I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 493 First Encounter: The Gene Lab
laboratory.

After finishing with the data, Nalan Xu glanced at his watch, then turned to leave, but was stopped by his assistant, "Dr. Nalan, where are you going?"

Nalan Xu paused slightly, his expression unchanged, and said slowly, "Have a cup of tea in the lounge, I'll be back soon."

The assistant, unsuspecting, nodded and said, "Alright, Doctor, hurry back. We're waiting for you to proceed with the next step of your research."

"Hmm." Nalan Xu responded softly, walked out the door, and a slight smile suddenly appeared on his lips the moment the automatic door closed.

He casually glanced around to make sure no one was there, then took out a small round sticker from his storage pocket and stuck it on his white coat. After that, he took out a card and swiped it lightly on the lock next to the sensor door.

With a soft 'ding', the lock turned red.

Nalan Xu casually pressed a few numbers, placed his hand on the sensor door, and after confirming the fingerprint, the green light button on the sensor door turned red, preventing anyone from getting out.

Name: Nalan Xu
Gender: Female
Age: 52 years old (maximum age 500) Youth
Physical condition: F (Ordinary person: D)

Mental strength: Unknown (Ordinary person C)

Mental ability: Unknown (Ordinary person D)

Talent: Unknown

Current position: Quantum weapons researcher

He was also in charge of a weapons experiment in a certain laboratory, but now he's preparing to betray them.

Nalan Xu, using the laboratory map he had memorized, walked openly while dodging the patrol personnel and ignoring all the surveillance equipment.

The small round stickers she had on her clothes were gadgets she had recently invented, specifically designed to evade various surveillance cameras. Once applied, any device that could project a person's image would be ineffective, including mirrors.

For ordinary researchers, this is something their technology simply cannot reach, but Nalan Xu can. The Brain Evolver SS represents the first person, a unique existence in the entire interstellar space.

Compared to physical constitution and mental strength, which can be improved through later efforts, brainpower can be said to exist only innately; what you are at birth is what you are, and there is never a chance to increase it.

However, there were exceptions. Nalan Xu was the only one in the entire intergalactic who was born with an intelligence level of SSS, and later, due to a certain event, he even surpassed the S-level limit.

Because of her exceptional intelligence, her physical constitution is the worst, classified as F, and she has exhausted all her growth potential, meaning she will never be able to improve her constitution.

Mental strength and physical constitution are closely related; the better the physical constitution, the higher the mental strength one can withstand.

A person with an F-level physique like Nalan Xu can only withstand mental energy at most E to D level. Going any higher would only result in their physique being unable to withstand the high intensity of mental energy, leading to their body exploding and dying.

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, her mental strength has also surpassed the S-level limit; even with a machine, it can only be displayed as exceeding S.

Normally, someone like her would have exploded and died immediately because her body couldn't withstand the mental power. The reason she can withstand super S-level mental power with her F-level body is because of a forbidden drug—a mental power inhibitor, which is actually used to reduce mental power.

Mental strength is an essential part of life for all people in the interstellar community. The stronger the mental strength, the more powerful the mechs one can control. No high-ranking person has a mental strength lower than S, and their physical constitution is also no lower than S.

Mental strength has an upper limit, depending on physique and talent, but once damaged, it is difficult to repair in this lifetime, and what they have to endure is pain comparable to the tearing of the soul.

Therefore, after this mental energy suppressant appeared, it was condemned by the entire interstellar population and eventually became a contraband. Although it was something they wanted to avoid at all costs, it was a life-saving medicine for Nalan Xu. Nalan Xu's mental energy was somewhat different from others. Although her mental energy had already reached B level when she was 20 years old, it wasn't unbearable, but it was extremely painful.

Later, because others heard that she had exceptional mental abilities but was physically weaker than a disabled person, they harbored malicious intentions and arrested her. She was then forced to undergo inhumane human experiments as a gene donor in the laboratory where she is now located.

Curious about how her physique could withstand B-level mental power, he began a series of human experiments, which ultimately led to the collapse of her mental power chain and the unlimited growth of her mental power.

Of course, there are other factors as well.

If she hadn't coincidentally obtained the mental energy suppressant, she would have exploded and died by now. Even now, she has to drink one every three days to forcibly suppress it.

That would have been fine, but now she's locked up in this laboratory. The reason given is that they don't want to waste her unique brainpower, so they've locked her up as a researcher, making her work day and night on developing the latest weapons and so on.

Twenty years have passed, neither a long nor a short time. It just so happened that Nalan Xu reached her breaking point, so she wrote down the map, the distribution map of the patrol personnel, and the duty roster.

Nalan Xu knew very well that she couldn't escape with her F-type physique, so she had only one target: the experimental subject named N1 who had her genes extracted for experiments on the 50th underground floor.

Because it was hidden so well that not many people knew about it, she speculated that the N1 test subject must still be hidden there, perhaps not even awake yet.

She wasn't unaware of how dangerous it was, but she didn't want to stay any longer, even if it meant dying, she wanted to take everyone in the lab with her.

Just as Nalan Xu found the elevator and was about to close the door, she saw a group of people wearing white coats exactly like hers rushing over.

"Nalan Xu!"

Nalan Xu casually picked at his ear, greeted the group of menacing people with a smile, and then closed the door without hesitation. "Oh, you've come at just the right time, but it's still too late."

"not good!"

"What are you standing there for! Hurry up and chase them! No matter if they live or die!"

As the roars of those people gradually subsided, Nalan Xu couldn't help but smile with pleasure.

Upon arriving at the 50th underground floor, Nalan Xu surveyed the scenery, which was completely different from anywhere else, and felt a sense of disbelief.

At the end of the path, she came to a tightly closed, heavy silver door, with a black lock next to it.

Nalan Xu's lips curled slightly. He took out the ID card he had used before and swiped it lightly on the lock. The screen on the lock was filled with messy code, and finally, with a 'ding', the system decryption was complete.

Nalan Xu placed his palm on the lock and then randomly pressed a few numbers, turning the lock green.

The door is open.

The entrance is a silver-white wall, surrounded by densely packed nutrient tanks filled with various types of nutrient solutions. The nutrient tanks cultivate all kinds of biological bodies, some of which have long since withered, and some of which are extremely old, but no matter how you look at it, there is not a single living creature.

Nalan Xu frowned slightly, looking at the series of numbers in front of the nutrient tank, N2-N99 but N1 was nowhere to be found. Finally, she found her in the very center of the nutrient tank.

(End of this chapter)