Chapter 266 The Mad Scientist's Laboratory

“Matt, help me!” she cried out.

Matt had actually been following her not far behind the whole time. While the guards were busy looking for seeds, he had nothing to do for the time being.

Seeing that the lady was strolling alone, he followed behind her at the adults' signal.

However, fearing that his wife would find him a nuisance, he didn't dare get too close. After all, wastelanders all follow an unwritten rule: when going out to find food, they must keep a certain distance from each other.

Otherwise, if everyone discovers something edible at the same time, whose is it?

When he noticed the left fan had fallen, his first reaction was to release his mental net, intending to trap her as she fell.

But as soon as the left fan fell, the opening on the ground closed, and even more strangely, the mental net he released was also blocked.

It's as if someone deliberately used a special material that can shield mental energy to isolate this area.

"My lord, something has happened to the lady! Come quickly!" Matt directly used the mental bridge to connect with the lord's brain.

Fortunately, the adults trusted him and, to facilitate communication, had him leave a mark in the minds of everyone involved in the operation. This way, if they went underground to a place without signal and lost contact, Matt could contact everyone immediately through this mark.

Without asking any more questions, Mortilan teleported directly to the scene of the incident via his mental bridge.

"You mean, she took out a hammer and started banging on the wall, and then she fell down?" The adult's eyes were as cold as ice, and Matt couldn't help but shrink back.

"Yes, sir, I was following her about five or six meters behind. I thought I should give Madam some privacy."

Then I saw her take out a hammer, tap it a few times on the opposite wall, and then come over and tap it twice on this side of the wall.

"Yes, just two times, and then she 'whooshed' down. When I caught up, I saw the ground closing rapidly, and then there wasn't even a crack left in the ground," Matt said innocently.

"Your mental network has been blocked?" the adult asked, glaring at him.

"Hmm, try it if you don't believe me. I reckon other superpowers will be blocked as well," Matt said, pointing to the ground beneath his feet.

The Mortilan Shield fired an ice blade, and then it was discovered that the ice blade automatically melted as soon as it approached the ground, turning into energy threads that dissipated in the air.

This was the first time he had encountered such a bizarre situation since he awakened his superpowers.

"The superpower is ineffective. It must be because the ground material is special, and this passage must be precisely designed. So even if we force it open, we probably won't be able to find her location." The adult suppressed his worry and anxiety and calmly analyzed the situation.

Then he started staring at the walls on both sides. A minute later, he noticed something unusual about the metal frame. A minute later, he picked up a broken metal table leg from the ground and started tapping on the metal frame.

Three seconds later, he struck the seemingly ordinary nail, and the ground beneath his feet instantly cracked open. Without hesitation, he jumped down into the narrow passage.

Matt reacted quickly this time, jumping down right after the adults.

After jumping, he began to regret it. Adults had trained their bodies since childhood and were tough and resilient, while he was a fragile mental cultivator. Jumping down with him was practically suicide, wasn't it?

"Aaaaaah!" Matt tried to release his mental net but failed, and couldn't help but scream loudly.

With a look of disgust, Mortilan took out a rope, casually tied a loop, and threw it upwards. The loop caught on Matt's foot.

He pulled the rope loop, and Matt felt something grab her ankle, pulling her down hard.

"Oh my god! There's a ghost! Aaaaaaah!" he screamed even louder.

With another push from the Mortilan shield, Matt lost his balance and fell headfirst past him, whereupon he grabbed her by the ankle and pulled her back to his side.

Superpowers are ineffective here, but Mortilan Shield was prepared, having already taken out a laser gun and his triangular dagger.

To slow his descent, he used his triangular dagger to stab downwards towards the wall at the edge of the passage.

Sparks flew off the wall due to high-speed friction, but the descent speed was greatly reduced.

Matt finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, sir! My life is saved this time."

"Next time this happens, you'd better go somewhere cool and stay there. Don't rush over here and cause me trouble!" the adult said irritably.

Matt: That really hurts, bro!

On the other hand, Zuo Shan's experience was much better than theirs. At first, he did fall without weight, but after falling about ten meters, something like a trampoline popped out from under him.

She fell on it and was bounced several meters high, then fell down, then bounced up again. After this happened several times, the speed at which she bounced up was only a few tens of centimeters.

Just when she thought she could finally catch her breath, the trampoline beneath her suddenly disappeared, and she fell flat on her backside onto the floor.

The floor wasn't made of wood, but of steel, and she fell and hurt her bottom.

But it seems the designer of this device was just playing a prank and it didn't actually threaten her life.

She looked around and found herself sitting in an elevator, which was slowly descending.

The power system here has clearly failed long ago, so why is this elevator still working?

She was filled with questions, but unfortunately, no one could answer them.

The elevator finally reached the bottom, and the doors opened automatically. She heard an aged voice: "Welcome to my genetically modified world, you who are destined to be here!"

Looking up from the left, one sees a bright hall before them.

Everything inside seemed to be high-tech; the floor and walls were all made of silver metal, making her eyes dazzled.

"For those who are destined to receive this welcome ceremony, how did you feel? Was it exciting? Was it very creative?"

Haha! This is my proudest work. I designed and supervised the entire process myself, without delegating a single task to anyone else.

However, since you were able to notice the anomaly in the metal frame on my wall, it proves that you are someone who truly cares about the life and death of humanity.

You only carefully read every note I left because you genuinely wanted to preserve those seeds, and that's how you discovered my secret passage.

Of course, only people like this are worthy of coming to my genetically modified world.

Now let me formally introduce myself. My name is Ji Liuxing, and I am a double PhD in animal genetics and plant genetics.

My life's work has been dedicated to discovering and replicating superior gene fragments, then combining these superior gene fragments to create the most powerful and superior genes, and ensuring their continuation.

Unfortunately, fate played a cruel joke on me. Just when I was close to success, a natural disaster struck.

At this moment, the passage on the ground has been blocked, and the underground power system has also been paralyzed. Only the backup power system in my laboratory can still barely operate.

However, it can only operate for a few years. Without external replenishment, its energy will soon be depleted.

Therefore, I decided to shut down the backup power system and use that backup power to freeze the genetically modified fluid I created.

This would allow these genetically modified fluids to be preserved for at least four hundred years.

If four hundred years later, no one can find this place, then it can only be said that it is all fate.

God probably didn't want me to transform the human body, which is at the top of the food chain, into the most powerful being at the top of the food chain.

In order to prevent such a tragedy from happening, I decided to use half of the gene-modification fluid to completely modify my genes and make myself stronger.

But I know that this gene-modifying fluid is not perfect and has some flaws. I might become a monster that loses its mind.

However, I left the other half of the gene-modifying fluid, which will be perfected by my robotic assistant, Panda, according to the experimental procedures I set.

Lucky soul, if you come here but don't see me after the successful transformation, it means my genetic modification failed, and I've become a monster without mind.

However, you must have dodged the monster's attack, because I prepared the strongest chains for it beforehand, and it couldn't hurt you at all.

Or perhaps by the time you arrive, it will have already starved to death, or died from a genetic conflict that caused it to explode.

In short, it died, but you ended up here.

Now, obediently jump into the pool of gene-modifying fluid I left for you, and don't try to refuse my kindness..."