Ch 110: TGCIR

Shen Cheng opened her eyes and saw the simple white walls and bed, confirming that she was back in her modern world.

The walls were bare, with only a simple bed. She looked at her clothes and realized she was back in her usual attire.

A sense of bewilderment passed through Shen Cheng’s mind. What could prove that she had actually traveled there? Besides the memories in her brain, there was really nothing else.

Hurriedly, she rushed to the table and grabbed her phone. She checked the time and indeed, a whole day had passed. From the 20th on the calendar to the same time on the 21st. This confirmed that she had indeed returned from that other world.

Everything she saw was not an illusion.

Shen Cheng quickly opened the game. When the loading was done and the screen appeared, she couldn’t help but awkwardly cough. The scene was littered with the limbs of trees, cut into various pieces. It was evident that someone’s temper was quite fierce.

Thinking about how he had vented all his energy on the tree, Shen Cheng couldn’t help the pounding of her heart. She didn’t need to think much about it; if he had just a little less self-control earlier, he would probably feel bad when she returned.

With these thoughts in mind, Shen Cheng didn’t stop Li Weilan. When the tree was dismantled into pieces and only a mess of large wood and blue cores remained on the ground, Shen Cheng finally called out to Li Weilan, “Lan Lan.”

Li Weilan trembled all over, but Shen Cheng clearly saw him glance around on the screen.

A sour feeling rose in her heart. It was clearly an action of someone looking for her, but she couldn’t respond.

Li Weilan himself quickly realized that this subconscious action might let her see, so he immediately suppressed the remaining hostility and killing intent in his eyes. He sheathed Thunder in his hand and glanced back at the chaotic scene.

However, at that moment, one of the women on the ground began to groan, her eyelashes trembling slightly, indicating that she was about to wake up.

The first woman to wake up hadn’t even opened her eyes yet when she felt something cold on her neck, like the edge of a blade.

She suddenly raised her head and let out an angry scream when she saw her belly, paying no attention to the blade on her neck. Instead, she reached out to pound her own stomach.

Her expression was crazy and furious, and her eyes even turned blood red at that moment.

Li Weilan frowned slightly at her expression, and he took a step back. As he loosened his grip on the knife, the woman glanced around and then turned her gaze towards him. “Can I borrow your knife?” she asked.

Li Weilan saw the determination and coldness in her eyes. Her coldness wasn’t directed at others, but more towards herself.

She seemed to be indifferent or even hateful towards everything else, but when she looked at her stomach, she showed intense hatred.

What did she want the knife for?

Li Weilan had seen similar subjects in the research institute before. Their anger was not even directed at the institute. After being oppressed repeatedly in the long run, they would even develop a strange psychology: “Is it because I’m different from others? Is it because I’m special? So, as they say, I should become the subject of the experiment. I should sacrifice and dedicate myself for the future of humanity.”

Some others would hate their own uniqueness.

The look in this woman’s eyes as she looked at her stomach, filled with intense hatred, seemed as if she wanted to destroy everything, even herself.

However, after a moment of silence, Li Weilan handed her a small dagger from his side.

Without a moment of hesitation, the woman plunged the dagger straight into her own stomach. Blood gushed out like it was free, forming a large puddle on the ground.

The pain made her hand tremble slightly, but the look of resentment and anger on her face overwhelmed the pain. Even this flesh-cutting, bone-scraping pain didn’t stop her from her actions.

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The woman plunged the knife into her own abdomen again.

The blade seemed to encounter something wriggling, trembling slightly beneath it. The woman knew it was the child sharing half of her blood.

She had seen some of the previous experimental subjects. At this point, some people, based on their natural motherhood, couldn’t bring themselves to proceed further.

But she had seen the greenish creatures crawl out of their bellies before, with no trace of humanity in their eyes. There was no affection or love, no maternal bond cultivated. They even tore open their mothers’ bellies to crawl out by themselves.

Those things were not her children.

Don’t even expect her to have any maternal instincts.

Her hand didn’t stop.

Even Shen Cheng, watching this scene on the screen, felt her heart pounding. Each time the woman’s hand rose and fell, it felt like a stab to the heart.

“Do you have experience in anatomy?” Li Weilan looked at her with an uncertain expression. If earlier he hadn’t recognized her because of her disheveled appearance and swollen cheeks, probably due to pregnancy, now he was confirming his memory of her precise and skilled technique. Even if she had hatred, without any medical ability, she wouldn’t be able to accurately wield the knife.

“Yes,” the woman said, completing the final step. She stared fiercely at the greenish creature with its head poking out of the wound, giving Li Weilan a blood-stained smile. “Could you please help me by pulling it out? I don’t have the strength.”

