Translators: Kris Xian & Kii
Translation Checker: 7qqy
Editor: yuki_shuichi
The Research Institute Headquarters’ laboratory was located on the ground floor, penetrating hundreds of meters below the ground and locking up hundreds of elite experimental subjects used only for breeding and thousands of ordinary subjects. Each experimental subject had their own little observation box. Besides training and experimenting, they would live in this box.
A rogue PBB Ammunition Design Institute technician provided the manufacturing technology for the observation boxes. In order to keep him safe and prevent him from being captured by PBB, Aileen gave him the best treatment possible.
The experimental subject observation box he invented was made of the same composite material used in military tanks, creating a type of one-way glass cover, making it hard and sturdy, so that it couldn’t be broken from the inside and was extremely difficult to destroy from the outside. According to the current test, only two MMP missiles could completely destroy it. Ordinary arms couldn’t harm it in the least. At the same time, the only way to open the observation box was through the preset iris lock.
And the researchers were all injected with a life chip in order to check their vitals. When a researcher’s vitals experienced drastic changes, it would trigger the alarm.
Eternal Undead’s observation box lit green, with the system prompting that the iris was the right match, unlocking the box. The transparent armored door slowly slid open to one side, and due to the heavy material used, it opened very slowly.
The severed hand outside the observation box abandoned the bloody eyeball in its hand. In front of the control panel, the bloody finger tapped on the edge of it.
On the other side of the laboratory, mottled blood had already covered the floor. The researchers’ corpses were laid out disorderly in the pool of blood, and their necks were snapped in different directions. There was a researcher among them who had their right eyeball ripped out, leaving an empty, dripping bloody eye socket.
Inside the laboratory, the alarm was blaring, and the light turned red, flashing in the dark. The loud noise made the experimental subjects in the other observation boxes cause a commotion, bellowing and using their bodies to push against the armored door.
Security personnel wearing bulletproof vests quickly rushed into the laboratory with firearms and equipment. They only saw the flickering red light and a torn-off hand moving on the control panel, with the index and middle fingers tapping on the edge of the panel. Although it didn’t have a body, it looked like it was condescending and arrogant.
The security personnel’s captain gave orders for everyone to fire at the hand, but the severed hand was surprisingly nimble. It relied on its fingers to move quickly between the wall and the computer to avoid the bullet. It suddenly used the force to take off, drew an arc in the air, and grabbed the face of one of the security guards.
The security guard suddenly screamed in fright, rolling all over the floor in an attempt to remove the severed hand, tightly gripping his face like a face-hugger. Its fingers were extremely strong, carving into the bones of his face and restricting it continuously until it crushed the security guard’s skull with a crack.
The severed hand jumped off, took the AK from the dead guard’s hands, pulled the trigger, and fired wildly. The team of security guards used all their strength to withstand just one hand and were still at a disadvantage.
At this moment, a guard behind the riot shield shouted, “The liquid nitrogen net is ready, step aside!”
The guards in the front separated immediately. A liquid nitrogen cannon was fired from the barrel and exploded in front of the hand. White mist suddenly filled the air, the temperature inside the laboratory drastically decreased, and the temperature on the thermostat on the wall fell quickly. Cold air rose into the air from where the liquid nitrogen net exploded, and a layer of ice covered the floor and walls.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Eternal Undead stretched out his right arm, which was just a severed cross-section of black smoke. The frozen hand on the ground thawed, shook the water droplets off and picked up the AK. It jumped toward Eternal Undead’s right arm and united with his arm.
Eternal Undead raised the muzzle of the gun and lightly chuckled. “Let’s play.”
The security guards were horrified and slowly retreated. The captain was terrified, raising the walkie-talkie, and said, “Eternal Undead has lost control and the liquid nitrogen net can’t subdue him. Please send backup! Please send—”
The voice abruptly stopped.
The breathing and heartbeat sounds in the laboratory both disappeared.
And the sound of a ghost’s manic laughter echoed.
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After Aileen finished watching the surveillance video sent by her AI assistant, her complexion turned from ashen to white. While Xiao Yang, sitting across from her, still knew nothing about what happened at the general headquarters. His fingertip was tapping on his resignation letter. He drank a sip of lemon water, which the ice had almost completely melted.
“Professor Aileen, what’s wrong?”
Aileen took a deep breath, brushed her long, thin fingers between her red hair, lowered her head, and closed her eyes for a moment. The tired haggardness of past years had finally left a permanent mark on her beautiful face. The frown lines on her brow were especially noticeable when she wasn’t wearing makeup.
A few minutes passed, and Xiao Yang was already a little impatient. Knowing that Aileen would never let him go, he felt even more irritated.
“Where are you planning to go?” Aileen asked in a muffled voice as she gathered herself and straightened her back to lean back against the couch.
“I have friends in Italy.”
“Don’t leave the country. Our current situation is unfavorable, and it will be dangerous for you to go out.” Aileen spoke firmly as if there was no room for negotiation.
Xiao Yang just smiled indifferently. Indeed, the institute’s capital chain was about to be broken, and follow-up medicines were not in supply. Other countries and organizations that have purchased experimental subjects would not receive the after-sales guarantee and supply of medicines they deserve. When buyers ran out of patience, they would definitely take some measures. To protect his own interests, it was obviously unwise for Xiao Yang to leave the country at this time.
“Go back to Greyhound family, okay? It’s isolated from the world and very safe.”
“Oh?” Xiao Yang smiled, but his eyes showed clear disgust.
Aileen took out a key and placed it in front of Xiao Yang. Her tone was conclusive, “You are not allowed to leave the country. This is the biggest concession I could make. As for what you plan to do after you go back, it’s up to you.”
