Chapter 28: Neuron (Part ?) (1/2)

Chapter 28: Neuron (Part ½)

The previous owner of the laboratory, Yan Hong, was the proposer of the Archetype Formatting Theory. The theory was all the rage during the year 80, but this fame was obtained by treading on Luo Nan’s grandfather’s shoulders.

Back in those years when Luo Yuandao had done the matter of live human experimentation, the media focused on mainly reporting the details pertaining to the vagrant victims of the wilderness and other explosive points. Attention was heavily focused on the people who were brought to light over this matter. In addition, those identified as key witnesses had protection from the so-called “Protective Witness” policy and had never entered the sight of the masses.

But Luo Nan was quite clear on who had brought this matter to light. It was none other than a man who had originally worked in the same laboratory as Luo Yuandao; it was Yang Hong.

Yang Hong proposed the Archetype Formatting Theory soon after the case with Luo Yuandao had entered judgement, receiving enormous academic reputation. Yet it was also because of this that Yan Hong fell so disastrously after the matter of his work being related to Luo Yuandao’s experimental data was exposed in the year 90.

Although the outer world wasn’t clear on it, the academic circle still had this matter remain fresh in its memory with quite a bit more detail. It was only because of the special characteristics of Luo Yuandao’s case, and the fact that Quantum Corporation had stepped in, that everyone kept this matter a complete secret. The information only circulated within the small and confined group, never to explode out in public.

An accident was deliberately caused while Yan Hong was being investigated by the Scientific Ethics Committee, destroying the gathered evidence. It was done in an utterly poor manner, and this one incident caused Yang Hong’s reputation to plummet into becoming repulsively bad within the academic community. His reputation was flipped over, and he ultimately vanished without a trace.

Indeed, it was only to be expected that this kind of person would set up a few killer traps in his own laboratory.

At the present, Luo Nan thought that things were quite fitting, then he felt inexplicably excited.

Yep, he was excited.

Ever since Luo Nan had understood the entire process of development of his grandfather’s case, Luo Nan had naturally regarded Yang Hong as the main culprit of the matter. Back in the day when Yang Hong was at his prime and when Luo Nan was still considered a kid, Luo Nan considered Yan Hong to be the final boss without any reservations. Yang Hong was the target that Luo Nan would eliminate in the future.

Unfortunately this boss had fallen in the year 90 before Luo Nan could become an adult. Yang Hong’s results then became Quantum Corporation’s after a purchase of a great amount of intellectual properties.

Even though Luo Nan had not completely lost the target he had always strove for, there was still a feeling of loss in his heart. But who would have imagined that Luo Nan would be within this discarded laboratory six years later and actually receive a chance to cross blades with this boss.

Even though Luo Nan faced an empty target of his imagination, the significance was completely the same from Luo Nan’s perspective.

Luo Nan’s thoughts were unprecedentedly lively and his guts and courage were unleashed to their limits. A few breaths made his mind tranquil. He stood in front of the control console, and then the heavily chained crow cut its way inside.

There were nothing but control consoles, a few screens, and more monitoring-related equipment installed here, since this was the central control area for the laboratory. One could see the interior layout of the building under normal operation; it included every nook and cranny of the surrounding area.

This console acted as the control panel for the power source of the life-support system’s core module. Right now the power was completely shut off, causing the console to be meaningless in reality.

Luo Nan’s thought process was to use the heavily chained crow’s and the wraith sign’s sensing capabilities to following various installed electrical connections from the central control room to find the location of the core module. Then he would think of a method to restart it.

He wanted to perform an experiment to see if he could meddle with reality from the mental plane.

The heavily chained crow was like a large python that slithered within the darkness. It followed the complicated electrical leads within the sealed area, traveling away. The wires of the laboratory were extremely clear. Their highly integrated layout saved Luo Nan quite a bit of time.

He only made one mistake before he found the location of the central control system. An independent power source station was connected to the laboratory here, and various internal core modules were connected here as well. Frankly speaking, Luo Nan was not really familiar with these systems. He was an electronics newbie after all.