Scattered applause broke out.
The man in the suit seemed accustomed to it and showed no embarrassment. He smiled and said, "Then let's not waste time. Please welcome our Professor Huang to the stage for a speech."
This time, even the scattered applause disappeared.
As soon as he finished speaking, a black-haired old man walked onto the stage and began his speech.
"Hello everyone, I am Huang Jingming. You all know me, so I won't say too much."
"This past week, we have brought 10 mutants back to the group, and successfully captured an experimental subject who had escaped far away. This is something our experimental team is proud of!"
"Everyone must remember, we are doing this for the country, for the people, for our future, and to build a more technologically advanced tomorrow! Let's all work hard together!"
The audience had no reaction to the first two sentences, but at the last sentence, everyone one by one sat up from their sofas.
Applause resounded throughout the entire hall.
Everyone's expressions were full of excitement, as if they couldn't wait to return to the laboratory to continue their research.
Xu Qian narrowed her eyes slightly. What kind of nonsense was this?
The world was overrun by zombies, and this was for the country?
Conducting human experiments was for the people?
This wasn't a relaxation assembly, it was a brainwashing session.
"Alright, enough with the talk. Let's begin!"
These people's states were completely different from when they first entered. They were now full of spirit, as if they had been injected with stimulants.
Xu Qian turned to talk to Xiang Jin Tian, but found his eyes fixed, as if attracted by something on the stage.
Her expression changed slightly, and she looked up, staring intently at the black-haired old man leaving the stage.
A psychic ability user?
A mind controller, more advanced than her.
Xu Qian closed her eyes and sent a sliver of her mental power into Xiang Jin Tian's body.
Her white mental power circled twice around his transparent crystal core, but found nothing unusual.
Xu Qian changed direction and headed straight for his brain. She found a dark mass entangled in his mind. As her mental power approached, the mass of black smoke automatically dissipated.
Xiang Jin Tian snapped back to reality, completely unaware of what had just happened to him.
Xu Qian lowered her voice and said softly, "The person on stage is a psychic ability user. He just controlled everyone, including you."
Xiang Jin Tian's expression darkened, and he asked, "Is this how they control these experimental subjects?"
"Yes and no. They already had these thoughts and goals in their hearts, which is why their deepest desires were stimulated."
Xiang Jin Tian frowned and sighed, "What a pity for these people."
Xu Qian smiled and said, "There's nothing to pity. They chose this path, and they have to bear the consequences."
"Gurgle, gurgle."
Two men in black pushed a gurney forward, covered with a white cloth.
They calmly lifted the white cloth.
The people around gasped in amazement and their faces showed excitement.
Xu Qian, however, felt disgusted and narrowed her eyes. Lying on the bed was a person, or rather, no longer a person.
The man's face was deathly pale, and his eyes stared blankly at the ceiling.
His skin from his neck to his lower abdomen had been cut open, with two pieces of human skin hanging on either side, revealing a bloody mass of internal organs.
His heart was still beating, and his intestines were slowly wriggling.
All his organs were functioning normally.
Xu Qian didn't know if he was in pain, but she felt pain just looking at him.
The feeling of being dissected alive was unimaginable.
The man in the suit shouted excitedly, "This is the latest human experimental subject from Experimental Group One! He's still alive!"
The crowd below became even more excited, and they shouted, "Turn on the screen! Turn on the screen!"