allonlinenovel Chapter 103 Ling Shuang
Chapter 103 Ling Shuang
She said her name was Ling Shuang, the Ling Shuang from the Chinese phrase "傲雪凌霜" (awesome snow and frost).
On the day the apocalypse arrived, her mother turned into a mutant and bit her father to death.
She escaped from her home alone and rescued her neighbor's daughter, You Wenwen. The two of them fled together in the apocalypse.
The mutants were too strong; the two girls, who were completely defenseless, couldn't fight them at all. They could only barely survive by luck, and their lives were extremely difficult.
Frequently going hungry or overeating, old wounds are compounded with new ones.
Until one day, she suddenly discovered that she had awakened a superpower called Snow Thorn, which allowed her to summon white thorns to attack the mutants.
The girl traveling with her, You Wenwen, also awakened a rare healing ability.
With one attacking and the other healing, their lives in the apocalypse finally started to improve.
They learned through the radio that Dream City had established an official survival base, so she dragged You Wenwen along and walked all the way from Lan City to Dream City.
The journey was extremely arduous, and they encountered many terrifying mutants, but fortunately, they both persevered.
Just as they stepped into Dream City, a transport vehicle suddenly passed by them, and several fully armed people got out of it.
They said they were from the military at their Dream City base and asked if they were refugees going to the base.
They thought they had met government officials and were overjoyed. They quickly said yes and asked if they could be given a ride.
Those people asked them how they got here, and whether they were superhumans.
They said yes, and even told them what their special ability was.
So those people agreed and took them to the base.
But after they got on the bus, they were drugged and passed out.
When they woke up again, they were in a laboratory, with several scientists in white coats watching them through the glass.
Thus began a long and painful experimental career.
The main research topics in the laboratory are tracing the origins of the powers of those with supernatural abilities, the growth of their abilities, and the transfer of those abilities.
She and You Wenwen were separated because of their different supernatural abilities, and they never saw each other again.
Blood draw, laboratory tests, observation, experiments.
They put an iron ring around her neck. This ring could detect fluctuations in her supernatural abilities. If she used her abilities outside of permitted times, the ring would discharge electricity or even inject anesthetic drugs, rendering her unable to resist.
They studied the cells in her body, injected her with strange drugs, and recorded data as she writhed in agony.
Ling was strapped to the cold operating table and witnessed the birth of the Type 1 to Type 6 drugs.
There were nearly seventy scientists in the entire institute, not to mention the medical assistants. With the help of high-end and expensive equipment, the research progress was very fast at the beginning of the experiment.
The first version of the power-enhancing potion was crudely named Type 1 potion, and the scientists' expected effect was also straightforward—to greatly increase the user's power.
But there is always a gap between ideas and reality.
The Type 1 drug only achieved half of the expected enhancement effect on supernatural abilities, and some supernatural ability users experienced nerve damage, or even paralysis and dementia.
Because Ling's abilities were quite unique and had great potential, these inferior products were not tested on her, but instead used on some other ability users with average abilities.
During that period, in order to improve the potion, a large number of mediocre ability users became mentally impaired, or even died directly from the potion.
Then came the development of the Type 2 drug.
Compared to the first one, the Type 2 potion's amplification effect on superpowers is slightly reduced, but the damage to the superpowered user is less.
Fewer people have suffered nerve damage and died, which seems to be quite effective.
This same injection was also administered to Ling.
Surprisingly, her body absorbed the Type 2 drug exceptionally well. Apart from the pain she felt, she suffered virtually no damage, and her special abilities were enhanced significantly compared to others.
She became a key subject of observation and was henceforth named the special Experiment Zero.
While she was being held in solitary confinement, some scientists were engrossed in researching new power-enhancing drugs, while others, who were responsible for research on power transfer, began to target her.
Ling's Pure White Thorns can summon pure white thorns out of thin air and control them freely.
From the scientists' perspective, this is a special ability that inherently possesses the potential to separate from its host, making it certainly easier to peel off than abilities like corroding walls through touch.
They strapped Ling to an electric chair, stimulated her supernatural abilities with electric current, studied the fluctuations of these abilities, and conducted experiments to strip away her supernatural powers.
Ling described the feeling as if a giant hand had reached into her dissected stomach and was stirring inside, trying to dig out her internal organs, causing her unbearable pain.
Finally, she seemed to really feel something loosening inside her body.
But before the scientists could finish, her body could no longer hold on.
Before Ling, every single test subject who had their powers stripped had died.
Since Ling had stubbornly held on until this point, they didn't want to kill this precious ability user casually, so they had to temporarily stop and continue experimenting on other ability users. Once they had enough experience, they would use her again.
Meanwhile, having tasted success, the scientists quickly developed Type 3 of the drug.
This potion balances the effects of the previous two versions, achieving a significant boost to superpowers without causing the user to die suddenly.
However, the drawbacks are equally obvious.
That means a short lifespan.
In this type of experiment, all the superpowered individuals experienced an uncontrollable increase in their superpowers after being injected with the Type 3 drug, even though their bodies could no longer withstand it.
In the end, a terrible explosion occurred.
In several cells where people with superpowers were imprisoned, there were remnants of the experimental subjects' bodies after the explosion.
They had no choice but to revise the plan again, creating the most advanced Type 4 drug ever, along with a diluted drug to save the test subjects' lives.
Type 4 has the greatest increase, allowing an E-level ability user to directly jump to level four and become a B-level ability user.
Furthermore, the rate of increase in the strength of their superpowers will slow down, becoming a slow, cumulative increase over time. However, when they use their power, the increase in their superpowers will accelerate again.
In terms of effectiveness alone, in a sense, this kind of medicine is quite suitable for use on the battlefield.
Its biggest drawback is the intense pain caused by the initial surge of power during injection, as well as the reduction in lifespan.
If the test subject cannot withstand the initial effects of the drug, then it will explode.
If they survive, they will face a series of subsequent illnesses and torments, such as Ling's complete albinism or a sudden onset of cancer.
But they just happened to invent dilution.
The purpose of diluting this medicine is solely for this type of amplification medicine.
It can soothe the effects of the drug, slow down the rapid increase in the drug's effects, enhance the test subjects' own defense capabilities, improve their physical condition, and its effects are extremely fast, making it equivalent to a life-saving drug.
With dilution as a backup, and the results of experiments on other ability users, they dared to use Ling as a special experimental subject.