Chapter 1510
Bonnie
Chapter 1510 Bonnie
After circling the black, unidentified liquid twice, Qian Sui saw through its true nature.
"You're saying that's Bonnie?" Antonio asked incredulously, pointing at the dark, shapeless mass.
"Isn't Bonnie the Bunny? She was fine the last time I saw her... Last time, when was that again? Oh, the auction!"
“Bonnie was there when we rushed in,” Lin Fan reminded him. “She came in before us, but she was hiding to the side, so you probably didn’t notice her.”
"So, she was perfectly fine back then," Antonio shrugged, then looked at the ball of matter in mid-air. "How did she end up like this? You're not doing some disgusting experiments on her again, are you?"
This statement was directed at Vallejo.
Vallejo was truly wronged this time.
After learning about Lin Fan and his companion's achievements from Impelli, he dared not be too dismissive of them and explained, suppressing his temper.
"What kind of experiments would I do with her?" Valerius looked at Chitose. "Even if I were to find test subjects, I would definitely choose those with high abilities. What use could an ordinary gray stone rabbit girl be, who hasn't even finished molting?"
“Just say it, where are you looking?” Antonio immediately stood in front of Chitose, blocking Old Deng’s view.
Lin Fan looked up.
Bonnie, suspended in mid-air, seemed to have heard someone recognize her; the membrane that could no longer be called a body trembled violently, like a curtain billowing in a gale.
Yes, yes, yes! It's me! It's me! Help me! Help me!
Everyone stared at the crazed black membrane, completely bewildered.
"What's going on? Is it going to explode?"
Antonio turned to ask Chisui, only to see that Chisui had already walked up to Lin Fan and jumped onto her shoulder in a few steps.
"No, I'm calling for help." Chitose licked her toes.
"Can it be saved?" Lin Fan asked.
"No!" Valerius hurriedly interrupted, "It is now our newly discovered energy converter, capable of converting inorganic energy into stable beast soul energy to maintain the operation of the Annie Beast Soul System. It absolutely cannot be touched!"
While the Burning Beast was desirable, Valerius preferred Bonnie, who was easier to control, to the self-aware and difficult-to-manage Thousand Years.
Whether as a backup plan for the Burning Beast system or as the main power source if the Burning Beast system fails, he will not allow anyone to touch it.
He spread his arms, shielding the black membrane behind him, and glared menacingly at the crowd.
Fortunately, Chisui's answer relieved him.
"She can't be saved." Qian Sui stroked his beard. "She's already in a different life form, but for some reason, she's still barely retaining her consciousness. Don't even think about peeling her away and restoring her to her original state. People always have to pay the price for their choices."
"Hmm?" Antonio, his curiosity piqued, leaned closer. "It sounds like there's something going on? Sui Sui, tell us?"
"Did she do something to cause this half-dead state?" Lin Fan thought back for a moment. "But when we left... this place was empty, except for the broken equipment... Or did you do something later?"
She looked at Vallejo.
Vallejo was really feeling wronged. Why did everyone doubt him about everything?
"No, no! I just sent someone over to clean up the mess," he glanced at Chisui resentfully, "After all, the way you took away the Beast God's corpse wasn't exactly gentle, and these devices, pipes, and the broken roof..." "Your own mechs broke them, don't pin it on us," Antonio immediately clarified, "We only broke one of your containers and these devices on the wall, that's all!"
Vallejo's lips twitched, and he ignored Antonio.
"It was the cleaning staff who noticed something amiss, which is why I sent the research team up. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known what this thing originally was. Come here, tell the adults in detail."
The research leader, who had regained consciousness, was summoned and explained the discovery process in detail.
"That's strange," Lin Fan said, crossing his arms and looking at Bonnie, who was still fanning herself. "A change in form always needs a trigger. How did Bonnie become like this?"
"It's all because of greed." Qian Sui looked up. "He thought that by swallowing the flesh and blood of the Burning Beast, he could gain power."
"Where did the flesh and blood come from?" Antonio scratched his head. "Haven't they been wrapped up in that water the whole time without moving?"
"It's the water that's the problem," Qian Sui replied. "Before you came, I wanted to move it out of there, but I didn't know what it was. As soon as it was removed, the flesh turned into dirty water and slid off, so I had to put it back."
At that time, Qian Sui was in a rage and smashed all the equipment in the room until Lin Fan and the others arrived.
Who would have thought that someone would even care about that tiny bit of sewage mixed with glass shards?
"So...can the flesh and blood of divine beasts really increase abilities?" Antonio asked. "If it's pure nonsense, Bonnie...didn't she suffer a huge loss?"
“Ask them,” Chisai said, turning his head toward Valerius.
"Hmm!" Valerius cleared his throat. "So, the reason for the transformation has been found. Sir, could you perhaps..."
"No!" Qian Sui refused outright. "I will prepare the remains of the Burning Beast and bury them in the core of the Annie Demon Land later. If you try to take it again..."
"No, no..." Valerius hurriedly waved his hand, but in his mind he was quickly planning how to carry out the "burial in the Earth's core" matter.
This Burning Beast seems to have even more unfathomable methods than he imagined.
This is not good!
“Sui Sui’s move was brilliant,” Antonio praised Lin Fan. “If it had been buried somewhere else, who knows who would have dug it up. Hiding the Burning Beast in the Earth’s core, returning its once strongest energy to the heart of the planet, completely eliminates the possibility of theft, and also allows the soul of the Burning Beast, born of Annie Demon and guarding Annie Demon for its entire life, to return to the planet’s core… This damned sense of destiny…”
Vallejo's expression stiffened slightly, but the head of research couldn't help but ask a question.
"We apologize, we didn't mean any disrespect to the Burning Beast, but we really want to know if the black water flowing from the Burning Beast's body was the decisive factor during this transformation process?"
“Over the years, we have also tried to extract the genes of the Burning Beast, but no matter what methods we use, we cannot create a stable conversion device. Only this Bonnie, by chance, drank the Black Water carrying the genes of the Burning Beast, which caused this change.”
"Can I understand that: Wu Shui is the key? Then, without the Burning Beast, Bonnie's transformation is an unreplicable, unmassible, and unique exception?"
“That’s right,” Qian Sui replied, “but from beginning to end, you’ve all misunderstood the prerequisites. The Burning Beast gene is only one of the key factors in this accidental change, not the only decisive factor.”
"What else?" the research leader pressed.
"We've been stuck on this project for centuries, and now we've finally seen a result, even if it's just a fluke. But as researchers, we still want to figure out the underlying principles as much as possible."
"Especially when the conditions for hair regrowth are no longer available. This is to prevent more casualties in future research... Please!"
Qian Sui initially didn't want to pay attention, but upon hearing the last sentence, her expression changed slightly, and she spoke coldly.
"The active liquid that encapsulates the Burning Beast must be more than just something to maintain its activity, right? There must be something else added to it."