manynovel Chapter 606: You Are My First Test Subject
Chapter 606: You Are My First Test Subject
The anomalous potion was blended from four different types of reagents.
Its specific effects still required experimentation, but there was no doubt that if anyone actually injected such an outrageous concoction, the outcome would be anything but good.
Lynn didn’t stop there. He immediately followed the same procedure to blend all the remaining potions, mass-producing this mixed concoction.
[Ding! Your Chemistry experience +1]
With the system notifications constantly ringing in his ears, it didn’t take long before Lynn had produced several hundred bottles of this mixed potion, filling the area.
Then he turned around, adjusted his monocle, and looked calmly at Dr. Raines, whom he had restrained, speaking slowly:
"Doctor, you’re right. This is why I came here. Of course, this is also my first time trying to make this mixed potion, but its exact effects still need to be tested."
"Doctor, would you be willing to be my first test subject?"
A smile spread across his face as he picked up a syringe and slowly walked toward Raines.
[Ding! Raines’s fear of you +1]The system prompts kept ringing in his ears as Raines watched Lynn approach him step by step with that smile, his face twisted in terror.
No!
No!!
He knew that with a guy like this, he wouldn’t hesitate for a second to use any potion on someone else.
Just like they would.
The only reason he was being kept alive was probably for this very purpose.
Because in this secret chamber, he was the only living flesh-and-blood creature available for experimentation.
Lynn had already reached him. Though his face wore a gentle smile, anyone could see the chill lurking beneath it.
"Stop!!"
Raines screamed at him in panic.
But it was too late. The syringe in Lynn’s hand slammed into his wrist without any surprise, and the writhing liquid inside was immediately injected into him—tens of milliliters—as Raines watched in sheer terror.
Almost instantly, his brain exploded with a deafening roar, turning completely blank.
His face went deathly pale.
Because he felt it.
The moment that writhing Night Doctor liquid entered his veins, he could clearly sense those fluids rapidly beginning to erode his flesh and blood tissue.
"Ah!!!"
A terrified scream tore from his throat.
His arm instantly swelled up like a sea cucumber, the potion rapidly altering his flesh structure. He watched as his arm bulged with one lump after another, sprouting grotesque cat-eared lumps that let out sharp meowing sounds, like bamboo shoots after rain, growing uncontrollably all over his arm.
Sharp. Wicked. Visually polluting.
It was as if countless twisted monsters were using his arm as a medium to rapidly spawn.
"Stop! Stop!!"
He let out a piercing shriek. The sheer visual pollution almost immediately made him imagine what shape he’d turn into once his whole body was infected.
And more importantly, he could already feel a massive, overwhelming desire raging inside him, threatening to turn him into some kind of depraved abnormal creature.
[Ding! Raines’s SAN -10]
[Ding! Raines’s SAN -20]
The system prompts kept ringing.
The anomaly spreading from his arm was now rapidly creeping toward his shoulder and torso.
But just as the abnormal potion’s disaster was about to spread, Lynn reached out, grabbed his shoulder, and sank his fingers into the flesh, halting the potion’s further diffusion.
"It looks like the effect is surprisingly good. But clearly, it still needs a manual safety pin."
Lynn smiled calmly, watching Raines, who was trembling in terror, his clothes soaked through with cold sweat.
"Now then, we can officially move on to the interrogation phase. As long as you honestly answer a few of my questions, I’ll let you go."
Raines trembled, gasping for breath.
That massive visual pollution earlier had dealt a devastating blow to his psyche.
"You won’t let me go! If you’re really a Night Doctor and you can do something like this, then you’re far more chaotic than us!"
He gritted his teeth, staring daggers at Lynn.
"So once I’m of no use to you, you’ll still experiment on me. Whether I talk or not, the outcome won’t change!"
He saw through Lynn’s intentions at a glance.
Because if it were him.
He’d do the same.
He would never really let him go and let him run off to tip off the others.
Lynn smiled lightly, gripping his shoulder, and admitted freely: "Yes, you’re absolutely right. I’m not going to let you go. But don’t you think saying it like that sounds pretty cool? Still, there is a difference. If you talk, you won’t have to turn into a monster like that—because I’ll let you die quickly."
"After all, sometimes, death is a much better release than living a fate worse than death, isn’t it?"
Raines glared at him. If looks could kill, Lynn would have been dead a thousand times over.
But Lynn was unfazed.
He slowly leaned in close to his ear, speaking in a low voice:
"Doctor, there’s no need to hold out. Since you said we’re all chaotic creatures, you should know that nothing is beyond betrayal, nothing is beyond abandonment. And since you’re going to die anyway, don’t you want to leave something behind?"
"Your knowledge, your intelligence, and the secrets behind the birth of you Plague Doctors—you must know a lot, don’t you?"
His voice was like the whispers of an Evil God.
Dripping with bewitchment.
Raines’s gaze flickered with uncertainty, but he still stared stubbornly at Lynn, refusing to say a word.
After a brief wait of a few seconds.
Lynn smiled and took a step back, adjusted his monocle, and said:
"Very well. Doctor is a tough nut to crack. In that case, let’s officially begin the brutal interrogation. I’ll stretch out your death process as much as possible. And since we’re both doctors, you should know that for a doctor, pulling this off is a piece of cake."
And the moment he finished speaking, Lynn took another step back and withdrew his hand.
In an instant.
The suppressed anomalous disaster immediately began spreading toward his shoulder once again.
Raines’s pupils contracted instantly. His entire body began to tremble, his face turning deathly pale. The flesh mutations crackled as they spread to his shoulder, to his neck, and then gradually across his entire body.
But that wasn’t the main point.
Because just moments ago, there had been nothing. Yet now, he could feel something like razor blades crawling inside his arm, bringing wave after wave of bone-deep pain.
And the level of pain was multiplying exponentially!