I Am Extraordinary Alone
Chapter 544 - 542 Yasla

Chapter 544: Chapter 542 Yasla

The legs extending from the womb slowly trembled, moving through the nutrient fluid, about as long as an adult’s arm, yet as thick as a section of a clothes pole, covered in pitch-black bones with strands of red blood vessels and nerves attached; the tiny feet resembled chicken claws with only four sharp toes, nothing like human feet.

Professor Li Xianping hurried to a nearby instrument to check the readings, while Lin Yan quickly recalled the specific type of "Black Medicine" she had added to the womb before.

The human birthing process was not complicated, but the sight of a gigantic external womb birthing in nutrient fluid was extremely rare in the world.

Just 50 seconds later, the two watched as the slender creature slipped out of the womb and submerged itself into the nutrient fluid.

It was a deformed fetus, nearly 50 centimeters tall, with thin limbs and a head resembling a goose egg enlarged four times. Its short body, compared to its slender limbs, seemed extremely disproportionate.

After sliding out of the womb, it curled into a ball in the nutrient fluid without moving. Two round holes on its smooth, egg-like head lit up with purple halos, which Lin Yan guessed were its pupils.

Lin Yan pressed her hands against the glass dome, examining the newborn deformity. She knocked on the glass wall and greeted it.

"Hey, little guy! Can you see me?" Lin Yan said.

However, Professor Li Xianping pulled Lin Yan away from the cultivator. At the same time, a high-frequency alarm sounded in the laboratory.

"What’s wrong?" Lin Yan was puzzled.

"The Black Medicine levels in this thing are off the charts! This tank can’t hold it!" Professor Li Xianping warned.

They had just run out of the laboratory when two teams of armed security guards had already filled the corridor.

"What kinds of Black Medicine did you mix in there?" asked Professor Li Xianping.

"I mixed in some from the Lingxian Sect..." Lin Yan replied.

As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of the tank shattering echoed from the laboratory.

"Initiate Level 1 protocol," the security captain ordered.

They threw two tear gas grenades into the lab and then, wearing memetic barrier masks and smoke goggles, charged inside.

Professor Li Xianping leaned against the wall as the electromagnetic door shut with a whoosh. A puff of smoke drifted out; Lin Yan choked on a few breaths and her face contorted.

Seconds later, rapid gunfire echoed from inside the lab.

Lin Yan grew anxious and stood up to press the button for the electronic door. Professor Li Xianping grabbed her, urgently asking, "What are you doing?!"

"They’re going to destroy the womb!" Lin Yan said.

Lin Yan broke free from Professor Li Xianping’s grasp and opened the door.

The gunfire ceased, the lights on the ceiling flickered, and the walls were riddled with bullet holes. The guards lay in pools of blood; one of them, clutching his abdomen, walked toward her. Eventually, his strength gave out and he grabbed a large server beside him, pulling it down as he collapsed to the floor.

The central tank in the room was shattered, nutrient fluid flowed to Lin Yan’s feet. She scanned the area for the womb and fetus but, observing the bullet holes around, realized that the direction of the bullets seemed incorrect.

If these guards had opened fire, they wouldn’t have aimed towards the door.

At that moment, Professor Li Xianping also entered the room.

"Lin Yan?" he asked cautiously.

"I didn’t find it, the womb is also missing," Lin Yan turned around, speaking softly.

After she spoke, she looked at the viscous nutrient fluid and bloodstains on the floor under the flickering light and saw a series of bloody four-fingered footprints that circled around several servers, heading to the deepest part of the room.

Lin Yan followed the footprints, and although Li Xianping originally wanted to call out to her, curiosity got the best of him, and he tiptoed after her.

She found the deepest corner of the lab where, in a shadow created by piled-up lab equipment, a humanoid figure sat on the floor. Six purple-colored automatic rifle illusions floated in mid-air, and in the darkness, a pair of purple eyes glowed like ghostly fires.

Lin Yan, somewhat excited, crouched down and reached out both hands towards those eyes, saying, "Come here, come."

The deformed child emerged from the shadow, holding a gigantic womb in its hands, and shouted at Lin Yan: "Mom."

...

After that day, this womb continuously gave birth to deformed infants, producing 12 deformed children in just half a year.

Lin Yan, with her research on the external womb and its deformed offspring, quickly rose through the ranks, leaving Li Xianping far behind.

These infants possessed a superpower similar to Fujiwara Makoto’s Illusion Creation; however, their abilities would degrade over time until completely lost. Their intelligence level was comparable to human infants, but they could be taught and inherently knew how to speak, a rare trait indeed.

To conveniently name them, based on the unconscious moaning sounds from the first deformed child’s dreams, Lin Yan named them "Yasla."

As more Yaslas were born, there had been suggestions to dispose of some of them, but for certain considerations, Lin Yan found it more appropriate to keep them all. Therefore, in the research facility, she set aside a large area to house these deformed children, which also facilitated comparison with future data samples.

Depending on the mixture of sperm and Black Medicine, the Yaslas’ abilities varied in strength. The strongest could achieve a level comparable to Fujiwara Makoto within two weeks, while the weakest had no superpowers at all...

Moreover, Lin Yan discovered that no matter what type of Black Medicine was mixed in, their abilities showed no change; they could only manifest superpowers identical to Fujiwara Makoto’s.

But Lin Yan also made an astonishing discovery—that they seemed immune to certain superpowers!

She had sent several Trinities to conduct tests, and those superpowers that could instantaneously create elements or directly control an individual completely failed on the Yaslas.

They only feared those superpowers that produced effects indirectly, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, or physical contact after turning into Iron Man, etc.

Since the Yaslas still possessed Fujiwara Makoto’s Illusion Creation abilities within just two or three weeks, and since they could infinitely be born from the womb after being mixed with sperm, they were practically perfect disposable items...

The upper echelons were tempted and wanted to use the Yasla army against Wei Tianyang.

When Lin Yan heard this news, she had a moment of realization, understanding Professor Li Xianping’s feelings from earlier. In the past two years, she had gradually distanced herself from her old mentor. Her rapid rise had moved her out of the small lab they once shared. Now, she owned her building, her team had expanded to thousands of people, and the entire building’s underground was filled with Yasla containment rooms.

These deformed children were like her own; she watched them being born and personally taught them how to dress and eat. Although they weren’t her offspring, after living together for over two years, she had grown emotionally attached to them.

Sending them to kill Wei Tianyang... no matter how she thought about it, it was an irrational act.

And just when Lin Yan was feeling down, an urgent mission unexpectedly arrived, disrupting the plan.

She was called to the office by the chairman, and in front of five administrators, she received a top-secret mission.

A satellite had captured a Heavenly Falling Object that could control time, active around Heiside State. Lin Yan was to investigate under the assistance of the United Council, and retrieve it before Wei Tianyang could.