Chapter 4

The information obtained from Charlie was not much, which was not surprising. After all, he was just a middleman, a small fry who delivered goods, and there was no way he could know too much.

Not being able to get the true source of CPH4 in the first place forced Liu Rui'an to adopt Plan B.

Before reappearing at the Jinghua Grand Hotel, Liu Rui'an had already changed his appearance and was not worried about being discovered.

Indeed, the Korean gangsters standing outside the hotel did not recognize the person who was completely different from the one they were looking for.

After entering the hotel, Liu Rui'an, dressed as a tourist, checked in at the front desk with a genuine Hong Kong accent.

After tipping the housekeeping staff, Liu Rui'an first took a quick tour of the hotel to confirm the environment.

Then, under the pretext of a complaint, he called the hotel's guest room manager to his business suite.

Five minutes later, through "friendly" means, Liu Rui'an successfully obtained information about the floor where the Korean gangsters were staying, as well as the locations of the hotel's central air conditioning, security room, and surveillance room.

Ten minutes later, Liu Rui'an, now dressed in a hotel uniform, entered the surveillance room, easily dealt with the security personnel who were still chatting, and directly shut down the surveillance host and removed the hard drives.

Before leaving the surveillance room, he deliberately placed a small, can-sized, highly concentrated thermite bomb in a hidden central air conditioning duct.

Twenty minutes later, a bottle of highly concentrated, non-lethal neurotoxin was placed in the central air conditioning duct of the floor where the Korean gangsters were staying.

This was a new product developed by Liu Rui'an. Although it was not lethal, just a little bit could instantly cause unconsciousness.

Moreover, this new neurotoxin did not only take effect through breathing. Unless you wore a professional protective suit to cover your entire skin, getting affected was just a matter of time.

Thirty minutes later, Liu Rui'an, wearing a small respirator, entered the room where the Korean gangsters were staying without any hindrance.

The gangsters, affected by the highly concentrated neurotoxin, predictably lay on the ground.

Liu Rui'an had no good feelings towards these gangsters. After spending some time dealing with them, he took the only survivor, the female lead Lucy, and the briefcase containing CPH4 away from the floor.

Forty minutes later, Liu Rui'an, with a completely transformed and clearly drunk Lucy, calmly took the elevator to the underground parking lot.

Using the car keys he had found, he quickly reached three of the gangsters' cars: two sedans and a large business van. As expected, the trunks were filled with automatic weapons and ammunition, and even a light machine gun and an RPG were found in the business van. These guys were really overconfident.

After throwing the pseudo-drunk Lucy into the middle seat of the business van, Liu Rui'an put the collected weapons and ammunition into the trunk, with the excess placed in the back seats.

Fifty minutes later, the business van, with its license plates changed, drove out of the underground parking lot.

At the same time, with two loud explosions, the floor where the Korean gangsters were staying and the hotel's surveillance room simultaneously spewed out large amounts of flames and debris.

The traces left by Liu Rui'an were completely erased by the explosions.

Such a huge commotion not only plunged the entire hotel into chaos but also made the Korean gangsters guarding the hotel's perimeter overlook the business van that had just left the underground parking lot with its license plates changed.

An hour and a half later, after leaving the hotel, Liu Rui'an stopped at a supermarket on the way to buy food and drinks, then drove the car to the outskirts of the city to find a temporary residence.

The house was owned by a non-mainstream young woman and her tattooed boyfriend, who were engaged in a human reproductive activity when Liu Rui'an arrived.

Well, nowadays, this behavior has mostly gone beyond the scope of reproduction.

After confirming that these two non-mainstream individuals were members of a local gang, Liu Rui'an sent them on their way without any psychological burden.

As for the bodies, he threw them into the bathtub and used his self-developed "corpse dissolving solution" to turn them into a pile of pus, which was quickly washed away by the tap water and sewer system, leaving no trace.

After dealing with the two troublesome individuals, Liu Rui'an began to tally his gains from this trip.

Four packages of CPH4 that had not yet been implanted into the human body, and the female lead Lucy, who was still unconscious on the bed in the bedroom.

As for the weapons and ammunition, they were not important to Liu Rui'an. At most, they were just toys. In terms of lethality, they were far inferior to the thermite bombs and neurotoxins he had developed.

