End of the World: My Items Can Be Upgraded Infinitely.

Chapter 188 Underground Experimental Base, Radiation Distortion

Hearing Lin Feng's answer, Ling Shuyan's eyes narrowed, and then she continued to smile:

"No problem, I'll take you there right away."

After saying that, Director Ling took a bag of synthetic nutrient solution from his subordinates and gulped it into his mouth.

The two operations were extremely energy-consuming, especially since they were dangerous implant surgeries performed on an absolutely powerful person who had reached the late stage of the second stage.

Ling Shuyan chose to do the surgery herself because she was worried that the surgeons, who only had initial first-stage strength, would panic and tremble under the pressure of the surgeon's aura, leading to accidents.

After drinking the nutrient solution synthesized by the research institute, Ling Shuyan stood up and took a few people to leave the operating floor, taking the elevator on the side of the first floor and going all the way down.

Lin Feng frowned slightly:

"The institute also has an underground laboratory?"

When the elevator passed through the thick soil and steel partitions, Lin Feng suddenly discovered that his telepathy could not penetrate such bunker fortifications.

The essence of telepathy is the detection of energy waves, similar to human radar. When encountering an isolation layer, it will be blocked and shielded.

Only when you are there in person can you scan the secrets hidden underground.

At once, dozens or hundreds of light sources appeared in Lin Feng's mind.

Most of the experimental subjects here are in the first stage, but in a certain corner at the deepest part, there is a large cluster of light sources, just like the swarm of black-backed insects detected by Lin Feng in the underground insect nest.

Although the brightness of the light source is not high, it is connected into a cluster.

Why gather so many experimental subjects together?
Want to select successful samples through survival of the fittest?

Lin Feng couldn't help but speculate in his heart.

"This is a renovation of a former civil air defense facility. In the past, many air raid shelters and refuges were dug in this mountain range. It happened that the research institute was later located here, so they used it on the spot and turned it into an underground biological experiment base."

“It not only ensures the confidentiality of the experiment, but also prevents biochemical contamination and leakage.”

While Ling Shuyan was replying, the elevator slowly stopped.

"This is the best place to conduct live experiments. At least we don't have to worry about them escaping."

"We're here, let's go."

Lin Feng and the other two then left the elevator and entered under the guidance of Ling Shuyan.

In the dim, cramped and long corridor, there is only a dim light bulb every five or six meters on the wall, making the passage very dark and suffocating.

It was the first time for Liu Yueqi to enter such an environment. She subconsciously reached out and grabbed Lin Feng's clothes. The other party turned his head to look at her and nodded.

Signaling to the girl not to worry.

With him and Long Yi around, nothing will go wrong.

Soon, after passing through a tunnel that was more than ten meters long, Ling Shuyan turned left and entered a dormitory area.

"This used to be a large dormitory in the shelter, but was later converted into an observation room for experimental subjects."

Ling Shuyan looked at the solid iron door that was tightly closed beside her. It was ten centimeters thick and it would be difficult for an ordinary first-stage awakener to break it open, not to mention these experimental subjects whose food intake was strictly restricted.

They were only provided with the minimum amount of food to sustain life every day. They were exhausted after standing up and running a few steps, let alone breaking out of the prison.

Many of them were leaders of powerful forces captured by Han Yuxin when she was sweeping the urban area of ​​Jincheng.

They are basically late-stage enhanced people, and a dozen rare awakeners.

Several heinous awakened leaders directly became the first batch of experimental subjects for the optimization and transformation surgery.

The implantation of the gene glands caused serious deformations in their bodies. Their own immune system was unable to suppress the genetic invasion of the tiger spiny worm, and more than half of their body surface showed assimilation characteristics.

Eventually they all turned into half-human, half-insect monsters.

Ling Shuyan gave a brief introduction, waved her hand and called the researcher who was at the front of the aisle recording the status of each experimental subject.

A man with glasses in the early stage of the first stage.

I don’t know if it was because he stayed underground for too long, or for some other reason, but under the dim light, the man’s face was red and yellow, and he looked a little malnourished.

A trace of doubt emerged in Longyi's mind, and the nearby aura made her feel uncomfortable, but she did not make a sound as she followed behind the crowd.

Ling Shuyan got a report from her subordinates and handed it to Lin Feng:

"This is a list of the survivors in the thirty observation rooms. It contains their information and photos before the transformation. See if there are any enemies she wants to find here."

"The distortion is quite serious. You may not be able to recognize them just by looking at their current appearance."

Lin Feng handed the information directly to the girl behind him, and then asked:
"They are a group of escaped prisoners who were brought here by Han Yuxin. There should be some survivors, right?"

Ling Shuyan was stunned for a moment, then nodded:

"Yes, many of them killed other enhanced people and awakened people to complete their awakening."

"As a cancer, I naturally treated him well. Hey, there's one right there."

Following the direction pointed by Ling Shuyan, it was the location of Observation Room No. 9, and Liu Yueqi, who was looking through the background information at this moment, had already locked onto him.

