When Romilos woke up, he realized that he was sitting on a chair. His hands and feet were trapped, and there were two people sitting on either side of him.
Romilos was all too familiar with these two people. They had been fighting against each other since a long time ago, and as the leaders of the three great forces in the pharmaceutical factory area, they were trapped here as well.
The three of them looked at each other speechlessly. However, they couldn't afford to offend someone who could easily capture them and bring them here. The less they spoke, the less mistakes they would make. They might as well save their energy to think about how to deal with what was going to happen next. The three of them knew each other very well, and it was obvious that they couldn't talk to each other just by looking at their expressions.
Romilos looked at his surroundings. This place looked like a small room that was about ten square meters in size. The decorations were simple, but not shabby. It was obvious that these were all high tech products.
Romilos's head still hurt a little. He remembered seeing that strange cat before he fainted.
Whoosh — —
The door opened, and the people who walked in were all wearing protective suits. Their faces couldn't be seen, but their voices sounded very young, and their auras were very strong.
Unlike the other two, Romilos's attention was focused on that Huimao. Right now, the fat cat was sitting on a person's shoulder and licking its paws. It looked very harmless.
"Yo, you guys woke up pretty fast," Lung said while looking at them. He was holding a syringe as thick as an arm and said regretfully, "I was going to give you a shot if you guys didn't wake up."
The faces of the three middle-aged men twitched. Wouldn't that syringe really kill someone?
It looked like it was impossible to fake unconsciousness. They had come prepared.
"What do you want to know?" One of the leaders of the forces asked.
Silin and the others pulled over chairs and sat down. Ci Jincheng was responsible for dealing with them, and Silin was writing and drawing on the electronic tablet in his hand. Lung and Knight looked at it, but they didn't understand it, so they stopped looking.
"A few questions. First, did anyone from another planet come over in the past two days?" Ci Jincheng asked.
"Yes, but they were taken care of." The man answered.
Dealing with them meant killing them.
According to the answers of these three people, Silin and the others learned that although this planet was not far from the transit planet and was not safe enough, there were still people who came here. It was just that as soon as they arrived, they were robbed and killed by the three factions in the area for their spaceships. What the three leaders lacked was aircrafts. Although they were reluctant to give up the territory they had conquered, having enough aircrafts was also a way of retreat and insurance. Since there were aircrafts coming their way, how could they not snatch them?
Fortunately, the people who came from the transit planet were not infected, so they did not bring the virus with them. In addition, after learning about what happened on the transit planet, the three leaders became much more cautious. Every time there was an outsider, they would bring along some anti-virus equipment. This planet had always been the world of pharmaceutical factories. Even if the three major pharmaceutical factories had collapsed, there were still plenty of drugs and disinfectants.
No matter what, there had not been any cases of virus infection here, at least not until now.
The three leaders did not know much about the biochemical beastmen. That was in another area. They only knew that something had happened there, and that biochemical beastmen had appeared. After learning of the biochemical beastmen's appearance, they built a defense line here, but they did not go over to help the people there. One reason was that they did not have a flying tool that could reach there quickly. Normal flying cars were too slow, a waste of time, and unreliable. The other reason was that they could barely take care of themselves here, and were too lazy to pay attention to the people in other areas.
When Ci Jincheng mentioned the underground base of the pharmaceutical factory in this area, the three leaders fell silent. However, after Ci Jincheng took out the intercepted communication information and analyzed the situation for them, the three leaders finally reluctantly said something.
There was a base below, and it was where the people from the pharmaceutical factory parked their transportation tools. When the people from the pharmaceutical factory left, they took away some of them, but not all of them. They felt that there must be more spaceships inside.
The three leaders had spaceships on hand, but they were too small, and there were not many of them. They all wanted to get their hands on larger spaceships or transportation ships from the underground base.
"Transportation ships? Is the underground base that big? "Pride sneered.
"I don't know exactly how big it is, but this underground base is definitely not small." Romilos said.
"Then what is' that thing 'you're talking about? Or should I say, 'that monster'? "Ci Jincheng asked again.
The expressions of the three leaders changed when they heard this term. They seemed to have thought of something terrifying.
Seeing that the three of them did not want to answer, Knight rubbed his fists and looked like he was about to start torturing them.
The leaders of the three forces were calm.
"Actually, it doesn't matter if we say it or not. There are some things that everyone knows, and we're not the only ones who know."
Celine and the others stopped what they were doing and listened to the words of the three leaders of power. They were very interested in 'that thing' as well. They wondered what it was that could make these three leaders wary.
"We don't know what it is either. Maybe it's a strange product of those people's research, or maybe it's something else. However, according to our elders, there's a devil inside that base."
A devil? Huimao's ears straightened and his eyes shone.
Silin flicked Huimao's ear and told him to behave.
"Your elders? How long has that thing existed? "Silin noticed this.
"I'm not sure, probably more than seventy years. We've heard stories about the devil inside that base since we were very young."
More than seventy years...
That was a really long time.
