Chapter 1414: The Culprit

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"Yes, her constitution was too weak, and the cancer had already spread, so she didn't make it in the end..."

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"It’s my fault... the success rate of the anti-cancer reagent is still too low. I will find a way to iterate it further and make a reagent that can adapt to more types of cancer and have a higher survival rate."

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"If possible, can I go to your clinical department to take a look? I hope to obtain more patient samples."

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"This is the latest reagent I’ve developed. It can be taken orally. I’ve added some of my secret recipes to it, which can effectively weaken pain and reduce the patient’s suffering... However, this drug is still in the process of being perfected, and I need to track and collect data from the users regularly. Can you make an exception?"

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"No, it’s not possible... This reagent contains the latest biotechnology. Before it is completely finished, I will not disclose it to anyone."

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"Still not possible... Alright, then forget it."

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"Hello, are you the patient’s family member? I have a drug here that is still being tested. It has a certain probability of curing your son’s cancer, but because it is currently in the confidential stage, please do not tell anyone about it..."

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"Or, you can just send your son to me directly."

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It’s me...

So it really was me...

When these memory fragments flooded his mind, Teacher Ye felt like he was about to be torn apart. He saw everything from a third-person perspective, as if another existence had remotely controlled his body, while his impressions of all this had been erased.

Just then,

That familiar gavel of judgment, sounding like thunder, struck again!

Bang—!!

Teacher Ye seemed to return to the courtroom of over three hundred years ago. He looked up stiffly...

Under the brilliant, blinding lights at the top, those cyan eyes were looking at him with complexity. Chu Changqing stood at the pinnacle of biology, issuing that soul-shaking question:

"Teacher... how did you, an ordinary person, fuse with a world-ending calamity?"

Boom—!!!

Thunder roared in Teacher Ye’s mind.

That’s right... how did he... fuse with Si Zai at the time?

No matter how hard Teacher Ye racked his brains, he couldn't recall any details. This massive loophole had been right in front of his eyes the whole time, yet his thoughts seemed to have been deliberately guided, never once going deep into the question.

Did he really fuse with Si Zai?

Or rather...

Did he fuse with Si Zai, or... did Si Zai control him?

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh—"

A heart-wrenching roar echoed in the scarred laboratory. This biologist, who thought he had dedicated his life to human civilization, was like a pathetic creature whose spine had been pulled out. He knelt down with a thud into the glass shards on the floor, his knees instantly covered in blood.

"It was me..."

"It was me!!!"

"It was me who conducted human experiments at the South Sea Base! It was me who distributed reagents laced with calamity genes to the public!! It was me who kidnapped the children!! It was me who disposed of their bodies in the Gray Realm after killing them..."

"It was me who turned the Fusion Faction children into this... It was me who personally transformed them into monsters!!"

"It was me who destroyed the South Sea Realm!!!"

Teacher Ye’s fists slammed into the ground again and again. The glass shards on the floor pierced his hands, leaving them dripping with blood. His bloodshot eyes were filled with remorse and pain... He had tried to chase the dawn of humanity, he wanted to let humanity step onto a new ladder...

But he didn't expect that the research he had dedicated his life to was nothing more than a ridiculous lie from Si Zai.

Si Zai used him, used the Fusion Faction, used Chu Changqing, used Chen Ling... It sent them into the South Sea Realm, waiting for this very moment, to use the hands of the Fusion Faction to break the South Sea Realm from within!

In the face of Si Zai’s layout, this realm, which everyone had high hopes for and which was considered the most impregnable, fell completely in less than three hours...

Like a joke.

Just as Teacher Ye was in agony, footsteps sounded from outside the door.

Creak—

Hard boots stepped over the debris, and a bone-chilling cold wind from the outside, wrapped in a trench coat, rolled into the chaotic laboratory...

Teacher Ye looked up stiffly.

A pitch-black gun barrel was slowly pressed against his forehead.

Silver Arbiter patterns shimmered on the hem of the trench coat. Han Meng held the gun with one hand, looking down at the kneeling Teacher Ye. His gaze was like a winter lake, deep and calm.

"It’s you..." Teacher Ye said hoarsely.

"Once, Chen Ling asked me if I could help the Fusion Faction enter the South Sea Realm... I refused."

Teacher Ye smiled bitterly. "You were right to refuse."

"Actually, at the time, I had a doubt." Han Meng paused for a moment. "When we were in the Third District of the Aurora Realm, a Gray Realm convergence occurred... Those calamities from the Ghost Mockery Abyss knocked on the doors of the public and even learned human language, reciting a passage of names..."

【The Scarlet Overlord of the Ghost Mockery Abyss, the Faceless King who mocks fate】.

"Later, I heard that this inscription was written by you, Teacher Ye..."

"Since that is the case,"

"How did those calamities know?"

Teacher Ye stood there in a daze.

After a long while, as if he had thought of something, the pain in his eyes became even more intense.

"So that’s it... Heh... Even the inscription of the world-ending calamity... was told to me by it..." Teacher Ye muttered to himself. "That wasn't an inscription... that was the original 'title' of the world-ending calamity. It... just used my mouth to spread their names."

"So from the beginning, I was just a tool... a tool planted by the world-ending calamity in human society!"

Teacher Ye’s body trembled constantly. Everything he had done until now was negated. At this moment, only endless despair and remorse remained in his heart... He took a deep breath, grabbed Han Meng’s gun barrel, and pressed it firmly against his own forehead!

His bloodshot, pained eyes stared fixedly at Han Meng.

"Kill me!!" Teacher Ye pleaded. "Kill me... I am the culprit behind all of this! I am a sinner of humanity! I am the shame of human scientists!! Aren't you the leader of the 【Judgment】? Let my soul scatter, never to be reincarnated... Only in this way can I repay my sins... even if it’s just a little..."

Han Meng looked at the completely broken Teacher Ye, wondering what he was thinking...

Finally, he slowly closed his eyes.

A magnificent and majestic courtroom rose beneath his feet, and endless chains bound Teacher Ye’s body. Han Meng opened his mouth gently, calmly and coldly spitting out a few words...

"【Verdict of Mortal Sins】, court is in session."