The base where Mo Heng was located.
As the general manager of the base, An Bixin had been supervising the progress of the base. His project was favored by the higher-ups of Miracle, and they had invested a lot of manpower, material, and financial resources into it. An Bixin had also put a lot of effort into it, but the progress so far had not been satisfactory.
Compared to the research progress of the other bases on the planet, An Bixin's base had not produced much results. Two days ago, the higher-ups of Miracle had urged him to hurry up, so An Bixin had once again put pressure on the staff of the base.
While supervising the work of the base, An Bixin also paid attention to news from all sides. As one of Mo Heng's former students, An Bixin knew all too well what Mo Heng was capable of, so when he received the lightning-like image, An Bixin had been hoping to get his hands on the technology. If the higher-ups had not ordered for Mo Heng to be more lenient, An Bixin would have interrogated Mo Heng by force long ago.
An Bixin had people keep an eye on the movements of the Eleventh Team's captain, Silin, but the news he received was that all the members of the Eleventh Team were in the middle of their mission, and no one was missing. This made An Bixin very curious. Could it be that he had guessed wrong, and the news Mo Heng sent out was not for Silin?
The pressure from the higher-ups, the failure of the research, and the lack of confirmation of his guesses all made the usually calm An Bixin restless. He had a feeling that something was about to happen.
It did not take long for An Bixin's uneasy premonition to be confirmed — an unknown virus had appeared in other bases. So far, out of the nine large experimental bases around the world, five had been infected, and three of them were now heavily infected areas that were on the verge of collapse.
As soon as he received the news, An Bixin ordered the base to be locked down. People outside the base were not allowed to enter, and those inside the base could go out, but they were not allowed to come back, at least not before the unknown virus was developed. An Bixin even had people set up a quarantine line far away from the base. Anyone who crossed the line, unless they were a special personnel, would be killed.
An Bixin did not want his base to be infected by the virus. As long as one person was infected, the base would not be far from collapsing. Although he was an engineering researcher, he had some understanding of viruses, especially the base on the same planet. Some of the high-risk viruses involved in their research projects had always made An Bixin uneasy, so this mechanical engineering base had always been unwelcoming to people from the virus side. Even if they were not the first to be infected, An Bixin did not like them.
When An Bixin found out about the outbreak of the unknown virus, he had already cursed the people at the Virus and Biochemical Base a thousand times. He felt that it was their negligence that caused all the bases to fall into panic and unrest.
It was not that An Bixin did not suspect that someone was deliberately spreading the virus. He even instinctively suspected that it was Mo Heng's students or someone related to Mo Heng. However, the first case of infection occurred at a biochemical research base. That was one of Miracle's main genetic research projects. The security facilities there were more advanced than the mechanical engineering base, and the outbreak was a viral infection. Mo Heng, who was famous for his mechanical engineering skills, was completely unrelated to that field. In the end, An Bixin could only direct all his dissatisfaction to the person in charge of the biochemical and virus research base.
As usual, Mo Heng quietly stayed in his room. When he was bored, he would play with parts and assemble a machine. When he was tired, he would sleep and listen to some tunes.
At this moment, Mo Heng was resting on a chair. He had just assembled a machine and was a little tired, so he was about to take a nap. Unexpectedly, just as he was about to fall asleep, old man Sayd, who was also an academician of the League of Stars Academy of Engineering, came over to chat.
"Hey, old man Mo, how can you still sit still?" Sayd seemed a little uneasy and panicked.
"Why can't I sit still?" Mo Heng raised his eyelids lazily.
"You don't know?"
"Know what?"
"You didn't pay attention to the public platform of the base?" Sayd looked at Mo Heng in disbelief. This was such a big thing. Forget about the public platform, all he had to do was walk out of the room and chat with the research staff outside. How could Mo Heng not know?! What the hell was this old man thinking all day?
"I'm not in the mood to pay attention to it. I'd rather listen to some tunes." Fortunately, he could not sleep anymore. Mo Heng picked up a part and played with it.
Sayd's face was twisted as he told Mo Heng about the virus.
