Li Shu forcefully pulled Huo Wei's hand away. His voice was still a little hoarse as he asked in a deep voice, "What is this?"
Howie didn't answer, but they all knew that these were the experimental products of the institute.
Li Shu closed his eyes and said sternly, "This empire is truly beyond saving."
Even in the end times, when human nature has collapsed, they have not done such inhumane things. However, this interstellar empire, an empire at the forefront of technology, did not develop these high technologies in the direction of benefiting the country and the people, but instead studied these crooked ways!
Huo Wei held Li Shu's hand tightly and said in a deep voice, "Since this empire is beyond saving, let's wake him up, together!"
Li Shu didn't reply this time. He just held the other person's fingers tightly, as if he was grabbing his only life-saving straw.
Li Shu and Huo Wei took a long time to calm down. They walked around the sinkhole and went to the side. When the stench had almost dissipated, they saw an enlarged version of the prison. There were many more humans here than over there, and these people still retained the most basic emotions. After seeing the existence of Li Shu and the others, all the humans gathered together, looking at them with terror in their eyes.
Behind them, a strong golden adult lion came into their sight.
When the lion saw them, it roared at them angrily, and then looked at the ordinary humans in the prison beside it with full of worry.
Li Shu was suddenly stunned, "Huo Wei, that star beast seems to still be conscious!"
Li Shu hurriedly took out the supernatural plant, tore it into pieces and placed it on a biscuit. He walked across the crowd towards the lion and said, "Eat it. You will feel much better after eating this biscuit!"
His words did not let the lion down. He did not eat the biscuits that Li Shu handed him, and even took two steps back calmly.
Li Shu: “…”
Before he could say anything, a girl in her twenties ran out of a nearby cell. Standing at the bars, she spoke nervously, "Don't hurt my brother! You've already turned him into this, and you're still not satisfied? Let him go, and I'll do the experiment on him!"
Hearing this, the lion anxiously roared at the girl. The girl smiled wryly and said, "Brother, since we've been brought to this place, our chances of getting out are very slim. In that case, we might as well become like you and be brother and sister!"
The girl's words were vague, and Li Shu didn't quite understand. He looked up at the girl, raised his eyebrows slightly, and then said, "What's going on?"
"The girl sneered, "What's going on with us? Don't you know? Okay, stop playing innocent. Now that I've decided to stand up, don't hurt my brother!"
Although Huo Wei sympathized with these people's experiences and could understand their unpleasant attitude, this did not mean that Huo Wei could tolerate them treating Li Shu in this way!
He stepped forward, staring coldly at the girl in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "We are not from the research institute. We came here today to save people. If you want to escape from here, then keep your mouths shut!"
Hearing that Howie was going to rescue them, these humans' eyes sparkled with stars. They looked at the two expectantly, "Really? Are you really here to rescue us?"
"Great, we can finally get out of this damn place!"
Everyone in the cell was like a madman, venting their joy like crazy. Huo Wei frowned and said in a deep voice, "Now line up quietly! Don't make a sound, otherwise, none of us can leave!"
These people also knew the interests involved and very tactfully suppressed their excitement. Li Shu then walked to the front of the cell, activated his special abilities, and cut off the lock on the door with a sword.
The people in the prison filed out. Li Shu released the lion nearby. Seeing that the lion was huge and particularly conspicuous in the crowd, he saw that the lion could still understand human language. He reached out and handed the biscuit to the lion again, "Eat this, it will relieve the violent energy in your body. See if you can try to shrink your body."
The lion tilted its head and looked at Li Shu, with a bit of confusion in its eyes, as if it didn't quite understand what Li Shu was talking about.
The lion's sister came over and explained softly, "Little brother, my brother is not a star beast, so he doesn't have the ability of a star beast, so he can't do the things you said."
Li Shu's mind suddenly went blank. "What did you say? It's not a star beast? How is that possible? If it's not a star beast, how could it turn into an animal?"
The little lion girl sneered, "Of course it's because of the experiment that we became like this. Why do you think we were captured here? It's because we haven't awakened our beast forms even after reaching adulthood. So, the guys in this laboratory captured us and brought us here for experiments!"
"I don't know how many people have died in this research institute for this experiment, but after all this time, they've only come up with this semi-successful work of my brother's!"
Li Shu's head felt even more dizzy. He thought about the sinkhole he had just seen and the various strange-looking corpses in it. Did this mean that those people were the failed products of the experiment, so they were thrown into the sinkhole?
He wanted to deny his guess, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was a fact!
"Huo Wei!" Li Shu reached out and grabbed Huo Wei's sleeve. Before he could react, he suddenly reached out and hugged him tightly, whispering, "Those high-ranking officials in the empire, including the imperial family, are truly inhuman! I'm so glad you haven't been a marshal for long and haven't been assimilated by those high-ranking officials in the empire yet!"
Huo Wei was stunned for a moment, and slowly increased the strength of his hold on Li Shu. He chuckled and said, "Don't worry, even if I hold a high position for a long time, I will not become like that. That will only accelerate my disappointment with the empire."
The saying "People with different ideals cannot work together" means exactly this.
He would not hurt countless strangers for something that would have no result.
Li Shu sneered, "You're right, what I said just now was humiliating you!"
He calmed down, stood up straight, and asked, "Should we take them back to reunite with Lin Yong and the others? These ordinary people don't have much physical strength. I'm worried they'll just lie there before they even reach the reunion location. Plus, the people from the research institute are looking for us, so we need to hurry."
Taking these ordinary people on the road will definitely waste a lot of time.
But neither Huo Wei nor Li Shu thought of giving up these people.
Huo Wei raised his eyebrows slightly after hearing Li Shu's explanation, and then asked, "Do you have a solution?"
"It's not really a solution." Li Shu smiled and continued to explain, "I just think that since those researchers put these people here, it means that there should be another door nearby. We can go up through this door and then meet up with Lin Yong and the others on the ground. What do you think?"
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