654: Chapter 654 The reason why there is no crystal core in the body

Shen Huiying closed her eyes and remained silent.

“Alright, Brother Zhang, let’s take Shanshan back first,” Oriental Chen said.

“Okay!” Zhang Yuankui took his daughter’s hand, ready to leave.

“Uncle Dongfang, I haven’t seen you in a long time. Where are you?” Zhang Huishan asked with a smile after seeing Oriental Chen on the screen.

“Shanshan, Uncle Dongfang is out handling some matters right now. He’ll come back to see you after he’s done,” Oriental Chen said with a smile.

“Uncle Dongfang, did Shanshan do something wrong, which is why you locked me up?” Zhang Huishan couldn’t help but ask.

“No, Shanshan! There are many bad people outside, and Uncle is protecting you,” Oriental Chen had no way to answer and could only lie.

“So that’s how it is. Then when can I go out?” Zhang Huishan asked.

“You can go out once Uncle catches all the bad people,” Oriental Chen replied.

“Alright then!” Zhang Huishan was a little disappointed.

She spoke casually, but she knew exactly what was going on in her heart.

She was already a 14-year-old girl and wasn’t clueless.

She guessed that there was probably a very big problem within this base.

So, she sensibly didn’t press further and obediently followed her father away.

“Alright, now that you’ve seen her, can you talk?” Oriental Chen asked.

“Thank you!” Shen Huiying thanked him out of the blue.

“You’re welcome,” Oriental Chen knew she was thanking him for his daughter.

“What do you want to know?” Shen Huiying asked.

“Let’s talk about the Shang Gong Institute first. I feel like you deliberately ignored a lot of facts,” Oriental Chen said.

“That’s right,” Shen Huiying nodded.

“My concealing some facts is actually for your own good. Huaguo is not as simple as you think, and even I must be cautious and keep a low profile,” Shen Huiying said.

Her meaning was very clear.

Even a 7th-tier old monster had to act discreetly, which showed how deep the waters of Huaguo were.

“Actually, there’s no need. Ever since I established the underground base in Ulan Country, I’ve been prepared to dance on the tip of a knife. Even if I’m as cautious as possible, countless eyes will still be secretly prying,” Oriental Chen said.

“Your decision is very correct. Only by jumping out of Huaguo did you have a chance to live until today,” Shen Huiying nodded.

“Then what exactly is in the Shang Gong Institute?” Oriental Chen asked.

“The Shang Gong Institute was created by an old monster. You should have heard his name,” Shen Huiying replied.

“Who?” Oriental Chen asked.

“Xu Fu, also known as Xue Fu,” Shen Huiying replied.

“It’s him? The one who sailed out to sea to seek immortals and medicine for Qin Emperor?” Oriental Chen asked.

“That’s right,” Shen Huiying nodded.

“He… he’s still alive?” Oriental Chen found it hard to believe.

“Yes. Not only is he alive, but according to my estimation, he should at least have the strength of the Mahayana stage. The Mahayana stage is what you call an 8th-tier Mutant,” Shen Huiying said.

“The Shang Gong Institute was actually created by this Xu Fu?” Oriental Chen could hardly believe his ears.

“That’s right. The Shang Gong Institute was established under his leadership. He was one of the earliest high-level scientific research Experts in Huaguo,” Shen Huiying nodded.

“Then what was his purpose in establishing the Shang Gong Institute?”

“I told you before, it was to research the refinement, storage, transformation, and application of crystalss.”

Oriental Chen nodded; this was consistent with his identity as an alchemist.

“Then the purpose of his human experiments shouldn’t be what you said before, to obtain crystalss through zombification, right?” Oriental Chen asked.

Even he, who had just come into contact with crystalss, could think of the method of obtaining crystalss by zombifying rats. Xu Fu, having researched for so long, couldn’t be that foolish.

“The purpose of his human experiments was actually to research the transformation and application of crystalss.”

“Before the virus outbreak, there was no such term as crystals. Our unified term was inner dan.”

“I always thought that at least two conditions were required to form an inner dan: talent and cultivation.”

“All Cultivators believed that whether a person could embark on the path of cultivation depended on whether spiritual energy could gather within their body. Now we know that it’s actually about condensing a 1st-tier crystals within the body.”

“No one ever dared to imagine that now, just by being bitten by a zombie, there’s a high probability of condensing one.”

“That’s not right. I have many 1st-tier Mutants under me, but they don’t have crystalss in their bodies. And Brother Zhang, he’s also a 1st-tier Mutant,” Oriental Chen countered.

“Can they advance?” Shen Huiying asked with a smile.

“This… indeed they cannot,” Oriental Chen said. If they could advance, they would have long ago.

“The reason they cannot advance is because they don’t have crystalss in their bodies,” Shen Huiying explained.

“So that’s how it is. Then why don’t they have crystalss in their bodies?” Oriental Chen continued to ask.

“You gave them vaccines, didn’t you?” Shen Huiying asked.

She was a biologist and had specialized in this field for many years, so she naturally saw through it at a glance.