"Right now, everyone in the base is panicking. They're afraid that a case will appear in this base. If that happens, I'm afraid that all of us will die!"
Mo Heng was silent for a moment. "Is it that serious?"
"I heard that no one has died yet. I don't know if it's true or not, but it's true that this virus is very powerful. Otherwise, the newly formed special task force would not have been able to do anything about it. Instead, they would have died."
Sayd had always been sensitive to viruses. He had experienced something similar before, but the disaster area was not wide. Back then, the League of Stars Academy had quickly developed a special drug to stop the spread of the disaster. However, as an academician of the League of Stars Academy who had a good influence in the academic world, Sayd knew the hidden story behind that incident. The virus was spread from the laboratory. Therefore, since then, Sayd had stayed away from the virus laboratory. He did not even want to go to some biochemical laboratories. He just focused on his mechanical engineering projects.
Hearing Sayd's words, Mo Heng stopped playing with the parts and asked again, "What are the researchers going to do outside?"
Sayd sighed. "At first, An Bixin allowed someone else to go out because some researchers felt that it was not safe to stay in the base. If anyone was infected, everyone would be in trouble. After all, this virus was too fierce. It spread so fast that it caught everyone off guard. But later, more and more people wanted to go out. An Bixin stopped letting them go. Who would continue working on the project if they were all released? "
"Bullsh * t. Who would be able to calm down and work at a time like this?!" Mo Heng snorted. "However, it's not necessarily a good idea to go out of the base. If the virus really spreads as fast as you said, there must be a lot of pathogens in the air. Isn't it suicide to go out? There are some advanced protective and disinfection facilities in the base, but they won't be available if they go out. "
"That's true, but many people want to leave here directly. If they leave, they won't have to face the virus. Unfortunately, 'Miracle' won't agree. The satellite array outside is already on standby. Anyone who tries to go out will be killed by Wushe. Including the people in charge of each base. "
Mo Heng curled his lips. The people of 'Miracle' were indeed ruthless.
"Then what do you want to do?" Mo Heng looked at Sayd.
Sayd paused. "I'm going to close off the outside as well. Food is ready. I want to modify my house. At least if there's a virus outbreak in this base, I can be isolated from the patients. So, I want to ask you, do you want to do the same? If you're going to do that, stock up on food now. "
Sayd seemed overly nervous. Mo Heng did not give him an answer. Sayd did not wait any longer. He said a few words and left in a hurry.
Mo Heng lay on the chair and did not move for a long time. He naturally understood what Sayd was thinking. Many people in the base were probably doing the same. But Mo Heng had his own ideas. As the father of a general, he understood how the higher-ups thought.
If this place really fell, and the virus was too powerful, and they could not find a solution in a short period of time, the planet would probably be abandoned. The result of that was the forced destruction of the entire planet and the planet would be erased from the League of Stars. Even if they hid in their own 'sanctuary', what would happen?
While Mo Heng was thinking of a way to deal with it, Silin, who was locked in the white 'cage', was also calculating the time to act.
The first case of infection had just been discovered in the base where Cillin was imprisoned. After that, more and more infected people appeared one after another.
The people in the base, who were already nervous, were like a flock of frightened birds when the first infected appeared. The once orderly base was now in chaos. Ninety percent of the work had been suspended. No one was in the mood to continue with the engineering experiments. Now, everyone was wholeheartedly thinking about how to avoid the unknown virus and the infected in the base.
Everyone felt that the people around them were unreliable. Perhaps the person who walked past them was a carrier of the virus. Such thoughts quickly became deeply rooted in the minds of the researchers. They began to be wary of the people around them. Everyone wore protective suits and armed themselves to the teeth.
However, those who were knowledgeable understood that the special team established had the best protective equipment and so on on the entire planet. It was even the top research protective equipment of the entire Miracle Company. Moreover, the members of the team, even if it was just an assistant member, were absolute professionals who had worked in Miracle Company for many years. How could they be careless? Their isolation suits were not good enough? Their disinfection equipment was not advanced enough?
No! That was definitely not the case!
This was what made people afraid and uneasy. Even though they knew that the isolation suits on them might not be effective and that they would be infected sooner or later, people always had a sliver of hope. They would rather deceive themselves than face the cruel reality.
