Those people …
Most of them were naked, but their critical parts were covered in a film that looked like latex. Crystal wires and cables were all over their bodies. Many of the crystal wires extended to the deepest parts of their bodies along their veins, nerves, and nerves.
Countless tentacles that looked like biochemical nerves dangled from the top of the medical cabins and were connected to their heads, too.
Next to every medical cabin, a new crystal processor with a rather powerful performance was placed to monitor their physical condition. Thousands of data changes were jumping on the light beam every second.
All the crystal processors were connected to a super crystal processor that occupied an enormous space at the end of the hall through cables that looked like boas.
All the crystal processors were still humming and flashing like ghostly fire. Bubbles were popping up in the green nutrition liquids, too.
Stimulated by the crystal wires, cables, and biochemical nerves, the half-dead, half-dead people were not only cramping softly, but also showing all kinds of emotions on their faces. Some of them even opened their eyes all of a sudden. Their hollow eyeballs were rolling crazily, projecting lifeless brilliance.
Death lights crisscrossed, outlining a hair-raising scene!
However, no matter how they cramped and how their facial expressions changed, they were sealed in the tiny medical cabins all the time and did not seem to have really woken up.
Li Yao swallowed and stuck his right hand to the tempered glass softly. After he exerted his strength, the entire tempered glass immediately shattered into thousands of pieces on the floor.
The sound of the splashing glass was particularly clear and earsplitting in the hall that was filled with nothing but dead silence.
Floating in midair, Li Yao and Long Yangjun flew into the weird hall among the hundreds of medical cabins and the hundreds of people who were neither alive nor dead.
Even though some of them had their eyes wide open, they ignored Li Yao and Long Yangjun's arrival, as if they were dwelling in a different world and only kept the trigger reactions of primitive animals in the real world.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun glanced at the nameplate of every medical cabin with their sharp eyes. Li Yao even walked to the front of the crystal processors and typed quickly.
"This is the 'deep maintenance treatment center' of Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital."
"They are all vegetative patients who have been sent here for treatment. Most of them are specialists of the Spiritual Nexus and crystal processors in the past," Li Yao said.
"That explains a lot. According to the files I found on the Internet, Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital adopts some sort of 'Immersive Virtual Stimulation Therapy'. It creates a unique virtual space with the patients' old memories and injects them into their brains, immersing them in special dreams, which will bring intense stimulation to their brains and help them wake up. Other than that, their internal organs, limbs, and every other organ are also stimulated with bioelectricity for a long time."
Long Yangjun observed the vegetative patient in the medical cabin carefully through the glass window. "The stimulation of bioelectricity and the infusion of spiritual energy can maintain the patient's body functions before he falls into a coma as much as possible. The symptoms such as muscle atrophy, organ failure, and bone fragility that are commonly seen in vegetative patients will not occur … So to speak, this should be a public ward instead of a weird experiment base?
"But where are the doctors and nurses?"
Li Yao glanced around quickly and frowned. "Is there not a single doctor or nurse in such a spacious ward? Also, where did the battle puppets and the weirdos with super strong mental abilities come from?
"Also, do you not find it odd that I checked the files of more than ten patients in a row, only to discover that they are all specialists of the Spiritual Nexus and crystal processors. None of them are specialists in other fields."
"That's not surprising at all," Long Yangjun said.
"According to the introduction on the official website of Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital, the inpatient areas of their 'deep maintenance treatment center' are classified according to the profession, level, and type of the patients. In such a way, it is easier for the patients to resonate with each other. It is also more convenient for them to carry out large-scale treatment plans."
"Is that so? I feel that something is not right."
Li Yao stared at the vegetative patients who were soaked in the fluorescent green nutrition liquids in a daze. They were all admin-type, research-type, and creation-type Cultivators. They were all clerical workers who lived indoors for a long time. Naturally, their bodies were different from the 'gardeners' that they had encountered just now. They were not as perfect and strong.
Right then, they heard a series of glass breaking noises far away at the same time.
Although the sound was very far away and light, it was still keenly captured by the two Yuanying experts.
Looking at each other, the two of them immediately dashed toward the source of the sound.
On their way, they found another three halls in the same pattern. A thousand vegetative patients were lying quietly in the medical cabins. Stimulated by the bioelectricity and the spiritual energy of the outside world, their limbs were twisted, and their faces were vivid, as if they were in a dream.
"Hiss!"
Around the corner, a naked, brawny man suddenly screamed and pounced at the two of them. Naturally, he was directly sent flying by the two of them, smashing into the wall and creating a human-shaped crater. His bones were all shattered, and some red and white viscous liquid flowed out of his nostrils and ear canals.
"This is …"
On one of his knees, Li Yao wiped a cluster of greasy, sticky, fluorescent green liquids from the body and rubbed them with his fingertips. "These are nutrition liquids that contain tremendous spiritual energy. They are exactly the same as the ones that were injected into the medical cabins just now."
"Exactly. Also, the critical parts of this person are all covered in membranes that are as thin as paper."
