"I'm so scared......" Lana couldn't help but move closer to Edo.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Edo's words made her relax a little. They came to an automatic door. The light was so dim that Edo almost hit the door.

"It's up to you, Lana." Edo said, pointing to a control terminal next to the door. Lana walked up to the terminal, carefully removed the case, and then inserted a small module into it, the light on the terminal immediately turned from red to green, and the built-in latch in the automatic door made a heavy grinding sound, and the whole door slowly opened in this oozing sound.

"Thankfully, the main circuit hasn't broken yet." Edo said happily.

Behind the door was a warehouse for storing equipment, and they walked through the warehouse and into the laboratory.

"What the hell is going on here......" Edo looked at the blood sprinkled on the ground, he tried to find the owner of the blood, but to no avail, he found more instruments and guns of various models scattered around; The screens on the walls that have not yet been shattered are only "no signal".

"DIVE really picks places." "They didn't choose anything else, but Ivac's big lab." However, Ivacis is the technological backbone of the orc world, and they want to cut off our research. ”

"If you say that, they're going to attack Ivac's other labs as well?" Lana asked.

"Maybe this is just a prelude to DIVE, if the Ivac Tech Group is dismantled by them, then the technology of our orc world will be under 'house arrest'."

They walked through the lab again and came to an isolation door.

"The perspective is blocked by blood." Edo said as he tugged on the door's emergency handle, "Guess what's going to happen to you guys after that." Little by little, the door moved to the left, but to his disappointment, nothing new appeared in the world behind it except for the same mess. However, even though there was no living thing, a corpse startled them—it had its lower half amputated, its face had been torn in half, its throat had been cut open, and its pistol was clenched tightly in its blood-stained hand; The eyes of fear were frozen forever, recording the calamity that befell it before it died.

"This is the main control room." Lana said, pointing to a small room in front of her that was still lit. They stepped over the corpses and walked to the door of the main control room, and when they found that they were unlocked, they quietly walked inside. There is a large screen in the main control room, as well as three glass walls, through which you can see the transit area of the laboratory without dead ends.

"Every lab in Ivac has a master room where you can control every door, every light, every emergency intervention device, and even every large instrument connected to the system." Lana said as she took out a Level 4 magnetic card from the lab and placed it on the sensing area at the bottom of the screen, and after a few simple operations, a white bar appeared on the screen.

"Edo, what's the password?" She asked.

"If I'm not mistaken, the four-word password would be 'Typhoon-Twilight-Forbid-Cavalry,' you try." Edo said. Lana typed the words in order on the white bar, but when they logged in, something unexpected happened to them - the system had already been logged in by the other party in advance.

"Call the task force, this is Lieutenant Colonel Luffie." The intercom in their ears rang, "Has the lab's control system been logged in?" ”

"No, the system shows that another party has logged in, and we are trying something else."

Edo focused his attention on a stack of paper materials with "DIVE" written on them.

"These are the genetic files of the orcs, I saw them in the hospital" Edo rummaged through the pages and found the file of Leopard Rees.

"Leopard's is here, too...... And yours, Lana. ”

"What are they doing with this stuff?" Lana asked.

"I don't know."

Suddenly, the lab's emergency announcement sounded, and the darkness outside the window was broken by a red-colored lamp.

"Did we come across something we shouldn't touch?" Edo asked.

"No, I suspect it's not a system bug." Lana said, "Someone remotely controlled the system, and they got in ahead of us, following our protocol." ”

"Thank you for logging me in." A male voice came over the radio, "I'm just debugging, don't worry." ”

"Who are you?" Edo asked. His voice was heard through the microphone on the table.

"You don't have to worry about that." The voice said, "You two are the 'Guardians' task force sent by the Combine, aren't you?" ”

"What's going on here?" He asked.

"Oh—you'll find out soon!" The alarm lights suddenly went out, and then there was a small slam of doors in the darkness. Suddenly, a winged creature flew over and slammed into the glass behind Lana, screaming in fright before falling to the ground. The creature slammed its head into it, shattering the glass and breaking into the main control room.

"Let it entertain you first!"

Edo took a second to look at the naked orc, and found that he was actually a dragon, and it was the deputy patriarch Ming Xiu that Edo had just met before.

"Hey, Ming Xiu!" Edo called. But as soon as "Ming Xiu" got up from the ground, he pounced straight on Edo, but fortunately he dodged in time, "Ming Xiu" pounced and finally hit the wall.

