The Young master's fake bride and her lucky system
Chapter 357 - 357 The nature of a carnivore

357: The nature of a carnivore 357: The nature of a carnivore Alix successfully made it past security and met up with professor Lai in his lab.

She was carrying a box in hand which had two plants and nothing else.

Majesty, in his large form was wrapped around her neck like a scarf as he often was.

The lab was a very secure place and everywhere they passed, a key card was required to be used.

The doors in the building were mostly steel, hiding what was behind them.

In front of each door, was at least one guard armed with a taser.

If guns were legal in the country, no doubt, it’s what they would be carrying.

The level of protection in the lab was so high and she couldn’t help wondering what kind of secret projects they had in here that required so much security.

While they walked through the halls, someone in a white lab coat or bio hazard suit would walk past them.

They didn’t engage with Alix or the professor and the two also didn’t try to engage.

Finally they arrived at a larger floor with a marking on the wall labeled section 4.

The professor entered a room labeled D-11 and Alix followed him inside.

The inside of the professor’s lab was surprising to Alix.

She was expecting equipment similar to that in a hospital maybe.

She thought she would see rats in cages as it was often depicted on television in some movies but instead, she found herself in one large in door garden.

The professor was more like a gardener growing all sorts of plants.

Some were potted, others in the ground, some flowering and others withering.

The sizes too were different too as some tall were others short.

She noticed an overgrown red rose like plant next to a closed window.

“Oh!” she exclaimed.

It was the blood orchid, but it was not the same size as it had been when Alix sold it.

This thing was gigantic, and its head was the size of at least three basketballs put together.

Admittedly it’s red petals were beautiful and shiny but its size was intimidating and deadly.

“What have they been feeling that thing?” The blue elf screeched in Alix’s minds.

Professor Lai assumed that Alix was admiring the orchid.

After all the effort which had gone into its cultivation, he was satisfied with the results.

“Beautiful, isn’t it?” he said proudly.

Alix shook her head.

“No,” “I know you said that we should be careful in feeding it and we have but Huihui is one greedy bastard.” he told her.

The look of disbelief on her face went up a notch as she eyed the professor.

“You gave it a name!” she exclaimed.

“Yes, our Huihui is a good boy.

I have been conditioning him to feed on pig blood but not anything alive.

Yesterday, i placed a mouse in front of him and he didn’t eat it.

This is clear evidence of plant conscience and learning.

Huihui is adapting better than the other blood orchids.

Do you know the knowledge that we can get out of this?

My funds have been tripled by the company and i will be making a presentation on Huihui next year at the international science fair.

It will be Huihui’s first plane trip, i bet he will be excited.” Alix frowned because she didn’t think it was a good idea to carry a blood orchid that looked like it was on it’s way to becoming ten feet tall around in public.

Besides, the way the professor was talking with indulgence and affection as if this was his son, she was worried that he might reach a certain point and abandon human values just to please the orchid.

In a serious voice, Alix turned her eyes to an overly excited professor.

“Professor, do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog?”  He nodded.

It was a common story that everyone knew.

“A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim so it asks a frog to carry it across.

Despite initial hesitation that the scorpion might sting it and under a promise from the scorpion not to do so, the frog gives the Scorpion a ride.”  Alix opened her mouth and she said, “The scorpion used logic, telling the frog that they would both drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river.

And yet still, despite the promise, in the middle of the river, the scorpion stung the frog anyway and doomed them both.

I am sure you know what the scorpion said to the dying frog after.” “It’s just my nature.” Professor Lai said, equally as serious as Alix.

She pointed to the blood orchid and reminded him, “Professor, the blood orchid will feed on any kind of blood when it gets the chance.

This specific kind of blood orchid is rumored to produce a fruit that can heal some blood diseases.

That’s why i sold them to you, because i hope you can make use of it to do something good for humans.

Make no mistake, the plant is still carnivorous and deadly.

If you strengthen it beyond control, it might not be good for us all.” In a more educative kind of voice usually used on his students, professor Lai explained his reasons to Alix.

“I know the danger but you cannot imagine the vast advancement in knowledge we can get from this.

We have to understand how far it can grow, it’s limits, strengths and weaknesses.

Right now, Huihui doesn’t feed on anything with life.

Of course, i can’t speak to how it should react when its in danger but i will not take it out into the world unless i am one hundred percent convinced that its safe to do so.” Alix looked at the orchid and she scratched the back of her left hand.

It was a thing she did sometimes when she was contemplating on a serious matter.

Right now, she was considering setting the orchid on fire.

She didn’t know what the professor was using on the orchid but plain pig blood couldn’t have done this alone.

“I told you that things are getting weird.” The system mumbled.

“What are you detecting?” she asked.

“Another thing that shouldn’t be here.” it answered.

On the surface, it could have been referring to the blood orchid itself.

It was a plant from a fictional gaming world so it shouldn’t have been on earth.

The system had assured her at the time that it would not be harmful.

Apart from the occasional small biting to satisfy it’s bloodlust, it was not a danger to humans.

But at this size, things had maybe taken a turn.

Deeper than the surface, she knew that the system couldn’t be talking about the orchid because it was already aware of it’s existence.

“Is it something like the alien poison?” she asked.

On the virtual screen, the blue elf nodded.

“Something that escalates plant growth in plants with special qualities.”  Her stomach crunched and she took a deep pained breath.

Alix had long been considering another theory that offered an alternative to aliens.

“Are you sure that i am the only gamer on earth?” she asked.

“There could be a host with another gaming system or a player in the game, without a system but still connected to the virtual gaming world.” “You are the only one with a gaming system like me in your world.

I am wrongfully attached to you, remember?

But when it comes to being the only gamer, I am not so sure anymore.” It responded.

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