"The supplies are in the nanny's room on the first floor to the left, if you want the supplies, you can take them..."
"I ask, you answer, and if you cooperate, we won't hurt you."
Su Han interrupted the woman in white, as the Four-armed Corpse brought two other corpses to stand beside him, his tall stature, strong arms, and the Black Armor clinging to his skin caused a flicker of unusual light in the woman's eyes.
She nodded and said, "I understand."
"Name, identity, and profession."
Su Han made no excessive movements, and the actions of the Four-armed Corpse were merely limited to controlling the fish-scale corpses, without further assaulting the two envoys, which made them slightly relax.
"Bai Qilan, Vice President of Bai Yujing Biotechnologies Group, PhD in Biology, in charge of R&D."
Su Han paused for a moment and involuntarily frowned. He was familiar with Bai Yujing Biotechnologies - a major group in South City, leading in biopharmaceuticals and R&D. Many of his excellent classmates had joined this company during campus recruitment.
But the woman in front of him was only about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old and already a vice president, which seemed somewhat unusual.
"What is your relationship with Bai Yujing?"
"Family business," Bai Qilan did not avoid this question. "I think there was a misunderstanding just now. How about we talk after you release us? If the supplies here aren't enough, I can provide the location of some Bai Yujing medical supply warehouses."
In the post-apocalyptic world, food, medicine, and weapons are the most critical resources.
Of course, now that everyone could contract with Envoys, weapons might lose their status, but the former two would not easily fall from grace.
This was a significant bargaining chip.
However, Su Han was unmoved and continued to ask, "And you?"
He pointed at the woman in black, his expression unchanged, unreadable.
"Ye Kailing, Zhongnan Security Company, Level One Security Officer, Miss Bai's bodyguard."
Ye Kailing's reply was concise, her voice clear and direct, her gaze steadily fixed on Su Han, showing no signs of fear.
Su Han waved his hand, and the two fish-scale corpses controlled by the Four-armed Corpse fell to the ground with a muffled thud.
They struggled to stand up, but neither Bai Qilan nor Ye Kailing made any attempt to control them to act out of line.
Su Han said, "The control just now was to avoid accidents, don't misunderstand."
"Not really research, it's more observation and summarization," she replied slowly.
Bai Qilan continued, "The advent of that eyeball changed many things. Most of my biological knowledge is now useless. I've had to try and reobserve and summarize the laws... then survive. Sister Kailing and I were fortunate to neither turn into monsters, and we also discovered the Half-Fish Monster."
"What did you discover?"
Su Han suddenly became curious and couldn't help but feel an urgency brewing within him, eager to find out how much Bai Qilan knew about those monsters.
Although he could merge and become stronger, the origin of the Angel Envoys and monsters still should be identified.
Only with understanding could safety and reliability be enhanced.
"The cells of the monsters are unusually active, with an unknown factor causing continuous mutation or, one might say, evolution."
"What factor?"
Bai Qilan paused, then shook her head, "I don't know. I'm just a PhD, not a top scholar like Bai Qiuwen. Besides, my home lacks the equipment to find out more, managing to induce change in the corpses was already a fluke. Though, if I had to guess, I suspect it to be some form of energy, unleashed by that red light erupting from the eyeball creature, injecting a different energy into our world."
"Biological evolution could not occur so rapidly, nor could an ecosystem's formation and refinement, but take the Half-Fish Monster, do you know what it originally was?"
Bai Qilan paused again, and said earnestly, "It was a carp, placed in Yunling Lake by the property managers, but in a short time, it transformed into this form; it's merely one stage of evolution. That lake now houses various fish monsters, including a commanding monster larger than the others, forming a breeding community."
How long does it take for humans to evolve from monkeys to the terrifying form of upright apes?
Tens to hundreds of millions of years.
Yet, the carp in Yunling Lake evolved into these fish monsters, possessing great abilities and instinctual intelligence, within how long?
A mere few days.
Isn't that terrifying?
Bai Qilan calmed down slightly before continuing, "I experimented utilizing their highly mutable cells, which is what caused the Angel Envoy's transformation, but that's as far as it could go, simple extraction of energy isn't enough to continue the experimentation."
"Wait a minute, beautiful, you said the lake holds not only this, this Half-Fish Monster, but also numerous others and a monster boss?"
Zhu Xiong's eyes widened as he looked at Bai Qilan, his expression somewhat painful.
"Yes,"
Bai Qilan nodded firmly, "While fetching water, we accidentally encountered them. Fortunately, they didn't notice the two of us. I am certain they exist in at least three forms: the Half-Fish Monster, a humanoid fish monster with limbs, and the leader, not smaller than his envoys."