CHAPTER 220: CHAPTER 220: FRAGRANT GREASINESS

"What are you doing?" Hernans curiously looked at her, "Got something on your hands?"

Yu Manman looked at Hernans’s teasing smile and felt the urge to slap him!

"Smell my hand! What’s the scent?" Yu Manman held out her hand, her gaze serious.

Hernans actually leaned in to take a sniff, "A strong smell of blood! Didn’t you wash your hands after killing the rays?"

"Besides that, do you smell anything floral?"

"What kind of scent?" Hernans grinned, "Your body fragrance?"

"Be serious!" Yu Manman glared at him!

Hernans thought carefully for a moment, pondering, "Or should I take another sniff?"

Yu Manman stretched out her hand again.

Hernans sniffed for a while, rubbed his chin, and said, "There does seem to be a slight other scent, but I can’t tell what it is. It seems a bit... slightly sweet?"

Yu Manman nodded.

Hernans didn’t detect it wrong; there was indeed a floral scent.

"Shang Yu, come over here!" Yu Manman waved to Shang Yu opposite her.

"What’s up?" Shang Yu immediately came to Yu Manman’s side, "Is there anything going on?"

"Shang Yu, smell it," Yu Manman extended her hand, "See what scent you can detect!"

Meeting Yu Manman’s serious gaze, Shang Yu pursed his lips slightly, "Let me smell it!"

Shang Yu had a keen sense of smell and could distinguish many scents; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to create one popular perfume after another.

He carefully discerned, his eyes flickering slightly, "This scent..."

Shang Yu also had a good memory, never forgetting a scent once he smelled it, even after years.

"Does it seem familiar?" Yu Manman looked at Shang Yu, tense.

Shang Yu nodded heavily and asked in a low voice, "Manman, is it that scent?"

"If I’m not mistaken, it’s probably, very similar." Yu Manman frowned, "I need to confirm this."

Hernans frowned beside them.

What kind of riddles were they speaking in?

"I’m going to find the instructor!" Yu Manman turned to look for Ackman!

Hernans was about to follow, but Shang Yu blocked his way, "It’s best not to get involved casually in this matter. It doesn’t concern you."

"What matter?" Hernans met his gaze, "From what you said, is that Fallen Species problematic?"

"If the Fallen Species is an issue, then how doesn’t this relate to me? This concerns everyone.""

It might even relate to their safety. Why shouldn’t he know some inside information?

"Manman hasn’t said anything yet." Hernans raised his eyebrows slightly at him.

Shang Yu’s gaze carried a hint of coldness, "I advise you not to have any ideas about Manman."

"What qualifies you to say that?" Hernans retorted.

Pursuing an excellent female was perfectly normal.

Just fair competition.

Their gazes clashed, and it seemed as if a silent, smokeless war was quietly unfolding in the air.

Yu Manman, unaware of their conversation, entered the yacht to talk with Ackman.

"Instructor..."

"Is there something you need?" Ackman asked.

"Can we not destroy the Fallen Species our group just killed immediately?"

Usually, after a Fallen Species was killed, it would be retrieved and destroyed.

Though there’s no concrete research proving ocean creatures would definitely mutate if they ate Fallen Species meat, it certainly had some influence.

To prevent ocean creatures from eating the Fallen Species meat and mutating, as well as to avoid polluting the ocean, they always made every effort to dispose of the Fallen species’ corpse.

"What’s up?" Ackman looked at her.

"I suspect that this Fallen Species is not an ordinary one. It seems off and... may have been manufactured."

Ackman paused, frowning.

This matter was not small at all.

He opened the Light Brain, contacted the retrieval team, and asked them to separately bring back the corpse of that ray, and then transport it to the base.

"First... put it in the ice room," Ackman said, glancing at Yu Manman with a hint of inquiry.

"Don’t put it in the ice room. The ice room is too cold and will damage the structure," Yu Manman hurriedly explained, "You can keep it in a storage room between two to six degrees Celsius..."

Ackman nodded slightly, relaying Yu Manman’s instructions.

"Alright, I’ve arranged it."

Then Ackman asked, "What do you know? Why did you say that?"

Yu Manman looked at him, "Instructor, do you believe what I said?"

"Better to believe it exists than not," Ackman replied with a serious look, "Even if it’s false, we have to test it to be sure."

"You wouldn’t joke about something like this; it must be something real."

"Have you encountered similar Fallen Species before?"

Listening to his inquiry, Yu Manman nodded, then shook her head, "Not encountered, but a similar Fallen Species has been manufactured before..."

Ackman’s pupils contracted, "What do you mean?"

Did this female know what she was talking about?

"Instructor, my mother’s Beast Husband was once affected by a strange toxin..."

Yu Manman told Ackman about how Lai was poisoned by Esie back in the day.

"Back then, my fourth father took detoxification medicine and didn’t turn irrational, but the toxins in his body mutated."

"To detoxify, my fourth father began researching that poison."

Lai conducted experiments and found that mice injected with the toxin would exhibit a frenzied state, very similar to the Fallen Species.

However, the blood in infected mice carried a barely detectable, eerie, floral scent.

"Even after my fourth father concocted the poison, he still couldn’t solve the issue of his own body’s toxins. But I’m sure the poison he created never got leaked."

Thus, Yu Manman suspected there was someone else at that time who obtained the poison.

The Burles family was truly detestable; even after being burned to ashes for so many years, the poison they used to study mysteriously reappeared!

"Whether it’s the same toxin my fourth father encountered back then needs to be tested," Yu Manman said.

"Can you do it?" Ackman looked at her.

From what he knew, Yu Manman was skilled in the medical arts, and seemingly not at a low level. She had even applied to have a laboratory at school...

Yu Manman nodded, "I can. I learned medicine from my fourth father and researched this toxin."

"Okay, I’ll assign the test task to you! Once we dock, follow me to the base. If the test results come out, I’ll report it immediately..."

Manufactured Fallen Species... and this could just be a preliminary experiment.

From what Yu Manman just recounted about the Burles family, he knew the toxin was imperfect, and the Burles family wanted nothing more than to develop it into a drug that could control people while greatly increasing combat power.

Ackman’s eyes narrowed, suddenly realizing something...

That smell of blood, he seemed to have smelled it before!