Chapter 61 Mountain Tunnel - 5 Tang Bufan was stunned...
Tang Bufan was stunned, and his hand holding the gun lowered slightly, while the man seemed very happy and took a step towards him with his slippers on.
"Oh my god, we all thought you were dead..."
Tang Bufan realized what was happening and immediately pointed the gun at him again.
"Don't come any closer!"
The man stopped in his tracks. Although he was a mechanical body and not afraid of guns, he still cooperated by raising his hands when he saw that Tang Bufan was afraid.
"Don't be nervous," the man reassured. "I have no hostility towards you. In fact, we've been looking for you."
After he finished speaking, he looked Tang Bufan up and down again. The man was wearing glasses with a screen on his face, but the lower half of his face that was exposed was so thin that he was unrecognizable. He was wearing a roughly cut wolf skin on his upper body, which was tied with a hemp rope, and dirty and worn cotton pants and shoes on his lower body. He looked as wretched as a scavenger.
If it weren't for the man's electronic eyes automatically performing facial recognition and identifying Tang Bufan's identity through his exposed nose and lip shape, the man would never have recognized the person in front of him as the test subject they had chosen more than a decade ago.
Tang Bufan was filled with excitement, but also with deep unease and fear. He gripped the pistol tightly with trembling hands, his Adam's apple bobbing. After a long while, he managed to say with difficulty, "You recognize me... I need to see that doctor... Take me to him!"
Upon hearing this, the man hissed in embarrassment, his face showing apology: "Well... I'm staying here to 'fish' for you. This base doesn't have any aircraft, so I can't take you with me."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something, pointed his thumb behind him to the two orcs, frowned and asked Tang Bufan, "Why are you with the orcs from the Western Federation?"
Tang Bufan was clearly captured by the orcs of the Northern Federation.
"..." Tang Bufan held up his gun, unsure how to answer. He could tell that this man was a member of the resistance faction who hated orcs, so... he felt he couldn't let this man find out that he and Lu Yi were close!
At this moment, Anderson was leaning against the dusty wall, his neck swollen with small blisters, and he was having difficulty breathing. Although Lu Yi was in better condition, he was also coughing and was obviously poisoned as well. They were all staring at him.
Tang Bufan felt a pressure that put him in a difficult position.
Seeing that Tang Bufan did not answer, the man frowned, and his expression indeed became much more gloomy.
"So you've sided with the orcs?" he demanded.
"No!" Tang Bufan immediately denied loudly in a panic. Facing the gazes of Lu Yi and Anderson, his lips trembled slightly. Finally, as if making up his mind, he tightened his lips and said coldly, "I am on the side of humanity. As you can see, I am still human!"
After he finished speaking, he put down his pistol, tore open the wolf skin collar of his collar to reveal the gleaming silver collar, and said in a slightly choked voice, "These past five years have been very difficult for me... I've lived a life of dependence, barely surviving, but I... but I haven't compromised!"
The man looked at Tang Bufan's dark lips, his thin, bony neck, and his weak but firm voice. His eyes trembled, and he was moved.
"Good...good!" The man smiled with great satisfaction, excitedly saying, "As expected of the person we chose! We knew you could resist temptation and stay true to yourself!"
They knew Tang Bufan's background perfectly well. He had become an unexpected internet sensation while working at a Western restaurant during college because of his good looks. He could have become a star; at the time, his online popularity surpassed that of some second- or third-tier male celebrities. However, he used the money he earned from part-time modeling to pay off his student loans and save enough for his future tuition. He then decisively withdrew from the industry and returned to his small county to become an ordinary teacher. Such a person must have a strong will and a sound moral compass, which is why they chose him from among millions of people.
Tang Bufan did not disappoint them. He spent five years among the orcs without ever considering mutating. Otherwise, with his good looks and cultural refinement, he would definitely have become a noble commander's wife.
"Your words will definitely help us complete the subsequent experiments!" the man said excitedly.
Tang Bufan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately asked, "What experiment?"
“Yes…” The man had just started to speak when he suddenly stopped. He turned around and looked at the two orcs behind him. Anderson was paralyzed, but Lu Yi could still move.
