Their commission was suspicious.

"When I gave you the work points, I told you that you could use them to make reasonable wishes. But this wish is a bit excessive, is that okay? After all, ask yourself honestly, if you were in my shoes, wouldn't you think this is dangerous?" Chen Luo shrugged indifferently.

Even if Raven didn't give him any work points, Chen Luo would still accept the task. But since Raven took the initiative to offer it, rather than Chen Luo getting it, Raven needs to pay a price.

"Alright, 20 work points it is." After thinking for two seconds, Raven made up his mind.

Raven felt that Chen Luo's words made sense, and that he himself would definitely not agree to the request if he were in Chen Luo's shoes.

After all, someone as cautious as Raven wouldn't be willing to take on such a high-risk job.

Moreover, if it's only 20 work points, then there's still money to be made, and quite a lot at that.

"Let's go." Raven said with a slight pang of heartache, as she led Chen Luo on a tour of the entire world of snakes.

The World Serpent base is indeed luxuriously decorated. Although there aren't many living people in the World Serpent itself, the headquarters occupies a very large area.

Of course, there weren't many survivors, but it's not that there weren't any survivors at all; it's just that, relative to fate, there were fewer survivors.

The reason why World Serpent doesn't have many living people is twofold. First, their selection criteria for officers are quite high. Without enough officers, there are naturally fewer living people at headquarters, and most of the other living people tend to be either doing odd jobs or conducting research.

After all, the World Serpent couldn't possibly have only Jackal as a researcher; Jackal was just one of the few executives among these researchers.

And the characters currently appearing in the story are not all of World Serpent's executives.

Secondly, since Gray Serpent alone can be equivalent to hundreds or thousands of people, there is no need for too many henchmen like Valkyries to manage the World Serpent base.

Thirdly, the guard duties have mostly been taken over by mechs.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the mechs in your World Serpent really come from all sorts of organizations. Anti-Entropy's Titan, the Destiny series mechs, and some self-developed mechs." As he walked through the World Serpent headquarters, Chen Luo looked at the mechs passing by and couldn't help but sigh.

"This is mainly because both in Destiny and Anti-Entropy have World Serpent spies, so the data on these mechs is not a problem at all, and mass production is not difficult either," Raven explained.

Since Chen Luo has already been brought to the World Serpent headquarters, and Gray Serpent has even asked him to show Chen Luo around the World Serpent, it's okay to reveal this level of confidentiality.

"How many spies does World Serpent have in Destiny and Anti-Entropy? No one except Gray Serpent should know, but it is enough to know that their secrets are not secrets to World Serpent. Moreover, World Serpent has been working hard to develop its own mecha brand."

"At the same time, we also have our own weapons technology production routes. Our weapons are mostly combined with conventional weapons for mass production, so even ordinary troops can use these weapons. Of course, this does not mean that our weapons are all civilian-grade weapons. Our advanced weapons naturally have performance that is no less than or even far exceeds that of Destiny and Anti-Entropy."

Raven once asked Gray Snake how to introduce the World Snake, and from what perspective.

At that time, the gray snake only uttered one word.

"boast."

The ravens were dumbfounded.

Praise? How to praise?

You're just outrageous.

So even though the raven wasn't entirely clear on these things, it was just a case of exaggerating the high-tech aspects.

Anyway, Chen Luo probably doesn't understand these technologies either, just like me, right?

"..." Because of her expertise in furniture making, Chen Luo, who was also proficient in mecha manufacturing, armor making, weapons manufacturing, and biomedicine, followed behind Raven, silently listening to Raven say things that even she herself might not believe.

Chapter 225 The Raven's "Betrayal"

"Here you are, this is the research department, or rather, the biological laboratory. Although World Serpent has technology in all directions, its main focus is still on human experimentation, which is this biological laboratory in front of us. As for other aspects... weapons can be left to Mikoyan, and the mechs can be copied from Destiny and Anti-Entropy. Only the biological experiments need to be unique." Raven introduced to Chen Luo.

"Hmm, the Sacred Mark Project, is it?" Chen Luo nodded thoughtfully.

Kevin is still completely obsessed.

What is the Stigmata Project?

Through artificial intervention, the genome of the broken antibody, which had been inoculated in a few offspring embryos but was dispersed due to human lineage inheritance, was activated and recombined.

