43 floors.

Qin Miao rarely uses the word "horror" to describe a scene.

But at this moment, this word was the only one she could think of.

"Woo..."

Yiwei growled and bared his teeth as he looked at the densely packed petri dishes in front of him.

Countless petri dishes look like giant upright capsules.

The petri dishes in the front row are placed in a very messy manner, like randomly knocked-over military chess pieces; while those in the back row are arranged in an orderly manner with equal spacing, like a formation of well-trained soldiers.

Inside the 'giant capsule', in the light blue culture fluid, are soaked completely naked bodies.

Their postures are exactly the same, with their arms around their knees, their heads buried deep between their knees and arms, curled up, as if imitating a baby in the placenta.

Qin Miao held her breath and moved closer to the nearest cabin, close enough to see the tiny bubbles floating in the liquid.

The pale bodies soaked in light blue nutrient solution swayed slightly. Except for the lack of hair and sweat, their skin texture looked the same as that of ordinary humans.

When she raised her hand to touch the glass, ripples suddenly appeared in the culture fluid. The body seemed to sense something and began to tremble continuously, and a faint metallic luster appeared at the joints of the limbs.

Qin Miao took two steps back, no longer trying to observe whether these bodies were 'alive' or 'dead', and instead looked towards the back where the petri dishes were arranged more neatly...

In the distance, two staff members were busy.

She took light steps and gradually approached.

Because she activated her "Passerby" to the maximum extent in real time, the two staff members who were concentrating on their "work" did not notice her.

"Ah-"

Amid the humming sound of the hydraulic device starting up, red lights lit up in the twenty-four cabins in this area at the same time.

The staff pressed the mechanical button on the side of the culture dish operating panel, and the nutrient solution formed a vortex along the bottom drain outlet.

The light blue liquid was drained away as quickly as the tide, as if the last layer of disguise had finally been peeled off, making the already naked body even more naked.

Perhaps the bodies felt the change in the environment. They slowly raised their heads and opened their empty eyes.

This scene made Qin Miao's scalp tingle.

Those bodies all have the same faces!

The only thing that can be used to distinguish them is probably the barcode with different numbers and patterns on the back of the neck.

They, no, to be more precise, 'they'.

They walked out of the petri dishes stiffly, lined up in an orderly manner, each put on a white work suit handed to them by another staff member, and quickly formed into a battle team formation.

Qin Miao curled her fingertips, realizing once again that this so-called "Garden of Eden", or "Holy Polytechnic Institute", was far more "perverted" than she had imagined.

She bypassed the busy and focused staff and continued to explore forward.

Soon, she saw another body in a row of petri dishes.

That was the body of the beautiful staff member who led everyone from the shuttle bus to the skyscraper when they first arrived at "Garden of Eden".

Qin Miao finally realized that this floor...might still be a 'production workshop'.

Like those assembly lines that continuously produce food dishes, this is an area dedicated to the 'production' staff.

This is simply too abstract.

This is even more unacceptable because these bodies look exactly like humans at first glance, rather than like robots.

This is obviously the reason why D07 was able to "change bodies and revive".

If one thinks in this way, there are probably not many "living people" in the entire "Garden of Eden" in the true sense.

Compared to a base or a force, "Garden of Eden" is more like a small project outsourced by the "Holy Polytechnic Institute".

Most of the people here are clones and modified humans, just like the pilot of helicopter No. 09 who can only follow specific procedures, and they have no human rights at all.

Qin Miao, whose hair stood on end at this moment, had never expected that behind overly abstract things, there would often be even more outrageous abstractions.

Just when she realized that these bodies "released" from the "petri dish" by the staff were the combat team that was about to be sent to the -2 floor, intending to solve the trouble at the source and avoid too much combat pressure on the -2 floor...

The monitoring equipment in the staff's hand beeped.

"I've been discovered?" Qin Miao's face turned serious, and she was instantly prepared for all these bodies to be released to attack her like the zombies on the 42nd floor.

Qin Miao had already raised the knife, but saw that the staff member did not have the tension of "enemy invasion" on his face, but rather impatience.

He frowned, looked down at the monitoring equipment, then raised his head and glanced at the new batch of bodies that had just been released, as if he was distinguishing something.

About half a minute later, he made a conclusion and reached out his hand to the thigh of one of the naked bodies...

There was a very small knob there. After turning it two turns to the left and one turn to the right, the body's eyes lit up with yellow light, and it walked straight to the left front of the entire venue with stiff steps.

There stood a huge cutting machine.

It jumped in without hesitation and was easily cut into several pieces by the huge blade.

"......"

It was a defective product that had not been re-inspected and needed to be destroyed directly.

Inside the cutting machine, blood splattered and parts fell apart.

No, Qin Miao couldn't even be sure whether the bright red liquid could be considered blood.

Qin Miao was completely speechless.

The mental attack caused by this scene to humans is far greater than the scene of zombies eating each other just now.

Her whole face was wrinkled, and she completely lost the expression management she had trained for many years.

At this moment, she completely understood why, before the end of the world, the technology of "cloning" was banned by the country for non-scientific research fields.

'Human beings are like some worthless mechanical parts that can be mass-produced and destroyed at will.'

This was a very horrifying scene, far more unacceptable than watching D07 undergoing a 'soul transfer' in person.

If you don't see it with your own eyes, it is often difficult to imagine this strange feeling.

Qin Miao felt that her thoughts were being constantly pulled by an invisible polluting force. She could no longer bear it and planned to eradicate the pollution from the source as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the situation on this floor is much easier to deal with than the zombie horde on the 42nd floor.

Qin Miao has already tried, and the space cannot accommodate these bodies, which means that they are judged as "living things" by the space.

But "separation" can take effect on them, which means they are not "living beings".

This was the third time Qin Miao felt abstract in just 9 minutes.

The boundary between 'living things' and 'non-living things' is really incomprehensible.

So Qin Miao launched the largest-scale "Separation", and in just three seconds, a quarter of the petri dishes on the field were reduced to ashes.

The two staff members paused in their numb work.

They seemed to finally realize that there were intruders causing damage in the venue, and they all turned their heads to look in the direction of Qin Miao...