But why was she locked up here? Suwan was confused. She felt a little uneasy because she knew nothing about her situation. She had been locked up before for violating disciplines, but they were all minor matters. It was not surprising. The students of Bellster Academy were energetic and had all had such experiences. However, they were only locked up in a dark underground confinement room for one night. This was the first time she had been locked up like this. And why was she locked up in the experimental building? Students were not allowed to approach the experimental building at all. What was different this time? Why was she treated like this? Suwan really couldn't understand. This posture made her seem like a dangerous person, or like a prisoner. In short, Suwan didn't like this feeling. The lights on the ceiling were very bright, illuminating the room as if it were daytime. Except for the cold iron cage, the walls and tiles were all white, but Suwan knew that this was underground. She only felt dull and depressed.
There was nothing in the cage except for the limited free space of two meters. Suwan crossed her arms, lowered her head and walked back and forth in the cage for a few steps, thinking. Suddenly, she remembered why the isolated guards were not locked up here together? The space here was more than enough to lock up a few people, and it was completely enough to lock up all the guards. Obviously, the guards and she were locked up separately.
Going through so much trouble just to put him in solitary confinement actually makes people suspicious.
Suwan thought that it might be related to the broken test tube, but she couldn't think of anything else. After all, she was not one of those old-fashioned pedantic professors, and she couldn't guess as much as a little hint.
Suwan had already noticed that she was not the only one imprisoned here. She was trying very hard to reduce her presence. When the guard brought her in, she was shivering and shrinking in the corner, so Suwan didn't bother to pay any attention to her.
Only after the guards left did the other party speak.
"Who are you?"
Suwan looked over and saw a young blond woman wearing a white knee-length lab coat sitting on the ground in a cage between two cages, hugging her knees and looking at her helplessly. Her blond hair, which should be very beautiful, was not well taken care of, hanging in a mess and looked less shiny. Suwan raised an eyebrow at the woman and had a vague premonition of her identity.
"I'm just an ordinary student," Suwan walked to the edge of the iron bars closer to her, looked at her and said, "But I may know who you are."
The blonde was visibly flustered.
"You're Charlotte," Suwan confirmed.
"You, how do you know?"
Although he had guessed the woman's identity, Suwan was still surprised to hear her verify it herself.
"Why weren't you executed?"
Colluding with reporters to sneak into the laboratory building and steal experimental data, there is no need to elaborate on the crime, and immediate execution is necessary.
"I don't know why, but they can't take care of me right now," Charlotte said in a low voice with her head down, "Maybe they are convicting me."
Suwan nodded indifferently, and then didn't know what else to say to this "remarkable" lady. After all, she was a soldier, and Charlotte was a traitor in a certain position. The two were simply enemies. Suwan was very polite not to curse Charlotte for her betrayal immediately.
Suwan remained silent, but Charlotte quickly asked her, "How is the reporter?"
"Oh...he's dead," shot in the heart by Suwan himself.
Charlotte exclaimed softly, but that was all. It seemed that she had expected it. The management of Bellster College was strict. Without the help of Charlotte, who was an insider, the reporter would not have been able to get in and would not have known the specific location of Bellster College.
"Why did you do this?" Charlotte's question opened the topic, and Suwan took the opportunity to ask. She knew too little, which made her uneasy, so she wanted to ask something from Charlotte.
"I've discovered some secrets," said Charlotte, who was evidently not a woman of secrets.
"so?"
"I want these secrets to be made public and known to the public," Charlotte said frankly.
"What secret?"
Charlotte thought of those horrific scenes, and rushed to the edge of the iron bars, holding them tightly, and said to Suwan excitedly: "The military is using living people for experiments!"
Suwan frowned and asked her, "What's wrong?" The military's use of living subjects for experiments has always been a well-known secret.
Charlotte was undoubtedly confused by the question: "They are using living people for experiments, and too many people have died. This is immoral and terrible! This has not only touched the bottom line of morality, it is a crime! All of this should be made public. You don't know how many people have died because of this experiment! It was almost successful, if he hadn't stolen a test tube..." Charlotte still insisted that she was right, and was a little frustrated at the end.
Suwan sensitively caught something from her words.
"Wait, you said, he stole the test tube?" Suwan interrupted Charlotte.
"Yes, if this hadn't set off the safe's alarm, he could have gotten away," Charlotte said dejectedly.
"Why would he risk his life to do this?"
Charlotte was also stumped by the question and looked up blankly at Suwan through the iron cage.
"For a reporter, it is enough for him to get the reporting resources he wants. Why does he want to take the test tubes? If he is not a scientific researcher, it will be of no use to him to take the test tubes," Suwan intuitively felt that something was wrong. Charlotte did not think about these questions. She could only sit on the ground and watch Suwan walking back and forth in the limited space of the iron cage, thinking about something.
"That reporter, how did you get in touch with him? Did you find him?"
"No, he was the one who found me. Not long after I entered the laboratory, he found me and said that he suspected that the laboratory was conducting some inhumane experiments and wanted to seek my help..." Charlotte's voice stopped abruptly.
