A few minutes later, three figures wearing White Coat Wearers then pushed the young man next door out of the room.
Jian Changsheng had constantly been observing them in secret. From beginning to end, that young man didn't have the slightest intention of resisting, quietly lying on the snow-white bedsheets, as if preparing to welcome his own death... As the room door closed, only he alone was left within the empty house.
Oh no, one Mushroom.
Seeing this, Jian Changsheng flipped straight down from the bed. However the moment his two feet touched the ground, with a "plop" sound he fell kneeling onto the ground.
A deep sense of powerlessness transmitted from his two legs, just as if someone had drawn away his strength. Jian Changsheng supported the bedside with one hand, difficultly standing up from the ground, frowning as he looked at the hanging bottle currently giving him an IV infusion.
"Is it the effect of this thing?" Jian Changsheng directly pulled the needle tube out of the back of his hand.
He took a few deep breaths by the bedside. After recovering for a long time, he finally restored some strength, carefully moving to the side of the door, sizing up the outside through the small Glass window on the door.
Outside was a white corridor. The two sides of the corridor were numerous identical rooms, looking to also be places to resettle experimental subjects. Further away he couldn't see clearly... Jian Changsheng raised his head to take a glance at the clock on the wall. Chu Muyun's words once again echoed by his ears:
"...After you two respectively enter the base, you will inevitably be situated on different floors. Especially you Little Jian, experimental subjects to the base are precious materials, there is a high probability of being on the third floor, it won't be too far from the Lord of the Aurora's position."
"Separated by different floors, you guys are again unable to use any communication methods. Basically you can only each fight your own battles. Your only method of communication, is only 'time'."
"The Aurora Base is situated deep underground, lacking the concept of sunrise and sunset, so everywhere will have clocks. You guys use two hours as a standard, attempting to conduct a rendezvous. The rendezvous location will just be at the channel between the floor where the experimental subjects are located and the upper floor. Generally speaking, the defense here is the most strict, relying solely on Hearts may not necessarily be able to pass through."
"Because there are too many uncertainties inside the base, if after 12 hours, you guys still haven't completed the mission, then abandon all actions and begin to retreat..."
From entering the Aurora Base, it had already been almost an hour.
In another hour, it would arrive at the agreed upon first meetup time. Jian Changsheng hoped to be able to find the Lord of the Aurora before this. If it's like this, they could complete the mission and retreat fully intact in two hours.
He must begin acting.
Jian Changsheng carefully opened the room door. Sticking close to the wall edge he walked towards the other side of the corridor. His peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the rooms on the two sides. Through the Glass on the doors, he could see figure after figure currently lying on the beds...
"These... what the hell are all these things??" Seeing the appearances of those figures clearly, Jian Changsheng's pupils shrank slightly.
The few rooms close to their room were still fine. The ones lying on the beds inside could at least be seen to be humans. It was just that they either had arms swollen like the trunks of hundred-year-old trees, or eerie strange tentacles grew out on their bodies... Walking further to the few rooms deep inside, the "things" lying on them, had already completely lost a human appearance.
Some were a puddle of sticky mush, black matter that was like liquid yet also like solid; some were green creatures growing nine hands; some had their entire bodies crawling full of mysterious Curse Runes, the gravity the entire person received was like completely inverted, adsorbing onto the ceiling in a "大" (big) shape, unmoving just like a corpse.
The locations of these rooms were very deep. Looking at it the experimental subjects inside should have also been here for a very long period of time. Even Jian Changsheng who had experienced great winds and huge waves, seeing this scene still couldn't resist his scalp going numb.
"What exactly are they researching? Fusionists?"
"But aren't Fusionists 'Heretics' wanted by the Nine Great Realms? Over these years the Integration Faction was also shouted at and beaten by everyone like rats crossing the street... The Aurora Base, is actually secretly researching Fusion experiments?"
Jian Changsheng was secretly alarmed in his heart. As he went deeper into the corridor's interior again, inside were laboratory after laboratory.
Silver metal main doors full of texture thoroughly separated the laboratories and the corridor. Pasted on the doors were several different radiation and biochemical logos. There was no Glass here allowing Jian Changsheng to see the appearance inside, but passing by the doorway, bursts of sounds could be heard transmitting from inside the laboratories. Sometimes howling heart-tearingly and lung-splittingly, sometimes chaotic loud shouting and screaming, sometimes turning into bursts of eerie low roars of an unknown creature...
Jian Changsheng became increasingly certain of the judgment in his heart. He did not stop here, but instead continued moving forward. The serial numbers on the laboratory doors also constantly decreased following his deepening.
Laboratory 12, Laboratory 11, Number 10...
By the time Jian Changsheng walked to the end of the corridor, Laboratory 1 was right at hand. Just as Jian Changsheng was doubting where the Lord of the Aurora was, a massive Glass giant screen appeared behind the corner... That was a master control center shaped like a hemisphere. Machines full of ripples that he couldn't understand were displayed here one by one, as if monitoring some values.
In the laboratory at this moment, there were two or three figures wearing White Coat Wearers sitting there. Some were dozing off, some were cracking Sunflower Seeds,
Outside that Glass giant screen, was a stretch of pitch-black space. If one walked to the front of the Glass and looked down, one could then see a massive Hibernation Chamber currently standing upright at the bottom. Countless intricate and complicated pipelines entrenched within it, ultimately all connecting to the surface of the Hibernation Chamber, like a steel heart connecting countless blood vessels.
On the wall of that pitch-black space, a scarlet and huge number was incomparably clear —— "0".
"Laboratory Zero?" Jian Changsheng's eyes lit up.
Jian Changsheng considered to have seen clearly. This Glass giant screen in front of him, was an observation center suspended at the second floor of the true Laboratory Zero. Here one could monitor the state of the Hibernation Chamber through equipment, and also avoid anyone having direct contact with the Hibernation Chamber.
"Inside the Hibernation Chamber, is precisely the Lord of the Aurora?" Jian Changsheng was deep in thought. "So the Lord of the Aurora's main body is actually on the bottom-most fourth floor... But the scientific research personnel can only monitor the Hibernation Chamber on the third floor, not possessing the authority to approach the Lord of the Aurora..."
"Senior Chu said to collect the Potion in the Hibernation Chamber to analyze the components, one has to personally approach the Hibernation Chamber... Getting to the root of the matter, I still have to think of a way to enter the fourth floor."
Jian Changsheng's gaze looked towards the opposite side of the observation room. A channel leading towards the fourth floor was right before his eyes. Taking a glance it didn't have any traces of security or protective measures, remarkably ordinary, just like a section of an ordinary corridor.
"The time is about right, quick battle quick decision." A color of firmness emerged in Jian Changsheng's eyes,
"For this mission, I, [Six of Spades], must take down the first merit!"