Seeing him turn around, Lu Yi's face darkened, and he gripped the long knife in his hand tightly again. The man sneered, turned around, and suddenly his right hand split open, revealing silver metal inside. Like a Transformer, it transformed into a sharp, long knife in a dazzling manner.
He planned to deal with the two troublesome orcs first before talking to Tang Bufan.
"Higher orcs are indeed strong, but my body is a cutting-edge combat model!" the man said, then rushed towards Lu Yi again in his slippers, his white coat billowing in the wind!
The two swords clashed head-on, producing a sound that made one's teeth ache. Tang Bufan watched anxiously as they resumed their fight, and noticed with alarm that Lu Yi was being pushed back step by step by the man's rapid attacks!
Tang Bufan gripped the gun tighter, unsure whether to fire or not. He wanted to save Lu Yi, but he didn't want to anger that man!
He still needs this man to see that doctor!
Tang Bufan watched with a conflicted expression, while Lu Yi, who was poisoned, suddenly shrank as if he wanted to cough. This slowdown made him slower in dodging, and he was stabbed in the chest by the man!
The loose, worn-out V-neck sweater was ripped open, and bright red blood instantly stained Lu Yi's sweater. Tang Bufan's eyes widened, and he bit his lip so hard it almost bled before he could suppress the urge to call out to him.
Anderson, who was sitting against the wall, also became anxious and coughed as he tried to get up from the ground.
Tang Bufan looked at him, his mind quickly working on it, then looked at the two men who had fought their way to the end of the corridor. The man was engrossed in his own game, his eyes only on Lu Yi, who was trying to deal with him.
"Hahahaha! The young master of the Western Federation of Orcs is nothing special! I heard you are the next leader? I will make sure the Western Federation has no successor!" The man swung his knife wildly at Lu Yi, forcing Lu Yi to continue retreating. He did not notice that Tang Bufan had already walked quickly to Anderson's side.
Tang Bufan opened his heavy fanny pack, took out a lighter, and quickly threw it into Anderson's arms.
Anderson was taken aback at first. He looked up at Tang Bufan and found that he had quickly retreated to his original position.
"..." Anderson held the lighter and thought for a moment. Obviously, knives and guns were useless against this android, but fire might be... The android was wearing clothes and its hair was flammable, and electrical fires could cause short circuits and explosions... Worth a try!
Anderson then stood up, leaning against the wall, his silver-gray eyes coldly fixed on the android, and rushed towards him with a lighter in hand!
The man heard Anderson's footsteps, snorted coldly and really wanted to turn around, but Lu Yi slashed him in the face with a knife!
"Cough... Focus on fighting me." Lu Yi endured the intense itching in his throat and looked at the man's silicone skin, which he had split open, revealing the metal skull underneath.
"Don't think I'll be scared just because the two of you attack at the same time!" the man roared ferociously, his cracked face contorted. Relying on his mechanical body, he simply ignored Anderson behind him. Anyway, Anderson was so severely poisoned, even in beast form, how much strength could he possibly have...
The flames that shot out from behind the man froze him. He turned around with a sense of foreboding and saw that his long hair and clothes were on fire!
"You use poison! I'll use fire!" Anderson fiercely pried open the lighter in his hand and poured all the oil inside onto the man in one go!
"Aaaaaah!" The man began to scream wildly. He couldn't feel any pain, but the electronic eye kept popping up various warnings, forcing him to quickly take off his clothes!
Lu Yi pressed his advantage, lunging forward with his knife. The sharp tip of the blade pierced the man's eyeball, but got stuck in the eye socket!
"Use this!" Anderson yelled at him, tossing a mini military knife at Lu Yi!
That was at the desert mothership, where Tang Bufan insisted on giving him the mini military knife as an exchange!
Lu Yi reached out and took it, breaking open the mini military knife. The blade was thin and small, no more than a centimeter wide and about six or seven centimeters long, but it was just enough to pierce the man's eye socket!
Ignoring the flames, Anderson, in his beast form, forcefully embraced the man from behind. Lu Yi, also in his beast form, firmly grasped the man's lower face with his left hand and stabbed him hard from both sides with his mini military knife. The man's body trembled, and his burning body, accompanied by the crackling sparks of short-circuiting wires, twitched a few times before going still, clearly indicating that his brain chip had been damaged.
