No strange things are allowed to evolve!

"It seems that we have completely taken over the second floor."

"Damn it, why is everything going so smoothly for me?"

Those watching in the final arena felt extremely resentful.

While Jiang Shu's northern expedition was progressing smoothly, melatonin, on which they had placed high hopes, was making little progress.

Although melatonin is not dead yet and has not been forcibly removed from the hatchery, the situation there is definitely not optimistic.

Just how pessimistic is it?

To put it simply, the image on the melatonin side was initially visible to everyone, but as time went by, the entire screen became blurry.

According to the referee, the footage was probably too bloody and violent, which led to it being automatically blocked by the hatchery.

Logically speaking, this situation shouldn't occur unless the scene is more than just the one where melatonin wreaked havoc on the third underground level, smashing people to pieces with a single punch, but has become so bloody that it's almost bizarre.

What's worse is that this situation isn't due to the intense competition on the melatonin side.

Everyone witnessed it firsthand; they saw that Melatonin was blocked at the door, had no help, and was all alone, completely powerless to resist.

Therefore, all the bloody and violent elements actually come from melatonin. It's just that he is immortal and won't die unless his head is cut off, which is why he has been able to survive until now.

The price to pay is this: the entire image is blurred out.

"To be honest, I'd rather be dead..."

"Yes, why doesn't he give up?"

"Could it be... that he still has some trick up his sleeve to turn the tide?"

In fact, if melatonin could hear the discussions outside, it would probably want to say, "I have no backup plan, I just can't get out."

But he couldn't.

Because now he has been turned into a human pig, his mouth has been torn apart.

Although he is immortal, it does not mean that he is without pain.

The intense pain had already overloaded his nerves, and he was incapable of thinking about anything at this moment. Even if he wanted to leave the incubator, he couldn't calm down enough to access the evolutionary's exclusive backend.

And he also harbored some wishful thinking.

Since we've encountered this unexpected situation, Jiang Shu must be facing something similar.

But since I am immortal, I am sure I can last longer than Jiang Shu.

If no one can conquer the hatchery, then the one who survives to the end will be the winner. So every second you grit your teeth and hold on will increase your chances of winning.

So he just endured it all by sheer willpower, imagining that after these superpowered individuals finished torturing him, they would send him somewhere, or he would simply think he was dead and leave him there unattended.

But fantasy is ultimately just fantasy, especially when the person themselves believes it to be fantasy; the probability of it happening is extremely low.

So now, melatonin users can only regret their decision.

He not only couldn't empathize with his past self, but he even wanted to curse himself.

Why do you have to show off for no reason?

The farce should have ended after you were beaten to a pulp, so why did you have to pull off a desperate comeback?

"A great opportunity!"

"Drink!"

"Heh, you think this level of injury can stop me? Now there are only eight of you left."

Indeed, because of his immortality, it is difficult for superhumans to effectively harm him or stop his actions. For him, any injury can be fully healed in just a moment.

The problem is that while the superpowered individuals can't hurt him all at once, they can keep hurting him.

And after paying the price of a companion's life, the superhumans no longer took him lightly. This led to what melatonin thought was the start of a counterattack, but instead it became an insurmountable peak.

For a long time afterward, he was unable to kill any more superhumans; instead, he was beaten up by eight people in turns.

They were playing whack-a-mole, staring at the human pig in front of them, watching for any hands or feet that grew out, and then immediately cutting them off, successfully bringing the melatonin level back to a stable low point.

It can only be said that his tragic condition was so pitiful that it would break the hearts of anyone who heard about it and bring tears to their eyes if they saw it.

"The difference in difficulty before and after the upgrade of the incubator is still too great."

The spectators remarked with emotion.

“Indeed.” Sugar Knight, who had a deep understanding of this, was very qualified to speak on the matter: “It’s not even in the same league in terms of difficulty.”

However, this also made everyone realize a problem.

Why is it that despite the drastic change in difficulty, Jiang Shu is still able to swim like a dragon?

"Sigh, it's a game of luck."

"There's nothing we can do. Not only do they outnumber us, but their opponents are also incredibly weak, resulting in a ridiculously low casualty ratio."

"What should we do then? The NPCs are all helping him, so let's just give it to him."

Most people simply attributed Jiang Shu's success to good luck.

It's not surprising that people think this way.

After all, Jiang Shu initially planned to cross the border illegally, but an accident happened halfway through, which is why he gathered his troops.

If that accident hadn't happened, his current situation would be even worse than melatonin's, because he doesn't have the immortality that melatonin possesses.

However, not everyone thinks that way.

Blueberry with sauce makes me think that there isn't that much good luck in this world. Aside from winning the lottery, which is definitely pure luck, most so-called luck is just having the ability to seize fleeting opportunities at the right time.

Jiang Shu is clearly the latter.

"But no matter what, he can indeed turn these NPCs who should be hostile to him to the side. For example, Melatonin, didn't he try to persuade those who self-destructed not to do so at the beginning? He didn't want to be enemies with them, but they just ignored him."

Sugar Knight seems to share a similar view, and he is even more objective:

"Moreover, if we're talking about it from a completely fair and impartial perspective, the intensity on his side seems to be even higher, since the melatonin side doesn't have as many mercenaries."

Besides, there are differences between superpowered individuals. It's hard to say that the superpowered individual that melatonin faced was stronger than the one that faced melatonin. It's possible that it's just because they faced different opponents, so their performance was different.

