Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 416 Hell
The entrance to the mountain is a one-meter-by-one-meter hole, with a man-made steel ladder extending up from the inside of the mountain...

Walk down the ladder about ten meters, and you can see that the cracked mountains on both sides are covered with purple and brown crystals.

These are very good quality amethyst and smoky quartz!

Shanying is not a professional so he doesn't know how much they are worth exactly.

But purely from the perspective of quantity and quality, these crystals have high mining value.

Of course, it’s nonsense to talk about large-scale mining without considering the surrounding environment, but if it’s just an individual, carrying a bag of high-quality amethyst out is definitely profitable!

Shanying has the Golden Cicada as a detection tool, which can clearly sense whether there is anything abnormal around. When he climbed down the steel escalator, he found that the area around the escalator was obviously swept by people who frequently came and went, so there were no particularly valuable amethysts.

In order not to come back empty-handed, Shanying performed a difficult stretching movement, and smashed a finger-sized amethyst into his pocket as a souvenir.

About 30 meters down the ladder, the mountain eagle stepped on the ground.

When he got here, Shanying discovered that the internal structure of the mountain was very complicated...

Because the mountain is huge and its altitude is about 600 meters, it is impossible to reach the interior of the mountain by going down 30 meters.

The Golden Cicada, at full power, used high-power ultrasound to explore the surrounding space, and soon a complex internal transportation network of the mountain appeared before him.

There is a huge space at the bottom of the mountain, and above this space, there are many spider-web-like passages.

Some of the nodes of these "spider webs" are larger in area, so they are artificially used as studios or even rest areas.

The people who designed this place are extremely smart. The huge space inside the mountain will become an animal shed in the cave to accommodate the animals outside and provide protein for the people inside during the winter.

He installed ventilation devices in the complex upper passages to allow people inside to breathe fresh air, and used LED light strips to illuminate the dark passages to prevent people from getting lost inside.

Perhaps because the internal structure was too complicated, or there were power or resource issues, Shanying did not find any cameras or motion sensing devices inside the passage.

He followed the guidance of the light strip, making many turns and going up and down for nearly 10 minutes, and finally arrived at a passage node.

The space inside the node is about thirty square meters, the ground is uneven, and dozens of plastic boxes are placed against the wall, containing many drone accessories and batteries.

Shanying saw two people at the corner repairing a drone while complaining loudly...

"When will our shift end? I hate this job..."

“There are still six hours left. As long as you hurry up and fix the drone, and release it tomorrow to confirm that the big dogs around are still alive and well, we can go down and rest.

I talked to the lab guards, and for 80 bucks we can go find some chicks and have some fun."

"I like your perversion. What's so special about having sex with a bunch of women who have been injected with muscle relaxants?"

"I don't feel anything. They are like corpses. But if you are willing to look into their eyes, it will be different. It's very exciting..."

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Shanying frowned deeply after hearing the conversation between the two. He did not alarm the two men, but chose to squeeze in through an unmarked narrow passage nearby. After going around for a distance, he spent more than an hour to get deeper into the interior...

The space inside the valley is like an egg, and there are several large natural spaces in the rock layer above the eggshell.

Now these spaces have been converted into laboratories and rest areas for staff.

The scene in science fiction movies where there are bright lights everywhere and walls are made of flat metal plates does not exist here.

The so-called living and activity area is a series of tents. Light bulbs are hung on simple aluminum alloy brackets, and the ground below is barely leveled and placed with tables and chairs to serve as the restaurant.

The laboratory area is even more simple, with an aluminum alloy frame and sterile curtains as the laboratory.

The space is quite large, and there are quite a few people, but there is not much humanity...

To be honest, if it was just about transforming animals or even humans, Shanying would think it was fine...

Taking risks to train animals and accepting various injections to strengthen themselves are all choices made by these people.

After all, those people signed the contract themselves and accepted compensation from Dimension Card. Even if there was an element of deception in it, if you, a bunch of adults who make a living by working with guns, did not choose to resist, you will have to pay the price for your choice.

But when Shanying sneaked into the so-called laboratory and saw what they were doing, the fire in his heart began to burn uncontrollably...

He originally thought that these people were only doing genetic experiments and screening populations on animals...

Sperm and eggs are extracted from genetically modified animals, and the best quality embryos are selected and implanted into female animals for artificial breeding.

This way of screening and elimination from generation to generation allows them to obtain the varieties they want at a faster speed than nature can.