The researchers were not in the mood to pay attention, and the guards were all transferred to maintain order in the base.
Beep —
The white cages holding the captives were all opened. The soldiers who were originally in despair suddenly saw hope. They were happy and excited. Then, they desperately ran out. Although many of them had not recovered from their injuries, they could still take a few steps.
The captives staggered toward the door. Those who were in better condition had already pushed aside the people in front of them and tried to open the door.
Silin was a little surprised when the cages were opened. The timing was wrong. It was twenty minutes earlier than planned. Although twenty minutes wasn't a long time, Czedow, Shusag, and the others shouldn't have arrived so quickly if everything went according to plan. Therefore, there was no way Czedow was the one who opened the cages. In other words, it was either Yue Lou or the person who opened the cages. Silin didn't know if there were other parties involved.
In any case, the cages were opened so that they could move ahead and make preparations.
Silin and the captives mingled together. The captives in front of the door were almost fighting over how to open it when the door opened on its own. The captives rushed out of the room and ran in different directions. They didn't know where the path led to, and they didn't listen to anyone's advice. Right now, they only had one thought in their mind, and that was to keep running. They didn't want to get caught by those people in lab coats or those armed weirdos again.
The captives were weak and their injuries hadn't healed yet, so their escape speed was slower than usual. Silin, on the other hand, quickly left the base quietly. However, he didn't leave the base right away.
Silin followed the impression he had when he first came in. He turned at the fork and arrived at a room that looked like it was used to hold captives. Before he could get close, the door to the room opened, and all the cages holding the genetically modified test subjects were opened.
Fuck!
Needless to say, it must be the work of the people who opened the cell doors earlier.
Silin swiftly took out a gun that he had prepared a long time ago from the leaf-patterned ring and fired at the modifiers who were gradually awakening from their drugged state.
The bullets fired from this gun would split into a dozen or so pellets after they were fired. Each pellet contained some carrier genes, and these carrier genes were what Silin had extracted from the flies on the planet at Sector E who always fed on all kinds of drugs. He also added some key enzymes and other buffer drugs into each pellet.
After the pellets were shot into the bodies of the modifiers, they would swiftly take effect due to the metabolic activity of the modifiers and cause them to become resistant to a lot of drugs.
Normally, in genetic modification research projects, some drugs would be used to forcefully suppress the genetic modifiers. Otherwise, they would cause a lot of trouble if they were to awaken. The incomplete modifiers were unstable. They couldn't control their emotions, or in other words, their original emotions had been forcefully erased during the modification process. Therefore, the unsuccessful modifiers would enter a berserk state.
Most of the finished modifiers had already been used in 'Miracle's' own armed forces. Those big, fully-armed men were the finished products of their research. However, 'Miracle' wasn't satisfied with the abilities of these finished products. They hoped to carry out a second round of modification and strengthening on top of this foundation, and the ones in front of them were the test subjects for this second round of modification.
Be it a normal person or a modified test subject, all of them would be infected with the virus. However, humans would panic and be at a loss because of this, but these modifiers wouldn't. They didn't possess such thoughts and emotions. They were like brainwashed people. Once they were told to do something, they would carry it out until they could no longer move.
Due to the escape of the captives, the guards of the base would definitely rush over very soon. What Silin needed to do was to let these incomplete modifiers fight against the initial modified ones. Otherwise, Silin's movements would be restricted.
Let the people of 'Miracle' worry about it!
The fully-armed guards were already rushing over. Silin sped up his movements. When the first incomplete modifier that had awakened rushed over, Silin finished firing his last shot. He avoided the fist of the incomplete modifier and quickly escaped to the other side of the tunnel.
Meanwhile, the few incomplete modifiers that had been preparing to chase after Silin suddenly stopped in their tracks. They looked in the opposite direction of Silin's escape. A large number of footsteps could be heard coming from that direction. The sound of footsteps stimulated these newly awakened modifiers even more.
Confrontation, battle. Who was stronger, the initial genetic modification product or the incomplete secondary modification product that hadn't stabilized yet?