Li Weilan glanced at her and eventually approached, reaching into the gap to extract the creature.

The touch of the child was indeed different from a normal one.

It wasn’t soft; instead, it felt slightly hard, like wood. Its head was like wood too, as if it were no longer made of flesh and blood, but wrapped in a layer of human skin.

He carefully placed the child on the ground, and the child remained motionless. It was only then that the woman sighed deeply, looking at the long wound on her abdomen and furrowing her brows.

“You’re a researcher from the Institute, aren’t you?” she suddenly heard the man in front of her ask.

Even though it was a question, it sounded more like an affirmation.

It had been a long time since anyone had called her that. She had gone from being a researcher to being a research subject. The only thing that caused this change was her gender.

She raised her head, looking puzzled.

Although the light was dim, she strangely felt that the man looked familiar.

This face, she felt like she had seen it before.

But now he looked dignified, and his clothes were clearly very professional and meticulous. Someone like him, she wouldn’t forget if she had seen him before.

The woman struggled to recall for a while before finally dredging up a scene from her memory. She gasped and a look of horror appeared on her face. “It’s you.”

Seeing this, Shen Cheng couldn’t help but furrow her brow. She and Li Weilan knew each other.

Li Weilan called her a researcher.

Could it be that this woman was once part of the Institute too?

If that’s the case, perhaps this map of the tree is actually another way for them to understand the inner workings of the Institute.

Shen Cheng shuddered. She remembered leaving a Swiss Army knife beside the cub before. She hadn’t seen the top researchers, but since the cub could accurately call out this person’s surname, it definitely wasn’t made up. This person must know him.

The woman trembled at the first moment she recognized Li Weilan.

She never expected that at her most disheveled, the person who helped her when she least wanted to be seen by others was actually her former research subject.

He even recognized her.

The woman bit her lip, about to say something, but Li Weilan had already made a soft grunt, tossing a trauma medicine from the base over. “Spray it on; it stops bleeding.”

The woman took it with skepticism.

She gritted her teeth, her hand trembling, but ultimately sprayed it on her wound. The wound quickly healed, and even the bleeding stopped significantly.

She lowered her gaze.

After a moment, a bubble rose on her head. “I’m sorry.”

A cold smirk tugged at the corner of Li Weilan’s lips. “No need to be polite.”

Although it was just a simple Q version on the phone, somehow, Shen Cheng could sense the complex relationship between Li Weilan and the woman who had quickly deflated belly. After sitting for a few more seconds, the woman immediately turned to Li Weilan and said, “Do you want to retaliate against the Institute?”

“Heh.” Li Weilan suddenly chuckled.

At this moment, even Shen Cheng furrowed her brow.

What’s going on? Are the people from the Institute lacking in emotional intelligence?

Even if she was something else before, now she had accepted Li Weilan’s favor. At the very least, shouldn’t she say “thank you” first?

She herself seemed to have become one of the Institute’s research subjects. How come now she remembered to seek revenge with her former experimental subject?

Shen Cheng didn’t know how much hatred Li Weilan had for the Institute, but at least when he was with her, he had momentarily forgotten his past resentment. Hatred was no longer the sole focus of his life.

However, the next words Li Weilan uttered made Shen Cheng, who was already frowning at the screen, explode.

“How is it, Researcher Xu? Have you forgotten about betraying me? I don’t think we have any basis for cooperation between us.” Li Weilan said lightly, with a cold smile.

Betrayal? What’s going on?

Shen Cheng widened her eyes. If what the cub said was true, then was this person considered a villain in their own right?

She betrayed the cub back then, and now she had been turned into a live breeding vessel for monsters. It was pitiful, yes, but if she was originally a vicious dog of the Institute, then she couldn’t blame anyone for ending up in this situation.

Researcher Xu bowed her head and fell silent.

After a while, she suddenly looked up, a gleam in her eyes. “But what about the other people in your team from back then? What about the others who used to be your teammates, but instead of saying hello, they sold you out without a word? Don’t you want to know where they are now, or your good friend’s girlfriend, who is still alive and well, enjoying her safety and prosperity? Are you indifferent to seeing her eating your blood-soaked mantou?”

Li Weilan’s expression shifted slightly.

Shen Cheng furrowed her brow as she listened to the implications in her words. It seemed that there was more to the story behind Li Weilan being captured by those people from the Institute.

Shen Cheng remembered Li Weilan showing her the memory sphere. At the beginning of the apocalypse, he fled with his good friend and his friend’s girlfriend.

But then…

Where are they now?

In the Institute, there was only Li Weilan himself.

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