Chapter 39 Seeing the light, he is really going to die
What did Wei Yan mean by that? He was half a member of the White Tower, wouldn't he...
Want to kill to silence the witness?
Xu Nuo turned his head and scanned the corridor, estimating the escape route.
"The imitation is crude. I prefer to frame him rather than believe him." Wei Yan said after a moment of silence.
Xu Nuo quickly looked away.
Wei Yan: "It appears that the two laboratories have similar design details and are both conducting illegal experiments, suggesting they are the work of the same forces behind the scenes. The two locations are quite far apart, and building these laboratories would require substantial financial support."
Xu Nuo followed his train of thought and pondered: "...wealthy? In that case, the organization behind this must be very powerful."
She pondered, "Being powerful means being easily detected and exposed. Furthermore, building and operating these underground labs is a massive undertaking, so…disguise is even more necessary."
"Disguising itself as the White Tower was a good decision," Wei Yan said. "To ordinary people with limited knowledge, it's well-known and mysterious. For most Sentinel guides, the top-floor lab is never accessible, making it a well-known secret within the White Tower. In recent years, the White Tower's protection of the guides has sparked dissatisfaction among many Sentinels, leading to widespread conspiracy theories and rumors. It's a perfect target for scapegoating."
"If it's not you and me who are discovered here today, once it's exposed, and the organization behind it adds fuel to the fire, the pressure from public opinion will instantly shift towards the White Tower."
Xu Nuo pondered, "With their attention diverted, this organization can continue their aggressive actions. I wonder how many more labs like this they've built."
When you find one cockroach in your home, there may be hundreds hiding in the dark.
Wei Yan said, "The lab we discovered near the base is brand new and was recently built, while the one we're in is much older. The two labs span vast distances across time and space. The forces behind this are likely far-reaching, and it's unlikely they only built two."
Xu Nuo: "Then, Fino is a big suspect!"
In order not to reveal her suspicion of the guide agent preparation, she had just made up a bunch of nonsense about the Fino conspiracy theory, but the current inference seemed to confirm her nonsense.
Xu Nuo: "First, Fino is very wealthy, so building a few underground labs wouldn't be difficult, especially since they're experimentalists. Second, they're in charge of the Vulcan Cup, so it would be very easy for them to manipulate it behind the scenes. Third, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have been able to connect the dots—"
"Do you remember? The Fino Group came to the school to give a presentation and asked the base to send people to escort them back. Just when we were short of manpower, that intelligent mutant appeared. Then we prevented the massacre, and the underground experimental area was exposed."
...This is simply a chain of traps, with Fino hidden in it, like an unknown and huge background. It seems to have no connection, but there is a vague connection.
Xu Nuo couldn't help but think of the two strangers who passed silently by her carriage on the train to the capital base. They got on the train with suitcases and wandered around, then left quietly. After that, strange phenomena began to occur frequently.
...Did the conspiracy creep in at that time?
She said, "If my guess is true, then our discovery of this laboratory was an unplanned event. The landing point that Fino had planned for me was far away from here. It was only because Zhou Xuanyi chased me everywhere and you followed the locator that we happened to find it."
Wei Yan: "You're so persistent in investigating Fino... Are you determined to win this competition?"
Xu Nuo scratched his head: "It's hard to say. Safety is the most important thing. Compared to this, what about that? Are you still uncomfortable?"
"……fine."
"So... can I come in now?"
"Um."
Xu Nuo walked in cautiously and saw the young man sitting with his knees bent at the diagonal line farthest from the door. His shoulder, which had been stabbed by the dagger, hung limply, and the blood had stained the fabric of his clothes darkly.
She walked over, squatted down, and poked his uninjured shoulder. "It's a good thing nothing serious happened. You're so smart, what do you think about your own accident?"
One of them squatted, the other sat down. Wei Yan raised his head and looked at her level: "I don't know. But you didn't get infected. It doesn't seem to be caused by this room."
He raised one arm: "I have no strength left, give me a hand."
Xu Nuo hurriedly took his shoulder, put it on his own shoulder, shouted loudly, and struggled to lift the man up.
When they stood together, half of Wei Yan's weight was on her, making her so heavy that she almost couldn't stand.
"What did you eat to grow up?" she complained. "Your body is so tight, you don't look so heavy at all."
Wei Yan looked gloomy: "Probably porridge and steamed buns."
Xu Nuo: "Don't believe me, I grew up like this too, and I'm not like you, a weight."
They supported each other and walked out of the door step by step, going deeper into the corridor.
"Laboratory Area, Development Zone, Small Goods Warehouse, Semi-finished Products..." Xu Nuo stared at the house numbers that passed by and said in amazement, "They really have a lot of money. They dug such a big hole underground. What on earth are they trying to research?"
Wei Yan: "Maybe he wants to create a controllable weapon to dominate the world."
Xu Nuo pondered for a moment, "A controllable weapon of mass destruction? You mean that intelligent mutant is a failure? I don't see how it can be controlled. I suspect someone is seeking revenge against society, planning to create an S-class mutant to destroy the world because they're unhappy with their lives."
As a result, she has been living in fear every day since she traveled through time, as the end of the world is getting closer and closer.
Wei Yan curled his lips: "The forces behind the scenes are rich and powerful, why would they want to retaliate against society?"
