The suddenly stunned Johnny naturally attracted the attention of Reed and Janna. After all, his sudden expression of almost collapse would indeed make people very concerned.
"No...it's okay..."
Johnny swallowed a mouthful of saliva and tried to calm down his nervous emotions. The images that kept flashing in front of him revealed an equally cruel fact.
In fact, he is not just a cat. Just like the two miserable experimental subjects in front of him, while he was a cat, he was also a human being.
An ordinary person from the Zuan Divide District who is struggling in the Zuan Divide District and trying hard to survive.
Feng Yibu's experiment was not just about strengthening and transforming cats. Like Xingid, he was also very interested in transforming and strengthening his own body.
After all, there is an example of a "predecessor" like Singed who has lived for more than two hundred years. Most of those professors and doctors who are obsessed with studying alchemical technology want to obtain a life as long as Singed through alchemical technology.
Using cats as experimental subjects is just a cover for Feng Yibu. If he wants to verify whether his technology can work, he will eventually have to conduct experiments on humans.
And poor people like "Johnny Silverhand" from the lowest level of Zaun's sewer area are the best targets for Feng Yibo to deceive, and can be used to conduct cruel and inhumane human experiments.
As a poor man with little education, Johnny was first asked to sign a bunch of agreements that he couldn't even understand. Then he completely lost his personal freedom and became a "guinea pig" at Feng Yibo's mercy.
Even if they regretted it, they were unable to resist at all, because Feng Yibo was backed by the alchemist baron Wincher Spindler. The extremely ruthless alchemist baron would not take the lives of these poor people in the ditch seriously.
In fact, Feng Yibu's experiment at that time was not really successful. Johnny's current state is obviously not the truly perfect successful product that Feng Yibu hoped to see.
Although Johnny gained considerable wisdom and a very strong and agile body as a result of that experiment, Johnny is no longer a human being, but has merged with a cat and become a brand new species.
And the most critical thing is that the main consciousness that dominates the body consciousness is still the consciousness of the cat. The memory of being a human has disappeared. How can Feng Yibu accept this?
If he himself dominates his consciousness, then he can actually accept turning into a cat when his body is about to die. But if a cat dominates his consciousness, then what is the significance of doing this experiment?
Woolen cloth?
After all, his purpose is to gain a long life for himself, not to let a cat live in his place.
However, the dead Feng Yibu must have never imagined that when he saw those familiar words and saw this similar scene that he had experienced before, Johnny's memory as a human half was activated.
Moreover, those memories of his past have been successfully integrated with the cat half. He is both the once pitiful poor man in the trenches of Zauan and the "Johnny Silverhand" who now leads the mutated cats to survive.
Johnny knew that many of those mutated cats that had lost their minds were once humans just like him, but they were complete failures and had not been enhanced to high enough intelligence like him.
So Feng Yibu still "valued" his case very much at that time, which can also explain why Feng Yibu spoke to him in that tone, because Feng Yibu knew that he was once a human being.
fact.
Only now did Johnny finally determine the meaning of what Feng Yibu said. It was to him who was once a human being. It was indeed him who stole Feng Yibu's only "special case" experimental results and let that person
The man could no longer carry out further research, although he had not recovered his memory at that time.
"Since everything is alright, let's arrange it like this. With Janna here in Zaun, you don't have to worry about causing any trouble. It would be better if you can really save nature. If you can't save it, then you have done your best, and destiny is difficult.
Violation."
Although he noticed that Johnny was a little weird, since the other party was unwilling to say anything, Naide did not go into it any further. He agreed to Johnny's request and temporarily left the laboratory to let him find a way to save these experimental subjects.
"I will work hard to restore these poor people to normalcy as much as possible without causing trouble."
Seeing that Reed agreed to this matter, Johnny temporarily suppressed the throbbing in his heart and assured Reed very seriously.
Although his memory was restored, his thoughts still did not change. In other words, after regaining human memory, he became more determined to do this.
The reason why he wanted to do this before was actually largely due to his compassion.
But now he has different emotions towards these experimental subjects. After all, the human perspective is slightly different from the previous cat perspective in seeing things and people. Now he can empathize with them more.
Looking at Janna at this time, Johnny's eyes also showed some changes, which was respect for the gods. He could not be regarded as a believer of Janna before, but when he was a human, his parents were
Followers of Janna.
They died in the dangerous work in the Zaun trench area, which made him very suspicious of Janna's existence as a child, so he did not inherit his parents' belief in Janna.
But today, he and Janna really met. He once again believed in Janna's existence, and finally understood one thing.
That is to say, Janna is not always available. She still has many more important matters to deal with, and there is no way to take care of the life and death of two poor people in the Zaun Diggy District.
"I feel like you're a little weird."
Reed glanced at Johnny warily. Could this white-haired cat have any strange thoughts about Janna?
"Maybe it's because of the heavy responsibility. After all, I have to take care of those of my own race. These two responsibilities are not easy."
Johnny reluctantly replied that he had no idea of telling Reed the matter because he chose to accept his current life and the name "Johnny Silverhand" given to him by Reed. He used to be a loner, but now
He bears the fate of many people.
"Okay, then you can do your best. After all, you have chosen this path yourself. I can't help you. But after I establish the branch, you can go to the professors and inventors in the college.
Let’s help.”
At this point, Reed remembered what he was here to do. He hadn't decided on the address of the branch school yet.