The night was as thick as ink, the dark clouds covered the moon, the cold wind howled, and the mountains were intertwined, like a giant dragon crawling on the earth.

The cold after night is pervasive, like a cold needle pricking the skin and bones.

"Kacha ......"

The heavy mechanical legs stepped into the humus, crushing the fallen leaves, leaving a deep footprint, in which a few small bones were faintly visible.

The land is fertile, and of course this fertility is built on countless deaths.

It was already three o'clock in the morning.

Sun Lang and Chang Rufeng drank two refreshing potions, saying that they didn't need to rest tonight, and they wanted to find the people of the Dragon City team in one go.

During this period, the three of them came across the corpses of several members of the Zero Tavern, and found some valuable things, and discussed going back and slowly dividing them.

While searching for one of the bodies, Hal suddenly spoke, "When you go back, give me a little money."

"What do you want for a robot?" Sun Lang was happy and asked him with a smile.

"After this is over, I want to walk around this planet, and I need belongings to travel." Hal replied, "It's not convenient to sell the things in the ship."

"Okay, it's still an exploratory robot."

In the vast forest, time always flies, and hours flow quietly through your fingers like fine sand.

……

In the distance of Coral City, the whole city is still sleeping quietly.

The streetlights on both sides of the road were dim, and the patrol soldiers walked listlessly, with the occasional yawn and pinching the time to calculate when they would be able to rotate.

In the dark alleys, the signage of the Zero Tavern is not very bright.

Underground, under Yin Yi's appeasement, the members of the North Wind Story Club temporarily dispelled the idea of leaving.

There is no need for Su Xia's attention here for the time being.

He spent most of the night focusing on his father.

After the old man left the pharmacy, he was like a little old man who had eaten a full meal and walked around, with his hands behind his back and his words on his back, slowly walking towards the south of the city in the night, and into a very old factory.

The old man did not act rashly.

In order to rescue his eldest apprentice, he has made a lot of preparations in Coral City over the years.

The interior of the factory was extremely dark, the glass around it had been smashed, valuable things had been removed, layers of cobwebs had formed in the corners, and the surrounding area was covered with half-human-tall weeds.

After the old man walked in, he entered a room that said "General Manager's Office" and gently closed the door.

"Smack!"

He pressed the switch at the entrance to the room, as if trying to turn on the overhead light.

However, when the switch was pressed, nothing happened, and the room was still dark.

Dad turned around again and pressed his rough palm against the back of the door, and a trace of red light suddenly flashed where the palm of his hand touched the back of the door, and the whole office trembled, and cracks appeared between the floor and the surrounding walls, and it began to slowly descend, like a super-large elevator.

In the past few years, my father has never told a few apprentices.

He has a secret base under the abandoned warehouse in the south of the city, like a superhero in the comics.

"Hum...... Buzz ......"

The room descended slowly, trembling continuously, the clatter of fine, dense mechanical parts could be heard around it, and the cold walls around it lit up with long, cold-colored lights.

After descending to the deepest depths, the tremors stopped, and a large, pitch-black underground world appeared.

At the top of the base, the lights lit up from front to back, presenting this shocking underground base in front of Su Xia's eyes.

Screens, endless screens, hundreds, thousands, each screen is playing real-time monitoring content, among which there is a monitoring screen inside the mechanical base.

Is there an undercover agent inside the mechanical family?

This thought instantly appeared in Su Xia's mind.

Daddy walked forward, his thin body, in front of the huge screen composed of countless screens, like a small ant, but his expression was full of expression

Rong is unhurried, and he seems to be a god who controls everything.

Standing in front of the console, he pulled up a small screen and enlarged it, revealing the test subject labeled "19".

Seeing Gu An, the big apprentice who had been transformed into a monster, a trace of fluctuation flashed in his father's cloudy eyes, but he didn't act immediately, just watched quietly.

In this way, the time slowly came to five o'clock in the morning.

According to calculations, Mercer had already left Coral City, had been walking for more than seven hours, and was now on his way through the wilderness.

Even if he learned that there was a change in Coral City, he would not be able to rush back in the first place.

"What does Daddy want to do?"

Through the perspective of nanobots, Su Xia silently observed.

