need your comfort right now."

Xu Gaohua knew that this was the other party's plan, but he felt that he should give an explanation to his family, so he still made the call.

When the call was connected, the signal was immediately shared synchronously with Tang Xinrong who was still in the laboratory.

Two video windows then appeared on Xu Gaohua's personal terminal.

"Dad!" his children shouted quickly.

Xu Gaohua stared at Tang Xinrong with a gloomy face.

He did not waste any more words questioning, because he knew Tang Xinrong's purpose and was even more aware of the behavior of wealthy families.

"Mr. Xu, I really sincerely invite you to come and work with me."

Tang Xinrong said frankly: "As you can see, the experiment is not going well. I really need your help."

"So you don't need to worry that I will hold your previous offense against you, because you are very useful to me!"

"Let's get straight to the point. If you are willing to work for me, I can transfer a piece of land under my name to yours. The area is over three million square kilometers, which is equivalent to one-third of the land on Earth."

"From now on, Mr. Xu, you are the owner of this land! Even if you establish an independent country in the future, I, Tang Xinrong, will fully support you!"

"Is this condition sincere enough?"

Tang Xinrong's voice naturally reached Xu Gaohua's wife and children. After hearing it, the latter were so confused that they even forgot their previous uneasiness.

(End of this chapter)