Chapter 1319 The Returnee's Notes 393
There weren't many people there, and they weren't without a fighting chance if it really came down to a fight, but... The leader glanced at the densely packed drones in the sky, and his body trembled with fear.
The fact that the other side dared to rush right up to us shows that they were well prepared.
The person behind him had barely raised their gun in reflex when three bullets whizzed past his feet—it was a drone attack.
Now no one dared to move.
They were afraid of death, so they had no choice but to surrender.
As the man lowered his gun and squatted down with his hands raised, he inadvertently revealed a small camera tucked into his shirt, which had been given to him by his superiors when he came out.
He thought no one would notice him, but the next second he was kicked. The tactical boot pressed against his stomach, making him grit his teeth. If he hadn't been holding back, he would have broken his foot.
"Are you hiding something?"
The man looked up and, through his sweat-dampened bangs, saw a woman in a black combat uniform. Unlike the others, she wasn't wearing a helmet and was just staring at him coldly.
"Sister Xin! Let me do it, I'll search the gun, no, the body!"
A shorter man came running up behind her, but before he could take two steps, Zhu Xin grabbed him.
"What are you searching for? Tie him up." With that, he reached out and pulled the camera out of the man's chest.
"A camera? How do you know this person hid a camera?"
The man who had just whistled moved the shorter man aside and joined in, while the others bypassed the two and tied up the enemy.
"That's what the boss said."
Xie Ning said that the other side would likely send out a batch of cannon fodder, mainly to see if the road was still passable. Although Xie Ning was just guessing, Zhu Xin still brought some detection equipment with her.
We'll test them all in a bit, and if anything seems off, Xiaomai will let her know.
Lu Qiyuan choked, then muttered, "Why do you all call President Xie 'Boss'?"
Song Zhijie is the same.
Zhu Xin glanced at Lu Qiyuan silently. "Whoever has the highest martial arts skills is the boss, don't you know that?"
"I know, but..." Lu Qiyuan hesitated. He was an excellent marksman, but in terms of pure combat ability, he was only at an average level within the organization.
"Sister Song and the others have all fought with President Xie?" President Xie looks very weak and doesn't seem like he can fight at all, but Sister Song is different.
If he were to fight Song Zhi, it would be a 30/70 split; Song Zhi would be seven days' head after three punches.
"Yes, we fought."
As if remembering something, Zhu Xin raised her arm and said, "The boss is stronger and bigger than me, but you can't tell from his clothes."
She remembered Xie Ning accidentally kicking the wooden stakes in half during training, and then she wondered when she would have that kind of strength.
Lu Qiyuan coughed lightly, then asked in a somewhat cheeky tone, "So, Sister Xin, have you ever fought with the boss? Did the boss hit you harder or did Sister Song Zhi hit you harder?"
Zhu Xin gave a forced smile and said, "I think it would hurt more if I hit you."
Terrified, Lu Qiyuan ran away as if his backside was on fire, and led his men in the direction from which the people had escaped. There was an underground entrance there, and it was even accessible by car.
"Deputy Captain Lu, shall we go in?"
"Send the robot to scout ahead. You all stay here and keep watch. I'll go interrogate the person."
At this moment, Zhu Xin was organizing people to search each of the bound people one by one, making sure that they did not have any weapons or other electronic devices on them before stopping.
Finally, their attention turned to the women in hospital gowns. These women were also bound, but not as tightly as the others, and they were wearing electronic shackles.
Looking at the woman's swollen belly, Zhu Xin squatted down and asked, "How...how did you get here?"
Perhaps she had already figured out the identities of these women—surrogate mothers. After all, with current technology, we haven't reached the point where we can create artificial wombs.
No matter how sci-fi it is in movies or novels, those so-called artificial wombs are actually just tools that treat women's wombs as tools, and tools that are constantly being produced and wholesaled in factories.
The woman was somewhat thin, but she didn't appear to have any serious external injuries. However, her eyes were vacant, as if she couldn't think straight.
Zhu Xin whispered a report to Xie Ning about the situation, then kicked the guards and researchers in white coats a few more times.
"Who is in charge among you?"
The man whose camera had just been ripped off by Zhu Xin didn't want to reveal his identity, but since everyone was looking at him, he had no choice but to shift his body and say, feeling aggrieved, "It's me."
But in an instant, he betrayed the person next to him as well, saying, "However, I was only responsible for delivering people. As for understanding what's going on inside, Researcher Zhao is the one who knows more."
The researcher, Zhao, who was called out, was stunned and stammered in rebuttal, "I...I...no, I didn't do it, I'm just a lowly researcher..."
He's only in his thirties, and he can make a lot of money doing some unethical work here. However, he's not very capable and is just a marginal figure in the lab.
He felt lucky when he was assigned to the first batch to escape, but he didn't expect that he was there to scout ahead.
"How could they be like this?" Zhu Xin originally wanted to ask other questions first, but when she saw those women, she couldn't help but ask this first.
Researcher Zhao was quite honest, saying, "They're always disobedient, so I gave them some medicine to slow their reactions down. Anyway, as long as they can have children, that's fine..."
It basically turned them into fools.
Ordinary medicine could potentially harm the fetus, but this is a medicine for postpartum women. He accompanied the woman who took the medicine to check on her, and apart from being sluggish and unresponsive, there were no other problems.
This makes management simple.
There are many women like this in the base. Some have accepted their fate, or they planned to do this job from the beginning, so they are very obedient. But some were brought in through special channels, and some of them are particularly disobedient. In order not to affect management and experiments, they were given drugs.
Of course, the best batch will not be used.
Those are people he wouldn't even see at his level.
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