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The Research Institute’s structure had a futuristic sci-fi film vibe.
The structure had an impressively high ceiling, and the floor was a wide smooth ceramic tile with nearly no gaps. Overall, it had a particular high-end feel to it. Everything was pristine white and dazzling—provided that one ignored the bloodstains everywhere and the monsters that could be glimpsed from time to time.
Ji Dong noticed that these monsters, when there was no clear target, were like elephants locked in a zoo. With nothing to do, they were either crouching in a corner and remaining still, or aimlessly doing repetitive and meaningless stereotypical movements.
“There is a laboratory at the end-corner of the corridor before us. The door is open, and there are two monsters in it.”
At this point, Rose was using her little remote-controlled robot to scout ahead. She then told the others about the information she had assembled.
She turned to look at Annie, “Can you do what you previously did, phone in the laboratory and lead away all the monsters wandering by the door?”
“Unless you can find a phone book!” Annie replied with a crushed expression. “What makes you think I can remember all the internal numbers of the entire institute?!”
Rose could only put off this thought, take the little robot back into her pocket and figure out how to get through the corridor in front.
The little robot was a disposable prop exchanged by the red-haired beauty from the [Peach Blossom Spring]. It had a disc-shaped body with six long bendable legs. It looked like a large deformed spider.
The camera put on the robot’s forehead could cover a hemispherical area around 200 degrees in front and broadcast the picture of the area to the remote control’s display screen.
The device also included thermal imaging equipment. However, those monsters were already a collection of dead bones. The only thing that could be termed as the soft tissue in its body was the brain enclosed in the skull cavity, which had no capacity to generate any heat at all. As a result, in thermal imaging mode, their temperature had no significant impression. No difference from the surrounding environment, indicating an indistinguishable state.
But for reconnaissance alone, its camera and synchronized back haul functions were sufficient.
When Mo Tiangen saw this little robot, he liked it so much that he asked Rose how many points it would cost to exchange it for the prop. When he learned that it cost about ten UV lights, he could only touch his deflated “money bag” and give up on the idea.
“I think we should be careful when we pass by. We should be able to proceed smoothly without disturbing the things inside.”
Mo Tiangen and the four soldiers all nodded in agreement. Even Annie agreed, albeit anxiously.
Although she tried her best to conceal her emotions, Ji Dong still noticed that her hands kept clenching and unclenching, while her nails dug into her palms and left dents full of nail marks. As well as the uncontrollable agitation in her dark brown eyes.
Ji Dong didn’t say anything immediately.
However, he felt that Ren Jianmo’s condition looked awfully distressing.
Ren Jianmo’s face was terribly pale. His two thin lips had lost their color, similar to a white piece of paper. His breathing was quick and labored. A layer of fine beads of sweat was seeping on his forehead. Ji Dong tentatively touched the back of Ren Jianmo’s hand. His skin was clammy as if he had just been fished out of icy water.
“……”
Ji Xiao’niao was anxious and wanted to ask how he was doing.
Ren Jianmo guessed the other party’s thoughts when he touched his hand, but said nothing. He only calmly retracted his hand, and smiled at Ji Dong. With a slight tilt not easily perceived by onlookers, he gently shook his head.
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Ji Dong quietly closed his mouth.
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Rose nodded. She pushed Mo Tiangen and Annie forward, and motioned for the remaining two soldiers to go with them.
This corridor was considerably longer than the kitchen they had just passed, and it was extremely difficult to hold one’s breath and run the full distance while under tremendous mental strain and massive oxygen consumption.
In particular, Annie, an ordinary person who had received neither military training nor physical strengthening, was quite at risk.
Fortunately, Annie was obviously not the kind of weak good-for-nothing that would only hold people back.
She behaved extremely well all throughout. Under the protection of Teacher Dagen and the two soldiers, she made a run for it while covering her mouth. She hadn’t gasped, fell, or made any noise.
“Well, let’s go.”
Rose instructed the remaining two. She then took a deep breath, held it in, and rushed out like a cat.
Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo closely followed her.
There were wide windows on both sides of the corridor, and just roughly one meter near the ground was covered by walls.
These Skeleton Monsters couldn’t see. Even if they raised their heads in front of the monsters and jumped, it would go unnoticed as long as they didn’t breathe or make any noise. Though everyone understood this, they nonetheless hunched their backs uncomfortably and crept like cats as they passed by the wide-open windows.
Fortunately, the two Skeleton Monsters did not notice them. One of them crouched by the door as quiet as a wallflower, while the other wandered around a laboratory table.
The trio ran across the corridor in one breath and rejoined the group standing in front of the door of another lab area.
“All right.”
When she felt that they were far enough from those monsters, she quickly exhaled the air she had kept in. She reached out to touch the small robot around her waist, “Next…”
The second half of the sentence suddenly got stuck in her throat.
Without warning, they suddenly heard the sound of breaking glass.
An unobtrusive skylight, two meters above the ground, infiltrated the room. It had exceeded the coverage of the small robot’s camera which was why no one even noticed its existence.
Although they didn’t know what the room behind this huge transom was for, it was obvious that there were multiple Skeleton Monsters hidden in it.
A Skeleton Monster hung upside down from the inside of the broken transom.
The bones of its lower limbs were excessively thick, and its ten toes were augmented with several centimeter-long curly claw hooks, which allowed it to hang upside down as if it were a bat.
