"I have bad news. According to our sources, Caldwell, one of the executives of 'Miracle', had just ordered us to destroy this base and make it look like an accident."
"How much time do we have left?" Silin asked.
"I don't know, but it's best if we leave the base within ten minutes. We'll meet up at the 'Miracle Goddess'."
"Alright."
"Silin … be careful." Although the incident back then wasn't real, he still felt a sense of suffocation every time he thought back to it.
"I know. You guys be careful too."
After ending the call, Silin carried the unconscious Chifeng and Xueqiu out and passed them to Czedow.
"Take them to the Miracle Goddess's statue. Qiuqiu and Wheeze are heading that way. Leave this place immediately. This place is going to be 'cleaned'."
"What about you?" Czedow asked.
"You guys go first. I'll catch up later."
Czedow nodded and stopped asking questions. He put on the protective masks for Chifeng and Xueqiu, grabbed them in each hand and ran outside.
Czedow had released all the experimental beasts he had locked up in the base. Although the parasites didn't like them too much, the vapors of the parasite-infected puppets' blood were enough to drive them mad.
The maddened experimental beasts fought against the base's guards and the uncontrollable parasite-infected puppets. Severed limbs and bloodstains could be seen everywhere. Gunshots, curses, screams of pain and roars of beasts were all mixed together.
Czedow had activated a protective barrier around himself. Right now, his main goal was to escape, not attack. That was why Czedow was nimbly weaving through the gaps between the giant experimental beasts. If there were any puppets blocking his way, Czedow would simply ram his way through them. Czedow's cannonball like impact knocked the puppets over like they had been rammed by an armored car.
After the gray cat received Cillin's message, it led Tang Qiuqiu away through a small, secluded passageway. The passageway was originally used to transport medicine and goods, so it was a little crowded even for an adult. It was even more impossible for the puppets and the gigantic experimental beasts to enter. Moreover, the parasites didn't give a damn about them either, so Tang Qiuqiu and the gray cat's escape was relatively smooth.
Tang Qiuqiu had sniped a couple of experimenters and a dozen or so puppets. She had also found her emblem in an inventory room. In the face of the puppets that had already become inhuman and the experimental beasts that were roaring and baring their fangs and claws, Tang Qiuqiqiu was much calmer than her peers. The environment in which she had grown up, coupled with the many things she had experienced later on, had tempered her mind and made her much more tenacious.
Tang Qiuqiu did not ask what would happen to the others. After Huimao said that he would take her away, Tang Qiuqiu quickly followed behind Huimao without a word. In a Hunter regiment, doing their job well was the greatest help to the team.
Silin looked at the time, left the lab and walked toward another passage.
Under Czedow's command, all the access controls in this area were removed, and all the passages were opened. Silin ran toward a certain direction.
When Cillin walked into this area, he had a feeling that there was an inexplicable attraction from a certain direction in this area, beckoning Cillin to go there.
Olillo's star map fragment!!
It resonated with the one he obtained from the "Sky Prison" Hunter regiment's traitor back at Sector S. Right now, the two fragments were attracting each other like two magnets. Although one was inside subspace, the attraction between them was as clear as day.
A puppet covered in black and red blood rushed towards him. Cillin jumped up and stepped on the puppet's head before jumping far away. He flicked out his wrist blade and cut open the head of a puppet in front of him with a pop.
At the entrance of the passage ahead, an experimental beast was fighting against a puppet. The narrow space of the passage limited the experimental beast's abilities, and the puppets had the advantage in numbers and were much stronger than their original bodies before they were modified. It was a situation where both sides were heavily injured. The experimental beast was repeatedly stepping on some of the fallen puppets on the ground. Half of their bodies had been stomped into meat paste, but their heads were still there. Their mouths were open and closed, and their faces were covered in protruding meridians and black and red blood. It was a very strange sight.
Silin seized an opening and slipped through like a swimming fish. Before the puppets and experimental beast could react, he quickly left.
I'm almost there!
After turning the corner, Silin saw a room. The door to this room was closed, which meant that this room was not under 'Al's' control. It was clearly in 'Al's' network area, but it was not under 'Al's' control. One could imagine how special this room was. Moreover, the star map fragment Silin was looking for was inside this room.
Since he didn't know if it required iris, fingerprints, genes, or something else to pass through, Silin didn't use the information Czedow collected directly.
He took out a button-like object and sucked it onto the scanner. A light screen popped up, and some characters appeared on the light screen. Silin's fingers flew across the light screen. After the characters were combined and decoded, they flashed by one after another and slowly formed a double link...
Mitochondrial DNA?
Inside the room, Shelt was covered in blood. He was connected to the communicator while receiving treatment from the medical apparatus. He was panting heavily.
However, no one answered his call. Shelt felt colder and colder, and the feeling of uneasiness grew stronger and stronger. This uneasiness escalated to a certain degree and turned into extreme anger.
Although Shelt was usually simple-minded when it came to anything outside of experiments, he had finally thought through some things.
