CH 180 They're Going To Experiment On Him!
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
In silence, Jiang Chen walked to stand in front of a bright red national flag. The nation’s top experts in various fields sat below, all looking up at him.
As the speaker of this seminar, he was calm and composed. After a simple introduction, he got straight to the point: "The main content of this meeting is..."
At the same time, He Qianjian, who was also in District 10 and located at the headquarters hospital two kilometers away, woke up.
His consciousness was still a little fuzzy, and all he could see was the ceiling and unnamed instruments on both sides of the room, letting him know that he was in a hospital. When he came back to his senses a little, the pain in his body made him inhale sharply, his chest making a sound like broken bellows. The pain made him gasp, and he suddenly found it difficult to breathe.
"I……"
He opened his mouth to speak, but only hoarse syllables came out. No one was alerted. Only the voice that had been accompanying him since his death and rebirth in his mind discovered his awakening.
[You're awake.]
This electronic sounding voice seemed to be no different from before, but it also seemed a little weird. However, the pain in his body and the unknown situation left He Qianjian with no extra energy to think about anything else. He immediately asked: [Am I out? Where am I?]
System: [You are not in the prison now...]
He Qianjian was relieved. But before he could feel happy, he heard the System say coldly: "You are in a more dangerous place than prison.]
[What do you mean?]
[You will find out soon.]
As soon as the System finished speaking, medical staff pushed the door open and came in.
He Qianjian turned his head with difficulty and saw several people in blue scrubs and white masks walking up to him. Some were holding clipboards and some were debugging instruments. They were talking in low voices, seeming to be checking his body stats.
He opened his eyes hard, and a gasping sound came out of his throat. It was half blocked by the oxygen mask, but it was clearly heard in the quiet and orderly ward.
Someone glanced at He Qianjian, and then withdrew his gaze. They were all wearing masks, but they didn't even seem to need to communicate with words. They just simply exchanged a look, and left in silence. No one spoke a word to him.
Such solemnity and order, in a ward composed of cold instruments and white walls, made He Qianjian suddenly panicked, fear welling up in his heart, and an inexplicable feeling of uneasiness filled him.
He was sure that he was in the hospital outside the prison now. He should have been happy, but the strange situation made his joy disappear. The System's previous "You will know soon" lingered in his mind, but thinking of what happened before in the prison, it was difficult for He Qianjian to decide whether it was safer to stay in prison or to stay in this unknown ward.
No, He Qianjian had the answer instantly——any place was better than cell 15 that had the lights on but was so dark that it was suffocating and so depressing that it could drive all living beings crazy.
When he recalled everything that happened after he changed cells, goosebumps would appear on his back, cold sweat would run down his neck, and his scalp would gradually become numb.
After discovering that something was wrong in that cell, even though he didn't know the reason, he wisely and quietly chose to imitate the other people in the cell. Like furniture that would not make any noise. He was always trembling with fear, even sleeping. He didn't dare to make a sound, and the continuous insomnia set his nerves on edge, but at least he was fine.
At that time, He Qianjian thought that after enduring this period of time, everything would be better when he escaped from prison.
However, during breaktime, he overheard the conversation of several prisoners. Each of them were fierce characters when placed on the street, and ordinary people would not dare to provoke them. But at that time, they all secretly hid in a corner and voiced a bet in a malicious and expectant tone:
"Ten cigarettes, I bet that kid can live for at most five days."
"I'll bet one pack for three days."
"Disabled or dead?"
"What's the f**king difference between?"
"There was one A who went crazy among those before. Isn't he alive?"
"..."
He Qianjian was confused at first when he heard what they were saying. He didn't understand what they were talking about and felt that he couldn't afford to offend them so he was about to leave when he heard the man say:
"He can only live for two more days at most."
Several people asked excitedly, as if the person speaking knew some inside scoop, and their lowered voices just now became louder.
Then He Qianjian heard the man say: "You only know that No. 15 came in for killing people, but you don't know why he killed people. It seems that No. 15's parents died when he was ten years old, leaving only him and his younger brother. He dropped out of school to support his younger brother until he was in college, but who knew that his younger brother would die just after freshman year..."
