Chapter 46

"Captain Gu, there have been burglaries at Warehouses 2 and 3 on the base."

Gu Yuan had just sent people to capture Deputy Base Commander Qian and others who were trying to escape through the underground passage. Before he had time to order them to block the tunnel they had dug, he heard this bad news.

He turned to look at Deputy Base Commander Qian and the others, his eyes cold and filled with disgust.

He didn't expect these people to be more cruel than he thought. The base was facing a crisis, and these people took the opportunity to escape and took away the base's survival supplies!

Warehouse No. 2 and Warehouse No. 3 of the base mainly store food and some medical supplies. The only person who has the authority over these two warehouses, besides the base director, is Deputy Base Director Qian.

Meeting Gu Yuan's scrutinizing gaze, Deputy Base Commander Qian immediately understood: "It's you! This is all your plan!"

If he hadn't been chasing them, how could they not notice the situation ahead and drive directly onto the ground and get caught red-handed?

Qian Chaoduo immediately understood and angrily shouted at Gu Yuan, "If you want to be buried with the base, then go by yourself! Why drag us along with you?"

Obviously, Deputy Base Commander Qian and Qian Chaoduo both believed that it was Gu Yuan who collapsed the underground passage.

Otherwise, how could he have arrived in time to catch them?

Facing their accusations, Gu Yuan looked puzzled: "My scheme? Haven't you always been the one scheming against me?"

After saying that, he didn't want to waste any more time talking to them. He said directly, "Where are the supplies in Warehouse 2 and Warehouse 3? If you don't hand them over, I will send someone to escort you back outside the base right now."

Deputy Base Commander Qian's face turned pale.

The scene before being caught by Gu Yuan's men emerged in his mind. The front of the car was covered in blood, and the hideous faces of zombies were pressed against the car windows. The zombies that surrounded him were banging on the car windows, their scarlet eyes revealing bloodthirstiness and madness.

He even felt that if Gu Yuan's men had come a little slower, he would have been swallowed by those crazy zombies by ripping open the car door.

Even through the car window, he could smell the disgusting stench.

Although he was terrified, he tried to remain calm and denied it decisively, "What warehouse supplies? I don't know."

Deputy Base Commander Qian thought that it would be his bargaining chip for a comeback, and he would never give it up and waste it on those who were destined to die.

After putting aside the horrific images in his mind, he gradually calmed down and was no longer as panicked as before.

"Gu Yuan, are you framing me and threatening me?"

Deputy Base Commander Qian put on his usual serious expression and said, "You know, Dr. Jia and I have figured out a way to divert the zombie horde. We're just about to head to the rear to lead them away. If you delay for even a minute, countless warriors protecting the base will die."

His voice was so loud that people outside the room could hear it.

Seeing that the once high-ranking Deputy Base Commander Qian and others were arrested, some people on the base wall who had exhausted their special powers and could only rest chose to lean against this room to rest.

Hearing this, everyone had different expressions.

"Is the method Deputy Base Commander Qian mentioned true?"

"The name Dr. Jia seems a little familiar..."

"I remember now! Isn't Dr. Jia the one who developed the superpower gun?"

"He also invented the mutant plant detection bracelet. Ever since I got it, I've never been successfully attacked by hidden mutant plants again."

"Dr. Jia is so amazing, could he really have figured out a way to lure away the zombie horde?"

Many people couldn't help but get excited at the thought of this possibility.

You have to know that many people have died in recent days from attacks such as mutant rat tides, mutant bird sieges, and zombie tides. Especially the zombie tides, the more you fight, the more there are, and it seems that there is no end to the zombies, which is too despairing.

Of course, not everyone believed it or was skeptical, and some people completely disbelieved what Deputy Base Commander Qian said.

"When have you ever seen Deputy Base Commander Qian take risks personally?"

"From what I can see, they're just trying to take advantage of the situation to escape, not to lead the zombies to the rear."

