67: Chapter 67 Wild Growth! I Chopped Open God's Genetic Lock with a Kitchen Knife!

"Nuwa" No. 1 Biological Laboratory.

The air was filled with a pungent mixture of disinfectant and cryogenic liquid nitrogen.

Lieutenant General Peng and President Liu Qianghua stood outside the thick, bulletproof observation glass, their expressions grave.

Beside them stood over a dozen titans of the Longguo life sciences field.

The leader among them was Academician Chen Shian, the director of the Life Sciences Division at the Longguo Academy of Sciences.

An old man who had dedicated his entire life to genetic and cellular research.

At this moment, he was staring fixedly at the dozen or so cryogenic sleep pods inside the laboratory, which were emitting a ghostly blue, cold light. His aged face was filled with awe and unease.

"General Peng, Dean Liu." Academician Chen Shian's voice was somewhat dry.

"We have conducted non-invasive scans of the substances inside the pods using top-tier equipment."

"The results... are unparseable."

"They... seem to have their own life and consciousness, actively blocking all detection signals."

A middle-aged academician behind him adjusted his glasses and added.

"We have developed a three-week awakening protocol."

"In the first week, we will gradually increase the ambient temperature to let them slowly recover from deep hibernation."

"In the second week, we will conduct contact tests using micron-scale robotic arms in a completely sterile, inert gas environment."

"In the third week..."

"Too slow." A calm voice interrupted him.

Su Che had somehow already changed into a silver-white sterile protective suit and walked in.

He didn't even glance at the thick awakening protocol.

"My grandfather cannot wait three weeks."

Academician Chen Shian frowned tightly.

"Chief Engineer Su! This is not a joke!"

"Any of the materials in there have biological activities that far exceed our current scope of understanding! Even the slightest reckless operation could lead to an irreversible disaster!"

"For example?" Su Che retorted.

"For example... we might create a 'new species' that we cannot control! Or, we could directly destroy this unique sample from the universe!" Academician Chen Shian's voice rose sharply.

Su Che didn't say anything more.

He walked straight to a sleep pod marked "Flexible Bio-electrode."

Through the transparent pod cover, one could see a strange substance inside that flowed like mercury, yet emitted a faint, bio-electrical light.

"Give me a high-frequency ultrasonic scalpel." Su Che said without looking back.

The entire observation room fell into dead silence instantly.

All the life scientists looked at him as if he were a madman.

A high-frequency ultrasonic scalpel?

That is used for minimally invasive surgery to cut human tissue!

Using it to cut this god-tier material of unknown properties at minus 196 degrees?

What is he trying to do?

Is he treating it like frozen meat?!

"Chief Engineer Su! You cannot..."

Academician Chen Shian wanted to rush in to stop him in agitation.

Lieutenant General Peng reached out to stop him, his eyes complex, but he ultimately gave the order over the communicator.

"Do as Chief Engineer Su says."

Soon, a staff member passed a sci-fi-looking scalpel through the sterile passage.

Su Che took the scalpel without the slightest hesitation.

"Hum—"

He activated the scalpel, and an invisible ultrasonic blade formed on the edge.

Under the horrified gazes of everyone.

He slashed down at the frozen, mercury-like substance inside the sleep pod!

"It's over!"

Academician Chen Shian swayed, almost fainting on the spot.

What a waste of a precious treasure!

This is the most ruthless blasphemy against science!

However, the scene of the material shattering into powder as expected did not occur.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

The frozen substance, the moment it was touched by the ultrasonic blade, did not shatter; instead, it acted like a piece of living jelly.

At the incision, there wasn't the slightest trace of ice crystals; instead, it instantly "melted" and healed at a visible rate!

It was as if that strike just gave it a little tickle.

"This... how is this possible?!"

An academician specializing in cryobiology nearly popped his eyes out.

"It... it is self-repairing! In an absolute zero environment, its cellular activity has not decreased in the slightest!"

Su Che turned off the scalpel, his face expressionless.

"I said it has consciousness."

"If you are polite to it, it will play dead with you."

"If you want it to be obedient, you have to make it feel pain."

This warped logic of his caused the worldviews of all the scientists present to collapse.

Can you even do that?

Is this scientific research, or animal taming?

Su Che ignored the group of seniors who had begun to doubt their lives.

He opened the sleep pod.

A burst of extreme cold surged out instantly.

Su Che put on the sterile protective suit gloves with a built-in 'nano-scale energy buffer layer' and reached into the minus 196-degree liquid nitrogen.

He grabbed that mass of "mercury."

It was cold, soft, and he could even feel it pulsating slightly in his palm.

It was just like holding a living heart.

He threw the substance directly into a petri dish filled with "nano-scale bio-conductive gel."

Subsequently, he did the same thing.

Using the same "savage" method, he extracted the raw materials for the "high-precision single-cell neural signal acquisition array" from the other sleep pods.

It was a type of fiber as slender as a spider web, yet shimmering with seven-colored light.

The entire "Nuwa" laboratory had completely turned into Su Che's personal "kitchen."

And those national-treasure-level life scientists had become apprentices watching the master chef cook, not daring to even breathe loudly.

Cutting, fusing, catalyzing, shaping...

Su Che's movements lacked the rigor and complexity of scientific experimentation.

It was more like a highly skilled artisan immersed in his own world.

One hour. Another hour.

When the clock on the laboratory wall pointed to midnight.

Su Che stopped his movements.

On the experimental table in front of him lay a flexible membrane as thin as a cicada's wing, nearly transparent, and seemingly still breathing.

On the surface of the membrane flowed visible, shimmering light like a galaxy.

[Brain-Computer Interface two-way interaction system] core hardware.

It was done.

Su Che picked up the membrane and walked to the observation wall.

Through the glass, he looked at the group of seniors outside who had long since been dumbfounded.

Then, he held up the membrane in his hand and spoke slowly into the communicator, his voice calm, yet it sounded like a thunderclap in everyone's ears.

"The first phase is complete."

"Now, I need a test subject."

He paused, his gaze locking directly onto Lieutenant General Peng.

"General, go find me... a living person who is brain-dead."

"I want to 'write' his consciousness back."