But the success rate of this kind of "enhancement"...

For details, please refer to the success rate of evolution between the T-virus and Alice in Resident Evil.

While that may be an exaggeration, a great many people would indeed die.

The things he needs to do are probably similar to what Cocolia did in Changkong City.

Of course, the World Serpent's research on the Stigmata Project has been going on for so long, it must have yielded results. Its success rate is much higher than that of Cocolia. At that time, all Cocolia wanted was Raiden Mei; nothing else mattered.

The World Serpent's Stigmata Project was certainly intended to ensure success for everyone, but its very nature means that it is impossible for everyone to succeed.

The phrase "hurting the enemy a thousand while losing eight hundred of your own" aptly describes this plan.

From the perspective of racial continuation, if all humans on Earth were to implement the Stigmata Project, all humans would possess the corresponding antibodies to adapt to Honkai energy, and the human population would naturally increase rapidly after a massive reduction in numbers.

After generations of reproduction, it will surely be able to restore its former glory.

This behavior is even more ruthless than Thanos's.

Thanos only wiped out half of humanity.

The Stigmata Project is not enough to eliminate half the population.

"You know about the Stigmata Project?" Raven asked, slightly surprised.

"How could I not know about the Holy Mark... Oh, I remember now, Snake didn't come yesterday either, so you probably don't know, right?" Chen Luo suddenly realized.

Chen Luo originally thought that Raven should know that he knew about the Stigmata Project, since he already knew the former Mebius.

But then Chen Luo suddenly realized that Raven's luck seemed to have always been either bad or always good.

Raven had never met Mebius, and therefore Chen Luo never mentioned to her that this bar not only connected to another world, but also to different times.

“Snake, hmm, that name brings back bad memories,” Raven said honestly.

"Don't worry, the name just sounds a little unpleasant to you."

Actually, when you actually meet that person, you'll definitely feel even worse than you do now.

If you don't tremble a couple of times when you see Mebius, I'll give you 10 work points for free.

Of course, this couldn't be said aloud. If it were, the raven would be prepared, and the work points would be given away for free.

This is probably considered... an unspoken rule in performance evaluations, right?

"Since you already know about the Stigmata Project, I won't hide it from you anymore. The person currently in charge of the Stigmata Project is a researcher named Jackal, who, like me, is a cadre of the World Serpent. A true demon scientist."

"However, although that woman talks a lot of nonsense, she is indeed a genius," Raven commented fairly and objectively.

"Alright, let's go. We've already seen it, haven't we?" Chen Luo turned around and was about to leave.

In fact, Raven handled things the same way in the previous departments. Raven was probably just as eager to meet the project schedule as I was.

Whether you've finished your tour or not, isn't that enough? Time to go, time to go.

Coincidentally, Chen Luo thought the same thing.

"Hey, don't go!" But this time it didn't seem to work, and Raven grabbed Chen Luo's arm.

"What are you doing?" Chen Luo asked.

"I need to talk to that woman about the children. After Jackal learned that I had adopted a group of children in Changkong City, she took the initiative to prepare some treatment drugs for me. Although her purpose was definitely for her own scientific research, I have to admit that her skills are indeed good."

"So this time I'm taking you to see the World Snakes. Besides introducing them to you, we also need to get some medicine here at the Biology Department. So you have to come in with me."

Although Xiao Kong and the others can indeed live normally under the influence of Chen Luo's Honkai Crystal, some medications can still help. Chen Luo's treatment is at most a temporary fix.

Although Raven didn't trust Jackal's character, he could trust her skills. At least as long as there was no conflict of interest between them, this woman wouldn't tamper with the drugs.

The only price is that the effects of the treatment drugs given to the children and the experimental data need to be transmitted back to Jackal Furious.

Since it's all about mutual benefit, there's no point in discussing whether it's good or bad.

"Hey, you can go if you want, why are you dragging me along?" Chen Luo was completely bewildered as he was being pulled along.

Can't I just wait for you at the door?

"Grey Serpent told me to stay with you, at least until I meet him, and especially not to let you touch certain mechs or anything like that," Raven said as she pulled Chen Luo along.

"Oh, this..."