Regardless of which side was stronger, Silin didn't have the time to pay attention to it. His current goal wasn't this. He just wanted to let the incomplete modifiers fight against the guards of the base to buy time for him to act.
There were still a few rooms where the incomplete modifiers were locked up. However, looking at the situation, Silin couldn't deal with all of them in one go. He could only open fire when he bumped into any of them.
The situation in the base was getting more and more chaotic. The panic brought about by the virus and the release of the captives as well as the modified humans had turned the already chaotic base into a mess. No one noticed that there was a guy like Silin adding fuel to the fire.
In another part of the base, on top of a box in a warehouse, a handsome man with short hair was sitting. That man was busy working on the machine in his hands. The opening of several cages in the base was his work.
The walls of the warehouse flashed. A guy with a metallic luster and an indistinct face stepped out from the wall.
"You're finally back. The information has been collected. We need to leave as soon as possible!" The man sitting on the box said hurriedly.
"How unlucky. I can't believe I ran into such a mess!" The man who just walked out from the wall complained.
If it weren't for the virus, they would've stayed here for a longer time to collect more information and cause trouble. Unfortunately, they ran into such a mess.
"Hey, Liquid Silver, what if we get infected? Do we spread the virus to other people in the organization? " The man sitting on the box packed up his things and jumped to the ground. "Should we inform the organization in advance and prepare a funeral for us? Ugh, I don't want to die with you! "
"… Get out of here!"
"Hey, what kind of attitude is that? Is this the tone you use to talk to a lady? Don't walk so fast. Tell me, how did I do? The speed at which I opened the prison door wasn't bad, right? How does it compare to my brother? "
Liquid Silver, who already had one foot in the wall, didn't stop moving. He didn't even turn his head as he said, "Far from it. If it was Juno, completing what you did would only take half the time. "
"Nonsense, how could the difference be so big!"
"Believe it or not! Hurry up, Stora is still waiting! "Liquid Silver shouted.
They walked out of the warehouse, turned a corner, and quietly bypassed a restaurant. The two came to a staff dormitory. The researcher in the lounge had already been injected with the drug and was sleeping soundly. On the bed in the dormitory, there was a young man sitting cross-legged with his chin in his hand. No one knew what he was thinking.
"Hey, Stora, what are you thinking about? Hurry up and pack up and leave!" Liquid Silver went over and kicked the guy who was sitting on the bed.
Seeing the two come in, Stowe stretched and moved his legs. "Judy, you're so slow."
Liquid Silver gave Judy a look that said, "See, I told you."
Judy snorted, turned around, and walked out. Liquid Silver and Stora followed. They had to leave this place as soon as possible. When the virus broke out, they injected themselves with a kind of potion. This potion would increase their body's resistance to the virus, but they were not sure if it could completely resist it. They could only go back first.
"There's no one there. I controlled the surveillance and checked." Judy pointed to one of the passages at the fork and said to the other two.
The trio quickened their pace and entered the passage. However, they came to a halt after turning a corner. Not far in front of them stood two people.
Although they had always tried to discourage Judy, they believed in her abilities. The organization wouldn't have assigned her the mission otherwise. However, the current situation proved that Judy had failed. These two people had the ability to avoid Judy's surveillance net, and they were adept at concealment. Otherwise, they would've noticed them already.
Czedow and Shusag were still in disguise, so they weren't worried about being recorded by the enemy's surveillance system.
Opposite them, Shusag was also puzzled. Which side did they belong to? According to Czedow, someone had modified the surveillance system and done something they hadn't gotten the chance to do yet. He wasn't expecting to run into them this soon.
The standoff lasted less than five seconds before Liquid Silver waved his arm and fired several metal nails at Shusag and Czedow. Then, he flashed into the wall of the passage.
Shusag extended a finger, but he didn't use his specialized finger bones. Instead, a metal claw-like glove covered his entire hand and deflected the incoming nails. At the same time, he spun around and grabbed a long spike sticking out of the wall with his other hand. It was Liquid Silver's hand that was attached to the other end of the spike.
