Both floors are located in the center of the skyscraper, so theoretically they should be the same size and area.
But after comparing them together, Xue Jing discovered that at the southeast edge of the 1097th floor, compared to the 1096th floor, there was a missing diamond-shaped piece about 200 square meters in size.
"The whole floor is so huge, and the location is so tricky that I almost overlooked it..."
Xue Jing's eyes flickered.
This missing diamond-shaped area was sealed with the same special material as the outside of the 1097th floor, which could block spiritual penetration, so he ignored it when scanning the map with "visualization".
If it weren't for the fact that his brain function has become more powerful and his sense of space has become stronger as his skill level and martial arts skills have improved, he would have almost failed to notice it.
Xue Jing did not hesitate and immediately came to the enclosed diamond-shaped area, condensed a black flame, and let the non-existent beast swallow it.
There must be something wrong with such a hidden treasure, and we must explore it.
Xue Jing pressed his body against the wall, allowing the non-existent beast to pass through. When it reached the maximum distance of six meters inside, it spit out black flames.
After sensing that the black flame was in the air and did not touch any entity, Xue Jing jumped like a shadow.
The next moment, he emerged silently from the black flames.
With a quick glance, everything around him came into view.
The dim light could not block Xue Jing's sharp eyes.
The shadow flame burned quietly in his pupils, and even in an absolutely dark environment, it could not block his sight.
Upon seeing this, Xue Jing's breathing paused slightly.
It was not the place he imagined where the relics of the top three hundred gods were hidden, but a... human laboratory
There were dozens of incubator-like machines placed around, each filled with orange-yellow liquid. Naked human bodies were floating in the liquid, with mechanical tubes inserted all over their bodies.
Moreover, Xue Jing knew all human bodies.
They have the same appearance.
It was the person whom Ning Yuantai had met when he visited Xu's Biology that day—Xu Mude.
'What? Clones?'
Xue Jing frowned.
Before he had time to think about it, he noticed that there were not only these machines containing "clones", but also two living people, a man and a woman.
The male one looked quite similar to Xu Mude, and was very young, probably a minor.
And the female one...
Xue Jing's eyes narrowed slightly as he looked towards the side of the woman.
There is a 1.5-meter-high platform with a semi-elliptical transparent cover on the top. A ball of light red air is floating in the transparent cover, rotating continuously.
Xue Jing recognized it at a glance. This was the purpose of his coming here—GOD-098: The Origin of All Things.
There are nine of these things in total, each with the same function but a different color.
Seeing that the target was finally found, Xue Jing's heart moved slightly, but he was not in a hurry.
His eyes moved and looked at the woman's face.
The woman's appearance was nothing special, just pretty, but her eyes were very strange. Her pupils were horizontal bar-shaped like goat's eyes, and there were fine radiating blue lines on the whites of her eyes, which was extremely strange.
The moment he saw those eyes, Xue Jing instinctively sensed a sense of danger.
In an instant, without hesitation, he immediately let the non-existent beast swallow him into the invisible.
"Um?"
The goat-eyed woman's eyes moved slightly, and she turned her gaze to the corner where Xue Jing was just now.
"Sister Aoi, what's wrong?"
The boy next to him asked in confusion.
Sister Kui did not reply, but stood up and walked towards where Xue Jing was, looking around him, with a faint light flickering on the blue lines in the whites of her eyes.
After a long while, she found nothing. She was silent for a while, shook her head, and said:
"It's okay... I guess it's just another hallucination."
The young man frowned and said, "Why are the hallucinations so frequent today? Could it be that the alienation rate has increased again? Is this a sign of alienation disease?"
Sister Kui said calmly: "It's okay, just give it an injection."
The young man said anxiously, "Still fighting? This powerful inhibitor will directly wear out consciousness. Overdose will cause permanent damage! Even changing the body can't save it!"
Sister Kui's tone remained calm: "As long as the 'Godman Plan' can succeed, this price is nothing. The one in Cang Ting will naturally grant it to me..."
The young man looked dissatisfied: "That old man hasn't shown up at home for more than a hundred years. Who knows if he is still alive... Suddenly, he gave us an order to carry out the 'God Man Project'..."
"So many companies are working on this project. Xiao Wu even started researching it 20 years earlier than us, but there has been no success so far. We are so late, how can we possibly get anything out of it? I'm afraid the higher-ups are deceiving you..."
Sister Kui thought for a moment and said, "It's different..."
"I don't know how Xu Mude had reached a deal with the 'New Beiyang Council' and obtained a portion of 'Adam's' flesh and blood... That's why the one in Cang Ting ordered the 'God Man Project' to be carried out."
"This is also why Xu Mude was put in charge of the plan, and why the first batch of 'gods' would use Xu Mude's genes..."
The young man's eyes widened when he heard this: "Is that so?!"
He murmured, "I see... No wonder they asked you, Sister Kui, to implant these eyes even though they already have the 'Original Wind of All Things'..."
Sister Kui said calmly: "Okay, why don't you bring me the inhibitor quickly."
The boy quickly responded, "Hey."
As the injection entered the body, the radiating blue lines on the whites of Sister Kui's eyes gradually disappeared.
Her eyes revealed fatigue, and she said, "I have to rest for a while... Watch carefully, if you see any strange movement, don't hesitate, use the original wind of all things immediately..."
The young man patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, Sister Aoi, leave everything to me, you just take a good rest!"
"Um… "
…
Twenty minutes later.
