The little ant is struggling to hold on.
Actually, it’s not just the little ant; many people around are also affected by the radiation, barely hanging on.
These people are experimental subjects, ones who have undergone repeated experimentation.
Some of them are from Longxia, some from Jicheng, but most are native to Hujiang.
They originally were quite healthy, but through one experiment after another, they became unrecognizable.
The little ant is the most special one, at least to this young man named Lin Chuanyuan, she is.
Because she ridiculed herself as having a life as insignificant as ants, and not knowing who her parents were, she was called the little ant.
Lin Chuanyuan and the little ant are wanderers, barely surviving in the Apocalypse Era, roaming streets full of strange tales and bizarre creatures.
They’ve been quite lucky, always managing to survive.
But while they’ve evaded the monsters’ hunts, they couldn’t avoid humans.
Humans in lab coats and gas masks captured them, imprisoning them in this underground laboratory.
At first, the little ant even thought this wasn’t too bad, as the nutrition pod would make her radiant and not weak anymore. Here, they would give them clean clothes too.
It’s just that they’d be injected with various reagents, which initially made her feel full of power.
Her senses became sharp, her movements swift. Gradually, they were moved to special wards.
These wards were more secure, difficult to break through.
People’s bodies began to mutate, and the little ant felt scared. She knew, of course, that the nutrition pod, clean clothes, the suitable temperature weren’t free lunches.
They all came at a price.
But what frightened her more were those inhumane experiments.
Some who had mutated started to "steam" to death alive in high-temperature environments, never appearing again afterward.
Some were forcibly damaged by freezing in ultra-low temperature environments, their bodies shattering like ice shards.
The little ant could hear all of this.
She herself began to feel it too.
Fortunately, her ability seemed strong enough, surviving through extreme heat, extreme cold environments, or various pain tests.
Only every time, new reagents would be injected into her.
People died constantly; new ones joined constantly.
People here weren’t really human but experimental materials, they didn’t even have names, merely called "consumables" by those in white clothes.
The most special consumable was Lin Chuanyuan.
Despite being injected with more than thirty kinds of drugs, Lin Chuanyuan hadn’t mutated at all.
Once, Lin Chuanyuan was even placed in the nuclear room.
A room where radiation was severely excessive.
Anyone who spent a night in that room would exhibit all sorts of bodily mutations and decay.
Yet Lin Chuanyuan didn’t.
One day, the little ant heard those in white clothes considering dissecting Lin Chuanyuan, which terrified her.
Her only mental pillar was Lin Chuanyuan.
With this information, Lin Chuanyuan decided to lead everyone in a jailbreak.
They prepared for a long time, planning everything according to their own abilities...
But the destined day could not arrive.
Lin Chuanyuan was destined to be unable to protect the little ant and the others here.
Because the damages from radiation mutations were faster than they had imagined.
And so, when Wen Xishu arrived, he witnessed this scene.
Life and death separations during the apocalypse era had played out in countless places.
Agreements couldn’t be reached, promised salvation couldn’t be achieved... Enormous regret and pain form an obsession within the minds of the gifted.
Wen Xishu quickly understood that as long as he took these people away, sending them to the Eleventh District, sending them to the Demon Cleansing Monk, there might be hope.
This might be the way to dismantle the obsession; perhaps even without killing, the task could be completed.
Of course, he wasn’t entirely sure whether his guess was absolutely correct.
But he really didn’t want to kill people like Lin Chuanyuan.
He also deeply detested those who conducted experiments on the living.
Wen Xishu decided to save them.
But just then, the alarm of the underground laboratory suddenly sounded.
[Laboratory under invasion! Laboratory under invasion! Ground defense forces have begun battling the intruders!]
The alarm blared loudly.
Wen Xishu’s senses heightened to the maximum, and he heard those staff members conversing.
"Quick! Secure the experimental materials! Release 004 and 015!"
"Are you crazy? 004 has the risk of losing control!"
"There’s no time, the ground assault is fierce, even if those experiment materials are absorbed by 004, it’s better than falling into the enemy’s hands!"
"We’ve been exposed, damn it, it shouldn’t have happened so quickly!"
004? 015?
Wen Xishu didn’t know what they were. But he could guess, they were probably radiation products like the little ant, only possessing immense power.
He guessed correctly.
Soon he heard the sound of the pressure when the cabin doors were opened.
Szzz——
The entire laboratory and even the prison area rapidly cooled down.
Wen Xishu even heard a woman’s laughter.
That was the laughter of 004.
Code 004 represents the second successful experimental subject since the Hujiang experiment, and it is an Ancestor Level radiation experiment subject.
With the release of 004, the entire laboratory and even the prison area seemed to be covered by some kind of terrifying atmosphere.
Hidden in the shadows, Wen Xishu saw a tall and short figure approaching Lin Chuanyuan and the little ant.
Everyone was fearfully hiding in the corners of the prison.
The tall one was 015, a radiation subject with immense defensive power and frightening speed.
The short one, appearing childlike, was 004. The ability was unknown.
Wen Xishu quickly assessed the situation: