Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 58 Core Laboratory

The next morning, under the leadership of Jiang Lei, Li Nanke arrived at the research room of the Control Bureau on time.

Director Frank's laboratory is located on the 23rd underground floor of the Control Bureau. It is more of a research floor than a laboratory.

Because the entire floor is filled with various large-scale research laboratories, in addition to researchers, there are also security personnel and extraordinary people from the security department who are on duty to guard it.

Suddenly, Li Nanke's eyes became stern. When a researcher pushed the door and walked out of the laboratory, he saw through the crack in the door that the deformed body had been dissected into pieces by a robotic arm on the closed laboratory table.

"This is the biological laboratory. The main research object is living taboo objects. Many taboo objects are not dead objects but living objects. Do you know this?" Jiang Lei introduced as he led him to the depths of the floor: "The configuration of the biological laboratory includes equipment such as gene sequencers, electrophoresis systems, fluorescent quantitative PCR instruments, and liquid chromatography instruments."

"Our team's urgent task this time is the forbidden items in the A91 safe zone. The aberrations are living derivatives of the forbidden items. You should be familiar with them since you came back from the A91 safe zone."

Li Nanke thought to himself that he was more than just familiar with them. The mutants that died at his hands could at least form several reinforced companies. He even killed a lot of aggregated mutants. No one knew mutants better than him.

"In addition to the biology laboratory, this research floor also has physics laboratories, chemistry laboratories, extraordinary laboratories, information technology laboratories, etc. Each laboratory is led by a research instructor and his researchers to conduct research projects."

"Director Frank is the general boss of this research floor and manages all the research mentors. However, the director also leads an additional team, which is the core senior team. The director is the mentor, and we are the director's direct students."

Only then did Li Nanke notice that his and Jiang Lei's ID cards seemed to be different from those of ordinary researchers. There was a small C-shaped mark in the upper right corner of "Intern".

"So I am considered a senior intern?"

"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about? According to our concept, you should be called a true disciple, and you are now a junior disciple."

Under the guidance of Jiang Lei, Li Nanke took a rough look at the various laboratories, and what he saw made him feel nervous.

The first reason is that there seem to be only construct fragments and aberrations in each laboratory, and no other forbidden objects are seen at all.

Li Nanke had just experienced the "Flare Project" last time. According to the visualization method given by the Great Other Shore, he is currently unable to enter the related forbidden dream using the same pheromone.

The second reason is that the operating standards and process supervision within the laboratory are very strict.

Each laboratory has a protective force field launcher to isolate cross-hazards. All operating procedures are monitored by various equipment and instruments. All operations need to be completed through glass using robotic arms. Researchers are strictly prohibited from directly touching taboo objects.

The equipment records a series of data such as the size, weight, energy level, etc. of the forbidden object fragments, and the amount of pheromones on them is also accurately recorded, including which research equipment was used and how much pheromone was consumed each time.

The research department has the authority to consume pheromones for research within certain indicators, but under various means of supervision, pheromones can only be used for research. It is almost impossible to embezzle pheromones.

Strict supervision means that even if one has a talent for everything, it is difficult to absorb forbidden pheromones in private. Everything has to be put on the table. He can only absorb a certain pheromone passively when the Control Bureau allows him to absorb it. If he is not allowed to do anything, he is not allowed to touch the pheromone.

Li Nanke went through great pains to infiltrate the Control Bureau and enter the Research Department just for a stable source of pheromones.

Now it feels like I have gone through 81 difficulties and finally got to the top, but I found out that the other person is not only a man, but he is also wearing a metal chastity pants.

He took a deep breath to calm himself.

Now that you're here, you have to go ahead even if it's difficult. Even if you're wearing a metal chastity pants, I'll pry it open for you!

Soon, the two arrived at the core laboratory.

Li Nanke immediately spotted the white-haired old man in a white coat with a marker pen hanging on his chest. He was also the "weird professor" who had appeared countless times in his teaching dreams.

