Since Hua Li had left her safe zone to seek help, then the RB13s that had been released into the safe zone would definitely be able to destroy the sturdy materials outside.
Not long after Hua Li arrived, many large boxes fell from the sky above the planet. They were all made of special materials, and there was a password lock on the outside. The parachutes on top of the boxes opened when they fell from the sky.
In the forest, a few beasts that were hunting for food saw the box that fell from the sky and were very curious. After the box fell, these beasts slowly approached it. They walked around the box and sniffed, but didn't smell anything. The box was sealed so tightly that not even the slightest scent leaked out. Moreover, the outside of the box had been cleaned, so the beasts didn't sense anything out of the ordinary.
Bang!
The sudden noise from the box startled the nearby beasts and caused them to retreat a little. A while later, the beasts curiously approached the box again.
Bang! There was another noise, but this time it was even louder. It sounded like something was bumping against something inside the box. The box moved a little.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The noise grew more and more rapid. The beasts had gotten used to it by now, so they didn't retreat as far as they would the first time. Instead, they continued to wander around three meters away from the box.
Beep —
The password lock on the outside of the box rang, and the box was unlocked. The box opened with a click.
Its fur, the same color as the snow, was exposed. It looked very harmless. This was the RB13 that Neo had mentioned. It looked like a white mouse, except that it was a little bigger. With a height of one meter, it was much smaller than the beasts around it.
The white mouse looked around with its ruby eyes. It didn't seem to feel cold despite the low temperature. After sniffing a little, its gaze stopped on the moving beasts.
The beasts were no longer afraid when they saw that the white mouse was the only thing that came out of the box. Instead, they treated it like food, opened their mouths and bared their sharp teeth at the white mouse like a tiger watching its prey.
When one of the beasts pounced on the white mouse, the others hurriedly followed suit, afraid that they wouldn't get their turn if they fell behind...
Mournful cries rang out in the forest. Then, there were the faint sounds of chewing and flesh being torn apart.
A while later, all that was left was an empty box and some flesh that was slowly being covered by the snow.
The password lock on the box lit up, and the parachute straps on the box broke. The box gradually shrank, and its opening closed. It lay there quietly, buried by the snow.
Inside Neo's safe zone, everyone was watching a video in the living room. It was a hidden camera that Neo had placed in a corner of the forest earlier. Since some bioweapons and beasts would sense it when the video was transmitted, he hadn't turned it on until now. But Neo didn't care about that now. Moreover, there weren't many bioweapons or beasts in this weather, so the chances of being discovered were very low.
The video showed a Primary Bio-soldier fighting with a Direbeast, which attracted a white mouse. Although both the Direbeast and the Bio-soldier were injured, they were still full of fighting spirit. When they saw the newcomer, both sides looked at each other but didn't pay too much attention to it. However, Direbeasts didn't like a stranger sneaking up on them while they were fighting. So, the Direbeast closest to the white mouse let out a threatening roar. Before it could finish its roar, a white shadow flashed and the Direbeast's neck was bitten off.
After tossing the dead bioweapons to the side, the white mouse looked at the bioweapons. The bioweapons didn't know what fear was, and neither did they know how to run. Instead, they charged at the white mouse.
Brown blood splattered across the snowy ground. The bioweapons were instantly dismembered.
A white mouse against a white background, but the combination of colors was enough to make one's hair stand on end.
"So fast!" Gu Xin exclaimed.
"And its claws are very sharp." Erty looked at the white figure walking further and further away in the video. He then looked at the patch of brown flesh on the snow that looked like it had been cut by a knife. In just a split second, the white mouse had been able to tear a bio-soldier into such a state. Not only was it fast, its claws were sharp enough to cut through bone without hesitation.
Hua Li didn't say anything. She simply touched her long box.
"They still have room to grow." Neo added, "If every white mouse we send over is like this one, then they're only at the beginning of their growth. Their appetite is huge, their metabolism is fast, and they can grow a lot every day."
