Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1051 - 753: The Experiment Begins

There was an interesting Q&A from Li Zheng’s core memory.

It was on some forum where someone asked, how to reasonably create a villain character?

The most upvoted answer was: Give them a tragic childhood.

Li Zheng thought that if someone like Bai Yuan was left unchecked, he could very likely tread down the path of evil, wreaking havoc.

"You want to train him?" Li Zheng pulled Xiao Siyuan aside, confirming once more: "You need to think it through. Someone like him might already have a twisted psyche. Letting him continue to delve into surgery may not be a good thing."

"But his talent is really high." Xiao Siyuan looked at Bai Yuan with admiration: "At his age, how many can master the no-trace suturing technique? He can!"

"No matter how high the talent, if the character is bad, training him is just asking for trouble." Li Zheng frowned: "Have you really thought it through?"

"Old Li, we only have two and a half years left. Now isn’t the time to be tangled up about his character. The most important thing is we have to seize any talent we can use." Xiao Siyuan sighed: "Do you think I can’t see his issues? But we don’t have a choice. If we don’t take a bold approach, can we really develop fast enough through conventional means to fend off the final crisis?"

Those who are conventional and steady may be safe, but they lack ambition and may hold back in critical moments.

"Fine."

Seeing Xiao Siyuan insist on taking Bai Yuan, Li Zheng no longer objected, nodding: "But you need to watch him, don’t let him cause trouble."

Of all the people Li Zheng encountered so far, only Bai Yuan gave him a very peculiar feeling.

This person seemed both righteous and wicked, especially with those emotionless eyes of Bai Yuan’s, not looking at people as if they were alive, but rather as walking, talking flesh.

"Don’t worry." Xiao Siyuan said confidently: "You think I can’t handle a young pup like him?"

During his time in the army, he had seen all kinds of troublemakers, but none had failed to be disciplined?

No matter how crazy Bai Yuan was inside, Xiao Siyuan wasn’t worried he could make waves.

"Hopefully."

Li Zheng took a deep look at the information Lao Pu provided on Bai Yuan. This person was really harsh on himself, having hidden twenty surgical knives in stitched-up wounds all over his body. Each knife was made of vibranium, yet didn’t pierce through flesh, suggesting he had special training to control them with his muscles.

He returned to the three youths, and frankly said to Bai Yuan, "I don’t have high hopes for you. I originally didn’t want to bring you along, but Xiao Siyuan vouched for you. I hope you achieve something, at the very least, don’t let old Xiao be disappointed."

"Heh heh."

Bai Yuan smiled guilelessly, coupled with his emotionless eyes, appearing extremely bizarre: "I never let anyone down, but you better not have expectations for me."

Li Zheng frowned deeply, and the black hair of resentment at his back, dormant for two months, started writhing again: "Stop with the nonsense, prepare your Inscription Cards and follow me."

Saying this, he turned back to call Mirel and others who were waiting and set off once again towards District 950.

Since Old Xiao and the three youngsters were new to the Outer City and hadn’t been to the Sin Domain, earning only a bit of White Crystal Coins from occasional missions, they couldn’t afford the teleportation costs, so Li Zheng had to cover them all.

Fortunately, the number was not large, and currently being wealthy, it was not much of a burden on him.

Through continuous teleportation, they appeared once more in front of the Teleportation Gate Receptionist Yakumo, at District 950, two days later.

Xiao Siyuan walked to Li Zheng’s left side, keeping pace with him, Mirel as usual clung to his right arm, while Feng Yue and Mudala followed half a step behind.

The three young men and women trailed at the end, vaguely forming two circles, leaving Bai Yuan isolated.

In such a situation, Bai Yuan was not surprised; he had already become accustomed to it.

Li Zheng ignored Yakumo and others, directly leading the group to the clinic.

"Are these the ones you’re bringing over to study?"

The doctor came out upon hearing the noise and glanced at Xiao Siyuan and the others: "Follow me, I’ll first take you to the data room, where all my medical data is stored."

Xiao Siyuan had seen the doctor from Channel 995, so not unfamiliar, but the android doctor only received information on Li Zheng, so he wasn’t acquainted with others.

Xiao Siyuan led Bai Yuan and the other two following the doctor into the side door, while Li Zheng waited outside for a moment. The doctor returned to him saying, "You need to get them a translator later, otherwise, they wouldn’t understand the medical data."

The data the doctor collected was written in the universal languages, which Li Zheng could comprehend mainly due to his eyes, as Prelis’ Eye, when he first entered the Outer City, had taken time to memorize the universal scripts, so Li Zheng didn’t need to understand them, Old Pu would translate.

Xiao Siyuan could as well, having Old Pu’s sub-body; the data could be shared with him, but the three of Bai Yuan couldn’t. It wasn’t feasible to waste Old Xiao’s time synchronizing translations for them.

Li Zheng still had hundreds of sub-bodies unsent, but Bai Yuan and the others weren’t entitled to such a precious ability.

"Mudala." Li Zheng called Mudala over, retrieving the Inscription Card to hand to her: "Go buy three translators, I’ve got other things to attend to."

"Yes, Master." Mudala accepted the Inscription Card and turned to leave the clinic.

The doctor revealed an understanding look: "You have something you need?"

"I’ve thought of a way, it might help patients awake from Soul Loss reclaim their past memories." Li Zheng recounted his recent ideas to the doctor.

"Stimulating memory zones to collect information with the Memory Release Device, then re-inject it to impact the newly formed spiritual bodies?" the doctor murmured thoughtfully: "Theoretically it should be feasible, but more clinical trials are needed before concluding, come with me."

He activated the elevator device to go underground, then manipulated a side panel to elevate the "clinic" back up, ensuring that Mudala and those left above wouldn’t lose their way.

The doctor randomly chose a ward, executed complex operations on the access panel there, releasing a faint white gas inside which soon dissipated.

In the ward, the patient crawling chaotically lost consciousness after ten seconds, and only then did the doctor open the door: "Stay outside, I’ll handle him."

The patient inside was a lion-headed man with an additional neck circumference, extremely robust.

Estimated at least 300 kilograms, the lion-headed man was effortlessly hoisted out by the doctor like a chick, sealing the ward as he did so, not forgetting to introduce to Li Zheng: "This one’s a regular at the clinic, last time took a batch of drugs on credit from here before heading to the Wilderness; he’s ideal for a test subject."

If the experiment succeeded, the debt would be repaid.

What if it failed? Life itself would be the repayment.