Chapter 60 Mountain Tunnel - 4 Anderson Opens...

Anderson opened the heavy iron plate on the basement door, and a putrid smell immediately hit Tang Bufan. Tang Bufan immediately covered his mouth and nose, finding the smell extremely unpleasant.

It was pitch black inside, with an iron staircase leading downwards. Tang Bufan was about to peek inside when Lu Yi, who was beside him, reached out and stopped him.

Tang Bufan was puzzled and looked up at Lu Yi, only to see him listening intently with a solemn expression.

Tang Bufan immediately understood; there was something below.

Tang Bufan dared not breathe, while Anderson and Lu Yi exchanged a glance, their expressions revealing a deeper understanding.

Tang Bufan was extremely anxious. Of the three people, he was the only one who didn't know anything, so he anxiously reached out and tugged at Lu Yi's sweater.

“There’s someone talking down there,” Lu Yi told him in a very low voice. “Their speech is very clear; they don’t seem like poisoners.”

“Son, scan the image,” Anderson said to Anthony. The next second, the following layout image appeared on the screens of all three of them.

The basement has three floors, the same size as this floor, except that it has rooms built in it. There is a long corridor in the middle and rooms on both sides. The person speaking is on the second basement level, in a room with a food serving window.

It was obvious that the room was the canteen of this air defense base, but the two mutated poisoners were not eating. Instead, they were sitting on the ground talking, and the ground was uneven and pitted.

As for the third basement level, it was completely dark, and Anthony's radar seemed unable to scan below.

"Is this... a layer of soil?" Tang Bufan said softly. The scan image Anthony gave him only showed lines and no color, but he could still recognize it as soil from the uneven texture.

"It seems they are mutated poisonous humans with mixed plant genes," Lu Yi said in a deep voice, looking at the two small poisonous humans in the light screen glasses with some doubt on his face.

He looked at Anderson: "Don't you think... it's a child's voice?"

Tang Bufan, who couldn't hear, was slightly startled upon hearing this and also looked at Anderson.

“Not that young, maybe in his teens… or maybe his voice is just a little high.” Anderson said, then stepped onto the iron staircase and descended very quietly.

Tang Bufan immediately followed, and Lu Yi, seeing his energetic appearance, followed behind him quietly.

The three of them sneaked down the stairs, but as soon as they landed on the basement level, they saw through the light screen glasses that the two people sitting on the cafeteria floor turned their heads and looked in their direction at the same time.

The three of them stopped in their tracks. They stared at the two poisoners as if they were separated by a floor. Tang Bufan held his breath nervously and saw the two poisoners slowly stand up from the dirt ground in the light screen glasses.

They turned their heads to look at each other and said something, but Tang Bufan couldn't hear them. He only saw them slowly walk to the cafeteria entrance together and stick their heads out to continue watching them from across the floor.

It was obvious that the three of them had been discovered by the two poisonous people. If they continued to go downstairs, they would definitely be seen by them.

Just as Tang Bufan was wondering what to do, Anderson suddenly rushed down the stairs and stopped hiding. Tang Bufan listened to the sound of his military boots hitting the metal stairs and was momentarily stunned, unsure whether he should follow him.

Lu Yi made the decision for him, and he reached out from behind to embrace Tang Bufan, carefully holding him in his arms.

"ah--!"

"ah----!"

Soon, two childish screams echoed throughout the entire air defense base. Tang Bufan leaned against Lu Yi's broad and sturdy chest, his heart pounding, as he saw Anderson in the light screen glasses grab the two poisoners who were trying to hide in the canteen, one in each hand!

That voice... belonged to a teenager! Tang Bufan's mind was in a mess. He had imagined encountering terrifying plant mutant poisonous people, and he had imagined a large group of winged poisonous people swarming towards them like bats, but he never expected to encounter a poisonous child!

Before he could even process what was happening, he saw Anderson in the light-screen glasses suddenly reach out and forcefully throw the two poisoned children away. Tang Bufan's eyes widened in horror, and then he heard two loud "bangs!" as the two poisoned children actually exploded in mid-air!

"Damn it!" Tang Bufan couldn't hear Anderson cursing from below, "What kind of weird mutant species is this, cough cough..."

He started coughing violently.

"Anderson! Are you alright?" Lu Yi had a bad feeling when he heard Anderson coughing.

Tang Bufan was still somewhat dazed, unable to recover from the fact that the two children had just exploded.

"I..." Anderson was about to speak when he suddenly stopped, and Lu Yi seemed to have heard something as well, tightening his grip on Tang Bufan's arm.

"Distinguished guest." A slightly flippant voice came from the third basement level first, followed by the clatter of slippers on the metal stairs.

Lu Yi silently moved aside with Tang Bufan in his arms. They were at the top of the stairs, and the man would see them if he looked up.

Tang Bufan finally came to his senses. He nestled in Lu Yi's arms, extremely nervous. As the man emerged from the stairwell, Anthony's radar transmitted his image to the two of them through their light-screen glasses.

It was a long-haired man wearing a white coat!

Tang Bufan's heart raced the moment he saw the white coat, but when he realized that the man wasn't wearing glasses and his features were different from the man in his memory, he slowly calmed down.