It's likely that Grey Serpent already knows Chen Luo possesses the Herrscher of Corruption abilities, since Ling's situation isn't something that can be easily ignored.

As the Herrscher of Corruption from the last century, it's impossible for Grey Serpent not to recognize Ling. After Sakura died, Grey Serpent even offered incense to her.

After seeing Ling being sent to the Land of the Dead, coupled with the information that Chen Luo had become the Herrscher of Domination, the situation became even more complex.

It wasn't difficult for Gray Serpent to know that Chen Luo possessed the abilities of the Herrscher of Corruption.

As for who leaked the information that Chen Luo had become the Herrscher of Domination...

1/3概率是渡鸦，1/3概率是玲，1/3概率是陈洛自己。

Raven is, after all, a World Serpent executive; it's possible she leaked information.

Although Ling is Chen Luo's younger sister, her emotional intelligence is rather worrying, especially in front of Gray Snake, an information broker, who makes it easy for her to extract information.

As for Chen Luo, that might be a problem from the previous era.

But isn't Grey Serpent underestimating the Herrscher of Corruption's abilities? Or is he perhaps trying to put in some effort?

The Herrscher of Erosion erodes the mech; why would it require manual contact?

Although Chen Luo didn't touch anything just now, the mechs in World Serpent are now infected with the virus.

This wasn't intentional on Chen Luo's part. Chen Luo hadn't actually done anything when he entered the World Serpent, but... Chen Luo suspected that the World Serpent had recently sourced goods from Anti-Entropy.

In fact, Chen Luo was also quite bewildered when he entered the World Serpent and discovered that all the mechs were infected with the virus.

I didn't do this; this is suicide, so don't blame me.

Chen Luo's order to the viruses on those anti-entropy mechs was to erode everything that could be eroded and leave behind the virus.

But who knows if World Serpent would source its supplies from Anti-Entropy?

Can we blame Chen Luo for this?

Although... Chen Luo still had to go with Raven, since the mission required him to tour the area with Raven.

Fine, let him visit. He's just a devilish scientist, isn't he? It's not like Chen Luo hasn't seen them before.

"Jackal?" Raven called out as he walked ahead, pushing open the glass door of the analysis room.

"What you need is on that lab bench over there. Don't touch anything except those five bottles of medicine," a tall woman said, pointing to the lab bench to Chen Luo and Raven's right, her back to them.

This is not a laboratory for conducting biological experiments, but a laboratory for analyzing data.

At least this place is clean and tidy enough, and there's no unpleasant smell.

At least on the surface, there was no indication that the other party was a demon scientist.

"Oh, thank you." The raven didn't harbor any hostility or wariness towards the jackal. Although the jackal wanted to use the children to complete its scientific research, it had at least brought the children medicine.

The world is never simply black and white.

Although Chen Luo really wanted to give this devilish scientist a good beating, he suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have any stance.

And to attack the other side's executives on World Snake's own territory, how can you not think of it as provoking trouble?

Moreover, Chen Luo didn't know much about the later plot. He only knew that Jackal wanted to do something big in Sky City, but it wasn't Sky City three years from now yet.

Aside from that, Chen Luo really didn't know what the jackal had done.

At least the plot points that Chen Luo had only skimmed through did not provide him with the answers.

"Raven, you... um? Who are you?" Just as the jackal turned around to call out to Raven, he saw Chen Luo floating in the air next to Raven.

Because Chen Luo was floating in the air, only two or three centimeters above the ground, there was no sound of his footsteps.

As a researcher, Jackal's abilities were not at the level to hear others' breathing and heartbeats, so he naturally did not sense Chen Luo.

"Wait, you're that traveler, Chen Luo, right? Raven, you brought him? You're really capable. Don't worry, the promised reward will definitely be yours." The jackal, who had turned around, had his eyes light up after recognizing Chen Luo.

At this moment, Chen Luo also saw the jackal's true face.

The other party was not wearing a mask inside the laboratory.

One word—huge!

It is larger than many of the Law Enforcers of Knowledge combined.

Well, this method of measurement might not be able to reflect it.

Of course, the other party wasn't the kind of person who was completely unrestrained.

To be honest, the jackal was quite good-looking, but Chen Luo still wasn't interested in her.