Walking to the door, the man with glasses who was in charge of recording took out the key corresponding to the room number, and at the director's signal, unlocked the door, and the heavy iron door slowly opened.

Lin Feng took a glance and saw a humanoid creature with half of its body covered with black and red scales, lying on a wooden bed, looking powerless. That half of its face had been completely covered with insect characteristics, and had grown pincer-like serrations similar to the mouthparts of a mantis.

He, or rather it, had a very weak aura, but he also had the strength of an early first stage.

Lin Feng took a look at the identification results and confirmed that this was a failed experiment, but it was still okay to use it to observe over-assimilation in advance and collect relevant data.

Liu Yueqi held the hilt of the knife and walked into the observation room.

Her shoulders trembled slightly, her back teeth clenched, and the anger in her eyes seemed to be tangible, even turning into blood red.

Even though the other party had been completely transformed into a bug-man monster, the girl could still confirm from his eyes that he was the same group of desperate criminals who had destroyed her family.

With a ripping sound, the blade of the Thousand Cutting Sword reflected a breathtaking light and shadow under the dim light.

Then came the crisp sound of knocking and cracking, mixed with hoarse wails, which lasted for dozens of seconds.

When Liu Yueqi shook off the remaining blood on the blade, sheathed the knife, and turned to leave...

The deformed insect man on the wooden board behind him had been turned into dozens of pieces.

The girl didn't look back, but looked at Director Ling calmly:
"Any more?"

Ling Shuyan frowned slightly:
"There is one more next door, but no more."

Within three minutes, when Liu Yueqi left the second observation room, there was no sign of relief on his face as he had avenged his great revenge. Instead, there was a hint of disappointment.

Even though these two bloody kills on her enemies had already allowed her to upgrade her accumulated life energy.

Lin Feng asked:
"What? The main culprit, their leader is not here?"

Liu Yueqi nodded:

"There are three main ones, and they are not here."

Lin Feng looked at Ling Shuyan and asked Liu Yueqi to briefly describe the names, nicknames, and physical features of the three people.

After hearing this, Ling Shuyan narrowed her eyes and shook her head:
"I'm sorry, all three of them died on the operating table. But please rest assured, the pain and distortion caused by the gene implantation surgery is not something that ordinary people can endure. They died in agony and it was not easy."

These words obviously did not provide much comfort.

The reason why an enemy is called an enemy is that you must take revenge on him with your own hands. Only by seeing him die with his eyes open can you quell the anger in your heart.

The girl just nodded slightly and prepared to leave.

"Wait!" At this time, a voice came from behind everyone.

Ling Shuyan paused for a moment, a trace of displeasure flashed across her face, and she turned around and smiled:

"Is there anything else, Miss Lin? Are you also interested in this underground experimental base?"

Long Yi interrupted everyone and smiled:

"That's right. But I think there should be more experimental subjects here."

Ling Shuyan's pupils shrank sharply, and she instantly thought of various possibilities, thinking about how to respond to the questioning of the woman in front of her.

Many excuses and lies gradually formed in Ling Shuyan's mind...

But she reacted quickly.

He soon realized that when facing two peak-level second-level awakeners, there was no room for lying once suspicion arose.

Not to mention that at this moment, he had already noticed Lin Feng's questioning look in the corner of his eye.

The other party obviously noticed something.

In a flash, after much struggle, Ling Shuyan nodded and admitted:

"Yes, the observation room is full of experimental subjects who still have a little bit of self-awareness and still maintain a complete human form. As for the other over-assimilated deformed bodies, they don't look like humans at all, so I didn't take you there to visit..."

"Those experimental subjects have lost their reason and consciousness and can only be regarded as a bug or a pile of moving meat."

Ling Shuyan then looked at the girl who turned around:
"I think Miss Liu probably doesn't want to see such a weird and terrifying scene. It's easy to leave a psychological trauma..."

Liu Yueqi took a deep breath:
"Then among those monsters, are there any with these fugitives?"

Ling Shuyan nodded, then shook her head:
"Yes. Part of it."

Liu Yueqi didn't quite understand, so Lin Feng asked:
"Part? What do you mean?"

Ling Shuyan looked at the subordinates who were pulling over a cart to clean the observation room:

"It's not something that can be explained in a few words. If you really want to see it, you can go together. But you have to wear chemical protective clothing in advance to avoid biological and chemical infection."

Lin Feng frowned slightly, with a bad feeling in his heart:
"Is it that serious? We are all awakened, so we should have some resistance, right?"

Ling Shuyan shook her head and did not explain:
"You'll know then."

After the staff cleaned up the debris left after killing Liu Yueqi, they pushed the fully loaded cart into the other direction of the underground laboratory, and everyone followed.

On the other side of the fork in the road, the yellow chemical protective suits and the eye-catching skull warning signs made Lin Feng and the others even more suspicious.

Soon, after passing through several large laboratories, they came to a dim space.