Anderson immediately released him, extinguishing the flames that were spreading to him. Seeing that the fire was growing and the air was filled with toxic black smoke, Lu Yi kicked the man into the dark room next door and slammed the door shut.
"..." Tang Bufan stood by the stairs, panting as he watched all this. Suddenly, he felt weak and slumped down against the wall.
On a distant island, a mind control pod was suddenly pushed open, and a man with a ponytail and wearing a white coat sat up in a fit of rage.
"Hey, why do you look so pale?" The researcher next to him, who was about to lie down into another mind control dock, asked him curiously.
"I'm so angry, so angry!" the man cursed as he got off the connection pod, slipped on his slippers, and left the mind control connection room without answering his colleague.
He strode through the dimly lit, spacious research institute corridor and into the elevator.
“TTK! Where is the doctor?” the man asked the red-light camera in the elevator.
"Level -3, gene analysis lab," the AI replied in a gentle, electronic female voice.
"take me!"
"Okay." With the AI's electronic female voice, the button for the -3 floor automatically lit up.
With a "ding," the man stepped out of the elevator in his slippers, but the anger on his face had subsided somewhat. He crossed his arms and began to think about how to report to the doctor.
Other researchers in white coats occasionally passed by in the dimly lit, spacious corridor, but everyone was focused on the floating screen in front of them, and no one paid attention to this researcher from another floor. The man turned two corners before arriving at the gene analysis laboratory.
He hesitated outside the door, the electronic camera on the door following him from side to side, and before he could even speak to the lab AI, the spacious alloy door opened.
A gloomy young man in a white lab coat and glasses was sitting in front of a control panel, with a dozen floating screens in front of him, each displaying a dense collection of data.
"Are the experimental results out?" the gloomy young man asked the man without turning his head.
The man then stepped inside in his slippers, his anger completely gone, replaced by seriousness.
"The results are in. As expected, the mutated poison humans we released attracted the high-level orcs who came to investigate. The mutated poison humans, which were a mixture of squirting melon genes and PL-24 toxin, became agitated and self-destructed upon contact with the orcs. The sprayed blood successfully caused the high-level orcs that came into contact with it to develop severe allergic symptoms, losing about 70% of their combat ability." The man reported carefully to the young man.
"Only 70%?" The young man frowned slightly.
“Higher orcs are naturally resistant to poison. Losing 70% of their combat power is enough for them to be used on the battlefield.” The man smiled wryly, feeling that the young man was too demanding. He wanted the kind of venom that could kill higher orcs with a single touch, but the problem was that the poison-carrying humans who served as containers couldn’t withstand it.
The gloomy-looking young man sighed deeply, then pressed on, "Which bastard from the Eastern Federation came? Have you dealt with him yet?"
“Uh…” The man’s expression became somewhat awkward: “Doctor, it’s not the high-ranking orcs from the Eastern Federation that have come, it’s the Western Federation, and there are two of them, Louis Smith and an orc named Anderson.”
The gloomy young man finally raised his head and turned his swivel chair towards him. His bangs were a bit long, half-covering his eyes, and with the glasses he was wearing, it was difficult to see his face clearly.
“Louis Smith? Hans’s youngest son?” The young man frowned slightly. “He disappeared for half a year and actually came to the Eastern Federation? He’s the one who was poisoned?”
“It was Anderson, but he also had an allergic reaction to the smell of evaporating blood,” the man said, bowing his head slightly with some trepidation. “Because they were two high-level orcs, my androids couldn’t beat them.”
According to the plan, he was supposed to kill the high-level orcs he had "fished" in to prevent the experimental project from being leaked.
The young man frowned again, but did not say anything to blame him.
"I understand. Send me the detailed experimental data, as well as the screen recording from that time. I'll take a look later." The young man turned his chair around and looked at a floating screen in front of him.
Seeing that he wasn't blamed, the man in slippers breathed a sigh of relief, then excitedly reported, "Doctor, there's another person who appeared. Guess who it is?"
The gloomy, short-haired man was looking down at the data and didn't pay much attention to him. The man looked embarrassed for a moment before saying:
"Tang Bufan".
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