00:00Every day at work someone dies. Coworkers drop like flies around me, but I don't value my own life.
00:04I signed up for human experiments. I've been an orphan since birth. I worked three dangerous jobs
00:08just to save enough money to confess my love. When I finally saved enough to propose, she excitedly
00:12told me she was getting promoted. She was heading to another planet to develop new products for the
00:16company. Seeing how happy she was, I kept my feelings to myself. Not long after, I spotted
00:20her name on a recruitment poster. I tore down the poster and rushed to the personnel department to
00:24apply for a job. The lady at the front desk told me that tearing down the poster counted as property
00:27damage. I'd have to pay before I could even interview. I pulled out my bank card, only 13
00:31bits is inside. She saw how honest I looked and offered me an out. Just say the poster fell off
00:35by itself and I wouldn't have to pay, but I insisted I'd torn it down. I may be poor, but I don't lie.
00:39That's my bottom line. A month later, I became one of the company's new lab rats. I couldn't wait to
00:43see Feely, so when they poured acid on my skin to test a product's resistance, I didn't flinch.
00:47How would you rate the effectiveness of the product? It worked for a few seconds, so I'd give it a five,
00:53four. The company replaced my left hand with a mechanical arm. Then came a new experiment
00:57swallowing the company's product to test the duration of holding one's breath underwater.
01:00When the others were pushed into the pool, I jumped in voluntarily. I even enjoyed it. Each
01:04test brought me one step closer to my love. This experiment cost me my lungs, which were
01:10replaced with artificial ones. After a short recovery, I joined the third experiment. This
01:16time, I swallowed an anti-venom capsule and faced venomous beasts to see how long I could last.
01:21While I endured the agony of their bites, the figure I'd been dreaming of finally appeared. I rushed
01:25toward her, ignoring my wounds. I accidentally opened the beast's cage, but that didn't matter.
01:29My love didn't push me away. For a moment, it felt like the first time we met. Back then,
01:32we were just two kids from the slums. She used medicine she'd made herself to treat my wounds.
01:36I still carry the ribbon she wrapped around me that day. She worked her way into the company
01:39through sheer effort, and now she was the lead scientist. I was happy for her. The company
01:42had promised her a deal. If her products doubled profits next quarter, she'd transfer to headquarters
01:46and become the face of the brand. She came up with a ruthless plan, slash cost, by skipping costly
01:51human trials, which would save a fortune in R&D. And the sample size will be our whole
01:55customer base. People are going to die. Test subjects die all the time. Yeah, but it's
02:01our job. This is going to work. I just have to keep it from the chairman until the job is
02:06mine. I tried to stop her, but she ignored me. Her take. To climb higher, you have to pay
02:11a price. That's when I finally saw it. The girl who once wanted to change the world had
02:14changed. She'd become selfish, cold, willing to do anything to get ahead. Over the next few
02:18months, I went through the motions like a zombie, passively enduring test after test
02:22until nothing was left but my head. I had no organs left to use, but before the end,
02:25I wanted to report her and stop her madness. I came to the chairman's office with the video.
02:29However, I saw my love huddled in the corner, occupying the chairman's seat. Maybe guilt had
02:33caught up with her. Late at night, she fell into self-doubt. She asked me whether she was a bad
02:36person. I'm not a bad person. I hesitated for a moment, then I gave her my answer. You ain't a bad
02:42person. This is the first time I have told a lie in my life. After she secured her position,
02:47she went to the headquarters. As for me, the man who once gave her everything,
02:50I am no longer of any value. Now I just sweep the floors, muddling through empty days.
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