Chapter 47: Want to Awaken Your Ability?

Ji Mingchen spoke, his eyes smiling at Wen Yao, who was surprised. His face was illuminated by the screen light, making his features look cold and white, his handsome facial contours sharp, his peach blossom eyes seeming to be hooked.

Wen Yao tightened her fingers, confused: “Why are you suddenly telling me this…”

She had seen mutated plants and animals, they existed in all four continents, and they would attack humans, but these things were relatively small in number, far less prevalent than the mutated zombies, and they had not yet attracted the attention of the bases in each region.

What Ji Mingchen was saying was undoubtedly a secret, a big secret. If they knew this, and started research early, then the base would inevitably become the one with the most ability users, directly determining their combat strength.

And he was telling her this huge secret as if it was just casual conversation.

Ji Mingchen, however, remained unconcerned, still smiling: “Isn’t it because I saw you were interested?”

“If you want to know anything, you can just ask me directly.” The man straightened up and walked a few steps forward, taking the mouse and zooming in on the monitoring screen.

The monitoring screen showed three researchers, two men and one woman, who seemed to be conducting experiments in the laboratory, with two cleaning staff in blue clothes next to them. There was still nothing unusual about the image.

Wen Yao glanced at the enlarged monitoring screen on the computer, then at Ji Mingchen’s back, pondering his words, she couldn’t help but be stunned.

Ji Mingchen had actually said this more than once. On the way back from their walk on the southwest city wall, he had also casually mentioned it.

But she hadn’t taken it seriously, not only had she not taken it seriously, but she had been extra vigilant. Out of respect for his identity, she had never dared to actively inquire about the ability awakening agent from him.

After all, this was a top secret of the Dongzhou’s Fourteenth District.

But she hadn’t expected that he had guessed her intentions at that time, and even when he saw her not daring to ask, he didn’t directly point it out, but instead simply found an opportunity to bring her to the ability awakening agent research base and personally explain it to her…

“…”

This man’s mind was truly as delicate as silk.

After Ji Mingchen returned, he glanced at Wen Yao’s stunned appearance, then picked up the water glass and took a sip: “What I told you today is an important secret that only the Dongzhou’s Fourteenth District base knows.”

“I can easily tell you because you want to know, but don’t mention it to anyone else, understand?”

Wen Yao nodded quickly, her face serious: “I absolutely won’t tell anyone.”

Ji Mingchen’s gaze remained on the screen, casually asking her: “Do you want to awaken your ability?”

If it had been before, Wen Yao wouldn’t have dared to nod, afraid of exposing her ambition and causing unnecessary trouble for herself. But since this man trusted her so much, it would seem hypocritical if she continued to hide it.

After thinking for a moment, she nodded: “If I could, of course I would.”

Ji Mingchen nodded casually: “Okay, I’ll take you to the lab later.”

“!!?”

Did this mean he would give her an ability awakening agent? This level of precious item, something that countless team members and commanders would kill for, was he really willing to just casually give it to her? Was he serious?

Wen Yao had originally thought he would agree to let her return to the training camp, and now she was shocked and speechless for a long time: “This is extremely precious in your base, I’m not worthy of having it with my current strength…”

If he just directly gave it to her, wouldn’t it cause controversy?

She didn’t necessarily know the situation in the various districts of Dongzhou, but in North Continent, although the base commander had great authority, he wasn’t omnipotent. If he acted recklessly, he might be voted out of office.

Ji Mingchen chuckled softly: “This is the Dongzhou’s Fourteenth District, not your North Continent’s Thirteenth District.”

“Many things, I’m the only one who gets to decide.”

Wen Yao: “…”

Oh, right, she almost forgot, Ji Mingchen seemed to be different from other base commanders. He was the only son of the Dongzhou’s leader. If you compared the leader to a king, then he was a prince, a real official’s son.

Not only was he powerful, but his background was also strong, he definitely had the capital to be arrogant and willful.

The two stayed in the monitoring room for about ten minutes, Ji Mingchen finally looked at the monitoring screen, timing it perfectly, then straightened up: “Let’s go, to the twelfth floor lab.”

The elevator reached the twelfth floor. This floor was not crowded, only a deserted corridor and many office doors.

The structure of this research building was very complex. The corridors were all the same, and the doors were all the same. The floor was smooth and shiny, the doors were made of silver metal, and there were no numbers. If no one led the way, you could probably get lost just from wandering around.

In the empty corridor, the sound of their footsteps echoed. Ji Mingchen walked and said:

“The probability of natural ability awakening is so low that it can be ignored. Everyone outside says that the ability awakening agent is the only shortcut to awakening abilities, but in fact, even if you give them the ability awakening agent, they won’t be able to awaken their abilities.”

Wen Yao looked up in confusion: “Why…”

Ji Mingchen smiled, his voice clear and melodious: “You’ll know later, let’s go watch a good show.”

He pushed open a certain door with ease, turning on the lights inside.

This looked like a lab, with computers, experimental benches, various reagents and culture dishes on the experimental benches, and a whole wall of reagent cabinets next to them.

But Ji Mingchen didn’t pay attention to the experimental bench, but pulled Wen Yao into a small door inside the lab. This seemed to be a small warehouse, with mountains of cardboard boxes stacked behind it.

After the small door closed, the light inside was very dim, only a few rays of faint light shone through the small glass window on the door.

Wen Yao felt like she was sneaking around, a little confused: “Why are we hiding here?”

In the darkness, Ji Mingchen’s eyes were deep, he made a “shh” gesture to her.

“They’re coming.”

Wen Yao looked at the man’s slightly raised lips, not understanding what kind of trick he was up to, probably another game he thought was fun.

After Ji Mingchen finished speaking, he straightened up and looked out through the glass window.

Wen Yao frowned and followed his gaze. At this time, she could also hear footsteps, judging from the sound, there seemed to be three people coming from the corridor.

Wen Yao looked at the lab outside that was glowing blue, and asked in a low voice: “Can they see us if we peek from here?”

Ji Mingchen: “No.”

“…”

Understood, one-way glass.

It didn’t take a few minutes before the metal door was pushed open. It was three researchers in white coats. Wen Yao had an impression of these three, she seemed to have seen them in the monitoring screen just now, they were the ones in the monitoring screen that Ji Mingchen had zoomed in on. She didn’t think anything was wrong.

But just as she was wondering, the researcher who came in last locked the door from the inside, and the tall researcher in front took off his white rubber gloves and threw them on the experimental bench, happily saying: “We’ve been lurking for a whole month, and finally we’ve found this place…”