In the huge laboratory, the large experimental table was cluttered with materials and computers, all stacked high. Lin Ruo sat behind the experimental table, surrounded by these things. From the outside, you couldn't even see her scalp.

Lin Ruo took two terminals from the most conspicuous spot on the lab table. These were the terminals she had taken from the base when she returned. They belonged to the base chief and deputy base chief. When the terminals were turned on, they were completely blank, without any extra information, just like when they left the factory.

Lin Ruo understood that everything had been remotely formatted. She hadn't expected that operations performed before the apocalypse would still exist after the apocalypse. This kind of terminal had only existed for two years and didn't have global network coverage, yet they were still able to do this.

She rubbed her temples, her head aching, wondering how to search for them. She had already alerted them, and they had covered their tracks so thoroughly. Was she supposed to search every single detail according to the map?

But... is it worth going to such great lengths for this experiment? Although she hated this kind of experiment in her past life, she was not a victim of it after all. In the end, as long as she can endure it, these people don't dare to do anything to her now, so why should she go to such great lengths to do this?

Just as she was struggling with her thoughts, Lin Ruo's terminal rang. She turned to look in the direction of the terminal. More than two hours had passed since she returned from the western mountain peak. With such a long time difference, the B City base should have already received the news.

She was also very curious about how the B City base would react.

She flicked her finger in the air, and the water molecules around the terminal quickly condensed into a sheet of ice, gently lifting the terminal and delivering it to Lin Ruo.

With a wave of her hand, the thin ice disappeared, and the terminal fell from the sky, landing right in Lin Ruo's hand.

Because of a new message notification, the terminal screen was still on. Lin Ruo glanced at it and saw the message, which was sent by Jiang Yue.

“Sister Ruo, a lot of superhumans came to our base today. They all escaped from the western mountain peak. They said you saved them.”

As darkness fell outside, the lights in Lin Ruo's laboratory remained off. The light from the terminal screen illuminated only the corners of her mouth that were gradually turning upwards.

Seemingly seeing that she didn't reply, Jiang Yue sent another message, "Sister Ruo, these people say that the base on the west mountain is conducting experiments on living people, but they don't know what the experiments are about. However, they say that you were already in the lab before they came out, and that you rescued them. I wonder if you can provide me with some clues about what's going on inside?"

After sending the message, Jiang Yue probably worried that she might find it annoying, so he also sent over the information that their base had just received, hoping to exchange information.

“We had received news of the missing ability users at the J City base before. Because the situation wasn’t too serious at the time, we only paid a little attention to it and didn’t follow up. Now that I think about it, the experiment may have already been going on back then. We have already sent people to take over the base on the west mountain peak.”

"The forensic examination revealed the cause of death of the base chief, deputy base chief, and the experimental personnel. They all died from a rare toxin. We have joined forces with Xu Chenfeng from the C City base to study it, which could serve as a breakthrough, but the time interval may be quite long."

"We have also arrested all the remaining members of the hunting team in the base. We learned from them that there may be a mastermind behind the operation. However, the high-ranking members only know the purpose of the experiment: to give ordinary survivors superpowers. They don't know the specific details or how it works. If you can provide some useful information, we can quickly recruit these people and reduce the number of casualties among those with superpowers."

Lin Ruo looked at the dense text on the screen, raised her hand and scratched her brow. Jiang Yue rarely sent her so many messages because he knew she might not read them and didn't want to bother her. The fact that he could send so many messages and so many words showed his eagerness.

But... Lin Ruo glanced at the documents on the table. She couldn't rule out the possibility that the mastermind was related to the B City base. She still needed to investigate personally. Before that, she couldn't let out any information about the specific details of the experiment.

"When I arrived, everything in the base had been destroyed, and even the experimental personnel were all dead. I didn't know what the experiments were about, but I saw people dissected in the laboratory and knew that these people were being subjected to live experiments, which is why they killed people."

This explanation is somewhat far-fetched and doesn't explain why she would have paid attention to the base in the first place, but she doesn't need to explain it to them in such detail. She can simply tell them that she knows nothing about it.

Jiang Yue could see that Lin Ruo's reply was somewhat perfunctory, but what she said was still very credible. They hadn't found any electronic equipment or experimental materials in the laboratory before, so someone must have already cleaned the laboratory.

According to the testimonies of those superhumans, when Sister Ruo appeared before them, she had nothing on her except a backpack that could hold crystal cores. These items were quite large, and she couldn't have moved them with just a backpack.

If she didn't take them, then it must have been the masterminds behind it who took them. These people suddenly appeared and moved all these things away, and even killed all the people involved. What are these people trying to do?

Chen Yu and Ye Lin didn't suspect Lin Ruo too much. Lin Ruo was always the type not to meddle in other people's business. Rescuing these people and killing so many members of the hunting team was already beyond her scope of concern, and she didn't seem to want to spend any more time on this matter.

"These people are truly despicable! Not only do they use living people for experiments, but they also manage to cover their tracks so thoroughly. For now, we can only try to find a solution using the poison on these corpses. Moreover, we cannot let this experiment slip away for the time being, otherwise we will not only fail to obtain much useful information, but we will also alert them."

Jiang Yue's message to Lin Ruo gave her some inspiration. All the people who were killed died from poison. The person who could develop such poison must not be an ordinary person. Moreover, poison makers like to use local materials, so it would be possible to tell which region the other party was from.