Chapter 321
Under the “escort” of Zhang Hu and the others, Shen Ge and his group successfully brought the insect cocoon back to the Quanlong Mountain Base without drawing attention. Li Xiang’s master and junior sister had already been waiting there with their team.
“Where is she?” Jiang Peiwen looked at the insect cocoon being pushed into the research room and asked Li Xiang.
Jiang Peiwen and Cheng Shengnan had a fairly good relationship. Apart from work-related interactions, they often got together privately for meals.
So when she heard that something had happened to Cheng Shengnan, she became extremely anxious and transferred the entire team originally responsible for researching strange-person samples at the Rong City branch to the Quanlong Mountain Base to stand by.
The reason they chose to send Cheng Shengnan to the Quanlong Mountain Base instead of the Rong City branch was that this place was guarded by troops, and its defense facilities were more advanced, offering better protection for Cheng Shengnan’s safety.
Li Xiang pointed at the “insect cocoon” on the hospital bed. Jiang Peiwen was stunned for a moment, because the phone call had only mentioned that Cheng Shengnan’s hands had been corroded by strange-person cells. At that time, it really had only been her hands that were corroded. She had never expected that in just a day or two, her whole body would turn into an insect cocoon.
Li Xiang and Jiang Peiwen had not communicated much over the phone. At this point, he could also see Jiang Peiwen’s confusion, so he explained, “Director Cheng’s situation is quite complicated. The strange-person sample inside her body doesn’t have high activity, but its corrosive power is very strong. At first, it really was only her hands that were corroded, but to prevent the strange-person cells from spreading, we used the auxiliary armor of the Red Mist Battle Armor to keep it under control. Who would have thought something would go wrong…”
After Li Xiang recounted Cheng Shengnan’s situation at the time in full detail, he pulled up several days’ worth of monitoring data on the computer and continued, “Currently, Student Xiao Qi is monitoring Director Cheng’s mutation. As the country’s most cutting-edge AI technology, Student Xiao Qi is an artificial intelligence whose superior cannot be found anywhere else in the world. From the data feedback, Director Cheng’s bodily data hasn’t changed much. She has been very well protected by Student Xiao Qi.”
“My preliminary deduction is that the key reason the mutation was successfully suppressed is likely that the strange-person sample provided by Miss Yun’er played a critical role, successfully holding back the spread of the strange-person cells. The only problem now is that quite a few strange-person cells have already invaded Director Cheng’s epidermis. The mutation in her hands is the most severe, equivalent to ‘scales’ growing on her original skin, increasing the strength of her outer epidermis by more than ten times.”