Chapter 2: The Immortal Lizard

"The skeletal door that suddenly appeared in my room just now, could it be a projection of a higher-level containment object?" Chu Cheng thought as he walked towards the depths of the corridor. Although it may be dangerous to break in, Chu Cheng must learn as much as possible about the containment organization that imprisoned him, and only in this way can he find the most reasonable way to break the situation.

The long corridor continued to stretch forward, and Chu Cheng quickly swept past the locked doors, turning corners, but still didn't see the end of the corridor. The whole corridor is like an endless labyrinth, giving people a sense of strangeness at the level of space.

Chu Cheng silently calculated in his heart. From the time he entered the hallway, he had passed through a total of 2,146 rooms, of which 2,025 corresponded to D-class containment objects, and the remaining 121 rooms corresponded to C-class containment objects like his own.

Chu Cheng noticed that the numbering of the containment objects on the door was not continuous, and there was a certain jump between the numbers.

Other than that, Chu Cheng didn't see any armed forces or staff of the containment organization in the corridor, and it seemed that all the people of the containment organization had evacuated Chu Cheng's class.

"It's imperative to catch your tongue as soon as possible! Since I can't find anyone from the containment organization, maybe I can try to talk to one of the containment objects. Chu Cheng thought so, and walked to a nearby door corresponding to a C-class containment object.

"C-682." Chu Cheng glanced at the number on the door of the room, then opened the door with the master key and walked in.

As Chu Cheng expected, inside the door was a five-meter-long tunnel, the length of which seemed to correspond to the thickness of the walls of the room.

"Could it be that all the rooms here are made of 5-meter-thick composite steel plates?" Chu Cheng walked into the tunnel, opened the built-in door on the other floor of the tunnel, and suddenly a small room appeared in front of Chu Cheng's eyes.

The room in front of him was also shrouded in a scarlet light that seeped in from nowhere. In the middle of the room, there is a long table with documents scattered around. In addition, Chu Cheng also found an abandoned automatic rifle under the chair next to the long table.

"Don't you even have time to recycle the research materials? What is even more outrageous is that the armed men even lost their weapons. It seems that the evacuation of the containment organization is urgent! Chu Cheng picked up the rifle from the ground and dismantled the body after fiddling with it a few times.

Looking at the gun that was easily disassembled by himself, Chu Cheng was slightly stunned.

"How do you feel that I am familiar with the structure and format of this gun, M416...... Is it? A name suddenly popped up in Chu Cheng's mind, and he felt that some memories in the depths of his soul seemed to be touched at this moment.

"Aside from the occasional vague fragment of memory in my mind, I've had the feeling of being slammed into a memory once before." Chu Cheng recalled in his heart. He clearly remembers that when he first came into contact with the 'Ring of the Nibelungen', the words "Huaya Heavy Industry" engraved on the ring made him feel a sense of familiarity from the soul, which was very similar to this moment.

"If I say that the fragments of memories that appear in my mind are from my 'past life'...... Then why is there something here that matches my memories of my past life? Chu Cheng carefully looked at the parts of the firearm in his hand, and only felt that the memories related to the firearm in front of him in his mind were becoming clearer and clearer.

"However, the construction of this gun ...... M416 with my 'past life' memories...... There seems to be some discrepancies, the gun body and rifling seem to have been improved, and the warhead has been changed from ordinary metal to titanium alloy? And also...... What is it!? ”

Chu Cheng looked at a blood-red "core" that had been removed from the body of the gun, and his eyes couldn't help but show doubt. This "core" was originally embedded in the body of the gun, about the size of a dragon's eye, and the surface was densely covered with capillary-like lines......

No, not the shape!

At the moment when Chu Cheng's finger touched this "core", he felt that the surface of the core seemed to squirm slightly.

Core...... It's alive!

"Some kind of biotechnology?" Chu Cheng was stunned, and then stuffed the "core" back into the gun. Along the way, he has seen all kinds of strange and terrifying things, and his psychological endurance is naturally different from ordinary people.