In front of the console, Daddy glanced at the time and finally acted.

He pulls up a surveillance feed of a human researcher in a white lab coat, and presses a blue button.

On the screen, the researcher was taking a biological sample of a bug, but his hand holding the experimental equipment suddenly trembled, as if he had received some kind of command.

Then, he looked up and glanced at the other researcher beside him, as if to confirm something.

Then, he gently put down the experimental equipment in his hand and walked to the area where the twenty-seven mature test subjects were imprisoned.

Inside the underground base, mechanical creatures and human researchers walked around, the experimental areas were intricately intertwined, and strings of data flashed on the blue screen, and the researcher's solo actions rarely attracted much attention.

"Ding—"

He swiped his ID card and successfully entered the area where Subject 19 Gu An was being held.

Through the surveillance screen, it can be clearly seen that the position on his identity card is [Project Leader], and it seems that his status in the underground base is not low.

In this experimental area, the human researchers who were in charge of paying attention to the life data of Subject 19 did not say anything, but only nodded to him slightly, as if everything had been notified in advance.

"Let's get started."

One of the researchers manipulated the instrument and injected a sleeping agent into SCP-19's body to ensure that the transfer proceeded smoothly.

Another researcher controls the robotic arms, several of which slowly step forward, grabbing his limbs and torso, and slowly removing him from the confined mechanical container and placing him in a transfer container.

The whole process went smoothly and unexpectedly, as if it had been rehearsed in advance.

Soon, the unconscious 19 was sent to the transport device trolley.

Around, the researchers in the other areas didn't seem to see it, and didn't ask a word.

At this time, a mechanical creature in charge of patrolling passed by, with a blue light flashing on its face, and came up to him and asked, "What is this for?" Where are Subject 19 to be sent?"

"Do the test."

The researcher with the identity card of the person in charge stepped forward to respond, his tone steady, and he did not show any anomalous appearances.

He pointed to 19 and said to the mechanical creature, "I suspect he may still have any remaining consciousness, and something could go wrong at a critical moment, so I'm going to test him again."

"How?"

"In the Coral City prison, there are several members of the resistance group who knew each other before the 19th, and I plan to let him identify them." The person in charge said unhurriedly, "The prison is already going through the process, and it can be found in the system."

"Why don't you just bring those prisoners here?"

"This area of the experiment is very secretive, and Master Mercer has told me not to let the rest of us know."

"Okay, stay safe in transit."

The mechanical creature's eyes flashed with blue light, and when he heard the word "Mercer", he scanned the identity card of the person in charge again, and without asking any more questions, he turned to leave, patrolling the other areas.

After he left, the few researchers with lower status in this area looked at each other a few times and breathed a sigh of relief.

Several people slowly left the underground experimental area with the transfer device and walked in the direction of the elevator.

On the way, they were greeted from time to time.

"It's not time to get off work yet, why are you leaving? And with that big monster?" Someone asked with a smile.

"I'm going to do a test, and I'll be back when I'm done."

They behaved very relaxed, smiling, responding to everyone's greetings, but they were actually nervous to the extreme, and everyone's body was tense.

If you want to reach the elevator, you have to pass two or three tests in the middle.

"What is this for?"

The inspector walked over and asked, looking very concerned.

But he winked at the person in charge, nodded slightly, and made a small gesture to the rest of the inspectors.

Everyone knew this, pretended not to find anything, and opened the passage one after another to let them pass.

The person in charge replied, "Get it out for another test."

"Okay, stay safe in transit."

It should have been a very strict inspection, but it was simply mixed up without much delay.

Several people escorted the transport device, and there was no danger all the way, and they arrived at the elevator entrance in this way.

"Ding—"

The person in charge swiped the ID card, the elevator door opened, and several other people hurriedly sent the transfer device into the elevator.

Then, the elevator slowly ascended, showing the number of floors closer and closer to the ground, everyone in the elevator was highly nervous, their foreheads were sweating, no one spoke, and they could hear their breathing.

Soon, the elevator doors opened again, and the ground floor opened to them.

There are more mechanical creatures here, and there are suffocating mechanical creatures of all shapes and shapes at a glance.

"Hoo ......"

