Every creature sought a long life as long as they weren’t those which died right after mating
After all, survival was an instinct that was imprinted in DNA.
“To be honest, we didn’t expect to make any awesome new discoveries,” said the director of the base. “We know that a lot of things cannot be replicated.”
Roland’s eyebrows furrowed. “Boss, do you mean that you’ve seen people like me before?”
“Yes.” The director searched his memories. “You must know of the Qigong craze thirty years ago. Back then, a couple of them were real.”
Hearing that, Roland couldn’t help but blow a whistle, and the director continued, “Why else do you think that a great scientist would say that Qigong was the future of humankind? It even became a stain on his reputation. In fact, we confirmed that there were special human beings, but they couldn’t be replicated. No countries have made any progress in that regard.”
Roland was stunned.
According to the books he read, a lot of countries had initiated operations to develop superpowers, and those operations were quite influential back then.
“So, your previous research suggested that superpowers depended on personal talent and weren’t applicable to everyone?”
“Yes,” said the director casually. “We have a lot of classified files, but they’ve all been sealed. Back then, I was still new to the research institute and I helped organize many of the files. We figured out the basic mechanism, but we couldn’t replicate it. There might have been individuals who could, but they were unique and rare.”
Roland subconsciously nodded.
“Our current technologies don’t meet the requirements even if we figure out the mechanism,” said the director with a smile. “Let me give you a simple example. We developed feasible theories on the solar furnace forty years ago, but we’ll probably have to wait for another twenty years before we can finally create a prototype.”
Roland listened quietly. The director continued, “Superpowers are even more unbelievable than the solar furnace. They require that someone’s brainwaves be at least fifty percent higher than an ordinary person’s all the time. It’s impossible for an ordinary person to increase their brainwaves to that level without blowing up their head. It’s like Bolt. You know which muscles are responsible for running, but you can’t outrun him by exercising those muscles. Do you get it?”
Roland was greatly enlightened. “No wonder I feel that I’m a peripheral person in every sense.”
“You’re not exactly a peripheral person.” The director chuckled. “You’re even more powerful than the two guys from more than thirty years ago. You’re yourself a strategic weapon. Now that we know about you, we cannot let you drift away from our system.”
Roland wasn’t surprised. He didn’t feel embarrassed or uncomfortable either.
It was because the guy was speaking the truth, and he had been prepared for that.
“It never occurred to us that you had such a derivative ability.” The director smiled in satisfaction. “Everybody is glad to live a longer life. I’m no exception, so thanks. My superior said that you’ll have greater permissions and access to the confidential departments after a report. I look forward to the interesting discoveries that you’ll bring
us.”
Roland’s head was slightly dizzy after he came out of the director’s office.
The director didn’t talk much, but he mentioned a lot of exciting stuff.
Roland returned to his office and rested for a while. He then opened the LAN messenger and said, “Attention, everybody. Come here for a brief meeting.”
Everybody arrived in no more than five minutes.
Roland looked at everybody and said, “An idea just hit me. I want to conduct a human experiment.”
Su Minluo’s eyes glittered. “Director, are you going to contribute your body?”.
To Su Minluo, Roland’s body was full of treasures.
She loved Roland’s body the most besides her husband’s… for purely academic reasons.
Roland coughed and said, “You know that I brought my ability out of the game, and in the game, I groomed a lot of magic apprentices and helped them grasp magic. I’m planning to apply my experience to reality. However, there’s no telling if it’s going to be effective or dangerous. Unknown and risky human experiments are forbidden in this country, so we’ll have to conduct it on our own.”
Everyone’s eyes lit up.
“I’m planning to select two experiment subjects. If you’re okay with it, raise your hands.”
Shua… Everybody raised their hands.
Roland glanced at them and said, “Sorry, I forgot to mention it. I’m only looking for males for now.”
Hearing that, all the female researchers’ eyes dimmed.
Su Minluo smacked the table and roared, “Director, that’s sexist. Women can hold up half the sky. Why are you keeping us away? We’re not scared of danger.”
Her female colleagues nodded quickly. Roland said with a bitter smile, “It’s because my Magic Power Transformation can only transform semen.” Su Minluo instantly pulled a long face. “Why? That’s—that’s unfair.”
Roland opened his hands, showing that there was nothing he could do. Su Minluo heaved a long sigh and said, “Fine, we’ll just help you as assistants.”
After appeasing the recalcitrant Su Minluo, Roland looked at all the male researchers who raised their hands.
Seeing that Roland was looking at them, all the male researchers raised their hands even higher earnestly.
Roland looked around and said, “I’m going to choose Chen Rui and Ye Feng for now.”
The two men whose names were called cried, “Yeah!”
Their male colleagues all laid on the table in disappointment.
“Now, I’m going to tell you the procedure that I’ve outlined. Take a note of it and see if there’s anything wrong or inappropriate with it, or if any more materials and tools are needed. Make a list of those things.” Roland looked at Su Minluo. “Comrade Su, you’re always careful. You’ll finalize the list and apply for the materials on my behalf. If you need me to sign my name, just bring the application to me. Got it?”
Su Minluo nodded quickly.
There were no big secrets in this base.
Other people wouldn’t pry into what someone did or what data he had acquired, but they could and would ask them their research plan.
So, everybody in the base learned that Roland was going to conduct human experiments on magic in two days.
Many people applied to be transferred to Roland’s team, but they were all declined with the excuses such as “no extra hands are needed” and “new team members may disrupt teamwork.” The researchers had every reason to be excited.
