Chapter 56: Chaos

"Chen Duo, temporary worker from the South China Region, a grandmaster of sorcery, formerly the Gu-Body Saint Child of the Yaoxian Sect. She is essentially a Gu herself, and she can now basically control her own abilities."

Meng Fan looked at Chen Duo, his gaze flickering uncertainly.

Perhaps that matter could be put on the agenda now.

Right after, Meng Fan put down the documents in his hand, thought for a moment, and said: "Feng Baobao, temporary worker from the North China Region, with an unknown background and extremely high martial prowess. She likes burying people, and although she is a bit dull, she is occasionally brilliant. She excels at picking locks, sneaking attacks on blind spots, and also..."

Meng Fan paused. "The Eighteen Styles of Awei."

"What? What did you say? The Eighteen Styles of Awei?"

肖自在 (Xiao Zizai), along with Heiguan (Black Pipe) and Wang Zhenqiu, naturally knew what that thing actually was. Could it be that a weirdo had snuck into the ranks of the temporary workers—

Feng Baobao said matter-of-factly, "Yeah, Xu Si taught me."

The few of them exchanged glances.

Could it be that Xu Si, the head of the North China Region, was not a good person?

At the same time, they looked at Feng Baobao with sympathetic gazes. Through a month of getting along under Operation Who (Na Dao Tong), they had more or less come to understand each other's personalities.

Such a foolish... innocent and adorable girl had actually been lured into learning such things. It was simply outrageous and utterly devoid of conscience.

Xiao Zizai pushed up his glasses and said, "I'd like to ask, if I join Division 139, can we kill a regional director of Operation Who?"

Seeing things heading in some unpredictable direction, Meng Fan coughed lightly. "Rest assured, that's just a certain martial arts technique. However, Xu Si is indeed rather vulgar; you can beat him up the next time you see him."

After introducing all the temporary workers to one another,

Meng Fan said solemnly, "Everyone, from now on, you are going to encounter a new world!"

"A world that shatters your ordinary perceptions!"

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Origin Body Laboratory No. 1.

The seven of them looked through the specially crafted glass at the massive creature in the center of the arena.

It was over ninety meters long and more than twenty meters tall, with tiny limbs and a tremendously fat body. Aside from a ferocious mouth filled with rows of tusks, it had no other organs.

There were no scales or fur on its body, though it was covered in a slimy, translucent liquid and dense bumps. Its skin condition resembled a stratum corneum and chitin, presenting a deep, pitch-black color.

The face turned toward the crowd and let out a roar, yet the sound was like the whimpering of an infant.

Meng Fan introduced it to everyone: "An ancient ferocious beast, Chaos, code name: Origin Body No. 1."

The *Classic of Divine Marvels: Chaos* records: "West of Kunlun there is a beast, its shape like a dog, with long hair and four limbs, resembling a bear without claws. It has eyes but cannot see, walks without moving forward, has two ears but cannot hear, possesses human-like knowledge of the past, has a belly with no five viscera, and straight intestines without turns, so food passes straight through. If a person has virtue, it goes and butts them; if a person has wicked virtue, it goes and obeys them. Heaven commands it thus, named Chaos."

Looking at this massive, bizarre creature, the group felt a myriad of doubts in their hearts, but even more so, a sense of gravity and fear. As out-of-the-ordinary individuals (Yiren) with sensitive innate spiritual perception, they could intuitively sense the terrifying aura emitted by that ferocious beast.

Wang Zhenqiu said with some worry, "This Chaos won't smash the glass, will it?"

"Of course not. In fact, it is very well-behaved. Would you like to go down and take a look?"

"Eh?!!"

Observing at close range was far more shocking than distant viewing.

The group tilted their heads back with wide-open mouths, uttering sounds of awe: "Whoa~ Is this the ferocious beast Chaos?"

Chen Duo and Feng Baobao, who had no concept of fear, even reached out to pet it directly. Their actions gave normal-headed people like Heiguan and Xiao Zizai a massive fright.

"Hey, are you two out of your minds?"

With her pure and untainted heart, Feng Baobao touched it and remarked, "No way, it's very well-behaved."

Well-behaved?

You call something this huge, resembling a monster, well-behaved?

Are you kidding me?

This is no longer an organism of the same magnitude!

No wonder so many weapons and personnel were deployed outside. If a ferocious beast like this were to break out, it truly would be a catastrophic disaster!

Seeing the terrified looks on their faces, Meng Fan waved his hand, walked up to Chaos, and stroked its chin. "Feng Baobao is actually right."

"Ying~"

At that moment, Chaos emitted a comfortable sound, even laced with a hint of spoiled affection.

It rolled over to reveal its extremely tough, keratinous belly, accompanied by earth-shaking vibrations. With such a massive volume, any casual movement would be enough to crush the few of them.

Meng Fan looked at Chaos. As his first "perfect masterpiece" upon coming to Division 139, he had not only used the tardigrade as a base template, but also infused it with the genes of many extreme organisms.

For example, the ant—this goes without saying.

The ironclad beetle: thanks to its special physical structure, its exoskeleton could withstand high pressures thirty-nine thousand times its own body weight, which was also the key to supporting Chaos's immense size.

Also, the immortal jellyfish, capable of achieving eternal life through rejuvenation. Combined with the molting-related traits of the tardigrade, as long as it underwent a single molt, its age would be completely reset.

Another example: the bdelloid rotifer.

Its most magical trait was its ability to still achieve evolution under conditions of asexual reproduction. According to the theory of evolution, all existing organisms on Earth rely on sexual reproduction to achieve genetic evolution, a method of gene transmission that ensures the population adapts better to its environment.

Most unbelievably, it could make up for its own DNA by incorporating genes from other organisms, to the extent that everything that served as food for the bdelloid rotifer became a source of its genes.

Inside an ordinary bdelloid rotifer, genes from plants, bacteria, and even fungi could be found.

Such a formidable evolutionary method resulted in about 10% of the bdelloid rotifer's genes belonging to different organisms, whereas humans and chimpanzees differ by less than 2% in their genes, yet become two entirely different species.

Even the impact of gamma-ray radiation on it was negligible.

In addition to these, there was the planarian, a perverted species known as an immortal organism. Its entire body cells were pluripotent stem cells, allowing it to completely clone itself, divide offspring, and even share memories.

If Chaos were allowed to feed on various "strange beasts" and then evolve specifically in all directions through offspring division, then Meng Fan could effortlessly obtain an army of strange beasts.

Undying, indestructible, evolving all kinds of exotic species, just like the origin, it completely lived up to the name of Chaos.

Only the marvelous craftsmanship of heaven could forge such a creature.

And Chaos was, furthermore, the very first guardian divine beast of the state!

Aside from Chaos, Meng Fan led them to tour the already standardized Jiahe—Dragon Tooth Rice!

Looking at the Dragon Tooth Rice and finishing the explanation of its functions, Meng Fan spread his arms wide and said with a solemn expression, "This is the purpose of the establishment of Division 139: to explore the traces of mythology that may have existed in ancient times."

"And to restore them to a certain extent, to obtain everything beneficial to the Central Plains from within, to develop ourselves, and the ultimate goal is to recreate mythology!"

"The grand vision and spirit from above, do you all feel it?"