Chapter 98
While excited and enthusiastic voices surrounded her, Fina lowered her eyelids, her gaze fixed unwaveringly on the adjacent laboratory.
The white light shining through the transparent wall cast a distorted, terrifying shadow of the struggling figure on the experiment table.
She watched as the convulsing hands on the table gradually became still, and the person who had been twisting and struggling like a worm also slowly calmed down, seemingly falling into a deep sleep.
On the screen not far from the experiment table, the line showing the heart rate gradually flattened under her gaze.
She watched as white-coated researchers hurried back and forth in the laboratory, using various instruments she couldn’t name, until they confirmed resuscitation was impossible. They then lifted the body off the experiment table, treating it like a failed lab rat.
Their movements were calm and practiced.
In the conference room just a wall away, no one paid attention to what had happened in the laboratory. They were envisioning a future where the Transcendence Project succeeded, engrossed in pleasant conversation about their shared goal.
“Then we look forward to witnessing the success of the Transcendence Project.”
“It will definitely succeed. The future surely belongs to us.”