Chapter 646: Reasonable and Proper

Twin Star Base laboratory.

In the hundred-meter-deep pit dug out by hand, exposed electrical wires sparked and flashed.

Zhang Tie, with a cold expression, gripped an old man's head in one hand, his eyes full of intense killing intent.

Inside the excavated laboratory, one could vaguely see numerous severed limbs.

Bound to the operating table, the humans whose hands and feet had been cut off cried out in pain.

Large quantities of human organs soaked in a pale green pus, while some unknown instruments, following a set procedure, sprayed the severed hands and feet with molten metal.

"Lin Dui..."

It took three minutes, from the old man in front who claimed to be the head of the renovation project, to learn the so-called renovation situation.

After the shock.

At this moment he only wanted to kill all the humans in the base.

"I know... how they did it..."

"I know what these beasts are doing!!"

The voice was low and angry.

Having transformed into a giant bear, he could not suppress the anger in his chest, his clenched teeth grinding.

Like discarding trash, amid the professor's anguished cries, he flung the torn arm to the ground.

Just like the transformed soldiers Lin An had seen, as the laboratory's highest person in charge, this old man had also turned himself into a half‑human, half‑machine monster.

"How is the transformation technology achieved?"

At the other end of the line, Lin An hesitated to ask.

He could feel Xiong Hanzi's inner anger.

Although he didn't know the exact situation, from the clues he had seen he could guess roughly.

He took a deep breath.

Zhang Tie slowly relayed the information over the squad channel:

"The transformation technology of the Twin Star Base is not purely technical."

"It's not what I thought before; I had assumed they just attached prosthetics."

His gaze was resentful.

Zhang Tie looked at the Hua Guo person on the operating table and involuntarily clenched his fists:

"They obtained a prop that can rapidly spur strength."

"With this prop, ordinary people can be turned into Awakened Ones with spiritual energy in an extremely short time."

"But under the prop's influence, the spawned Awakened Ones have no talent, no skills, and their lifespans are terrifyingly short!"

"Almost as soon as they become Awakened Ones, they die of organ failure within at most three days."

The following words, Xiong Hanzi seemed somewhat unwilling to say again.

But under Lin An's signal, he still suppressed his anger and continued:

"These beasts!"

"They cut off the limbs of the spawned Awakened Ones, wrap them in some material, and then attach them to soldiers or Awakened Ones!"

"This way, they can mass‑produce mechanical soldiers possessing the strength of Awakened Ones!"

"This is not mechanical modification at all—it's just assembling a bunch of monsters!"

While speaking, Zhang Tie looked at the girl beneath his feet whom he was trying to rescue, feeling sorrowful.

When he dug open this laboratory, the girl had just had her limbs removed.

She still clung to her last breath.

The girl twitched feebly on the cold operating table like a struggling fish.

Her body was filled with dense tubes sustaining life; as she writhed, they stimulated her, making her tremble all over.

It was unclear whether this was for an experiment to replace or remove her eyes.

When she heard Xiong Hanzi's roar, she heard that voice asking if anyone was still alive.

In her empty eyes, a line of bloody tears flowed.

("Is it the nation... coming to save us...?")

("There are many bad people here... you must be careful...")

That childish voice issuing from her pain made Xiong Hanzi's heart tremble.

Fourteen or fifteen years old?

Looking at a girl about the same age as Youwei, upon realizing someone had come to rescue, he instinctively told her to be careful.

Zhang Tie's heart was filled with pain and anger; he wished to slaughter all those beasts.

Why!!

Why, though they are all humans, do they thus slaughter each other!!

Throughout the laboratory, such tragedies that transcend humanity are everywhere.

After crushing the professor's limbs piece by piece, Xiong Hanzi, eyes red, tremblingly lifted the girl from the ground and could no longer hold back.

His voice choked with sobs, he truly felt his heart heavy with grief.

"Lin Dui..."

"She's about to die... I can't save her..."

"What should I do!!"

Sound after sound of sorrow.

The girl in his arms did not understand what had happened to the world.

She only knew she had saved her older brother, as if her whole body was trembling.

Her voice was weak, she subconsciously wanted to open her arms, wanting to embrace that invisible yet warm body.

But.

She had no hands.

Hung up the communication.

Lin An subconsciously wanted to comfort Xiong Hanzi a bit, but found he had nothing to say.

Such things are many, many in the apocalypse.

He also didn't want to say it to Zhang Tie, don't worry about it, it's not a big deal.

Isn't it precisely because humans possess various complex feelings, pity for the weak, that makes us human?

He can understand Zhang Tie's anger.

Along with that, a nameless anger also rose in his heart.

Such methods are indeed excessive.

He himself didn't even expect that the so-called mechanical modification would be such a method.

Similar to the method of suturing line + suturer.

Using a metal solution matched with the same human traits to avoid rejection.

Using a forcibly catalyzed human body to replace the suturer's body.

Thus, it can indeed mass-produce awakened ones comparable to zero level.

And the consumed material is humans that can be seen everywhere.

After looking at the technical data sent by Xiong Hanzi, he directly chose to delete it.

Such methods appear efficient and useful.

But whether from the perspective of human emotions or actual effect, Lin An feels it is completely worthless.

Modified soldiers with replaced limbs seem to have gained strength comparable to zero level in advance.

But as time progresses, it actually amounts to the path of self-abolishing enhancement.

It is not one's own limbs, and cannot absorb spiritual energy to continue strengthening.

This can be seen from the second-level awakened ones at the Twin Star Base.

These modification methods are more advanced, using materials from carefully selected awakened ones, but their actual combat power is not strong.

Under Lin An's keen observation, these awakened ones' limb coordination is quite poor; they are merely waste products of forced growth.

Only a body strengthened step by step through life-and-death trials is the sole path to strength.

I just don't know what kind of modification method the rumors in the Capital War Zone are about.

After suppressing the thought.

In the midst of the surrounding encirclement, Lin An, on his own, like organizing his own warehouse, sorted out a large amount of supplies, preparing to take them when leaving.

Such arrogant conduct shocked the nearby soldiers.

This really is... treating them as if they were air.

One hour later.

A roaring sound rang out, and Lin An instantly flew toward the distance.

After dragging this out for so long, whatever trump cards the Twin Star Base has, whatever reinforcements it can summon, should also be ready.

In the night sky, he indifferently watched the continuously taking-off warplanes.

The auspicious time has arrived.

I will wait for you to make your move.

Then I will reasonably and justly kill you all.