"What? Those things still have room to grow? Does that mean they'll grow even stronger? "Erty asked.
"That's for sure. Since they're biochemical beasts and were originally experimental subjects, their stability is very low, and their mutation rate is very high. They might be mutating and dissimilating at every moment, so the growth of each experimental subject doesn't have a fixed direction. Maybe one of them is an armor-type that focuses on defense, and the other one is an aggressive type. Who knows, that's why I said that RB13 is a failure." Neo still looked down on the RB13 even though it was a great threat. From an experimenter's point of view, RB13 was a failure in Neo's eyes.
"Is that so? I wonder if you'll turn into its feces in a few days, "Erty said mockingly.
"Do you think I'm an idiot? Why would I provoke those failures? You're the ones who should be leaving. "Neo wasn't worried about his life at all.
Hua Li wiped the spear in her hand. "Idiot!"
Neo was about to retaliate when Silin pulled him back. "Will the Tricolored Bean's toxin work?"
Neo's attention was attracted by Cillin's words. "I don't know about that. We can give it a try, but we'll have to change the gun first. If we're still using the same gun, we won't even be able to break RB13's skin."
Silin nodded and walked to where Neo kept his weapons.
It didn't take long before Silin walked out. "Neo, can I borrow a few spare parts from your lab?"
"No!" Neo rushed into the lab and raised an arm. "If you want to touch my stuff, you'll have to cross my dead body first!"
Erty, Gu Xin, and Hua Li all looked at Neo. Gu Xin spun the gun in his hand, Erty played with a small knife, and Hua Li raised the sniper rifle she had just assembled.
Neo: "..."
After a minute of stalemate, Neo twisted his neck and said, "I'd rather die than submit! This is my place, and I'm already being merciful by letting you in! "
"If you're alone, you'll die sooner or later if you run into those things. You know that the safe zone can't stop them at all. Even if you have an isolation pod, do you really think you can survive ten days inside one with your weak constitution?" Hua Li attacked him mercilessly.
Neo fell silent. It would be terrible if he had to rely on nutrient fluids to survive. His constitution was very resistant to nutrient fluids, and he had always believed that hibernation would affect his intelligence. That was why he had always rejected both methods. Hua Li's words were like a sword to Neo's chest.
Hua Li didn't like to be passive, so she immediately chose to find a partner the moment she learned that RB13 was going to be released into the planet. It would be very difficult for her if she was alone. She couldn't stay on the eagle's back all day, and most of the time, the most dangerous creatures weren't the beasts, but the humans. Hua Li knew that a lot of strangers had come to this area before she came here. They were probably the reserve newbies the organization had mentioned last time.
Ah Shou wasn't the only safe zone that had been taken over. Hua Li knew that there were three of them, but she didn't know if they were taken over through threats or cooperation. Hua Li didn't know that there were outsiders in Neo's place. She simply thought that Neo's place was a good location, and there were a lot of experimental equipment with great potential.
Many people in the organization knew that Neo had high requirements for his experiments, and a lot of the high-end equipment could be used as weapons. That was why Hua Li had come here. But Hua Li was even more relieved after she saw Silin and the others. Three helpers would be a bit more of a guarantee.
Neo's face scrunched up like a steamed bun. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "Then … you can only use a few of them. You must tell me every equipment you need! Otherwise, they won't be activated without my orders. "
"Of course."
After Silin walked into Neo's lab, he stopped in front of a test bench in a familiar manner. There were a couple of instruments on the bench, and after Neo had inputted his orders, Silin deftly dismantled some of the parts on the instruments. Neo was screaming at the side because he was afraid that Silin would destroy them.
Both Gu Xin and Erty were surprised to see that Silin had dismantled a couple of Neo's precision equipment with a palm compound knife. They didn't know that this guy was capable of this!
Gu Xin and Erty didn't know anything about Silin. In fact, they hadn't even heard of Silin before. If Gu Xin was still in the army, he would've been able to learn a lot from Silin, but he wasn't in the army right now.
