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Within two days, Lancelot began the final inspection before the experiment.

Lancelot, who went to the inspection center, ran at least three times a day in the past few days, as if he was afraid that his plump duck that reached his mouth would grow wings and fly away. As long as he left the room every day, there would be at least four Alpha around him. Follow him wherever you go.

There were more Alphas following this time, and Lancelot was really frightened by the situation when he came out of the room. If it weren't for the fact that the dozens of Alphas were all wearing white coats of researchers, they said they were from the dungeon. He believed in sending them to fight.

Walking on the way to the inspection center, Lancelot felt that the people passing by on the road today were different from those a few days ago.

The small road where few people are usually seen is now full of researchers coming and going, almost all of them are in a hurry, as if they are rushing to the next destination in a hurry.

Lancelot has heard a little about the importance of this experiment in the past few days. He overheard it from the conversation between Ms. Beta, who was in charge of his daily life, and others. , in one fell swoop.

So Lancelot didn't ask too much, and only attributed the somewhat abnormal busyness to the final preparations before the end of the experiment.

Unexpectedly, today's inspection process is not as cumbersome as before, and Langlot soon entered the final laboratory.

The laboratory is located on the bottom floor of the Royal Research Institute. Judging from the newness of the laboratory, it should not have been used for a long time, and the machines are spotless.

Lancelot was arranged to sit on a nearby bed to rest.He changed into a white robe, with only a belt around the waist, which looked more like a hospital gown.

As far as the eye can see, everyone is busy with their own affairs, but he is the only one sitting idly, a little out of place, like a transparent air man.

Lancelot suddenly remembered that he still owed Uriah money. If the experiment failed and he didn’t know his account password, the more than 1 million star coins would be frozen and someone would find out sooner or later. If you can find Uriah, follow the clues, if you can find Uriah's illegal assets in the dungeon...

Lancelot prayed in his heart that the experiment would not fail, or else he would cheat Uriah again.

Not long after, all the people in the laboratory spontaneously came to the central open space and lined up neatly. Lancelot was still sitting on the bed beside him, feeling a little strange.

The researchers were dressed in white coats and arranged in a square formation without organization, as if they had been rehearsing for a long time.

An Alpha stood in front of the team. Lancelot guessed that he should be in charge. The man said: "The human immortality plan, code-named stay099, the 56043rd experiment is ready. For the new empire! For the future of mankind!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the neatly arranged researchers echoed: "For the new empire! For the future of mankind!"

The voices of dozens of researchers almost toppled the ceiling, and many people inside almost roared.

Lancelot didn't feel noisy, but felt a little shocked.

These people seem to really believe in the correctness of what they are doing, and they are proud of it. Lancelot never imagined that if one day they knew that the experiment they conducted was to consume the future of all mankind, when the belief Collapse, how desperate it is when ideals are shattered.

The experiment is about to start, but he has no uneasiness or anxiety. Looking at the busy staff and large mechanical equipment with tens of billions of calculations per second, his heart is like a calm lake. Stones can't make the slightest waves.

He asked himself whether it was rational to do so, and whether he regretted it.

According to the principle of Lancelos, he judges the right and wrong of things only based on the established reality, and excludes sunk costs and considers opportunity costs. The decisions made in this way are the ones he thinks are correct.

The kind of people who are overly concerned about the cost of silence will only make the decision-making deviate from rationality.Will he regret it? This kind of question was never considered by Lancelot in the past.

It's the same at this moment, maybe a long time later someone will come up and say that he did something wrong.

But now, under the existing established history, the current choice is the optimal choice he made considering the opportunity cost. Even if he repeats it thousands of times, Lancelot's rationality will still choose from thousands of paths. appears in this one.

To ask why?

Because he is Lancelot, Lancelot who is rational.A calm mind, comprehensive analysis, and rational decision-making are the sharpest weapons in his hands.

About half an hour after entering the laboratory, someone finally came to inform him that everything was ready and led him into the experimental cabin.

