BFET Chapter 12

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Being chased out of the treatment room by Jiang Li, You Xue sighed in relief after watching the intern close the door behind them.

Then she turned to look at Shen Shu, who was still staring, and said with the attitude of a senior, “Don’t worry, the captain should be fine. Otherwise, Sister Jiang Li would have called for help already.”

Hearing this, Shen Shu looked at her and asked, “Does his ability always make him like this after he uses it?”

“Uh… it can’t be said that way. Xie Yi’s ability is a bit different from others, mainly because he often messes around.” You Xue’s answer was a bit vague, as if she didn’t want to talk about this topic. She turned to look at the box in his hand, “By the way, should I take you to the containment room? I’m going to find the vice-captain, so it’s on the way.”

Shen Shu didn’t speak, but just quietly looked at her.

You Xue felt a little uneasy being stared at, and suddenly wanted to go back to two minutes ago and tell herself to shut up and just say goodbye.

Just as You Xue was thinking about whether to find another excuse to run away, she heard Shen Shu suddenly ask, “You all seem very nervous about what’s inside? Is it very special?”

You Xue subconsciously made a sound of surprise, “You don’t know what it is?”

Shen Shu: “I know it’s a Symbiotic Product.”

“It’s just strange why it’s locked in a safe box now, and you all seem to think there might be a problem.” Shen Shu tilted his head slightly, “If I remember correctly, this is the black knife that Xie Yi carried before.”

“It’s different.”

You Xue said, “Although most Symbiotic Products don’t have any problems as long as they are locked in a safe box, this knife, Abyss, is different from other Symbiotic Products.”

Symbiotic Products are non-living objects that develop special functions after long-term pollution. Most are found inside Mutated Entities.

After being discovered, most of these items are utilized, either becoming weapons against Mutated Entities, or providing assistance for the research and development of targeted weapons, and are very rare.

However, because they are accompanied by varying degrees of side effects, they affect users to some extent, which leads to the utilization rate of Symbiotic Products not being high.

You Xue: “You should have heard of it. I remember it was mentioned in the Symbiotic Product course at the base.”

Shen Shu had indeed heard of it, Abyss, an S-class high-risk Symbiotic Product.

The only introduction was: Forbidden, not to be used.

“The base’s introductions to Symbiotic Products only cover the situation. I only learned more after joining the team.” You Xue said, “Abyss was discovered inside the Faceless Ghoul, a high-level Mutated Entity. No one could use it before Xie Yi.”

“Its ability is to infinitely absorb or release pollution. It can cut open anything with pollution, no matter what it is. More importantly, it has self-awareness. It is a living Symbiotic Product, like…”

“That kind of Mutated Entity that is always in a state of evolution.” You Xue paused for a moment before continuing, “It will actively and continuously release pollution to the user. If the user cannot suppress its self-awareness, they will be counter-controlled. The safe box’s containment effect on it is only temporary and cannot isolate it for a long time. Once the special sealing layer inside is destroyed, it will release an alluring signal to the surrounding things.”

“We’re nervous because we’re worried that this box will suddenly fail, even though it’s specially designed for Abyss.” You Xue pointed to the safe box, and then urged, “So let’s go, let’s go! Hurry up and send it to the containment room!”

Just as You Xue was urging Shen Shu to the containment room, Jiang Li had already directed Xie Yi into the treatment pod inside the treatment room.

After the large “source of pollution” was locked in the treatment pod, the intelligent purification system in the treatment room immediately carried out a round of major purification. After flashing red lights for a long time, it finally returned to normal.

After scanning, many indicators popped up on the treatment pod’s light screen one after another.

Jiang Li had thought it would be serious, but she didn’t expect it to be this serious. Every indicator was bouncing on the high-risk threshold, “I think it’s a miracle that you can still lie awake in treatment. It’s almost like severe pollution.”

Xie Yi didn’t speak. Special medicine was injected into his body, and the medicinal solution in the treatment pod constantly washed over the mutated areas of his body. After each round was completed, the next round was immediately started.

The constant tearing sensation spreading inside and outside his body made his brow furrow tightly.

Jiang Li’s hand constantly tapped the treatment pod’s light screen, constantly adjusting the dosage and concentration of the injected medicine according to the changes in Xie Yi’s body indicators.

The emergency treatment room’s lights were on for the entire second half of the night. It wasn’t until the indicators on the light screen generally stabilized and decreased that Jiang Li breathed a sigh of relief.

After completing the last round of medicine configuration, Jiang Li took the time to look at the treatment pod and found that Xie Yi was actually awake, “Not bad, you weren’t knocked unconscious by the pain? Your tolerance has grown from courting death!”

Xie Yi’s lips were pale, and his voice became hoarse from enduring the pain, “Is it over?”

“What are you thinking? It’s just the beginning.” Jiang Li said ruthlessly, and then dragged a chair from the side and sat down, “Since you’re awake, come on, tell me what you did in the Fengjiang Enclosed Zone to make yourself like this?”

“What’s going on with the forcibly evolved Lantern Mushroom?” Jiang Li struck a pose of listening attentively.

“…” Xie Yi: “Don’t you already know?”

“Know what?” Jiang Li said, “Time is tight, so I just asked roughly. Xiao Shu and You Xue only said roughly.”