There was a lot of discussion outside, and some of it could be vaguely heard in the room.

Facing Deputy Base Commander Qian's secretly proud eyes, Gu Yuan did not feel nervous or worried at all. He did not seem to be worried that some people outside would believe what Deputy Base Commander Qian said and do as he wished.

He didn't even look at Deputy Base Commander Qian again. Instead, after looking down at the communication stone tablet, he looked up at the secretary standing behind Deputy Base Commander Qian.

"Someone asked me to tell you that it's time. Qian Bei, no, Zhang Bei is safe."

What time is it? What happened to Zhang Bei being safe?

Deputy Base Commander Qian felt uneasy and frowned as he followed Gu Yuan's gaze, wanting to see who the person next to him who might be the traitor was.

As he looked over, Xin Nan, the secretary, pushed his glasses, took out a file bag from his arms and handed it to Gu Yuan.

"Here is evidence of human experiments conducted by Deputy Base Commander Qian and Dr. Jia."

"Their experimental subjects come from some of the missing psychics from the Dongsheng Psychic Group, as well as those who died while on missions with the Psychic Group. Seventy percent of them were secretly captured and taken to the underground research institute to be used as experimental subjects."

The people outside the room who heard Xin Nan's words were immediately shocked.

"Human experiments?!"

"My brother died after going on a mission with the Dongsheng Supernatural Group. Could it be that he wasn't actually dead, but was captured and used as an experimental subject?"

"I have a friend who suddenly lost contact after joining the Dongsheng Special Ability Group for a while. I went to ask about it, and they said he encountered an accident during a mission."

While they were talking, Xin Nan in the room continued talking.

"Dr. Jia used the space ability core of a space ability user to create space equipment. The supplies stolen from Warehouses 2 and 3 are in the six rings hanging around Deputy Base Commander Qian's neck."

"The previous tremors in the base were caused by Dr. Jia. They discovered a crack in the ground beneath a laboratory in the underground research institute. Dr. Jia wanted to get more of what was inside the crack, so he artificially blew it up. The sudden change in the zombie tide is related to the crack that was blown up."

"The so-called method that Deputy Base Commander Qian just mentioned to lure away the zombie tide does not exist."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Deputy Base Commander Qian struggled to interrupt him, but was quickly held down.

He could only shout, "I really have a way. If you don't believe me, I can prove it to you!"

Xin Nan looked at him as if he was a fool. Didn’t he know the method he was talking about?

Or did Deputy Base Commander Qian think that if he didn't tell him the key, he wouldn't be able to deduce it?

Xin Nan continued, "What they dug out from the cracks in the ground is very attractive to mutants and zombies, but there are more left in the cracks than what they have, so it is impossible to divert the zombie tide."

There was no more voice outside speaking for Deputy Base Commander Qian.

Deputy Base Commander Qian stopped struggling and glared at Xin Nan fiercely. He gritted his teeth and asked in confusion, "Am I not good enough for you? Why did you betray me?"

"Tsk!" Xin Nan scoffed, a hint of sarcasm appearing on his expressionless face. "You mean being nice to me means you're going to kill my whole family, and then pretend to be my savior and treat me like an obedient dog?"

"How do you know!" Deputy Base Commander Qian staggered a few steps.

He now knew perfectly well that he was finished.

Xin Nan didn't even look at him, but walked straight to Gu Yuan and handed him the evidence she had collected against Deputy Base Commander Qian and Dr. Jia.

"It's that Lady Xi. She's back, right?" Dr. Jia, who had been silent all the time, asked with a grim expression.

No one answered him. Dr. Jia didn't care. He stared at Gu Yuan and continued to ask, "The person we just saw in the laboratory was not you, but Lord Xi. And the sudden collapse of the passage was also caused by her, right?"

Although he was asking, he actually already had the answer in his heart.

Only the mysterious Lord Xi could do this, and he even made silent changes to him, making it impossible for him to launch any backup plan.