The experimental cabin stands in the middle of the entire laboratory, and as soon as Lancelot enters the door,

Te noticed the big guy.

Like a giant metal egg, there is an oval light-transmitting hatch on the front, and the bottom of the experimental cabin is connected with many pipes leading to the underground supply device.

A Beta woman with a high ponytail guided him into the experimental cabin: "His Royal Highness, this way please."

Lancelot went up a few steps in the eyes of everyone.

Before entering the experimental cabin, the Beta female suddenly stopped him: "Wait."

Lancelot: "What's wrong?"

Beta female: "Your Highness, what is on your left ring finger?"

Lancelot raised his left hand. There was a ring inlaid with light blue gemstones on his ring finger. He replied, "A ring."

The Beta woman said cautiously: "Didn't the inspection just let you take it off?"

Lancelot: "No."

While speaking, the Beta woman's terminal rang suddenly, and an order came from inside: "Please start the experiment immediately."

Beta Female: "But..."

"Start right away." The voice was firm.

Beta female: "Yes."

The Beta woman raised her hand and made a "please" gesture: "His Royal Highness, please."

Lancelot: "Can I bring this ring in?"

Female Beta: "Are you sure you took it with you when you passed the security check just now?"

Lancelot: "Yes."

Beta female: "There should be no problem. If there is a problem, you will definitely not be able to pass the security check."

Lancelot nodded and walked into the experimental cabin. After entering, the back of the built-in chair was pressed against his back. The back of the chair was connected to his whole body and fell backwards slightly. The size fit perfectly, as if it was tailor-made for him. of.

As the hatch closed, the light-transmitting hatch in front of Lancelot turned gray-black, blocking the view from the outside.

At the same time, the procedures in the experimental cabin began to operate, and the exhaust device, temperature and humidity adjustment device, energy supply, and oxygen supply were fully activated.

A voice came through the communication channel soon.

"Hello, His Royal Highness, I am the person in charge of this experiment, code-named e4px7904, do you feel any discomfort now?"

Lancelot answered him, "No."

"Then may I ask you now?...."

Before the sound of the communication ended, Lancelot

Hearing a bang from the loudspeaker, followed by trembling discussions.

He couldn't see what was going on outside, and asked, "What happened?"

The voice of the person in charge came out of the loudspeaker again, "The experimental cabin is equipped with an anti-shock system. You shouldn't feel anything. It seems that there was an earthquake just now. The shock was very strong. The source of the shock may be near the main city."

Lancelot felt that this was a bit strange, and asked, "Will this affect the progress of the experiment?"

The person in charge replied: "His Royal Highness, please be calm, we are asking our superiors for instructions."

Lancelot looked left and right in the experimental cabin, waiting for a response from the outside.

Not long after, Lancelot suddenly felt a slight shaking, and then the lights in the experimental cabin suddenly went out.

Lancelot yelled a few times, but no one answered the loudspeaker. It turned out that the power was cut off at a critical moment.

Lancelot was not in a hurry to get out either. It would be even more troublesome if he forcibly opened the hatch and went out to destroy the device. There are so many staff outside who would also think of a way.

Just as Lancelot thought, within a few minutes the lights of the experimental cabin came on again, and the voice of the person in charge came from the loudspeaker.

"I am very sorry to have surprised His Royal Highness."

The voice of the person in charge was very steady, but Lancelot could clearly hear the noise coming from the loudspeaker, which should be the heated debate of other staff members.

The microphone should have a noise reduction function. Lancelot could only vaguely hear what was being argued, but he couldn't hear the specific content.

"Should the experiment continue?" Lancelot asked.

The person in charge replied: "Yes, the experiment will continue, but our backup power supply seems to have been affected by the earthquake, and we may not be able to communicate in real time afterwards. But please rest assured, His Royal Highness, the backup power supply of the experimental cabin and the laboratory The energy supply device of a separate experimental cabin can provide at least three days of energy consumption."

