Chapter 273 The Monsters Breeded by Mad Medical Scientists
What emerged from the burrow was a humanoid creature, but it was more than twice the size of a cougar; it's absolutely impossible for a normal person to grow that big.
From a distance, the humanoid creature appears to have hands and feet, its body covered in brownish-black fur. It braces itself against the edge of the cave entrance with its hands until its nearly four-meter-long, robust body slowly emerges, revealing a tail that is about two meters long.
Lu Xingfeng immediately zoomed in on the image observed through the periscope, and on the electronic screen, a face that looked like both a cougar and a human appeared.
"A humanoid...cougar?" Lu Xingfeng exclaimed in astonishment. "There were such strange animals on the American continent more than two thousand years ago?"
Even though Lu Xingfeng was skilled in martial arts and was sitting inside a tank, he still felt uneasy when he saw something that looked like a monster.
"roar!"
The humanoid cougar monster roared again.
The sound was like a human howl combined with the roar of a large feline, sending chills down your spine.
As the roar resounded, Ning Yao felt her internal organs resonate, and the instinctive fear left her mind blank.
Lu Xingfeng was also dazed for half a second, and only managed to resist the strange feeling by circulating his internal energy in time.
While the two were distracted, the monster leaped ten meters away and disappeared from the view of the tank's electronic screen.
Lu Xingfeng quickly rotated the periscope, but the monster moved as fast as lightning, and the periscope could only barely catch up with its tail.
Fortunately, this tank has a very advanced observation system. In addition to a periscope, it also has radar detection instruments such as thermal imaging and biosensors. A point of light was displayed on the electronic screen, which was constantly approaching the tank.
Ning Yao stared at the screen, gasping in astonishment. "Such speed! It's as fast as a high-speed train! Is this really a creature that exists in nature? Even a cheetah can't run half as fast!"
The words had barely left his mouth.
Lu Xingfeng suddenly hugged Ning Yao tightly in his arms.
Bang!
A muffled thud came from outside the cabin!
The tank, weighing over seventy tons, was shaken by the impact.
Although Lu Xingfeng protected Ning Yao in time, the impact still caused the two of them to fall off their seats.
The tank compartment was cramped, and the two disoriented men almost got stuck in the gaps.
Before Lu Xingfeng could steady Ning Yao, the tank jolted again!
BOOM!!!
This time, the power is even more terrifying.
Ning Yao even began to worry that the tank might be overturned by the monster.
At this very moment, inside the research institute, the group of ecstatic medical experts were still excitedly observing and recording.
"It didn't charge straight ahead, but instead chose to run around and attack from the side, proving that it has a certain level of intelligence."
"Its explosive running speed reached nearly 300 kilometers per hour, but that may not be its limit!"
"..."
Inside the amusement park.
After crashing into the tank twice, the monster failed to damage it. Instead, it smashed itself to pieces, leaving a large gash on its head with its bones exposed.
It growled and retreated more than ten meters away, crouching like a cougar, its eyes, glowing with a ghastly green light, fixed on the steel behemoth in front of it.
"Now!" Ning Yao shouted, "Uncle Lu, aim at it! I'll fire!"
With Lu Xingfeng's swift maneuvering, the tank's cannon barrel turned towards the monster.
The monster remained motionless, continuing to stare.
Bang!
A shell flew out of the cannon barrel.
In the blink of an eye, it struck the monster's location more than ten meters away, causing a loud explosion with flames and billowing smoke.
Although it used only the most ordinary tank shells, the power was terrifying enough. Under normal circumstances, no animal in the world could withstand such a shot.
When the thick smoke cleared, a large crater with a diameter of three to four meters appeared on the ground.
There wasn't a trace of the monster's body tissue in the pit.
"Blown to smithereens?" Ning Yao asked.
"No!" Lu Xingfeng shouted, "It dodged! At the three o'clock position!"
Looking through the periscope, Ning Yao discovered that the monster's head had appeared more than 50 meters away at the three o'clock position. This thing had actually dodged the shell the moment it hit the ground.
However, it was in no good condition, with its head bleeding profusely and many shell fragments stuck in its body, its fur stained red with blood.
“Give it another shot!” Ning Yao said.
Lu Xingfeng re-aimed and quickly locked onto the target.
Ning Yao decisively pressed the shell-launching button.
The second rocket hit, and the monster, which was severely wounded and slowed down considerably, was hit squarely.
Boom!!
A second large crater appeared on the ground.
