A break room somewhere in the research facility was empty, but it remained locked from the inside.

Because there is also a hidden compartment hidden here.

It's just that this compartment is no longer hidden, and the secret door that was originally hidden between the walls is in a half-open state, and fresh blood stains are sprinkled all over the small half of the compartment.

A young man leaned back in a chair, his face pale, his left hand and teeth struggling to bandage his severed right arm.

The blood had stained his clothes crimson, and a blood-stained knife and severed arm lay on the table in front of him, apparently his own severed arm.

Barely stopping the bleeding wound, he looked at the burning wound on his severed arm, trying to calm his mood by gasping for breath, and the slight sweetness in the air gave him a sense of mental security.

There was also a virtual interface in his sight, and the auxiliary brain implanted in his brain was maintaining a high level of calculation, which made him feel some heat and pain inside his head.

But what made him even more troubled was the various alarms that kept popping up in his sight.

Originally, he only needed to build a contact channel with the control center for remote supervision, but the center relied on the computing power of the hardware and its own AI to easily deal with various problems, and he didn't have to worry about this aspect at all.

However, if the control center is inexplicably unlocked without his permission, the central AI will directly enter a safe state equivalent to downtime, and transfer all the instructions to his auxiliary brain.

He endured the pain and operated with one hand, and after transferring some of the permissions and some large data streams to a portable computer on the desktop with barely good computing power, his head felt more comfortable.

According to the normal plan, he should have gone out to find a supercomputer to assist the auxiliary brain, so as to completely take over all the management rights of this cave.

However, he is now a little bit of a self-protectant.

Just by the wall near the door, Shadow's small figure was cowering, the hardened blade of his hand sticking out of his cloak in a vigilant posture.

She didn't move, her eyes closed with a tightly knit brow, as if she were in a nightmare.

The young man let out a long sigh, and his only firearm fell around Shadow, but he didn't dare to get any closer, or make any other big movements.

Otherwise, the potentially fatal wound on the severed arm was the best lesson, and he had just walked around the Ghost Gate.

"Master...... Didn't you say that there are still people who can sleepwalk after falling asleep......

He could only sigh inwardly, and then quickly used his authority to sound the alarm and find a way to clear out the other intruders.

However, he didn't know how many invaders there were, how strong they were, or even where they were.

It wasn't until all the permissions were completely transferred to him that he realized that the part related to the monitoring was no longer able to respond properly.

All he knew was that the intruders were in the central control room at this time, and he could only ask the guards to go to three different entrances to corral them.

He wasn't sure if he wanted the guards to save him, the intruder might have surveillance privileges, and if he hastily called someone over, he could reveal his location.

He was also well aware of the level of security in this cave, and if he didn't have unconventional equipment, he really didn't have much confidence to ensure that he would be safe and sound after leaving here.

After seeing a killer of Shadow's level, he could only feel a sense of security in this room.

He also thought of using his authority to shut down the intruders.

But he couldn't do that.

Especially the experiments that are going on here in the laboratory cannot be stopped.

On the computer in front of him, a huge stream of data is constantly being transmitted, which is the most critical data progress of this experiment. One of his tasks was to ensure that this final experiment was successfully and safely completed.

So, he decisively decided to stay in the outside world

The defending army called for help.

——

Lu Yuansheng looked at the guards who swarmed down from the upper floor, and couldn't help but curse secretly.

However, the guards did not seem to expect to encounter an intruder at the corner of the staircase, after all, everything happened so urgently and suddenly.

Lu Yuansheng directly smashed the bulky pistol in his hand at the door of the nearest person at random, and then activated his ability.

Instead of rushing to find a route to escape, he turned back to see where Artiste was doing.

But who knew that Atist, they were still leisurely waiting for the elevator.

He really didn't understand what they were thinking, and actually chose to take the elevator as a tool in a confined space, so that he didn't even have to run if something happened.

But soon after thinking about it, he also showed a smile, it was good that they were dead anyway.

