#331 - Chapter 331 Lingtian Confession
Dai Zheng was certain that he was a coward. Now that there was a chance to live, he would definitely not give it to his naive junior sister.
"I'll talk!" Ling Tian panicked upon hearing this and quickly expressed his willingness.
"Senior brother…" Ling Su wanted to stop him, but she didn't know what to say.
If she stopped her senior brother, he would die here, which was not what she wanted to see. But Ling Tian's choice to speak meant pushing her alone towards death.
At this moment, she felt a trace of loss, a trace of sadness, and a trace of hope.
She was lost because her senior brother didn't think about giving her the chance to live. Although she wasn't afraid of death, which girl wouldn't want her beloved to dote on her? She was sad because she was going to die and would never see her senior brother again. She hoped that Dai Zheng would keep his word and spare her senior brother's life, even if she had to bear the blame for betraying the Holy Church herself.
"Take her out first!" Dai Zheng ordered.
Originally, he had a bit of dark amusement in his heart, wanting to let this little girl see the true colors of her senior brother. But thinking about it, he decided to forget it and focus on completing the mission.
What if she was naive? Even if she was naive, she couldn't wash away the monstrous crime of slaughtering the people of an entire city.
Ling Su looked back at her senior brother every few steps, reluctantly leaving the warehouse. Her eyes were full of tears, trying hard to remember her senior brother's appearance in her heart.
After Ling Su left, Dai Zheng spoke.
"Alright, speak. But I advise you, don't try any tricks. You only have this one chance, so grasp it tightly."
"Okay," Ling Tian nodded.
"In Oros, at Kurtak, there is a biological laboratory belonging to our Holy Church. There is an experimental team specializing in gene programming technology," Ling Tian said.
Dongfang Chen, through the images synchronized by Dai Zheng, had been paying attention to the progress of the interrogation.
When he heard the words 'gene programming technology,' his heart skipped a beat.
"What does this have to do with controlling those animals?" Dai Zheng asked.
He didn't understand these questions at all. On the one hand, he didn't know what to ask, and on the other hand, he wouldn't understand even if the other party answered.
In fact, Dongfang Chen was sending the questions to him through the Digital Eye, and he was just asking them accordingly.
"Because those animals are all genetically modified creatures," Ling Tian revealed a shocking secret.
Dongfang Chen's head buzzed when he heard his answer.
He hadn't developed gene programming technology, but someone else had. Now, he just didn't know how far the other party had developed this technology.
"How exactly is it implemented?" Dongfang Chen sent the question to Dai Zheng, who asked it.
"This field is very specialized. I only know the general operational process. But I'm not very clear on how each step is implemented," Ling Tian said.
"Tell me what you know," Dai Zheng said.
"Okay! The researchers in the laboratory mainly analyze and study the genes of bats, extracting the gene fragments responsible for ultrasonic vocalization and reception, and transplanting these fragments into the fertilized eggs of other animals. However, it is said that for a long time at the beginning, the experimental process was not smooth. Most of the gene-modified fertilized eggs died in the womb when they developed to a certain stage. Even if a very few juveniles were successfully produced, they could not survive due to malformations," Ling Tian said.
"What happened later?" Dai Zheng continued to ask.
"Later, after the virus outbreak, a genius teenager came to the laboratory. He successfully cultivated a kind of rat-rabbit that could receive ultrasonic signals in just over a month, and this rat-rabbit could recognize as many as 16 kinds of ultrasonic signals," Ling Tian said.
"Wait, are you saying that you had already established a biological laboratory in Oros before the virus outbreak?" Dai Zheng asked on behalf of Dongfang Chen.
"Strictly speaking, that laboratory was not established by us, but belonged to the country of Oros. It was only later secretly controlled by us," Ling Tian explained.
"Now that the virus is rampant, the biological laboratory should belong to the strategic department. How could the country of Oros sit idly by?" Dai Zheng asked.
"They don't know that there is a problem with the laboratory. In name, it is still under the official management," Ling Tian explained.
Dai Zheng nodded, indicating that he understood.
"Continue," Dai Zheng said.
"The rat-rabbits have a strong reproductive capacity. In a few months, the laboratory cultivated tens of thousands of these mutated rat-rabbits. They don't need to be trained and are born with the ability to recognize and execute 16 kinds of commands. After learning of this news, the Holy Church put forward two requirements: first, to cultivate an army of combat rat-rabbits as soon as possible; and second, to try to cultivate other mutated animals," Ling Tian said.
"So the dung beetles and ants were also cultivated in the laboratory?" Dai Zheng asked.
"The dung beetles are, but it is said that half of the reason for the ants was an accident," Ling Tian replied.
"What do you mean?" Dai Zheng asked.
"They initially cultivated a small ant. However, possibly due to the influence of the virus, the ants mutated, and a giant ant that could recognize sound waves was cultivated by accident," Ling Tian explained.
"Then how do you control these three kinds of animals differently?" Dai Zheng asked.
"I don't know the specific reasons, but I roughly know that there are differences in the sound wave frequencies that different species can recognize," Ling Tian said.
