294: The murderous egg

The guy nodded hurriedly, sweating profusely, and said, "Please speak, Great Hero..."

Tang Ku said, "Very good, then you need to be careful with your answers... Hmm, first question, what is this place, what is it called, and where exactly is it located in the Tang Dynasty?"

"Is this... one question?" the thin man asked in astonishment.

"Less nonsense, don't you want to earn merit?" Tang Ku curled his lips and scolded.

"Uh... this is the Heavenly Kingdom Factory, in the Tang Dynasty... hmm, it probably shouldn't count as the Tang Dynasty, we are in the sky... uh, it's a place used to manufacture... to manufacture soldiers... the kind of... hmm, soldiers beyond the imagination of a petty citizen like me, they are very powerful... hmm, the owner here is a foreigner named Francis... He says he is a scientist, but I don't know exactly what a scientist is... We capture people to conduct experiments for him, but the selection method is decided by him. These people will all be transformed into those tireless soldiers, and in the end... what they will do in the end, I don't know..."

After finishing these words, it actually left Tang Ku a bit dumbfounded!

"You spoke so detailedly... I almost can't bear to kill you anymore..." Tang Ku curled his lips, "Then what about you people? Listening to you talk, you are all from the Central Plains, why are you aiding tyranny?"

"We... we were originally going to be transformed into soldiers too, but later because we didn't qualify, we were assigned tasks to work as long-term laborers here... Hmm, the food here is very good, and I have no one left at home, with no ties, so I stayed voluntarily. Most of the long-term laborers here are in my situation... Great Hero... Great Hero, you must spare my life, I just... I just purely want to live well..." The thin man was almost crying.

Tang Ku frowned slightly, and immediately couldn't help but ponder who that guy named Francis actually was... But after thinking for a long time, he couldn't recall such a person.

"Could it be a disciple of Darwin or that Tesla? Hmm, why have I never heard of it?" Tang Ku couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"Hehe, it's better to ask me than him, after all, what I know is more detailed than this minion..."

A voice rang out in this vast space, making Tang Ku shudder, because he hadn't sensed any living creature approaching. If someone could sneak up to him silently, then how strong must this person's cultivation be?

However, Tang Ku soon dispelled his doubts, because not far from them, a basketball-sized circular object was hovering there, with a red light spot in the very center.

"Oh, it's a remotely controlled robot..." Tang Ku turned his head to look at the thin man; this guy had already fainted when he heard that voice.

"?" Tang Ku glanced at the spherical object and suddenly asked, "Are you the one he mentioned... that Francis?"

"That's right, you are truly amazing, to be able to sneak in silently. I have to say, you are the most powerful one among all the test subjects I have captured!" the spherical object said, "Come with me, I will take you to see some things..."

As it spoke, the spherical object flew downwards first. Tang Ku hesitated slightly, then grabbed that guy and flew down.

"You can put him here, someone will come later to move him away!" the spherical object said to Tang Ku.

"Will he... be killed!" Tang Ku hesitated for a moment, then immediately said to this round ball.

"No, I am a scientist, not a murderer..." the spherical object flew forward along the corridor without turning its head.

Tang Ku frowned slightly, then took two quick steps to catch up.

"You... why exactly did you capture these people to conduct experiments? What does manufacturing soldiers mean? Are you planning to use military force against the Tang Dynasty? Also... why is your selection mechanism so strange, even looking at whether those people act chivalrously? Also... who exactly are you?"

"Hehe, looking at your attire, you must be a ranger from the Tang Dynasty, right? Your martial arts seem very high, higher than those Tang people I have seen, and your horizons seem broader than theirs, but compared to a scientist, it is still too shallow!"

The round ball said while flying forward, "Although war is inevitable, it will absolutely not happen here! My goal, my work, is to create the most perfect killing machine in the Universe. For me, the battlefield is just a huge testing ground, it's that simple. As for who I am... even if I told you, you wouldn't know; you and I are not people from the same world!"

The round ball led Tang Ku through a metal door and suddenly walked into a corridor made of Materials similar to crystal or glass. Inside, a faint bright yellow light emitted from the surrounding objects, making one feel a bit warm, and even gave a strange sense of fatigue... No, it wasn't just that; the surrounding air seemed to be filled with some kind of gas that made people feel dull.

"This little bit of stuff shouldn't have any effect on you... Your physical data is actually very strong in my measurements... Hmm, continuing to answer your questions... The screening mechanism you mentioned just now was formulated by me. What you call acting chivalrously is actually a sublimation of human Mental Energy. Ordinary people won't have such actions because seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is human instinct. But some people can force themselves to make some unexpected actions. The essence of acting chivalrously is courage to do what is right, which means their Mental Energy will be very strong... And the first condition for screening test subjects is Mental Energy... And facts have proven that their Mental Energy is indeed much stronger than ordinary people's... Of course, this group of people also has strong and weak ones, and they need to be further screened before they can be used..."

This corridor was shorter than the previous one, and the door in front seemed to be made of this same Materials. After Tang Ku passed through this door, they arrived in a space also filled with yellow light.

And as soon as he entered this space and saw the things on the ground, Tang Ku suddenly shivered and almost bit off his own tongue.

Rows upon rows of dense, egg-like things were arranged there; anyone with trypophobia seeing this scene would probably faint.

But the reason Tang Ku shivered was not because of this, because these seemingly harmless beast eggs... were actually emitting waves of Killing Intent!

That's right, it was Killing Intent. Although the Killing Intent on each beast egg was very weak and almost imperceptible, with so many, fully thousands of beast eggs gathered here, there would be an extremely strong sensation.

"Very shocking, right? Hehe, I discovered this thing on a certain savage planet. The evolutionary process of this creature is breathtaking, and once this creature is combined with humans, it can turn the human body into a stronger killing machine. And this thing itself is also a creature that has detached from the ordinary evolutionary chain and exists independently outside the theory of evolution. I call this thing... Alien!"