The entire Longpan Mountain had been in turmoil all night. Ling Tian released his two spirit beasts, the Haidongqing and the Wandering Albatross, to search the entire mountain. After confirming that no one had escaped, he recalled the two birds.
At dawn, Ling Tian, accompanied by his eldest master, Celestial Master Daoyuan, and his third master, the Medical Sage Gong Heming, left Longpan Mountain.
Initially, his fourth master, Xiang Yuntian, wanted to join them, but he was instructed by the third master to stay home and recover from his injuries.
They arrived at the foot of the mountain, where a refrigerated container truck was already waiting. The bodies of these God-bestowed warriors were all loaded into the refrigerated truck.
Ling Tian and his two masters got into the truck. After more than an hour, the truck arrived at a county town on the other side of Longpan Mountain.
The truck did not enter the town but drove into an area on the outskirts. Here, within a small mountain valley, a biological pharmaceutical enterprise spanning dozens of acres unfolded before their eyes.
Within the enterprise's compound stood several buildings of various sizes. The truck stopped inside one of these buildings, and all the bodies were unloaded.
Incidentally, this enterprise was actually an industry under Ling Tian's third master, the Divine Doctor Gong Heming.
For thousands of years, although the lineage of Medical Sages had always been passed down through a single disciple, the wealth they had accumulated over the years was an astronomical figure.
Especially after entering modern times, the lineage of Medical Sages began to research modern medicine. For them, whether it was traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, as long as it could cure diseases, it was worth studying.
Gong Heming established this company with many purposes, including helping cultivate medicinal herbs, extracting effective therapeutic components from Chinese herbal medicines. Additionally, the company possessed a very advanced large-scale laboratory, with various cutting-edge equipment costing billions.
Gong Heming would often assign research topics based on his ideas about medicine and treatment methods to this company for investigation.
Many scientists within the company maintained close ties with numerous medical universities in China.
Last night, the Black Dragon group invaded with a group of God-bestowed warriors. Ling Tian and his masters felt that these God-bestowed warriors were unusual. Therefore, after conferring, the masters and Ling Tian decided to bring these bodies to the company's laboratory for dissection.
The person in charge of the laboratory here was named Gong Wunian. He was in his early thirties, with an air of scholarly refinement. Upon seeing Gong Heming, he immediately became extremely respectful and devout.
Ling Tian and the others all knew this person. As a child, he was an orphan suffering from a terminal illness, abandoned on the streets. He was encountered by his third master, Gong Heming, who took him in, personally treated his terminal illness, raised him, and helped him grow into adulthood.
Although Gong Wunian and Gong Heming did not have the formal title of master and disciple, in reality, they were as close as father and son, and the absence of a formal title made no difference.
Having suffered from illness since childhood, Gong Wunian had a strong desire for health and developed a profound interest in medicine, aspiring to become an excellent doctor.
Thus, he later attended medical school and, after graduating, worked for several years in several renowned biological laboratories both domestically and internationally.
It was only in recent years, when Gong Heming decided to establish his own biological laboratory, that he brought Gong Wunian back. And among the core members of this enterprise, most had similar backgrounds to Gong Wunian.
After the bodies of the God-bestowed warriors were transported, Gong Wunian immediately organized his trusted subordinates to dissect these bodies and research what was revealed within them.
However, they soon made a discovery. Gong Wunian, holding the data just delivered by his subordinates, looked incredulous. He quickly printed out the data and handed it to Ling Tian and his two masters.
As the three of them looked at the data, their expressions were remarkably varied. The data indicated that, apart from the two bodies that were firmly frozen in ice, the other bodies showed signs of decomposition!
Not only that, but the bodily tissues of these corpses were rapidly decaying and deteriorating, turning into masses of bloody water, making it difficult even to maintain their shape!
"This is unscientific!" Gong Heming exclaimed, finding it hard to believe.
It had only been a few hours since these God-bestowed warriors were eliminated. Even in the height of summer, with temperatures of thirty to forty degrees Celsius, bodies would not decompose this quickly!
Yet, it was winter, and outside last night, it was freezing and snowy, with temperatures below minus ten degrees Celsius.
These bodies had been kept outdoors, and even in the refrigerated truck during transport, the temperature could reach minus thirty degrees Celsius.
Under such temperature conditions, these bodies would not have decomposed and deteriorated to this extent even if left for several years!
However, at present, the tissues of these bodies had begun to liquefy, which was somewhat different from ordinary corpse decomposition.
Ordinary corpse decomposition is caused by microorganisms within the body breaking down human tissues after death. According to the data, the decomposition of these God-bestowed warriors' bodies was caused by some internal force.
Ling Tian felt a sense of relief at this moment. The two bodies that had been frozen in ice had not changed much. Those two unfortunate individuals had been sprayed with extreme cold air by the Ice Soul Giant Bear, instantly turning them into ice sculptures.
Ling Tian had been cautious at the time and had not directly destroyed or thawed these two bodies. He had not expected that his action would lead to the preservation of the two bodies in perfect condition.
"Focus on researching those two unthawed bodies. As for the ones that have already decomposed, proceed with gene sequencing immediately!" Gong Heming instructed.
"Yes, Godfather!" Gong Wunian immediately went to arrange for his subordinates to carry out the operation.
Several hours later, the results of the gene sequencing came out. Upon seeing these results, Ling Tian's face revealed an expression of "as expected."
From the bodily tissues extracted from these God-bestowed warriors, they found genes from several species of snakes and crocodiles!
More terrifyingly, these genes were intertwined and fused together, forming a very special gene sequence.
This meant that these God-bestowed warriors had deviated from the scope of ordinary humans; they were no longer considered human.
Ling Tian looked at the data and said, "Chromosomes from humans and reptiles were forcibly fused together. This fusion was not congenital but was achieved through external force.
To keep the two genes tightly bound together, a large amount of energy was consumed...
When these monsters died, without a continuous supply of energy to maintain them, the two genes could no longer remain bound and began to collapse..."