#654 - Chapter 654 The reason why there is no crystal core in the body

Shen Huiying closed her eyes and stopped talking.

"Okay, Brother Zhang, let's take Shanshan back first," Dongfang Chen said.

"Okay!" Zhang Yuan Kui took his daughter's hand to leave.

"Uncle Dongfang, it's been a long time since I saw you. Where are you?" Zhang Huishan asked with a smile after seeing Dongfang Chen on the screen.

"Shanshan, Uncle Dongfang is out on business now. I'll come back to see you when I'm done," Dongfang Chen said with a smile.

"Uncle Dongfang, did Shanshan do something wrong that you locked me up?" Zhang Huishan couldn't help but ask.

"No, Shanshan! There are many bad people outside. Your uncle is protecting you," Dongfang Chen had no choice but to lie.

"I see. Then when can I go out?" Zhang Huishan asked.

"You can go out when your uncle catches all the bad guys," Dongfang Chen replied.

"Okay then!" Zhang Huishan was a little disappointed.

She said it easily, but she knew it clearly in her heart.

She was already a 14-year-old girl and wasn't ignorant.

She guessed that there must be a big problem in this base.

So, she sensibly didn't ask any further questions and obediently followed her father to leave.

"Okay, now that you've seen it, can you talk about it?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"Thank you!" Shen Huiying thanked him nonsensically.

"You're welcome," Dongfang Chen knew she was thanking him for his daughter.

"What do you want to know?" Shen Huiying asked.

"Let's talk about the Shanggong Institute first. I feel like you deliberately omitted a lot of facts," Dongfang Chen said.

"That's right," Shen Huiying nodded.

"The reason I concealed some facts was actually for your own good. China is not as simple as you think. Even I have to be careful and keep a low profile," Shen Huiying said.

Her meaning was very clear.

Even a seventh-level antique had to keep a low profile, which showed how deep the waters of China were.

"Actually, there's no need. Ever since I established the underground base in Wulan, I've been prepared to dance on the tip of a knife. Even if I'm more careful, countless eyes will be spying in the dark," Dongfang Chen said.

"Your decision is right. You only had a chance to survive to this day by jumping out of China," Shen Huiying nodded.

"Then what exactly is in the Shanggong Institute?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"The Shanggong Institute was created by an old monster. You should have heard his name," Shen Huiying replied.

"Who?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"Xu Fu, also known as Xue Fu," Shen Huiying replied.

"Is it him? The one who went to sea to seek immortality and medicine for Qin Shi Huang?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"That's right," Shen Huiying nodded.

"He… is he still alive?" Dongfang Chen asked in disbelief.

"Yes. Not only is he alive, but according to my deduction, he should at least have the strength of the Great Vehicle stage. The Great Vehicle stage is what you call an eighth-level mutant," Shen Huiying said.

"The Shanggong Institute was actually created by this Xu Fu?" Dongfang Chen couldn't believe his ears.

"That's right. The Shanggong Institute was established under his leadership. He was one of the earliest senior scientific research experts in China," Shen Huiying nodded.

"Then what is his purpose in establishing the Shanggong Institute?"

"I told you before, to research the extraction, storage, conversion, and application of crystal cores."

Dongfang Chen nodded, which was in line with his identity as an alchemist.

"Then the purpose of his human experiments shouldn't be to obtain crystal cores through zombification, as you said before?" Dongfang Chen asked.

Even someone like him, who had just come into contact with crystal cores, could think of the method of obtaining crystal cores from zombified rats. Xu Fu couldn't be so stupid after researching it for so long.

"The purpose of his human experiments is actually to research the conversion and application of crystal cores."

"Before the outbreak of the virus, there was no such thing as crystal cores. Our unified term was inner cores."

"I always thought that at least two conditions were needed to form an inner core: talent and cultivation."

"All cultivators believe that whether a person can embark on the path of cultivation depends on whether spiritual energy can gather in the body. Now we know that it is actually condensing a first-level crystal core in the body."

"No one ever dared to imagine that now, as long as you are bitten by a zombie, there is a high probability that it can condense."

"That's not right. Many of my subordinates are first-level mutants, but they don't have crystal cores in their bodies. And Brother Zhang, he is also a first-level mutant," Dongfang Chen retorted.

"Then can they advance?" Shen Huiying asked with a smile.

"This… indeed not," Dongfang Chen said. If they could advance, they would have advanced long ago.

"The reason they can't advance is because they don't have crystal cores in their bodies," Shen Huiying explained.

"I see. Then why don't they have crystal cores in their bodies?" Dongfang Chen continued to ask.

"You gave them vaccines, right?" Shen Huiying asked.

She was a biologist and had been deeply involved in this field for many years, so she could see through it at a glance.