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 experimental 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 experiment 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 experiment leak, other enterprises and forces will inevitably intervene, complicating matters further.

Even other experimental groups within Biotechnology might trouble Xie Kang.

Therefore, the best method to prevent leaks is to eradicate the evidence in the Death Domain.

It was merely 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 Department]

[Date: March 29, 2067]

[After research by our company and the Safety Production Department, 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 Experiment Group]

[...]

[Reply from the Experiment Group: Please increase the daily supply of resources threefold, and double the number of "experimenters." It is preferable to select orphans from the slums as test subjects... Experiments 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 commence. Grafting these secondary organ cells onto humans might yield unexpected results]

[...]

[Reply from Project Coordination Department: Alright, Experiment Group, all your requests have been met by the project department. The company has approved constructing a new orphanage in the Lower District to adopt children abandoned by their parents, providing material for your future experiments through genetic screening and cultivation]

[But please strictly adhere to the safety production regulations, and it is strictly forbidden to experiment on our contract employees again since you have exhausted the three-year employee death quota]

[If another large-scale employee death incident occurs, your experiment 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 remember this]

[...]

[Response from Experiment Group: Understood, our division will strive to reduce the number of employee deaths, aiming to establish a model experimental group for safe production, and we welcome inspections from the management]

...

[Annual Report on Experimental Group Results]

[Date: September 1, 2071]

[Over four years, we have conducted over a hundred experiments 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 merge 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 enhancement 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 transformed 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 emerged, 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 times 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 Dome Casting Technology possesses similar instrumentation]

[This is an astonishing revelation, yet it also placed the experiment in a perilous situation... I understand controlling something 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 experimenting, and if any unexpected incidents occur, we can immediately 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 document truly pushed the irony to its peak.

Biotechnology praises kindness and friendliness publicly, yet privately persists with relentless human experimentation, lacking any boundary...

The most putrid rotting meat on the garbage heap is a thousand times 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 become Yun You's meal.

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 document, 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 something like strange dead ends..."

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