This time, the monster was almost blown to pieces.
Only the head, half of the chest and abdomen, and a right hand remained; the rest of the body was scattered on the ground like scattered flowers.
Ning Yao breathed a sigh of relief, a smug smile spreading across her face. "Hmph, in the end, they're still just flesh and blood. No matter how fierce and powerful they are, they're nothing in front of firearms."
"Miss Ning, your hand is bleeding," Lu Xingfeng reminded her.
Ning Yao looked up and saw a bloody cut on the back of her hand, probably from when the monster crashed into the tank.
"It actually hurt me..." Ning Yao's eyes flashed with resentment as she looked at the monster's mangled body through the periscope. "That thing doesn't seem to be completely dead yet. I'm going to chop off its head myself!"
At that moment, the person in charge's voice came through the walkie-talkie, "Ms. Ning, that animal is still aggressive. Do you want to leave the tank?"
Ning Yao asked, "What kind of species is it?"
The person in charge said with great pride, "It doesn't belong to any known species because it's our masterpiece. We combined the embryos of the test natives with ancient cougar genes, and also added genes from several other animals to assist it. It has a certain level of intelligence and surpasses the size, strength, and speed of a cougar. Oh, and it also has a certain degree of self-healing ability. Although it's still in the initial modification stage, it's already very impressive."
"No wonder it was so scary," Ning Yao frowned. "Turns out it was a test monster you created. This monstrous thing injured me, and I have to vent my anger!"
After saying that, she opened the tank's hatch, crawled out, landed on the ground, took the special forces short knife from her waist, and angrily strode up to the monster.
The monster's eyes were closed, its tattered chest still slowly eroded, and a heart larger than a human head was exposed outside the wound, still beating powerfully.
Moreover, signs of healing were visibly visible at the various wound sites.
Ning Yao couldn't help but admire the guys at the research institute. They were crazy and really capable. They even managed to create something like this without the constraints of the modern world's rules.
“You’re pretty good. I had a lot of fun this time. I’m going to make your head into a skeletal specimen as a souvenir.” Ning Yao said with a sneer, taking a sharp dagger and plunging it into the monster’s neck, intending to cut off its head.
Just then, the monster suddenly opened its eyes, its pale green pupils gleaming with a chilling light.
Caught off guard, Ning Yao was so startled that she fell to the ground with a thud.
Suddenly, the monster grabbed her calf with its only remaining right hand, its sharp nails tearing through her pants as easily as cutting tofu, digging deep into the flesh of her calf.
"Ah!" Ning Yao screamed in terror, drawing her short sword and slashing fiercely at the monster's wrist.
The monster, however, seemed unaffected, holding her firmly as if about to put her into its mouth.
All of this happened too fast.
Ning Yao only saw a gaping maw full of fangs appear in front of her nose, and the stench and heat that hit her almost made her faint.
Pfft—
A flash of light appeared.
The monster's right hand suddenly broke in two.
Ning Yao was rescued by Lu Xingfeng just before the monster swallowed her head whole.
"Miss Ning! Are you alright?" As Lu Xingfeng severed the monster's right hand, he grabbed Ning Yao and pulled her back several steps.
Ning Yao was pale with pain, not daring to look down at her leg. She clung to Lu Xingfeng's arm and said, "My leg...it hurts so much..."
Lu Xingfeng glanced at her bloodied and mangled calf and gently comforted her, "Don't be afraid, it's just skin and flesh that's injured, not bones or tendons. It can be healed."
"Uncle Lu... kill it for me!" Ning Yao screamed, her eyes filled with fear and anger.
"good!"
Lu Xingfeng channeled his inner energy and swung the knife in his hand at the monster.
The next second, the monster's head, which was bigger than a truck wheel, fell off its neck, crashed heavily to the ground, and rolled several meters away.
Even so, the monster's mangled body continued to writhe, and its hideous head still opened its gaping maw full of fangs, biting wildly.
Da da da—
The special forces soldiers on the sentry post received orders from their commander, pulled the trigger of their machine guns, and unleashed a hail of fire at the monster's head.
The gunfire only stopped after the head was turned into mincemeat.
"Uncle Lu... my head... is so dizzy..." Ning Yao said, then suddenly her body went limp and she fell into a coma.
Lu Xingfeng quickly carried her to the research institute for treatment.
Lu Xingfeng wasn't too worried about her injuries. Although they looked scary, no bones were broken. Besides, the hospital had the most complete and advanced medical equipment in the country, and the medical experts here were top-notch.
