Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

Lin Shen followed the team and passed in front of Di Esi once again. Di Esi sat there with his eyes closed, showing no reaction whatsoever.

Lin Shen's gaze merely swept over casually, without lingering any longer than necessary, indistinguishable from how he viewed the other Deformed Species.

When passing by Wei, he noticed there were no significant changes with Wei, who remained curled up in a corner, except that the Ginseng Fruit tree sapling on him seemed to have grown a bit taller.

"I heard this guy came from the Ancient Realm and even killed several guards at the Southern Heaven Gate. It's been a long time since we've heard of someone so formidable from the Ancient Realm," a Guard named Wei Zitao said with a smile.

"It's very rare for someone from the Ancient Realm to physically enter the Celestial Court. Since he can do so, he is no ordinary individual," Luo Yun, the team leader, said indifferently, "If it were in the past, this person would have been regarded as an Ancestor-level existence."

"What a pity, I was transferred from the Southern Heaven Gate years ago; otherwise, I could have had the chance to fight him myself, to see what's special about these individuals who physically broke into the Celestial Court," another team member, Yuwen Jie, said with a hint of disappointment.

Luo Yun chuckled upon hearing this: "You're already a Middle Divine Being, and the guys from the Ancient Realm who make it up here are at most equivalent to Lower Divine Beings. There's no comparison. But Tian, he could have a match with him to see whether our Celestial Court Divine Beings are stronger, or if these Ancient Realm individuals who break into the Celestial Court with their physical bodies are stronger."

"Of course, we Divine Beings are stronger. I heard that another guy took the chaos to escape to the Southern Heaven Gate, and it was Tian who shot him down with a spear. They're far from being a match for Tian," Wei Zitao laughed.

"I was just lucky that a few other colleagues distracted him, and I found an opportunity to finish him off with a single shot. If it were one-on-one, it's hard to say whether I could have beaten him," Lin Shen remarked.

Upon hearing this, Luo Yun and the others began to regard Lin Shen with a bit more favor.

Regardless of the facts, Lin Shen didn't take all the credit for himself and even spoke for his colleagues; such a person was pleasant to deal with.

The few people chattered and laughed as they walked past the container holding Wei.

Shi Yuqing had been observing every move of Lin Shen's, but his brows gradually furrowed.

Lin Shen's behavior seemed entirely normal, but it was this normality that made Shi Yuqing sense something was off.

As Lin Shen passed through the area containing the test subjects, inspecting the Deformed Species and Di Esi, his gaze and expressions showed no change.

However, if one were to adopt Lin Shen's perspective, Di Esi was captured by him, and he ought to have paid more attention to Di Esi, which puzzled Shi Yuqing.

Of course, based on this alone, one could not determine that there was a problem with Lin Shen, but it planted a seed of doubt in Shi Yuqing's mind.

By the time they reached Wei Wufu, Shi Yuqing watched even more closely, but this time, he could not discern any flaws.

There was nothing amiss with how Lin Shen looked at Wei Wufu, and his interactions with his colleagues seemed normal, revealing no issues.

Once Shi Yuzhu became suspicious, it naturally wouldn't be easily dismissed, and he monitored Lin Shen's every move even more attentively.

The more he watched, the more he felt that there was something wrong with Lin Shen.

During the patrol, Lin Shen continuously surveyed his surroundings.

His surveying was different from that of a regular Patrol Guard. The way he looked at things around him and the sequence thereof felt somewhat unusual to Shi Yuqing.

Shi Yuqing closed his eyes, attempting to recall the pattern and order in which Lin Shen surveyed his surroundings, and his expression gradually changed.

If Lin Shen didn't have any particular habits or occupational diseases, the way he was looking around wasn't like patrolling, it looked more like he was searching for patrol blind spots or determining escape routes.

Shi Yuqing didn't believe that a lower Divine Being like Lin Shen could do much within the Azure Sky Realm, but he also didn't believe that his own judgment was misleading.

Shi Yuqing planned to report all of these findings when Liu Siming came to inquire.

As Lin Shen continued patrolling with the team, passing by a research lab, a researcher rushed out, holding a metal tray with many vessels on it. Accidentally, one of the vessels was knocked off and fell.

The researcher was too hasty to notice the mishap, but Lin Shen, who had been observing his surroundings, reached out and caught the vessel in his hand with a swift motion.

"Who allowed you to touch that?" The researcher, far from grateful, scolded Lin Shen loudly with a cold face as he saw him catch the vessel.

Lin Shen was somewhat taken aback, but he didn't say anything, extending his hand to return the vessel to the researcher.

However, the researcher stepped back and said coldly, "Put the thing down on the ground, no one touches it, come with me."

Lin Shen looked at Luo Yun, unsure whether to listen to this person.

"Do as he says, and head back to headquarters when you're out," Luo Yun said sternly, with no hint of joking.

Lin Shen carefully placed the vessel on the ground and followed the researcher into the laboratory.

"Take off all your clothes and go in for decontamination," the researcher directed, pointing to a cylindrical container.

"Jiahao, what happened?" An older researcher approached and asked.

"Boss, this person touched the container holding the No. 9 Subject, I'm taking him for a full-body decontamination," Li Jiahao said.

"How could you be so careless." The man referred to as the boss frowned slightly, his face clearly not too pleased, and said with a hint of disgust, "Immediately decontaminate him, and after the experiment is over, I will go find Qin Ziyun. From now on, the patrol team is not allowed to patrol in the research area, not even outside the laboratories."

Lin Shen had no choice but to do as Zhang Jiahao said, took off his clothes, and entered the container, which soon filled with a purple liquid, soaking his entire body.

"The decontamination needs to last half an hour, just stay in there, and it will automatically open after 30 minutes. If there's any problem with your body, that's on you; you can't blame anyone else," Zhang Jiahao said before leaving to ostensibly deal with the container on the floor outside.

Lin Shen felt puzzled. What was this decontamination for? If it was to disinfect or eliminate germs, his clothes were still outside, casually tossed aside, with no isolation measures—this seemed quite negligent.

"Boss, the No. 9 Subject has problems again," a researcher ran out in a panic, looking for someone's figure while calling out.

The researcher previously called boss rushed out of the office, and both of them arrived in front of a laboratory, peering into the lab through a one-way transparent crystal at something inside.

"It's the same problem, unable to make contact with the Subject to operate, it's difficult to react accurately and timely, indeed troublesome," the boss said, frowning as he looked at the situation inside the lab.

"There's absolutely no way to handle the Subject directly, researchers who had come into contact with the No. 9 Subject resulted in three deaths and one incapacitation, none of the protective measures worked," the researcher said with a grim face.