The man's voice suddenly lowered, and the other people's heads moved closer. He Qianjian couldn't hear him anymore, but he had to know the secret of the man in the same cell with him.
In the past few days, even though he had done nothing, that man seemed to be targeting him for some reason. A thin layer of cold sweat appeared on He Qianjian's forehead. His intuition told him that the bet they just made was related to him.
He squatted in a hidden corner and said to the System: [Help me listen to what they are saying.]
The System had rarely spoken since it returned to He Qianjian, but don't know if it was for future cooperation's sake, it would basically help if the request was not excessive. This time was no exception. Soon He Qianjian's head responded with the System's emotionless and cold narration: "...He was gangraped to death by others. They were his younger brother's school mates. One of them has a younger sister who was the girlfriend of a rich young master. I heard that the young master was still in junior high school or high school at that time. Don’t know how that young master did it but he destroyed all the evidence found by No. 15. So those people were acquitted at that time. No. 15 laid low for a year before killing two of them…"
He Qianjian froze, and suddenly thought of something, his face went numb instantly. He wanted to stand up, but he heard the sound of his teeth chattering, and then every inch of his body went numb and cold, and he couldn't move an inch at all.
The voice relayed by the System was still sounding in his head: [When he was about to kill the third person, he was arrested. Don’t know why he wasn’t sentenced to death but was just detained here, also... I heard that the guy he blinded and the guy he drove crazy before were the other two people he wanted to kill.]
There was a faint sound of low breathing coming from far away. He Qianjian's pale face turned blue, and the two dark circles under his eyes became more obvious. The System continued relaying the conversation: [Why were those two locked up with him?]
[No one knows, but I heard that the only one still outside who didn't come in also died in a car accident the year before last.]
[What a damn bizarre thing, I’ve got goosebumps now.]
[But from what you said, No. 15 did not touch anyone else. All the cases were him seeking revenge. The new one might not suffer.]
[Hehehehe...] The System imitated the man's laughter coldly: [Do you know the name of the young master who helped those rapists wipe the evidence at that time...]
He Qianjian startled badly, unable to listen anymore. He staggered away, dragging his numb legs.
——He asked the System to erase the evidence for him.
That girl was the most beautiful girl in their school. She seduced countless boys with her mature looks that were different from the I'm mature and childish looks of the rest of the junior high school students. She was the kind of goddess who would not even give him a look when he passed by her in his previous life, but now cried and begged him to help her brother.
He agreed without much thought at all. It was a piece of cake for him. As for what her brother did, he didn't care about it. This result would not have happened if that boy had not seduced those men. Otherwise, who would give up women, and risk raping a man instead, so it was really his own fault.
As for the boy's brother, he was poor and had no background, so he was not worthy of his attention at all. As long as the System cleaned all the traces, the He family would not know, and he would have one more girlfriend, so why not?
At that time, He Qianjian soon became bored with dating that girl and dumped her after three months. He didn't care about the girl, let alone what happened to her brother, so naturally he didn't know what happened afterwards.
But now... He Qianjian felt like a bucket of ice was overturned on his head.
However, break time had ended, even if he did not dare to go back to the cell he had no choice. His already tense nerves were about to snap at any time. Until the night before the reading club event, He Qianjian finally couldn't help but close his eyes for a while. After waking up, it was to the man standing by his bed.
Gloomy, ghostly, with deep-seated hatred and malice, as if it would swallow him up at any time.
He Qianjian rolled out of bed and woke up all the inmates in the cell. He threw himself at the iron door and screamed for help and was finally taken out by the prison guards.
However, no matter what excuses he made, he could not avoid the task that had been assigned to him for the reading club event. He had to go set up the front stage. Fortunately, he had already discussed it with the System. He only had to wait for the System to hack the prison's monitoring system and wait until all the power was turned off. Once all the equipment malfunctioned, he would find an opportunity to escape.
