As he spoke, his body suddenly grew cold.
The dagger Evincel held against his neck began to slowly freeze, and Evincel felt an extreme cold at the points of contact with his body.
With agile movements, he forcefully held the dagger, aimed it at Keno’s neck, slashed, then quickly released the dagger and jumped away from Keno.
Unfortunately, that strike clearly caused no harm to Keno, who stood up perfectly fine.
“You’re a Snow Maiden too?”
Evincel exclaimed in shock.
Keno scoffed disdainfully, “Don’t compare me to those failed products. I am an evolved human.”
With that, he suddenly exerted force, reaching directly for Rose with a speed difficult for ordinary people to match.
Before anyone could react, Keno grabbed Little Blue from Rose’s mouth and threw it towards the culture vat.
“Little Blue!”
Kaka cried out in pain, recalling Little Blue into his body.
“Crash!”
The culture vat shattered in response, and the sleeping Snow Maiden inside opened her eyes at the same moment.
The Snow Maiden was indeed, as Keno had said, completely obedient to him.
But clearly, the problem now was Keno himself.
Seeing Keno and the Snow Maiden standing side-by-side, Su Xing and the others quickly retreated to a corner of the room, cautiously staring at them.
Su Xing asked in confusion, “I don’t understand, Keno. You should be able to kill us yourself, why did you have to release your wife?”
Keno seemed to have hit a raw nerve, his face contorted, “It’s all because of that indecisive Mina, who insisted on adding restrictions to the Snow Maidens. Once a Snow Maiden killed someone, she had to stay in the culture vat for a long time. If I kill people, how can I carry out the subsequent experiments?”
Quinn suddenly shouted excitedly, “So I… Raile and Mina are indeed not the kind of people you said they were, are they?!”
Keno smiled strangely, “Oh, I forgot, there are still their little fans here!”
He generously provided the answer, “Yes, I was lying to you all before. In fact, the Snow Maidens were not the product of normal experiments at all, but a desperate outcome. At that time, a plague suddenly broke out in Xueyuan, and many people contracted frostbite ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).”
“Patients with frostbite ALS would gradually freeze internally, then completely turn into ice sculptures and die. Raile and his team tried many methods, but none could help us. Finally, the couple had a flash of inspiration and suddenly decided to fight poison with poison, which led to the birth of the Snow Maidens.”
Quinn, who was weeping at some point, murmured, “So the Snow Maidens are actually the embodiment of kindness and justice, not the conspiracy of evil scientists.”
“Yes,” Keno admitted generously, shrugging, “But unfortunately, they ultimately fell into the hands of an evil scientist.”
“Back then, when Raile and his team realized the problem with the Snow Maidens, they foolishly wanted to solve it and relieve them of their pain. But they completely forgot the inherent value of the Snow Maidens themselves.”
“This is the first step for humans to evolve into phantasms! As long as we delve into this direction, we will eventually complete the evolution of life!”
Keno seemed insane, angrily cursing with a look of disappointment, “It’s a pity those two fools refused to continue researching with me and insisted on finding a way to solve the Snow Maiden problem. They could have stepped into the realm of the limits of life like me!”
Quinn was furious and even began to refute, “How do you know they… they aren’t now? They are con-con-constantly improving in their con-con-constant search. A guy like you, who only… only works behind closed doors, can’t even hold a candle to them!”
Keno was extremely angry because of Quinn’s words, and after hearing him say he was inferior to the Raile couple, he became even more frantic, “What do you know? I am the truth! What I’m doing is truly correct!”
“What about you then?”
Su Xing asked impolitely, “Why did you become like this?”
Keno showed no sign of being offended, quickly breaking free from his previous frenzy, his expression strangely gentle, “Of course, it’s for my research. After years of dedicated study, I finally had a breakthrough. But there had been no living people in Xueyuan for a long time, so I had no choice but to train the Snow Maidens to kill while finding the true meaning of life within myself.”
“You’re crazy, aren’t you?”
Hearing that Keno experimented on himself and trained the originally innocent Snow Maidens to kill, Kaka’s face turned red with anger.
Quinn also couldn’t help but say, “Experimenting on human bodies and killing people are both wrong. You have violated multiple federal laws.”
Keno seemed to have heard something amusing, “Laws? Those are things written by the successful. When my research succeeds, only flowers and applause will await me. No one will care how I succeeded, or how many things were sacrificed behind the scenes. I just need to make up a story, and those in power will naturally be willing to help me cover up the lies!”
Su Xing interrupted his impassioned speech, saying coldly, “Since you’re not yet a household name, it’s clear there’s a problem with your research.”
Keno nodded indifferently, “Yes, using Real and their methods turns people into phantoms and makes them lose their minds, but they gain immortality and the abilities of phantoms. With my method, the appearance is still human, and sanity is intact, but unfortunately, there’s no immortality.”
After hearing his words, Su Xing’s heart sank.