They are alive, and although they may help him find permission, in the end, there may be another fierce battle around the ownership of permission.

Lu Yuansheng didn't quite hope that they would really find the hidden manager.

Compared to the rest of the normal world, he has plenty of time in the still world, and as long as the manager is not completely hidden, he can always try his luck in the still world.

I'm afraid that the other party is really a turtle.

Turning back into the stairwell before him, he adjusted his breathing and leaped to his feet after three sprints, disempowering himself in mid-air.

In front of these untouched guards, his figure was swift and swift, and the taps of his toes on the handrails of the stairs and the walls instantly moved above their heads, leaving them with only an unpredictable breeze.

The world stood still again, and he landed smoothly in the clearing, and honestly trotted up around the crowd.

The body just now was deliberately shown to them, giving them the illusion that they were unfathomable.

In this way, after he secretly ran away with the ability to be still, these people, after losing his trace, would only be more vigilant and cowering, afraid that they would suddenly appear somewhere, thus increasing their time to find themselves and buying themselves more time.

If it weren't for that, who would be a serious person running away and still caring about being handsome?

The security force on the negative floor is obviously much weaker, except for at least one team at each entrance and exit, there are no guards in other places.

It seems that the manpower that can be used here is still limited, and the main security forces should be gathering on the second floor, leaving only a limited number of people to blockade.

Lu Yuansheng began to wander around this static world, and he wanted to find the device that could modify his memories first to see if there were any clues.

He also hoped that he would be lucky enough to run into the hidden manager.

It's just that it backfired, this floor is really like a labyrinth, after twisting and turning, you can only see the same laboratory doors, and nothing else.

There was only a room number at the door of the laboratory, and he had no idea what was hidden in the still world.

Through the occasional laboratory with the door still open, you can still see that the researchers on this level are also sticking to their last posts, as if they are enchanted.

He simply walked in to see what they were doing.

But with Lu Yuansheng's poor school experience, he couldn't understand the strings of symbols on the display screen that he didn't know what they represented.

Some paper reports only recognize the words on them.

He recognized the words "chaperone heat shock protein remodeling ......." and "inducible isolation and transformation ...... of non-specific myoblast stem cells", but he didn't know what they meant when they were connected.

Eventually, he walked to the elevator where Atiste and the others were going to take, and there was only a small team standing in front of the door, but not too nervous, more like waiting for the elevator.

He found a hidden location and hid it, trying to make time pass in the real world a little bit, so that he could see what Artiste was going to do with them

These guards.

If they had made it to this level, he would have been able to follow them to find the location of the memory modifier.

Probably because of the freight elevator, which runs much slower than expected.

After waiting for a few minutes, the rustle of the team's unified movement sounded outside.

In the static world, Lu Yuansheng only saw Qi Hui in a white lab coat in the elevator.

His spirit was a little sluggish, but he didn't seem to be in his previous stupid state.

And Atiste and Zhang Daoquan are nowhere to be found.

Lu Yuansheng frowned, but he didn't think that he would lose them, even if he added the few minutes he had just waited, it would only be about an hour before they separated.

He stood at the entrance of the elevator and looked at the top of the elevator and the floor, he had some suspicions that these two people were hiding in it, and Qi Hui, the manager of this laboratory, was undoubtedly a good object to attract attention.

It's a perfect plan.

Atist: They really don't seem to be stupid people.

Lu Yuansheng returned to his hiding place and restored the world to normal.

Even though Qi Hui's identity was revealed in front of the team, they didn't care who it was, and continued to hold his gun against the elevator wall for some inspection.

"Made! What are you doing! Are you going to delay the experiment?"

Qi Hui scolded consciously, his words causing the guards to hesitate in their movements, and after confirming that there was no threat or disguise, they sincerely apologized for the titular commander, and then exited the elevator.

Lu Yuansheng watched the elevator continue to go up, and could only sigh helplessly, he knew that they would not come out on this floor.

