Chapter 92 Chapter 92 The Lab Was Blown Up
Shanran didn't want to look, but her gaze kept being drawn to the round, pink thing.
She sighed and rubbed her forehead, not understanding why Yu Yuan had dressed herself up like that in her dream.
Something seemed to be shimmering along the lower edge of the bulging pectoral muscles. Shan Ran was drawn to look at it a few more times and saw a thin chain.
He was also wearing a chest chain in his dream.
Let's just harass him to death.
Although Yu Yuan was dressed like this, she didn't dare to flaunt her appearance. She bent down, raised her eyes to meet Shan Ran's gaze, and cautiously asked, "Little Miss?"
Shan Ran said expressionlessly, "You're really something, coming up with this idea."
"Not at all, it was my brother's idea, haha..."
"Big brother?"
"Yes, yes, Rhine is my older brother. It was Brother Rhine who taught me."
Shan Ran's lips twitched.
She then didn't delay any longer and briefly explained what she had discovered.
"Little Miss, when are you planning to make your move?"
Shan Ran thought for a moment, "How about in the next couple of days? Can you enter other people's dreams and learn more about the situation here?"
"Yes, my brother and I are hiding in the back mountain, not far from here, within the range of my dream. Sister Ran, do you have a fixed target?"
"To find the security guards, I need to know their patrol schedule and overall combat strength. Then there's someone called Assistant Hao; this person is very important. I need to know how many surviving test subjects are left, and the recent experimental arrangements..."
Yu Yuan silently took notes, wishing he could take out a notebook and write it down, afraid of missing anything.
"Have you memorized everything?"
"good."
"Um?"
"I've memorized them all!"
The next day, the lab continued to provide these people with good food and drinks.
Two healing-type ability users were also arranged to ensure that their bodies could reach their optimal condition as quickly as possible.
Although Sister Juan ate heartily yesterday, she was still on guard, but now she has clearly relaxed her vigilance.
"Sui Sui, how do you think they're going to conduct their experiment?" Sister Juan asked quietly, unaware that there were surveillance cameras around.
The scene she had seen last night flashed through Shan Ran's mind.
She kept her head down, her red hair disheveled, obscuring most of her face.
"I don't know, maybe the blood was drawn and then injected into someone else?"
"Hiss..." Sister Juan frowned, her expression serious. "Tell me, if we can give ordinary people superpowers, will our original superpowers still exist? Could it be a trade? If we give them to someone else, then we'll lose our superpowers?"
Not only that, they lost their lives.
But Shan Ran certainly couldn't say that.
She shook her head. "I don't know..."
"No!" Sister Juan suddenly stood up as if she had just realized something, causing the stool to fall to the ground. "Yesterday, that person only promised us that we wouldn't die, but didn't promise that we would retain our superpowers!"
What does this mean? It means our superpowers will disappear! No, they'll transfer—transfer to other people! What's this called? It's called the law of conservation of matter! How can superpowers increase out of thin air? They can only transfer!
Shan Ran: .....It's not that absolute, she just has a transference.
The future is already uncertain, and any slight disturbance could trigger an accident. Sister Juan was suddenly frightened by her own thoughts, completely unable to calm down, muttering to herself uncontrollably, anxious and restless, biting her thumb.
"No! I can't live without my powers! If I lose my powers, my daughter and I will be kicked out of the base! We'll never be able to get to the safe zone! I have to leave, I have to get out of here, I have to find my daughter!"
As she spoke, she prepared to rush towards the door.
The door wasn't locked, and Sister Juan easily pushed it open. However, she only went out for a short while before there was no further movement.
Shanran followed Sister Juan to the door and saw security guards and nurses appear out of nowhere. They held Sister Juan down and injected her with a sedative.
The security guards then carried Ms. Juan away, and a nurse came over to comfort her, saying, "Miss, it's just a minor matter. That lady was too agitated. We'll take her to rest for a bit, and she'll be fine soon. Please go into your room and continue to rest."
Some people heard the commotion outside the door and opened it to check, but were all persuaded to go back inside by the nurses.
Shan Ran didn't speak, just nodded, and then closed the door.
Sure enough, every room was being closely monitored, and security would be notified if anything seemed amiss.
When Sister Juan suddenly stood up and became somewhat agitated, someone was already waiting outside the door, which is why she was subdued so quickly.
So that night, when Yu Yuan pulled her into her dream again, Shan Ran gave her another task.
To cause brain death in the people in the monitoring room.
Yu Yuan can not only enter dreams while someone is sleeping, but also pull someone into dreams while they are awake.
However, this consumes a great deal of one's superpowers, and if the other party has a very strong will or stronger superpowers, the success rate will be very low.
Fortunately, Yu Yuan had already scouted the route in the security captain's dream last night. There are two people in the monitoring room on each shift, both with very low superpowers and low salaries.