But Lancelot felt more and more that something was wrong. According to the person in charge, the vibration feeling in the laboratory was already obvious for the first time, but the vibration-proof device in the experimental cabin eliminated the vibration feeling. He felt the shock in the experimental cabin, it must be more violent than the first time, and even damaged the power supply of the laboratory.

Lancelot felt that the substitutability of his experimental subject was not as strong as that of a mouse.

This is the only experimental subject, these people really dare to carry out the experiment without being foolproof?

There must be something else hidden in this.

"I suddenly remembered that I still have something to ask my father, can you turn on the device first and I can ask him before continuing?"

There was no response from the communicator for a long time.

"Sorry, Your Highness, we can't open the device. Just now I asked His Majesty directly for instructions. It was his order to start the experiment directly. Let's stop here. Please prepare your Highness, the experiment will start soon."

As soon as the voice fell, the communication was hung up before Lancelot could ask.

Lancelot raised his hand to push the cabin door, but suddenly two metal buckles protruded from the back of the chair to firmly buckle his arms on the back of the chair. lock.

For a moment, he was fixed in the experimental cabin like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. He tried to break free, but the locks that bound his hands and feet remained motionless.

"Is anyone there?" Lancelot struggled to break free a few times, and shouted towards the place where the sound came from just now, but his voice could not penetrate the experimental cabin sealed with special materials.

He observed the layout around the experimental cabin, the transparent hatch turned gray-black after it was closed, and there were several rows of button devices on the left and right sides of the hatch, but even if one of those buttons could open the hatch, he Get out, in the way he's trapped right now, he can't touch any buttons.

He calmly analyzed the experiment report he had read before the experiment, as well as the information about the experimental cabin obtained from the experimenters.

The purpose of the experimental cabin is to extract the spiritual body from the body and absorb it with the energy stone. After the energy stone is compressed to one-tenth of its original volume by special equipment, the energy stone is stimulated by high-energy equipment to make it reach an excited state , to achieve the ultimate goal of materializing the spiritual body.

Lancelot hadn't seen any leaked power stones since he entered the experimental cabin. After realizing this, he began to search for places in the experimental cabin that might be the power stones.

If he could find that place, he might be able to use his mental power to destroy the energy stone before the machine could operate. If the experiment could not be carried out, he would have to open the hatch and re-adjust the equipment.

The space in the experimental cabin is not too big, and you can see almost everything when you glance around. He looked back and forth twice and found nothing that looked like a power stone, so Lancelot speculated that maybe the power stone yes

They were made into other shapes or embedded inside the experimental cabin, which cannot be directly seen by the naked eye.

There was no way, Lancelot had to slowly explore his mental power, looking for the place where the power stone was.

In fact, if this kind of thing was done before, he could do it easily. I don’t know if it’s because he took a lot of medicine in the research institute to cooperate with the experiment these days. He always felt that it was a bit difficult to control his mental power. Mental power is like water in a water glass, getting stronger and stronger, and it is still overflowing uncontrollably.

This feeling of being out of his control became stronger and stronger, so when he wanted to disperse his mental power to find the location of the energy stone, he was a little reluctant.

It was just such a moment of hesitation when he suddenly heard an unharmonious sound except for the roar of the machine.

It came from the direction of his feet, like boiling water bubbling and bubbling.

Lancelot took advantage of the opportunity to gather his mental power and protruded downwards, and sensed another wave of energy through the metal partition.

The moment Lancelot's own mental power came into contact with that wave of energy, he clearly felt a wave of his own mental power being pulled away, and he reacted quickly, recovering all the protruding mental power , but the mental power that had been sucked away could not be taken back. Lancelot shook his head and felt the tingling pain in his temple and a moment of dizziness.

Before he figured out what was going on, the sound of the water flowing under his feet became louder and louder. In the experimental cabin, several small holes were opened at the bottom, which radiated out along the center to form a symmetrical shape.

A large amount of yellow-green transparent liquid continuously gushes out within a few seconds after the small hole is opened.

The second he saw those liquids, Lancelot realized what was going on.