Xu Nuo shrugged. "So... they're just greedy. They're not satisfied with their wealth and power, and they're planning to build a massive weapon to hang on the neck of the world, forcing everyone to bow down to them?"
Wei Yan let out a slow "hmm" from his nose.
Xu Nuo suddenly became suspicious: "You are so sure? It's as if you saw it with your own eyes."
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She suddenly remembered what he said about being "trapped in a laboratory as a child", and thought of the strange black mist on his body, which was obviously not a normal Sentinel ability.
"You... haven't been experimented on by them, have you?"
Wei Yan tilted his head and looked at her, as if agreeing. There was a subtle hint of inquiry in his eyes, as if he was curious about what the girl might think and how she would view him.
Xu Nuo was completely unaware, and there was a hint of pity in his eyes: "How pitiful! What did they do to you?"
Wei Yan said sullenly, "I don't know who trapped me. Ever since I regained consciousness, I've been undergoing surgery, implanted with chips and foreign objects, regularly taking injections and medication, having my blood drawn, and locked in a cage with mutants to test my limits, including my resistance to fire, low temperatures, and skin ductility..."
Xu Nuo covered his mouth.
She had a rich imagination and almost thought of every scene he said. She couldn't help but say, "Okay, no more, it's all in the past."
Wei Yan looked at her intently: "...Yes, it's all in the past."
Later, Qi Qian met Xu Nuo, and everything was over.
They walked for a long and arduous journey, and finally, after passing through a long and dark cave, they saw the light.
Xu Nuo excitedly carried the other person and ran towards the light, shouting as he ran: "Wei Yan, we're out!"
"Wei Yan! Look!"
“…Wei Yan?”
The man half-pressing her was heavy, almost bending her over. Xu Nuo called out to Xiao Gu, and together with the little Gu, they carried the man forward.
"Hey, wake up," she struggled to hold the man's waist and patted his face: "You are a Transcendent A Grade, you won't be seriously injured just by stabbing the shoulder, right?"
"Hey, stop pretending to be dead and scaring me?"
"Wei Yan?"
After being called several times, the man opened his eyelids slightly and said with a weak breath, "Go to the supply point... and get some nutrients."
After he finished speaking, he slowed down his pace and put all his weight on Xiaogu.
"Chirp!" Little Gu shook twice to protest the heavy burden he was carrying.
Xu Nuo examined his wound suspiciously, and found that his dagger seemed to have been specially treated. The blade had a special shape and the wound was large. Blood was constantly oozing out, soaking the entire sweatshirt.
Xu Nuo only rubbed it a few times, and his hands were stained with blood. He shouted: "Oh no, he lost too much blood and went into shock. Xiao Gu, we have to go to the supply point immediately!"
“Chirp!”
At the end of the remote cave, Xu Nuo struggled to drag Wei Yan onto the bird. The man was tall and slender, and even with all her might, she could only hold his upper body, leaving his long legs dangling in the air. After she sat down, Xiao Gu glared at him with his dark eyes, retreated, gathered strength, and flapped his wings vigorously towards the sky, then jumped up with all his might.
"Gu-chiu!"
He buried his head and ended up eating shit.
"Gugu!"
"What?" Xu Nuo climbed up covered in dust and dirt and continued to pull Wei Yan onto the bird. "It's too heavy for you to carry? ... Then just walk over there! Even if we're free-range chickens, we have to carry people over there!"
After a long time, she finally dragged herself onto the bird, and then she struggled to push the bird's butt to move.
"One, two, three, push! One, two, three, push harder!"
The man and the bird finally managed to get out of the cave. It was noon outside and the strong sunlight made it impossible to open their eyes.
Xu Nuo raised his hands to cover his eyes, hesitating whether to send a distress signal and give up the game.
As my hand just touched the signal gun, a loud eagle cry came from the sky. In the distance, a giant brown eagle flapped its wings and held its head high, majestically patrolling the airspace.
Xu Nuo shielded his forehead with his hands and watched the giant eagle flying closer and closer. He breathed a sigh of relief until he could clearly see the person on the eagle.
She shouted: "Zhou Xuanyi——"
"Stop being so cool, come down and save me——"
The giant eagle let out a cry and quickly landed on the ground. Its flapping wings stirred up a large cloud of dust and fallen leaves.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough..." The two people in the dust coughed violently.
The young man jumped off the eagle, stiffened his neck, and patted the eagle's head: "Nanfeng, I told you to land gracefully, you were so rude!"
The eagle screamed hoarsely.
He immediately rolled up his sleeves and said, "You're still not convinced? Want a fight?"
Xu Nuo was anxious and pulled his hand over to put it on Wei Yan's wet clothes. "Zhou Xuanyi, I'm not kidding. He's really dying. We can't delay. We have to go get the nutrition supplements right away."
Although she had always been suspicious of Fino and even more suspicious of their products, she had no better solution. The medications that worked on ordinary people had little effect on the Sentinels. Only Fino's nutritional supplements could speed up recovery from injuries.
Zhou Xuanyi's hands were wet. He frowned and touched Wei Yan's chest. He asked seriously, "What happened to you in there? Why are you so badly injured?"
Xu Nuo said nervously: "I still want to know where you went. Never mind all that, let's talk while we fly."
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