As if sensing something, the man stood at the bottom of the stairs, looked up in the direction where they were hiding, and a smile appeared on his lips.

He ignored the two people hiding by the stairwell and looked back at Anderson, who was still coughing violently.

"Cough...cough...cough!" Anderson coughed violently, so violently that he couldn't breathe, as if he was coughing up his internal organs. He was also unsteady on his feet and slowly squatted down, holding onto the wall with one hand.

Hearing Anderson's strange cough and seeing his unsteady figure reflected in the light screen glasses, Tang Bufan and Lu Yi's hearts clenched.

Then Lu Yi gently pushed Tang Bufan into the corner of the wall, and slowly moved towards the stairwell herself.

Tang Bufan reached out and grabbed him. Lu Yi turned around, shook his head at Tang Bufan while wearing his light-screen glasses, signaling him to let go.

He was determined to go down and save Anderson.

Tang Bufan gripped his sleeve tightly, his face full of struggle and worry, but in the end he had no choice but to let go.

They are comrades; we can't just leave Anderson down there.

At this moment, the man in the white coat had walked up to Anderson. He leaned down and looked at Anderson, who was coughing so hard his face was red and he couldn't stand up. A look of satisfaction appeared in his eyes.

"Have you heard of the squirting melon? It's also called the cannon melon. When the ripe fruit is touched by an external force, the high-pressure sap inside will explode and spray out, which can not only burn the skin but also cause poisoning." The man said slowly, reaching out to lift Anderson's chin.

Anderson was wearing a leather jacket, so only his hands and neck were splattered with the blood of the two poisoned children, and the skin there was already red and swollen with tiny blisters.

“Of course, ordinary squirting cucumber venom can’t harm you orcs, so we did gene editing and added ‘a tiny bit’ of a special toxin that’s effective against you orcs.” After examining Anderson’s skin, the man went to pry open his eyes.

As he was inspecting himself, a gleaming long knife suddenly swung from behind him. The man neither dodged nor flinched, letting the knife strike him. With a "bang," the blade got stuck in the man's shoulder.

Lu frowned, but instead of drawing his sword, he swung his fist at the man's abdomen. However, the man swiftly grabbed his fist and yanked it hard...

Lu Yi's body was lifted into the air, and after adjusting his center of gravity in mid-air, he landed steadily.

“…You are an android.” Lu Yi’s golden green eyes stared coldly at the man.

"If I were human, how could I possibly stay here alone?" The man smiled, his eyes narrowed. Wearing slippers and a white coat, he struck a Tai Chi pose at Lu Yi, eager to test his skills. "I wonder how well the young master of the Western Federation is at martial arts? My chip has hundreds of fighting techniques in it!"

"You don't necessarily need to know a lot to defeat an enemy," Lu Yi said calmly, stroking the long sword in his hand before swiftly charging towards the man.

The two fought swiftly in the narrow corridor. Each floor of this anti-aircraft base was only three meters high, which was why Lu Yi did not choose to transform into his beast form. He would hit his head if he jumped, so it was better to stay in human form.

The man used his steel body as a weapon, using his arm to block Lu Yi's slash. The specially made alloy skeleton made it impossible for Lu Yi's long sword to penetrate; it could only cut through his outer layer of human skin and simulated muscles.

The two fought back and forth. Lu Yi tried to destroy the man's electronic eye with a single blow, but the man grabbed the blade with both hands. Lu Yi's eyes sharpened, and he twisted his wrist holding the knife, causing the blade to rotate 180 degrees, forcing the man to release his hands.

"Good!" the man roared in admiration. His true form was a researcher who spent most of his time in the lab. He was so tired that even sitting for long periods of time made his back ache, let alone punching someone. Now, he was really enjoying fighting Lu Yi using his remote-controlled bionic body.

He raised his hand and struck Lu Yi's abdomen with a Tai Chi-like gesture, sending Lu Yi flying backward.

Lu Yi took two steps back to steady himself, then suddenly coughed.

Anderson, who was sitting against the wall, changed his expression.

“Little Louis…the air…” Anderson, struggling to speak due to his swollen throat, said, “The air is poisonous!”

"Hahahaha! It's too late now!" The man laughed loudly, relying on his tireless android body, and performed a fancy Chinese martial arts routine in the narrow corridor. He yelled "Ah-la~" and then charged towards Lu Yi.

With a loud "bang!", the man's body jolted, and he stopped in his tracks. He reached back to touch his back, his fingers digging into his silicone muscle to pull out a bullet, then turned away speechlessly.

Tang Bufan stood beside the stairs, his hands trembling as he held up a pistol, his face pale as he looked at the man.

He knew the bullets were useless against this man, but he couldn't just stand by and watch him charge toward Lu Yi!

The man was initially annoyed, frustrated by being interrupted while engrossed in his game, but he paused for a moment after realizing that the shooter was a human.

He knew there was someone else hiding, but he never expected it to be a human. And a sickly human who looked like he was about to die.

The man stared intently at Tang Bufan's face for a while, then suddenly exclaimed, "Ah!"

"Tang Bufan! You are Tang Bufan, aren't you?"