Volume 3 Chapter 227
by Need_More_SleepVolume 3 + Chapter 227: Drawing The Dragon Into The Room
Placed before Xia Yi’s eyes was truly an astonishing experiment.
She honestly found it unbelievable—humans were actually creating hybrids…?
“Heh heh.”
Beside Xia Yi’s ear, came the Doctor’s delighted laugh.
“Frightened, are you? Now you’ve seen something you weren’t supposed to see…”
Only then did Xia Yi remember that right now she was supposed to be just an ordinary student. Facing a scene like this, she should be showing a deeply resistant reaction, so then—
“Uuuuhhh ahhhh!”
Xia Yi’s body trembled, retreating several steps, and in a moment of carelessness, she tripped and fell heavily to the ground on her bottom.
The black-haired loli, who looked utterly harmless, now had eyes brimming with tears, completely at a loss what to do.
“Wh-What is all this!! Doctor, it seemed like people just died just now!!”
“Yes, but you don’t need to worry. Those people, they were already deserving of their fate.”
The Doctor crouched down in front of Xia Yi, lifted a slender pale finger, brushed it across her tear-rimmed eyes, then brought it to her lips and licked it, looking thoroughly satisfied.
“So Xia Yi’s tears taste like this? Not bad at all.”
That’s a bit too much…!
This act of the Doctor truly made Xia Yi shiver with fear. No matter what, she absolutely could not fall into the Doctor’s hands. Otherwise, who knew what this mentally unstable person might do to her—something utterly outrageous, no doubt.
“Doctor, what do you mean by ‘deserving of their fate’? I don’t understand.” Xia Yi shook her head.
“Those who just died, every last one of them was a criminal,” the Doctor explained. “They committed serious crimes in the Rhine Kingdom, were captured by the Templar Knights, and were all sentenced to death. But… we gave these doomed ones an opportunity. That was their chance.”
Only then did Xia Yi realize that what she had once overheard in the Schubert family about the Morrison family was not without basis.
On the surface, the Morrison family appeared to be engaging in charity, but in reality, they were using this facade to carry out extremely dangerous experiments.
It had to be the Morrison family who offered those death row prisoners a deal, as long as they were willing to undergo a dangerous experiment, and survived it, their lives would not be taken away. And this dangerous experiment was precisely…
“This opportunity was to survive in this hybrid experiment,” the Doctor’s lips curved in a faint smile. “Clairerly, they failed to grasp it.”
“Hybrid??”
Xia Yi pointed at the half-dragon monster, continuing to feign a terrified, incoherent demeanor.
“Doctor, that’s a dragon!! Quickly call the Templar Knights! Dragons are our enemies!!”
“Yes, the dragons are indeed humanity’s enemies. Before the dragons’ immense strength, the power of mankind counts for very little… It is exactly because of this that the human high council came to understand, since dragon power is so great, then humanity must harness it—to destroy the dragons.”
The Doctor spoke unhurriedly.
“This is the Hybrid Project. Using alchemy to create the perfect hybrid— heroes of humanity who possess the power of dragons.”
“Heroes of humanity…”
Now Xia Yi fully understood.
Why her impostor counterpart carried the aura of dragons, why his strength surpassed human limits, why he wielded powers unlike any other, and why he sometimes lost control…
It was because he was a hybrid.
The False Sword Saint was the product of the Hybrid Project.
The four great families of the Rhine Kingdom, the human high council, had initiated this experiment—to create a false human Sword Saint.
“Although I don’t have much interest in this talk of creating heroes of humanity and restoring humanity’s glory, at first I found the experiment intriguing, so I joined. After all, before this, experiments on modifying humans were absolutely forbidden—even inside Rhine Alchemy it was not allowed to proceed… But this time, a precedent was set.”
The Doctor stood up, took out a lollipop, and popped it into her mouth.
“Let me reintroduce myself. My full identity is, highest authority of the Rhine Alchemy Department of Alchemical Life Experiments—Doctor Claire Morrison. This is the project I am conducting, the Hybrid Project. Xia Yi, your internship task from now on will be to provide assistance to me in this project.”
Morrison family…
No wonder.
So the Doctor’s identity was truly not simple, she too came from one of the four great families of the Rhine Kingdom.
Perhaps her existence was like the Knight Princess of the Frost family, or Wright of the Schubert family—Claire was the genius nurtured as the pride of the Morrison family.
Only, Claire’s personality didn’t seem like that of an obedient person.
Most likely, in the family, she made the Morrison elders very displeased, but because of her talent, they were helpless.
“So the Doctor is such an amazing person… This project, it’s a bit… I, I…”
Xia Yi lowered her head, her voice even choked with sobs.
“I’m a little scared…”
“Good girl, Xia Yi, don’t be afraid. After you see enough, you’ll get used to it.”
“Doctor, I’m not in very good shape right now. I’d like to go back and rest first. Once I’m adjusted, I’ll come back tomorrow to work…”
Xia Yi stood up, saluted the Doctor, and prepared to leave.
At that moment, even before the Doctor spoke, security personnel stopped Xia Yi, not allowing her to leave.
“Sorry, Miss Xia Yi, without permission, you cannot leave here.”
“Doctor, this is…”
Xia Yi turned toward the Doctor.
“Xia Yi, now that you know these things, you can’t leave anymore. These are humanity’s secrets. You’ve learned what you shouldn’t know. From now on, you must accept twenty-four-hour supervision. You cannot leave the experimental base.”
“Eh?!”
“This rule applies to all experimental personnel. If you dare to run off, the human high council will not let you go… Even the Templar Knights would go to any lengths to hunt you down. Even if they only bring back a corpse, it won’t matter.”
The Doctor’s purpose in bringing Xia Yi here was exactly this.
Once aboard the carriage, there was no chance to jump off.
The Templar Knights were the armed force backing this experiment.
In the human world, no one dared oppose the Templar Knights.
Thus, Xia Yi could only obediently remain by the Doctor’s side, with no way to escape. Until the appointed time came, this little loli would belong to her~
“How can this be… Doctor, you’re too cruel…”
Xia Yi showed a dejected look, her shoulders slumping.
On the surface, she wore an expression of despair, but inside, she was overjoyed.
You want to force me to stay and let me probe deeper into the Hybrid Project’s secrets?
Since the Doctor is so eager—then I won’t be polite~