Some clues are about to emerge.
Suwan also widened his eyes, looking at Charlotte in disbelief, and concluded: "He might be a spy. His purpose is not to publish the experimental data, but to steal it."
"Oh my God," Charlotte bit her nails nervously, feeling regretful and muttering to herself at a loss: "What have I done!"
After a while, Charlotte asked Suwan uncertainly: "Is he really dead?"
Suwan nodded.
"So, it's not that bad, is it?" Charlotte asked with a glimmer of hope. This result was not what she had intended. If the reporter was a spy, then Charlotte would be committing treason, and she didn't want that.
"Maybe," Suwan shrugged, noncommittal.
Soon there was silence again.
There are only Suwan and Charlotte in this strange confinement room, and Charlotte may now be charged with treason instead of being a betrayer. Although Suwan is from a different country from her, he doesn't want to continue communicating with her. Although Charlotte looks very regretful, Suwan has no obligation to comfort Charlotte.
But Charlotte felt uneasy because of the truth she had just learned. There were only her and Suwan in this overly empty detention room, and Suwan was undoubtedly very logical, so Charlotte took the initiative to communicate with Suwan to stop herself from thinking too much: "Why were you locked up again?"
"Because of the test tube." It was too far-fetched to say that Suwan suspected that the guards had colluded with the reporter. After thinking about it, Suwan felt that this could only be the reason: "If the test tube stolen by the reporter, or the spy, was broken, would it have any impact?"
Charlotte shook her head. "Although we are in the final stages of the experiment, it is not successful. We have been conducting experiments in an isolated laboratory, so we are not sure what reaction the volatilization of the drug will cause. However, the drug needs to be injected into a living body to be effective. The broken test tube should have no effect."
That was strange. Suwan was even more confused. Why were she and the guards locked up?
Could it be... Could it be because of the degree of contact with that test tube?
At that time, the guards had direct contact with the body, and indirectly with the blue liquid leaking from the test tube, while Suwan was a few steps away and had no direct contact. If Suwan was put in solitary confinement because she was found to have hidden the miniature camera, it is unlikely. If she had been discovered, the guards would have asked her to hand it over. Until now, the guards have not asked her for the camera, nor have they interrogated her. Everything is irrelevant, as if they just wanted her to be locked up here for a day.
Suwan guessed that it was related to the broken test tube, but Charlotte said that the broken test tube would not have any impact, so what was the real reason?
"Is this where the experimental subjects are kept?" Suwan asked, touching the scratches on the iron bars. The iron bars were as thick as an arm, with many deep scratches on them. The width of the scratches was wider than Suwan's fingers, and it didn't look like they were caused by human power. At least Suwan wouldn't do this beyond his ability, and he couldn't do it at all. Suwan believed that no human could make such deep scratches with just fingernails, even if they grinded off their fingernails.
Charlotte nodded: "Yes, all the test subjects injected with drugs will be kept here."
Suwan nodded. She had roughly guessed it. The students also knew that this kind of experiment was going on. She stared at the scratches on the iron bars for a few more times. Suwan was a little bit unconvinced. Could this be the power of the experimental subject after being injected with the drug? She asked curiously: "So what will happen after the drug is injected?" She quickly realized that this involved research secrets and immediately said: "I'm just curious. You can choose not to answer."
Charlotte shook her head to indicate that she didn't care. In her opinion, she didn't have much time left to live, so it didn't matter what secrets were kept. It would be better to let Suwan know more of the truth. The more people who knew about it, the better. The more people who knew, the more capable they would be to stop the experiment from continuing.
"After being injected with the drug, the experimental body's metabolism will be accelerated, and all functions will be forcibly improved, including agility, speed, strength, and many other aspects. It will be difficult for ordinary people to pose a threat to them, even you," Charlotte glanced at Suwan and said, "Maybe you are not their opponent."
"Sounds good, then what?" Suwan nodded in amazement. It sounds good so far.
"Then..." Charlotte's expression darkened, and she said with some sadness, "Because this is not in line with the laws of human genetic development. After forcibly improving various functions, the subject will face functional failure. The heart rate will accelerate four to six times within 24 hours, and the blood vessels and muscles will swell. Such pain will make them lose their minds, and then they will die from burst blood vessels, and even their bones will be crushed into powder and mixed with the minced meat."
Even as a student of Belster, Suwan showed an expression of disbelief when she heard Charlotte's description. She asked Charlotte tentatively: "Explosion, it's not what I imagined, BONG?!" Suwan made the shape of an explosion with her mouth.
Charlotte didn't argue.
It is inhumane for a person to die like a balloon that is filled with too much water and bursts. Suwan could never experience that kind of pain, and death was easier than that. But she could imagine what the confinement room would look like after the experimental subject exploded. No wonder the bloody smell could not be removed after cleaning and disinfection.
Suwan's expression was a little interesting. He touched his chin and looked up and down at the iron cage that locked him up. He felt the smell of blood became more pungent. When he thought of the scene of blood and flesh splattering described by Charlotte, Suwan frowned with a little disgust.