The fact that things seem to be going smoothly over there only shows that the gap between them is too large.

However, even if the same adversaries were swapped, melatonin's current situation wouldn't necessarily be better.

Upon hearing this, everyone seemed to be deep in thought.

Many people feel like they've heard this kind of talk somewhere before.

It's something like, "If you changed the barrage of comments, you'd be lucky not to get beaten to a pulp."

Everyone acknowledges Sugar Knight's strength and vision, so when he says such things, it won't be hard for anyone to accept, nor will it seem like baseless accusations or alarmist talk.

They were simply surprised that the Sugar Knight had such a high opinion of Jiang Shu.

Could it be... that we've really been looking down on people?

What surprised them even more was...

Was the blueberry dip just now meant to defend Jiang Shu?

"Hey, didn't you say you hated him to the core? Why are you siding with him now?" Everyone looked at him with suspicion.

Could this kid be a McDonald's employee?

He said he hated his brother-in-law, but he had already become like him. He finally couldn't help but reveal his true colors just now.

Blueberry with sauce felt a sudden pang of unease, realizing that she was the last person who should have spoken up for Jiang Shu.

If not handled properly, he might be tied up again for incurring public wrath.

Fortunately, someone came to his rescue at that moment.

Because he takes a cool and aloof approach, Zu Baidao, who hadn't participated in the discussion until now, suddenly spoke up: "Hey, stop with the nonsense, his side quest is almost finished."

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at the scene unfolding in Jiang Shu's direction.

"This is the first gift we've given you."

Jiang Shu was puzzled when he saw the nine A2 sheets of paper that Xiong Tank had taken out, which looked like X-ray photos.

"Didn't I ask you to help me find some information about myself? Why do you need my medical report?" Jiang Shu examined the black film for a long time: "By the way, what is this? Genital warts? Why are there so many of them?"

"This is not a film."

Bear Tank explained:

"This is what you wanted."

The main purpose of the second underground level is to brainwash the test subjects from the lower level and to turn corpses into artificial humans. The lower level only retains the test subjects' ability data, while our level mainly retains the test subjects' life information. This information is useful for brainwashing and modification.

To gather this information, the laboratory would deploy many intelligence agents, and much of what they uncovered could potentially expose the agents' identities and allow for tracing back to their origins, so it was all top secret.

Therefore, even internally, this information is stored separately, and only by using a special method to gather it together can the complete information be seen.

The nine of us each keep a portion of the experimental subject's information. When needed, the person requesting the information can retrieve it from us only upon presentation of identification and permission.

"I see." Jiang Shu nodded. "Then what is the special method?"

"Place these nine images on top of each other in numerical order, and then look at them against the light."

Jiang Shu followed Xiong Tank's advice and indeed discovered the secret: the lines and patterns that originally resembled abstract paintings were actually connected and pieced together to form dense text.

Upon seeing this, Jiang Shu couldn't help but be somewhat surprised.

Let alone defeating the superpowered guards one by one, obtaining these unmarked items that only insiders can distinguish is already extremely troublesome.

If Xiong Tank hadn't told him personally, even if he had obtained these things, he probably wouldn't have been able to figure out their significance.

With that in mind, Jiang Shu began to carefully study the contents above.

After reading through all the content, Jiang Shu's side quest objective displayed a notification, indicating that it had been successfully completed.

However, Jiang Shu felt no joy whatsoever.

His attention was completely drawn to the secrets hidden within the words.

He was furious, and in his anger he laughed.

"Okay, okay, so that's how it is."

Chapter 273 Science knows no borders, but scientists have

By the time Jiang Shu realized what he had seen, it was too late.

What angered him was not the information about him in the document, because the person described in it was not him at all. No matter what, Jiang Shu would not associate himself with the person in the document.

What truly caused him to lose control of his emotions was the detailed description in the materials about the origin of his superpowers.

In reality, there are no truly innate superpowers in this world; all superpowers are acquired through mutation.

So where do mutations come from?

Like this underground laboratory, it was created from ordinary people through cruel human experiments.

Such a mutation occurs in less than one in ten thousand.

This means that for every superhuman born, there may be the deaths of ten thousand ordinary people who could not withstand the cruel human experiments.

At first, Jiang Shu was a little puzzled.

How could such a large-scale experiment, which was tantamount to a massacre, be carried out so blatantly?

Where did their experimental subjects come from?

Although Yamato is not like a certain more Western major country, to the point where even medical care is unaffordable, the streets are full of homeless people, and no one would notice if some were randomly arrested.

Obtaining such a large sample size without anyone noticing is definitely not an easy task in Yamato.

But Jiang Shu quickly realized the trickery involved.

These massive samples were never obtained in Yamato.

Rather, it was obtained by Yamato from other countries through external aggression and expansion.

Nearly a century ago, Yamato was not like it is now, playing a supporting or clownish role on the world stage. Back then, Yamato was one of the great powers, a powerful nation with the strength to monopolize the hegemony of East Asia.

Therefore, Yamato's overseas colonies were scattered all over the world at that time, especially in Southeast Asia, where they suffered greatly.

Beneath the surface of aggression and countless crimes lay the unforgivable crime of human experimentation.

Everyone now knows that the human body is about 78% water and 22% other substances, but where did this data come from?