After going with him, An Zhe was arranged to live on a silver-white platform. His limbs were fixed with mechanical bracelets and foot rings. The doctor ordered, “Don’t move.”

Immediately after, there was a pain in his arm. He turned his head and saw the doctor slowly pulling a tube of bright red blood from his body. The doctor said, “The colour of your blood is healthy.”

An Zhe replied, “Thank you for the compliment.”

The doctor was amused by his answer. “The blood will be sent for genetic testing, which takes one hour. The full body enhancement scan is expected to take 40 minutes so don’t move.”

He finished speaking and blue light rose on the silver platform. There was a low hum that had no direction. Every grain of air was the source of the sound. The sound coming from all directions reminded An Zhe of the distant nights in the Abyss. The sound of waves came from the distant sea. When the night was darkest, there would be howls of unknown creatures in that direction. The waves that couldn’t be described with human language would sweep over the land during the rainy season.

The electric current was like countless ants crawling and biting him. 40 minutes wasn’t a long time for a mushroom. However, An Zhe thought it might be the last 40 minutes of his life so he cherished it, carefully looking up at the mechanical lines on the ceiling.

It was unknown how much time passed when he heard Lu Feng speaking outside, “Seran told me that your inspection has been upgraded.”

“You are very well informed,” the doctor said. “We found that when the human body mutates, some special segments of the DNA are activated. We named it the target. There are two types of target, animal variation and plant variation. The improved gene detection is carried out using two processes at the same time. One is the animal target detection and the other is plant-based. This takes one hour in total.”

Lu Feng stated, “Congratulations.”

The doctor smiled. “Colonel, if the time and cost of genetic testing are greatly reduced then won’t your Trial Court be closed?”

“I’m looking forward to it.”

“You’re boring.”

They stopped talking.

Meanwhile, An Zhe looked at the silver-white ceiling and wondered what his species was. He was a mushroom. The doctor said that the variation was divided into animal variation and plant variation. An Zhe felt that first of all, a mushroom wasn’t an animal. Second, mushrooms didn’t seem to be plants. He had no leaves. An Zhe was confused. He tried hard to classify himself as a plant but didn’t find enough evidence.

It took him too long thinking about this. Before he came up with any results, the blue light disappeared from him like low tide.

“Yes.” The doctor’s voice was heard and the mechanical rings loosened automatically.