Chapter 32

A few more days passed.

“This is unbelievable.”

“Really? He greeted you too?”

“Yeah. I thought I was seeing things. I never thought I’d live to see a test subject greet me.”

While Tang Xiao was getting an early start on his experiments, he heard other researchers whispering in surprise.

Naturally, they were talking about 428.

Ever since the experiments began, everyone had been able to clearly see that 428 was changing more with each passing day.

The most striking changes were in his intelligence. At first, even though 428 had taken on a human form, his everyday behavior made it obvious that he still thought like he had as an experimental subject. He spent all day curled up in a corner of the lab, and even when they put him in a restraint suit, he would often tug it into a disheveled mess.

But in the past few days, things had clearly changed.

The most noticeable difference was that his restraint suit had become much neater. At first, no one paid it any mind, assuming that whoever was responsible for looking after 428 had taken pity on him and straightened him up. But one day, as a researcher watched 428 attack a test rabbit that had been sent in, 428 suddenly spoke...