She actually dared to play dumb in front of Lady Vita?
If Yijinmo were here, he would have immediately covered the little sisters’ pure eyes. Only those who have personally experienced the stimulating power of these lewd tentacles know just how intense it really is.
“Waaahhh!!”
Suspended in midair, Vita commanded the tentacle creatures to begin their performance.
“!!”
Below, Liu Yulan quietly raised her hand to shield her eyes. Steel Thorn was a bit curious but was decisively pulled away by Spring Breeze.
As for Hidden Mist, that idiot assassin stood to the side and even started commenting.
Back when she was on missions, she had snuck into targets’ bedrooms more than once, hiding like a ghost under the bed to listen to the sounds above.
After seeing it so many times, she had naturally gotten used to it.
But this tentacle play was definitely a first!
“Eh, not so stubborn after all. Couldn’t take even two tries—one of the weakest sisters I’ve ever seen~”
By the time the assistant finally escaped the clutches, she lay sprawled on the ground like a dead salted fish, flailing uselessly and unconscious.
But the little she-demon wasn’t about to let her off yet. The cute little tentacles once again slapped her near the mouth.
“I’m not done having fun.”
“No, no more, please don’t come any closer!!”
Faced with the devil’s whisper, the assistant instantly snapped awake and hurriedly crawled backward until her back hit the corner of the wall, with nowhere left to hide.
“It’s really simple if you don’t want to get toyed with.”
“Tell me, where are Dr. Wang and the monsters you’ve captured?”
After hesitating for a moment, under the tentacle’s threat, the assistant slowly spoke, “Dr. Wang… Dr. Wang went back to headquarters at noon today.”
“As for the other monsters… they should all be in the core area.”
The so-called core area was probably the room Yijinmo was currently unable to access. After all, every other place had already been thoroughly searched, and there was no trace of Ice Thorn anywhere.
But before setting off, Yijinmo first told Vita to wait there. Then she herself rushed down to the underground laboratory.
“You must be the Thunderbolt Monster…”
The assistant’s expression was hesitant when she saw Yijinmo.
“Do you have something you want to say to me?”
“N-no, nothing…”
“If not, forget it. Vita, bring this one along. Steel Thorn, Spring Breeze, you two stay here and watch these people. Don’t let them escape. The rest come with me to the core area.”
……
As Yijinmo had suspected, the power system in the core area was isolated from the outside world. But with her personally on site, this little trick was no longer useful.
The locked door swung open, and the first thing that hit them was a cold chill.
Inside, the temperature was noticeably lower than outside.
Yijinmo stepped in first and glanced around, seeing shelves along the walls piled with unidentifiable bottles and jars.
In the center of the room was a clean operating table, but all the equipment surrounding it was still powered on.
“What were you just doing?”
“Recording data…”
“What kind of data?”
“Body data of humans transformed into monsters… We need to monitor it in real time.”
“How did you do it? How did you turn normal people into monsters?”
“In theory, we can’t simply transform a normal person into a monster out of thin air. Our technology only acts as a catalyst… it accelerates their transformation process and increases the likelihood of transformation.”
“Who gave you this technology, to manipulate and utilize the evil energy?”
“…Dr. Wang.”
Recalling that white-haired woman wearing a mask, Yijinmo crossed her arms, her expression growing serious.
If this was the result of a research team’s work, Yijinmo wouldn’t be too shocked.
Science was always pushing into the unknown; someday humanity would fully uncover the secrets behind monsters and magical girls.
But if all these achievements were the work of just one person… that was downright terrifying.
Especially since this person had been completely unknown before today and only emerged suddenly with this miracle.
“When did your company start cooperating with her?”
“Three years ago… right after you fell.”
“Are all these results really all from her alone?”
“…Yes.”
Though reluctant to admit it, it was true: this group of talents from various prestigious universities were simply assistants to this mysterious figure.
The core of the controllable technology was always solely held by Dr. Wang herself.
“These drugs must be the key to your technology’s success.”
Yijinmo pulled the nearby lever, and accompanied by a faint electrical hum, the freezer door popped open. Several golden vials lay inside, emitting an oddly eerie glow.
Vita frowned deeply. These reminded her of the high-voltage baton the motorcade commander used in their previous battle.
Her tentacles weren’t afraid even of Little Yi’s 100,000 volts, yet somehow trembled at the sight of this little broken stick…
“What do you call it?”
“Evolution Serum… but this is still the test version; it’s far from mature.”
“Evolution?”
To dare name it that, it seemed this group’s ambitions were even greater than Yijinmo had imagined.
She gave Hidden Mist a look. The latter immediately understood and pulled a large hemp sack from beneath her skirt, stuffing all the serums from the freezer inside.
Since they were here, they couldn’t return empty-handed.
They could hand these over to Boss for further research once home.
Yijinmo understood why they targeted ordinary people.
Besides data collection, wild monsters were simply too difficult to capture.
Like Boss, they dared not move against her. Monsters like Yijinmo and Vita were nowhere to be found and impossible to defeat.
Monsters previously taken care of by magical girls were all registered. To pull one out of prison required a lot of effort and connections.
Some monster organizations were so large that rash action risked mutual destruction.
The only ones they could deal with were the likes of the Ice Thorn trio—weak monsters with no backing.
But such monsters were still too rare in Jiangnan City. Rather than exhausting themselves chasing wild monsters, producing their own was more reliable and sustainable.
“…You said there are currently only three monsters contained here, right?”
“Yes…”
The assistant nodded.
But Yijinmo snapped her fingers at the air. Suddenly, five recessed slots appeared in the wall at the end of the core area. Along with the whirring of machinery, five incubation pods came into view.
Of the five pods, only two were operational; the other three were empty.
“Frozen monster, Ash monster… Little Yi, those are the two rookies from last week.”
Two girls soaked in yellow-green nutrient liquid floated inside, the display screens nearby recording their vital signs.
“One pod is empty, which belongs to the Flame monster, so who are the other two…”
“Where is Ice Thorn? And who is in the fifth pod?”
All eyes simultaneously turned to the captured assistant.