Chapter 183: Traps and Support
Chu Zihang and Caesar looked at the inconspicuous elevator in front of them and glanced at each other. After Caesar scouted the inside of the elevator with his words, the two of them boarded the elevator vigilantly.
To the surprise of the two, there was only a downward button inside the elevator.
There is no hesitation, since they have chosen to move on, neither of them is the type to give up halfway.
Caesar, as a scout, kept an eye on the movement outside the elevator, and the two of them pressed the button after hiding their bodies in the elevator.
With a "ding" sound, the elevator quickly arrived at its destination, and Caesar shook his head at Chu Zihang, who was hiding on the upper floor of the elevator, indicating that he did not hear the sound of human activity outside.
As the elevator door opened, a rusty iron door appeared in front of the two of them, looking at the slime on the ground and the surrounding bloodstains, Chu Zihang already knew what was behind the iron door.
He had seen such a scene before, and that was what he had seen when he was completing an execution ministry mission. It was a private Deadpool Lab, and Deadpool who had escaped from the incubator had slaughtered the researchers and had taken to the streets to go on a killing spree.
He had seen this kind of slime on the ground at that time, and now the ground here was full of slime, and there was no doubt that it was the traces of a large number of newly hatched Deadpools walking on their bellies, so behind this iron door was Deadpool's lair.
Chu Zihang made a tactical gesture and pushed open the iron door with Caesar in a posture of mutual cover.
Although they had been prepared for a long time, the two of them still had numb scalps when they saw this scene with their own eyes. It was a house full of tools, rusty iron operating tables, sharp cutting tools, gears used to cut bones, iron hooks hanging from the air, and the smell of blood in the air that made it look like a slaughterhouse.
Shockingly, the opposite wall was made entirely of glass bricks, and that glass brick wall had now collapsed, and the water tank at the rear was leaking so much water that there was water half a foot deep on the ground.
The creature of the stagnant water like a young snake was still twitching, they had just grown white scales, but they already had sharp bony claws and hideous muscles. It seems that these mature Deadpools are stronger than the usual Deadpools out there, but these young Deadpools haven't had time to grow up yet.
On the other side, in the breeding pond that had not collapsed, some human-faced fish swam in the transparent water storage tank, and when Chu Zihang and they approached the glass wall, they could clearly see the iron bed used for dissection, the restraint belt, and other bloody dissection tools, and the operation process was pasted on the wall.
The most horrific thing was that the dissected Deadpool specimens were also set aside, some were intact Deadpool with their entrails stripped out and suspended in formalin, some were individual glands or brains, and even a female with a hatchling was dissected lengthwise.
"It's hell here." Caesar looked a little unbearable, their job was to deal with these bloodthirsty beasts, but they wouldn't do that.
Except for these alien Deadpools on the ground that look like artificial hatches, the other Deadpools are originally human, but they only become Deadpools under various stimuli. And now that they've been shredded and hollowed out for research, and their bodies are being cut open by a chainsaw, even Caesar finds it a little unbearable.
Chu Zihang walked into the water in silence, waved the long knife in his hand at will, and accurately hacked the Deadpool fetuses that pounced on him. Caesar was a little behind, and without hesitation, he drew his short knife and dripped into the water.
Although they are saddened by the fate of these Deadpools, they still can't let the escaped Deadpool hatchlings grow unchecked.
According to Chu Zihang and Caesar's estimation, if all the young bodies in the stagnant water have that level when they become adults, it will be an irreparable disaster once they rush out when they become adults.
"These things are all kept in captivity, and there are a lot of fish and the bones of cattle and sheep in the tank, and it looks like whole large animals are thrown in for their food, and there are even the corpses of Deadpool in them, which are gnawed clean, and these things are hungry and eat everything." Chu Zihang walked to the broken water tank and observed.
"Like the group of ghost-toothed vipers we once saw." Caesar covered his nose and waved his hand, signaling Chu Zihang not to say more.
The stench of bones and rotting organic matter at the bottom of the tank had been wafting from the bottom of the tank since just now, and he almost vomited the bento he had eaten last night.
Chu Zihang's expression was a little solemn after inspecting the surrounding laboratories, and the serious atmosphere even made Caesar, who was observing the water storage tank, notice the abnormality.
"What's wrong?"