The person in charge slowly exhaled a breath, tried to relax himself, and instructed everyone to push the transfer device out of the elevator, not in a hurry or slowly, and walked towards the side door.

Outside the side gate of the base, the prison's transfer cart was waiting for them.

On the way, they encountered two more inspections, but both survived without danger.

When they walked out of the side door, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, put the transport device into the carriage of the prison transport vehicle, and then walked in.

With a soft thud, the doors closed, the engines hummed, the wheels turned, and the car carried everyone through the inspection of the base gate and into the city at night.

It was only at this moment that the group completely relaxed.

They took off their lab coats one after another, each with a little pale face, their hair soaked with sweat, but they all had smiles on their faces.

"It worked!"

"Is your family arranged?"

"Don't worry, it's already arranged, and this ticket is enough for us to live comfortably for the rest of our lives."

"I don't have a family, I feed myself and my whole family doesn't go hungry......

"Haha......"

「……」

This is a shocking event, and once it is exposed, the entire Coral City will shake.

Someone stole a test subject from the most secretive of the Mechclave bases? Not many people will believe this kind of thing.

But they did!

For this day, they have been preparing for many years.

Daddy has also been preparing for many years.

From the moment Gu An was arrested, he began to plan this day.

In the cyborg base in Coral City, it is difficult for those original experimenters to be bought, because they have been branded as cyborgs and dare not betray easily.

So, Daddy began to choose the people he liked all over the world.

Most of these people are young experts and scholars, who are not very satisfied with the mechanical family, and have a spirit of challenge.

After choosing, Daddy will contact them and give them enough payment, either money, or potions that can improve their physique, and even potions that many people crave the most to prolong their lives.

"Master Daddy's potion, I'm really looking forward to it." The person in charge said with a smile.

In the pharmacist this

Okay, Daddy is quite famous.

Not only the southwest region, but the entire continent is famous, and many people don't understand why he wants to stay in the small city of Coral City.

There was once a rich man in his nineties, his health was so bad that he had more air in and less breath, and he saw half of his feet stepping into the ghost gate, but he was saved by his father with medicine, and he continued to be 100 years old against heaven and earth, so that he could die after his 100th birthday with satisfaction.

In the eyes of many people, Daddy is a living immortal.

The people in the carriage were already dissatisfied with the mechanical clan, and after receiving the invitation from their father, they immediately agreed.

They are all experts and scholars related to biology, who come to Coral City or other cities in the southwest region from all over the world for investigation, research, academic work, etc., and then publish relevant research papers in the southwest region, making a name for themselves in the academic circle in this region and attracting the attention of the mechanical people.

It won't be long before they're taken by the automatons.

Subsequently, they will naturally enter the underground experimental area of the mechanical clan base, and after several years of performance, they will gradually enter the core layer.

Not only them, but the people who were in charge of inspection, patrolling, and interrogation just now were all arranged by Daddy, which is why this road will be so smooth.

The arrangements of these years are like a dense net, all of which have been closed today.

The result in the network is naturally Gu An.

"Haha, that's fun!" The person in charge smiled and said, "In the past few years, I have shrunk underground like a turtle, helping the grandson of the mechanical clan to do research, and I have long seen that they are unhappy, and I have been waiting for news from the master."

"Me too!" Another said, "It's a pity that the master won't let us make a big fuss, otherwise I would have wanted to detonate a few bombs in that base!"

"Speaking of which, the master is really good to his apprentice, and he can be regarded as benevolent and righteous."

"It's a pity that it's hard to save it from being like this."

Looking at the sleeping monster in the transport device, several people couldn't help but sigh.

They are all experts in this area, and naturally understand that this transformation is irreversible, and there is currently no means to transform Gu An from a monster back to the original handsome and dashing teenager.

Right now, the best result is to let Gu An recover his memories and live as a monster.

However, even recovering memories is difficult.

The sanity of these mixtures seems to be tainted, and they have no memory of what they used to be, and most of them are chaotic and violent, with no hope of recovery.

"I can't say, with the master's means, maybe it can really be restored."

The person in charge patted the transport device, a smile appeared on his face, and said to the sleeping Subject 19 inside, "Little Gu An, I'm taking you home."