He didn't think he could get anything out of this level now, so he simply continued to figure out how to create some chaos and then went to see how Artiste would evacuate the place.

The more chaotic things are, the better it is for his actions.

——

As Lu Yuansheng expected, Artist and Zhang Daoquan were hiding in the elevator shaft, and they were gradually moving upwards following the guidance of the flying insects.

Flying insects will track the special scents left behind by Shadow, eventually leading them to Shadow's location.

And their luck seems to be good, the flying insects are constantly pounding upwards in the cage, which indicates that Shadow should still be in this research institute.

The two of them had tacitly agreed not to speak, to avoid drawing attention by the sound echoing through the elevator shaft.

But Qi Hui in the elevator behaved abnormally, and the angry scolding just now looked like a temporary flashback.

He stood alone in the elevator, looking at his unclear reflection on the elevator door, and gradually began to shed tears, and then hit his head like crazy, and the sound of banging bang was amplified by the elevator shaft, and it hurt to hear people's ears.

"Fellow Daoist, your brainwashing seems to have lasted a little short."

Artiste leaned in a little closer and whispered.

"The end is always hopeless."

Zhang Daoquan always kept his eyes on the insect cage in his hand.

This also frightened the guards on the next floor, who also recognized this as the top person in charge of the institute. This indescribable scene left them a little overwhelmed.

"Get out—"

Qi Hui's eyes turned red, his forehead was red and purple, and a roar frightened the guards outside, they didn't dare to come forward to check like the team on the previous floor, and let the elevator door close automatically.

"Head...... Is that all right?"

"Shut up, we'll just keep it anyway."

The leader of the team quickly stopped the ignorant team members, he had already seen many outrageous things in this place, the actions of the supreme commander...... It's not that I can't understand it, it's stressful, especially now.

As the elevator door closed, Qi Hui already felt that he couldn't hold it anymore, and slowly sat down against the elevator wall, tears in control

I kept staying.

Then he seemed to hallucinate in front of his eyes, shouting, "No, no, no, don't come......

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was really wrong......

"I meant it really well.......

"It's none of my business!"

「......」

In just a few dozen seconds, he cried in different tones as if he had seen a ghost.

"Alas, the Tao is for all beings."

Zhang Daoquan, who was on the top of the elevator, couldn't listen anymore, and the bell in his hand shook hard, so that Qi Hui's emotions gradually calmed down, and finally hugged his knees like a child, buried his head in his knees and cried secretly.

"The side effects are so big?"

Artiste wanted to stop him from ringing the bell, but he was afraid that the man would really die, so he stopped stopping and asked softly again.

"He has evil thoughts in his heart." Zhang Daoquan didn't explain much.

As the elevator stopped again, he also saw the flying insect in his hand turn from a near-vertical flight state to a parallel direction, so he slowly stood up and looked at the exit where it stopped.

Atiste understood that they were about to reach the level where their target was.

When the elevator opened the door on this floor, the garrison team that had already heard the movement immediately raised their guns and marched forward, but only saw the poor Qi Hui.

Rao: They hadn't seen this scene before.

Qi Hui raised his head in a daze, reached out and grabbed the muzzle of a gun close to him, and pleaded in a weak tone:

"Here! Shoot—"

"I'm damned! I'm damned!"

The young guard was startled and withdrew his gun again and again.

Qi Hui also had no strength to leave it behind, so he could only hold the ground with his hands helplessly.

"Captain, what's going on?"

"Be careful, something isn't quite right."

The experienced team leader could tell at a glance that the manager's performance was somewhat unusual.

He looked around warily, but no other anomalies were found in the AI-assisted field of vision.

"Get out of here."

The team leader raised his gun and stepped back, not taking the safety tips given by the AI lightly.

He also remembered hearing the bell ringing, and it was clear that there might be other dangers.

As he wished, a crisp bell rang from the top, and Qi Hui, who had been weak, suddenly had red eyes, as if he had turned into a beast, and pounced on the team like crazy.

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