"When these Deadpools grow up, they should be able to find three to five meters long and weigh three or four hundred kilograms." Chu Zihang pointed to the specimen of the snake-shaped Deadpool placed next to him, "Although dragon blood can make people mutate at high speed, their height and weight will not change easily, and the 'raw materials' of these Deadpools are only humans who are more than one meter tall, and if they can grow to such a big size, they obviously need to consume a lot of food to replenish their weight." ”
"That's right." Caesar was a little puzzled, "Aren't these bones in the tank proof that they need a lot of food?" ”
"The most important question is: since there are so many food debris in the boxes, where do the adult individuals go? All we found since we arrived here were juvenile juveniles, and the only adult specimen was the specimen on the wall. Chu Zihang's expression was serious.
When Caesar said this, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.
"Not to mention, these Deadpools on the ground look a lot like oviparous creatures, and I highly doubt that these guys are actually the second generation." Chu Zihang used a knife to pick up a hatchling that had been cut into two sections but was still struggling.
"Hiss......" Caesar had already guessed the horror at this time, "the first generation of Deadpools who were converted from humans, and the adult individuals who grew up after eating so much food, have not found any trace of them here. ”
"No, we've already found traces of them." Chu Zihang turned his gaze to the collapsed water tank.
Caesar followed their gaze and immediately understood what he meant.
The glass walls used to construct the tank are one meter thick, and they are made of special tempered glass, which is difficult for ordinary creatures to destroy and leave traces on it without the help of tools.
Now the walls of glass that were so thick have collapsed, and even large pieces of glass that have not been washed away by the water can be seen on the outer layer of the tank. Combined with the fact that there is no trace of any glass shards inside the tank, this tank was shattered by something from the inside.
"So, where did the escaped Deadpool go?" Caesar shuddered.
If such a large group of Deadpools were to run into Tokyo, if they were hungry and hunting, Caesar couldn't imagine what kind of horror it would be.
At this time, Chu Zihang next to him beckoned to him, and after Caesar went over, he found that there was a round metal barrel in front of him, which looked like the kind used to hold oil.
Glancing at each other, Chu Zihang closed his eyes slightly and silently chanted the dragon text, and after a while, the temperature around his body rose sharply.
The high-temperature air flow and shock wave emitted by Jun Yan hit the metal barrel, and Caesar pushed to the front of the barrel against the rebounding air wave to check, and an opening had been burned directly above the whole metal barrel, and the contents of the barrel were unobstructed.
It was a half-distorted human body that was pale in color, with legs remaining, and he seemed to have been injected with some kind of anesthetic drug, and he was deep asleep in a large amount of fluid.
Because of the burning of Jun Yan just now, the liquid inside the metal barrel has begun to boil, and this Deadpool has begun to show signs of awakening. Caesar shot him several times in the back of the head, black blood flowing into the surrounding fluid, and the Deadpool died in his sleep.
"Remember the submarine we saw in the Iron Dome earlier?" Chu Zihang suddenly asked.
Caesar recalled it for a moment, and immediately realized that a large part of the cargo guarded by the black-clad guards was metal barrels of this style.
"The Snake Qi Eight Family is still doing such an experiment in secret...... So where the hell are those Deadpools going now? ”
"It doesn't have to be the Snake Qi Eight Family." Chu Zihang shook his head and rejected Caesar's idea, "When we came in to visit, there were also this kind of metal barrels, if it was really the Eight Snake Qi families who were keeping Deadpool in captivity, at least they should have hidden these metal barrels when we visited." ”
Caesar's brows also relaxed: "That's right, if I were the person in charge, I wouldn't let go of even the slightest possibility of leaking information, at least hide all the metal cans, this thing can still be done." ”
Speaking of this, Caesar suddenly fell into confusion again: "But we also saw that group of black-clothed guards helping to carry these metal barrels, which means that at least someone inside the Eight Snake Families is giving orders to collect these things. That is, there are 'official' forces involved. ”
"There have been a bit too many Deadpool killings in the city in the past few days, even if there is the influence of evolution medicine, but most of the Deadpools have been completely alienated when they appear...... Chu Zihang thought for a while, "So someone deliberately released this group of Deadpools and put them in various locations in the city to drag down the energy of the Eight Snake Qi families." ”
The two glanced at each other and continued to explore deeper into the laboratory.
When they found a security door, they all frowned, and the smell of blood was so strong that it was even a little choking.
Caesar unfolded his words and listened, and shook his head at Chu Zihang, indicating that there were no active creatures inside. So they immediately followed the pre-rehearsed formation, Caesar lightly attached to the wall and was ready to go, Chu Zihang strode forward and opened the security door, revealing the things hidden behind.
Behind the door is a relatively normal-looking laboratory, the structure inside is very much in line with ordinary people's vision of a high-end laboratory, but now it has turned into a purgatory on earth.
