Doomsday police, please show your god/demon ID card.

The people in the meeting room all looked towards the door, their brows slightly furrowed.

The base has strict rules that prohibit interruptions during core meetings unless in an emergency.

Could it be...?

problem occurs?

"Go in," Tang Long said calmly.

The door was suddenly pushed open, and Chen Ming barged in.

His hair was a mess, like a bird's nest, and his white coat was stained with several unidentified stains. His eyes were bloodshot, yet surprisingly bright, flashing with an almost manic excitement.

He completely ignored everyone else in the conference room and rushed straight to Tang Long.

"Captain Tang! It's out! I've got it!"

Liu Qiang was about to scold him for his lack of manners, but Tang Long stopped him by raising his hand.

"What did you manage to do?" Tang Long stood up and asked.

"Crystals! Those two stones you gave me!"

"I already know how to use it."

Upon hearing this, Tang Long's eyes lit up instantly.

Are you sure?

"OK!" Chen Ming nodded vigorously, grabbed Tang Long's arm, and pulled him outside: "Let's go! To the lab!"

Without further hesitation, Tang Long turned to the others and said, "The meeting is suspended. You can proceed with the plan we just discussed."

After saying that, he followed Chen Ming and quickly left the conference room.

Only three people were left looking at each other, completely bewildered.

"What's going on? Why are you being so mysterious?" Liu Qiang scratched his head.

Luo Yongchao leaned on his cane, looking thoughtfully at the doorway: "Judging from Chen Ming's expression, it's probably because there's been a result regarding those two crystals."

Zhang Wennian pushed up his glasses, his eyes also showing a hint of curiosity.

"Let's go take a look." Luo Yongchao couldn't contain himself and was the first to follow.

Liu Qiang and Zhang Wennian exchanged a glance and followed.

……

The third floor of the main building.

The laboratory appeared cluttered and disorganized.

The air was filled with the smell of burnt solder and a faint ozone odor.

The floor and tables were piled high with disassembled electronic components, cables, and draft paper covered with calculations.

Only the experimental table in the very center was kept spotless.

Two crystals were placed on top of it, cushioned with velvet.

A dark red, congealed blood, with what appeared to be faint black lightning flowing within it.

The other one is a vibrant green, like the finest jade, radiating a soft glow that brings peace to the mind simply by looking at it.

Chen Ming put on protective gloves and carefully picked up the emerald green crystal.

"I now call this the Life Crystal."

"Its energy frequency is extremely stable and highly synchronized with the bioelectricity of healthy cells, possessing three characteristics: repair, nourishment, and assimilation."

"Life?" Tang Long raised an eyebrow slightly.

"That's right." Chen Ming nodded slightly, then pointed to the dark red crystal, his expression becoming serious.

"I call this the Destruction Crystal! It's the complete opposite of the Life Crystal!"

"The energy structure is extremely unstable, full of aggression and destructiveness, like a miniature black hole that is constantly trying to tear everything around it apart."

Tang Long looked at him and said succinctly, "Speak like a human being."

"Uh..." Chen Ming choked for a moment, scratched his head, "Simply put, one controls, the other controls the explosion."

As he spoke, he pulled two iron cages out from under the lab table.

In each cage was a thin, dirty little white mouse, all its fur gone.

"To catch these two uncontaminated ones, I almost emptied the sewers of an entire building!" Chen Ming looked at the two white mice with a pained expression on his face.

As he spoke, he used tweezers to scrape a tiny bit of powder, finer than dust, from each of the two crystals and placed it into two beakers containing water.

The powder dissolves instantly in water and is colorless and odorless.

Tang Long frowned: "You're just going to dilute it with water and drink it like this?"

"What else? We don't have anything more suitable." Chen Ming shrugged.

As he explained, he used a dropper to siphon the liquid from the emerald green beaker.

"Moreover, water is a neutral carrier, which can retain energy information to the maximum extent."

He inserted the dropper into the first cage, aimed it at the mouth of the dying white mouse, and dripped two drops.

A miracle happened!

The moment the liquid entered its throat, the mouse's previously ashen body trembled violently.

Its withered fur quickly became shiny and smooth, its thin body visibly plumped up, and its once lifeless eyes regained their sparkle.

"Squeak!" It scurried about in the cage.

Luo Yongchao, Liu Qiang, and Zhang Wennian, who followed in, all held their breath when they saw this scene.

"This..." Liu Qiang's eyes widened.

"Quiet," Tang Long said in a low voice, his gaze fixed.

Chen Ming had anticipated this, so he simply used a clean dropper to draw up another cup of solution and dripped it into the mouth of the second mouse.

"squeak!!!"

The moment the liquid was dripped in, the white mouse let out a piercing scream.

Its body swelled up like an inflating balloon, its muscles rapidly expanding and knotting, its skin instantly turning crimson beneath its gray fur, and its eyes transforming into a bloodthirsty scarlet.

In just three seconds, its size increased nearly three times, and like a house cat, it began to frantically ram the iron cage with brute force!

Bang!Bang!Bang!

The iron bar was violently deformed by the impact.

Tang Long subconsciously took a half step back, his hand already reaching for the gun at his waist.

However, the next second.

boom--!

A muffled thud.

That frenzied white mouse was like an overinflated balloon that suddenly burst after reaching its limit!

Blood, flesh, bone fragments, and red liquid covered the entire iron cage.

Tang Long took a deep breath before asking, "What happened?"

"Energy overload, structural collapse." Chen Ming took off his gloves, his voice calm: "The energy that destroyed the crystal was too violent, forcibly catalyzing the cells to divide and metabolize at an accelerated rate, resulting in a brief burst of power."

"but..."

He paused for a moment, then pointed to the bloodied and mangled cage.

"This mouse's body isn't strong enough to withstand this kind of strengthening!"

"It's like trying to force aerospace fuel into a tractor engine; the result is that the engine explodes on the spot."

He turned to look at Tang Long, a burning desire in his eyes: "Captain Tang, do you understand what this means?"

Tang Long did not answer.

He slowly turned around, his gaze piercing through the wall, as if he could see a figure sleeping peacefully.

After a few seconds of silence, he took a deep breath.

"Chen Ming".

"Prepare another batch of the Life Crystal solution."

"Let's go rescue them."

"This is for Dr. Su. I've already prepared it in advance." Chen Ming took a sealed, light green reagent tube from the incubator and handed it over.

Tang Long took the reagent and glanced at it.

"Walk."

......

The first floor of the dormitory is the emergency room ward.

Su Yan lay quietly on the bed, her chest rising and falling steadily.

The vital signs monitor next to it emitted a regular "beep" sound, and the waveform line on the screen was as smooth as a straight line.

Lin Xiaoruan and Zhao Jia were gently wiping her body.

"Dr. Su looks a little better than yesterday," Zhao Jia whispered.

Lin Xiaoruan wrung out the towel and sighed, "It's just an illusion. Dr. Zhang said the situation hasn't changed."

The two fell silent, and only the monotonous sound of the instruments filled the room.

Just then.

dong dong dong~

There was a soft knock on the ward door.