Fortunately, no traces of artificial synthesis were found on Han Rui's body. Apart from being a little weak, she was otherwise unharmed.
"Thank goodness, she shouldn't have been modified yet." Sun Tiantian breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Yu rinsed the nutrient solution off Han Rui's body with water and cleaned her nasal cavity. Han Rui finally coughed.
"Wake up, don't sleep, or you'll miss dinner."
Seeing Han Rui's body trembling unconsciously, Zhang Xiaojuan took off her coat and wrapped it around her, and then casually gave her two light and heavy breast pockets.
"Cough cough."
Han Rui coughed up a mouthful of dirty water and finally opened her eyes.
Her blank, unfocused eyes trembled slightly before finally focusing on Zhang Xiaojuan's face.
Seeing the familiar face before her, Han Rui instinctively hugged Zhang Xiaojuan tightly, trembling with grievance, "Juan'er, I'm scared..."
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Han Rui clung to Zhang Xiaojuan like an octopus, making him blush.
"Hey, I saved you, don't repay kindness with enmity!"
Lu Sheng and the others: "..."
For some people, being single is a blessing they deserve.
Zhang Xiaojuan tried to pull Han Rui off by prying her hands off, but Han Rui was surprisingly strong despite her small and thin appearance.
Zhang Xiaojuan couldn't persuade her otherwise, and in the end, she could only resign herself to letting her hang on her body, and reluctantly carried Han Rui away.
"Han Rui, how did you get brought here? Where is Chief Engineer Han?"
Once Han Rui had regained her senses, Jiang Qichen couldn't wait to ask.
"After we separated, I found something was wrong at home as soon as I got back to the research institute. I was about to go and talk to Lu Sheng and the others when Yang Ao knocked me unconscious."
Han Rui struggled to recall the events of that day.
"So you were brought here afterwards? Did you see Xia Ziqiu?" Jiang Qichen asked anxiously.
Han Rui rubbed her aching temples, and gritted her teeth as she picked up Xia Ziqiu, "That bastard tied me up in the lab, trying to merge Xia Ran's head with my body."
"He was just about to make his move when the alarm went off outside; it's probably you guys arriving."
Han Rui clenched her fingers, still shaken. "He didn't have time to deal with it. He just left me in the nutrient tank and ran away."
As Han Rui recounted the events of that time, Lu Sheng's peripheral vision inadvertently caught sight of the nutrient tank next to him.
The nutrient pod contained a man who was about forty years old, with a thick tortoise shell attached to his back, and his two hands had mutated into sharp beast claws.
Suddenly, the man opened his eyes.
Lu Sheng's pupils dilated, and his body reacted instinctively.
"The people in the nutrient tanks are alive!"
Lu Sheng gripped the knife handle tightly, grabbed Zhang Xiaojuan, and pulled her back.
Almost simultaneously, alarms blared throughout the laboratory. The overhead lights flickered, and the doors of all the nutrient tanks opened instantly.
Having developed a tacit understanding over this period, Sun Tiantian and Xiao Yu retreated in perfect unison the moment Lu Sheng made a move.
Xu Yi and Lu Sheng grabbed Zhang Xiaojuan and Han Rui and retreated quickly.
But Jiang Qichen's men weren't so lucky.
The next second, the middle-aged man wearing tortoise shells darted out of the nutrient tank and nimbly pounced on the nearest Swift Bee Squad.
Two young male members of the Swift Bee Squad were unable to dodge in time and were grabbed by the neck by the Tortoise Shell Man, one in each hand.
"Awoo!"
The tortoise-shell man suddenly gave a strange smile, his mouth stretching all the way to his ears, revealing a set of serrated sharp teeth.
With a grunt, the tortoise-shell man lowered his head and bit into the head of the Swift Bee team member.
The members of the Swift Bee Squad didn't even have time to call for help before their heads were bitten off.
Amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, the tortoise-shell man licked his lips and then lunged at another team member who was trembling with fear.
"I'll chop you up! I'll chop you to death!"
Another member of the Swift Bee team collapsed to the ground, his knees buckling in fear. He instinctively summoned his ice blades and began slashing wildly at the turtle-armored man.
The sharp ice blades struck the tortoise shell like a tickle, leaving at most a shallow mark.
After burying his head in his shell to avoid a fatal blow, the Tortoise-shell Man suddenly charged at the Swift Bee team member, grabbed his neck with one hand, and snapped it effortlessly.
The agonizing scream was abruptly cut short after it had barely uttered a single syllable.
The person's neck was twisted 360 degrees, and their terrified eyes didn't even have time to close.
As the Tortoise-shell Man launched his attack, all the synthetic humans in the nutrient tanks joined the battle.
Under the flickering lights, mutants with superhuman physiques and military squads were engaged in a chaotic fight.
Various superpowers bombarded the laboratory, but few mutants were hit, and many of the skills accidentally injured their own people.
"Get out of here! Get to an open area!"
Lu Sheng severed the snake woman's arm with a single stroke and shouted loudly at Jiang Qichen.
A chaotic brawl in a confined space like a laboratory, with unreliable lighting, would be a Pyrrhic victory.
Jiang Qichen had half of his eyebrow burned by his own people's fire-type superpowers, so he raised a heavy iron shield to temporarily protect everyone on the general's side.
"Leave the lab first!"
With Han Rui pointing the way, the group quickly found the secret door to leave the laboratory.
Seeing that the mutants were about to surge forward, Lu Sheng immediately told everyone to leave through the door.
"Teacher Xu, you should leave first. I'll handle things here."
With only Lu Sheng and Xu Yishi remaining in the laboratory, she threw out an electric fence to temporarily slow down the speed at which the mutants were rushing up.
Lu Sheng stared at the group of menacing mutants, plotting how to wipe them out.
Since the mutants are not considered to be infected with the zombie virus, Sunflower's attack speed reduction is completely useless, so she has to think of other ways to slow them down.
As she was pondering this, her hand suddenly felt heavy.
A heavy, modified submachine gun...
Before Lu Sheng could even be surprised, he saw Xu Yi, holding the butt of his gun, wildly firing at the mutants charging at him.
Unlike ordinary bullets, the bullets fired by Xu Yi would quickly ignite the wound if they even grazed the skin.
After firing a burst of bullets, most of the mutants in the laboratory had been wiped out.
The bullets struck the mutants and quickly burned and spread into their flesh, soon revealing the stark white bones beneath their bodies.
Exposing the bone wasn't the end of it; the bullet didn't stop until the bones were burned to ashes.
"What's this?"
Lu Sheng looked at Xu Yi in surprise.
She had never heard of such a powerful weapon; a mere graze from a bullet could burn a large hole in her body, exposing the bone.
"White phosphorus bomb".
Xu Yi said calmly.
White phosphorus bombs? Legend has it that they were the most inhumane weapon on the battlefield of World War II. Lu Sheng had only heard about them in online videos.
How could such a white phosphorus bullet be used on a submachine gun? And how did Xu Yi modify it?
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