Human corpses were strewn about, their bodies covered in various bite marks, and their small thin bodies lacked much muscle, making it look likely to be researchers at the institute.
A "man" stood in the midst of the crowd of corpses, dressed in a gorgeous kimono, and when he heard a noise behind him, he turned around to reveal a face wearing a Noh mask.
"It's really surprising to me, I didn't expect that the first to find out about me were actually the two commissioners of the headquarters, and I thought it would be the group of guys from the Snake Eight Family." Wang Jiang grinned and opened his mouth, revealing his teeth blackened with charcoal powder.
Chu Zihang silently took a step back and looked at the corpses around him with a frown.
Judging from the above marks, it has been a long time since they were killed, not only the blood flowing on the ground has completely coagulated, but even the corpses have passed the period of stiffness and begun to show signs of decay. Even though the laboratory had a well-ventilated system, the smell of decomposing corpses was still choking.
Coupled with the time when the outside gangs and Deadpool were making trouble, it has been a long time since Chu Zihang could have attacked here.
But looking at the appearance of this guy on the other side, it seems that he has been waiting here, not to mention whether ordinary half-breeds can retain their combat effectiveness without eating for so many days, normal people should not deliberately wait here after completing the attack.
Chu Zihang secretly raised his vigilance, and Caesar next to him also took the initiative to negotiate with him: "Who are you?" ”
"Below, the leader of the fierce ghosts: the king." Wang Jiang made an exaggerated salute, looking like he was performing a play on the stage, "This time, it's to send blessings to the two of you!" ”
"What the hell, what the hell is your purpose?!" Caesar raised his gun and aimed at the other party, and the range of the spirit of speech had been opened to the maximum, for fear that the other party would have some secret ambush.
Wang Jiang didn't look like he was being aimed at by a gun at all, but looked extremely excited: "My purpose has always been only one, and that is to evolve!" It's a bit of a shame this time, it's just the two of you here. But as it happens, I've found him, and soon I'll have one more 'sacrifice'. ”
"Damn! Lu Mingfei! Chu Zihang suddenly understood what the other party meant.
Caesar's eyes widened, and he shot continuously without hesitation, to his surprise, the king general on the opposite side did not dodge, and each shot hit the opponent's body very accurately.
Seeing that the king was slowly falling, Caesar did not have any surprise, but pounced on Chu Zihang angrily: "Get down!" ”
Before the words could be spoken, the flames began to burst from the underground research institute, and the buildings of Genji Heavy Industries shook, the shockwave shattered the load-bearing pillars in the basement, and the bombs also detonated at the same time on different floors, shaking the building and turning into rubble.
The entire building was reduced to dust in a violent explosion, and the sound of flames and explosions swept through half of Tokyo.
As the final round of explosions ended, the ruins of Genji Heavy Industries finally calmed down amid the billowing smoke, leaving only the remaining flames to burn.
Constant cries came from the rubble, and it was the employees of the Snake Hachiya who survived the explosion and collapse. In the vicinity of the building, some people who were close to the building, who were also affected by the aftermath of the explosion, are now lying on the ground wailing.
Some members of the Executive Directorate who had just completed their tasks looked at the scene in front of them, and in addition to secretly congratulating on their luck, they couldn't help but be clever, and immediately ran to dig in the still smoking rubble to rescue the remnants.
Ambulances and police cars could already be heard in the distance, and from time to time someone stopped to talk about the smoke rising.
in the basement.
Since the explosion began here, it was also the most severely damaged, with the Iron Dome Temple, once claimed to be the most advanced waterway cleaning system, completely destroyed, with sparks occasionally emerging from broken pipes.
The laboratory where Chu Zihang and Caesar were located had completely collapsed because the load-bearing walls and pillars had been destroyed by the explosion, leaving only a few narrow corners separated by large blocks of reinforced concrete.
In a corner that looked more regular than the surroundings, Caesar and Chu Zihang were lying on the ground panting.
The scales on Chu Zihang's body were slowly fading, and at that moment he had entered a state of third-degree violent blood, but in the face of this violent explosion in a confined space, even Chu Zihang, who was third-degree violent blood, would not be able to save the two of them.
The reason why they are still alive is because of another petite figure in it.
"Long time no see, senior brother." The petite figure squatted beside Chu Zihang and poked his face with his hand.
