Laboratory 04
"The laboratory was exposed, and the experimental subjects were released by two women with special abilities. Now their whereabouts are unknown." Shen Congyu finished speaking while pinching his brows.
There was silence for a few seconds on the other side. Shen Congyu was a little flustered. Soon, a voice that was unclear whether happy or angry came from the other side: "What superpower?"
"Earth and ice? Ice-type abilities are very strong, so he might be from the special forces."
"Ice power? Are you sure?"
"Yes, the supernatural power level is very high and can block the attack of ordinary bullets."
"Let's start by checking the patrol center. The special forces are managed by Wen Yan's subordinates, so it's not easy for me to investigate. Be careful to stay hidden and don't make any noise."
Shen Congyu held the phone with some force: "Yes."
There was a busy tone on the phone, and Shen Congyu breathed a sigh of relief. Since the special forces couldn't investigate for the time being, he would start from the patrol center.
Elsewhere, Jiang Lin threw all the dirty clothes she had gotten tonight into the washing machine and took a nice hot shower. Her arms were still shaking slightly from the exertion; she had been so exhausted tonight.
[Congratulations to the host for completing the mission. You will be rewarded with a mysterious gift package. Do you want to view the contents of the gift package?] The system's light screen appeared before her, and Jiang Lin chose to check it without hesitation.
Unlock Land Purifier: A magical tool that makes wasteland bloom. Use one bottle of reagent per cubic meter to achieve the desired purification effect. Price: 10 used batteries per bottle.
Unlock the system warehouse: a moving tool that can store items in one place. 】
Jiang Lin didn’t feel anything about the system warehouse for the time being, but she was very interested in the soil purifier. This thing seemed to be tailor-made for this world, and the price was very cheap.
Jiang Lin opened the system store, and the soil purifier was at the top. As planned, she purchased a fill light, an indoor greenhouse, and two bottles of purifier. She still had 432 batteries left in her account, a significant improvement over her previous balance. This trip to the experimental base was worthwhile.
The indoor greenhouse is a rectangular cube measuring approximately 1.8 by 2 by 2.6 meters, made of thick black plastic sheeting. The entrance is made of transparent hard plastic with buttons for adjusting the temperature and humidity. Inside, there are four layers of iron frames along the sides and back.
Jiang Lin hung the fill light on the roof of the greenhouse. She placed the planting trough on a shelf at the back, which was still bare. She stared at the soil for a while and yawned. It was already midnight, and she had to get up early for work the next day. She left the greenhouse and lay down on the bed before falling asleep from exhaustion.
The alarm clock rang at 7:00 in the morning. When Jiang Lin woke up, she felt only soreness in her arms. She stretched her body in bed and went to the bathroom to wash up. The mirror showed her thin face. Jiang Lin pinched the flesh on her cheeks. There was almost no flesh. She was still too thin. She needed to find a way to supplement her nutrition.
The intelligent brain received a text message, and 110 directly opened a virtual screen for Jiang Lin. It was a text message from the patrol center.
Come to my office at 8:30 AM. Sender: Lin Dehou
Jiang Lin took a quick look and turned off the screen. She had exercised quite a lot last night and was now very hungry. She put on her clothes and immediately walked towards the cafeteria.
Today's breakfast was not bad, a bowl of porridge and dry bread slices. The porridge tasted lightly of sweet potato, and the bread was dry and a bit sour, but it tasted okay.
Area 99 was a mixed bag, and Jiang Lin was a little worried that someone might break into her compound. After all, there were things in there that she shouldn't have. Jiang Lin was thinking about finding a single-person accommodation area with better private messages.
After finishing her breakfast, Jiang Lin arrived at the bus stop on time. The No. 8 bus arrived at about the same time every day. Not long after she arrived, she saw a familiar bus coming in her direction.
Now that she had a display, Jiang Lin connected to the intelligent computer to pass the time in the car. She browsed the items on the system mall. She wanted everything, but she didn't have enough batteries to buy them all. She had to find a way to earn more batteries.
Jiang Lin wrote down two small goals in the memo of the intelligent brain:
1. Change to a more private accommodation area
2. Collect used batteries easily and easily
Anyway, time is not very tight now, so Jiang Lin plans to achieve these two goals slowly.
At eight o'clock in the morning, she arrived at the patrol center on time. Just after she rested on the chair for a while, she saw a familiar figure.
"Good morning, boss." Su Yichen greeted Sheng Wei warmly as he walked over. Unexpectedly, Sheng Wei didn't even look at him today and walked past him towards a thin girl.
"Jiang Lin?" Sheng Wei asked tentatively as he looked at the girl in front of him. The lighting was dim when they met yesterday, and Sheng Wei could only roughly see the vague outline of her face.
"It's me, good morning."
"It's really you. Which team are you in now?" After confirming that the person in front of him was Jiang Lin, Sheng Wei showed a happy smile on his cold face.
"I don't know. Yesterday, Manager Lin said that he would transfer me to the patrol team outside the city, but I don't know where. I was just about to go to his office." Jiang Lin shook her head. She didn't know where she would be assigned.
Hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed in Sheng Wei's eyes, and then he was stunned for a moment, as if he thought of something bad.
"A teammate of our team died yesterday. I can apply to transfer you to our team. What do you think?" The patrol team outside the city has to deal with zombies, and the casualties are second only to the special forces. The death of a teammate still made Sheng Weizhao feel sad.
"If possible, I would." This was Jiang Lin's third day at the base. She felt unfamiliar with everyone here, and it would be nice if she could join Sheng Wei's team.
Sheng Wei nodded and operated on the intelligent brain: "Okay, I have sent the application information to Director Lin."
Jiang Lin looked down at her mechanical watch and saw it was already 8:25. She stood up and walked towards Lin Dehou's office.
