Heartless: This is your child. Do you really not want him anymore?
The chaos outside did not affect the Life Science Research Institute.
The institute remained peaceful. Li Yixing, wearing soft silk pajamas, rested in the lounge area of the Gestation Pod Assisted Reproduction Center.
Most of the people in the lounge were pregnant individuals, both men and women, enjoying a leisurely time.
The facilities here were fully equipped, the air was specially purified, and all kinds of food were readily available. Public utilities such as tables and chairs had no sharp edges at all, being completely smooth and rounded to prevent pregnant individuals from getting injured. In addition, dozens of screens were set up in the lounge, playing videos such as prenatal education animations and pregnancy precautions. Researchers and nurses shuttled back and forth among them from time to time to observe the physical conditions of the pregnant individuals, and robots were on standby to protect their safety.
Li Yixing leafed through a booklet at hand introducing the Alliance Life Science Research Institute.
There were a total of 126 researchers in the Alliance Life Science Research Institute, distributed across different research institutes or laboratories. The confession of the Oga Empire spy caught earlier stated that his superior, “X,” was in the Life Science Research Institute.
Time was tight, and Li Yixing could no longer afford to investigate who “X” was inside the research institute.
The fastest way was to round up all the researchers in the Life Science Research Institute in one go and take them all to the Security Department for investigation.
Of course, investigation required a reason. Otherwise, taking people away indiscriminately would trigger public opinion conflicts and cause adverse consequences. Li Yixing had to find an excuse for such an action.
He came here for this matter, and also to leave Nuwa Star.
Li Yixing drank some warm water and stood up to walk toward his lounge.
Along the way, many pregnant individuals greeted him warmly.
Most of the people in the Gestation Pod Assisted Reproduction Center of the Alliance Life Science Research Institute were either wealthy or noble, and many of them recognized Li Yixing.
Many pregnant people greeted him, and someone even asked enthusiastically, “Your Excellency Li Yixing, have you thought of a name for the child?”
Li Yixing paused in his steps and looked at the pregnant person who asked.
The pregnant person who asked was a young woman with long, wave-like golden hair, her belly slightly protruding and her face full of sweetness.
The male pregnant person beside her also looked at Li Yixing curiously and softly said, “I am also very curious about what kind of name Your Excellency Li Yixing will give the child.”
What name to give the child?
The moment this question was raised, Li Yixing was genuinely stunned.
A person’s name at birth always contains the elders’ expectations for the child and embodies good intentions.
Yet this child was destined never to be born, nor did it appear with expectations and love. This embryo, which had not even developed a fetal heartbeat and whose gender could not yet be determined, would disappear from this world before long.
It would not have a name.
Li Yixing took a deep breath, smiled at the two pregnant individuals, and said, “I have not thought about it yet.”
The blonde pregnant woman looked at Li Yixing with understanding: “That is true. A child’s name needs to be thought about and chosen slowly.”
Li Yixing nodded gently, bid farewell to the two pregnant individuals, and stepped onto the corridor.
His lounge was at the end of the corridor. Under the scrutiny of the guards, Li Yixing opened the door of the lounge and walked into the bathroom.
A guard poked his head in to take a look and only saw a gray-black shadow cast on the bathroom door, followed closely by the splashing sound of water.
It seemed he was taking a bath.
Since there were no tricks, the guards relievedly turned their heads away and conveniently closed the door.
Amidst the sound of water in the bathroom, Li Yixing took off his loose silk clothes, changed into a form-fitting black turtleneck and trousers, and leisurely put on a pair of black tactical gloves.
A butterfly knife and a silver pistol were tucked into his pure black belt. Immediately afterward, he pulled out a few fragmented parts and used these small parts to assemble a micro-computer right amidst the sound of water!
Countless codes flashed quickly across the projection of the micro-computer. Li Yixing’s gaze was sharp as he stared closely at the projection, his fingers flying continuously across the virtual keyboard!
After typing the final piece of code, Li Yixing clicked the confirmation button and then quickly disassembled the micro-computer again, surprisingly reassembling it into a laser shock baton about fifteen centimeters long!
The continuous mist of water wet his form-fitting clothes and also soaked his hair.
Li Yixing casually smoothed back his hair, revealing his smooth forehead. He lifted his form-fitting combat uniform and looked at his chest through the water-mist-covered mirror in front of him.
Hidden inside was a positioning chip.
Monica had not implanted this chip into his heart, but rather two centimeters under the skin of his chest, one centimeter away from his heart.
Li Yixing pulled out a soothing agent and unmercifully stabbed it into his vein.
This was Soothing Agent A, which could temporarily block pain below level ten and had extremely strong hemostatic efficacy.
Of course, the side effects were also relatively large. Unlike Soothing Agent F, which only caused headaches and limb weakness, the side effect of Soothing Agent A was temporary sensory dysfunction after the medicinal effect wore off.
Despite this, the injection was pushed into his arm without a single drop left.
The next second, a layer of bright red blood splattered across the bathroom glass, which was then washed into pink by the gushing water and rushed straight down the drain.
With a pale face, Li Yixing snapped the blood-stained chip in his hand into two halves!
The broken chip was also washed down the drain. Li Yixing lowered his bodysuit, put on a combat mask, and silently opened the bathroom door.