Those with stronger supernatural abilities are assigned to guard duties.
Furthermore, people tend to be less focused and less at night, making them easier targets for mental attacks.
He Shanran was right. After Yu Yuan exited her dream, he quickly pulled the two people in the monitoring room into the dream and made them into a vegetable.
To be on the safe side, Shanran hacked into the cameras, keeping all the surveillance footage frozen.
She then got up, changed into a set of clothes that were easy to move in, and casually ran her fingers through her messy hair.
I've been pretending to be withdrawn for a while now, and my hair is all tangled in several places.
Following the location monitored by the surveillance camera, Shan Ran teleported downwards and arrived directly at the armory on the first floor.
This armory is very large, and it is densely packed with all kinds of high-tech weapons.
These are all products of the First Continent.
He glanced at them quickly and realized that Shan Ran had never seen many of the weapons before and didn't know how to use them.
It's okay if you don't know how to use it; having it is enough. You can learn it slowly later.
Shan Ran waved his hand and took them all.
Having thoroughly investigated the security routes, shift schedules, and the special abilities of the personnel, and combining this with the images of various parts of the laboratory seen in the surveillance footage, Shan Ran now had a panoramic map in her mind.
Combined with her elusive teleportation abilities and the skills honed through countless battles, Shan Ran fought her way through as if it were an empty field.
The mountain where the laboratory is located has a very tight security system, equipped with high-tech weapons, protecting the entire mountain completely.
But they never imagined that the danger would come from within.
Inside the laboratory, Dr. Gu was working with great focus.
Today's surgeries kept us busy until the early hours of the morning.
Now that the research has reached the second half, it's a crucial moment. If he can get more test subjects and perform a few more surgeries, he has a feeling that he will succeed soon!
He will definitely succeed faster than those people!
"Wipe your sweat."
Once Dr. Gu enters a research state, he becomes extremely focused.
The nurse hesitated to wipe his sweat, and the sweat was about to drip into his eyes!
"What are you all doing? A bunch of useless trash!"
Dr. Gu cursed as he turned around, only to be surprised to find that everyone who had been standing behind him had vanished.
It didn't disappear; it just lay on the ground.
Now, behind him is someone else.
"Who...who are you? How did you get in?"
Shan Ran held a long sword to Dr. Gu's neck and asked coldly, "Who are you trying to gain superpowers from by conducting these experiments?"
Yu Yuan was outside, far away, so the number of dreams he could invade was limited, and the time was short. He had just caused two people to suffer brain death, and he was so exhausted that he couldn't even lift his hands.
Therefore, the task of interrogating Dr. Gu was handed over to Shan Ran.
At this moment, one of the two people on the hospital bed had already undergone craniotomy and was clearly beyond saving, while the other was in a coma.
Dr. Gu put down his scalpel, adjusted his glasses, and calmly said, "The fact that you were able to come in means that almost everyone outside is dead, right?"
Shan Ran didn't say anything.
"Since I'm going to die anyway, can I finish this experiment first?"
Shan Ran frowned.
That madman!
Shanran looked into the other person's eyes, about to speak, but suddenly couldn't remember what she wanted to say.
Her eyes gradually became vacant, her expression became blank, and the knife in her hand left the other person's neck and fell to the ground.
Dr. Gu's lips curled into a mocking smile.
He picked up the long knife from the ground, stood up, weighed it in his hand, and muttered, "It's quite heavy."
Looking at the girl standing in front of him like a doll, her hair a mess, tangled up everywhere, making it impossible to even see her face, Dr. Gu felt a bit disgusted.
"How did you manage to evade all the alarms and get here? Looking at your disheveled state, are you an escaped experiment?"
Your special ability must be quite unique! How about we cut off your limbs first? That way you won't be able to escape, and I can safely conduct experiments on you. What do you think?
Ah! I forgot, you're hypnotized and can't answer me now. Well then, let's do this, hmm..."
After saying that, he raised the long knife with both hands, gestured a few times, and prepared to cut the girl's right hand first.
Just as he was gathering his strength, he suddenly smelled a burnt smell.
He touched the top of his head, then withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.
He... he touched the fire!
"Ahhh!"
Dr. Gu screamed in terror, dropping his long sword to the ground. He didn't care about anything else; he rushed to the sink and put his head under the tap.
The fire went out, but the water, as if obeying some command, enveloped his head.
He felt suffocated and frantically scratched at his face, trying to wipe the water away.
However, the water clung to his face like a leech.
First came the fire, then the water.
Different experiences, similar despair.
Dr. Gu tried to shout for help, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a series of bubbles came out. He choked himself, and his breathing became more and more rapid.
