Many cylindrical cages glowing with white light were lined up inside the room where the captives were kept.
The surroundings were terrifyingly quiet. Therefore, the soft sounds of the soldiers inside the cages hammering the walls of the cages were exceptionally clear. Their cries like that of trapped beasts grew even more feeble and powerless in this one square meter or so large cage.
Silin sat obediently inside the cage with his legs slightly curled up and his eyes closed. He was waiting and paying attention to the movements outside the cage at the same time. He couldn't see the outside from inside the cage, but Silin could sense the movements outside through the minute vibrations and the changes in machine language.
Although he couldn't understand the situation outside without looking like Czedow and Huimao could, it was absolutely possible for him to get a general idea. For example, when a researcher came over to inspect the situation, Silin would be able to sense them. Silin could sense how long the researcher stayed in front of the cage for, how long they stayed in front of the cage, what route they were patrolling and so on.
Other than storing his stamina and sensing the situation outside, Silin was also counting the time in his mind. Suddenly, Silin's heart skipped a beat. He sensed something unusual outside. It wasn't obvious, and even people outside the cage might not be able to detect it with their hearing alone.
Somewhere on the wall of the room where the captives were kept, a watery ripple appeared. Then, a person walked out of the ripple. It was a guy with a metallic luster, and his face was blurry. He could only make out a human shape. The whole process was almost completely silent. There were only a few shallow ripples where his body came into contact with the wall.
Silin didn't know what the newcomer looked like, but the feeling the newcomer gave off reminded Silin of a person he met in the prison of Sector S.
'Mist'? Or 'Wushe's'?
Regardless of which side they were from, Silin was pretty surprised right now. As the two top assassin organizations in the League of Stars, be it 'Mist' or 'Wushe', their every move was thought-provoking. This was especially true on this planet that belonged to 'Miracle' and had built quite a few large experimental bases.
What were they here for? A person, or a drug?
The "Miracle" company was most famous for their genetic medicine, but if they wanted to find genetic medicine, they didn't have to come to this place where the captives were held, right?
Silin kept his head down and maintained his previous posture. From the outside, he looked like a sleeping person. The visitor did not pay any attention to Silin. After scanning the room, he stepped into the wall again. The ripples disappeared, and everything returned to how it was before. It was as if no one had ever been here.
Although there were no researchers in the room, there were several monitoring devices that could clearly see what was going on in the room. Since that person could walk out of the wall so brazenly, he definitely wasn't afraid of being discovered by the surveillance camera. In other words, the surveillance camera had been activated, so he definitely had accomplices, possibly even several.
Things were getting complicated.
However, this was not necessarily a bad thing. At least they could directly push the blame for what happened next.
Time slowly passed, and the researchers at the base continued with their work as usual.
In another base that was slightly further away from the research base that Silin was in, two researchers were chatting in the break room during their free time, complaining about the experiments that kept failing recently.
"It's still not working. The stability can't be improved no matter what, and the side effects are too great. In just one afternoon, we have already failed more than 20 cases, and the people above are still pressuring us. It's so tiring, so annoying," one of the researchers complained.
They did not come to this place to conduct research completely out of their own free will. They were only standing here because of the coercion and bribery of the "Miracle" company.
At first, they were also quite surprised. After all, the people used as test subjects here were all soldiers, and some of them had quite high military ranks. Relatively speaking, these people had strong physical fitness, so they were all very good test subjects. If this was in the past, these few small researchers would not have dared to experiment on these soldiers and officers. They could not afford the revenge of the League of Stars army. But now … the situation was different, and they were used to it.
Listening to this person's complaints, the other researcher sitting beside him nodded in agreement. "That's right. We have also failed quite a lot over there. Although the first batch of experimental subjects were still considered successful, the success rate for further strengthening is generally not high. Human genes also have their limits. Even if they have been modified, this limit cannot be ignored. "
"I don't agree with this. Our modification is to break through the limits of the original genes. Otherwise, why would it be called modification? Also … "
Then there was silence.
"Hmm? Continue, I'm listening. " The researcher who was drinking water with his head lowered and listening to the other person's reasons for disagreeing realized that the person beside him was not saying anything after a while. He turned his head to look at the person beside him and realized that the other person was looking at him in horror.