"What are you doing, Ming Xiu, I'm Edo." Edo was both horrified and confused. "Ming Xiu" turned around again, ready to launch a second attack on Edo, Lana quickly got up from the ground and fired several shots at "Ming Xiu" in the head, "Ming Xiu" was instantly shot several times in the forehead and neck, he held his throat, and then fell to the ground, dead.

"What's going on?" Edo asked.

Lana still hadn't come to her senses, she stood there with her gun in her hand, cold sweat falling as her body trembled. The actions just now were carried out by her defensive instincts. Half a minute later, she finally put down her gun and sat down on the ground.

"I ......," Lana asked with a shivering sip of water, "what was that?" ”

"Whether you recognize him or not, or if you're of the same race as him, he only has one name right now - the Clone Orc."

"What did you do to Ming Xiu?" Edo asked.

"Don't be sad, he's just a clone, and its owner is probably still in dire straits." The voice said, "These things have now been released from here, and they have managed to escape into the wild and begin to hunt as they should." ”

At that moment, a gunshot interrupted the sound of the broadcast, and the whole world returned to its original tranquility. The two men raised their guns, preparing for a second attack. After a sound of footsteps, the door to the main control room was opened, and a hand with a gun reached in first, and then the whole body. This time, the real Ming Xiu walked in.

"I've seen you all the way away...... Why are you looking at me like that? Ming Xiu asked.

"Are you really Ming Xiu?" Edo asked.

"What?" Ming Xiu found his own body lying on the ground, and he kicked it aside.

"Oh my God, why are you looking at me...... Get him away! "Ming Xiudao.

"Well, cloned orcs aren't shy." Edo said.

"It just attacked you?" Ming Xiu asked, holding the corpse in the foot.

The two dragons nodded.

"The copycat is terrible...... "Ming Xiu said outside, "Mr. Deputy Minister, this is the Guardian Squad!" ”

A snow fox then walked in, looked at them and said, "We didn't expect to meet you here, Guardian." I am Deputy Minister of Security, Dimitri Gramovich. ”

The two returned the salute.

"Why are you here?" Edo asked.

"The enemy captured us, they killed my bodyguards, and all my followers around me." "They kept us in a small barn and then took our blood. Looking at the way it is, it looks like something happened here, and we were able to escape. In fact, there are many people who have come here, but they are either missing or killed, and there are only six or seven standing at the door now. ”

"Call the task force, this is Lieutenant Colonel Luffie." The intercom rang, "Report on your current situation." ”

"Edo reports the situation." "The lab's system has been controlled by the local government, and they used it to create cloned orcs, and we were just attacked by them, and we found a group of survivors in the lab, including the Deputy Minister of Security, Dimitri Gramović, and the Deputy Patriarch of the Denua Heights, Mingxiu," he said

"You've picked up the survivors, so your next mission plan has changed - the rescue team has been dispatched, and you have to escape from the lab with all the survivors."

"Roger." "Now we're going to run away from here, and no one will be left behind, understand?" ”

"Okay." Dimitri said the same thing outside, and a few sparse voices followed by "yes"

At this moment, the alarm went off violently, all the lights went black, and the only thing that could provide light was the red alarm lights hanging on the wall.

"Don't try to run away from here!" The voice came over the radio again, "Wipe out with this lab!" ”

"Oh no, the lab's self-destruct switch has been activated!" Lana said, freezing the system on the console so that the system would be completely offline, but the self-destruct system would still work.

"Okay, the self-destruct system is on, and no one will be able to close the door casually."

"Let's run!"

They ran to a separate door first, and as soon as Ming Xiu pulled the door open a little, a hand came out of it, and he fired several shots through the crack in the door, until there was no movement, and the door was completely opened. Immediately afterward, several other doors began to creak.

"Looks like the alarm is annoying them!" Dimitri said. As soon as the words fell, the doors were forcefully pulled open, and a large group of cloned orcs ran out of them.

"Rescue came too late, everything was too late!" The voice said.

Ming Xiu pushed everyone into a small room, then locked the door hard, and then used a table against it. "It's a weapons room." His voice was unusually small in the terrible knock on the door. The group began to search the room, but in the end they only found a few small pistols and an explosion-proof shield, and Ming Xiu and the deputy minister also took some ammunition each.

"About seven minutes to go." Lana said. The sound of the siren gradually increased in volume, eventually even drowning out the frantic banging outside the door.

"Go from here." Edo broke the lock of another door with his gun, and they came to another storehouse where more clones were waiting for them.

"I didn't expect that after they ran out, there were so many left!" Ming Xiu said.

Edo said, "If there is a lot left, then the one who escapes ......"