"Isn't that someone or something inside the pharmaceutical factory?" Ci Jincheng asked.
The three shook their heads.
"It shouldn't be. I heard that people from the pharmaceutical factory have been there before. It's a huge warehouse, and there are transport planes and other flying tools there. However, many of them can't be flown anymore. All the electronic and mechanical equipment inside the warehouse can't be used, and there's no lighting. It's completely dark. Also, many people who went in said that there's a devil inside, a black devil. Some people tried to hunt it down, but the people from the pharmaceutical factory discovered that those people were dead the next day. All their bones were shattered, and it was a horrible sight to see. "
"Didn't the people from the pharmaceutical factory think of cleaning it up?" Knight asked.
"That warehouse's location is a little special, and it's not easy to make a move on it. If you're not careful, you'll destroy the workshop above the warehouse, and it'll be a huge loss. That's why the higher-ups of the pharmaceutical factory directly sealed the warehouse. After that warehouse was sealed, nothing strange happened in the pharmaceutical factory. Not long ago, before the collapse of the pharmaceutical factory, those people tried to open that warehouse, but none of them came out. "
Huimao's claws were starting to get restless again. He was very interested in those strange things. It was just like hide-and-seek, except that the identity of the target was unknown.
The three leaders no longer hid the truth about 'that thing'. Didn't they want to borrow Silin's hands to open the warehouse, defeat the devil inside, and then obtain those flying tools inside?
Silin and the others understood this, but they didn't say anything.
The three leaders didn't say anything like 'tell us and you'll let us go' either. They knew that since the people in front of them had the ability to capture the three of them, even if they let them go, they could capture them again if they wanted to. Therefore, this was not a situation where they could negotiate. Moreover, based on the three leaders' judgment, they believed that these young people's target was not them, and they wouldn't waste too much energy on them. Therefore, since these strangers wanted to know about the pharmaceutical factory, and wouldn't fight with them for the flying tools, why not tell them?
After understanding the situation at the pharmaceutical factory, the three of them were knocked unconscious and sent back.
Silin looked at the ruins below the aircraft. He knew that the answer in his heart was in that warehouse.
Romilos, who had been sent back safely, woke up to find himself sitting on a chair in the office. Romilos, who had woken up, picked up the herbal tea on the table and took a few gulps. He panted, then called a few of his confidants.
"Stop all operations at the other places and send people to keep an eye on the situation around the pharmaceutical factory. But don't act recklessly without my orders! Report to me if anything happens, "Romilos said in a low voice.
Although his confidants were a little puzzled by Romilos's sudden change of plans, they didn't ask any more questions when they saw the look on Romilos's face.
Other than Romilos, the other two leaders did the same thing. The originally chaotic civil war had stopped. Perhaps it was because of the three leaders' influence, but the people of the three forces felt a strange sense of nervousness and anticipation.
The aircraft arrived at the ruins of the pharmaceutical factory in stealth mode. Huimao was still the first to go down and set up the detector. Because of Silin's reminder, Huimao didn't run around. Although it really wanted to go to the warehouse and see what the devil inside looked like.
The information about the pharmaceutical factory was quickly sent to the aircraft, and the layout of the underground base was displayed.
"This should be the warehouse they were talking about." Ci Jincheng pointed at an empty area on the map because the detector that entered the pharmaceutical factory couldn't detect the situation there.
Silin nodded. According to the signal, it was indeed in that direction.
"But other than these, there doesn't seem to be anything else. As for these," Ci Jincheng pointed at the dim dots on the distribution map, "Their life signals aren't strong, so they shouldn't be anything difficult to get. However, although there aren't many living things inside, the underground base is filled with poisonous gas. We have to be careful, there are a lot of chemicals inside. Everyone, bring some neutralizing spray just in case. "
Silin and the others landed on the ruins together. Huimao had already dug a hole out of boredom. The hole led to the underground base.
Knight and the others who had seen Huimao dig before were fine with it. Ci Jincheng and the others looked at the hole, then at Silin before jumping down one after another.
What Ci Jincheng and the others meant was: This cat you're raising sure has many uses!
The underground base was filled with all kinds of poisonous gas, and they had to be careful not to touch those bottles and cans when they walked. There was no telling what kind of medicine those bottles and cans contained. They couldn't look at the packaging of these medicines, because the contents inside were different from what was shown on the packaging.
The underground base was filled with poisonous gas, so they couldn't see their way at all even if they turned on the lights. However, the visual windows on the protective masks could solve this problem. Through the fog, they could see the underground base clearly even in the dark.
Ci Jincheng took a look at the storage devices on some of the instruments. They were more seriously corroded, so how much they could be repaired would depend on luck.
A colorful little snake was crawling at the corner of the laboratory table. Creatures that could endure this kind of environment and survive were all very lethal. They couldn't just look at its size.