"What's wrong?"
"Your … your face!" That person jumped away abruptly and pointed a trembling finger at the person holding the cup.
"My face?"
That researcher put down the cup and raised his hand to touch his face. This time, he also exclaimed in shock. He did not see what exactly happened to his face, but he saw that brown spots gradually appeared on his raised hand. He hurriedly rolled up his sleeves and realized that his entire arm was in the same condition. Needless to say, brown spots must have appeared on his face as well.
"You have it on your body too!" the person covered in brown spots shouted at his colleague who was about to rush out.
Indeed, the other person's symptoms had only appeared two minutes later, but like the former, brown spots had begun to appear on his body.
This was not the kind of color spots that appeared on the bodies of the elderly. The spots on their bodies, big and small, were all oval in shape. Moreover, the subcutaneous nerves where the spots appeared seemed to have already died and could not be felt. Even if a knife were to be slid on those spots, the person would not feel any pain.
Was this a virus infection? Or was it the effect of drugs?
They did not know.
The laboratory's virus defense system did not give any warning, and they themselves had not come into contact with any drugs that could cause such symptoms.
Fear.
The sudden fear was rapid and intense.
People who were engaged in biochemical experiments had a natural sense of panic when faced with such a situation. They had seen all kinds of changes that happened to their test subjects. Therefore, in order to prevent themselves from being infected with something bad, they were very careful about self-protection. Moreover, the biochemical laboratory on this planet base had all kinds of protection and disinfection facilities. After working here for more than two years, there had not been any cases of infection. Other than a few researchers who were injured by failed test subjects, the others had always been fine.
But, what was going on now?!
Protective clothing, disinfection room, multi-level buffer room, isolation room … All of these should not be a problem. Could it be the effect of the drug?
Before these two people had time to react to what had happened to them, an ear-piercing scream outside the lounge officially swept up the uneasiness of this laboratory.
The laboratory was in chaos.
In addition to this laboratory, several other laboratories in the base were experiencing the same situation. Soon, the entire base was filled with people screaming in fear. They were afraid, afraid of becoming the same as those test subjects.
Such a large-scale situation must have been caused by the spread of the virus. The effect of the drug would not be so fast and affect such a large area.
Because most people believed that this was a symptom of a virus infection, they were especially panicked. In fact, if the symptoms were the same as those test subjects, their fear might be less, but the problem was that the symptoms appearing on their bodies were not the same as the test subjects after being forcibly infected by the virus carrier.
The unknown was the scariest, because you had no idea where to start to save it.
At the same time that the chaos caused by the infection occurred in this experimental base, similar situations began to occur in two other bases. News of an unknown virus infection spread, and the other experimental bases on the planet that had not yet found cases were all in a tense state of alert.
The base's defense system could not detect this virus, and the disinfection situation in the disinfection room and the buffer room outside the sterile room could not be confirmed.
The virus base's response was very fast. They had already set up a special team and began to study this virus. However, within a few hours, the news that came made the panic escalate again — several senior researchers in the team had been infected, and the situation of the other team members was pending.
This "pending" was actually just a superficial excuse. Since it was the same research team, it was only a matter of time before the rest of the team became infected.
The incubation period of this virus in different people was different. Some people might become infected immediately, while others might wait for two to three hours. Most importantly, the frequency of its mutation was very high, leaving several senior researchers in the research team at their wits' end.
Now everyone only knew that this virus would numb people's nerves. So far, there had been no cases of death, but the people in the base did not feel relaxed at all. No one dared to be sure that this virus would not be fatal. Perhaps this was only the initial stage of the mutation, and it was not life-threatening. Then what next? When the numbness of the surface nerves gradually spread, coupled with the high frequency of the virus's mutation, who could guarantee that it would not become a fierce killer?
The base that did not have any cases of virus infection refused to allow outsiders to enter, and the original defense system was upgraded. The people in the base also did not have the mood to do their own things. They preferred to lock themselves in closed rooms, isolated from the outside world, for fear of being infected. They agreed to work here for money, not to lose their lives.
When the few bases were in chaos, Huimao, who was squatting in a small corner, looked at the panicking people, calmly stretched, tilted his head, scratched his ears with his hind legs, and shook his fur. He continued to "cast the net."
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