In the shadows, Xie Kang, clad in white, appeared like a ghost, emerging slowly amidst applause.

Seeing this face, only familiar from photos and documents, Yun You and the others were stunned, disbelief flashing in their eyes.

How is this possible?

Xie Kang, who had been dead for half a year, how could he suddenly reappear? And... in such a "victor's" stance?

"What exactly is going on here?"

For a moment, due to the incredible nature of the situation, Yun You did not even know how to open his mouth to respond to Xie Kang's words.

Only "Aurora"... or to say the two-headed monstrous bird, remained calm.

She lowered her head, sighing silently, as if she had anticipated this matter.

"Stop right there!"

Ultimately, it was Jack who first spoke, yelling for Xie Kang to halt.

"Who on earth are you?"

Swiftly pulling a gun from his pocket, he pointed it distantly at Xie Kang's face, asking coldly, "Are you Xie Kang from Biotechnology? Or... someone else wearing his face?"

"Of course, I am Xie Kang, genuine without a doubt."

Xie Kang obediently stopped his steps, yet still carried a nauseating smile on his face.

"Xie Kang, Deputy Director of the Biotechnology Research Department."

"Employee ID 3020170931, joined September 19, 2047, a 30-year veteran; if you search the company's engine, you should still find my business card."

As if fearing disbelief, he willingly disclosed his personal information.

"But how could this be?"

Jack frowned deeply, pressing further, "Weren't you already dead in the accident six months ago? Being torn to pieces by the out-of-control Headless Giant in the laboratory at Yangshan Town..."

"Torn to pieces?"

Upon hearing this term, Xie Kang raised an eyebrow, then chuckled, shaking his head while muttering to himself, "That guy... truly has an evil sense of humor."

"Promised to leave the corpse intact, but in the end, still tore those unlucky fools to shreds, huh?"

"Haha... but then, it doesn't matter, they're just some bottom-feeders, whether they're torn to pieces or not."

Saying this, he turned his gaze back to Yun You and Jack, and asked, "Did you all really think that the corpses you saw in the Yangshan Town laboratory were mine?"

"Let me ask another question... did you see my face on any of those bodies?"

This statement startled everyone.

Thinking back carefully, the bodies in the laboratory indeed had their faces ripped off, and their heads were battered beyond recognition. Without genetic testing, one couldn't even determine their gender, let alone recognize their appearance...

"The lab's out-of-control incident, or rather that accident... from the start, wasn't an accident but a human-made incident."

Xie Kang spread his hands, explaining slowly, "At the time, the experiment had temporarily hit a bottleneck... uh, no, strictly speaking, entered a new phase."

"I discovered another potential use on the Tai Sui."

"But this information was too important, I didn't want even my students to know. Otherwise, they'd definitely snatch my scientific results, and perhaps bring unforeseen troubles to me."

"I wanted to eliminate them, but since researchers are high-quality talents, killing them couldn't be done as casually as dealing with construction workers."

"High compensation was a minor issue. The biggest problem was that my political adversaries within the company might leverage this incident to attack me."

"So, I simply orchestrated an accident, released the Headless Giant which then possessed the Tai Sui Heart, injecting it with a large amount of animal adrenaline... then evacuated beforehand."

"The monster didn't disappoint me. It broke through its shackles in a day, then slaughtered everyone in the lab. Using its cannibalistic nature, it devoured all my students and employees, achieving a 'destroy all evidence' effect."

"As for the corpses you found in the A3 Laboratory, those were stand-ins I casually found."

"Those were also drawn from the bottom-tier slums. I had them write an experiment log in my tone, to fake the outcome that I also died due to the accident."

"Initially, I planned for the Headless Giant to kill them, but I didn't expect those few to be clever enough to flee to the A3 Laboratory. Using the alloy door, they held off the monster's attack."

"That wouldn't do... After all, the longer they lived, the higher the possibility of an incident occurring."

"So I simply found a partner to tear open that metal door, then dispatched those stand-ins..."

"In light of them resolving my problems, I originally intended to leave them intact. But my partner had their own ideas... well, it doesn't matter, as long as the witnesses are dead, that's all that counts."

"Thus, even if the company wanted to investigate, they'd have no starting point."

"That's the truth behind that accident."

At this, Xie Kang grinned and asked, "Did you all actually think I'd commit such a basic experimental error?"

"Tai Sui is, after all, just a beast, no different from the little white mice lying on the experiment table in my eyes..."

"How could a trivial rabble cause me, Xie Kang, to stumble?"

Xie Kang shook his head proudly, then looked at the Tai Sui's remains, smiling, "This beast, like all of you, probably thought until the end that it had successfully escaped our control, used its hidden means and intricate plan to gain freedom."

"Haha... in the end, it's merely a mindless beast."

"From the moment it tried to split itself, producing [degraded internal organs], we had started monitoring those organs' vital signs, tracking their data."

"Sometimes, when those degraded organs were on the verge of dying from malnutrition, we even deliberately sent in one or two construction workers for it to dine on."

"Later on, as the undying internal organs were gradually moved out, it was all under my surveillance."

"I even knew the energy's flow direction, able to deduce what it intended to do."

"Poor little thing, thinking it had escaped the cage, not knowing it was always within my grasp, never stepping out even once."

"By the way, even its ability to release the Tai Sui cells was granted by us."

"I intentionally left a biology textbook in its nest and deliberately underlined the chapter on cellular division, to inspire it to become stronger."

"Everything in Yangshan Town was within my expectation."

Listening to this, the group only felt their spines chilling, as the various unresolved mysteries of the past were all unveiled...

Why weren't the bodies in the A3 Laboratory eaten by the Headless Giant? Because they weren't killed by the giant, but by Xie Kang and his partner.

Why was the database empty, the experimental data looted, leaving only unimportant files for Aurora and Yun You's group?

Because Xie Kang orchestrated the entire event; he certainly wouldn't abandon those invaluable experiment data. So after the massacre, he naturally reclaimed the materials.

As Xie Kang himself said...

Everything was under his control.

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