Chapter 49: Element Carriers

“He’s a top student from a prestigious university, majoring in electronics. He’ll be an excellent engineer,” said Wen Yao.

“Alright, I’ll listen to you,” said Ji Mingchen, opening the door.

As the fish-like monster opened its maw to devour the bespectacled man, a bright flame erupted, instantly incinerating the monster into dissipating ashes.

The rat-like monster, still alive after being shot, was also eliminated in the same way.

The bespectacled man, terrified, looked at the man in the white shirt, shrinking back. His broken leg, revealing the white bone, dragged a bloody trail on the ground…

Ji Mingchen clapped his hands, walked leisurely to the man, squatted down, and asked with a smile, “Sir, how was the animal world performance just now?”

Looking at the man with unparalleled beauty and a warm smile, the bespectacled man’s expression was even more terrified than when he saw the monsters: “You… you… you are Ji… Ji Mingchen…”

Ji Mingchen chuckled softly, his tone gentle, polite, and courteous: “So you know me, sir. What is your name?”

Wen Yao, who was holding the gun and approaching, said: “…”

The villain persona is confirmed.

Overwhelmed by pain and fear, the bespectacled man broke out in cold sweat, unable to speak. Veins bulged on his forehead, his whole body tensed, as if he would faint at any moment: “Don’t… don’t come closer…”

“Please… please… let… let me go…”

Before Ji Mingchen could speak, the research building’s alarm suddenly went off. The blue and white ceiling lights turned red and blinked, and there was commotion in the corridor: “Hurry! 12th floor, 036 lab!”

Several researchers, accompanied by a team of armed guards, burst through the door, their steps in unison, surrounding everyone in the lab.

The leading researcher saw Ji Mingchen, raised his hand, and the guns pointed at the man on the ground, who was struggling to stay alive.

The researcher on duty asked, “Captain Ming, what are you doing here?”

Ji Mingchen didn’t answer the question, instead commenting: “Your speed is a bit slow, isn’t it?”

The researcher immediately bowed his head: “Captain Ming, please forgive me. The alarm on the -12th floor went off first, and I only discovered that the alarm system of our research building had been tampered with, with the program being misaligned after I went there.”

Ji Mingchen smiled at the man on the ground: “Clever, you know how to create a diversion…”

He slowly stood up, pointed at the man on the ground, and instructed: “He’s an excellent engineer, take him down for treatment.”

Two armed guards quickly carried the man on the ground away.

Ji Mingchen: “If he’s willing to cooperate, get him a wheelchair and let him help us upgrade our security system. But if he doesn’t cooperate…”

He laughed happily, as if it was a funny joke: “Then take him to the -18th floor. I’m curious, what kind of interesting thing will a genius with high intelligence become?”

The researcher was stunned for a moment, then quickly understood: “Understood.”

The unconscious bespectacled man was taken away, and the murder scene was quickly cleaned up by the cleaning staff who arrived. Everything was put back in its place, even the ashes on the ground were swept away.

When the lab door closed again, Ji Mingchen turned to Wen Yao: “Why aren’t you talking? Scared?”

Wen Yao shook her head gently. In the past, at times like this, she would definitely condemn him for being cold-blooded and ruthless, but now she understood that good and evil, black and white, were not absolute.

These three people were not simple. They were able to lurk in the heavily guarded biological research base, and they must have killed countless researchers to unlock their way here…

“Why did they turn into monsters?” Wen Yao asked.

“That’s not called a monster, it’s called a mutant. Everyone who fails to awaken their abilities will become a mutant who loses their intelligence, not an ability user.”

Wen Yao looked at the experimental table, where there was a potion bottle that had been left uncleaned. She picked it up and examined it carefully: “So, using ability awakening agents to awaken abilities actually has a high risk?”

Ji Mingchen casually turned on the computer next to him: “You can’t say that.”

“Hmm?”

“The ability awakening agents currently researched have a very low risk. The reason they turned into that is simply because their elements don’t match.”

“Elements don’t match?”

“Yes. What kind of ability a human can awaken is actually determined at birth.”

“Element crystals have different attributes, and corresponding to element crystals are element carriers. Element carriers are inherent in the human body, and they also have different attributes. Only when matching element crystals and element carriers combine can they induce gene mutation in the human body, thereby evolving into ability users, not mutants.”

Wen Yao listened, half understanding. This was completely new knowledge.

She looked at the man with extraordinary looks and felt a sense of being carried by a boss.

He not only personally brought her to the heavily guarded Dongzhou District Fourteen Biological Research Building, told her such important secrets, but also patiently explained their latest research progress and patiently popularized the principle of ability awakening agents…

These were things she had never dared to imagine before.

Faced with such honesty and trust, Wen Yao didn’t intend to hide her curiosity, so she asked: “Then, is the element carrier a kind of substance?”

Before the apocalypse, science was already very advanced. Regarding the structure of the human body, what trace elements it contains… all these things were clearly understood.

What is an element carrier? She had never seen or heard of it. Since it is something everyone is born with, why hasn’t anyone in the scientific community discovered it before?

Ji Mingchen seemed to be amused by her, he chuckled softly, his breath light: “If it were a substance, it would have been discovered long ago. Element carriers are not substances, and they cannot be extracted. As for what they are, it’s hard to explain. It’s a bit like a quasi-magnetic field, but you can directly understand it as an attribute.”

The computer turned on, and the information Ji Mingchen mentioned was displayed on the electronic screen like a 3D animation. The concept was abstract, but the vivid images made it easy to understand.

Element crystals are natural objects, and element carriers are also inherent in the human body. They have five types: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Everyone is born with an element carrier, which is their native attribute. The role of ability awakening agents is to combine specific concentrations of element crystals with carriers, activate native attributes, thereby achieving gene mutation, and make the body undergo a comprehensive evolution…

How amazing!

Due to the perspective issue, Wen Yao didn’t see such detailed knowledge in that dream.

She only vaguely knew that in the later stages of the story, ability awakening agents became widespread, the ability awakening era would end, and the ability user era would begin.

In the ability user era, all surviving humans were ability users. Ordinary people who were once ordinary would either evolve or be completely eliminated.

Wen Yao’s eyes lit up: “So, as long as we detect what the native attribute is and inject the corresponding ability awakening agent, we can awaken that type of ability?”