Suddenly, the water sphere seemed to be drawn back from the middle like a curtain, revealing his mouth and eyes, and he immediately took a deep breath of fresh air.
Then he saw the girl standing in front of him, who had already slipped out of his control.
Shan Ran smiled mockingly: "Psychic abilities, capable of hypnosis? That's quite rare, Dr. Gu."
Just a moment ago, Shan Ran was indeed controlled, her mind was unclear, and her head was fuzzy.
But she recovered in just a few seconds.
Shanran discovered that after experiencing the illusion of the mist, she now possessed a natural resistance to psychic abilities. This resistance wasn't limited to Yuyuan's dreams, but extended to all psychic abilities.
Dr. Gu never expected that his infallible hypnosis would fail!
"I'll tell you whatever you want to know, please, please stop torturing me. I'm very useful, please spare me..."
"Yeah, everyone begs me like that. Tell me, what good are you?"
"My psychic abilities are the key to the experiment!"
Shan Ran frowned: "The key to conducting the ability transfer experiment?"
Dr. Gu shifted his gaze guiltily.
When dealing with the test subjects, they only said that it would give ordinary people superpowers, but they never said that the essence of the experiment was transfer.
But since they saw the experimental site and the brains of the superhumans who were the test subjects were gone, how could they not see that it was a one-way transfer?
He had no choice but to admit: "Yes, don't think this experiment is just a simple brain surgery. Of course, brain surgery itself is not simple, and there are very few people who can perform it. But it also requires a psychic ability user to perform the surgery, which makes it even rarer."
Psychic abilities allow one to probe the light clusters within the mind of an ability user and then assist in transferring them. "People like me are very precious; killing one means one less to be found. Please don't kill me!"
Shan Ran understood the key point.
"So, there are other laboratories like this elsewhere?"
"some."
"Where is it located?"
"This... I don't know. Every place is very well hidden, and the security measures are extremely good. It would be very difficult to break in from the outside..."
At this point, Dr. Gu paused for a moment, looking at the red-haired girl with fear, thinking to himself, "Isn't this person someone who was defeated from the inside?"
But wasn't she just an escaped experimental subject? Why ask so many questions? Do you want to shut down all the labs?
Who exactly is she?
Dr. Gu stared intently at Shan Ran, suddenly realizing she looked somewhat familiar.
"You...you're not an experiment! You're Shanran! How did you get here?"
Shan Ran raised an eyebrow, tilted her head, and revealed a smile that Dr. Gu found incredibly wicked: "Hmm, you got it right, but there's no reward."
As he spoke, he raised his finger, and the water sphere closed up again.
Dr. Gu fell to the ground and struggled in pain.
Shan Ran didn't intend to drown him at that moment; she just wanted to obtain some information.
Dr. Gu was very weak-willed. After learning that the other party was Shan Ran, his fear of her far outweighed his loyalty to his master, so he confessed everything.
The ultimate goal of this experiment was to grant supernatural abilities to Gongyang Qing, the head of the Gongyang family, and Gongyang Xuanye, the current Grand Mage.
The three major families each have their own sect, and the highest leaders of these sects are all family members.
Since the onset of human fever, the reputation of religious sects has plummeted, and people have discovered that praying to God is useless.
After gaining superpowers, people discovered that relying on themselves was better than relying on gods.
The three major sects are now defunct in name only, with very few followers remaining except for the families tied to them.
Gongyang Xuanye's position within the church was equivalent to that of the Pope.
Although the experiment was led by the Ram family, the other two major families also participated.
Because their patriarch and pope are ordinary people without any special abilities.
It's no secret that these people don't have any special abilities; even the top families on the First Continent know this. But what other families don't know is that they are conducting such inhumane experiments.
Having grown accustomed to standing at the top, how can one accept being just an ordinary person after the apocalypse?
So they started this experiment. At first, the naval route was not open, so they could only capture people from the First Continent to conduct the experiment.
However, the First Continent now has too little land available for experiments, and its population has plummeted, so the anomaly was quickly discovered.
As a result, the experimental process was very slow for a time.
Until recently, when HNA began operations, the three major families built laboratories on the second continent, and experimental subjects were collected from the other two continents, resulting in a rapid expansion in quantity.
The experimental subjects' ability levels were not high, and they dared not touch the particularly powerful ability users. The disappearance of such people would easily attract attention.
Moreover, resistance could easily result in injuries or fatalities, making the area difficult to control.
Besides those with superpowers, they also need a large number of ordinary people to see if they can successfully transfer their superpowers to each other.
Finding ordinary people is not difficult at all. Many people don't even need to be kidnapped. Just offer them some food as a lure, and you can find a whole bunch of them.
They searched according to this standard, and every day a large number of experimental samples were sent to various laboratories, so the project began to progress rapidly, and recently there have been signs of success.