Xiao Yang froze, hesitated, and slowly picked up the key on the table. This was the key to the arsenal in Aileen’s villa.
“Get lost.” Aileen took away the letter of resignation he’d left on the table, glanced at the suitcases already packed on the carpet beside the bed, stood up, and walked out.
“The bodyguard will see you off. I’m going back to work.”
Snow castle in the Laurentian Mountains.
In the ornately decorated European-style hall, Odd Bone reclined on a leather couch, gently twirling the feathers on her small fan and languidly clipping a peacock feather from her own tail feather and gluing it to the face of the fan.
Specter Hourglass sat on the carpet, holding his glass hourglass and staring blankly at the clock swinging on the wall. The ancient hands pointed to twelve noon, and the little door on the clock slowly opened, slowly extending a ballet-dancing girl and playing tinkling music.
Specter Hourglass suddenly became joyful; a crimson blush bloomed on his little egg-white glass-like face. “Knicks’ hand… is so skilled.”
“Yup. Sit here. It’s too cold on the ground.” A girl with long hair was also sitting on the couch, with a pair of dragonfly wings behind her back. She was holding a violin in her hand and looked at Specter Hourglass on the carpet tenderly.
“Hmph… It’s a pity that it’s not being used in the right place.” Odd Bone contemptuously tried the newly glued peacock feather fan. “He cut open his chest, took out his own heart, and molded it into a ceramic model. He’s still polishing it up to this day. Cough, cough, cough… Human beings are really whimsical. Oh, can he even be considered a human being? He can replace old body parts at will, ‘must be immortal per se. Cough, cough…”
Odd Bones was too lazy to talk with Specter, who couldn’t even talk clearly, it was truly boring. Luckily, there were a lot of mature experimental subjects. Although they didn’t have much strength, they could at least talk, so it wouldn’t be boring.
“Knicks is a really nice person. For him to take us in is already very good.” The dragonfly experimental subject worriedly said, “Knicks work long hours, would he be okay? I’ll bring him a cup of coffee.”
“Don’t bother. If he makes a mistake, he’ll even blame you.” Odd Bones coughed and turned around to blame Specter Hourglass for making the fireplace burn too hot.
Dragonfly still poured him a cup of coffee and brought it over to Puppet Master’s workshop. Placed on the workbench was a tattered porcelain doll with its head slowly raised up, looking at her with its empty eye socket.
Puppet Master was wearing an eyepiece and using the tip of a tweezer to carve out a molded porcelain heart.
The heart was delicate, every chamber and every little blood vessel must be carved by hand. It was an extremely huge project. Puppet Master was so hyper focused on carving that he couldn’t even raise his head to take a look at the person who just entered. Because once his concentration was broken, it would be hard to find the vessel that he was just working on, and he would be unable to continue.
Dragonfly carefully placed the coffee in a spot where it would not be easily touched and spilled. She then prepared to go out.
The chandelier overhead suddenly shook, which made Dragonfly alertly raise her head. In an instant, something heavy seemed to slam into the outer wall of the castle, violently shaking the floor and walls.
Dragonfly didn’t have time to think about anything and immediately grabbed the coffee cup that had just been placed on the table to avoid it tipping over. The scalding hot substance splashed over her. However, she only bit her lip and looked around the room through the pain, wondering what the hell was going on.
Puppet Master also sensed the movement outside the castle. Nonetheless, he couldn’t look up, take his eyes off the porcelain heart, or even speak aloud, lest his fingers would twitch or tremble.
“Help me buy some time, just for one day.” Small beads of sweat oozed from Puppeteer’s nose, and in a soft voice, he said, “This is my only request.”
Dragonfly froze for a moment, quietly exited the workshop, softly closed the door for him, and hurriedly followed the dolls and experimental subjects running through the corridor to the various balconies in the castle that were planted with Juliet roses.
Looking down from above, at least hundreds of gray-white experimental subjects crawled out of the snow-covered mountains and gathered around the castle.
The gorgeously dressed dolls jumped off the balcony one after another with guns in their arms and rushed out of the courtyard to fight the influx of gray-white experimental subjects.
Dragonfly was stunned. She had never seen a scene like this before. Although she was an experimental subject, she was born weak in combat and only existed as a feed to stronger ones. She suddenly didn’t know what to do in this situation.
While she was trying to protect and comfort the frightened and crying younger experimental subjects, a golden-blue light streak passed over her head. She looked up as Odd Bone glided down from above. Her golden-blue peacock tail feathers spread out in the air as a light golden protective shield enclosed the entire castle.
“Where did this brat come from?” Odd Bone took out two pistols from under the hem of her cheongsam skirt. Holding one in each hand, she accurately shot down the experimental subjects climbing up the wall.
“Attributes, exchange.” Specter Hourglass climbed up to the highest spot of the castle and turned his hourglass upside down on the ground. The hourglass flowed backward, causing the snow outside the courtyard to suddenly spark into raging fires. The gray-white experimental subjects screamed harshly and rolled on the ground in an attempt to extinguish the flames on their bodies.
Sarcosuchus used his huge body to block the garden door. The entire door was covered in a layer of solid crocodile scales.
Dragonfly looked at them at a loss. Suddenly, Odd Bones looked back and glanced at her. She tossed her a gun, her beautiful eyes raising slightly.
“Come down and help, freeloaders.”
Dragonfly subconsciously vibrated her wings and flew out of the balcony. Both her hands held the gun, it was both heavy and hot.
She looked back—experimental subjects who had grown to maturity were jumping off the balcony with a weapon in their hands that they weren’t even skilled in using with one or both hands. Dragonfly faintly heard their whispering.
“Protect Knicks.”
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