Somewhere in the laboratory, a tiny crack opened silently in the void.
A pair of eyes appeared from the crack and observed the outside world for a while. After a while, a shadow slipped out from the crack and moved quickly to an inconspicuous corner.
In the shadows, Xue Jing looked at the woman with goat eyes. At this moment, she was sitting on the ground with her eyes closed, her back against the wall, seemingly taking a rest.
After confirming that she had no reaction, Xue Jing looked at the young man again, just for a few glances, then withdrew his gaze indifferently, and then looked at the light red wind of the origin of all things in the transparent cover.
The shadow moved slowly, and wherever it passed was a blind spot in the sight of the two people present, and it slowly approached the wind that gave birth to all things.
Xue Jing estimated the distance and stopped six meters away from the Origin of Wind.
He did not rush to take action, but stared at the young man, who was reading an article using a holographic image released by his bracelet.
Xue Jing had excellent eyesight and saw part of the content of the article.
[… As a byproduct of ■■■, the only divine relic created by human hands, the uniqueness of 'Adam'…]
[…it itself shows no signs of any conscious existence…]
[… We call this special substance extracted from Adam the ‘divine factor’… ]
Because he was behind the young man and his view was partially blocked, Xue Jing did not see the entire article.
But he was quite sensitive to the word "divinity". When he saw the words "divine factor" in the article, he immediately paid attention to it and remembered it.
Regardless of whether this 'divine factor' really refers to the divinity on the panel, or whether it was just a coincidence that the name came across, he decided to investigate it after returning.
As for how to investigate... He naturally has this connection.
You will know after a while.
Xue Jing waited quietly for the opportunity.
After a while, the boy seemed to have been staring for too long, and instinctively changed his posture, turning his head to the other side.
On this side, his field of vision suddenly left the original wind of all things.
Xue Jing was waiting for this moment. Without any hesitation, he controlled the non-existent beast, opened his invisible mouth, and immediately swallowed the light red wind ball.
Got it!
Without any pause, he fled thousands of miles away after a successful strike, moving quickly towards the corner of the wall, then condensed black flames and let the non-existent beast swallow it, crossed the closed wall, spit it out outside, and with a shadow jump, slipped out of the laboratory.
Inside the room, the young man did not notice that something was suddenly missing next to him.
It was not until more than ten minutes later that he inadvertently changed his posture and glanced at the platform that was supposed to contain the original wind of all things.
"Um?"
He was stunned for a moment, straightened up, rubbed his eyes, and looked again.
"No... Gone!?"
Panic cries echoed throughout the laboratory, waking up the woman with goat eyes.
"What's wrong?" she asked, frowning.
The young man lifted the transparent cover on the table and scanned every inch of the place. He found no trace and said in panic:
"Sister Aoi, the wind that gave birth to all things is gone!"
"Calm down." His horizontal-bar-shaped pupils revealed sharpness.
"Nothing happened, nothing unusual, no movement at all... It just suddenly disappeared?"
She inquired.
The boy thought about it carefully, nodded, and said, "Yes."
Sister Aoi hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not your fault... This should be the triggering of the 'transfer property' of the divine relic."
"In any case, let's sound the alarm first. Although it is very likely that the divine relic moved on its own, we still have to pretend to show it to Xu Mude."
The young man nodded quickly and said, "Yes!"
Sister Kui sighed: "Without the wind that gave birth to all things, it would be terrible if the 'gods' went berserk. This first batch of 'gods' should be thrown into the garbage dump..."
…
“Buzz—”
The alarm rang throughout the hundreds of floors of Xu's Biological Company, and countless company members, awake or asleep, hurriedly began to take action.
Xue Jing turned into a shadow, went down all the way, avoiding everyone's sight, and kept moving towards the gate of Xu's Biological Company.
Originally, he planned to use the method of non-existent beast + shadow jump to quickly go downstairs and leave.
But Shadow Flame does not have much mana now, and shadow jumping consumes a lot of mana. It takes nearly a hundred consecutive jumps from the 1097th floor to the 1002nd floor, and the mana cannot be wasted.
The edge wall of the skyscraper center was incredibly thick, far exceeding six meters, so it was impossible for the non-existent beast to jump directly out.
The only way to escape was to sneak away slowly.
Fortunately, after coming here twice, he had already completely built a model of Xu's Biological Company in his mind, and he was as familiar with the company as his own home.
Even though there are crowds of people in the company now, Xue Jing can easily find a gap or a corner and slip away quietly without being noticed by anyone.
About an hour later, he successfully arrived at the gate of Xu's Biology and crawled out through the gap in the gate.
The time came to half past five.
The sky was already slightly bright. Xue Jing did not stop. As soon as he walked out of the door, he stuck to the outer wall of the center of the skyscraper in a shadow form and moved downwards, avoiding the flying vehicles floating around along the way.
Nearly an hour later, he reached the ground.
The morning sun had already shone down and the sky was bright, but since most people traveled in and out of the skyscraper center by flying vehicles and basically no one drove, no one on the ground paid any attention.
Xue Jing remained in his shadow form, sneaking away and entering a hidden forest.
Only then did his body slowly emerge from the shadows.
"Phew... done."
Xue Jing let out a sigh of relief.
Although the 'Original Wind of All Things' was stolen smoothly, the process was still quite thrilling.
After Xu Biological sounded the alarm, a few people who Xue Jing felt were difficult to deal with at first glance were searching everywhere, and it was not easy to avoid their sight.