At this point, Dr. Gu almost cried: "I... I feel like I'm about to succeed. My progress is the fastest in all the labs. Lady Shanran, Lady Shanran! Do you have any family or friends who are ordinary people? If so, they will also need this experiment, and they will need my..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Dr. Gu felt a chill run down his spine. The blood that flowed out blurred his glasses. He raised his hand and touched something sticky.
On his deathbed, he realized that this was his brain.
The corpse, with half its head severed, collapsed to the ground with a thud.
The manner of death was exactly the same as that of the experimental subjects who died in their hospital beds.
That night, a thunderous sound seemed to rise from a deep mountain, raising thick black smoke. After the smoke cleared, a hilltop was found to have been flattened.
However, there are no bases nearby, and very few people know about this.
In the past few days, several other things have been the subject of heated discussion online.
[Is the Yu family really suited to run a shipping business between the mainland and Taiwan? This time, such a huge mess happened! The entire ship's crew—those who could afford tickets are considered quite powerful among superhumans—almost wiped out.]
Such large-scale business should be handled by top-tier families. I don't want to encounter such risks next time I'm on a ship; that would be utterly hopeless.
[I saw the video. Who was the one who saved people? Doesn't anyone on the ship have superpowers?]
I am a survivor on the ship. Although most people were poisoned and temporarily lost their superpowers, a very small number of people did not eat the ship's food. It must have been one of the passengers who was not poisoned who saved us.
[The Yu family is utterly useless; in the end, they still had to rely on passengers to save people. Seriously, when have the businesses of the seven great families of the First Continent ever encountered such a major accident?]
[Who said only the head of the Yu family can communicate with marine life? I saw that the person who rescued people communicated with them quite well, even holding hands and spinning around. This shows that the Yu family isn't the only one capable of handling matters related to Hainan Airlines; others can do it too. Since the Yu family can't, then let's find someone else!]
I support replacing him; the Yu family is incompetent in this regard.
[The prestigious Yu Family Shipyard actually allowed a spy to infiltrate their kitchen and poison it! What are they doing? Useless bastards!]
[...]
A series of online posts were stirring up trouble. Almost simultaneously, the Gongyang family, along with the Chen and Wang families, sent people to the Yu family to discuss shipping matters.
The Chen and Wang families are two of the four smaller families. They are quite close to the Gongyang family, and both families also have branches on the Second Continent, living in District 1. After the apocalypse, they naturally gathered together with the Gongyang family.
The three families arrived together, ostensibly to discuss matters, but in reality, they were forcing the Yu family to relinquish power.
They not only want the Yu family's shipping routes, but also their shipbuilding production lines.
The person representing the Yu family in the negotiations was Yu Yuan's eldest brother, Yu Qiao.
The three families of Gongyang, Chen, and Wang were aggressive and used their power to intimidate others. Yu Qiao, who was an impatient person, slammed his fist on the table and stood up, almost about to shout a curse.
Before the apocalypse, we were hampered at every turn and had to be mindful of their opinions in everything we did. After the apocalypse, we finally gained the right to be independent and autonomous. We finally managed to sort out the difficult situation of HNA, and now they want to come and reap the benefits!
Where in the world can you find such a good thing?
At worst, we'll fight; at worst, we'll all perish. Nobody can take HNA's business away from them!
"Mr. Qiao, why are you so angry? Aren't we having a proper talk?"
The man from the Chen family rested his chin on his hand, calmly watching the agitated Yu Qiao. His eyes were sharp, and the corners of his lips curled up in a mocking smile.
People from lower-ranking noble families are just impatient.
"I'll talk about you..."
Before Yuqiao could even utter a curse, the door to the reception room was suddenly opened, interrupting the tense atmosphere.
Normally, no one would barge into the meeting room while these people are negotiating.
The Gongyang family frowned and assumed that such a reckless person must be from the Yu family.
Unexpectedly, the person who came was his own secretary.
The secretary's expression was unusually serious, with a hint of fear, giving the Gongyang family a sense of foreboding.
The secretary didn't have time to read anyone else's expressions; he rushed to his boss's side and whispered something in his ear.
"What?" The boss stood up abruptly, his knee hitting the corner of the table, but he didn't even flinch, as if he didn't feel any pain at all.
He turned to look at his secretary, his eyes wide with fury, his body trembling with excitement, and asked incredulously, "What you're saying... is it true?"
The secretary nodded shakily.
"How is this possible? Who did this?!"
The boss was furious, but he knew this wasn't the time to talk about it. In his haste, he asked those two questions, not expecting an answer from the secretary.
He tried his best to control his emotions, then turned to look at Yu Qiao, maintaining his composure: "President Qiao, there has been an emergency in the family, and I need to rush back immediately. We can discuss this matter later. Please understand."
After saying that, he strode away.
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