Chapter 202: 198 Noise (Combined)

"Oh!

Oh!

!" A group of Recombined Humans looked at the scene inside the laboratory, their faces twisted and ferocious with excitement. Their already distorted and ugly countenances became even more evil and insane as they shrieked in strange voices.

A burly rat stroked the transparent glass separating the laboratory from them. Its withered claws scraped against the glass a few times, causing the glass to groan with a creak, and several abrupt scratches instantly appeared on the clean, clear surface. As the leader of this experiment, it had witnessed the smooth progress of the experiment with its own eyes, and now the experiment was about to yield the expected results!

"It's going to succeed! It's about to succeed!" The burly rat trembled with excitement, saliva unable to be held back as it dripped from the corners of its mouth. "The power behind the Mental Barrier... weak humans will ascend in dimension and master powerful forbidden forces..."

"If the experiment succeeds, then we will have the chance to assemble an unimaginably Abnormal army!" The Recombined Human whose body was curled like a spiral twisted even more deformably, its spring-like body rapidly tightening.

"By then, let alone those hateful Investigators, we will become a great Abnormal race, change human history, and be qualified to become the Servant of the Lord, immortal and indestructible for all eternity!" The female freak, covered in muscle lumps but lacking facial skin, was so excited that her muscles became engorged with blood, and her entire body seemed to grow a size larger.

This group of Recombined freaks was immersed in their sweet dreams, filled with infinite anticipation for their future.

However, the next moment, a loud sound came continuously from all directions. The entire laboratory shook violently with the noise, and the sound of the wall being blown apart struck swiftly. Before they could make any reaction, surging green flames rushed out from the wall to the side, like a ferocious man-eating beast, instantly swallowing several Recombined Humans who were unable to dodge in time.

Those green flames seemed capable of burning even the soul. The Recombined Humans present who were lucky enough not to be affected or who had dodged the green fire in time heard the intense shrieks of those swallowed by the green fire. The soul-piercing screams were so clear that even the deaf could "hear" them, leaving them terrified.

Seeing this scene, the Recombined Humans present could no longer be unaware of what had happened.

Just when they were fully focused on completing the experiment, believing their plan was seamless and would not be discovered by the Investigators so quickly, those Investigators they had looked down upon finally found them and broke through their underground stronghold with the force of a thunderbolt.

Seeing the shadows moving in the smoke, the Recombined Humans felt no fear in their hearts. Anger and madness seemed to have been ignited by the raging flames just now, and the surviving Recombined Humans counterattacked.

Bang, bang, bang!

The Investigators, who were in the midst of the smoke and dust, also discovered those dark and sneaky guys and, without the slightest hesitation, opened fire directly.

The relationship between Investigators and Abnormal creatures was even more antagonistic than fire and water. There was no need to meet face-to-face; as soon as they realized who the "people" on the other side were, it was a fight to the death.

That night, an irregular tremor lasting nearly four hours occurred in the XC District of Fengxiang City. The entire XC District was sealed off. Citizens who evacuated later all saw that the XC District had split into thousands of gullies and ravines, with countless unknown filth gushing out from the cracked ground. Thousands of dense, strange plants and granulation buds grew wildly, and the most terrifying thing was the netherworld shriek echoing from underground.

Everyone knew that an Abnormal event had occurred on the land of Fengxiang City, but they did not expect the scale of this Abnormal event to be so huge... Fortunately, there was a good result in the end; the Three Wealth Remnants lurking underground in Fengxiang City were finally completely eradicated, and restoring the city to its original appearance was only a matter of time.

Let time turn back to four and a half hours ago...

With the unknown background information on Dr. Kelake, the collaborative help of members of the Abnormal Creature Foundation from overseas, and the clues collected through the unremitting efforts of the Xuanmi Group members fighting on the front line in Fengxiang City, the Xuanmi Group quickly located the Three Wealth Remnants force hidden underground in the XC District of Fengxiang City.

The Xuanmi Group moved out at lightning speed, carrying a large amount of advanced equipment for countering Abnormal creatures, and quickly headed to the stronghold.

The operation was like a hot knife through butter, extremely effective.

But the so-called effectiveness was only relative to previous similar operations. This struggle between Abnormal creatures and humans was, after all, not a fight between humans and humans. Casualties were inevitable, and it was far from the "smooth and pleasant" experience that ordinary people imagined.

