Chapter 102: The Cruel Human Experiment

"That's not right."

At that moment, Chen Yaxi furrowed her brows.

"This isn't over yet!"

Hearing her words, everyone was taken aback.

Yet very soon, they saw a fellow who had been burned to a blackened husk slowly struggle to his feet. His face was twisted with fury; clearly, he had not yet set down his hatred.

Chen Yi clapped a hand on Chen Yaxi's shoulder. "You go down. Leave this to me."

Chen Yaxi pouted. "But, brother, I want to help you too. How can you reject me like that?"

Chen Yi's gaze was resolute.

"I can handle this myself. As you can see, this guy isn't someone who can be finished off with a few words."

With that, Chen Yi swiftly drew his weapon and prepared to fight the man to the death.

At this point, the officer whose features had already been ruined by the flames gave a hoarse chuckle.

"Chen Yi, you want to kill me? Fine. But the secret you want to know will never be found again!"

Those words made Chen Yi's hand, already poised to strike, freeze in midair. It was obvious this man knew something of other intentions; if he continued to press him, there would indeed be no gain.

Seeing Chen Yi's reaction, the officer knew immediately that he had gambled correctly.

Though Chen Yi was filled with disgust, he surely would not dare destroy him in a situation where he knew nothing at all. That meant he still had a chance to negotiate.

Taking a deep breath, the officer endured the searing pain throughout his body and looked once more at Chen Yi.

"Chen Yi, we don't actually have to be enemies. Admit defeat to me, and I'll tell you the answers to the things you want to know, all right?"

Chen Yi had no wish to believe such false words.

"The Shadow Organization really is a master at dangling empty promises."

With a sneer, Chen Yi looked again at this boastful man and shook his head.

"What you're going to tell me, I can find out through other channels. So our deal is off."

"No!"

The officer was frightened now.

He knew in his heart that without Chen Yi's support, he would surely die in this place surrounded by the undead.

The law of time he possessed could not, unlike Chen Yaxi's power, command life and death. In truth, it was nearly useless.

So the officer had no choice but to change tactics.

"Chen Yi, I beg you, don't leave me alone like this, all right? What would it take for me to join you? As long as I can join, I can pay any price!"

"No price can buy your way in."

Chen Yi answered the officer with a cold face and a mocking smile.

"The moment your Shadow Organization began scheming against us, this outcome was already set. If there is anyone to hate, hate only the ones who made the decisions. From the very beginning, they never intended to let you live!"

These words were, in truth, Chen Yi's deduction, but they were not far from the mark.

If the Shadow Organization's bloody experiments reached the final stage without anyone able to stop them, it was very likely those in power would, in order to obtain precise data, even send the people around them to die.

Such savage methods would also become a memory that struck terror into all who heard of it.

The officer had thought he could move Chen Yi with a plea of bitter sacrifice, but Chen Yi's performance today left him utterly disappointed.

It seemed this man had no intention of giving him another chance.

Slowly placing a hand behind his back, the officer prepared to make a killing move.

Chen Yi, who had long since noticed every detail, swung his twin blades at once and killed him in an instant.

Yet the matter was still not over.

Though the officer was cut down by Chen Yi's twin blades, just before he lost his life he used the power of temporal reversal to return one second before his death, then plunged into the water.

Even after searching, they found nothing.

"Truly hateful!"

Lu Kai frowned deeply. "It's simply impossible to guard against! If we'd known this would happen, we should have..."

Chen Yi waved a hand.

"I was careless too. I thought his ability would become useless after death, but I forgot that as long as he still had a breath left, he could keep clinging to life."

In the end, Chen Yi also blamed himself for acting too rashly just now and striking first. If he had observed more carefully, it would not have come to this, where a single blow failed to finish the job.

Most of the blame, in the end, lay with him.

"Don't think too much about it."

Chu Yunxi stepped forward and patted Chen Yi on the shoulder, letting out a soft sigh.

"Why blame yourself for something like this? From the start, the existence of these powers has always been the result of chance, not something we can control."

"Exactly!"

Zheng Xiaoda also sighed at that moment.

"Boss, before, I really wasn't convinced. I couldn't understand why you were the one leading everyone. But now, I am truly, completely convinced!"

With Chen Yi's action, judgment, and ability to analyze the situation, no one else could compare.

So at this point, Zheng Xiaoda naturally admired him from the heart.

Working with such a man could only be beneficial.

Chen Yi smiled faintly, but then his expression turned serious at once.

"Those things are secondary. Right after this, I'm going to make a new deployment!"

Lu Kai spread his hands. "We'll do whatever the boss says, but there aren't many of us left now. How are you going to..."

"Still calling yourselves comrades? You're clearly treating us like outsiders!"

Over a thousand zombie monkeys rushed out in an instant, glaring fiercely at Lu Kai.

"Didn't we say we'd help?"

Lu Kai reacted quickly, but he still couldn't help retorting.

"You say you'll help, but I don't see you actually doing it. Tell me, where have you all been these days?"

The zombie monkey said nothing, only turned to look at Chen Yi.

Chen Yi gave a slight nod.

"Go on. Tell everyone what you've found."

"Yes, boss!"

At once the zombie monkey bounded up to the crowd.

From within its chest, it took out a bloodstained blueprint.

"My brothers and I searched the nearby islands and found a research facility. Quite a few monkey brothers sacrificed themselves to snatch this back. It was discovered on an island thirty kilometers to the south, and it's for research on humans and the undead."

Chen Yi studied the blueprint carefully, looking over the detailed records and observation data on both living dissections and corpse dissections, and immediately knew the zombie monkey's account matched exactly what the great peng beast had found.

These people, under the pretense of protecting humanity, had been doing deeds so vile they defied heaven itself. Their conduct was already little different from that of beasts.

"Boss, this is outrageous!"

Lu Kai ground his teeth.

"They don't act like human beings at all. Can they even be called people? In the end, we have to wipe them out completely!"

"No rush."

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes, his gaze icy.

"People like that will naturally pay a terrible price for everything they've done."

Putting away the blueprint, Chen Yi made his decision.

"Set out immediately for the southern island. Since there are people over there, a bloody battle is inevitable. Everyone should be prepared. Some things you may not enjoy seeing!"