But to his surprise, after waiting for more than an hour, Ning Yao still hadn't been taken out of the operating room.
Something seems wrong.
He tried to barge in to take a look, but was stopped by the head of the research institute.
Lu Xingfeng grabbed the person in charge by the neck, lifted him up, and warned in a cold voice, "If anything happens to Miss Ning, Ning Hai and I will not let any of you here off the hook."
The person in charge's face turned a deep purplish-red. "Mr. Lu...you...you first...let go...let go of me..."
Lu Xingfeng let go of her hand.
The person in charge collapsed to the ground, supporting himself with his hands and gasping for breath. "Miss Ning... her injuries aren't the problem, the problem is... she's been poisoned..."
"Poisoned?!" Lu Xingfeng exclaimed angrily, "How could you have been poisoned out of the blue!"
The person in charge stood up with difficulty. "It's like this. The humanoid beast we researched and bred mainly contains genes from natives and cougars, and secondarily from some animal genes that we tried to add to enhance its abilities, such as silver-spotted lizards, black widow spiders, American vampire bats, and more than a dozen other types, some of which are poisonous species. The fusion and mutation of genes is amazing... We didn't expect that the beast would grow venom glands in its claws, which is why Miss Ning was poisoned."
"What kind of poison is it? Can it be cured?" Lu Xingfeng's face grew increasingly gloomy.
The person in charge said with a forced smile, "It's a poison unique to that humanoid beast. We've already figured out a way; its serum can be used as an antidote. Fortunately, we've preserved a considerable amount of its serum, which will be helpful in improving subsequent test subjects. However... this antidote method is only theoretical at present. Why don't you inform Mr. Ning Hai first?"
Lu Xingfeng grabbed the person in charge by the collar, his eyes filled with murderous intent. "You mean, there's danger?!"
The person in charge quickly said, "It's not danger, it's risk. Scientific experiments are always accompanied by various unexpected situations. Please don't kill me, otherwise Miss Ning really won't wake up!"
“You…” Lu Xingfeng’s eyes looked like he wanted to devour someone.
After spending time together, Ning Yao's dependence on him made him unconsciously start to care about this girl.
Now that things are like this, he is genuinely worried about her.
A few seconds later, Lu Xingfeng released his grip, stared intently at the person in charge, and asked, "Mr. Ning Hai is very busy, and I don't want him to worry. In short, I've told you, if anything happens to Miss Ning, I will make sure that everyone in this research institute dies a horrible death."
"Don't worry," the person in charge said with a forced smile, trying to hide his fear of Lu Xingfeng. "Including myself, all of the dozens of medical experts here are world-class. Miss Ning will definitely be safe and sound."
Therefore, Lu Xingfeng approved the detoxification plan proposed by the person in charge.
The person in charge went into the operating room, while Lu Xingfeng continued to wait outside.
Inside the operating room.
Ning Yao fell into a deep coma, and the area on her calf where she had been stabbed by the claws became ulcerated.
The person in charge ordered the use of serum for detoxification.
Soon, the prepared serum was injected into Ning Yao's blood vessels.
On the vital signs monitoring instrument next to it, various data are constantly changing.
A few minutes later, her heart suddenly stopped beating.
The attending physician shook his head at the person in charge.
Faced with this situation, the person in charge, who is also a medical expert, naturally did not need the attending physician to explain in detail to him.
He observed the dense data on the instrument without changing his expression, thought for a moment, and said, "Continue the injection."
Without hesitation, the attending physician immediately gave Ning Yao several more injections of serum.
"There's been a change, continue!" The person in charge stared at the instrument display screen, his eyes shining with excitement.
The attending physician then continued to inject the remaining prepared serum.
Ning Yao's heart started beating again after the last drop of serum was used up.
Her body temperature soared to 40 degrees Celsius within seconds, and other vital signs also showed varying degrees of abnormality.
If you only look at the data, this is already beyond the range of a normal person, but Ning Yao is still alive and well. Although she hasn't opened her eyes, her breathing and heartbeat are steady and strong.
The person in charge gleaned some information from the complex data. A glint of insight flashed in his eyes as he said to the attending physician, "We can go out now. Let's call a few nurses to clean Ms. Ning's wounds."
The attending physician seemed to understand something, nodded, and left the operating room with his surgical team members and the person in charge.
After the nurses they had arranged entered, the person in charge quietly locked the operating room door from the outside...
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