This practice is quite common in animal husbandry, except that they do not artificially intervene in genes. Instead, they keep the strongest males for offspring and eliminate the others that are not strong enough. Shanying never expected that they would target humans...

When he squeezed out of a crack in the mountain wall, he heard a baby crying from a tent on the side...

Soon, several people in white coats came out holding a wet baby and put him into an incubator inside a sterile room separated by a curtain.

A few minutes later, two people in sterile suits came out of the tent carrying a stretcher with blood dripping from it...

"This is the sixth person to die in childbirth this month. We should notify Dr. Wendy to adjust the embryos. Those genetic babies are developing too fast in the womb and are too large."

"That's not our business. Whether the third phase of Super Soldier can achieve results depends on whether the monitoring data of these babies can generally meet the requirements. If we stop our entire project at this time, the failure will be declared."

"Then we have to inform the people outside that we need more qualified test subjects. The ones we have left are basically dying."

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Shanying stood quietly in the corner waiting for the two to leave, then he took a white coat from a nearby tent and put it on, took out his cell phone and walked into the tent where those people appeared...

Under the dim light in the tent, there were rows of beds, and women were lying on them.

They were covered with blue sterile cloths, and half of them were already pregnant and about to give birth...

The strange thing is that apart from breathing, these women did not make any sound. They were like living containers rather than living people.

Shanying suppressed his anger, took out his phone and filmed the terrifying scene in the tent, then left from the other side and went into a tent next to it before anyone outside entered the tent...

It was the same situation. There were more than forty women in the two tents, but judging from the number of empty beds, some of them were probably dead.

After walking out of the second tent, Shanying quickly checked the tent next to it. There was a group of children in it, from the youngest who was still a baby in an incubator to the oldest who was about four years old, a total of about ten children.

Each of them has a small space, but this space is covered by an iron cage, probably to prevent them from running around.

Shanying retreated to a position close to the mountain wall and took a few deep breaths, trying hard to suppress his restless heart. But no matter how hard he tried, the fire seemed to keep rising...

Just when the anger was about to burn through Shanying's reason, a child's voice woke him up...

"Who are you……"

Shanying was startled. When he looked in the direction of the sound, he found a small hole in the gap between the tent and the wall. A small head with fluffy hair stuck out and looked at him...

The child's big eyes showed his curiosity about the outside world. He looked at the mountain eagle leaning against the mountain, grinned and said, "Are you new here?"

Shanying was stunned for a moment, nodded slightly and said: "Yes..."

The furry kid looked around and said, "Can you ask why we weren't let out today? We should go out at this time every day...

I don't like being here, I like being outside, can you let me out?"

The mountain eagle leaned over and took a look through the gap in the tent, and found that the child had stuck his head out of the cage...

Through the gap, he saw other children either anxiously or quietly staying in their own cages. Shanying reached out and rubbed the child's head, saying, "Don't worry, I'll come and take you all out in a few days..."

As he spoke, Shanying took out a candy, peeled off the wrapper and stuffed it into the child's mouth. Then he reached out and touched his face, and said seriously: "Wait for me for a few days, I will take all of you out..."

The sweetness of the candy made the child's eyes light up. He looked at the mountain eagle and said in surprise, "What is this? Will there be something like this to eat after we get out?"

Shanying wiped the corner of the child's mouth, nodded seriously and said: "This is candy, you can have it if you want!"

Upon hearing this, the child squeezed out with all his strength, and with his extremely flexible body, he squeezed out an arm. He looked at him with his huge eyes and said, "Can you take me away..."

What Shanying couldn't stand the most was the children's pleading, but there were too many of them, including the pregnant women. He couldn't take them all out by himself. He needed a complete plan...

A way that allows those who deserve to die to die, and those who deserve to live to continue living!

Looking at the child's bright eyes, Shanying couldn't help but rub his fluffy head and said seriously: "Don't tell others that I've been here. Wait for me, I will come to pick you up in a few days...

Pick up all of you and get out together!"

After saying this, Shanying stuffed the child back into the tent. Then he glanced at the dim dome, turned around, and quickly walked through the shadow of the tent.

But what Shanying didn't expect was that not long after he left, the child poked his head out of the tent again, and then he squeezed out of the cage and came out as if he had the ability to shrink his bones.

The child stood where the eagle had just stood, wrinkled his nose and sniffed, then grinned and chased after it barefoot...

(End of this chapter)