335: Chapter 335 Island Center

"Shut up." Lin Fan and Xu Zhixia spoke at the same time.

Yang Ningcong shrank back. In just the blink of an eye, changes began to occur in Zhou Kai's body.

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Black hair began to retract from the ends of his limbs, and the coarse, stiff fur covering the surface of his skin slowly vanished, revealing normal human skin underneath.

His figure was also shrinking, his bones emitting a series of faint cracking sounds as his joints resettled into place.

His spine slowly flattened from its arched state, his shoulder width narrowed, and the claws on his palms shortened, turning back into human fingers.

His fangs also receded back into his gums, the lines of his cheekbones softened, and his ears changed from pointy back to round.

Xu Zhixia suddenly thought of something. "Qingxue, Song Ya, let's go back first."

"What for!" Su Qingxue was somewhat impatient. Clearly, she was Lin Fan's first woman, and when it came down to it, Xu Zhixia was just a mistress. Why should she listen to her?

Besides, she hadn't seen enough of such a fantasy scene yet.

"Song Ya, then, the two of us will go in first."

Although curious, Song Ya had always felt that Xu Zhixia was very formidable, so listening to her was always right.

"Mhm, alright." Song Ya nodded obediently.

"Qingxue, you go in with the two of them." Lin Fan spoke up.

Su Qingxue was just about to ask why, but Zhou Kai's fur had already receded to his belly.

She immediately covered her eyes and then turned her head away.

"Xu Zhixia, why didn't you tell me? I almost..."

"It's fine even if you looked. At worst, I'll help cut your eyes out..."

"You..."

The three women entered the compartment, and a naked adult man stood on the platform, illuminated clearly by the moonlight.

Zhou Kai opened his eyes and looked down at himself.

"Holy shit, I've changed back!"

He turned his two hands over and over to look at them. Ten fingers, normal length, no claws.

He touched his face again; his nose was a nose, and his mouth was a mouth.

"Brother Fan! I really changed back!"

Lin Fan: "Mhm."

"I changed back by myself! I don't need to get beaten up!"

"I see it."

Zhou Kai was so excited he spun around in place twice, then lowered his head, and his expression froze.

He was naked.

Zhou Kai covered himself downwards with both hands and then squatted down.

"Brother Fan! Are there any pants?"

Lin Fan looked at him for three seconds, turned around to walk into the Karst Cave, pulled a pair of pants out from a pile of debris, and threw them onto the platform.

Zhou Kai snatched them up and put them on, letting out a sigh of relief.

"Alright, Brother Fan, next time before I transform, I need to take off my clothes first."

Lin Fan ignored him and instead looked at that bird. How long had it been staring?

Lin Fan traced his thoughts back: the first day they went to the island, the beach, the corpses, the seawater—there seemed to have been birds in the sky back then, and one even dropped shit on his head.

Later, when they were chased by wild boars in the woods and went to look for water, thinking about it carefully, it seemed like there were always a few black shadows circling above their heads every time.

At the time, he just assumed they were sea birds.

Looking at it now, not necessarily.

"Brother Fan?" Zhou Kai walked over, shirtless, with his pants still untied. "Your expression looks wrong."

"It's nothing." Lin Fan shoved the bird to him. "Gut it and see if there is any machinery inside."

"Got it."

Zhou Kai exerted some force, and the bird stopped moving. Before long, Zhou Kai came over to tell Lin Fan, "Brother Fan, there's nothing inside."

Lin Fan sat back down by the campfire. He wasn't surprised; without machinery, perhaps these birds could speak human language just like Zhou Kai and Chen Jian.

After all, don't parrots know how to speak human language?

Lin Fan's gaze darkened. From going to the island until now, could all their struggles—fighting for water, hoarding food, killing people—have been watched by someone from the shadows, just like watching a play?

Could it really be as Chen Jian said, that they were truly lab mice?

Lin Fan closed his eyes and suppressed this thought.

There was too little information; thinking too much was useless.

But he remembered one thing: from now on, whenever he saw any living creature on this island, he had to beat it to death.

...

Island Center.

Inside a building hidden beneath the woods, one of the rooms was brightly lit, just like in civilized society.

"Doctor, the data for the latest batch is out." A young man in a white lab coat stared at the screen. "Sample No. 3 retained consciousness after mutation, and... can change back."

The person sitting in the chair didn't turn around.

"Are you sure?"

"Certain. The message transmitted back by the signal bird shows that he is conscious, can converse with his companions, and even actively attacked one of our signal birds. He is the first one capable of two-way switching."

"Chen Jian's batch were all one-way." The doctor tapped his fingers twice on the armrest. "Once they transformed, they couldn't come back."

"Correct. Therefore, No. 3 is a breakthrough."

The room was quiet for a moment.

The young man swallowed a mouthful of saliva and stepped half a step forward.

"Doctor, then can we... enter the next stage?"

"What's the rush?" The doctor turned around, his face buried in shadow so it couldn't be clearly seen. "Did you think that stuff grows on trees? There are barely a few tubes of stock solution left in total. Every tube used is one less."

"But No. 3 has already proven it's feasible..."

"Feasible is feasible." The doctor interrupted him. "But the sample size is too small. One person succeeding doesn't mean everyone will. What I want is a hundred percent, not relying on luck."

The young man stopped talking.

"Another batch will arrive on the island soon." The doctor stood up and walked over to the dark screen by the wall. "The higher-ups said the next boat will carry quite a few people. Their foundations are even better than these ones."

The young man's face paled slightly.

"Doctor... sending more people up, wouldn't it be too..." He weighed his choice of words. "That first batch is already hard to deal with now. No. 3 can transform; if more people come and they band together..."

"They won't be able to fight their way off this island."

"But what if..."