First of all, everybody looked forward to superpowers and wanted to have them!
Secondly, Roland’s department had made great achievements very fast.
Most people knew that every new discipline was a blue ocean where they could get a lot of new discoveries and patents easily.
They could become famous and wealthy.
Some of the old disciplines had been pressed so far that only the most arcane knowledge was left to study. It required money and effort.
However, since their researchers declined them, they had to postpone the matter.
Three days later, after all the materials were in position, all the thirty researchers of Roland’s team were gathered around a white experiment table.
Chen Rui was lying on the table with a pair of boxers.
A lot of electrodes were attached to him.
He was also wearing a rather fancy “helmet.”
A glowing shadowless lamp illuminated him.
He was quite excited, and also a little bit scared by the zealous eyes surrounding him.
He swallowed now and then to soothe himself.
“Later, you’ll back off and record everything that happens here with the facilities, including Comrade Chen’s brainwaves, body temperature, magnetic field changes, blood pressure changes, etc.”
Everybody nodded.
Roland continued, “Comrade Su Minluo, you’ll stay and record Comrade Chen’s facial expressions with a camera, including the dilation and contraction of his pupils. We’ll hand over the information to the psychology department and ask them to help review the process.” Su Minluo nodded quickly. Very soon, all the other researchers left the lab and looked at them from behind the glass.
A sterilizing mist was sprayed down, and the three people who were left in the lab all shivered.
“I’m going to transform Comrade Chen’s semen into magic power and then store it in his body.” Staring at Chen Rui’s excited eyes, Roland said slowly, “Considering that Comrade Chen is just an ordinary person, I’ll only generate one-hundredth of the magic power that I usually have. It will ensure that Comrade Chen won’t be hurt.”
The crowd nodded.
Gazing at Chen Rui, Roland asked, “Are you ready?”
“Don’t worry, I’ve been ready for a long time.” Chen Rui nodded.
Roland extended his finger and gently pointed above Chen Rui’s bellybutton.
A circle of light spread out from where he pointed like waves, until it faded away and disappeared.
Everybody quietly watched the readings on the monitors.
After a while, Chen Rui asked, “Director, did you use your magic?”.
“Do you feel anything?” asked Roland. Chen Rui shook his head.
Okay… Roland thought for a moment and said, “Everybody, record Chen Rui’s readings and create a new document. It will be Ye Feng’s turn in half an hour.”
Chen Rui was briefly stunned. Then, he rose from the table in frustration.
Hearing what Roland said, Ye Feng ran in excitedly, took off his clothes, lay on the table, and stuck all the electrodes to himself.
He then lay back down quietly.
He couldn’t have looked more obedient.
Because there was still half an hour to go, Roland walked out of the lab and asked, “What are Chen Rui’s statistics?”
“There were reactions, but only trivial ones.” One of the researchers sorted out the files and said, “After you cast your spell, Chen Rui’s blood pressure and brainwaves increased, but within the normal range. His magnetic field and heat radiations had no obvious changes. We have reason to believe that his reactions were due to his excitement.”
Chen Rui, who was putting on his clothes, was even more frustrated.
Roland nodded.
From his perspective, the magic power that was transformed from Chen Rui’s semen didn’t melt into his body at all but vanished in the air.
It meant that Chen Rui’s body didn’t attract magic power elements at all.
Not everybody was gifted at magic. It was a talent that only a minority of people had even in the game.
And that was a high-magic world, whereas this was a zero-magic one.
Roland returned to the lab and saw Ye Feng who was waiting patiently. He then said, “Since Ye Feng is ready, we’ll have the second experiment in advance.”
The researchers who were communicating and discussing the data instantly returned to their posts.
Soon, the second experiment began.
Ye Feng’s experiment results were clearly better than Chen Rui’s.
The researchers who got the data were all excited. “Director, Ye Feng’s brainwaves were ten percent more active than the upper limit of normal people’s for about thirty seconds. His magnetic field had feeble deviations for a while and its radius even expanded five centimeters.”
Hearing the report, Ye Feng jumped to his feet in his underpants in excitement.
Roland nodded.
From his perspective, Ye Feng did absorb some of the magic power, but he discharged it after only one minute.
That was quite normal. After all, Ye Feng wasn’t even a magic apprentice. He didn’t know how to perceive or restrain magic power at all.
In comparison, Ye Feng seemed more talented than Chen Rui.
However… from Roland’s point of view, Ye Feng was not even as gifted as a rookie magic apprentice in Delpon.
Seeing how excited Ye Feng was, Roland didn’t want to tell him the truth, which would’ve frustrated him.
“Judging from the two experiments, they’re not dangerous at all.” Roland thought for a moment and said, “We’ll continue the tests on all the male researchers tomorrow. Then, we’ll run experiments on the two people who have the most obvious statistical changes.”
The other male researchers all cheered in excitement.
Su Minluo walked to Roland and asked in a low voice, “Director, can you get a spell that can test females too?”
“I’ll try.” Roland nodded.
In fact, blood could be transformed into magic power too, but it was more damaging than transforming semen into magic power, because much more blood was required than semen was.
After Roland accepted her request, Su Minluo put on a smile and continued, “Should we make an announcement to assure other people of the safety of the experiment and hire more experiment subjects in the base? We can also tell them that the five people with the best data could likely get in touch with the magic world. We’ll be able to get more experiment subjects for free in such a way. Also, nobody will blame us for keeping all our secrets to ourselves.”
