Chen Ling was stunned. He looked astonishingly towards the inside of the Hibernation Chamber, seemingly wanting to verify whether he had hallucinated. But immediately after, a crisp sound transmitted over!
Pa——!!
All the electrical circuits instantly tripped, the entire Aurora Base plunging into a patch of pitch-blackness!
This sudden unforeseen event, made all the White Coat Wearers and Enforcers completely stunned. They had lived in this base for so many years, and a power outage situation had never occurred before... After a brief pause, a burst of commotion immediately began to spread.
"What's going on?? Power outage?!"
"This is the Aurora Base! There are several backup power supplies, even if one line is broken, it's impossible for all of them to lose power ah!"
"Damn it! What happened??"
"Is it my illusion? One second before the power outage, I seemed to see the Lord of the Aurora's life signs jump a bit..."
"Wait, don't panic... it could be a sudden voltage change, producing an influence on the machines..."
"..."
As the crowd spoke, they hurriedly stood up, arriving in front of the Glass observation room.
Because of the circuit failure, the lighting inside Laboratory Zero entirely failed. In the abyss-like pitch-blackness, only the Hibernation Chamber where the Lord of the Aurora was located, still emanated a faint blue radiance... At this distance, the crowd fundamentally couldn't see the situation below clearly.
Chen Ling stood directly opposite the Lord of the Aurora, his complexion somewhat solemn.
He didn't know what happened, but the Aurora Base's sudden power outage, would inevitably trigger a thorough internal investigation. This meant that the matter of the third floor's Ritual Artifact would very quickly be exposed, and at that time the entire base would realize there were intruders here.
The time left for him was not much anymore.
Chen Ling opened the cover on the top of the Hibernation Chamber without the slightest hesitation, conjuring a test tube in his palm like performing a magic trick, and began collecting samples of the Potion injected into the Lord of the Aurora's body. After completing all this, he lightly landed back on the ground.
His peripheral vision swept past the Lord of the Aurora inside the Hibernation Chamber, just about to turn around preparing to leave,
Just at this time, within the faint blue liquid, fine and dense bubbles suddenly floated up. That white-haired figure floating head over heels in the Hibernation Chamber, slowly opened his eyes...
At this moment, everything surrounding Chen Ling seemed to have stagnated.
In his field of vision, there was only that pair of eye pupils silently flickering like auroras, currently quietly staring fixedly at him. An indescribable sense of mystery assaulted his reason, making him blankly stand on the spot for a time, forgetting that he had to turn around and flee.
Chen Ling subconsciously blinked his eyes. Waiting until he recovered his senses, that white-haired figure still had his eyes closed, floating in the liquid of the Hibernation Chamber, as if having fallen asleep.
Everything just now, was as if it was merely an illusion of Chen Ling's.
Fine and dense cold sweat seeped out of Chen Ling's forehead. He looked at that Hibernation Chamber dead silent in the darkness with a pale face, his expression uncertain in shock and doubt... Everything that happened just now was truly too real. Although he only locked gazes with the Lord of the Aurora for less than a second, to him it was as long as several years,
Moreover even until now, he also didn't know whether what he saw just now, was exactly reality or an illusion?
Chen Ling didn't have time to think much. He rapidly charged towards the outside of Laboratory Zero. He first changed back into Tan Xin's appearance, preparing to pass by the fourth checkpoint returning to the third floor again, but discovered the chair by the door was empty with no one. That red-haired woman who left seemed to still not have returned even now, also not knowing where she went.
Chen Ling inwardly rejoiced escaping a calamity. With a flash of his figure he then returned to the third floor. Fortunately at this time the Aurora Base's lighting had not yet been repaired, and everyone was all in a mess. He casually transformed into a White Coat Wearer, and then easily snuck within it.
Just as he was looking for Jian Changsheng everywhere, preparing to take him to leave the base, a few figures draped in black windbreakers rapidly walked over from the second floor.
"Search for me!"
Qiong Xuan's cold voice rang out in front of the channel. Numerous Enforcers carrying Kerosene Lamps rapidly dispersed, beginning to search around on the third floor. Seeing this, Chen Ling could only be forced to stop his actions.
Starting from the power outage, matters were completely out of Chen Ling's expectations... In his original plan, he could have completely collected the Potion samples silently, and then relying on [Formless] retreated back to the third floor. Taking advantage of the time when the Enforcers hadn't reacted, picking up Jian Changsheng, and relying on the convenience of his own position escaping back to the surface imperceptibly.
But the moment this power was cut off, the entire Aurora Base became vigilant. Qiong Xuan's reaction was even more incomparably rapid, decisively beginning to inspect the interior of the Aurora Base... At this time wanting to take advantage of the chaos to escape out of the base again, was already as difficult as ascending to the heavens, what's more he still had to bring along a Jian Changsheng who didn't know [Formless].
After brief pondering, Chen Ling then gave up the thought of fleeing immediately. Now he could only hide his own identity well as much as possible. After avoiding this spotlight, he would then find an opportunity to leave.
Chen Ling passed through a corner, tearing off the face skin when no one was paying attention, and again changed back into the appearance of Enforcer Chen Xin. He began to earnestly and responsibly search around on the third floor. It could be seen that in this kind of crucial period, the Enforcers' authority was still very great. The numerous White Coat Wearers right now didn't dare to move recklessly, just quietly standing on the spot, waiting for them to search.
Seeing this, Jian Changsheng also silently closed the room door, climbing back onto his own sickbed to pretend to be a Mushroom again.
At the same time, in Laboratory 1.
The originally incomparably bright laboratory, was right now incomparably dim. Outside the tightly shut laboratory main doors, bursts of chaotic footsteps could be heard walking past, as if something had happened outside.
"Dr. Yi, are we still not stopping?" A White Coat Wearer stood by the test bench, asking while wiping sweat.
"Once the experiment begins, it cannot be stopped." Dr. Yi carried the liquor bottle, his eyes in the darkness staring fixedly at the blood-dripping test bench. "This experimental subject's body is already on the verge of collapse. If we stop now, he's dead for sure... light the Kerosene Lamps for me, continue the experiment."
"But... but the machines are all out of power, we have no way to monitor his bodily status, how can this still continue?"
"I said, continue!"
"...Yes."
Not everyone's Mental Fortitude was as powerful as Dr. Yi's. At this moment a few White Coat Wearers already started to have their palms sweating. After all there was both a power outage and commotions, no one knew what happened in the base right now...
The candle flames of the Kerosene Lamps swayed beside the test bench. The dim halos reflected a black eerie creature that was already thoroughly without human shape. As their Potion was gradually pushed into its body, painful wailing sounds rang out from within that creature's body, making people's scalps numb.
Having no machines, having no lighting, having no external methods and data to assist them to complete this experiment. To them, this was like performing an extremely precise surgery blindfolded...
Amidst their movements, that black creature on the test bench painfully curled up, the wailing sounds also gradually weakening, as if about to lose breath and life.
Dr. Yi sat by the side, fiercely pouring a mouthful of white liquor into his mouth. The next moment, he spoke coldly and calmly:
"Inject triple dosage."