Even if he had a slight thought, he would instantly lose control of his body, as if his brain was blocked outside his body.

After hearing Dr. Jia's words, everyone in the room had different expressions, and for a moment, the room unexpectedly became quiet.

"Knock knock"

The knock on the door broke the brief silence in the house.

The arrival of this person surprised everyone in the room, but upon second thought, they felt that it was expected.

Except for Xiang Haoyu who was hunched over against the wall.

That’s right, Xiang Haoyu is not dead yet.

Or maybe Deputy Base Commander Qian didn't want him to die, because not only him, but Liu Yun was still alive as well.

Because there is a big problem with Dr. Jia's core replacement surgery, that is, the original owner of the superpower core cannot die completely, otherwise the replaced superpower core will lose its function.

Xiang Haoyu and Liu Yun both stared at the person who came in with wide eyes, with "This is impossible" written all over their faces.

Why did they see two Gu Qi? !

Did you also see those people calling one of them, Gu Qi, "Lord Xi"?

Immediately afterwards, Xiang Haoyu and Liu Yun saw that Gu Qi, who was called Lord Xi by others, gave them a terrifying smile.

Of course, it was terrifying in the eyes of the two of them.

In fact, Gu Qi's smile was just an ordinary one, but his eyes were particularly cold.

When Gu Qi, known as Lord Xi, smiled at them, they saw that the other Gu Qi had turned into a mutant plant!

"Hehe..." Xiang Haoyu opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but found that he could not speak, as if he had suddenly become a mute.

He turned to look at the others, but found that they looked normal, as if he was the only one who noticed the abnormality.

What is going on?

Why did Gu Qi become the Lord Xi in the eyes of those people?

Liu Yun beside him reacted more violently. Fear appeared in her eyes, as if she had seen something terrible.

Liu Yun struggled to retreat, as if avoiding something, but her hands and feet did not move at all. She just dodged backwards as if her hands and feet were tied.

Just like Gu Qi who was thrown in front of the zombie group.

She struggled to retreat to the wall, but found that she couldn't go back no matter what. The fear on Liu Yun's face became even more intense, and there was a look of pain in her eyes.

Soon, her struggling movements became smaller and smaller, until...

“Heh…heh…”

Liu Yun's eyes turned scarlet, her pale skin turned bluish-white, and her teeth became sharp.

Someone in Deputy Base Commander Qian's group exclaimed, "Someone has turned into a zombie!"

This series of changes is very fast.

It can be said that this sudden change happened just after Captain Fang, Gu Qi and others came in and had not yet started talking.

But before anyone could react, Liu Yun, who had turned into a zombie, was kicked away, her head hit the wall, and she died the next second.

The person who kicked her away was Xiang Haoyu, who was afraid of being bitten by zombies.

Seeing Liu Yun suddenly become ill and then die, Dr. Jia's first reaction was to look at Zhang Bei, who was following Base Commander Fang, and was the son of Deputy Base Commander Qian's first wife, but he had now changed his surname to his mother's.

"How could you be okay?" Dr. Jia looked incredulous and almost broke free from the people guarding him.

Dr. Jia struggled violently, staring straight at Zhang Bei: "Let me go! Let me check what's going on!"

His mind was now filled with the desire to check on Zhang Bei's condition. He wanted to know why Liu Yun died, but Zhang Bei, who possessed her superpower core, did not feel any discomfort.

After Deputy Base Commander Qian realized what was happening, he also thought of this.

But compared to Dr. Jia, whose mind is full of research, he thinks more.

He found that Zhang Bei's left wrist was bald, and the restraint bracelet he had asked Dr. Jia to put on him not long ago was gone. Deputy Base Commander Qian thought of what Gu Yuan had said before.

Zhang Bei is safe.

This probably means not only that the restraint bracelet containing the self-destruct device has been removed, but also that the thing implanted in Dr. Jia's head has also been dealt with.

In addition, the original owner of the superpower core died, but Zhang Bei was not affected. It seems that it is not that person who is surprising... That's strange!

After figuring this out, Deputy Base Commander Qian couldn't help but reveal a bit of fanaticism in his eyes, but he was not looking at Zhang Bei, but at Lord Xi.

Glancing at Base Captain Fang standing beside him, Deputy Base Captain Qian suddenly thought of something and came up with a way to protect himself.

"Fang Jianan, do you want to awaken your superpowers?" He looked at Base Chief Fang and said meaningfully, "Awaken your superpowers like Zhang Bei and I did."

"Yes! I have a way to awaken your superpowers!" Dr. Jia also reacted and looked at Base Chief Fang. He pointed at Zhang Bei and said, "As long as you hand him over to me, I can awaken your superpowers as well. You can awaken any superpower you want!"

Deputy Base Commander Qian raised his voice and said, "Even people with special abilities have the opportunity to awaken new abilities a second time!"

This is of course false, but no matter whether it is true or false, it will be fine as long as those people with special abilities outside can hear it.

Seeing the disgusting calculation in Deputy Base Commander Qian's eyes, Gu Qi turned to the person beside him and sighed, "Luckily, I set up... the supernatural barrier as soon as I came in, otherwise you would have disturbed everyone's rest with such loud noises."

Deputy Base Commander Qian's expression froze.

I heard people outside still talking about how hateful and insane he was, saying they didn't expect him and Dr. Jia to actually use humans for experiments. Some were also listing those who had disappeared after joining the Dongsheng Supernatural Group or going on missions with them...

Those people were talking a lot, but none of them was what he wanted to hear.

And no one outside discussed what he had just said loudly.

As for the room...

Deputy Base Commander Qian swept his eyes over everyone, especially Base Commander Fang, who had no special abilities, but saw that there was no trace of excitement on his face.

"Don't you want to have super powers?" Deputy Base Commander Qian asked in confusion. How could an ordinary person not want to awaken super powers?

Especially when this ordinary person is a senior executive of the base, doesn’t Fang Jianan worry that someone with special abilities will usurp power one day?

Director Fang Ji's face was calm: "I think so."

If he had super powers, he would have handed the base over to Gu Yuan and gone to look for his daughter himself, but...

"I don't want to use the lives of other people with special abilities to awaken my own special abilities."

Base Captain Fang had a heavy expression on his face. He had never expected that Deputy Base Captain Qian would be so bold. At the same time, he felt a little regretful that he had taken a step back and let him be the deputy base captain.

"Where are the supplies?" Deputy Base Commander Qian thought about something else. "Don't you want those supplies anymore? If you let me go, I can give you the supplies in Warehouses 2 and 3."

Hearing his words, Base Chief Fang frowned. "Let? Do you think all the supplies the people at the base have worked so hard to collect belong to you?"

Deputy Base Commander Qian quickly apologized with a smile, "It was just a slip of the tongue, it was all a slip of the tongue."

Facing the cold gazes of Gu Yuan and the others, Deputy Base Commander Qian added, "Base Commander Fang, what do you think of what I just said? As long as you agree to let me go, not only will I get the supplies from those two warehouses, but I can also give you a few special weapons for your research."

Hearing about supernatural weapons, Base Captain Fang couldn't help but look a little conflicted.

Although Dr. Jia is a madman, one has to admit that he is indeed capable. Now he is the only one who has developed supernatural weapons.

"Supernatural weapons?" Gu Qi remembered something and took out the things he had harvested from the empty warehouse and piled them in front of Chief Fang. "Is this what you are talking about?"

Deputy Base Commander Qian: “…”

“It’s you!”

The "Gu Yuan" who suddenly appeared in the laboratory was indeed this Lord Xi in disguise!

Deputy Base Commander Qian was both angry and relieved.

Fortunately, he didn't put any more supplies into the warehouse!