But he didn't expect that the man actually exchanged tasks with someone else and came over. He Qianjian's scalp went numb when he saw him. From his gloomy eyes to his gaunt cheeks, everything was terrifying. Before he could come over, he was so frightened that he fell off the steel frame.
When he woke up again, he was here.
He Qianjian's recollection only happened within a few dozen seconds. When he finished recollecting, the door of the ward was pushed open again. Those people were wearing the same anti-bacterial scrubs as those who had just entered along with white masks, but for some reason, his heartbeat suddenly picked up, as if it was warning him of something.
Just when he was panicking, the person in the lead stepped aside, and the person behind pushed an instrument inside. Then someone pushed the instrument closer, someone took out several syringes with cold reagents inside, and another stood next to the instrument, placing the suction cup-like things attached to the instrument on his head one by one. The person holding the reagent raised his hand and seemed to be about to inject it into his head.
He Qianjian was shocked and wanted to struggle immediately. However, when he moved, he realized that his limbs were tied with restraints and he could not move at all. He could only rack his brains to find clues in the panic and confusion.
What were these people going to do?
Were they trying to inject something into his head?
Jiang Chen knew that he had the System, and maybe he also knew that the System was in his head. If he told the government about this, then this ward, these silent doctors, these strange instruments and needles in front of him all made sense…
They want to experiment on him!
It was great luck to have obtained the System. He Qianjian had always been proud of himself, but occasionally when he had nightmares, there would be scenes of being captured and tortured for experiments after someone knew the existence of the System. However, those dreams gradually faded as he grew up and used the System to trick and play with everyone in the palm of his hand.
Until he learned that Jiang Chen knew about the existence of the System and might have the ability to destroy the System, only then did this nightmare begin to haunt him once again, making him unable to sleep peacefully again. Every time he woke up, he was covered in cold sweat.
The scene in front of him was so similar to the scenes in his dreams, it was like a nightmare come true!
Seeing the needle getting closer and closer to him, He Qianjian became more and more desperate. There were constant muffled shouts coming from his throat, and his eyes were so wide that they almost popped out of their sockets.
The person holding the syringe frowned and asked the person next to him in confusion: "What’s wrong with him?"
The voice of the person next to him was very low: “Scared?"
"What's so scary?" The person who spoke had half of his face covered by a mask, but his tone sounded calm and uncaring.
Hearing their conversation, He Qianjian's eyes nearly exploded. It wasn't their heads being pierced with needles. They were not the ones being used as test subjects. Of course they could say that!
"It’s just fixing the instrument in place. He wouldn't happen to think the needle is going to be used to stick into his head?"
"Maybe, he might have thought we are using him for human experiments."
"No way…"
The low conversation between the two was muffled by the mask, and was a bit unclear, but it made He Qianjian suddenly come back to his senses.
They weren't using him for human experiments?
He Qianjian's sudden silence and stiff movements clearly told these researchers that he really thought so.
One of them paused and was speechless for a moment, then turned around and said, "Didn't the information say that he went to college? Doesn't he know that informed consent is required for human experiments? As if we could still cut him into slices?"
The man holding something like a hood frowned: "Stop talking nonsense, put it on him first."
He Qianjian knew that these people would not harm him. Although he was still afraid, he relaxed a little and called the System to discuss countermeasures: [Where am I now? Who are these people? Can we escape?]
The System made no sound, but a man wearing a mask who had already installed all the equipment looked at the computer screen with a strange expression. Others also looked at the display screen with their backs to He Qianjian, and their expressions also changed slightly.
These people wore masks and did not speak. From He Qianjian's perspective he was unable to notice their abnormalities. When he could not get an answer, he could only call the System over and over again. After waking up, his emotions had fluctuated greatly, and now that he could not contact the System, he became more and more panicked. The voice calling the System in his consciousness changed from calling to screaming, and his chest rose and fell more violently.
The several people who had just come in exchanged glances and spoke a few words in low voices, leaving only one person sitting next to the instrument to observe the situation and record data.