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Chapter 176: #176 - Her twenty-seven years

Shen Qionglin's life had three turning points, at the ages of seven, fourteen, and twenty-one, respectively, which concealed many secrets of Lingneng Capital.

Wang Jixuan divided it into three segments for observation.

Simply put, the information in Shen Qionglin's memory about researching spiritual practitioners made him feel 'greatly benefited'.

Returning to Shen Qionglin's story.

Shen Qionglin arrived at Ironwall Fortress at the age of twenty-one and had lived there for more than six years.

She was exiled by the Six Elders.

Before being exiled, Shen Qionglin was already a special researcher who could directly connect with the Six Elders, holding three major projects in her hands:

Injection experiment survival rate improvement research;

Lingneng mecha development;

Exploration of the application of mysterious symbols of spiritual practitioners.

Logically speaking, a researcher as important as her, praised by the Six Elders as a genius among geniuses, should have been cherished by Lingneng Capital.

But in that year, at the age of twenty-one, when she was at the height of her career, she suffered a series of severe blows.

The most top-level resources in Lingneng Capital were limited, and if Shen Qionglin took them, the other research teams would naturally receive less.

Different research teams involved different S-level Lingneng users, and even SS-level Lingneng user forces;

And the Six Elders had been trapped in the Silent Sphere for fifty years, so even in Lingneng Capital, there were many places beyond their reach.

The protection of the Six Elders quickly became ineffective.

The first to have an accident was Shen Qionglin's mother.

Her mother was kidnapped, and the kidnappers demanded that Shen Qionglin take a potion that could affect a human's normal thinking ability.

Shen Qionglin chose to refuse.

Because she clearly knew that once she lost her scientific research ability and her value, the fate awaiting herself, her mother, her sister, and her younger brother would be even more miserable.

The final result was that her mother was killed, and her body was stripped naked and thrown outside Shen Qionglin's secret research institute.

Shen Qionglin looked at her mother's body, silently took off her white coat, and didn't say a word.

Some researchers used this incident to frantically attack Shen Qionglin for being 'devoid of humanity' and 'not considering the safety of her own mother at all', further extending to demanding that the laboratory where Shen Qionglin was employed conduct a moral review of Shen Qionglin.

From then on, Shen Qionglin began to make the laboratory her home, isolating herself from all external communication.

In the empty laboratory, a lamp in the corner would always be lit late at night.

When she was tired, her petite body would lean on the chair, staring blankly at the light-polluted sky outside the window.

Her mother's matter ultimately ended inconclusively.

The Lingneng Supervision Team of Lingneng Capital pulled out three or four hooligans from the slums as the culprits to close the case.

In the following months, there was still endless harassment.

Shen Qionglin tried her best to reduce going out, but her every move was under the watchful eyes of the enemy.

The power of the Six Elders intervened several times, but each time, it could only silence the demons and monsters for a few days, followed by a never-ending attack.

Her sister's family was 'demoted' out of Lingneng Capital.

Her younger brother was mistakenly sent into a Lingneng injection experiment, miraculously survived, and became a useless Lingneng user.

After Shen Qionglin rushed over, she looked at her younger brother who had been tortured into a cripple.

She still didn't say a word.

After a few months like this, Shen Qionglin completed her phased tasks as scheduled, and her spirit was on the verge of collapse.

A conversation with one of the Six Elders became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

"This is the Lingneng mecha you made?"

"Qionglin, do you know? We humans are facing a certain death situation, and the path you and the other twelve research teams are taking now is to find a way out of this certain death ending."

"Your current direction is wrong. The Lingneng mecha only utilizes air Lingneng on the surface. The Lingneng mecha researched by other teams has initially used the power of crystal cores."

"Spiritual practitioners are playing a game with us. They will only give us the technology we need little by little, like squeezing toothpaste, to get more souls from us and restore their power."