In addition to the weird professor, there were several other researchers fiddling with instruments, but they all looked at him secretly. Without Jiang Lei's introduction, Li Nanke took the initiative to greet him, "Hello, Director."

Frank, who wore metal round-frame glasses and had deep wrinkles, replied calmly: "From today on, you will watch and learn well in this laboratory... Although the talent of the Universal Department is good, you still have a lot to learn."

Watch and learn well means doing odd jobs, and Frank obviously doesn't intend to let him come into contact with taboos so early.

Jiang Lei explained, "What the director meant is that the laboratory has various rules and regulations. You can't be careless when you come into contact with taboo objects. Everything must be done according to standard procedures. Otherwise, not only you will be in danger, but other researchers may also be affected. So you must read and learn them carefully first."

Li Nanke raised his eyebrows, but the words came out of his mouth: "I will follow the director's instructions. I will study hard."

"Jiang Lei, take him to meet the team members."

Frank's core team consists of eight members, including Jiang Lei, who basically have the title of senior researcher and are C-level personnel in the Control Bureau. The core team has an additional identity level bonus and is considered C+ level personnel.

When they are promoted to B-level research instructors, they can "start out" and lead a laboratory on their own.

The members of the team were all kind to Li Nanke, and there was no scene of inexplicable hostility from the beginning.

This is not only because Wanxiang is extremely talented and will surely achieve great success in the future, but also because fundamentally, Li Nanke is not on the same track as these researchers.

As a latecomer, no matter how much professional knowledge he learned, he could hardly catch up with these researchers with a legitimate background.

Li Nanke was able to join the research team entirely because of the Universal System. This kind of talent can absorb the pheromones of various forbidden objects in a similar way to cheating, and directly analyze the characteristics and various information of the forbidden objects based on the pheromones.

It is like others are mathematicians who study hard and have a thick pile of draft papers for solving problems, while he is a poor student who just looks up the reference answers and fills in the answer directly after writing the word "solution".

Don't worry about the solution process, just tell me whether the answer is correct or not.

Facing such a person, how can you compete with him?
Moreover, Li Nanke was also very good at dealing with things. He did not mention his talent in the Wanxiang system at all, but treated himself as a newcomer. Soon he became familiar with several people in the team.

"Director, you see, you don't have to worry about it. People like Xiao Li who climbed up step by step from the safe zone are very smooth and understand the ways of the world better than those of us who stay in the laboratory all day. He won't do anything rash."

Frank and Jiang Lei had walked out of the laboratory door without knowing when.

Jiang Lei patted his chest and assured: "Besides, I am here, Director, you can rest assured."

Frank thought for a moment and said, "Find an opportunity and give him the No. 3 research report on forbidden objects and see if he can figure something out."

Frank had read the information and knew that a civilian extraordinary person like Li Nanke risked his life to go to the A91 safe zone just to obtain pheromones to break through himself. He also knew that Li Nanke had absorbed the pheromones of this forbidden object.

The main function of pheromones is to help extraordinary people quickly break through the bottleneck when they encounter a bottleneck in cultivation by using pheromones that match their own extraordinary powers. Therefore, some pheromones will be distributed to internal personnel in the form of rewards within the control bureau.

However, since pheromones are non-renewable and the number of forbidden objects containing pheromones is far less than that of extraordinary people, pheromones are often in short supply and have become a high-level reward, so the Control Bureau has extremely strict supervision over pheromones.

"If his performance is satisfactory, I can even specially bring a forbidden item over to let him absorb pheromones."

Jiang Lei couldn't help but start to complain again: "Director, my extraordinary power 'True Vision' is about to reach a bottleneck. Can you give me some pheromones as well?"

Frank glanced at him, put his hands behind his back and walked towards his office: "Your extraordinary power is too rare. I can't tune the same pheromone."

(End of this chapter)