After looking around, Yue Zheng took the lead and headed toward the hanging ladder.
Above the ladder was an iron plate that could be pushed open from the inside. Unfortunately, someone had locked it from the outside. To avoid being discovered, they had to find another way out. Fortunately, after searching, Yue Zheng finally found a ventilation opening.
The ventilation opening was unexpectedly spacious. Perhaps because they could use the abilities of supernatural beings for construction purposes, things like sewers and ventilation openings were made quite big. Perhaps they couldn’t make them too intricate with their abilities, or maybe it was for easier cleaning.
Bending down, they crawled into the ventilation shaft. The air here was much better than in the sewage pipes. Especially since the laboratory was built on the underground floor, the ventilation shafts on both sides had large fans that operated 24 hours a day, ensuring smooth airflow.
As they estimated that they were about ten floors underground, they discovered a moderately-sized room with a large device inside. Yue Zheng observed it for a moment and whispered to the others, “Generator.”
The eyes of everyone brightened at the mention of a generator. Luo Wen’an clenched his teeth and said, “Should we destroy it?”
“Not now, let’s see where the people are first,” Yue Zheng quickly stopped them. Destroying it wouldn’t be appropriate at the moment.
Continuing to climb up through the ventilation duct, to their surprise, they found that this floor was also devoid of people but contained several things that looked like medical equipment.
“It seems to be the experimental area,” Xu Song remarked, looking at Han Yue and Liu Xu. Indeed, both of them had fierce expressions, as if they wanted to rush out and destroy everything here.
Continuing their climbing, they finally discovered the room where the captured individuals were held on, the fifth floor. Similar to the lower floors, the fifth floor had only a dim emergency light. However, there were no devices here. The entire space was divided into small compartments, seemingly each containing a person.
Seeing the apparent presence of people, Luo Wen’an and the others wanted to rush out and rescue them, but Xu Song quickly grabbed them.
“Let’s assess the situation first before taking action,” Yue Zheng said, his mind focused on climbing upward. Unnoticed by the others, he casually placed something near the ventilation duct opening.
Only after thoroughly exploring the entire underground facility did they understand the situation.
The main underground building did have ten floors, but the first and last floors were divided into upper and lower sections.
The upper part of the first floor appeared no different from a regular storage cellar, but the lower part of the first floor was a control room from where they could monitor all the rooms below.
The second to fifth floors housed the supernatural individuals used for experiments.
The sixth to ninth floors were laboratories for various experiments.
The tenth floor was also divided into two parts: one containing the power equipment, and the other was the room they had just climbed into, with the strange device and the sewage outlet.
“Let’s take action.” After seeing all the floors, Yue Zheng’s hand grabbed something green in the darkness, unnoticed by anyone else. After confirming the situation, Yue Zheng took out paper and pen and sent a message to Lao Kong.
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“What’s happening? What’s happening?”
“Mutated animals are breaking in! Zombies are rushing in!”
“Help! Someone is robbing us!”
Chaos erupted underground. Yue Zheng and the others arrived at their designated location, ready to initiate the rescue operation.
Inside the laboratory, excluding the two special floors, the remaining floors were divided into ten levels. Xu Song sensed that Yue Zheng had drawn a “5” in his palm, and he understood that Liu Shishi should be on the fifth floor.
Leading the way, they arrived at the second floor. Several small fireballs were thrown, directly damaging the surveillance monitor’s circuits. Then, Han Yue and Liu Xu jumped down from the ventilation shaft to open the cages and rescue the people.
Yue Zheng and the others continued descending through the ventilation shaft. When they reached the third floor, they repeated the same process, breaking the circuits with small fireballs. This time, Yue Zheng let Su Daji go down by himself and instructed him, “Open the cages. If you don’t recognize someone, open the cage and come back.”
Their goal was to save Liu Shishi. They didn’t need to worry too much about the others; they just released them and let them escape. If they could run, they should run. If they couldn’t, they could only face their own fate.
When they reached the fourth floor, it was Luo Wen’an’s turn to go down. Finally, Xu Song and Yue Zheng arrived at the fifth floor.
Once again, several small fireballs were thrown, and the blocking plate of the ventilation shaft was opened. They jumped down directly.
“Which way?”
“The third room on the left.”
“I’ll open from this side. You go and bring her out.” Xu Song nodded at Yue Zheng and proceeded toward the right side. Yue Zheng headed straight for the target and opened the small compartment where Liu Shishi was held.
The compartment was far from pleasant. White bedding, white pillows, with yellow stains scattered on top, whether it was sweat or tears, no one knew.
Even the smell was not delightful. After all, there was only one single room where they ate, drank, and relieved themselves. These experimental subjects, aside from being taken out for various experiments every day, could only live alone here.
Liu Shishi’s eyes were lifeless. She felt someone was opening the door, but she thought it was those lunatics coming to take her out for experiments again.
“Ah, ah…” Her voice was hoarse and dry, no longer as clear and melodious as before. She had practiced vocal music before and participated in a choir. However, later, her parents felt that she couldn’t achieve good results and couldn’t gain extra points in exams, so they unilaterally stopped her from continuing.
