Chapter 240 Human Experimentation Research Base

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These exceptionally capable individuals are likely products of human experimentation.

Lin Baozhu snorted coldly, thinking that this must be another thing that the Bloodline Kingdom had come up with.

Lin Baozhu quickly searched through the space for useful items, including weapons she had developed during the apocalypse, which would be much more effective in dealing with this kind of monster.

Lin Baozhu stayed in the space, making it transparent, and looked at the receding scenery outside, feeling extremely excited.

She didn't know who "Black Three" was going to meet, but her intuition told her that this would be the key to uncovering the "Pure One" and the mastermind behind it all. The car didn't head towards the city; instead, it drove further and further off the beaten path, finally stopping deep in a desolate mountain valley filled with abandoned mines and sparse shrubs.

The car was turned off, and "Black Three" and his henchman called "Old Five" got out, their footsteps heading towards the mountainside.

Beyond the space, Lin Baozhu's eyes, through the glass, saw Hei San groping along the stone wall, followed by a heavy, muffled thud from friction!

It was a hidden door!

After the two went inside, watching the hidden door slowly close, Lin Baozhu suddenly opened the car door and rushed towards the hidden door like a gust of wind...

In the instant she rushed in, a thought flashed through her mind, and she entered the space.

Lao Wu and Hei San seemed to sense something and turned their heads at the same time, but there was no one in the empty corridor.

Fifth Brother: "Is it the wind?"

Hei San: "This place isn't opened often, so it's normal for there to be airflow. Let's go, don't keep the adults waiting."

Lin Baozhu waited in the space for ten minutes, and only left the space after confirming that the two people had gone far away.

She walked forward cautiously, and as she continued, a strange stench, a mixture of disinfectant, blood, and some indescribable, metallic, sweet, and rotten smell, instantly filled her nostrils, making her stomach churn...

Before me stretched a wide, downward-facing passageway made of rough concrete, its walls embedded with fluorescent tubes emitting a stark, cold light. On either side of the passageway were enormous, cylindrical containers made of thick glass, extending all the way to the horizon!

Lin Baozhu suppressed her discomfort and carefully approached the nearest glass jar.

Just one glance, and her blood seemed to freeze instantly!

The enormous glass jar was filled with a murky, eerily pale green liquid. Immersed within the liquid was a completely naked adult male!

His body was covered in transparent tubes of varying thicknesses, connected to the equipment on top of the tank like a spider web. But that wasn't the most horrifying part—his skin exhibited a parched, cracked appearance, like parched earth!

It was covered with huge, dark brown cracks, and deep within those cracks was dark red, dried flesh, as if the entire body was rapidly dehydrating and disintegrating from the inside! His eyes were wide open, his pupils dilated, and he was clearly dead.

Lin Baozhu felt as if her heart was being gripped by an icy hand! She forced herself to look away and focus on the next jar.

The person in this jar was even more bizarre! His body was stretched extremely thin and long, his limbs twisted and tangled like noodles, and his skin had a grayish, translucent texture, like a giant worm slowly and unconsciously writhing in a viscous liquid!

The third jar... the fourth jar... all varied in shape, but without exception, they were all suffering inhuman torture and mutations! Some bodies swelled and deformed, some limbs atrophied and disappeared, and some had strange keratin or pustules growing on their skin... This was not a laboratory at all, but a living hell!

Suppressed anger and chilling fear intertwined in Lin Baozhu's heart. Suppressing the urge to vomit, she took out a miniature camera pre-stored in her spatial storage, held her breath, and began taking rapid photos! Every twisted body, every cold instrument, became irrefutable evidence!

Just as she moved deeper into the passage, her pupils suddenly contracted!

In a larger, more securely protected isolation chamber than the other jars, she saw a relatively small glass jar. Inside, there was no complete human body, only a constantly churning, shifting mass of… a dark red, viscous substance! Sometimes it coalesced into a distorted human shape, sometimes it dispersed like boiling blood, its core shimmering with an unstable, heart-beating, eerie red light!

Lin Baozhu's post-apocalyptic memories were instantly activated! This form, this aura... although extremely primitive and unstable, it was clearly... a primordial aggregate of the zombie virus! One of the sources of the devastating catastrophe that followed!

Her back was instantly soaked with cold sweat! The technology of this era was simply incapable of understanding and controlling this level of biological weapon! If it were to leak…

Lin Baozhu's hair stood on end! She knew there was a complex drainage and ventilation system beneath the base... If they rashly destroyed this place, who could guarantee that the initial virus inside wouldn't travel through the pipes straight to the outside of the mountain?

She had lived through the apocalypse and knew all too well how terrifying zombies were.

Once it breaks out, the entire country will fall within a month, and then it will spread globally...

She quickly snapped a picture of the virus container, then stored the camera away and retreated as fast as she could.

The moment she left the experimental base, a chilling killing intent, as if it were a tangible force, attacked her from behind!