"You must adjust your route now. Your early experiments were perfect, reducing the mortality rate of injection experiments. Now, on average, one Lingneng user can be born from one hundred and twenty-one clones. What's wrong with you using these clone Lingneng users for experiments? Qionglin, which is more important, your pointless insistence or the fate of humanity?"

"If we can master the secret of how spiritual practitioners inspire Lingneng users, we can defeat Blade Beasts and get rid of the shackles they have imposed on us."

"Qionglin, come to grandpa's side, grandpa will talk to you properly..."

"Sorry."

Shen Qionglin took two steps back, frowned at the old man in the robe in front of her, and said in a low voice:

"My value should be in scientific research. I hope you can respect my basic personality."

The old man chuckled: "Do you know how much effort I spent to protect you?"

"Isn't this your problem? The high and mighty Six Elders are the rulers, but you can't even ensure that your orders are carried out. The protection you talk about is letting me see my mother's naked corpse, right?"

Shen Qionglin's emotions fluctuated, and her eyes became sharp.

The old man sighed: "Your research results are too dazzling. Many people see you as a monster."

"Yes, I am a monster," Shen Qionglin said in a low voice, "but even monsters shouldn't use their own kind to do biological experiments."

"Clone Lingneng users are not your kind. You are human!"

"Then what about you? SS Lingneng user, are you human or a monster?"

"Go back, I don't want to communicate with you anymore. You are just one of the dozen main researchers of the team."

The old man slammed a stack of paper materials at Shen Qionglin's feet.

Shen Qionglin pushed up her glasses, which were still there at the time, and said calmly:

"You may not cherish my research results, but I must state that only I can unlock the secrets of spiritual practitioners. You know, I am the only remaining result of the Divine Domain Project."

With that, she shrugged her shoulders, put her hands in the pockets of her white coat, turned and left the church building, and was taken into a troop carrier.

Shen Qionglin waited in the laboratory for about half a day and received the order to move the entire laboratory to Ironwall Fortress.

She didn't say anything.

Although she really wanted to see her younger brother before leaving, she eventually turned around and left.

No connection is the best protection.

After Shen Qionglin arrived at Ironwall, her memories were all monotonous, researching day and night, no longer caring about any news from afar, and three years later, she operated and designed it herself, endured great pain, and completed the new injection experiment.

After reading the first segment, Wang Jixuan was more moved by Shen Qionglin's strong character and the incompetence of the Six Elders.

The relationship between the Six Elders and the No. 1, 2, and 3 spiritual practitioners is very subtle, more like a cooperative relationship.

The Six Elders set up a dozen research teams to study some of the technologies given by the spiritual practitioners, and Shen Qionglin was a participant in this.

The Six Elders were very unsuccessful. They couldn't even control their own territory.

The spiritual practitioners were also very unsuccessful. They couldn't even handle their own high-level spirit slaves.

Wang Jixuan continued to trace forward in Shen Qionglin's memory and saw her encounter at the age of fourteen.

… …

At that time, Shen Qionglin's family was in the most difficult time. Her sister had not yet passed the researcher exam. After her father died, the family moved from a high-end community to the edge of the slums.

Shen Qionglin did not show her 'talent' at that time. She was in a state of dementia, living a mechanical life every day.

In that narrow single dormitory, a family of four barely made a living.

Her mother changed jobs again and again, and the supplies she could bring home became less and less.

Shen Qionglin never went out to work. The farthest distance she left home was the toilet shared by dozens of households in the corridor.

Due to malnutrition and childhood experiences, Shen Qionglin only entered puberty at the age of fourteen.

At this time, her mother and sister became very nervous and strictly restricted Shen Qionglin from going out. — They felt that Shen Qionglin's intelligence was impaired, and if she left their sight, she would easily be bullied by bad people.

This kind of life had been going on for several years.

And Wang Jixuan saw in Shen Qionglin's memory... many, many pictures.