When Liquid Silver shot out the metal spikes, Judy retreated. She wanted to quickly retreat from the battle and give Liquid Silver and Stora space. Her presence would only limit Liquid Silver and Stora's abilities. This was how they cooperated.
While Shusag was dealing with Liquid Silver, Czedow was dodging the flying nails. At the same time, Stola had also moved. Compared to Liquid Silver, Stola was much more "quiet" at the start. All he did was raise his hand.
He simply raised his hand and fired a bullet at Czedow. Czedow blocked his forehead with his hand after dodging the flying nail. The bullet passed through his palm and went between his eyebrows. At the same time, Czedow was hit in six other places on his body, including his heart.
He had fired seven bullets in an instant, and every single one of them was deadly.
But that wasn't the end. After the bullet pierced through Czedow, the person who was standing not far away from him appeared in front of him in a flash.
Pfft pfft pfft pfft!
From behind, it looked like Czedow had been pierced through by a ball of sharp knives.
After this successful attack, Stola quickly retreated. At first, he was very confident in his marksmanship, but he suddenly felt that something was wrong with the person in front of him. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, so he followed up with the next hit.
His expression was stiff and serious. It was because the man who had been shot seven times and looked like a hedgehog just now hadn't changed his expression in the slightest.
Czedow put down his hand that had been pierced by the bullet and revealed the area between his eyebrows. There were still a couple of other bullet holes and stab wounds on his body, but they were closing up quickly.
There was no trace of blood at all!
Then, Czedow charged forward at a speed no slower than Stora's. Since the beginning, Stora had been on high alert. When Czedow moved, Czedow spread out a semicircle wall of blades in front of him and protected him behind it.
Crack crack crack crack —
The sound of metal snapping echoed crisply inside the tunnel.
What was different from before was that the blades on the wall seemed to have collided with something harder than them, and they broke immediately. Czedow's fingers turned into claws and almost pierced through the wall.
However, Czedow's movement suddenly came to a halt. Ignoring the man in front of him, he retreated back to Shusag's side. "Let's go!"
Shusag didn't want to fight either. He pushed aside the sharp needles and left the tunnel with Czedow.
Just now, Czedow had received a message from Silin telling him to move ahead of schedule. Therefore, he didn't waste any more time with these people. After recording their information, Czedow and Shusag left to complete the next part of the operation.
After watching Czedow leave, Stola looked at the blade wall he had unfolded. There was a claw mark on it, and the protruding claw mark was only a dozen or so centimeters away from him. Stola was just about to activate a protective shield when he didn't expect Czedow to suddenly stop.
"Who are they? Are they Azrael's men? "Judy asked.
As members of Wushe, they knew their archenemy, the Mist, very well. They knew that the Mist didn't have the two people they saw just now. However, they didn't look like they were from the military, especially the guy Stora just fought. He was so powerful and mysterious that the only person Judy could think of was Azrael.
Stora shook his head. "I don't know."
"Let's leave first. We'll talk about everything else when we get back," Liquid Silver said to Stora and Judy after he walked out of the wall.
"Mn. Let's get out of here as soon as possible." Judy adjusted her mentality and followed Liquid Silver.
After the trio left, a man walked out of a corner. It was none other than Yue Lou. Yue Lou scratched his head as he stared at the tunnel. I didn't think I'd run into Wushe's men here. But who were the other two people?
Yue Lou recognized Swood and his aide, but there was no way that the two people he saw just now were the real deal. It would've been hard to tell them apart if they hadn't fought each other. The brief confrontation just now was enough for Yue Lou to reject the idea that the man was Swood.
Yue Lou stared at the brown spot on his hand and let out a sigh. What an unfortunate year!
… …
The base was in a state of panic due to the appearance of one infected person after another. Although the riot had been suppressed by the guards, it couldn't quell the growing panic in people's hearts. The most despairing thing was that all nine large research bases around the world had been infected. No matter what protective measures the other bases took, in the end, there were still cases of infection in the bases.
Then, there were rumors that a lot of infected people had lost consciousness. There were also rumors that one of the bases had already lost their consciousness. There were also rumors that …
That brown speck was like, like a terrifying reminder.
What they didn't know was that this was only the beginning of the night.
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