The staff turned on the lights, and in the dim red and green lights, they saw a pile of cages containing several completely deformed and terrifying insect-shaped monsters.

They have completely lost their human appearance. Some have Zerg limbs growing all over their bodies, or a whole piece of armor condensed on their backs. What's worse, their legs have fused together to form a new abdomen, and they have an extra pair of wings on their backs.

Although the strength of this group of monsters is only at the early stage of the first level, the aura they release far exceeds that of the half-body deformed experimental subjects in the previous observation room.

The staff threw pieces of meat from the cart to them.

The insect monster, which had been hungry for several days, began to devour the food with its sharp teeth and fangs.

If it were just that it would be fine, but as everyone went deeper, the cages that came into view became larger and larger, and the insect monsters inside began to become more bizarre.

The most important feature is the irregular deformation that covers the entire body.

Some monsters even have three or four heads, and their limbs grow everywhere, like randomly fabricated flesh and blood statues.

Such monsters cannot actually survive at all. It seems that there is some mysterious force that maintains their activity.

What is most uncomfortable is the way they eat when they are alive.

Because they have no mouths or mouthparts, after these monsters touch the food, they can only directly fuse the pieces of meat thrown in front of them to their bodies.

At this time, a human head fell beside them.

The human head, whose nerves had been reconnected, let out an extremely painful roar, but as the foreign cells invaded, they gradually devoured the flesh and blood on the smooth neck...

The human face began to become extremely distorted, and the appearance that emerged was completely unlike the expression a normal person could make. It was even more terrifying and hideous than a ghost face. The facial features seemed to have entered a blender, being crushed and then reassembled.

Not long after, it was assimilated into one, and the entire head condensed into a red shell, becoming another tumor on the monster's body.

Lin Feng, who always thought he had a good endurance, couldn't help but feel a chill. Liu Yueqi, who was following behind him, felt even more upset.

Even through the breathing filter, one could still smell the bloody stench that permeated the vicinity.

Ling Shuyan stopped and turned around:
"Do you want to continue? There's only one left."

Lin Feng did not respond, but glanced at Long Yi.

The other party nodded, and the voice coming out through the mask was buzzing and vibrating:

"Although these insects look strange, they all have the common characteristic of fiery red armor..."

"Including your staff here, they all have similar slight distortion phenomena. I think they all come from that huge guy in the deepest part, right?"

When Ling Shuyan heard the truth from Long Yi, her face immediately changed and her breathing became heavier.

The exhaled water vapor adhered to the plastic mask, making it impossible to see the expression of surprise and doubt behind it.

"Let's go. If we don't solve this problem, it will turn this place into a living hell!"

"Fortunately, it has not yet grown to the third stage, otherwise the doomsday suffering that befell humanity would be several times more severe..."

Ignoring Ling Shuyan's explanation, Long Yi took Lin Feng and pushed away the staff in front who were afraid to step forward, and went into the depths of darkness.

All I heard was a bunch of fireballs lighting up in the darkness, followed by a high-frequency, piercing scream.

The others were so uncomfortable that they had to cover their ears tightly. The monster in the nearby iron cage was breaking apart all over and bleeding.

A few minutes later, two figures slowly emerged.

Lin Feng's chemical protection suit had been torn off, revealing the Flying Tiger Armor underneath. He held up the electromagnetic gun with white smoke still wafting from the muzzle, and looked at the distracted Ling Shuyan, speaking in a low but powerful voice:
"This kind of mutation is called gene radiation. It comes from the artistic conception ability of fourth-order cosmic life. It can distort the genes of nearby organisms through its own energy radiation, causing them to develop its own biological characteristics..."

"The red beetles are extremely dangerous. Even the Zerg are not sure they can be controlled. Humans should stop playing with fire."

The amount of information in these words instantly overturned Ling Shuyan's three views. She came back to her senses from the heartache of losing an important experimental subject, looked at Lin Feng, and gritted her teeth:

"What do you know? Why do humans know nothing about these things? Is it really related to your mother?"

A hint of surprise flashed across Lin Feng's face, but he did not directly respond to the woman's question and continued:
"In short, gene fusion is just like gene warriors. It is very dangerous. I hope that this kind of thing will not be carried out without authorization in the future."

"Because no one knows what kind of disaster this will bring to humanity and the Blue Planet."

"If you have any questions, let's talk tonight."

"I'm hungry. It's time to eat."

After saying that, Lin Feng put away the electromagnetic cannon, looked at Liu Yueqi who had not yet recovered, and patiently explained:
"It's just a pile of rotten living flesh, probably some of those people's body parts..."

"But with your current strength, you can't get close. When you are promoted to a second-level awakener, I will explain the reasons behind this in detail."

"Let's go, it's all over."

Liu Yueqi nodded, not quite understanding what was going on. It just so happened that she didn't want to stay there any longer, so she followed Lin Feng and the others and left.

Ling Shuyan was left alone, looking at the backs of the people...

He stood there stunned.

(End of this chapter)