Chapter 28
"When did they get up there?" Brother Long, after all, had been through a lot with his boss. He reacted immediately and shouted in a panic, "Stop them!"
What made them even more devastated was what happened next. Behind these two people were dozens of half-human, half-beast mutant monsters, which kept twisting their half-human, half-beast bodies and rushed down from the third floor.
When He Tianlin came down the stairs, he accurately shot down the two monsters that were closest and fastest with his assault rifle, and he also saw the waiters who were arguing on the second floor.
He keenly noticed that the mechanisms at all the entrances and windows on the second floor were slowly opening. His eyes moved slightly. Most of the weapons and ammunition he got from Shen Wanren had been used up. It would not be a good thing if they could only go out without coming in. He couldn't help but come up with a plan.
"Sister Xia, let's go to the first floor!" He Tianlin grabbed Liu Xia's arm and rushed to the stairs to the first floor in a hurry.
They were very close to the stairs and could reach them by just running a few steps.
Liu Xia instantly understood what He Tianlin meant. He took out the pistol that he had been reluctant to use because of limited bullets, and fired a shot at the waiters' location.
The head of a waiter who had picked up a gun and aimed at the two men was instantly shattered, and a medium-sized fire flower was ignited.
Shrapnel from the high-explosive bullets flew everywhere in the flames, instantly disrupting the formation of the waiters who were preparing to organize an attack and causing a brief commotion.
However, with just this small obstacle, Liu Xia and He Tianlin successfully rolled down the stairs from the second floor.
The monsters rushing downstairs were attracted by the gunshots and the living creatures on the second floor. They immediately gave up their previous targets and rushed towards the waiters, who had more and larger targets.
Brother Long looked at the monsters in horror. He knew very well that he was going to die, but his fingers continued to press the buttons of the mechanism frantically.
But this mechanism can only be closed again after being fully opened. He didn't even have the chance to use the protective device on the second floor again. He could only watch as those faces with human facial features but four-petal mouthparts crawled closer and closer.
The scales scraped against the floor quickly, making a rustling sound. The sound of gunfire mixed with the screams of terror and roars, composing a cruel symphony.
The second floor of the restaurant had once again become a slaughterhouse. Blood mist dripped through the cracks in the stairs, creating red spots on the charred stone steps. The positions of the hunter and the prey had switched.
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The bustling hawking sounds ten minutes ago were now replaced by overturned alloy tables and chairs swaying in the cold wind.
The bustling scene on the first floor just now is no longer there. It is empty as if no one has ever been here.
Only a few mutant lizard tails were still stuck on the grills that had not been taken away in time, dripping with grease. The crackling sound of the oil making the space seem even more empty.
A scavenger beggar who took the opportunity to sneak in from outside to pick up some leftovers was eating a bunch of hot lizard tails without caring about the heat. His sunken stomach made him unable to care about anything else.
Just now, after the mechanism on the second floor of the restaurant was opened, the vendors on the first floor quickly packed up their valuable goods as if they were used to it, and slipped out of the door without looking back, obviously they were already familiar with the route.
Ding Ruotong was squatting anxiously near the stairs, picking at her nails subconsciously. When she saw the two people coming down from upstairs, she immediately greeted them with joy. Her originally dazed eyes couldn't help but light up. "What happened just now? The second floor was suddenly sealed off by alloy, and the communication equipment was also interrupted by interference."
Liu Xia squeezed her arm and shook her head, telling her not to worry: "Let's go first. The big guy on the third floor should be coming down soon."
After saying this, the three of them said no more and quickly retreated out of the restaurant.
Their bullets were running out as they were used up. Ji Tao was not in the restaurant at the moment, and killing that mutant creature would not allow her system to "recycle garbage". For Liu Xia, the benefits were very small, and she did not intend to continue wasting her hard-earned supplies in such a place.
The screams from the second floor gradually subsided, and the restaurant fell silent again.
Outside the restaurant, except for the scavenging beggars who could no longer crawl, all the people who could move had already hidden. Even the four large neon characters of "Lao Tao Restaurant" were extinguished due to the power outage.
The three of them found an empty room to rest temporarily.
Ding Ruotong's fingertips flew across the keyboard, the blue light of the screen reflected the beads of sweat sliding down her temples. The terminal that was snatched from the restaurant's energy room was making a dying hum, and a black metal USB flash drive was inserted into the left slot.
He Tianlin's cleverness came in handy again. Not only did he successfully open Ji Tao's laboratory hidden on the third floor, he even took away the USB flash drive and several mutant cores that he had carefully hidden in the safe.
"If that beast Ji Tao returns to the restaurant, he will be so angry that he will vomit blood." He Tianlin said with a smile, proudly shaking the cloth bag containing the core of the strange beast in his hand.
As the fingers cracking the password gradually stopped, the encryption inside the metal USB flash drive was peeled off layer by layer like an onion.
On the screen was an electronic document titled "Fusion Experiment Log" and hundreds of video files.
Liu Xia gestured to open the electronic document and found dozens of pages of human experiment data.
Vector: Mildly nuclear-contaminated human embryos
DAY 1-3
◆Gene injection: Desert Army Ant Worker Pheromone Synthesizer Gene
◆Phenomenon: The embryo expands by 300% and a rudimentary shell appears on the surface.
◆Result: The culture chamber exploded at 04:17 am, suspected to be pheromone-induced embryo autophagy
DAY 15-20
◆Replace the vector: mutant cockroach resistance gene fragment
◆Abnormal: The embryonic heart developed a four-chamber structure, but severe rejection occurred
◆Note: Stable after injection of L-7 neutralizer left by Leviathan
DAY 21
◆Implanted Symbiote: Centipede Ganglion
◆Breakthrough: Embryo opens compound eyes for the first time, brainwave frequency reaches adult level
◆ Incident: At 23:45 on the 21st day, the subject bit through the oxygen supply tube and attempted to break into the incubator, becoming aggressive and being destroyed in advance.
DAY 22-30
◆ Plan adjustment: Use mutant lizard regeneration genes to replace cockroach genes
◆Key data: Cell evolution rate increased by 2700%
◆Phenomenon: The embryo's tail first changes into a lizard, but the main body retains humanoid features.
DAY 190-200
◆Mutation: Subject 44 broke out of the incubator overnight and formed a cocoon.
◆Phenomenon: The outer layer of the cocoon thickens by 1cm every day, and there is no sign of breaking the cocoon.
◆Note: The RH-7 neutralizer has been used up and is in urgent need of a new supply. Leviathan's test site in District 9 should still have some.
Large sections of experimental content reveal how cruel and inhumane Ji Tao's experiments were. This man actually used hundreds of human mothers and embryos for experiments, which was simply insane.
Among those hundreds of videos, there are experimental images recorded by Ji Tao during his experiments, and the content corresponds to the experimental log.
In the video, Ji Tao's cheeks are abnormally thin, and his face is an abnormal gray-purple color. The most striking thing is his eyes, which have very small pupils and most of the white part of the eyes.
As he stared intently at the screen, his eyes seemed to hang in the center, and his gaze gave people an unusually cold and sticky feeling.
A word that appeared frequently in the video caught Liu Xia's attention: "Ji Tao kept mentioning Leviathan's RH-7 neutralizer. Could this experiment he conducted be related to Leviathan?"
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