Wait... Deputy Base Commander Qian quickly realized that this didn't seem to be something to be thankful for.

The supplies were not taken away again, but the supernatural weapons were easily obtained by them!

In order to teach the intruder a lesson and prevent the other party from becoming too powerful, they directly installed the most powerful supernatural weapons they had developed in the warehouse.

Because they left in a hurry and wanted to teach a lesson to those who entered later, they did not take the supernatural weapons with them.

Dr. Jia also said very confidently that even if the supernatural weapon could not kill the intruder, it would activate the self-destruct program after the attack, leaving no opportunity for others to study it.

"By the way, there's a self-destruct device in here. Although it's been... destroyed, you should be careful when researching it."

The few thoughts that had just arisen in Deputy Base Commander Qian's mind were instantly extinguished by Gu Qi's instructions.

Gu Yuan thought thoughtfully: Whose name is that my sister didn't say? Could it be the person who helped to name it?

Judging from the behavior of Deputy Base Commander Qian and others, it is estimated that they have not seen that person.

Thinking about his sister's current identity, Gu Yuan suppressed his urge to ask.

When things got to this point, Deputy Base Commander Qian put away his flattering smile and threatened directly, "Fang Jianan, if you don't let us leave now, you won't be able to get those supplies."

"If you want to be buried with the base, I won't stop you. But if I want to leave, don't try to stop me either."

He pulled out the interspatial rings that were strung together, "Get us a car right now, a modified large car, or I'll destroy all those supplies!"

Deputy Base Commander Qian wanted to condense a ball of thunder to threaten Base Commander Fang and others, but he was horrified to find that he could not use his special powers.

"Where's my superpower?!"

Deputy Base Commander Qian looked at his right hand. Not to mention a thunder ball, he couldn't even release a thunder star!

"Dr. Jia, please help me see why I..." His supernatural powers suddenly became unusable.

Before Deputy Base Commander Qian could finish his words, he felt a pain in his left hand holding the space ring, and heard the sound of something breaking.

Blood flowed from the palm of his left hand and fell to the ground. His clenched hand loosened, and the string of space rings and chains floated forward.

"My space ring!" He stretched out his hand to grab it, but was held down again. He could only watch as the space ring floated towards Lord Xi and finally landed in...Gu Yuan's hands.

Looking at the bloody space rings on his palms, a trace of helplessness flashed in Gu Yuan's eyes. He understood that his sister was disgusted by the dirt.

But not to mention Gu Qi, he also felt that these space rings were a bit hot to hold.

Judging from Xin Nan’s previous words, these are not just a few space rings, but also the lives of several space ability users.

Gu Qi raised his hand and brushed it across several rings, as if he had grabbed something and put it into the space bracelet in his hand. In fact, he was asking Jiu Cang to help transfer the things into the bracelet.

She has the dual abilities of water and wood, and her spiritual roots are also water and wood. Although she can use some simple spells of other systems, the space system is not among them.

"Crack"

After her hand brushed past, the space rings shattered.

Gu Qi handed the space bracelet to Gu Yuan and said, "Everything is in here."

Before Gu Yuan could take it, she suddenly withdrew her hand.

Amidst the nervous or puzzled looks of others, she used the same method to take the space equipment from Dr. Jia and transferred it again.

However, this time, not all of Dr. Jia's things were transferred to the space bracelet.

She asked Jiu Cang to destroy the information related to human experiments. Even though Base Director Fang and others seemed to have no interest in these things now, it could not be guaranteed that no one would have bad thoughts after seeing those things in the future.

With fewer and fewer chips in hand, Deputy Base Director Qian and Dr. Jia's faces became a little ugly, and they felt even more uneasy.

Listening to the roars of zombies coming from outside, Deputy Base Commander Qian was thinking of other solutions. He didn't want to stay here with those idiots and die with the base.

Oh right! There is another way!

