156: Lu Xingye ventured out to the high seas to replace the monkey's head

Melon XII's mind was ablaze, perhaps the dying hope had rekindled.

This Longevity Foundation?

What's its background?

Is it real or fake?

Melon XII, wanting to understand the Foundation's situation, used his phone to scan the QR code in the email.

It led to a link.

Clicking on the link led to a website named Longevity Foundation.

The website featured the Foundation's logo, with the same mysterious flowing text as in the email.

The overall design was black.

It presented a long historical river.

This imagery easily made people associate the Foundation with an ancient organization that has existed since time immemorial.

Melon XII gently tried to enter the website to learn more.

A pop-up input box suddenly appeared on the website.

"Respected Melon XII."

"This is the Longevity Foundation. By seeing this, you must have already seen the email I sent you. However, our Foundation is a membership-based organization."

"If you wish to view the website's content, please register as a member first."

"Registration fee: 10 billion."

What?

Registration requires ten billion?

This gave him a fright.

Even projects listed in the criminal code weren't this terrifying.

If the Longevity Foundation truly possessed medical technology and Longevity Drug technology, paying 10,000,000,000 wouldn't be an issue.

After all, this was something related to life.

Life is priceless.

No matter the cost, it's worth it.

But... the problem was, Melon XII had no idea if what the Longevity Foundation claimed was true or false.

If it didn't require such a high price, he might have tried it.

But ten billion... even as the current head of the Mellon Group, he couldn't produce that sum immediately.

Furthermore...

Before confirming whether what the Longevity Foundation said was true or false, he wouldn't act blindly... Melon XII didn't quite believe the email's claims.

However, he still held a glimmer of hope, so he casually screenshotted the Longevity Foundation's logo and forwarded it to his trusted subordinates.

He asked them to help investigate the Longevity Foundation.

The results, naturally, were disappointing.

Melon XII searched every corner of the world but couldn't find any organization like the Longevity Foundation.

No discoveries were made regarding organizations involved in medical technology and Longevity medicine research either.

The Longevity Foundation seemed not to exist in this world, leaving no trace to be found.

As time passed.

Melon XII still lay on his sickbed, but the unwillingness in his heart had gradually subsided.

Birth, aging, sickness, and death are the normal state of humanity.

Since he was old.

He should properly hand over his inheritance to his son.

Melon XII no longer searched for the Longevity Foundation.

It seemed he had accepted his fate... Meanwhile.

On the other side.

Lu Xingye had already pushed the Foundation's plan to the next stage.

— Find a way to make Melon XII believe in the Longevity organization.

The principle was the same.

To gain Melon XII's trust, the Longevity organization first needed to provide some concrete evidence.

As for how to provide concrete evidence.

Lu Xingye also had a detailed plan.

Since Melon XII didn't believe him, he would have to create a real-life example.

Moreover...

This example could not only be used on Melon XII.

It could also be used when inviting other chaebols to join the Foundation in the future.

Therefore.

Lu Xingye creating an example wouldn't be a loss, nor would it be a futile effort.

Of course~

Although Lu Xingye's moral bottom line was low, it wasn't that low.

If he were to use an innocent person for an experiment.

He would never agree.

Therefore.

Excluding humans, he could only use animals for experiments.

For example: Gorillas.

It is well known that human ancestors have intricate ties with Gorillas.

Human genes are also extremely similar to those of Gorillas.

Excluding genes, from a physiological structure perspective, humans and Gorillas are also extremely similar.

On Blue Star, many research organizations have used Gorillas to replace humans in dangerous experiments.

Only after experiments are conducted on Gorillas and proven feasible, will clinical trials be performed on human bodies... About a week later.

Lu Xingye and Jarvis took a private jet to the international waters of the Pacific Ocean.

A million-ton displacement ship was docked in the international waters.

This was the temporary base of the Longevity Foundation.

He planned to conduct the Gorilla head transplant experiment here.

The helicopter hovered, lowering a ladder.

Lu Xingye, however, didn't intend to use the ladder. With his current physical fitness, jumping from the helicopter onto the ship wouldn't cause him any harm.

It's worth noting that the helicopter was only hovering about 10 meters above the ship.

This height was nothing to him.

Thump!

His feet and the deck made intimate contact, emitting a dull thud.

Then Lu Xingye's feet landed firmly on the ground.

He named this ship "Chang Sheng."

Chang Sheng had been transformed by Lu Xingye into a mobile arsenal fortress. Looking around, the deck was filled with neatly arranged robot armies.

The robots were equipped with multi-barrel rotary Air Guns.

The ship was equipped with air cannons, electromagnetic cannons, and stealth cannons.

Coupled with the positioning capabilities of Sky Eye-1 satellite, Chang Sheng already possessed precise sea, land, and air strike capabilities.

It's no exaggeration to say:

Unless Chang Sheng encountered a nuclear attack, no one in this world could breach Chang Sheng in a short amount of time.

"Boom!"

Immediately after.

Another loud bang came from the deck, as Jarvis also jumped from the plane after Lu Xingye.

Because Jarvis was a mechanical body, the sound of his feet on the deck was much louder than Lu Xingye's.

"Hehe!"

"Boss, you're being too cautious."

"We're just performing a simple head transplant surgery in international waters, not doing anything to destroy humanity."

"Do we really need to prepare so much striking power?" Jarvis looked at the thousands of well-equipped robots on the deck and the dark, eerie muzzles nearby.

He felt his boss was making a mountain out of a molehill.

Moreover...

Their itinerary for this trip was completely confidential.

No one knew their location, nor did anyone know where he was in international waters.

So he felt his boss's caution was a bit excessive.

"It's always right to be careful."

"And..."

"I don't know why, but I always have an ominous premonition. I feel like something will go wrong with this operation."

Lu Xingye felt uneasy.

Since the establishment of the Hive, he had always stayed hidden inside the Hive, never coming out.

Who knows how many people in the world were eyeing him!

In other words:

Many people in this world wanted to kill him.

It was just that he had always been hiding in the Hive before, and others couldn't do anything to him.

Coming out this time, it was natural to be as careful as possible.