Tomb Raiding: My Family's Last Clan Chief is Little Brother

Chapter 247 Corpse Transformation Experiment
Upon hearing this, Wu Xiaoxie's heart skipped a beat, and he swallowed hard. "Who's spying on you?"

“It is ‘it’,” Chen Wenjin said softly, as if sighing.

"it"?
Wu Xiaoxie frowned. "I read your notes, and you mentioned this 'it' in them. So, who is 'it'? Or what is it?"

Chen Wenjin slowly shook his head and sighed, "I can't describe it to you in detail. This is something we discovered while researching the whole thing. If you really want to describe it, you can visualize 'it' as a kind of power."

"Power?" Wu Xiaoxie was even more confused. If it weren't for the fact that Chen Wenjin was the one who told him this, he would have thought that this person had eaten poisonous mushrooms and gone insane.

He persisted, asking, "If it is a power, how did it manifest itself and kidnap so many of you to the basement?"

Chen Wenjin seemed to see through his thoughts and said with a faint smile, "I know this is hard to believe, but it is true. After we survived, we thoroughly analyzed the whole incident from beginning to end in that dark room. In the end, we found that many links could not be connected and a very key person was missing."

"In other words, if something is to happen, it's not enough for just a few of us to do it; it can't happen. But it just happens anyway, as if there's an invisible person filling in the gaps for us."

"But so far, this person has not revealed the slightest flaw, as if he were something ethereal, shapeless, not material, existing only on the level of logic."

"This is a force besides Jude Kao, Xie Lianhuan, and us. It is deeply hidden and undetectable, yet it is actually driving things forward, which is chilling."

"So we call this thing 'it'."

Chen Wenjin's final cry struck like a thunderclap from a clear sky, deeply impacting the hearts of the group.

The fat man was already a bit confused. "So all these years, hiding and fighting, you weren't even human? You were just... uh, beings in your imagination? A ghostly thing without even a physical form?"

“No.” Chen Wenjin shook his head. “‘It’ is very strange. Sometimes it is very mysterious, and sometimes it will suddenly appear. Although I have never seen it, I can sense its existence in the dark.”

“When I saw you by the swamp, the reason I ran was because I sensed its presence in that instant.” Chen Wenjin smiled bitterly. “After all these years, running away has become an instinct.”

The fat man raised his eyebrows, looking puzzled, and asked, "I'm not saying this to be mean, but all these years, haven't you ever thought about luring that thing out and killing it? You've only been thinking about escaping?"

Chen Wenjin sighed, "How could it not exist? But you haven't experienced it, so you don't know how terrifying 'it' is. 'It' is almost omnipotent and omnipresent. How could a few of us easily eliminate it?"

Wu Xiaoxie pondered for a moment and said, "Can you give me a specific example?"

Chen Wenjin gathered the hair that was hanging in front of her eyes, turned her face towards the light so that everyone could see her face clearly. "Look closely at my face. I think you must have noticed something was wrong a long time ago."

Wu Xiaoxie opened his mouth, then looked at Xiao Ge's expressionless face and voiced his doubts, "Neither you nor Xiao Ge seem to have aged."

“That’s right.” Chen Wenjin nodded. “It seems that all of us have lost the ability to age.”

Looking at Chen Wenjin's flawless, pretty face, Wu Xiaoxie exclaimed in surprise, "How could this be?"

"Immortality?" The fat man leaned closer for a closer look, then clicked his tongue in amazement. "Goodness, even Qin Shi Huang couldn't achieve that, yet that thing copied and pasted so many at once. That's fucking unbelievable! But then again, some people dream of this. Why are you complaining, Wenjin?" Chen Wenjin let down her hair, which had been swept up to cover half her face, and smiled wryly. "A dream, yeah, it's like a dream, a dream of seemingly immortality."

"After our bodies were modified, although our faces didn't age, we gradually discovered that this modification had side effects. Do you remember that monster in the basement of the Golmud Sanatorium?"

She looked at Wu Xiaoxie and asked.

"Golmud?" Wu Xiaoxie remembered. "You mean the forbidden woman in the basement?"

“That’s Huo Ling, that’s what we will look like in the end,” Chen Wenjin said.

"How is this possible!" Wu Xiaoxie almost jumped up in disbelief. He suddenly remembered that before the Forbidden Woman attacked him, she did indeed sit in front of the dressing table and comb her hair, which was almost exactly the same as Huo Ling's behavior in the videotape.

The thought of that ugly and ferocious woman sent a chill down my spine.

"How could this happen?" Wu Xiaoxie still couldn't accept it. Looking at the beautiful Wen Jin in front of her, she felt a pang of sadness. "Then... will you become like that too...?"

Chen Wenjin smiled faintly, "This is the price of eternal youth. After a certain period of time, we will all undergo this change. Huo Ling started to change after returning from Tamutuo, and one after another, they all turned into that kind of person. Now it's my turn."

Although she was smiling, Wu Xiaoxie could still see a kind of sorrow in that smile—a sorrow that came from knowing one's fate but being powerless to change it.

Chen Wenjin held out her hand to Wu Xiaoxie's face, urging him to smell it.

A familiar, unique fragrance wafted to her nose with her movements. It was faint, but it was indeed the same scent that Wu Xiaoxie had smelled when she encountered the Forbidden Woman twice before.

“This is the fragrance of the Forbidden Woman’s bones; changes have already begun to occur within my body,” Chen Wenjin said.

Wu Xiaoxie was still incredulous, feeling that everything was in a ridiculous mess, and all the clues seemed to have been hit by a heavy hammer and completely shattered.

Chen Wenjin continued, "Based on past experience, it only takes about six months from the beginning of the changes inside the body until it completely transforms into that thing. We call this process 'corpse transformation'."

Afterwards, Chen Wenjin began to recount how they discovered the phenomenon of zombification and began to observe and study it. They found that this phenomenon was unavoidable, so they decided to escape. The process was quite complicated, and Chen Wenjin only briefly mentioned it.

After escaping, they were initially subjected to relentless pursuit and wandered from place to place. Eventually, they were forced to return to the sanatorium, but the people hiding in the shadows had already left, and they found no information.

So, under Chen Wenjin's leadership, they decided to hide in an abandoned sanatorium, which is known as the darkest place under the lamp.

After repeated discussions and deliberations, it was finally deduced that Wang Zanghai recorded the method of resurrection and immortality in the Warring States period silk manuscript.

And they became the test subjects for immortality.

(End of this chapter)