There are many people with special abilities in the base who are controlled by Team Jin. Deputy Base Commander Qian once again showed a confident look. As long as they still want those people with special abilities to guard the base, they have to listen to him.

After all, Captain Jin is not like Xin Nan, he still has the leverage in his hands.

Thinking of this, Deputy Base Commander Qian even forgot about the fact that he suddenly couldn't use his superpowers.

But before he could say anything, Captain Jin suddenly stood up, bowed his head to Master Xi, and respectfully asked, "Master, what are your instructions?"

Gu Qi took out a white jade bottle and handed it to Captain Jin, saying, "It contains medicine that can cure the poison your daughter has been poisoned with."

"impossible!"

The person who spoke was not Deputy Base Commander Qian, but Dr. Jia. He stared at the white jade bottle and said with certainty: "There can't be an antidote. That's... uh..."

Dr. Jia wanted to say that what he gave Captain Jin's daughter was not poison at all, but a zombie virus. It was only because of her special physique and he used drugs to suppress it that she did not turn into a zombie.

But as soon as this thought came to his mind, he couldn't say another word.

The next second, something even more terrifying happened to him.

Dr. Jia found that the memories of the experiment in his mind were disappearing rapidly, as if they were erased with an eraser.

After those memories disappeared, he felt his brain become a little dizzy again. When he thought about those problems that he once thought were extremely simple, he found that he had no solution and didn't even have a clue.

It was as if overnight, his brilliant mind, which he was so proud of, became extremely mediocre.

This was totally unacceptable to Dr. Jia. He even felt that death would be better than the current situation. He guessed that this must have been done by Lady Xi, and only she had this ability.

But he couldn't do anything now, he could only...

"What is Dr. Jia doing?" Qian Chaoduo, who had been quietly acting as an invisible man, exclaimed.

Dr. Jia took out a scalpel and moved it towards his neck. When the blade cut through the skin and was about to go deeper, he suddenly loosened his hand and the scalpel fell to the ground.

He wanted to pick up the scalpel, but there was another consciousness pulling at him in his brain, making his face look extremely ferocious but unable to pick up the scalpel and continue with his previous action.

"Let me die!" The madness on Dr. Jia's face became even more intense. He looked up at Gu Qi, revealing a longing look for the first time. He could not accept himself becoming mediocre.

Gu Qi didn't look at him, but lowered his eyes to hide the surprise in his eyes, then turned to look at Deputy Base Commander Qian, and mobilized the mental power remaining in the lightning power core to directly destroy the power core.

Then, Deputy Base Commander Qian, whose face was pale, also showed a look of horror. He clearly felt that his special ability was completely useless.

At the same time, a voice in his heart told him that he would never be able to possess the superpower he wanted most.

No one noticed that when Dr. Jia's eyes became dull, a ray of golden light fell from the sky and landed on Gu Qi.

Another ray of golden light of merit.

This is also the reason why Gu Qi was surprised just now.

Destroying a person's wisdom is supposed to be against the will of heaven, and Gu Qi was prepared for backlash.

As a result, not only was the golden light of merit that she had previously obtained not offset, but she also obtained new golden light of merit, which almost caused her to be unable to suppress her cultivation and break through to the late stage of the Golden Core on the spot!

When she destroyed the lightning-type energy core, Xiang Haoyu's breath suddenly weakened, and finally he fell to the corner in infinite fear and speculation, and died.

Until his death, he never understood why he had ended up like this.

When Xiang Haoyu lost his breath, Gu Qi's expression changed, and he left a sentence "I have something else to do, I'll leave for a while" and disappeared on the spot.

Only Jiu Cang saw clearly that a larger golden light of merit descended from the sky, directly enveloping Gu Qi, and her cultivation could no longer suppress her.

Not only did she break through to the late Golden Core stage, but so much golden light of merit allowed her to take half a step into the Nascent Soul stage.

If you are any slower, the thunder tribulation will come!