The little snake charged towards Pride who was the closest to it. Pride's movements weren't slow either, he raised his hand and slashed downwards with his blade, directly cutting the snake in half. However, when the half snake's body rolled to the side, the blood that flowed out was mixed with certain components in the air, making it even more corrosive. The result of the increased corrosion was that it corroded a reagent bottle there, and the liquid inside flowed out.
"Run!" Silin realized that something was wrong after he heard the rustling sound of corrosion. The moment he shouted, everyone fled swiftly as well.
In the next moment, the place where the half snake's body was exploded with a bang. Although the scale of the explosion wasn't large, it caused quite a few consecutive explosions. There were more reagent bottles there, and the chain effect caused by one explosion took a long time to die down.
"Holy shit, this place really isn't fit for humans. I'd rather go deal with those biochemical beasts." Knight patted off the various debris that had fallen on his body.
Pride also felt a wave of lingering fear. He didn't think that just half a snake's body could cause so many chain effects.
This wasn't Pride's fault. This would've happened to anyone else. In this underground base that was filled with all kinds of gases, any change could cause an accident.
This won't do.
Silin took out a neutralization spray and tried spraying a bit of it at the surroundings. The colored or transparent gases were all absorbed by the neutralization spray and turned into powder that fell to the ground. This kind of powder was much more stable than the poisonous gases floating in the air.
"Let's spray some neutralization spray first. It'll save us some trouble later on," Silin said.
The group sprayed the neutralization spray as they walked, and it did make the journey a lot easier. However, they had learned from the mistakes of the animals that would appear from time to time, so they were extra careful.
Compared to the rest of the group, Czedow and Huimao were still a bit different in this line of work. They didn't wear protective suits or use breathing aids, and they didn't feel any discomfort even in such an environment.
When they arrived at the core laboratories of the underground base, the rest of the group began to help Ci Jincheng repair the information here.
Silin looked around and said, "I'm going to take a look at the warehouse."
"I'll go with you." Knight put down the instrument in his hand and said.
Lung was about to follow as well, but Silin waved his hand and said, "It's fine. Czedow and Wheeze will be fine. There are some questions I want to find the answers to."
Hearing Silin's words, Lung and Knight no longer insisted. They pointed at their communicators and said, "Contact me if you need anything. Also, tell us about the devil's true appearance. "
"Alright." Silin made a reassuring gesture and led Czedow and Huimao towards the warehouse.
"Just the three of them? Are you sure you'll be fine?" Pride asked. He thought that this place was dangerous enough to begin with, and with that "devil" added to the mix, could Silin, Czedow, and Wheeze really handle it?
"Don't worry, Silin knows what he's doing." Ci Jincheng looked up and said, "Also, don't underestimate him. There's still Czedow and that cat. They're all ruthless characters."
Pride recalled Czedow and Huimao's performance during this period of time. Although he didn't show it on the surface, he admired them on the inside. He was also glad that they were on the same side right now, and not on the opposite side. But Silin really was a mystery.
Silin was heading towards the warehouse. He didn't need to use the distribution map at all. He could track down the signal himself.
"Are you sure you can't sense the signal?" Silin asked again.
"No." Czedow and Huimao shook their heads at the same time.
If they still couldn't sense it, then Silin was sure that the thing was coming for him!
The closer they got to the warehouse, the stronger and more urgent the signal became.
"What is it, Silin?" Huimao jumped onto Silin's shoulder. He was dissatisfied that he couldn't sense the signal that Silin could sense. However, Czedow didn't sense it either. This made Huimao feel a lot better.
"I can't tell what it is exactly. It's like a greeting, a greeting from someone I haven't seen for a long time. There's nothing too specific to say."
Both Huimao and Czedow didn't quite understand Silin's explanation.
While they were puzzled, Silin arrived in front of the warehouse. The warehouse door was tightly shut, and it looked like it had been closed for a long time. However, the marks on the ground proved that it had been opened recently and confirmed the three forces' words.
Since they approached the warehouse, the lighting inside the base had gone out of control. They could feel the gloomy feeling coming from inside even before the door was opened.
The warehouse door opened on its own before they could crack the password.
The air inside was several degrees colder than outside, and it carried a trace of the smell of blood.
Silin looked around and saw that there were some transport planes and a couple of not-so-big transport ships inside the warehouse. These transport planes and ships looked like they had been here for a long time. The three forces said that they had been here for more than seventy years, and Silin thought so too. The silence of the machinery was very strong.
Walking inside, Silin saw a couple of corpses lying on the ground. They were probably killed when the warehouse was opened not long ago. Their faces were still filled with fear, but their bodies were sunken in, and their bones were all broken. There were no external injuries on their bodies, and the blood was flowing out of their nostrils and mouths.
The warehouse was so quiet that even Huimao's tapping of his ears could be heard clearly.
Silin walked past the corpses and continued forward. A couple of steps later, Silin looked up at the top of the warehouse.
There was a person standing upside down against the top of the warehouse. He was completely silent.
A man wearing a cloak. No, it wasn't a cloak, it was wings!
The man had wrapped the wings around his body, so it looked like he was wearing a bamboo hat.
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