Chu Zihang didn't care about the other party's movements, the instantaneous explosion just now overdrew his physical strength, and even the golden pupils that could not be extinguished because of the loss of control of his bloodline slowly faded, revealing his original slightly brown eyes. *Note 1
However, Caesar next to him didn't consume too much physical strength, and after gasping for a few breaths in shock, he looked at the figure squatting next to Chu Zihang, his eyes full of curiosity: "I remember...... Is it Natsumi? ”
"What an honor." Xia Mi smiled and waved at Caesar as a greeting, "I didn't expect the president of the student council to know my name." ”
"The student council will pay attention to every elite who joins the school, your bloodline level is A, and the word spirit level is also very high, so the student council will pay attention to you the moment you enroll." Caesar explained a little, "Why are you here?" ”
Just now, when the shock wave of the explosion broke through Chu Zihang's Jun Flame and was about to blast them to death, Xia Mi suddenly appeared behind them, using his own words: the Pupil of the Wind King combined with Chu Zihang's Jun Flame to create a huge fire tornado to open up a way for them to escape.
It can be said that if it weren't for Xia Mi's sudden appearance, Chu Zihang and Caesar would have died here today.
"I was sent by the principal." Xia Mi continued to poke the face of Chu Zihang, who was lying on the ground, "When the contact with you was cut off in Japan, the principal immediately set off to Japan, and at the same time, he also asked me to sneak into Japan with another person, in addition to assisting the principal in investigating the matter, but also to find your traces." ”
Chu Zihang finally regained a little bit of strength at this time, slapped away Xia Mi's fingers that kept poking his face, and he struggled to get up and leaned on the ruins and half-sits.
"How did you find out where we were?"
This is Chu Zihang's biggest concern, if their whereabouts are so easy to be discovered, then he has to think about whether this explosion is a trap set for them by the Eight Snake Qi families in advance.
"Ah, of course, I found your location through the monitor on your body, senior brother, although Kaguya Hime cut off the network between Japan and Kassel Academy, but it can't forcibly isolate the signal transmitted from Japan. But I didn't expect you to stay underground, and it took me a lot of time to find the exact location. Xia Mi showed Chu Zihang and Caesar his backpack.
It looked like a very ordinary women's backpack, but when Natsumi unzipped it, it revealed the antenna that was constantly sending signals inside, and the body of the black box of this signal transmitter.
As she said, the cyber war between Kaguya and EVA is still ongoing, and although Kaguya can cut off network communication, it is difficult to cut off the signal transmitted by a device like Natsumi. EVA uses a satellite to receive the signal from the transmitter in Natsumi's backpack to communicate with several people who have infiltrated Japan.
At the same time, this signal transmitter also has the function of receiving signals, and Xia Mi uses it to search for the signal of the tracker buried in Chu Zihang's teeth to track their location.
"You still have a locator on you?" Caesar looked Chu Zihang up and down in some surprise, as if wondering where the tracker was buried on him.
Chu Zihang frowned and was also a little curious, every time he burst into deep blood, the structure of his body would change drastically, theoretically there could be no tracker that could be so long without being discovered by him.
"I also asked Professor Schneider, but the professor didn't tell me the exact location of the machine, but after checking your medical report, I did have a general idea." Xia Mi cautiously glanced at Chu Zihang's jaw, "Senior brother, you should have had a dental implant in school, right?" ”
Chu Zihang touched his face when he heard this, and he probably understood the implantation method of the tracker.
"Shhh...... How could those guys at school do that? Caesar touched his face with some trepidation, "Fortunately, my teeth are not bad, and I will never have surgery in this area in school in the future." ”
After chatting for a while, Chu Zihang's physical strength finally recovered most of it, he stood up with the ruins next to him, and checked the corner where they were: "How do we get out now?" ”
Caesar turned his head to look at Xia Mi next to him, in his opinion, since the other party could come over to rescue the two of them, there should also be a way to escape.
It's a pity that Xia Mi spread out his hands and said that he couldn't do anything: "I can't do anything, I have done my best to save you from the explosion, and now the only hope is that I also have a signal transmitter with me, so I can only wait for another student from the headquarters who came with me to save us." ”
There is one more chapter
Note 1: After Chu Zihang was baptized by Xia Mi with dragon blood, he was actually free to control whether his golden pupils were extinguished or not. In the original book, in Long Sanli, when Chu Zihang and Caesar discussed the matter of Lu Mingfei and Eri Yi, they showed their ability to control the golden pupil switch.
As for why Chu Zihang has always maintained the open state of the golden pupil in the original book, the old thief did not explain, but I speculate that it may be that he is constantly using a slight burst of blood to refine his bloodline at all times.
(End of chapter)