Faced with Wen Xihe's suspicion, Li Chonghe simply said, "I was attacked in my glands."
"...Thank goodness it's a Beta." He muttered to himself.
"What kind of Zerg?" Wen Xihe asked again.
He had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but the insectoid elytra that had fallen to the ground told him that there had indeed been an insectoid creature here.
He glanced at Cen Yu and Li Chonghe's chests and discovered that their dashcams were nowhere to be found. "What a coincidence..."
Where are your dashcams?
Cen Yu knew, of course, that Wen Xihe had begun to suspect something. The moment he and Li Chonghe recorded the elytra on their backs, they had already destroyed them. Fortunately, there was no signal in this place, and the contents of the recorders would not be transmitted back to the school in real time. In addition, today was not yet the official start of the competition, so the loss of the recorders was not a big problem.
“It was ruined by that bug,” Cen Yu said.
In fact, the damaged recorder was crushed by the two of them and thrown elsewhere, and no one could repair it.
“Take Li Chonghe back first.” He looked at Wen Xihe. “I think he should withdraw from the competition now.”
Wen Xihe looked at Cen Yu and finally gave up on further investigation. "This should be an underground laboratory." He looked around. "We should report this to the school."
Li Chonghe looked at the "Eden Project" written on the report that Wen Xihe brought, and the mention of Eve and Adam on it, and asked, "What do Eve and Adam refer to?"
“Who knows, maybe it’s some kind of matrix?” Wen Xihe said.
The group was very cautious and left no further clues.
Cen Yu suddenly remembered the thing that looked like a cicada's molt... He looked up at the sealed glass containers around him, and the potion that had changed Li Chonghe.
“The Zerg have attacked Nott before,” Cen Yu said. “Nott’s resources don’t match those of the places the Zerg used to occupy.”
From this perspective... it's less about occupation and more about finding something.
As is well known, the Zerg are all of a single gender, and their reproductive methods are a mystery. The two sides in this plan are referred to as "Adam" and "Eve," and it is very likely that one of them is the mother.
"Is Adam a Zerg?" Cen Yu suddenly asked.
"And judging from their appearance, they are high-level Zerg."
The low-level insects are dead and that's it; the Zerg don't care about these lowly minions... The only ones that can make them attack like crazy to bring back are high-level Zerg, or those 7 noble branches.
“But the Zerg are all of a single gender,” Wen Xihe said. “If that’s the case, then what is Eve?”
He certainly thought of the other hidden meaning behind the code name Adam and Eve, but what puzzled or terrified him even more was... what did the people in this laboratory want to research?
What kind of existence do they plan to create?
"Cough cough." Li Chonghe coughed a few more times, drawing the attention of the two who were still speculating.
After the gland was removed, he felt his body rapidly weaken.
Perhaps because his newborn gland had become an Alpha's, his reaction became even stronger... What made him even more uneasy was that he felt his back, where the elytra had been cut off, begin to swell and ache again, as if that thing was about to crawl out from his back again.
"Forget it, let's leave first," Wen Xihe said immediately.
He glanced at his communicator and, finding there was still no signal, decided to take Li Chonghe away first.
Although there were still suspicious points, Li Chonghe was, after all, a prince, and he did not want the other party to die from excessive blood loss during the competition.
"I'll help you contact the school doctor after you leave."
Li Chonghe covered his mouth, coughed a few more times, and then nodded, seemingly to thank Wen Xihe for his help.
Cen Yu kept staring at those jars...
He remembered that ten years later, many half-human, half-insect monsters appeared on Planet Nott. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that these jars were hidden bombs, and who knew if monsters would hatch from them later...
After the three climbed the spiral staircase.
Cen Yu suddenly summoned his mecha.
Because the underground space is large enough, the bright silver mech can naturally stand in this space.
"You guys go first," Cen Yu said to Wen Xihe and Li Chonghe without turning around.
"I'll be right there."
Wen Xi felt a sense of unease, but the sight of Li Chonghe bleeding beside him left him no time to think. He could only lead Li Chonghe to the upper level of the underground building.
Cen Yu stood inside the mecha, looking down at the damaged or murky canisters. The scanning system came into play at this moment...
Cen Yu found a hidden compartment on the fifth basement level.
The mech he controlled easily broke through the hidden door.
Then Cen Yu saw the cicada shell that had appeared in the photo.
It was even bigger than it appeared in the photo... a cicada shell a full three meters long, looking like a monster no matter how you looked at it, and what concerned Cen Yu even more was...
The cicada shell in front of me is already empty.
The thing they were secretly studying had long since left the cicada's molt.
Cen Yu hesitated for a second, then used the mechanical arm to grab the cicada shell and stuff it into the space behind the mecha. He then quickly left, took out the fuel from inside the mecha, and poured the excess fuel directly into the underground space.
After completing all this, Cen Yu immediately disembarked from the mecha.
He flipped and leaped to the top of the spiral staircase, stood on its edge, and looked down at the jars below.
He took out a cigarette and a lighter from the small pocket of his combat uniform—Cen Yu just stood there, put the cigarette in his mouth, and then slowly lit it.
He stood there quietly, looking at the jars below.
Judging by their speed, he figured Wen Xihe and Li Chonghe should have reached the second basement level by now... He only flicked the cigarette butt away when there was only a tiny bit left.
At the same time, a burning lighter fell down as well.
The moment the flames touched the fuel on the ground, the flames on the fifth underground level began to spread rapidly.
Cen Yu glanced back, then jumped down the spiral staircase and ran towards the upper floors—
Even though he wasn't wearing headphones, Chi Jiazhen's voice appeared in his mind again. Perhaps it was because the owner of the voice already knew he had been exposed and was now too lazy to even pretend.
Aren't you worried that you might have killed the wrong person?
"Perhaps there are still poor humans inside the jar."
Cen Yu ran incredibly fast—
"They survived being submerged in it for ten years?"
He thought of how, ten years later in the original story, those half-human, half-insect monsters ravaged the land, killing countless people. Finally, he said to the voice—
"I'm sorry, I only kill the innocent, I don't let the guilty go free."
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