“Xiao Shu?” Xie Yi caught this name, “Are you very familiar with Shen Shu?”

“It’s okay, his grandfather is my teacher, so I’ve always called him that.” Jiang Li explained, and then urged, “Don’t change the subject, hurry up and tell me, I’m still waiting to catch up on sleep!”

“…” Xie Yi: It seemed like she wasn’t stopping him.

Xie Yi picked out the important points and talked about what happened at the Source of Pollution, and then asked, “In a state of death, the pollution sac of the highest mid-level subspecies Lantern Mushroom suddenly lost control. What are your thoughts?”

“Impossible under normal circumstances.” Jiang Li replied, “But according to our past experiments, Mutated Entities that are mid-level subspecies evolving to high-level, forcibly interrupted evolution will have a special situation.”

“The unformed newborn pollution sac will remain in the body in a rudimentary state. In simulated situations, there is a very small probability that it will trigger the pollution sac to lose control, but the actual experimental data cannot support this possibility. The number is too small.”

Mutated Entities have a total of four ranks: low, initial, middle, and high.

Each rank has subspecies, and only subspecies have the possibility of evolving upwards.

Mutated Entities below high-level will only have one pollution sac, while high-level will have two or even more pollution sacs. The number of pollution sacs represents the strength of the Mutated Entity.

Mid-level subspecies evolving to high-level is not only the evolution process of the original pollution sac, but also the birth process of a new pollution sac.

“That Lantern Mushroom’s evolution was not interrupted. It completed it.” Jiang Li thought and said, “If its corpse was still there, it would be good to dissect it. After all, plant-based Mutated Entities and animal-based Mutated Entities have essential differences, let alone this kind of pure plant-based.”

“Every time I encounter this kind of thing, I feel like I’m going to lose all my hair.” Jiang Li sighed, “The highest level is only the initial-level subspecies of the Fengjiang Enclosed Zone, which almost produced a high-level plant-based one. I’ll be busy after this.”

After speaking, she stood up and looked at Xie Yi, “Actually, you didn’t need to absorb so much pollution to interfere with the evolution. Did you want to try the ability release state?”

Xie Yi heard her words and didn’t say anything.

Jiang Li sneered and ruthlessly exposed him, “Then you couldn’t control it and dug a hole for yourself.”

Xie Yi closed his eyes expressionlessly.

Looking at Xie Yi playing dead, Jiang Li warned, “The release state is not that easy to master. If you mess around like this again in the future, you’ll become a real Mutated Entity sooner or later.”

After saying this fiercely, Jiang Li slapped the treatment pod and opened the treatment pod’s sleep mode.

After sorting out the data, Jiang Li looked at the time and it was already past seven o’clock, just in time to have breakfast and go back to catch up on sleep.

“After tossing and turning all night, I’m exhausted.” Jiang Li stretched and opened the door, and saw two people standing outside. The yawn she hadn’t finished was forced back, “You…”

“Sister Jiang Li!” You Xue saw Jiang Li and immediately stepped forward, “How is Xie Yi?”

“Don’t worry, he’s alive.” Jiang Li said, looking back and forth at the two of them, “Since you two are so worried, take good care of him and don’t let him court death!”

You Xue’s expression was bitter, “I’m just a support, you’re making things difficult for me. Besides, who dares to take care of him! Shen Shu just joined!”

Shen Shu smiled and asked, “Isn’t the captain’s ability just a normal reaction?”

“Normal ability reaction?” Jiang Li looked at You Xue, “Did you say that?”

You Xue shook her head quickly, “I didn’t say anything!”

Shen Shu said, “The captain said it.”

Jiang Li looked at Shen Shu with a look of naive disbelief, “Don’t believe everything others say. Does he look like it?”

Shen Shu readily replied that he didn’t look like it, and then took the opportunity to ask, “So why does the captain’s ability cause this situation?”

Jiang Li: “Xie Yi’s ability is different from others.”

Hearing the familiar answer, Shen Shu thought that there might be no answer this time again, but he heard Jiang Li continue, “Most people’s abilities are either directly offensive elemental types, or completely auxiliary twisting or instantaneous stillness. Xie Yi’s ability is considered to be in between.”

“Actually, it’s not easy to define.” Feeling that what she said was not quite right, Jiang Li added a sentence and continued, “His ability relies on actively absorbing pollution to use it, turning himself into a Mutated Entity.”

“The more pollution he absorbs, the higher the degree of Mutated Entity transformation, but the greater the risk of losing control, just like this ghostly appearance.” Jiang Li tilted her head, alluding to something, “Although Mutated Entity transformation can give him the rank suppression ability between Mutated Entities and higher pollution resistance, making it easier to fight, all the prerequisites are under controllable conditions.”

“If he messes around like this every time, he’ll kill himself sooner or later.” Jiang Li couldn’t help but curse, and then looked at Shen Shu, “These things should have been told to you by Xie Yi himself. His ability is classified as an Easy to Lose Control Risk Level in the General Headquarters, and it’s confidential. Only the team can share information.”

“But what does this have to do with our Research Institute?” Jiang Li said, shrugging her shoulders, “Okay, if you have nothing to do, don’t stand here, do what you have to do, and don’t worry. That scourge, Xie Yi, has a tough life.”