As for Erty, he had heard of anyone with a bit of fame in the underworld such as Orville. However, he had never heard of Cillin before.
Silin used some of the parts he had dismantled from Neo's instruments to assemble a couple of simple devices. These devices would allow Silin to modify the guns in the warehouse. Complicated modifications were out of the question, but simple modifications were definitely doable.
An hour later, Silin tossed a gun to Gu Xin and Erty. He looked at Hua Li and tossed her a gun as well. Hua Li caught it.
The bullets were modified as well. Neo had synthesized a lot of poison earlier, so it was enough.
"Let's try it out first. If the poison doesn't work, we'll look for other ways immediately," Silin said after distributing the bullets.
It wasn't a good idea to sit around and wait for death. Silin preferred a prepared fight, and he needed to know his enemy better than anyone else.
It was still snowing outside, and the temperature was very low. Silin and the others put on a thin protective suit and a breathing mask before exiting Neo's safe zone.
The protective suit was white and could insulate them from body heat. This way, the wild beasts wouldn't be able to detect them due to the heat. However, their movements were slightly restricted after putting on the protective suit. They wouldn't be as agile as usual.
Although Neo said that he wasn't interested in a failed experiment like the RB13, he was still very concerned about the poison's effect on the RB13. After Silin and the others left, Neo entered the data processing room in the lab.
There were a lot of RB13s, and they were scattered all over the place when they landed. There were three RB13s in Cillin's area alone, and the one they were tailing was the one Neo's surveillance camera had captured. It was also the closest RB13 to the safe zone.
When the white dot appeared in their vision, Silin and the others held their breaths in unison. The white rat had just finished off a wild beast and was chewing on its meat.
According to the original plan, Hua Li and Erty were responsible for providing cover while Silin and Gu Xin were responsible for shooting the white rat with the poison. Therefore, Hua Li and Erty weren't armed with poisoned guns, but bullets with higher penetrative power.
Since there were trees in the way, Silin and Gu Xin were able to sneak closer to the white rat. Behind Silin, Erty's eyes flashed when he saw the young man sneaking in without a sound. In terms of stealth ability alone, Silin wasn't as good as Gu Xin. In fact, he was even better than the latter, but they didn't know him at all. That being said, it was strange that Silin trusted him so much. One shouldn't leave one's back to another so easily.
What Erty didn't know was that if he pointed his gun at Silin, the yawning Huimao next to him would probably bite him to death.
Silin didn't completely trust Erty and Hua Li. That was why he told Huimao to stay next to them so that he could attack them immediately if they made a move.
Silin made a hand signal to Gu Xin after he reached the predetermined position. It was a common gesture used in the military, so Gu Xin naturally understood Silin's meaning and responded with a 'I'm ready' gesture.
The duo aimed their guns at the white mouse. Cillin was aiming at the white mouse's ears, and Gu Xin was aiming at the white mouse's eyes. But the moment they fired, the white mouse sensed them and swiftly moved its body, causing the last two bullets to hit its torso. However, since both the bullets and the gun had been strengthened, they were able to break the skin a little, and the drugs should be able to seep in.
Silin immediately left the place he was hiding after firing the gun. He didn't even look at where he had hit the white rat. In the next moment, the white rat with two wounds on its body scuttled towards Silin.
Cillin didn't stop running. Sensing the movement behind him, Cillin dodged the white mouse's swinging claws and flipped over to kick the white mouse's neck. A white mouse's neck was very fragile, but that was only true for a normal white mouse. RB13 was undoubtedly a lot stronger than RB13. Cillin's kick was strong enough to break a tree as thick as a person, but the big white mouse only stumbled a few meters to the side after taking the kick.
Gu Xin, Hua Li, and Erty all fired at the white rat while it was slowed down by Silin's kick.
A couple of red spots had appeared on the white rat's body. They were the marks left behind by the bullets. However, the white rat was still as ferocious as ever. It ignored the people shooting from behind and chased after Silin.
Did the poison not work?!
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