"So it was you, you little mouse." A cold, hoarse voice, like the scraping of metal, rang out.

The person who arrived was none other than "Fifth Brother"!

Seeing that Lin Baozhu didn't speak, the fifth brother snorted coldly: "A spy sent by the army? He's quite capable, managing to find his way here."

The fifth brother slowly raised his hand, and Lin Baozhu saw that his hand... at that moment, the skin beneath it gleamed with a cold metallic light, and there was a faint sound of hydraulic devices operating at his knuckles! He was no ordinary person! He was a semi-humanoid machine that had undergone mechanical modifications!

Suddenly, Lao Wu moved, even faster than he had been in the cargo yard! His metal arm, accompanied by a piercing shriek as it tore through the air, aimed straight for Lin Baozhu's throat! It was no longer a capture, but a pure, deadly strike!

Lin Baozhu's pupils contracted sharply, knowing there was no way to avoid it! She no longer hid, and her fighting instincts honed in the apocalypse erupted instantly!

Instead of blocking, she slid to the side at an incredible angle, and at the same time, her right hand swept across her waist—a short-barreled weapon with an extremely strange shape, all black, and flashing with eerie blue energy patterns instantly appeared in her hand!

This was the prototype of the miniature energy weapon she had personally built in the early days of the apocalypse, using advanced materials and blueprints she had stockpiled in her space, under the guidance of her friend, that mad scientist! Although its power was far inferior to the mature version of later generations, in this era, it was an absolute game-changer!

"Buzz—Boom!!!"

A blinding, thumb-thick beam of eerie blue light, brimming with terrifying heat and kinetic energy, shot out from the front of the short tube! There was no deafening explosion, only a high-frequency humming and the acrid smell of air being instantly ionized!

The beam of light hit the metal arm that Lao Wu had grabbed with pinpoint accuracy!

There was no metal-on-metal collision as expected! The sturdy alloy arm, before the pale blue beam of light, was like butter meeting a red-hot iron! It was instantly pierced and vaporized!

The beam of light continued its relentless advance, piercing straight through Lao Wu's chest and leaving a bowl-sized, smooth-edged, charred hole in his heart! You could even see the stark white wall behind him through the hole!

The fifth brother's forward charge abruptly froze! He looked down in disbelief at the gaping hole in his chest, then at the eerie weapon radiating destructive power in Lin Baozhu's hand. For the first time, his metallic face revealed...utter horror! Immediately, the light in his eyes dimmed rapidly, and his massive body crashed to the ground, utterly lifeless!

All of this happened in the blink of an eye!

At the other end of the passage, "Black Three," who was about to enter the inner room to check the situation, was stunned by this sudden turn of events! Especially when he saw the horrific wound on Lao Wu's chest and the weapon he had never seen before on the ground, "Black Three's" pupils instantly shrank to pinpoints! Extreme fear overwhelmed everything! Without hesitation, he turned and ran wildly towards a hidden escape passage deep inside the base!

"Trying to run?!" Lin Baozhu's eyes were icy cold, her killing intent boiling! She put away the "Roar of the Fiery Dragon," which was still radiating residual heat, and casually picked up a solid metal rod about the size of a bowl that had been discarded in a corner and used to stir the culture medium!

She pushed off with her feet, and her body shot out like an arrow! Her speed was so great that she left afterimages in the passage!

"Black Three" felt a gust of wind coming from behind. Just as he was about to turn around and draw his gun, he heard a muffled whooshing sound!

"Whoosh—Bang!!!"

The heavy metal rod, carrying all of Lin Baowan's strength, slammed down hard on "Black Three's" back!

"Crack!" The sickening sound of bone breaking was clearly audible!

"Pfft!" "Black Three" spat out a mouthful of blood, and his whole body was sent flying like a kite with a broken string. He crashed heavily into the metal wall, then slid softly to the ground and fainted on the spot.

Lin Baozhu quickly used a special rope to tie the unconscious "Black Three" into a dumpling shape, and then took out a powerful sedative from her space and injected it into the two of them to ensure that they would not be able to wake up or resist for a short period of time.

Looking at the hellish base before her and the virus canisters exuding an ominous aura, Lin Baozhu knew that the most urgent task was to send out intelligence about this place!

She quickly returned to her spatial dimension and retrieved several blueprints that her friend had painstakingly researched but which couldn't be fully realized in the apocalypse due to limitations in materials.

"Design diagram of high-frequency particle oscillation cutting knife," "Schematic diagram of portable energy shield generator," and "Architectural description of bioactive detection radar (first generation)." These technologies are far ahead of our time, but they are also the prototypes of cutting-edge weapons that the country urgently needs and can most quickly form combat capability for!

She rushed out of the base, determined her direction, took out a bicycle from her spatial storage, and headed towards the county...

It wasn't until evening that Lin Baozhu returned to the county, panting heavily.