Chapter 189: Your Secret
Ling Hanmu, don’t be stimulated into a frenzy… Xia Chenge prayed with her heart clenched.
As a result, just as she finished praying, she heard a bang, and someone fell to the ground.
Judging by the breathing, it was Ling Hanmu who fell!
Xia Chenge was extremely anxious but couldn’t show it at all, fearing that her emotional agitation would alert Ling Zhongwen.
At this moment, the people who had been waiting outside began to enter one after another.
Xia Chenge forced herself to calm down and realized that everyone on this entire floor had been cleared out. Her mind had been on Ling Hanmu, and she had forgotten to pay attention to the movements around her for a moment.
However, after understanding all of this, Xia Chenge’s mood actually became calmer. She was certain that Ling Zhongwen was about to make his move.
Ling Hanmu was quickly taken away, and Ling Zhongwen’s footsteps grew closer.
That snake-like gaze intensified, making Xia Chenge feel like fish on a chopping board for a moment.
“Take her away.” After a while, Ling Zhongwen finally gave the order.
Immediately, someone stepped forward, lifted her up, and quickly left the VIP hospital room.
Even so, Xia Chenge still heard someone sleeping in her hospital bed.
Ling Zhongwen still wanted to find an imposter to impersonate her? Xia Chenge frowned. If that were the case, things would become a bit complicated.
If she were taken to the laboratory, it would be difficult for her to know what was happening outside immediately.
If this imposter were to harm the Xia family, she would be powerless to intervene.
“We must resolve the laboratory as soon as possible, otherwise Grandfather and Grandmother’s situation will be too dangerous, with such a time bomb placed beside them!” Xia Chenge said to herself inwardly.
Although Xia Chenge couldn’t open her eyes, with her keen senses and exceptional hearing, she knew very well that she had not been taken out of Rende Hospital and had actually entered the morgue.
After passing the morgue, Xia Chenge finally smelled a long-lost and familiar scent.
So Ling Zhongwen had another laboratory in Rende Hospital. No wonder she couldn’t find any clues; it was hidden in the morgue.
Including Ling Zhongwen, there were a total of five people in the laboratory.
There were two faint heartbeats, likely their experimental subjects.
Where was Ling Hanmu? Xia Chenge’s heart tightened.
Ling Hanmu was currently in a normal state, his heartbeat no different from that of an ordinary person, yet she didn’t hear a seventh normal heartbeat.
“What does that beast Ling Zhongwen want to do?” Xia Chenge mused inwardly.
“Are we preparing to perform the second stage of modification on Ling Hanmu tomorrow?” At this moment, someone asked cautiously.
Xia Chenge pricked up her ears.
“Yes, we need to finish quickly, otherwise they will come and take Ling Hanmu away. We don’t have time. Ling Hanmu absolutely cannot be given to them.” Ling Zhongwen’s voice was devoid of any emotion, a stark contrast to his usual image of a doting father.
“What about this Xia Chenge?”
“Don’t touch Xia Chenge. I will personally perform the surgery on such a good experimental subject. I want to see what secrets this little girl is hiding! I have a strong premonition that we will find the answers we are looking for in her.” Ling Zhongwen smiled sinisterly.
“Xu Jingyi revealed before his death that Xia Chenge has great strength. If she wakes up, I’m afraid we won’t be able to restrain her.”
“Then let her never wake up. She is already a vegetable. If we succeed in modifying her, with her abilities, she might be even more formidable than Ling Hanmu. Ling Hanmu can currently only be considered a semi-finished product, and it’s uncertain if he can survive the second stage.”
Holy crap! Human modification… Xia Chenge almost jumped up to beat Ling Zhongwen. Why play with human modification? This is truly courting disaster.
Ling Hanmu is his own brother’s son. How could he bring himself to do it?
“If Ling Hanmu…” someone hesitated to speak.
“There are no ‘ifs.’ If he dies, he dies. Anyway, Ling Hanmu is undergoing the second stage of modification, and he still won’t live past twenty. His metabolism is currently hundreds of times that of a normal person and is still rapidly increasing. The potential unleashed also exceeds our expectations, and it’s very difficult for us to control his situation now,” Ling Zhongwen said.
“Haven’t enough people died at your hands? Don’t forget you still have the lives of the Ling family members. Once what’s happening here is exposed, your entire family won’t survive. We have no turning back; we can only see this through to success!”
Success my ass! Xia Chenge was furious and couldn’t help but curse inwardly: It’s because of people like you that all of humanity has to pay for your foolish actions. The Ling family doesn’t know this now, but in the apocalypse, you will still be wiped out!
If she hadn’t been trying to get more information from them, she would have made these people pay a heavy price right now.
“If the modification is successful and Ling Hanmu is still uncontrollable, what should we do?” the only person who dared to speak to Ling Zhongwen asked again.
Ling Zhongwen sneered coldly, “I will hypnotize Ling Hanmu before that. In Country H, Lu Lian and Ji Shinian were both hypnotized by them and have been working for Zheng Changdong all these years.”
“Hypnosis might work on normal humans, but don’t forget, Ling Hanmu is no longer a normal person. If the modification is successful, he will belong to a higher species, superior to us ordinary people in every way.”
“As long as his consciousness is controlled and he doesn’t attack us, that’s enough. As for others, I can’t worry about that much,” Ling Zhongwen said indifferently. “The lives of others are not that important to me.”
The atmosphere in the laboratory fell silent.
“And those few experimental subjects, if they fail again, destroy them directly. Our main laboratory has been destroyed, and we can no longer modify them as recklessly as before. We might already be under surveillance, and we absolutely cannot afford any more mistakes.”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Alright, you all go and prepare for tomorrow.”
After Ling Zhongwen finished speaking, he walked towards Xia Chenge.
Listening to their conversation, Xia Chenge had already cursed them a thousand times in her heart. If her self-control wasn’t strong enough, she would have lost her composure and attacked by now.
Damn it!
These beasts are worse than beasts.
A cold hand gently stroked Xia Chenge’s face, the slow movement carrying a sense of cherishing as if she were a treasure.
Xia Chenge forcefully suppressed the urge to break the hand. She shouldn’t have used such a bitter scheme and put herself through this!
“You’re quite a secretive little thing. How many surprises do you think you’ll bring me? I’m really looking forward to it, Xiao Ge,” Ling Zhongwen’s sinister words sent shivers down her spine.
Heh, what I’ll bring you is only shock! Xia Chenge retorted silently in her heart.
“Tell me, did you cure those two old people from the Xia family?” Ling Zhongwen picked up her hand. “An orphan who was autistic and bullied since childhood suddenly became so powerful. How could that not make people curious? I’m already impatient to unravel the secrets on you!”
Second update finished, good night everyone!