Caldwell, are you trying to destroy this research base?!
Shelt's hand holding the communicator was shaking. He murmured, "You can't do this, you can't … these are all rare experimental data. You can't lose them, you absolutely can't lose them …"
Beep — —
The door opened.
Shelt abruptly turned his head to look outside the door. A pungent smell came into the room, and there were roars and gunshots in the distance.
There was no one outside the door.
"Who … who's outside?!" Shelt's voice was a little hoarse and filled with intense panic.
There was no reply.
Shelt barely managed to prop himself up. The hand holding the gun was still trembling. The broken bones and damaged muscles made even the smallest movement extremely difficult for him. It was already a blessing that he was able to make it this far alive.
Pu!
A needle was pierced into Shelt's neck, and the toxins contained in the needle quickly seeped into Shelt's body. When Shelt fell, he only saw a hazy figure. Although the toxins attacked quickly, Shelt's tolerance to drugs had improved after so many years of research. He didn't faint immediately. Instead, he pointed to a cabinet. "… Take it away …"
After uttering these two words, Shelt didn't make any more movements.
The cabinet also had a password set, but it did not take Silin much time to crack it. Opening the thick alloy cabinet, there was only a metal box inside, and the password to the metal box was Shelt's genetic sequence.
After opening the metal box, Silin saw a star atlas fragment and a chip inside.
Without checking what was inside the chip, there was no time. Silin searched the room briefly and came out. As soon as he stepped out, he saw an image.
It was' Elle ', and the image was created by the system. A beautiful girl dressed in white, special eyelids, and a pair of snow-white wings on her back. Silin thought that it was Elvia, the Goddess of Miracles from the Myth of Creation.
Right now, 'Elle's' image was unstable and flickering from time to time.
"Are you Silin? Is it the intelligent system you created? "Al asked.
Silin frowned. It seemed that the AI system in the research base still had a buffer, and it still survived Czedow's interception.
Silin did not answer, but 'Elle' continued, "I'm just telling you that I'm not my father's proudest creation. I'm just an eliminated one, and my father gave it to Shelt."
"Who is your father?"
"All I know is that people call him Juno. He's the one who created the strongest AI system in this world, not you …"
Elle's image disappeared with the last word.
Who is Juno?
Silin put the question aside for now. Right now, the most important thing was to escape this place. There were only three minutes left in the ten minutes that Linette had mentioned.
The research base was still filled with chaos and panic. The parasites seemed to have entered a hotbed as they gnawed on the puppets' brains madly. The puppets were even crazier, and the only thing left in their minds was slaughter. The experimental beasts were rampaging, and the gaseous environment inside the base was making them more and more irritable.
The experimenters had become the sacrifices of both sides, and after the guards saw the situation, they no longer cared about what was going on here. They all had the mentality to escape.
On the other side of the planet, there was a bustling city.
Inside a tall building, Caldwell looked at the giant statue of the goddess at the edge of the city and said softly, "Some people are destined to become sacrifices. Shelt has undoubtedly brought great profits to 'Miracle', but even under such circumstances, he still cannot change his fate. He can only blame himself for being too conceited and not listening to advice. "
Many people had criticized 'Miracle' for so many years because of Shelt's matter, but when these criticisms accumulated together, it became a different story. Finally, it exploded directly this time.
Caldwell's words sounded dignified, but in fact, how could Shelt do these things without the tacit approval of the management?
"Boss, everything is ready."
"Let's begin."
"Yes!"
Caldwell looked at the image in his hand. The vast base was slowly expanding in all directions with a loud bang like a storm. Everything was sucked in, torn apart, and destroyed. The huge research base was reduced to ashes after this loud bang.
Dust and debris were swept toward the city along with the wave of air, but the momentum was just right in front of the giant statue of the goddess, weakening to a bearable range. What was left was no different from an ordinary sandstorm.
However, the sky full of sand and dust also blocked the view of some people.
The giant statue of the goddess, Elvia, the God of Miracles in the Myth of Creation. The wings on her back seemed to bear the pain for everyone. Her open arms and those smiling eyes that were wrapped in special eyelids were said to bring miracles to people. Pure white ankles were wrapped around her ankles, and they looked as if they were dancing in the sandstorm.
And on top of this giant statue, between the folds of the goddess' skirt lay many people covered in dust.
"Fuck, pooh, I blew it into my mouth!"
"Cough, cough, cough. Fuck, that was close. Thank goodness I ran fast or I would've been blown away."
"What the fuck are you shouting for? Is everyone here?" Knight crouched down in the folds and said to the communicator.
The group of ten people reported their situation one after another. The statue of the goddess was huge, and there were a lot of folds on the goddess' skirt. Everyone arrived at different times and crouched down in different places. After confirming their positions, they slowly gathered toward Knight.
Huimao, Tang Qiuqiu, Czedow, and Czedow's Xueqiu and Chifeng had found a place to crouch down, but Silin's figure was nowhere to be seen.
