"What's wrong?" Song Zhao felt her clothes being tugged, gently leaned down, and looked tenderly at Gu Yanzhi.
Gu Yanzhi whispered his discovery to Song Zhao, his head close to her ear. From behind, it looked like a young couple embracing. The members of Team 532, who were cooking, started to tease them, but Gu Yanlin glared at them one by one before they could even begin.
Gu Yanzhi finally remembered that the person she had bumped into twice this morning was someone she had met in her past life as well.
She was the assistant to the person in charge when she was first locked up in the laboratory in her previous life. Gu Yanzhi vaguely remembered that the person's surname was Liu.
Gu Yanzhi had only met this assistant surnamed Liu once. Not long after she was locked in the laboratory, she heard that Assistant Liu had died unexpectedly during one of her outings.
Later, when she became one of the person in charge's assistants, she learned that the human body laboratory only had one assistant, Liu, because he died unexpectedly. The other assistants were far less capable than Liu, so the person in charge recruited a team of assistants, each responsible for a different area.
It's important to know that initially, Assistant Liu handled all the affairs of the laboratory single-handedly.
Moreover, the gossips told Gu Yanzhi that Assistant Liu's greatest skill wasn't actually his control over lab affairs, but rather his exceptional ability to swindle and deceive. At least 80% of their lab's initial test subjects were found by Assistant Liu.
Since the person had passed away several years ago, Gu Yanzhi simply treated it as gossip and let it go.
Gu Yanzhi was mainly responsible for data collection and analysis in the laboratory, and was almost never involved in dissection or testing.
By chance, she met a test subject who had been tortured to the point of being skin and bones. At first, when she saw the people in white coats, she cursed and bit and scratched them.
The other lab technicians all knew this troublemaker; every time they came up, they would immediately stun people with an electric shock and inject them with anesthesia before starting the experiment.
Only Gu Yanzhi, out of sympathy or perhaps a shared experience of suffering, endured the insults. Gradually, this person realized that Gu Yanzhi was different from the other cold-blooded lab technicians, and would tell her some of his own stories, although his main purpose was to lower Gu Yanzhi's guard so that he could escape smoothly.
This person has escaped using this method several times, but unfortunately, he is always discovered and brought back soon after.
This person's experience was indeed tragic, easily arousing people's compassion. Unfortunately, Gu Yanzhi was heartless; no one could stop him from seeking revenge for his parents, his lover, and himself. He also failed to sway Gu Yanzhi and find an opportunity to escape.
From this man's account, Gu Yanzhi learned that the man had been searching for his father, daughter, and other villagers for six years. Six years ago, their village hosted a group of government officials who were on a mission. The next day, many people in the village disappeared, including the man's father and daughter. The officials also vanished, and no one knew which direction they had gone.
Later, they asked people to search for the villagers, but they were always deceived. As time went by and people wanted to find their families, they moved away from the village one by one. The village was scattered, and the concept that the father had taught the men since childhood to protect the village and contribute to it disappeared.
The man and his wife searched for a long time, constantly looking for traces of their family. His wife suffered frostbite from the extreme cold of the apocalypse and did not receive timely treatment, so her health deteriorated. Later, the disappearance of their daughter dealt her a fatal blow, and she soon fell ill and passed away.
After burying his wife, the man embarked on a solo journey to find his daughter and father.
Later, tricked into coming to this laboratory, the man did indeed see his daughter. Sadly, by then, his daughter had been tormented by the virus to the point of being delirious and unable to recognize people. The father and daughter could only meet briefly each day when they were taken out to do experiments. Unfortunately, not long after, the man never saw his daughter again; she had been tortured to death.
Later, the man also managed to get information out of the lab staff that his father had passed away several years earlier.
At this point, the man had completely lost hope of living. Now, every day he lived was spent wanting to see the laboratory's fate. Whenever he had the chance, he would destroy all the equipment in the laboratory and cause a huge disturbance.
The man was the most patient the laboratory had ever found since its establishment. He was highly tolerant of all kinds of experiments and made the fastest and best progress among all the test subjects. The person in charge was reluctant to give up on this test subject, but simply strengthened supervision.
Anyway, until Gu Yanzhi successfully took revenge and perished together with all his enemies, this man was still alive and well in the laboratory, occasionally finding opportunities to destroy a few precious pieces of experimental equipment or damage some rare reagents.
It's just unknown whether the laboratory disappeared after the person in charge left.
After listening to Gu Yanzhi's words, Song Zhao also keenly sensed something was amiss; it was too much of a coincidence. Whether it was the later experiences of this experimental subject and what had just happened, or the familiar-looking person Gu Yanzhi seemed to be the lab director's assistant, it was all too much of a coincidence.
Song Zhao learned of Gu Yanzhi's guess almost immediately.
Song Zhao pushed Gu Yanzhi to Chu Guodong, who was discussing the rest of the journey with Lin Cheng: "Dongzi, I've made a discovery about that village we just visited."
Chu Guodong's expression changed. He exchanged a few words with Lin Cheng, then found a secluded spot with Gu Yanzhi and Song Zhao.
Song Zhao didn't mention Gu Yanzhi's experiences or speculations, only saying that he had encountered a familiar-looking person at the base that morning who resembled the government official described by the middle-aged man earlier. Combined with the unusual circumstances surrounding the Liancheng base, he had strong suspicions about it.
Although Song Zhao's reason was a bit far-fetched, Chu Guodong could tell that this might not be the fundamental reason for his suspicion of the Liancheng base. But everyone has their secrets.
Trusting his brother and harboring suspicions about the Liancheng base, and assuming it was better to be safe than sorry, he yelled at the person still dawdling over cooking, "Hurry up and finish cooking, we'll go back after we eat!"
"Huh, why do we suddenly want to go back?" The others were confused, but Lin Cheng guessed that it was probably related to Song Zhao.
Fortunately, lunch was almost ready anyway, and after hearing Chu Guodong's words, everyone silently sped up their work. The food was ready in no time, and everyone quickly finished eating and cleaning up.
Chu Guodong briefly explained the purpose of returning to everyone before getting into the car and preparing to drive back to the Liancheng base.
"Third Uncle, Third Uncle, do you think it's the group of people we stopped this morning? Why are they back?"
The young and middle-aged men in the village were still guarding the roadblock they had erected that morning. A sharp-eyed young man spotted three familiar cars approaching from afar and quickly called to the middle-aged man.
The man looked in the direction the young man was pointing, and it really did look like it. The middle-aged man immediately jumped up from his chair and rallied the villagers to go out and guard the road.
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