Stepping over the mutilated human corpses and the flesh and tissue of unknown creatures, Yu Lianyun arrived in front of the burly rat whose head had been mostly destroyed. She spat out the bloody foam and broken teeth in her mouth, looked at the dying creature, and said coldly, "Where did you hide Dr. Kelake, and what exactly did you do to him?"

Although the burly rat was an incompletely transformed Huogu, it had perfectly inherited the physiological defects of a Huogu. Its wounds were difficult to heal, and although it had a tenacious vitality compared to humans, death was the destination it was now inevitably heading toward. It listened to Yu Lianyun's words and laughed with an unpleasant sound, "Hehehe... go find him yourselves. Anyway, wanting to save him is impossible... From the moment you lost him, it was already over..."

After saying this, the burly rat took its last breath, and its exposed heart stopped beating.

A bad premonition welled up in Yu Lianyun's heart. With a grim face, she pushed open the laboratory door behind the burly rat. Yumao and Leng Qiuzi, who arrived later, followed closely behind. The scene that met their eyes made the sanity of all the Mysterious Investigators witnessing this moment nearly collapse.

Intense, unknown noise rushed toward them like a sudden tsunami. The act of opening the door undoubtedly broke the near-perfect soundproofing of the specially built laboratory. The contradictory, decadent sound—melodious yet piercing, loud yet a whisper—assaulted everyone's spirit. Everyone felt their brains trembling violently, and faintly, they could even hear sneaky, strange movements from deep within their brains, as if a pupa that shouldn't be hatching was rapidly hatching and breaking out of its shell under the influence of this mysterious sound.

Next, appearing before their eyes were dozens of fresh human brains—black, white, and mixed with colorful unknown fluids—quietly aggregating on a white laboratory table. The metal electrodes inserted into each brain seemed to have merged with the flesh and blood of the brain. The protruding brain tissue extended fine granulation buds, like plant roots made of flesh and blood, covering the metal patches. Each brain flower was like a starving Evil Beast, greedily and crazily sucking electricity.

Under the influence of an unknown force, these brains maintained astonishing activity and seemed to have transformed into independent organisms. A structure that shouldn't appear on a human brain grew from their sulci: an elongated tentacle connected to a pulsating ball of flesh, which seemed to be the sensory organ of this "organism" called a "brain." They would pierce the ball of flesh into another brain, and then the two brains would begin to blend together in a weird and inexplicable way.

Leng Qiuzi stepped forward, pushed everyone out of the laboratory, and quickly closed the laboratory door again, finally isolating the influence of the mysterious noise.

Losing the effect of the noise, the Mysterious Investigators were like drowning people escaping the deep sea. They collapsed to the ground, having survived a disaster, sweating profusely, breathing greedily, and using their breathing to tell themselves that this was proof they were still alive.

And obviously, the effect of the noise was not so easily eliminated. Some Mysterious Investigators seemed to have suddenly become possessed, rushing toward the laboratory door, shrieking heart-rendingly, claiming they wanted to listen to that weird, decadent sound that shouldn't exist in the world again.

Fortunately, not all Mysterious Investigators were so mentally fragile and prone to sanity collapse. They reacted quickly, stopped the group of people affected by the Abnormality, and tried their best to knock them out to keep them away from the laboratory door.

"Just now... what were those!? Was that the true content of that top-secret experiment?" Bu Gaojun felt his brain still trembling, as if a tentacle connected to a ball of flesh was about to grow inside and break out of his head.

"If we could fully understand these experiments, we wouldn't be worthy of being called human!" Yu Lianyun saw that Bu Gaojun was on the verge of a sanity collapse. She spoke to him in a loud, scolding tone, attempting to use harsh words to make him sober up and calm down.

The group fell into a brief silence. Leng Qiuzi said, "It seems we didn't see Dr. Kelake just now."

"Is there a possibility that he has already been skinned alive until only a brain is left? Among those brains aggregating and blending together, one of them is exactly the Dr. Kelake we are looking for now." Yumao showed a complex expression and a wry smile, "Dr. Kelake has been dead for a long time. The purpose of our operation was never rescue from the start."

Yu Lianyun rubbed her slightly bulging temples. Due to the influence of the weird noise just now, the blood in her body was surging abnormally, and her face was flushed in an unnatural way. Although her appearance was unnatural, her heart was much calmer. She said, "Those sounds just now... I think I've heard them somewhere before."