Shen Qionglin was not stupid at that time, but she could not distinguish between fantasy and reality. She indulged in the world of fantasy and could not extricate herself.

That world was bizarre and colorful, with the evolution of stars, the birth of life, the structural secrets of Blade Beasts, and countless twinkling stars.

What pulled Shen Qionglin out of this fantasy was an accident.

That was on the third night after her fourteenth birthday. Two drunken hooligans followed her sister home from school and pinned her down at their doorstep, trying to rape her.

This was not uncommon in the slums.

Her sister struggled violently, and her mother, who heard the sound inside the house, rushed out but was easily knocked down by the hooligans.

Her younger brother hid under the bed, covering his mouth and daring not to make a sound, but Shen Qionglin seemed to wake up from a dream. She leaned by the window and watched for a while, seeing the clothes of her sister and mother torn open.

The neighbors closed their doors and windows tightly;

A kind-hearted person pressed the alarm bell.

Countless fantasies in Shen Qionglin's mind suddenly exploded. She painfully hugged her head, gritted her teeth and roared, pulled out the only kitchen knife in the house, and rushed out the door.

She screamed loudly, and the two hooligans grunted and began to feel dizzy.

That was a very weak telekinetic power, but it was enough to deal with ordinary people!

Shen Qionglin rushed up with the kitchen knife, and the blade tore open the hooligan's shoulder, and blood splattered on her face!

The hooligan who was cut was not aroused to ferocity, but fell into inexplicable fear, constantly shouting and fleeing backwards.

Her mother and sister worked together to drive away the other person, dragged Shen Qionglin back to the room, trembling, locked the door, and the three mothers and daughters cried together.

Shen Qionglin didn't cry. She just raised her hand and wiped her cheek.

'Ah, I am still alive.'

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After that incident, Shen Qionglin quickly returned to normal. Her emotions were stable, her thinking was sharp, and other than not liking to smile, she was no different from a normal person.

She borrowed a large number of books and research materials from her sister, and in one year, she taught herself courses that others might not be able to complete in more than a decade.

She gave her first experimental results to her sister, helping her successfully enter the research institute.

The family moved back to the high-end community, enjoying the protection of the psionicists.

What followed was only natural.

Shen Qionglin used various examinations to make a name for herself, becoming a genius girl in the Psionic Capital, and was selected by the Six Elders to participate in confidential project research, quickly fading from the public eye in the Psionic Capital.

Wang Jixuan was constantly tracing back through Shen Qionglin's memories.

He was very interested in the reason why Shen Qionglin was unable to extricate herself from fantasy.

Soon, two large characters appeared in Shen Qionglin's memory.

[Divine Realm].

That year, Shen Qionglin was seven years old.

… …

'Daddy, where are we going?'

'Linlin, Daddy is taking you to a very fun place.'

The middle-aged man held Shen Qionglin's small hand and led her into the underground laboratory.

The scene changed, Shen Qionglin changed out of her princess dress, put on a small sterile patient gown, and her head was bald.

The middle-aged man stood outside the glass window, smiling and waving to Shen Qionglin.

'Linlin, how do you feel?'

'Daddy, Linlin is scared, Linlin is in so much pain… so many needles are poking me…'

'Linlin, be good, Linlin is sick, Daddy will do everything to cure you.'

A researcher next to him asked: 'Professor, should we increase the dose? Your daughter is the best individual we have made progress with.'

'Yes, increase it.'

Shen Qionglin later learned when she looked through the archives…

That wasn't treatment, and she wasn't sick.

She was her father's experimental subject.

When Shen Qionglin was seven years old, she was taken to the laboratory by her own father and became an experimental subject for the 'Divine Realm' research project.

The Divine Realm project was an experiment secretly established and quietly abolished by the Thirteenth Research Institute, aimed at using psionic energy to develop the human brain, thereby developing the power of the human brain.

