Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

"So how do you plan to collect this data?" Ye Ge asked. "You've made these people consume the Dark Blood, so how are you going to obtain data on the changes in their bodies? Are you going to try to capture them all afterward?"

"Of course not, that would be too inefficient." Bao Bingqing picked up the remote control and pressed it again.

The image projected onto the wall has changed.

Ye Ge turned her head and her pupils contracted.

The screen displays tens of thousands of folders, each containing data records for a single individual, detailing the changes in their physical data over several cycles after consuming the Dark Blood...

“As I said, these dark microorganisms in the Dark Blood are special bacteria that I cultivated specifically,” Bao Bingqing said unhurriedly. “To be precise, they can even be described as a kind of extraordinary microorganism.”

Night Song: "Extraordinary microorganisms?"

Bao Bingqing: "Yes, they are extraordinary beings."

"Although it is only at the lowest level in the ecosystem, so small that it is invisible to the naked eye, it has no fighting power and no intelligence."

"But they do possess a faint supernatural power."

“These microorganisms, once inside the host’s body, act like transmitters installed within the host. Every so often, they use their extraordinary abilities to send me data messages, reporting on the host’s physical transformation.”

Night Song gasped in astonishment. Good heavens, you can do that???

This Baobingqing is indeed no ordinary person.

It's quite baffling that such a smart and capable character is completely absent from the game's background story...

"Now, outside the Great Wall, the Blood of Darkness has spread widely. In the wilderness, in towns and villages of all sizes, adventurers, wanderers, and scavengers, almost everyone needs the Blood of Darkness."

"But the interior is different from the area outside the Great Wall. The environment in the interior is different, and the physical condition of the people living there is also completely different."

"Therefore, I urgently need data from the mainland."

Bao Bingqing shook the ash off his cigar.

Ye Ge said, "Isn't the bigger reason that there are more extraordinary individuals in mainland China?"

“Yes.” Bao Bingqing admitted directly: “I need extraordinary individuals to accept the data of the Dark Blood.”

"Only in this way can I continue to improve and cultivate this dark bacteria based on the experimental results."

"I want to use dark bacteria to modify the bodies of ordinary people, to make their cells evolve, and through continuous genetic modification, to strengthen their resistance to demonic energy, so that they can eventually become new mutants!"

"Using this data, we can even cultivate crops that can adapt to environments polluted by demonic energy and are free from the toxins of demonic energy, thus solving the food problem in the wilderness."

"For the past few years, the Empire has been suppressing us, the underground barbaric forces outside the Great Wall, and the Dark Blood. They believe that it's all because of the Dark Blood that their territories outside the Great Wall have become such a mess, ha!"

"Believe it or not, once our underground forces disappear, the annual death toll outside the Great Wall will immediately increase by more than half! Without the Blood of Darkness, all sorts of illegal activities in the wilderness—robbery, theft, theft, murder, plunder, and rape—will only increase! Because only the Blood of Darkness can control these barbaric outlaws!"

Bao Bingqing paused at this point, looking into Ye Ge's eyes: "I don't deny that I'm making money, but we are also seeking evolution, seeking evolution for survival. We are like rats in the gutter. Since the royal family doesn't care about our lives, we can only survive in our own way."

"..." Ye Ge remained silent.

"After all that, you should understand now, right?" Bao Bingqing placed his half-burnt cigar on the ashtray. "There are many families that control trade along the Great Wall border, not just your Ye family. But I don't even bother to look at those arrogant and foolish nobles. Only you are different. As a family of demonized mutants, I know your family history, so I think you can understand my feelings."

“I understand,” Ye Ge replied calmly.

He then paused again: "But understanding doesn't mean I'll participate."

Bao Bingqing frowned immediately.

"I think you should listen to my plan first. I believe the benefits and components will satisfy you. Furthermore, I believe that the Dark Blood, for your Night Clan..."

"That's not the problem."

Ye Ge shook his head.

"...Why is that?" Bao Bingqing's expression darkened. "Don't you believe what I just said?"

"Oh, that's part of the reason."

Ye Ge wasn't naive enough to believe the one-sided story of someone she had just met.

Anyone can wear a mask. When someone defends their actions, they will naturally only say what's good about themselves.

As an ordinary person, Bao Bingqing was able to lead a group of extraordinary individuals, organize so many wilderness hunters, scavengers, adventurers, and vagrants, and establish such a large and savage force in the wilderness beyond the Great Wall. Naturally, he was cunning, despicable, ruthless, unscrupulous, and decisive in killing.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten to where he is today.

To believe in such a ruthless warlord born in the darkness based on just a few empty promises in such a short time would be far too naive.

"Although the data and experimental analyses you just provided are all true, but..."

Ye Ge looked at Bao Bingqing with a meaningful gaze: "Did you really tell me the whole truth? Do you dare to say that you didn't hold anything back when you told me everything?"

"..."

Bao Bingqing remained silent, meeting Ye Ge's gaze.

"Clatter clatter clatter..." Just then, the sound of a cart tire spinning on the ground came from outside the study.

Ye Ge turned his head and looked.

A little girl in a wheelchair appeared at the door of the study.

The little girl's skin was very pale, the kind of pale that looked sickly, but her appearance was absolutely top-notch, and she also had a quiet and elegant temperament. Even at such a young age, it was clear that she was a beauty in the making. She raised her little head and looked at Bao Bingqing and Ye Ge in the room with a bewildered gaze.

Bao Bingqing's expression changed, and he immediately stood up from the sofa in the study.

He came to the little girl's side, slowly squatted down, and said in a very gentle voice, "How did you get here, Ququ?"

The frail little girl spoke in a very quiet voice, "I heard from Aunt Zhang that you were here, because there were some parts of the book I didn't understand..."

Then the little girl looked around the room and asked softly, "Daddy, are you talking to someone?"