Taking a breath, Jiang Lin knocked on the office door.
"Come in."
As soon as she opened the door, Jiang Lin saw a strange figure. She was sure she had never seen this face before, but she felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. The man inside was wearing black casual clothes and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He looked cold and distant, and did not seem to have high martial arts skills. However, Jiang Lin could sense a dangerous aura about him.
Shen Congyu also had the same feeling. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Jiang Lin who had just entered inconspicuously.
Because there were outsiders present, Lin Dehou didn't say much. "I saw that Team 16 just sent in their application. You can go to Team 16."
Jiang Lin nodded. When she parted ways with Sheng Wei yesterday, she seemed to have mentioned that she was the captain of Team 16. As she left the office, she was still wondering where she had seen the strange man in there before.
Meanwhile, Shen Congyu in the office stared at Jiang Lin's departing figure thoughtfully: "Who is this, Director Lin?"
"Oh, just the new patrolman."
"I want her identity information." A dark light flashed in Shen Congyu's eyes under the glasses.
"I'm afraid that's against the rules." Lin Dehou smiled awkwardly. "As a rule, I can't show you the patrol officer's identity information."
"Chen Mo was removed from his supervisor position, and that person was very unhappy." Shen Congyu narrowed his eyes and glanced at Lin Dehou's face casually.
Lin Dehou's back was stiff, but his face still looked cheerful and kind: "It's not a big deal, he's just a junior patrolman." He clicked a few times on the computer in front of him, and all of Jiang Lin's information instantly appeared in front of the two of them.
[Name: Jiang Lin
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Ability: ???
Position: Junior Patrolman
Residence: 99 area
Relatives: None
Jiang Lin's identity information couldn't be simpler. Shen Congyu looked at the question in the superpower column and asked, "Doesn't she have superpowers?"
"She just arrived, and her ability level hasn't been assessed yet."
"Manager Lin, have you ever seen her use her superpowers? I heard that she recently developed an ice-related superpower?" Shen Congyu looked at Lin Dehou with a smile: "Let her do the superpower assessment today. I want to see the results." After that, he left Lin Dehou's office.
As soon as he heard about the ice ability, Lin Dehou's brain froze for a second. Jiang Lin was the only one with ice ability in the entire base he had seen. When he saw Jiang Lin's invitation letter, he had taken it upon himself to hide her ability. But now, even the usually smooth talker couldn't understand what Shen Congyu meant, and what was the relationship between Jiang Lin and him?
Lin Dehou felt a sharp pain in his temples. He couldn't afford to offend either side. This supervisor was worse than when he was a team leader. He sighed and sent a text message to Jiang Lin.
[Go to the Ability Center at 4:00 PM for an ability assessment. Sender: Patrol Center]
Jiang Lin was fighting zombies outside when she received this message. She didn't know why the zombies near the First Base were so excited, as if something inside the base was attracting them. This realization struck Jiang Lin as odd, and she couldn't help but recall the zombie army that had followed her toward the First Base that day.
"Be careful!" Sheng Wei quickly dispatched a zombie that was approaching Jiang Lin from behind. "What are you thinking about? Pay attention and stay alert."
Jiang Lin regained consciousness, her lips pursed beneath her helmet as she sped up her pace to eliminate the annoying zombies. However, that inexplicable feeling still made her feel uncomfortable.
"Damn, there are so many zombies today." Su Yichen was good at using swords and knives. He chopped off the neck of the zombie in front of him while complaining.
Because he was using a machete as his weapon, he was almost always fighting zombies at close range. There were no zombies left on Jiang Lin's side. She had just taken a breath when she saw the zombie in front of Su Yichen raise its sharp claws and claw towards his neck.
An ice blade flew out from Jiang Lin's hand, directly knocking off the zombie's hand. Su Yichen looked at the zombie's broken limb on the ground with a bit of confusion, but he quickly killed the zombie with a sharp knife and moved towards the direction of the team.
"Was that your special ability just now? So cool." He was still brooding over Sheng Wei ignoring him in the morning and going straight to find Jiang Lin, but now he looked at Jiang Lin with admiration.
Sheng Wei couldn't stand his look and pushed him away from Jiang Lin. Her expression was a little serious: "Your ability is too special. Try to use it as little as possible in the base. I'm afraid." Sheng Wei didn't say the rest, but Jiang Lin understood that she was afraid of being discovered by the people in the laboratory.
"Don't worry, boss, we won't tell anything." Su Yichen still didn't know what Sheng Wei and Jiang Lin did last night. He thought it was just that Jiang Lin's ability was too special, and he was afraid of attracting the attention of someone and being caught for research.
The other team members nodded in agreement.
Jiang Lin had already learned from the emergency number 110 that the patrol center had sent a text message asking her to go to the supernatural center that afternoon to have her supernatural powers assessed. However, she wasn't panicking because her supernatural powers weren't ice-related. She only had ordinary water-related powers that allowed her to control the water's temperature.
"How does the Ability Center assess superpowers?" The morning patrol had ended, and Team 16 was on their way back to base when Jiang Lin suddenly asked this question, surprising Sheng Wei.
"We have special equipment and we just need to mobilize all our strength. Why are you asking this?"
"The patrol center asked me to go for an ability assessment this afternoon." Jiang Lin did not hide it, but this news made Sheng Wei frown. Why at this time?
Jiang Lin also had some guesses in her heart. Could the man she saw in Lin Dehou's office this morning be related to her assessment of superpowers?
"You can't avoid the ability assessment, but the patrolmen's information is confidential, so don't think too much about it." Sheng Wei didn't know whether she was comforting herself or Jiang Lin. She knew in her heart that the person behind this kind of experiment must be very powerful, and she and Jiang Lin were just two ordinary patrolmen. Do they really have the ability to compete with them?
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