Two hours later, Liu Rui'an, who had already conducted a preliminary analysis of CPH4 using portable equipment prepared before the穿越, directly diluted half a package of CPH4 into four 125 ml deep blue saturated solutions using glucose injection solution.

Two and a half hours later, after arranging all the planned matters, Liu Rui'an inserted the needles of four IV drips into the still unconscious Lucy.

The IV drips specially prepared for this穿越 were significantly different from ordinary specifications, with the biggest difference being their extremely fast infusion rate.

The four 125 ml CPH4 saturated solutions were injected into Lucy's veins in less than a minute.

At this moment, Liu Rui'an quickly left the temporary residence with the remaining three packages of CPH4 in the business van.

As 500 ml of CPH4 saturated solution was injected into Lucy's body, she soon opened her eyes from her unconscious state.

Three hours later, Lucy, as if possessed by a demon in a horror movie, fully regained consciousness in the messy bedroom.

Through the wireless surveillance device left on the bedroom door, Liu Rui'an watched the bizarre scene and smiled.

After failing to directly find the source of CPH4 through Charlie, the biggest problem of this穿越 was not how to obtain CPH4, but how to make Lucy return to the original plot.

Those who have seen the movie know that in the world of "Lucy," human civilization comes from a humanoid ape named Lucy.

This ape received knowledge from the almost god-like female lead Lucy, or rather, opened the path of evolution.

Liu Rui'an could not guarantee that if he changed the female lead Lucy's life, the world would not collapse.

Therefore, after successfully obtaining CPH4 and Lucy's blood sample, he injected half a package of CPH4 into her body and left the other half.

After confirming that Lucy had completely cleared and activated the audio recording he had left, Liu Rui'an decisively cut off all contact with the temporary residence and activated his穿越 ability.

Actually, in the world of "Lucy," besides CPH4 and Lucy's blood sample, there was something of even greater value.

That was the USB drive Lucy left for the professor after becoming a god. According to the plot, this USB drive contained knowledge that could influence the entire human evolution.

Unfortunately, due to Liu Rui'an's intervention, the plot had changed significantly.

Even in the prepared message, Liu Rui'an not only described Lucy's state after injecting CPH4 but also gave her guidance to find the professor to solve her problems. However, he had little confidence that the plot would fully return to its original course.

Moreover, even if the plot did return and Lucy handed the USB drive to the professor as in the original plot, at that time, she would be a god-like existence.

Liu Rui'an had no confidence in obtaining the USB drive from such a being.

Instead of taking such a risk, it was better to leave with CPH4 and Lucy's blood sample as soon as possible.

...

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, on Earth, in the underground laboratory of the Umbrella Biopharmaceutical Company...

In the spacious underground穿越 area, a black business van suddenly appeared in the middle of the parking area, with Liu Rui'an, who had returned from the穿越, sitting inside.

Looking out the car window at the familiar environment, Liu Rui'an knew that his hypothesis about being able to carry large objects during the穿越 had been initially verified.

However, it was still unclear whether there were limits to the weight and size of the objects that could be carried.

Fortunately, being able to bring back such a large business van was sufficient for the current situation.

Liu Rui'an, leaving the various firearms and ammunition in the car, immediately took the three packages of CPH4 back to the laboratory on the upper floor.

Half a month later, the results of the first batch of experiments were not ideal.

The replication of CPH4 was successful, but the changes in the process and components to improve its effects did not have the desired effect.

As the saying goes, "You can't force a flower to bloom, but a willow may grow from a branch planted without intention."

Just before he could穿越 again, Liu Rui'an conducted a fusion experiment with the original CPH4, the original NZT-48, and a self-developed gene-based drug, which unexpectedly produced a reaction with an unknown principle.

The resulting product was a light purple liquid. According to the computer simulation of the drug's effects, this liquid reduced the uncontrollable mutation of the original CPH4 to 15%.

This liquid, temporarily named "God's Blood," had a 75% chance of controlling the brain activation effect of the original CPH4 to 60%, a 10% chance of exceeding 60%, and a 15% chance of still being uncontrollable.

Although the first generation of God's Blood was still imperfect, it was a significant surprise to Liu Rui'an.

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