With the Skeleton Monster’s steady and fast mobility, one soldier couldn’t even raise his gun before the Skeleton Monster above his head had bitten on his arm.
“Ah ah ahhhhh!”
The soldier instinctively screamed out miserably.
The skeleton monster held a living, hundred and sixty to seventy pounds man in its mouth. Just like holding a piece of steak, it lifted him with ease, then dragged him into the transom quickly.
“Shit!”
Rose finally reacted.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Another monster jumped out of the broken transom when she fired her bullets and lunged across the room toward the crowd.
Then a third one jumped out.
What’s more, the sound of breaking glass, screams, gunshots, and violent collisions was like the opening bell of a school cafeteria, signaling a very deadly message to all the nearby monsters—“Food is here, come on!”
The majority of them felt like they were back inside that clinic again.
They were caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the Skeleton Monsters and could only dodge and counterattack by survival instinct.
The Skeleton Monsters’ only weakness was the brain hidden in their skulls.
And unlike most zombie movies, the bones of these monsters were not like tofu blocks. They could neither be beaten with a wooden stick, nor could a knife cut off those monsters’ whole heads.
Their bones were exceptionally hard.
Unless they hit a perforated bone, even bullets could not easily kill them.
At this moment, no matter whether it was the players or the locals, there was only one thought left in their minds: “Escape!”
Ji Dong stood in front of the pale Ren Jianmo and guarded him with his UV light in one hand and his military knife in the other. With his weak fencing skills, he used the light to scare an incoming Skeleton Monster and then used the knife to strike at the eye socket of another monster that raced from the other side.
With a “Dang”, the tip of the refined steel knife punctured on its eyebrow. A miscalculation from the desired target which was half an inch short from the skeleton’s eye.
“!!!”
Ji Dong burst out in cold sweat.
The Skeleton Monster in front of him had already opened its huge mouth, full of jagged teeth, and was about to bite his arm.
At this critical moment, the reaction speed of Ji Dong as an athlete played a role.
He swiftly thrusted the UV light and shone it on the monster’s face, and a scorching smell spread quickly. The monster painfully covered his face; his body instinctively tilted back.
At that moment a knife penetrated the right temporal bone of the skull and stabbed it obliquely into its brain, piercing the skeleton’s brain at once.
The monster didn’t even struggle for a moment. Its whole body loosened, and it feebly fell to the ground, never to move again.
“!!!”
Ji Dong looked up in surprise.
Ren Jianmo pulled the blade out of the “dead” skeleton monster’s head and took Ji Dong’s hand and pulled his arm without turning his head, “Go. Don’t delay!”
——What the actual fuck!
Although the time was wrong, Ji Dong still felt that Ren Jianmo right now was so handsome and cool.
That speed, that accuracy, if he went and practiced fencing, he would definitely be able to compete for the country’s glory!
Just when he was distracted for half a second, the situation changed again.
“Ji Dong! Ji Xiao’niao!”
Mo Tiangen had somehow escorted Annie out of harm’s way and was now catty-cornering a door, screaming at the top of his lungs while desperately waving the UV light at them.
“This way! Come on! Come on!”
Although they didn’t know what place Teacher Dagen had found, the group was now like headless chickens, and as soon as someone showed them the way, they did it without thinking.
Ji Dong hurriedly dragged Ren Jianmo’s hand. Using the UV light to drive away the Skeleton Monsters, while running toward his companions some thirty meters away.
He heard the impact of heavy objects behind him, accompanied by numerous gunshots and screams, but he didn’t dare look back.
On the way, they were almost hit head-on by a monster that came out of nowhere.
Fortunately, Ji Xiao’niao’s reflex response immediately reacted to the situation and quickly did a sliding shovel on the spot. He even pulled Ren Jianmo with him and slid through the gap between the Skeleton Monster’s body and the floor.
Ren Jianmo took advantage of the circumstance they were in and reached out to the bottom of the withered bone. He used the military knife in his hand to stab the Skeleton Monster, expertly inserting it along the gap of the jawbone and stabbing it into its brain. Without hesitation, he deftly rotated his wrist, angled the blade in one direction, and nimbly pulled out the blade.
When the two turned over and leaped up from the ground, the monster also fell to the ground, swiftly killed by the knife.
“!!!”
Although he has always thought that Ren Jianmo was likely to be a hidden master, he was tremendously strong!
“Ji Xiao’niao!”
Teacher Dagen stomped his feet in a hurry. Seeing that the two of them were not far away, he simply took a few steps forward, dragged them roughly, and shoved them into the door.
Then Rose and two other soldiers arrived.
As for the third soldier, they were afraid that, like his other companion who was dragged into the transom, he was about to lose his flesh and insides and turn into another monster.
Mo Tiangen couldn’t wait any longer. He immediately slapped the close button to shut the door.
The steel gate quietly slid to close.
With less than ten centimeters left before it closed, a bone claw suddenly came in and grabbed the door, preventing it from closing!
Thank you for the chapter！
Welp who wanna bet there is a cure or something else very worth while that will make the owner rich so they scapegoating our sides to get it n run away by themselves??
Bet the priest and Annie were really involved in the whole op and they have some shut to protect themselves…. Renren is far too OP QAQ gimme some