No wonder Keno didn’t mind speaking out; this flaw was of no help to them now.
Keno continued, “But it doesn’t matter, I’ve already achieved the milestone of human-phantom fusion. I believe as long as I get more opportunities for practice, I’ll eventually perfect my solution completely.”
Quinn quietly said to Su Xing, “He…he’s indeed very powerful, letting humans have…have phantom abilities. But he’s hid…hid…hidden some things.”
When it came to professional matters, Quinn stopped stuttering, “The human gene chain simply cannot support the human body in performing phantom skills. If the gene chain is modified, the body will definitely have major problems. Because humans have evolved to this day, the gene chain adapted to the human body is already near perfect, and simply cannot withstand such drastic changes.”
Su Xing and the others looked at Quinn in surprise, and Kaka even exclaimed in delight, “Quinn, you’re so amazing! I’ve never even heard of things like gene chains, how do you know so much?”
Keno’s face darkened at Quinn’s words, then he smiled again, “Indeed, I did conceal some flaws, but don’t worry, these flaws won’t affect the current situation at all. My research still has many steps to go, Quinn, I see you like scientific research so much, why not join me? Perhaps we can become scientist partners surpassing Realmina.”
Quinn frowned, full of resistance, “Science exists to make humanity happier. What you’re doing now is putting the cart before the horse; it completely goes against the original intention of being a scientist!”
“Original intention? My original intention is to lead humanity forward. As for what’s sacrificed on the path forward, that’s just a necessary sacrifice for progress. Life is such a fragile thing, look, none of you have any room to fight back against me.”
“Life is not a fragile thing!”
Kaka retorted, “Those people, including you, managed to stubbornly endure the process of turning into a Snow Maiden. Isn’t that enough to show the resilience of life?”
Su Xing looked at him in surprise, not expecting this guy to be able to say such words.
Unfortunately, Keno was completely unconvinced, instead looking like he was talking to a child, “Forget it, children your age are always full of heroism. But I believe that as long as we live together for a while, you’ll definitely understand me.”
After Keno finished speaking, he nodded to the Snow Maiden, who slowly approached them.
At this moment, he suddenly felt the room temperature rapidly increase, already feeling like summer.
Keno reacted extremely quickly, immediately understanding what was happening, and yelled sharply, “Who touched the heating switch?”
Saying that, he had the Snow Maiden keep an eye on Su Xing and the others, then quickly rushed out.
The little fox seized the time difference and darted back.
Su Xing stroked the little fox’s head, “You did very well.”
The fox’s large tail wagged proudly, but knowing that Su Xing didn’t want it to speak in front of others, it remained silent.
However, when it saw the Snow Maiden, its wagging tail suddenly stiffened, clearly puzzled as to why this Snow Maiden hadn’t melted.
“Bang!”
Keno forcefully pushed open the door, his face flushed, clearly furious.
He saw the long-missing red-furred fox and immediately understood what had happened.
His dagger-like gaze pierced Su Xing, as if looking at a sworn enemy.
“All my test subjects! All destroyed by you! I originally saw you were smart and wanted to show mercy and let you live, but now it seems that those who don’t know how to appreciate kindness only deserve to be subjects of my research.”
After speaking, he directly commanded the Snow Maiden, “Go! Kill her!”
Su Xing immediately shouted to the little fox, “Unleash your skill!”
Without her saying it, the little fox had already begun to charge up.
“Ying!”
It channeled all its strength to unleash a skill, but there was no wind or waves in the room, no reaction at all.
Seeing the Snow Maiden already darting in front of her, Su Xing frantically ducked and dodged to the side, her head catching on the Snow Maiden’s hair, which had already frozen into ice.
“Hurry!”
She anxiously yelled, while trying to transmit energy to the little fox.
Kaka and the others, seeing her being chased, also wanted to help.
However, touching the Snow Maiden resulted in freezing, so even with good intentions, they couldn’t affect the Snow Maiden much, only throwing things at her.
Ivansell’s ghost constantly appeared in front of the Snow Maiden, hoping to attract her attention.
But the Snow Maiden was very loyal to Keno’s command, focusing only on Su Xing.
Su Xing fled clumsily around the room.
Due to her experiences since childhood, while she wasn’t great at fighting, her agility was at least maxed out.
Since the Snow Maiden attacked at close range, Su Xing tried to keep her distance and kite her.
She picked up a long wooden stick from the ground and held it horizontally between the Snow Maiden and herself, then retreated, turning the stick vertically and thrusting hard.
The stick went straight through the Snow Maiden’s body.
However, the Snow Maiden was unaffected, and rushed straight forward with the stick still impaled in her body.
Su Xing was already cornered against the wall, glancing at Keno by the door, and the little fox was still unable to unleash its skill. In such a small space, she had nowhere to escape!
Sure enough, in the next second, Su Xing was directly disemboweled by the Snow Maiden’s single hand, straight through her chest.
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