"Heard them?" Yumao was startled and immediately asked, "Where?"

"Now that you mention it, I feel familiar with them too." Bu Gaojun thought for a while, then suddenly slapped his forehead, his pupils trembling, "It's Cuizhu City! The Hell Concert in Cuizhu City!"

In that Abnormal event brought about by the music of a human musical genius, there was an untimely Alien God Magic Sound that broke into the concert scene. It was the collision between the music played by the human musical genius Haimofen and the Alien God Magic Sound, spread through online media, that led to a Heaven-Level Abnormal event that affected the entire globe.

It is somewhat ironic that there were two major Abnormal events in Cuizhu City back then, yet now only the "Collapse Night" is known to the public, while the "Hell Concert" is known to few. Perhaps it was the impact caused by the former that brought the Investigator Organization from behind the scenes to the front.

"Hell Concert? I've heard of it." Yumao's brows twitched, "Are you saying that the Alien God Magic Sound that appeared at the Hell Concert is the same noise we just heard?"

Bu Gaojun nodded affirmatively, then showed a look of confusion, "But it feels like the influence of the sound this time is not as strong as last time."

The impact caused that time was global; a large number of humans who listened to the live music became vegetative immediately after the concert ended, their brains suffering from severe physiological lesions.

Hearing this, Yu Lianyun immediately said, "Because the sound was too far away."

"Far?" Leng Qiuzi frowned.

"To be precise, the sound this time was not targeted. I guess the equipment playing the audio captured the sound from that dimension. Perhaps the music Alien God in that dimension didn't even notice that the sounds it made normally would be leaked into this world; otherwise, the impact caused would definitely not have been as simple as it was just now." Yu Lianyun thought while stating her speculation.

Simple?

The Mysterious Investigators present all showed wry smiles. Just "simple" had already caused several Mysterious Investigators to become possessed and nearly lose their sanity. If that music Alien God from that dimension had targeted them consciously, what would the consequences be? A door-opening kill?

"There's nothing more to say. Cut the power, and then burn everything here with a fire." Yu Lianyun took a deep breath.

Since it was already known that Dr. Kelake had been murdered, the operation was no longer a rescue, but...

Eliminating the subsequent impact caused by the Abnormality as much as possible.

Hearing Yu Lianyun's order, all the Mysterious Investigators immediately took action, destroying the main circuit breaker connected to the laboratory, and the laboratory immediately lost power.

"Damn it, what's going on?" Bu Gaojun had been paying attention to the situation of the brains in the laboratory, only to find that after the power was cut off, those brains that lost electrode stimulation not only did not lose activity, but became even more restless, with dozens of brains crazily merging and devouring each other.

Seeing this strange phenomenon, everyone immediately felt strong unease. Yu Lianyun also hurriedly ordered an evacuation. She was the last to leave; she wanted to watch with her own eyes as those monsters called "brains" were swallowed by the green fire.

But just as the fierce green fire was about to burn the brains, Yu Lianyun saw a disheveled woman suddenly appear in the laboratory. She seemed to have no lower body, only her upper body floating in the air. Terrifying black air currents emerged around her, completely isolating all the green fire and making it bypass the brains.

"Blessing?" The moment Yu Lianyun saw the woman's appearance, she felt it was quite familiar, but soon she felt that this woman was a different type of existence from the likes of "Yao Zhenzhen".

Yu Lianyun immediately guessed that this half-bodied woman had a connection to the Forest Cabin, and she could not help but feel a secret headache.

Very quickly, the Mysterious Investigators retreated to the surface, and the green fire erupted into a pillar of flame in the West District of Fengxiang City; the dazzling firelight brought the best comfort to the Mysterious Investigators other than Yu Lianyun, and the more intense the fire, the more at ease they felt.

Yu Lianyun stood blankly at a corner of a street in the West District, lost in thought about something.

"This firework is not bad." A clear and gentle voice reached Yu Lianyun's ears, and the shadow beneath her feet suddenly boiled as if in a stress response, continuously conveying feelings of awe to Yu Lianyun.

Yu Lianyun also shuddered all over, cold sweat breaking out on her head, and her eyeballs slowly glanced toward her left side; she saw that in the corner of the shadows, Lin Ling, dressed in white, was smiling at her with a benevolent expression.

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