Chapter 98 Erasing Memories

　　Terrifying brainwave magnetic fields were connecting Ren Xiao's and Han Han's brains.

　　Ren Xiao's hippocampus was vibrating slightly. This organ, responsible for long-term memory storage, conversion, and orientation in the human brain, was having those deeply ingrained images in her memory erased bit by bit, replaced by a blank space.

　　With a relatively strong magnetic field fluctuation, Ren Xiao's eyes lost their luster, and she fainted limply.

　　"The memories from a week ago until now have been completely erased, but it could be longer, maybe ten days or half a month." Han Han said, catching her breath, "Han Han can't control the time so precisely yet… I can only increase the intensity and time span to ensure there are no loopholes."

　　"A week is enough." Li Tianran glanced at Ren Xiao, who had fainted on the sofa. A week ago, she was still at headquarters and wouldn't have this memory.

　　"Send her away." Li Tianran stood up and walked towards the door.

　　…

　　When Ren Xiao woke up again, she saw a hazy sky. The biting cold wind swept past her face, and a strong sense of fatigue came from her brain.

　　She groaned and sat up, supporting herself.

　　Her pupils suddenly contracted!

　　This was… the top rooftop of Tianrun Company!

　　A helicopter with the Umbrella Corporation logo hanging on it was quietly parked beside her!

　　She got up in a panic, threw off the thick coat on her body, and looked around. An extremely strong and strange sense of fear surged into her heart.

　　"I… should be at the Modu headquarters, how could I be in Nancheng?" Ren Xiao trembled, suspecting she was dreaming, but the biting cold wind blowing in her face made her realize that this was all real!

　　Her face changed, and she frantically searched her belongings. Soon, she held a phone in her hand.

　　This wasn't her phone, and there were no recorded numbers in the contact list!

　　It was as if someone had deliberately placed it on her, asking her for help!

　　"The date is…" Ren Xiao's pupils contracted again, as small as pinpoints.

　　The date displayed on the phone was eight days different from what she thought!

　　"Eight days! Eight days! Why don't I remember anything! Where did the memories of these eight days go?" Ren Xiao felt like she was trapped in a huge vortex, shrouded in heavy fog, making her sink deeper and deeper.

　　Terror and strangeness filled her mind and body.

　　After a long time, she finally calmed down, picked up the phone, and dialed her family's number.

　　"I am Ren Xiao, I am in Nancheng, come and pick me up."

　　A sound like a glass being broken came from the other end of the phone, and then a crying female voice sounded: "It's Xiao Xiao! She's still alive..."

　　In the distance, on the top floor of a tall building, Li Tianran watched Ren Xiao wake up, slowly put on the hood of his hoodie, and turned to leave.

　　…

　　After sending Ren Xiao away, the grievances with the head office came to a temporary end, and Li Tianran gained a rare moment of peace.

　　But no one could guarantee how long this peaceful life would last.

　　Based on Ren Xiao's memory, Li Tianran was very sure that Bai Changyun was a very vengeful person who would not give up until he reached his goal. After the warning from Tiancheng Company, Bai Changyun might postpone the plan to create evolvers for a while, but he would never give up.

　　Li Tianran was also planning a real opportunity to talk to the headquarters and even global consortiums.

　　He was not opposed to humans becoming evolvers, nor was he worried that these evolvers would threaten his position, because ancestral evolvers were not a threat to him at all.

　　If possible, he also hoped that people all over the world would become evolvers, unite as one, ignore this disaster, and overcome the difficulties.

　　But this was simply impossible.

　　On the one hand, because the investment was too huge, the drug resources on Blue Star today were not enough to support all humans becoming evolvers.

　　On the other hand, because it was difficult to control. If a first batch of humans became evolvers, then these first evolvers were likely to cut off the evolutionary path of those humans behind them in order to monopolize the resources on Blue Star.

　　Mass production of evolvers had a ten percent chance of allowing humans to ignore the disaster and continue to exist; a ninety percent chance of causing a greater disaster and becoming the biggest reason for the destruction of mankind.

　　Human nature was always selfish and despicable.

　　Consortiums, chaotic warlords, and ambitious schemers would replicate evolvers for their own benefit and ambition, turning evolvers into weapons in their hands to seize profits. They would not restrict the behavior of evolvers; on the contrary, the more chaotic the world, the happier they would be!

　　Because their original power was too weak compared to major powers, they only had a chance to fish in troubled waters if they stirred up the world's big pool of water.

　　There were now many consortiums in the world who wanted to create evolvers, not just Umbrella Corporation. It was believed that it would not be long before some mass-produced evolvers would be born in the world.

　　These people would also become the source of chaos in the Second Destruction Era.

　　Li Tianran certainly did not want to see this happen.

　　In other words, Li Tianran believed that the world did not yet have the power to strictly control mass-produced evolvers, and the world was not ready to welcome the arrival of many evolvers!

　　The birth of a large number of evolvers was more harmful than beneficial to Blue Star at this time!

　　He himself was extremely careful in examining the mind and character of the other party to see if they were suitable when helping others to start evolution. Li Tianran did not think that mass-produced evolvers would undergo such a strict examination. For consortiums and countries at this time, "whether the physique is suitable to become an evolver" was probably more important than "whether the character is suitable to become an evolver"!

　　It was already tiring enough to deal with natural disasters and beast tides. If some unrestrained and arrogant human evolvers were added, Blue Star would probably become a living hell before long.

　　…

　　Time passed quickly.

　　In the blink of an eye, seven more days passed.

　　A large-scale shelter center in the center of Nancheng was taking shape. This was a city of steel, with a fully reinforced foundation and an outer wall as majestic as the Great Wall.

　　Inside this shelter, a temporary research institute was being built.

　　With the special approval of the higher-ups, Nancheng was allowed to analyze and replicate the genetic evolution of evolvers and conduct human experiments on a small scale!

　　This project, which Professor Nan believed was epoch-making, did not receive great attention from the state.

　　Because according to calculations, the cost of replicating an ordinary evolver was too high. Relying on this method to survive this natural disaster was simply not realistic in the short term.

　　Most of the Yanhuang Federation's budget was now being used to build shelters and war reserves.

　　The resources that Professor Nan received were not many. Even if a portion was extracted from Nancheng's construction military expenditure, it was only enough to barely maintain the project.

　　The prices of high-precision biological raw materials had always been very expensive, especially in these special times, the price was dozens, hundreds, or thousands of times more expensive than gold of the same weight!

　　Professor Nan was very sure that the results of his experiment would determine the state's future attitude towards the evolver project, so he immediately devoted himself to intense work after receiving the reply…