The fluorescent substances in those liquids are the energy stones he had been looking for just now. These energy stones were crushed into fine powder, suspended in the yellow-green culture medium to form a suspension, which was the same as he and Wu a few months ago. The samples brought back from the third basement floor of the living body experiment center that Leah found in the dungeon were exactly the same.

I never counted this crop.The energy stone was crushed into powder and diffused in the culture medium. In this way, no matter how strong Lancelot's mental power was, he could not accurately act on every suspended particle. This was the only way to destroy the device directly. Also blocked.

He didn't panic at first

, and even felt that these researchers were very powerful, they could think of crushing energy stones into powder, and listed the advantages of doing so in detail.

It can greatly increase the contact area between the energy stone and the culture fluid, thereby better absorbing the spiritual power, and at the same time, it can prevent someone like him from destroying the device from the inside based on one point of spiritual power.

But soon his calmness was replaced by a little panic, because the growth rate of the culture fluid was too fast.

As the culture fluid continued to rise, the fluid overflowed his ankles, his thighs, and his waist.

When the culture fluid overflowed his neck, he could clearly feel the oppressive feeling of the fluid pressing against his chest.

In fact, from the moment his body first came into contact with the nutrient liquid, the mental power in his body began to become more and more out of his control.Just like a non-isothermal object, the heat will automatically conduct to the low temperature, and the magnets of different levels will attract unconsciously.

The mental power in his body also seemed out of his control, wanting to flow towards the energy stone in the culture fluid.

When the culture fluid slowed down his chin, Lancelot had to lift his head upwards, but his limbs and neck were restrained by the locks. This move was futile, and the air was soon blocked by the culture fluid.

The liquid was over his head and he couldn't breathe.

Lancelot held his breath as hard as he could, trying to control his mental power so as not to pull away.

But it didn't take long before he couldn't hold on anymore, he spit out a big mouthful of turbid gas, and finally his mental power could no longer be controlled by him, and he frantically pulled it out of his body.

The consciousness of Lancelot in the culture fluid gradually became blurred, but he did not lose consciousness because he could not breathe in the culture fluid.

Because as soon as he was on the verge of losing consciousness, the fluid would drop to a level that would allow him to breathe air.

Lancelot coughed violently a few times in the culture cabin, coughed out the culture fluid in the trachea, and then began to breathe in the air with big mouthfuls.

But before he could catch his breath, the height of the culture medium rose again.

This time he was prepared. Before the culture fluid covered his head, he tried hard to inhale a large mouthful of air to keep it in his chest cavity.

There was silent counting in the training course of the investigation department of the military. Although he was not the most gifted student in the investigation department, the ability to master it immediately after practice was also very terrifying. Within half a month of practice, his accuracy degree, ranked among the top three in the class, and finally ranked first with all the total scores.

Finished the course second.

While holding his breath in the culture solution, he began to count silently in his heart.There is special training for counting silently, but holding your breath is not included in any of the military courses.

When the count was close to 70, he really reached the limit. He spit out all the air in his lungs, and only a few bubbles appeared on the surface of the culture medium.

A large amount of culture fluid enters the lungs along the respiratory tract, as if a spicy thing is directly applied to the wound, and the place where the culture fluid passes is hot and painful.

A sense of suffocation came over him, and the culture fluid poured into his oral and nasal cavities squeezed out the last bit of air in his lungs.

After suffocation, the human body will unconsciously lose strength.

Followed by tinnitus, he wanted to struggle, but he couldn't exert any strength at all, his thinking began to become blurred, and silent counting was interrupted.

This time when the culture fluid was returned, Lancelot couldn't tell whether it was because his mental power was absorbed by the energy stone, or because he lost his strength and reached the current situation where he was barely standing still with the help of his own lock.

His whole body seemed to be hung on a lock, and his body was hanging down with no strength.

He coughed violently, feeling as if his lungs were about to be coughed out.

The body also trembled involuntarily.

The yellow-green culture fluid wetted its golden hair, flowing down from the cheeks along the sideburns, and the outflowing culture fluid hung from the corners of the nose and mouth.