Putting the gun back together, Chu Cheng forced himself to calm down and began to look at the documents on the table, only to find that in the center of the long table, there seemed to be an extremely fine mark.

"Is there anything under the mezzanine of the table?" Chu Cheng summoned the master key and turned around the table, and the entire table suddenly opened from the center to the sides, revealing a computer screen.

【Warning! The system is protected by a level 2 security clearance, and visitors are requested to enter their security key immediately. Unauthorized access to the system will be terminated by 'Huaya Heavy Industries'. 】

"Huaya Heavy Industries!? The organization that contained me was named ...... Huaya Heavy Industries? Chu Cheng was shocked, he never dreamed that he would encounter this name here again.

After calming down his heart, Chu Cheng immediately controlled the master key, after all, this kind of computer encryption program is essentially a kind of "lock".

Facts have proved that the master key did not disappoint Chu Cheng.

Chu Cheng saw a long series of mosaic squares quickly transform in front of his eyes, turning into a vague line of code, and then disappeared into the computer screen.

The encryption program on the computer screen was turned on!

[The following document describes the anomalous entity designated C-682, is it previewed?] 】

[Yes] [No]

Chu Cheng chose "yes", and a top-secret document about Containment C-682 appeared on the computer screen.

[Containment Number: C-682]

[Containment Name: Indestructible Lizard]

[Hazard Level: Class C]

[Special Containment Procedures: C-682 must be terminated as soon as possible.] At the moment, Huaya Heavy Industries has not been able to kill C-682 without paying a price, and can only inflict a lot of physical damage on it. C-682 is to be contained in a 5m x 5m x 5m container, with 25 cm thick reinforced acid-resistant steel plates lined on all walls.

The containment container is to be filled with hydrochloric acid until C-682 is completely submerged and unable to resist. In the event that C-682 attempts to move, speak, or breach containment procedures, it must respond quickly and with full force as appropriate.

In order to avoid angering C-682, unauthorized personnel are forbidden to confront him. Any unauthorized personnel attempting to communicate with C-682 are to be stopped and forcibly taken away, and they are to be terminated as appropriate. 】

[Description: C-682 is a monolithic large, reptilian creature of unknown origin. It exhibits a high level of intelligence, and during its limited time of contact with D-079, very complex communication between them has been observed. C-682 has shown an aversion to all life, as evidenced by several interactions with it during containment.

C-682 has been observed to possess extreme strength, speed, and rapid reflexes, though the degree of this varies depending on its form.

C-682's physical body grows and changes rapidly, and is capable of increasing or decreasing in size through feeding or molting.

C-682 can derive energy from any substance it ingestion, both organic and inorganic. C-682's digestion appears to be aided by filtered gills within the nostrils, which absorb useful substances from any solution, allowing them to continue to regenerate when contained in acid.

C-682's ability to regenerate and adapt is remarkable, and C-682 is able to move and communicate even though 87% of its body is destroyed or decomposed. 】

"A monster that can't be killed and regenerates over and over again? The communication target I chose seemed a bit tricky. Chu Cheng thought so, but he was not ready to retreat.

On the one hand, the other party is being contained, and it is relatively safe to just communicate. And of course, it is very clear. At present, Huaya Heavy Industries has not been able to kill C-682 without paying a price, which means that if you are willing to pay some price, you can still kill it. It can be seen that the immortality of the other party is not absolute.

After reading the file, Chu Cheng's finger tapped a few times on the screen, and a new dialog box immediately appeared on the screen.

[C-682 is currently in containment, is the observation window open to communicate with it?] 】

[Yes: Please enter the security encryption command] [No]

Chu Cheng chose yes, and then used the master key to concoct it in the same way, and the wall of the room in front of him suddenly shook slightly, and then rose from the bottom, revealing a huge glass window behind him.