The basis of this project was based on the Thirteenth Research Institute's long-term research and observation of telekinetic psionicists.

Some scholars attribute the birth of human telekinesis to 'deep development of the brain', believing that as long as humans continue to develop their brains, they can generate powerful telekinesis, thereby controlling psionic energy and truly entering the realm of gods.

Psionic energy has shown unlimited possibilities.

The Divine Realm project was a crazy exploration by researchers at the Thirteenth Research Institute using psionic energy.

Shen Qionglin was the third batch of children selected, because she had shown strong memory and logical thinking ability since she was a child. After being carefully cultivated by her father for three or four years, she was pushed into the laboratory.

That was a monotonous, boring, and extremely painful time in Shen Qionglin's memory.

The development process of the Divine Realm project was very similar to psionic infusion, except that the process was slower and the pain was more prolonged.

As far as Shen Qionglin was concerned, after her father sent her to the laboratory, he was killed by a bomb thrown by D5 during a business trip, and she lost protection in the project.

Her memory at the age of seven…

Wang Jixuan just glanced at it in a hurry, not daring to watch it in depth. It was after the Divine Realm project that Shen Qionglin fell into a fantasy world, unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

She was also the only remaining result of the Divine Realm project. The other children either died during the experiment or committed suicide in madness.

Wang Jixuan briefly sorted out her growth path:

Born in a high-end community in the Psionic Capital, she lived a life of luxury for a few years;

At the age of seven, she was sent to the laboratory by her father to participate in biological experiments as a sample. After being tortured into dementia, she was sent back to her mother;

Because of her father's death, the whole family fell into the slums. She recovered from dementia after more than six years;

Became a genius girl and entered a secret research institute. Because the results were too dazzling, her family suffered misfortune;

Offended the Six Elders and was demoted to Iron Citadel. In Iron Citadel, she used herself as an experimental sample to verify the improved infusion ceremony and achieved success.

No love;

Lost relatives;

Suffered boundless pain;

Subjected to endless abuse and slander…

Wang Jixuan seemed to be able to see such a scene:

Shen Qionglin, wearing a white coat, stood at the door of a dark room, looking towards the only beam of light in the darkness. Under the light, was a five-year-old girl with short hair, playing a complex stacking game with a middle-aged man.

'Linlin, what do you want to be when you grow up?'

'Like Daddy, be a scientist!'

'Silly child, what's so good about being a scientist? They don't have any self.'

'Daddy, what is self?'

'You'll understand when you grow up.'

Shen Qionglin silently closed the door of the dark room, and her vision turned into the complex structure inside the Evangelist.

She turned around and walked down from the operating table, asking with some curiosity in her heart:

“X Armor… Did Fu Jian, that old thief, send you here? Combat Girl or Combat Base?”

‘Huh? Combat Girl and Combat Base have the same pronunciation. It’s not written text, so it seems there’s no way to distinguish them.’

‘Ah, I really want to get D5's cutting-edge mech technology. The development of psionic mechs is facing too many bottlenecks now.’

‘Is this pilot a psionicist? Uh, what is this technology? A piece of paper, psionic energy in the air, how could… control the soul!’

She thought uneasily in her heart.

… …

Snap!

Wang Jixuan snapped his fingers, and Shen Qionglin on the operating table opened her eyes, with a bit of contemplation in her calm eyes.

“I seemed to have reviewed my life in a dream just now.”

“That was me checking your memory,” Wang Jixuan said with a smile, “Peony, get two pieces of clothing, even repair clothes, this is a bit too outrageous.”

“What about the subject?” Shen Qionglin asked with a frown.

“Wu Man,” Wang Jixuan said, “Come over and teach this sister how to draw talismans, and be polite to this sister.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Wu Man is a clone of a Beast Speaker,” Wang Jixuan said calmly, “But he is one of the purest-hearted humans I have ever seen… You too.”

Shen Qionglin slightly curled her lips and didn't say a word.

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