Gu Wan impatiently kicked the ground with the tip of her shoe: "Hurry up! What are you dawdling for?"
Cai Xun quickly responded with an "Eh," then, hunching over, cautiously led Lu Nange and her group deeper into the laboratory.
The passageway was flanked by cold metal walls, and overhead lights cast a pale, lifeless glow.
The air was filled with a strong smell of disinfectant, mixed with a kind of indescribable, cloying, rusty, bloody odor that made one's nose itch and one's heart feel oppressed.
Shi Xu kept a half-step distance from Cai Xun: "What exactly are you doing with your Rock Labs' so-called 'research'?"
Cai Xun's forehead instantly broke out in a fine layer of cold sweat, which slid down her temples.
His eyes flickered, and he stammered, "This...it's mainly...it's primarily about explorations related to biological enhancement and potential activation..."
"Nan Nan." Gu Wan glanced at Cai Xun sideways: "I think this person doesn't seem to speak very well. He stammers and it's hard to understand him."
Or maybe we should just make things simple and keep him company with his cronies? After all, keeping him around doesn't seem to offer any real benefit.
Shi Xu: "Well... anyway, everything's in this lab. We can figure it out ourselves by looking through it slowly."
Cai Xun's legs went weak and she was about to kneel down, but Shi Xu quickly grabbed her by the back of her collar, so she could only bend over halfway and cry out in a sobbing voice.
"No! Don't kill me! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!"
We...we mainly cultivate and transplant...superhumans, tame high-level zombies, and...we also do...grafting experiments on mutated animals..."
"Growing mutated animals?" Shi Xu's tone rose slightly, carrying a scrutinizing air.
Cai Xun raised his trembling hand and pointed to a huge laboratory cubicle made of thick reinforced glass on the right side of the passageway.
"It's...it's right over there...you'll see for yourselves...you'll understand after just one look..."
Lu Nange and his group looked in the direction he pointed.
Through the clear glass, one can clearly see a "creature" locked inside the isolation room that cannot be defined by common sense.
Its upper body still vaguely retained a human form, its skin was an unhealthy grayish color, its eyes were cloudy and lifeless, and its open mouth emitted unconscious, intermittent "hoarse" sounds, clearly indicating that it was an active zombie.
However, from its waist down, instead of the legs that humans should have, there are four thick limbs covered with dark brown, coarse hair that have been forcibly grafted onto it, belonging to some kind of large canine or feline mutant beast!
The four powerful beast legs were muscular and bulging, their sharp claws scratching nervously at the ground with a harsh scraping sound...
Even the Flameheart team members, who were used to all kinds of cruel scenes in the apocalypse, couldn't help but gasp when they saw this terrifying creation that defied the laws of nature!
Several team members with weaker mental fortitude even subconsciously took a half step back, their stomachs churning, forcibly suppressing the urge to vomit.
Shi Xu frowned, his voice filled with suppressed shock and anger: "This is what you call mutated animal grafting?"
Cai Xun was so frightened that she fell to her knees with a "plop," waving her hands wildly and incoherently trying to shift the blame, tears and snot streaming down her face.
"No...it wasn't my idea! It was an order from above! I was just following orders; it was what our base commander asked us to do..."
If I don't do it, I can't live! They forced me to! I'm just a nobody responsible for recording data and maintaining equipment!
Gu Wan turned her face away in utter disgust, muttering under her breath, "They're insane...a bunch of complete lunatics!"
He Zhuo: "The commander of the Rock Base is either a lunatic or a psychopath with antisocial personality disorder! Otherwise, why would he keep thinking about these disgusting things that normal people wouldn't even consider!"
Shi Xu stared at the monster behind the glass, especially at the hideous grafted suture at its waist, and suddenly spoke.
"No... Look at the healing of the graft wound and the activity of the muscle tissue... You're not conducting experiments on a corpse."
You're using living people for grafting, and then... waiting for them to become infected and mutate, or... directly causing them to mutate?
His gaze abruptly shifted to Cai Xun, who was kneeling on the ground, and his voice suddenly turned cold: "Is that right?"
Cai Xun trembled violently, buried her head even lower, and spoke in a voice barely audible.
"...Yes. The base commander said...that this is the only way to obtain the most authentic and continuous experimental data. We...we generally..."
Indeed, it involves using living people... for grafting surgery...
"You beast!" Luo Xingyou cursed angrily, her fists clenched so tightly they cracked, her eyes practically spitting fire.
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