Chapter 1153: Experiment

Experiment

The air fell into a dead silence.

Professor Ye stared at him deadly, the hands grasping his collar exerting more and more force, even popping out green veins one by one.

"... Does Sun Zhongliang know what you guys are doing?"

"Director Sun naturally knows." The supervisor slowly pried open Professor Ye's palms. "But his opinion can no longer change anything... Professor Ye, to tell you the truth, right now due to some confidentiality reasons, the international situation is quite tense. The people above have given a dead order, a solution to the problem must be found in a short time."

"Solution to the problem? What exactly is the problem, that even Sun Zhongliang has no right to intervene??"

"... This I temporarily cannot tell you." The supervisor paused for a moment. "However, if Professor Ye pays attention to life, in the recent two days you should be able to discover anomalies... There are some changes we cannot understand, that are currently happening."

Two palms rested on Professor Ye's shoulders from behind, pressing his body back onto the wheelchair. How could an old man's strength contend with a young man? There was fundamentally no power to resist, unable to move a single thread.

"I won't help you guys study my student." Professor Ye spoke hoarsely.

The supervisor bent down, gently patting Professor Ye's shoulder, his voice incomparably calm:

"You are not helping us study Dr. Chu... but using what you've learned your whole life to save your own student, do you understand?"

The hands of Professor Ye on the wheelchair clenched tightly.

He slowly turned his head, looking behind the glass. Several figures wearing biohazard suits were shuttling back and forth in the laboratory. Countless instruments and needles converged on that thin and clear-cut young man. A pair of complicated pale blue-green eyes were looking over here from afar...

In a trance, Professor Ye seemed to see that ignorant and naive youth wearing a brown sweater and black-framed glasses again, standing below the university podium communicating earnestly with him, sincere, vivid, and full of infinite possibilities.

Professor Ye's dry and cracked lips trembled slightly. He slowly moved his gaze away, silently turning the wheelchair, moving out of the observation room alone...

The old man's back figure was like a bellwether leaving the flock, staggering yet firm.

"... Prepare an independent laboratory for me."

...

"We're entering the city ahead."

The family sedan sped on the elevated highway at a speed of 180 km/h. Chen Ling calmly gripped the steering wheel, glanced at the road sign above, and spoke slowly.

The setting sun gradually sank to the end of the city skyline. Perhaps due to the dark clouds and smog, even the dusk appeared gloomy and chaotic. Under the thick clouds, neon lights silently flickered in the steel jungle.

Crossing two cities in a row, riding for more than four hours, the three people Lu Xun had no trace of sleepiness. Every one of them had their bodies taut, their palms tightly gripping the armrests beside them, only feeling their whole bodies tense to the point of stiffness.

"... Director Chen, once we enter the city, can we not drive so fast?" Lu Xun's lips were somewhat pale. "In case we are seen and stopped by the traffic police, it'll be troublesome..."

"They won't see." Without waiting for Chen Ling to open his mouth to explain, Yang Xiao spoke up. "I've already turned off the road surveillance along the way."

Lu Xun: ...

Lu Xun's expression was incomparably strange. He glanced at Yang Xiao through the rearview mirror, his gaze seeming to say "I remember you weren't like this before".

"But Director Chen is indeed Director Chen, actually able to find the way here without navigation." Lu Xun sighed. "For a person like me, without navigation, I can't go anywhere..."

"I was just driving casually." Chen Ling glanced at the sticky note beside the steering wheel. "We were able to drive here because the Script was written like this."

[At 18:55 in the afternoon, Chen Ling and the others drove off the elevated highway, entering the Minshan District.]

——Fate Weaving.

As Chen Ling's Rank constantly improved, the effect of Fate Weaving was also strengthening. Although using it in actual combat was still somewhat difficult, conducting daily assistance was no problem.

After driving into the urban area, Chen Ling still had no intention of slowing down. The current speed was difficult for ordinary people to control in their eyes, but to him, it was fundamentally nothing... He looked at the city gradually sinking into gloom, his gaze incomparably solemn.

The satellite going offline, in the eyes of ordinary people, might just be a temporarily bad signal, but Chen Ling was very clear that this represented that the regression of civilization had already reached a critical value, to the point that even Ordinary Persons had noticed something wrong...

Chen Ling knew the Great Cataclysm was roughly divided into three stages: First was the world war set off after countries realized the gradual failure of high-precision weapons; Second was the Calamity impact brought by the Gray Realm Convergence after the war ended; Third was the Nine Great Bases established amidst the troubled times, preserving the fire seed of civilization.

And now, the omen of the Great Cataclysm, had already appeared.

"Dr. Lu, can you find the location of the laboratory?"

"I can, yes..." Lu Xun gripped the armrest tightly, speaking somewhat stiffly. "But before that, can we pull over and stop first?"

Chen Ling was taken aback, skillfully turning the steering wheel to park by the roadside.

As soon as the car stopped steadily, the three figures almost instantly rushed down, gathering by the edge of a green tree by the roadside, vomiting violently.

"..." Chen Ling was somewhat speechless. "I only drove for over four hours, is it that exaggerated?"

"Who drives at 180 km/h the whole way, and for over four... Blergh..."

Chen Ling: ...

Among the three, Su Zhiwei after all had learned martial arts since childhood, her reaction considered the lightest. Meanwhile, Lu Xun and Yang Xiao took a full five minutes to recover, moving towards the car side.

"See the blocked mountain road ahead?"

Lu Xun pointed at a road extending deep into the mountain body and said,

"Walking straight forward along this road, there is a tunnel. The laboratory is down in the deepest part of the tunnel... However, there are quite a few sentry posts along the way. At that time, I was able to smoothly come out relying on starlight guidance. If we charge in head-on, I'm afraid it won't be easy."

Yang Xiao glanced at the direction of the mountain body under the night, walking straight towards the street lamp beside him.

As he pressed his palm against the surface of the street lamp, the light of the street lamp flickered slightly, as if an electric current had already followed the circuit of the entire area, deep into the mountain body...

He closed his eyes to sense for a moment,

"There is indeed a huge power-consuming cluster below... However, I didn't find the entrance to the closed-circuit surveillance lines. They seem to have turned off all surveillance."

"For a laboratory, would they generally not install surveillance?" Su Zhiwei's brow furrowed tightly.

"Of course not."

Chen Ling's Great Crimson Theatrical Robe stood under the flickering street lamp, his eyes quietly looking at the direction of the mountain body,

"It seems someone guessed we would come over, and even predicted Dr. Yang's ability, so they specially cut off the surveillance power... Not only that, it's estimated there are also 'White Hands' possessing Divine Pathways lying in ambush near the laboratory.

The new owner of this laboratory... is not simple."