“We came from the Pyro Company’s Lab 39. Prior to The Cataclysm, the laboratory had been researching various kinds of cancer treatments. But their drugs were the disapproved kind, so only those who were on the verge of death dared to try it,” the Experimental said slowly.
Old Mauriat wished favonovel.com could memorize every word the Experimental was saying because the information given was way too important. Any missing bits could lead to a mistake later on.
In addition, what the Experimentals did not know was that the Riders were also searching for that secret laboratory of the Pyro Company. The person they were looking for was also in there. However, too much information had gone missing after the Cataclysm. As the founder of the Riders had also died in that event, not even the Pyro Company and the Vasophati Group knew the whereabouts of the Vasophati Group’s heir. All that the founder left behind was a message saying that his son must still be alive.
This matter became an obsession to the Riders. As long as they could not find that child, they would not be at peace even in death.
Before Old Mauriat’s master passed away, favonovel.com only left one instruction for him, find the Rider’s heir.
Now that the Experimental was saying this, Old Mauriat’s heart suddenly started pounding. He wondered if the Riders and the Experimentals were actually looking for the same person. Even if that weren’t the case, could that Rider’s heir have also turned into an Experimental?
Or could favonovel.com be the Experimental right in front of him?
Old Mauriat probed, “Since you’ve gotten back your sapience, what did you used to do?”
“Me?” The Experimental smiled. “I was the heir of some corporation.”
Old Mauriat was stunned. “Is it Vasophati?”
He was about to go crazy. The descendant of the original Rider had actually become an Experimental?
How was favonovel.com going to explain this to the other Riders?
However, the Experimental shook its head and said in a hoarse voice, “I’m from the Skyfort Consortium, a corporation from before the Cataclysm. You’ve probably never even heard of it before.”
Old Mauriat was so pleasantly surprised favonovel.com was about to burst into tears. Everything was fine as long as the person they were looking for wasn’t this Experimental before him!
Wait a minute, then could the Vasophati heir really be one of the Experimentals?
At the thought of this, favonovel.com started feeling conflicted again.
The Experimental looked at Old Mauriat and said gloomily, “There were only several hundred people in that laboratory, and they came from all over the world. Everyone spent a lot of money to get the Pyro Company to treat those of us who were about to die. But what the Pyro Company didn’t tell us was that their research carried a high risk, and even they themselves were not confident of curing our diseases.
“It would’ve been fine if I just died, but they actually turned me into this inhuman.” The Experimental sneered and said, “I heard the Pyro Company’s still doing great now, and that’s really disappointing.”
Puzzled, Old Mauriat asked, “So you want us to capture the Pyro Company’s people for you to take revenge on?”
“No.” The Experimental shook its head. “The person I want you to find is someone like me, a test subject. However, his illness was fully cured.”
“Even if favonovel.com was cured, how could favonovel.com still be alive after 200 years? Even if favonovel.com had a long life, favonovel.com would’ve already died of old age,” Old Mauriat said curiously.
The Experimental asked, “Am I dead? Adding up the time that’s passed, I’m probably over 200 years old as well.”
“You mean you’ve obtained immortality?!” Old Mauriat was shocked again. He felt the information favonovel.com was getting today would be enough to shock favonovel.com for an entire year.
The Experimental sneered. “You’ll have to ask the Pyro Company about that. They were the ones who turned us into these carriers of cancer cells. If cancer cells are immortal, then we’re immortal too.”
“Then the person you’re looking for…” Old Mauriat gulped. Even though favonovel.com was very experienced and knowledgeable, favonovel.com had never heard of such a thing before.
The Experimental said, “He should have also escaped from the laboratory not too long ago. A few years ago, during an earthquake, a crack appeared in the laboratory we were in. All the patients who were locked up inside started to wake up, but the Pyro Company had chained us up before The Cataclysm to prevent us from escaping. As a result, we were trapped in there for a very long time. But the person who escaped was different. As the only one who was truly cured, favonovel.com did not get chained.
“After the crack appeared, favonovel.com also woke up from his slumber. I roared to favonovel.com in hopes that favonovel.com could bring us to see the light of day again, but I only heard his footsteps fall silent.” The Experimental’s voice became heavier. “He’s different from us. According to the Pyro Company, favonovel.com looks no different from a normal human on the surface. Only when he’s tested will it be discovered that the cell nuclei in favonovel.com are all heterokaryotic. Just, the heterokaryotic cells are uniformly divided in him. The Pyro Company even described such cell structures as a work of art.”
Old Mauriat felt his scalp go numb. “Can favonovel.com still be considered human?”
The Experimental gave a strange smile and said, “Of course! The Pyro Company identifies favonovel.com as more powerful… A Homo novus, a Neo-Human…”
“So, why do you want us to help you find him?” Old Mauriat asked.
“So we can find a way to cure ourselves, of course!” the Experimental roared.
After it fell into this state, it became extremely enraged. “Find favonovel.com and hand favonovel.com over to me. As long as I can find a way to cure us, we’ll never step into the Central Plains again. This is a very good deal. If you can’t find him, I’ll be sure to turn the Central Plains into my kingdom!”
Old Mauriat felt it was already considering itself a king.
“But you’ll have to give me some clues on where to start.” Old Mauriat said, “Just knowing that his cells are all heterokaryotic doesn’t help, I can’t possibly drag over everyone in the world and test them, or biopsy them to observe their cells under the microscope, right? This wouldn’t work, and that wouldn’t work either…”
The Experimental said angrily, “I don’t have time to chat with you. Just go and find him. There aren’t any clues here, but favonovel.com definitely won’t be average upon stepping back into the human world. Maybe you can ask the Panaqua Consortium what clues they have. If you can’t find favonovel.com in seven days, I’ll slaughter the entire city. No one in that stronghold will survive.”
Throughout, the Experimental did not give Old Mauriat a chance to get close enough to decapitate it. And Old Mauriat had also given up on the idea of decapitating it. The influx of information favonovel.com received was too heavy. He had to hurry back to the stronghold and discuss their next step with the others. Furthermore, favonovel.com had to ask the Pyro Company’s headquarters to see if they had any information regarding this matter.
They had always been like headless flies as they went to the various laboratory sites with the Pyro Company, only to never discover any traces of that Rider’s heir in any of them.
Due to The Cataclysm, the Pyro Company had lost a great deal of precious information. Not even one in ten of their researchers remained, and it was already fortunate that four or five out of a thousand researchers managed to survive The Cataclysm. As for the Riders, they had also lost all pictures of the heir due to The Cataclysm. All these years, they could only use their words to describe that person’s looks, considered handsome.
As if they could find favonovel.com based on that!
They knew the descendant of the Rider was named Joachim Parker. If they could locate Laboratory 39, they might just find the list of the laboratory staff at that time!