But she really liked singing…
“Liu Shishi?”
That voice sounded somewhat familiar. Liu Shishi’s mind revolved around various figures, all wearing white coats and masks. Some even wore eye masks. Occasionally, during their experiments on her, they would even wear earplugs.
She regretted writing down the specifics of her abilities on that form… Otherwise, when they captured her, they wouldn’t have immediately anesthetized her. Moreover, during the experiments, they took all kinds of protective measures to prevent her from attacking them.
Wait… This person looks somewhat familiar? Ah, it’s that… That person called…
“Yue…”
The hoarse voice made Yue Zheng pause. It had only been a few days since she was captured. In such a short time, a person had been tortured to this extent!
Her hair was dry and tangled, her skin yellowed and lifeless, and her eyes devoid of any spirit. From her movements, it seemed like she didn’t even have the strength to sit up.
She was the one who went missing on the 17th, and it was only the early morning of the 22nd now. In less than five days, a living person had been reduced to this state!
A wave of fear washed over Yue Zheng once again. If it weren’t for him and Xu Song being cautious and careful, it might have been them lying here instead…
“Come, let’s go.” Taking a few steps forward, he swiftly severed the special handcuffs on Liu Shishi’s hands. Yue Zheng couldn’t help but be grateful that his ability could ignore attacks. Otherwise, he would have had a difficult time today.
“He… he…” Liu Shishi trembled as she clung to Yue Zheng’s back. She couldn’t believe that they had come to rescue her! She thought she was going to die, just like those experimental subjects who had died one by one these past few days. Those scientists were lunatics, lunatics!!
“Luo Wen’an and the others are here too. They’re on the upper floors and will join us soon.”
Liu Shishi weakly nodded as tears streamed down her face.
“Alright!” Xu Song’s ability, just like Yue Zheng’s, bypassed defenses and melted the locked rooms where people were held captive, as well as their handcuffs. “I’ve blocked the elevator.”
“Let’s retreat!” There was no time to treat each individual. Yue Zheng glanced at the rooms where the doors had been opened but the people inside were too weak to crawl out.
“Bang!” A loud noise came from one of the upper floors.
“Hurry!” They couldn’t stay here for long. Who knew if there were any other defense mechanisms in place? Especially now that more people had gathered, it might be difficult to escape later.
Yue Zheng had superhuman strength and effortlessly climbed up to the ventilation shaft with someone on his back. Xu Song followed closely, protecting the little thing in his arms, and they both bent over and crawled towards the main ventilation passage.
Behind them, the other ability users who could still move and react quickly regained their senses and hurriedly followed.
Similar events were happening on the upper floors.
“Yue Zheng! Have you found Shishi?!” Luo Wen’an released everyone and quickly crawled into the ventilation ducts. He had just asked Su Daji, but unfortunately, his floor didn’t have her. They both decided that if Yue Zheng’s floor didn’t have her either, they would return to the second floor and search again, they didn’t know if something happened to Liu Shishi!
“I’m carrying her! You go down first, I’ll follow. Let’s retreat.”
Upon hearing that they had found the person, Luo Wen’an’s spirits lifted. He pulled Su Daji over and tried to squeeze downward, but unfortunately, there were too many people in the passage now. It seemed they could only go to the very bottom before making further decisions.
“Yue… Zheng?” Upon hearing the familiar name, a rescued person’s dull eyes brightened slightly. They stumbled and caught up with the group, also climbing up the ventilation shaft.
The residents of the villa, upon hearing the explosion coming from outside, woke up but didn’t immediately rush to check the situation in the underground laboratory. It was only after they made phone calls that they realized there was no video on the monitors.
“What’s going on? Could someone be causing sabotage?” One person furrowed their brow and asked.
“Did everything get destroyed at once? Or did they break down one by one?”
The person who had been slacking off playing mobile games in the monitoring room was now afraid of being held responsible and said, “They all went out at the same time. Could it be a problem with the circuit?”
“That’s possible too.” They looked at the normal lights in the monitoring room, and the person in charge stroked their chin. “Turn on the elevator and send someone down to check.”
Just as they were speaking, the main door opened, and Professor Lu walked in, looking tired. “Is everything alright in the laboratory?”
“There seems to be a problem with the circuit. We were just about to send someone to check.”
Before they could finish speaking, all the lights in the monitoring room suddenly went out completely, and even the fan in the ventilation duct stopped.
“What’s going on?”
“Electrical… quickly call someone to check the electrical system!”
“The experimental subjects! Without power, the experimental subjects could have issues!” They had worked so hard to capture all those experimental subjects, and if a few of them suffocated due to lack of air, Professor Lu would be devastated!
🥳 On with the rescue! She’d been gone only a few days; I wonder what they did to her.
This is too terrible!
Thank you for the update! ❤️
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They found her! Thanks for the update ❤️
I hope everything goes as planned, thanks for the chapter
Professor Lu can go cry a river I don’t care ! hopefully the rescue will go well, thank you for translating