As Yun You anticipated, after the major accident, Research Director Xie Kang indeed chose to silence witnesses.
This was in line with the company's internal practices.
Compensation not only would cause Xie Kang's experintal group to lose a significant amount of funding and lower the annual work evaluation score but would also bring the risk of leaks to the experint itself.
Although Biotechnology is Nest City's de facto ruler, it has not yet monopolized the sector entirely.
The giant enterprise is like a corpulent giant sitting atop the Lotus Platform, with sweet flesh that lures countless hidden vultures and snakes. Hence, should any news of the experint leak, other enterprises and forces will inevitably intervene, complicating matters further.
Even other experintal groups within Biotechnology might trouble Xie Kang.
Therefore, the best thod to prevent leaks is to eradicate the evidence in the Death Domain.
It was rely a few lower-level personnel who died, an event easily quelled by a wave of a hand, both for the company and the research group.
In Nest City, life from the lower class is this worthless.
Ironically, Xie Kang, also born in the lower class, treated his fellow kin with even more cruelty than the upper class.
This was vividly evident in several of his subsequent dispatches.
[Work Contact Sheet]
[Biotechnology Group Project Coordination Departnt]
[Date: March 29, 2067]
[After research by our company and the Safety Production Departnt, it was agreed to dispatch a lower-tier construction team to the mining area. Does your division have any other research ongoing? Please inform us]
[From: Xie Kang's Experint Group]
[...]
[Reply from the Experint Group: Please increase the daily supply of resources threefold, and double the number of "experinters." It is preferable to select orphans from the slums as test subjects... Experints indicate that human genes and flesh in early childhood are more malleable]
[Currently, the flesh walls inside the shaft show signs of "organification," and clinical trials can comnce. Grafting these secondary organ cells onto humans might yield unexpected results]
[...]
[Reply from Project Coordination Departnt: Alright, Experint Group, all your requests have been t by the project departnt. The company has approved constructing a new orphanage in the Lower District to adopt children abandoned by their parents, providing material for your future experints through genetic screening and cultivation]
[But please strictly adhere to the safety production regulations, and it is strictly forbidden to experint on our contract employees again since you have exhausted the three-year employee death quota]
[If another large-scale employee death incident occurs, your experint group's rating might lower, and funding will also reduce]
[The philosophy of Biotechnology is to champion friendship, integrity, and kindness. A people-centric approach is the company's ideal ecosystem, and too many deaths hinder employee solidarity; please rember this]
[...]
[Response from Experint Group: Understood, our division will strive to reduce the number of employee deaths, aiming to establish a model experintal group for safe production, and we welco inspections from the managent]
...
[Annual Report on Experintal Group Results]
[Date: September 1, 2071]
[Over four years, we have conducted over a hundred experints on the Flesh Barrier, with the procedure being: driving subjects into the shaft to be devoured by the barrier; cutting away chunks of the Flesh Barrier to rge with various chemical reagents, which are then fed to the subjects]
[However, the results have not been very promising]
[Most subjects exhibited mutation signs in the short term, with considerable enhancent in physical abilities and sensory capabilities, but they did not demonstrate an "immortality" ability akin to the Undying Internal Organs. They still die if subjected to an external blow]
[Simultaneously, their bodies gradually assimilated into the Flesh Barrier, becoming a single degenerated organ, eventually adhering to the barrier]
[Upon testing, we discovered that these transford humanoid organ subjects generated an unknowable "Life Link" with the "Undying Heart"]
[Originally, we could easily obliterate this organ by applying high heat and Poison to the heart, but after the humanoid degenerated organs erged, the Life Force of the Undying Heart surged exponentially]
[Even using a material decomposer to reduce the heart to atomic form, it could still slowly recover, with a regeneration speed nearly twenty tis faster than before]
[This surpasses the legendary restorative power of the young King's original form]
[Those degenerated organs seem to share Life Force with their core - the Undying Heart. Under these circumstances, unless we clear all the degenerated organs, we might find it challenging to destroy the Undying Heart's core body]
[Unless... we manage to shatter all its atoms, altering the foundational structure, perhaps ending its existence]
[But clearly, we lack such a machine, not even the headquarters has one; only Sky Do Casting Technology possesses similar instruntation]
[This is an astonishing revelation, yet it also placed the experint in a perilous situation... I understand controlling sothing almost indestructible can easily slip from our control]
[To better manage it, we manually purged most of the degenerated organs, sealing the Flesh Barrier and the last degenerated organ deep within the mine, placing enough explosives there... with the key to the seal kept in my office]
[This way, we can continue experinting, and if any unexpected incidents occur, we can imdiately access the mine to implode the explosives, containing the danger at its source]
[Please continue funding to sustain this project's operation]
[Director Xie Kang]
...
All one can say is that this docunt truly pushed the irony to its peak.
Biotechnology praises kindness and friendliness publicly, yet privately persists with relentless human experintation, lacking any boundary...
The most putrid rotting at on the garbage heap is a thousand tis cleaner than their hearts.
Simultaneously, Yun You understood why the heart could not be absorbed by her.
The degenerated humanoid organs in the mine were providing Life Force to the heart...
If it can move, it indicates the Undying Heart itself is still in an "active" state, which doesn't align with the conditions to activate the [Eating] ability.
As long as that one remaining humanoid organ in the mine is uncleared, this heart cannot beco Yun You's al.
After understanding all this, Yun You's thoughts instantly cleared up quite a bit.
"Then next, the only thing to do is to blow up that Flesh Barrier and degenerated organ, then everything will be over."
Thinking this, Yun You closed the docunt, turning to look at Jack, who was comforting Aurora.
"Jack!"
The little girl shook the A4 paper in her hand lightly and asked, "When you guys were searching the mine in the town before, did you find any hidden passageways?"
"Or sothing like strange dead ends..."
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