His chest heaved violently, enduring the severe pain and wanting to take a breath of air in this gap.

He thought it was impossible to extract 100% mental power before, but now it seems that he was wrong.

In such extreme pain, people will let go of all their thoughts and transform all desires into survival desires.

The extreme pain, the strong desire to survive, the torture again and again, finally squeezed out the spiritual power to nothing, this is the first step to materialize the spiritual power.

The yellow-green culture fluid overflowed over the top of his head again and again, and fell again and again.From the initial cough to the subsequent retching, from struggling to trembling to convulsions.

His respiratory tract and lungs were in distressing pain. He lowered his head, his beautiful light blue eyes were slack, and there was no trace of life.

The experimental cabin has undergone special adjustments, and it can adjust the time difference of the height of the culture medium according to Lancelot's own situation. Therefore, it is futile for Lancelot to figure out the working principle of the experimental cabin and find a way to make himself last longer. of.

Because from the very beginning, the setting of the machine was to let him suffocate for a period of time to extract his mental power, but at the same time keep him from passing out, leaving a little room for breathing.

When a person is tortured, when he can still see hope, that belief will become a desire to survive.

But when he can't see hope, that belief is just a porcelain vase with cracks, as long as a little pressure is applied, it will be fragmented.

He has extraordinary reason and calmness when things happen, but he is also human, a person of flesh and blood, even just an Omega, a little prince who should have stretched out his clothes to eat and opened his mouth.

This method of torture and destruction can no longer be resisted by will, even if it is engraved in human genes, perhaps the survival instinct in biological genes cannot compete with it.

That kind of piercing pain, deep pain, endless despair, endless pain.It's like frying the heart, liver and lungs on the charcoal fire, the throat is burning and the nasal cavity is sour.

It's like a person starts to rot from the inside. Even if the human skin is intact, the inside is like a corpse that has started to rot in the dog days.

People in the experimental cabin can't see hope, and their desire to survive is no longer strong, but the desire to die is not what the experimenters want to see.

So after Lancelot stopped struggling, when the culture fluid overflowed the top of his head, in addition to the uncontrollable suffocation, there was also an electric shock passing through the head.

Without the desire to survive, it forces people to wake up.

Lancelot couldn't count the number of times he experienced the feeling of suffocation, and also couldn't count the number of times this was the number of times electric current passed through his body.

It suddenly occurred to him that a person might become incontinent if they lose consciousness after being shocked by the electric shock. If he failed to materialize his mental power, he would just go out as a corpse, and it would be really embarrassing for Uriah to see him like that afterwards.

But thinking about it again, if the experiment really didn't succeed and everyone died, he wouldn't feel the shame.

Thinking about it this way, he seemed to have convinced himself.

He gradually became numb, and suddenly began to be less resistant to the suffocation and the pain stimulated by the electric current, and even began to feel the process a little bit.

Maybe I also learned this little casualness from Uliana.

He suddenly couldn't remember why he didn't cooperate with the experiment, it was obvious that he proposed to participate in this experiment.

Just stop struggling, Lancelot thought so.

Suffocated again and again and fainted

Confused, he was forcibly awakened by electric shocks again and again, coughed up yellow-green culture fluid with blood streaks hanging from the corner of his mouth.

Lancelot finally felt that the mental power in his body was so weak that he couldn't even feel it. Is this finally coming to an end?

I don't know if the final experiment will be successful.

He slowly closed his eyes, the world in front of him was already blurred, and after closing it was endless darkness.

His consciousness began to fade away, it was literally like his soul was being pulled out of his body.

Like a cloud of smoke dissipating in the cold night, the spiritual power did not gather in the energy stone in the culture fluid as expected.

Like the fireflies being released, they scattered in a rush, dotted around, hiding under the leaves and disappearing.

This is a lab failure...

What awaited him was endless night and loneliness, the dissipation of spiritual power and the death of his own body.

What would Uriah look like if he woke up and realized he was gone?

This was Lancelot's last thought before his consciousness completely dissipated.