Long Yangjun examined the man's skin carefully. "Look. There are also traces of crystal wires and tubes inserted into the body among the pores. They are exactly the same as the vegetative patients just now."
"Therefore …"
Li Yao blinked quickly. "The people who attacked us just now were all vegetative patients who had been in a coma for decades?"
The man who was suspected to be a vegetative patient must've just broken out of the medical cabin in an emergency. Not only did he not have the time to put on the Crystal Suit, he did not even have the time to put on his clothes. Nutrition liquids were still dripping from his body.
Therefore, following his footprints and the scent of the nutrition liquids in the air, the two of them easily tracked him to another ward on the ninth floor below the ground.
The view here was entirely different from the few floors above.
The surroundings were a mess. The lights were flickering. All the tempered glass had been smashed into pieces. Most of the medical cabins had exploded from the inside, as if something had broken out of the shell. The green nutrition liquids were flowing blatantly on the ground. The vegetative patients who should've been resting inside, however, were all gone, leaving only crystal wires, cables, and biochemical nerves that were shaking softly like dead tentacles.
"Aooo! Aooo! "
Inhuman roars that sounded like wolves and tigers were echoing from the depths of the ward.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun's pupils constricted violently as they saw an unbelievable, nightmarish scene.
The few medical cabins in the corner had not been broken yet, and the vegetative patients were still soaked inside. However, those 'vegetative patients' were completely different from what normal people knew. Their eyeballs were bulging to the extent that their eye sockets were about to be ripped apart, and their muscles were bulging like crystal bombs. Their veins, on the other hand, were expanding even faster than their muscles and tearing apart their skin like iron chains!
The crystal wires, cables, and all kinds of messy tubes that were deeply pierced into their limbs, internal organs, and cerebral cortex were all straightened. Countless invisible spiritual waves were unleashed, pouring enormous spiritual energy into their bodies crazily!
"Those guys are waking up!"
On the analysis light beam of Li Yao's Crystal Suit, the spiritual waves from the opposite side were getting more and more intense. A red warning of 'high-energy warning ahead' was even displayed. "Their soul and spiritual energy are getting stronger and stronger!"
"Crystal processor! Blow up the mainframe crystal processor!"
Li Yao and Long Yangjun took action at the same time. Before the enemy completely woke up, they blew up the crystal processors around them and the mainframe crystal processor at the center of the ward into smithereens.
Without the control of the crystal processors, all the crystal wires, cables, and tubes dangled down helplessly. The few vegetative patients gradually stopped dancing crazily, too. Their bloodshot eyes slowly closed, and they fell asleep again.
But one of the vegetative patients, perhaps it should not be called 'it' anymore, bashed hard and broke the glass shell of the medical cabin, rushing out together with the nutrition liquids.
But 'it' was not completely woken up, either. It seemed to be missing the last procedure of infusion. Like a confused animal, it crouched its head and sniffed around carefully.
Very soon, 'it' smelled the scents of Li Yao and Long Yangjun.
But it did not attack the two of them. Instead, it ran away in fear, like a hyena that had encountered a lion or a tiger.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun were ferocious beasts that were far stronger than 'it'. Purely based on the instincts of animals, 'it' did not have the courage to challenge two Yuanying experts.
The scene made Li Yao frown hard. His heart seemed to have been kneaded by a cold and wet hand. He could not have felt more uncomfortable.
"This place is different from the above. They are all battle-type Cultivators."
Long Yangjun checked the nameplates next to the more than ten medical cabins quickly. "Also, those who can afford the astronomical treatment fees and live here for a long time are all high-level Cultivators above the Building Foundation Stage at least."
Li Yao's voice was cold. "So many of them?"
"This is just a small part of them. There are quite a few districts nearby. Also, they were all transferred here in recent years. According to the treatment plan in this place, their flesh and blood are not dried up, and their body functions are still very strong," Long Yangjun explained.
"First of all, during the Uranian Ring War, a lot of heavily wounded people were born on the Federation's side, including a batch of vegetative patients with serious brain damage. Then, in recent years, the discovery of Firefly brought the news that the Black Wind Fleet was about to arrive. In order to resist the expedition army of the Imperium, a lot of battle-type Cultivators of the Federation chose to upgrade themselves at the risk of their lives. Should they fail, they would be mentally deranged. They would be lucky to be sent here in time.
"Taking the two factors into account, at least ten percent of the vegetative patients treated here are battle-type Cultivators."
"So, there are almost three thousand battle-type Cultivators. They are all high-level Cultivators with profound Cultivation and powerful bloodlines."
Looking at the medical cabins that were on the brink of destruction, Li Yao mumbled, "But how did they wake up and become so weird? Why are they attacking us fearlessly?"
"No. They have not woken up."
Long Yangjun looked around. Under the cover of the weird, flickering lights, she said gloomily, "Perhaps they are not human beings. At the very least, they are not the Cultivators of the past. They are … 'shells'!"
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