Outside the door, heavily armed guards were vigilantly watching their surroundings. The moment the lounge door opened behind them, before they had even turned their eyes to see who the intruder was, a sharp pain exploded in their necks!
The intense shock brought by the laser shock baton made their eyes roll back and foam at the mouth. Almost simultaneously, Li Yixing swept his long legs, and a neat hand chop directly knocked the other two guards unconscious!
At the same time, the robot patrol guard team was walking toward this side, yet they turned a blind eye to everything in front of them, as if they had seen nothing, and walked past Li Yixing completely unaware.
The red dot of the monitor on top flashed extremely fast. In the monitoring control room of the Life Science Research Institute, the monitor had lost his composure and shouted at the captain, “Captain! Our monitoring system has been suddenly hacked!”
The staff member working hard on emergency repairs was sweating profusely as he pressed the keyboard, fighting against these viruses with trembling lips and terror: “This, this seems to be the virus code of the Oga Empire! I have seen it before at the Great Wall Fortress!”
The control room captain hurriedly opened the communicator and shouted loudly to the patrol team: “Attention! Attention! Suspected Oga Empire personnel have invaded the Life Science Research Institute! Please start emergency defense immediately!”
At the same time, the monitoring images everywhere had disappeared from the screen, replaced only by dense static dots. What was even more shocking was that these static dots actually formed a big smiling face emoji, looking arrogantly at the staff in the control room.
Looking at this arrogant smiling face, the control room captain threw his hat away in a fit of rage!
On the other side, Li Yixing looked expressionlessly at the several guards sprawled unconscious on the ground, stepped over them, and opened the elevator door.
His target was the Assisted Reproduction Center Research Laboratory.
The Assisted Reproduction Center Research Laboratory was on the third floor of this building, and Li Yixing appeared here like a ghost.
It was nighttime, and the researchers had all gone off duty. He violently broke open the door of the laboratory with a silenced pistol and turned the important documents inside into a mess.
“Who are you!”
A crisp voice sounded from behind. Li Yixing turned his head and saw a young man in his early twenties, holding a scalpel with both hands and trembling at the knees as he looked at Li Yixing.
He was a newly arrived researcher in the laboratory. At this hour, the other official researchers in the laboratory had all gotten off work, leaving only him here to organize materials.
Holding the scalpel and thinking of the news just sent through the communication channel that Oga Empire suspects had infiltrated the research institute and all personnel were requested to evacuate as soon as possible, he looked at the messed-up documents and mustered up his courage to say to Li Yixing, “Do not move our research results!”
Li Yixing was wearing a mask and chuckled lightly at those words.
At the same moment, a piercing alarm sounded abruptly!
“Little brat,” Li Yixing kicked the knife out of the researcher’s hand, whipped out the butterfly knife with his backhand, and patted the researcher’s face, “You know how to perform a puncture procedure, right?”
He used a voice changer, so his voice sounded rough and elderly.
The puncture procedure was a required course for researchers in the assisted reproduction laboratory.
The young researcher was scared almost to tears by the knife on his face and answered in a small voice, “I know, a little bit. However, I just came here, less than two days ago! I am just an intern.”
However, Li Yixing did not care whether this little researcher was an intern or not, and forcefully pulled the little researcher up from the ground: “Knowing is enough.”
A puncture needle and medicine were simultaneously shoved into the palm of his hand. The little researcher’s hands shook with fright, and he looked dazedly at Li Yixing as he pulled open his clothes, revealing his slender waist and brightly visible eight-pack abs.
A very nice figure.
Amidst the chaos, the first thought that popped into the young researcher’s mind was actually such a thought, and he violently shook his head to banish this untimely thought.
He looked at Li Yixing in panic.
A detector with a screen was pulled in front of them, and Li Yixing aimed the loaded pistol at the young researcher’s head.
“Hurry up. I am in a hurry.”
The gestation pod appeared on the screen of the detector. The young researcher’s hands shook even more violently, and he stammered, “You, do you want anesthetics?”
Li Yixing glanced at the time, his tone cold: “No need. Finish it within two minutes, or I will blow your head off with a gun.”
“Okay! I will right away! Right away! But, but this is your child. Do you really not want him anymore?”
Li Yixing was silent for a moment.
“Not needed,” he said.
He hadn’t had family for a long time, nor did he need family. He would walk on a tightrope for the rest of his life, and a single mistake would mean an abyss.
To him, a child would only be trouble.
He couldn’t take care of a child, nor could he give a child an intact family, a wonderful childhood, and a stable life.
So, it wasn’t needed.
With a mournful face, the young researcher injected the medicine into the puncture needle. Because of nervousness, his mind went completely blank, and his hands shook like a sieve. He tried hard to recall the method his teacher had taught him, tried his best to see the detector in front of him, painstakingly searched for the location of the gestation pod, and then tremblingly sent the puncture needle in.
One minute and fifty seconds later, the young researcher pulled out the puncture needle, threw it into the waste bin in a flurry of panic, and said nervously, “Done!”
Li Yixing immediately pushed the detector away and took out his pocket watch, swaying it back and forth a few times in front of the young researcher.
Caught off guard, the young researcher’s gaze grew hazy as the pocket watch swayed.
“Remember, you did nothing, but you were still knocked unconscious by a vicious Oga Empire spy.”
The young researcher muttered a dazed “uh,” and a sharp pain surged from his neck.
His eyes rolled back, and he passed out.