"Be careful!" Lana shoots and kills a clone orc who is about to pounce on Edor. Edo fixed his eyes on it, and the original form of the cloned orc was actually Leopard Rees.

"Leopard Reese?! ...... He's been caught too? But he just went on a mission last week. ”

A clone orc sneaks up on Dimitri without his knowledge, opening his mouth and biting his calf.

"Ah, you bastard!" He fired a few shots and finally eliminated the clone orc. They fought in the storeroom, and it took them a full five minutes to reach the roller shutter at the other end. Edo pried open the roller shutter door to let them through. Eventually, they came to a freight elevator that would take them up to the lab's ground-level garage. Just as they entered the elevator, an accident happened - a clone orc rushed up, grabbed Edor by the neck of the following Edor, and dragged him out of the elevator, which closed the door and began to ascend. There are only fifty seconds left until the meeting.

"Edo!!" They shouted in unison.

Edo killed the clone orc, clutching his bleeding neck and saying, "I...... I'm fine! Hurry up and get up! ”

"And what do you do?" Lana asked.

"I'll find a way, it's important to save people!"

At this point, the elevator rose to the ground, and as soon as the door opened, they rushed as fast as they could towards the army waiting at the gate. However, what awaits them in front of them is not the troops of the Combine, but a group of DIVE soldiers.

"That's not our man!" Ming Xiu shouted. As soon as the enemy soldiers saw them, they immediately opened fire on the crowd, and they immediately ran back.

"Call Command, we've been attacked by DIVE outside the lab, and they're one step ahead of you!"

"Call ......Command," said Edo, "I may not be able to get out...... "Finding some sunlight shining through his head, he flipped his wings and flew towards the light. But before he could reach the halfway point, the explosives buried in the wall suddenly exploded, and he circled in the air, then fell to the place where he took off, and then a large piece of the ceiling fell from above, and Edo raised his hand to cover his head, waiting for the mortal danger to come. The entire laboratory burst into flames, and those who escaped had no time to dodge the explosion, and disappeared into the smoke and debris of buildings falling from the sky.

......

Lana felt like she was sinking into the bottomless water, and the sunlight shining into the water was slowly fading. She wanted to paddle her hands upstream, but her limbs just wouldn't obey her, and no matter how hard she tried, her hands and feet would not move. She began to drown, a large amount of water entered her body, and when she was finally able to move her limbs, she began to struggle hard, but her body kept sinking further. Her eyes slowly darkened. Suddenly, it felt a hand grasp her calf, and then began to pull her up at a breakneck speed, the sunlight in front of her began to brighten, and the drowning sensation faded until her face surfaced......

"Whew! Lana sat up from the ground, gasping for air, and after a while, she was gently helped down again, and lay down on the ground again.

"Lana woke up." Nancy touched Lana's neck and said, "The pulse and breathing are returning to normal, and the brain is hit......"

"You're Nancy? ......," Lana called softly.

"It seems that your consciousness is still relatively clear." Nancy said.

"Uh, that...... What about Edo, Edo! Lana asked, sitting up and taking Nancy's shoulder.

"Edota......" Ming Xiu walked over and said, "the walkie-talkie can't pick up any signal, so it's estimated that he's buried under the rubble." ”

"Edo has found it!" Exclamations were heard from the ruins.

"Edo!" Lana stood up, Nancy hurriedly helped her, and the two of them walked together into the ruins, only to see a dusty, scarred, and slightly trembling flesh membrane wing under a large fragment of the wall. As the debris of the building was cleared, Edo's body was gradually revealed, and in addition to the wings, the scales on his body were shattered in many places, and a shard of glass even stuck in his stomach. Miraculously, the pendulum on his neck was not damaged at all.

"Edo!" Lana squatted on the ground and dragged Edo's head with her hand, "Edo, you don't want to die!" ”

"Call the medical team down immediately!" Lucci also came to the scene. Lana pressed her ear to his chest again, and this time, she heard a neat but faint heartbeat.

"Ahem—" Edo suddenly began to cough, the dust on his body was shaken off, he opened his eyes slightly, and saw a pink figure next to him, and he asked, "Lana...... How do your ears ...... Dusty, aren't you...... And put the ears ...... Stick it on my ...... I got a ...... on my chest."

"Edo......" Lana cried.

"Don't cry, I'm not ...... Are you living well? ”

"It's so hard to lose your family!"

This sentence made Edo's heart twist and tears almost flowed - he had said the same thing to his mother when he was a child.

"I know...... "I've understood this for a long time," said Edo as he was being carried on the stretcher, so he ...... "and said, taking a deep breath hard:

"So I don't want others to suffer on my behalf."