"Silin, are you there?" Knight spoke into the communicator again. Knight would ask every once in a while, but there was no reply until now. His temper rose again, "Where the hell are you? Can't you give me a fucking squeak?!"
Knight was yelling at the communicator when a flying claw suddenly flew toward him. He tilted his head to the side and evaded it.
The flying claw landed on the protruding folds with a clang, and the thin threads attached to the claw contracted. Then, a person smashed over and collided with Knight with a bang, almost causing Knight to slip and fall down from the impact.
"Holy shit … fuck!" Knight slid down and rolled on the ground. After he steadied himself, he kicked the culprit, "Can't you just hit me somewhere else?!"
"Ahem." Cillin wiped the sand off his face and sat down with his back leaning against the protruding part of the crease. He ignored Knight's kick and smiled at him, "I'm really sorry, this shitty environment is affecting my vision."
"Bullshit! How dare you hit me when it's affecting your vision?! "Knight kicked Silin a few more times while saying," Your claw almost smashed my head. "
"You wouldn't be Knight if you were so easily smashed."
Knight let out a snort and sat down next to Cillin while leaning against the protruding wall, "What took you so long?"
"I ran into a little trouble, but I got something."
Silin felt a lot more at ease after learning that everyone was here.
"My dad always says I'm restless, but you're even more restless than me, you bastard."
Silin threw a punch at him, "Who's your dad?"
"Son, let's hear it."
"Fuck off."
Silin's communicator rang while he was talking. It was Czedow.
"What's wrong?" Silin asked.
"Something's wrong with Chifeng and Xueqiu. They've been injected with stimulants, and they're starting to react."
"I'll be there immediately."
Silin turned around and said something to Knight before heading to where Czedow and the others were. It was still better to catch the grappling hook rope. It would be difficult to move barehanded in a sandstorm like this, so it was better to use the grappling hook to save time.
When Silin arrived, he saw Chi Feng and Xueqiu convulsing all over. Tang Qiuqiu was looking at them worriedly from not far away, Huimao was standing in front of her, and Czedow was crouching beside Chi Feng and Xueqiu.
"This is the analysis result of the drug's composition and effects." A small light screen appeared in front of Czedow. It displayed the drug's molecular formula and other relevant data.
The sandstorm blocked the light from the sky, so Silin and the others were all shrouded in darkness. When the light screen appeared, their surroundings were illuminated. Xueqiu's pupils suddenly shrank when he felt the light from the light screen. Then, his pupils abruptly widened, and his aura turned ferocious. He bared his teeth and pounced towards the direction of the light screen.
Silin borrowed the momentum from Xueqiu's charge and kicked Xueqiu's side, sending him crashing into the statue's body. He also used the rebound time to wrap the rope around Xueqiu's body a couple of times, but Xueqiu easily broke free.
"Czedow!" Silin yelled.
After receiving Silin's signal, Czedow's hands turned into tentacles and bound Xueqiu. Although Xueqiu was struggling hard, he couldn't break free for the time being. Silin wanted to use this time to analyze the drug.
But it didn't take long for Chi Feng to wake up completely. His long fingernails were even sharper than before, and they left many cuts on the statue. The hair on his body was so long that it made Chifeng look even more like a wild beast than before.
Silin stopped Chifeng from pouncing towards him and yelled at Chifeng, "Look at me, Chifeng! Look into my eyes!"
Chifeng's struggling and biting movements slowly came to a stop when he saw Silin's eyes. It was as if a power was controlling him.
"Look into my eyes, Chifeng. Look …" Silin's deep voice brought Chifeng into another world amidst the whistling sandstorm.
"Chifeng, do you remember what I asked you before you joined Vanguard? Tell me that answer again. Do you choose to be a human or a hellhound? "
Chifeng looked into Silin's eyes, but his eyes were unfocused. After hearing Silin's words, Chifeng paused for a moment, "... When... human..."
"Good! Since you've chosen to be a human, suppress the beast inside you. Don't let it control your body. Suppress it and control it! "
"Suppress it … control it …"
Chifeng repeated Silin's words. He didn't attack again when Silin let go of his claws. His eyes slowly closed and he collapsed.
Silin let out a sigh of relief, "The hypnosis still has some effect. This means that the effects of the drug aren't that bad yet."
After analyzing the drug once and combining it with the results Czedow had already analyzed, Silin quickly came up with a temporary solution to the problem.
He took out a few reagent bottles and injected Xueqiu and Chifeng with the medicine according to the calculated ratio. It was only after the duo's vital signs gradually returned to normal that he relaxed.
"This is all we can do for now. We'll deal with them once everything is over. Right now, we have limited resources, and the situation isn't easy to deal with."
"What's wrong with them?" Huimao walked over and asked.
"Some of their genes have been overstimulated, causing their consciousness to weaken. It's close to going berserk, but it's slightly better than that," Silin explained.
"How much longer is this going to last?"
"I don't know. It depends. At the very least, we're not alone."
The research base was destroyed, but the parasites were still alive, and the gas that came with the explosion was still there.
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