The lights in the laboratory were cold and dazzling, and the buzzing and metal clashing sounds were suffocating.
Li Ming stood in front of the one-way glass in the observation room, wearing a black combat uniform, and his eyes were fixed on the experimental subjects in the experimental cabin - the creatures were distorted, their muscles were swollen, and their scarlet eyes showed signs of violence and loss of control.
His hands were slightly clenched, and there was anger in the coldness.
Ayako stood behind him, her white dress reflecting her pale face. Her tone was trembling: "These people...were they originally ordinary people?"
"Yes." Li Ming whispered, "The Freemasonry and Amaterasu used ordinary people to conduct genetic modification experiments to create extraordinary beings."
Ayako gritted her teeth and said angrily: "Using human lives for experiments? This is murder!"
Li Ming was silent. He knew that in the eyes of Freemasons, human life was just a number.
Near the console, a researcher cowered. Li Ming asked Qianying: "Can he control the system?"
"He is the person in charge and can turn off the experimental cabin function." Qianying said in a cold tone.
Li Ming nodded: "Action." Before he finished speaking, the alarm suddenly sounded, and the experimental subject crashed through the hatch, staring at everyone with his scarlet eyes.
"There's a riot!" Qianying's expression suddenly changed.
"Protect Qianying!" Li Ming said solemnly. He quickly fought, and Ayako pulled out her dagger to cooperate with the attack. The experimental subjects are extremely powerful and the situation becomes increasingly dangerous.
"The system has been interfered with!" Qianying shouted while operating the console, "The source of the interference must be found!"
Li Ming looked at the server deep in the laboratory: "Ayako, protect Qiankage, I will deal with it." After saying this, he was like lightning and rushed towards the server.
The protective door shattered under his fist. He entered the server room and found a man in black controlling the equipment.
"Li Ming?" The man in black sneered, "Do you really dare to stop us?"
"From the Freemasonry?" Li Ming asked coldly, accumulating strength.
The man chuckled: "So be it." He snapped his fingers, and a strong sense of oppression came over him. Li Ming did not back down and fought fiercely with the man.
At the same time, Ayako and Chikage struggled to resist the experimental subjects. Ayako's physical strength is gradually exhausted, and Chikage works hard to restore system functions.
In the end, Li Ming knocked down the man, cut off the interference signal, restarted the gene suppression device in the experimental cabin, and the experimental subject gradually fell into sleep. Li Ming dragged his tired body back to the laboratory. Seeing that the two of them were safe and sound, he whispered: "Let's go."
Qianying extracted the experimental data, and the three of them quickly evacuated.
Deeper down, a pair of cold eyes stared at the surveillance screen and whispered: "The game has just begun."
The three people quickly walked through the corridors of the laboratory. The sirens and the agitation in the experimental cabin continued, but as the suppression device took effect, the violent experimental subjects gradually calmed down. The smell of burning and the heavy smell of blood in the air was suffocating.
"The exit is in front." Qianying pointed to the end of the corridor. Her hands were holding the experimental data device tightly. Although her face was stern, she could not hide the nervousness in her heart.
Li Ming was leading the way, Lingzi was in the middle, and Qianying was behind. Every corner he passed was covered with debris and broken instruments. Occasionally, he could see the limbs of a downed experimental subject twitching and struggling, as if he was not completely free from the erosion of his genes.
"After the experimental subject is completely eroded by genes, can it be saved?" Ayako suddenly asked, with a hint of hope in her tone.
Qianying shook his head: "When genetic erosion reaches this level, both the mind and body have collapsed. All we can do is wait for...death."
"What are the Freemasons and Amaterasu for?" Ayako looked coldly at the painful experimental subjects.
"Power," Li Ming said solemnly, "In this turbulent era, those who control extraordinary power control the future."
Before he finished speaking, dense footsteps suddenly came from the corner ahead. Several fully armed soldiers approached quickly, the weapons in their hands emitting a deadly light.
"Cover!" Li Ming roared and quickly leaned against the wall. Ayako and Qianying also immediately looked for cover.
"Lock the target and prepare to shoot!" the soldiers' commander ordered coldly. The next second, beam bombs fired wildly, and the walls and ground were instantly shattered.
Li Ming's eyes turned cold and he jumped out of the bunker like a cheetah. He was agile, and after dodging the beam several times, he approached a soldier and knocked him down with a heavy punch. He then grabbed the weapon and defeated the remaining soldiers one by one.
"Keep going, don't delay." Li Ming held the captured weapons and said in a cold tone.
Qianying nodded, but stopped when passing by the fallen soldiers and quickly extracted a piece of data from their portable devices.
"What are you doing?" Ayako asked.
"The communication equipment on these soldiers may be linked to the main server of the Freemasonry. I need to crack them to track more information." Qianying explained while continuing the operation.
"Hurry up." Li Ming stared at the surroundings warily and urged in a low voice.
At this moment, heavy footsteps came from the other end of the corridor, and an inexplicable sense of oppression enveloped them.
"It's an enhanced soldier." Qianying's face instantly turned ugly.
Enhanced soldiers are huge in size and possess high-intensity combat effectiveness through special genetic modification. Their presence usually means extremely high lethality.
"I'll hold them back, you go first." Li Ming threw the captured weapons to Ayako and said coldly.
"What a joke!" Ayako said angrily, "How can we evacuate safely if you deal with these monsters alone?"
"Stop arguing!" Qianying said calmly, "At this speed, they will catch up soon. Only Li Ming can stop them."
Ayako gritted her teeth and finally chose to obey, but there was unwillingness in her eyes.
The figure of the reinforced soldier was getting closer and closer, and Li Ming rushed forward. His fist, carrying the strong wind that broke through the air, collided hard with the soldier's huge mechanical arm. The shock wave spread, cracking nearby walls and sending fragments flying everywhere.
The strength of these enhanced soldiers far exceeds that of ordinary people, and is even stronger than the previous experimental subjects. But Li Ming did not back down. He flexibly used the narrow terrain to move around, using fists and kicks to constantly look for the opponent's weaknesses.
At the same time, Ayako and Chikage quickly moved towards the exit. On the way, Ayako couldn't help but look back several times. Every time, she could hear the roar from the distance, and she couldn't help but sweat for Li Ming.
"Will Li Ming be okay?" Ayako asked in a low voice.
"He is the best warrior. If even he fails, we will not be able to escape." Qianying's tone was cold, but her clenched fists betrayed her inner uneasiness.
As soon as the two approached the exit, they heard a piercing alarm sound in their ears, and then a thick metal door slowly fell down, completely blocking the road to the outside world.
"Oops!" Qianying quickly ran to the control panel and tried to crack the system, but found that the permissions were locked and she could not continue to operate.
"Damn it, it's the Masonic high-level security system." Qianying gritted his teeth.
"What should we do?" Ayako asked anxiously.
Qianying raised his head and said calmly: "Delay me for five minutes, I need to break this layer of locks."
Ayako didn't ask any further questions and immediately pulled out her dagger and stood guard in front of Qiankage. A few seconds later, a group of experimental subjects and soldiers appeared at the same time, surrounding the two men.
Ayako quickly entered the fighting state, her movements were flexible, and the dagger in her hand was as accurate and deadly as lightning. Despite facing a large number of enemies, she did not flinch, and even used her superb combat skills to successfully suppress several soldiers who tried to get close to Qianying.
Time passed by, and Qianying finally deciphered the system lock. The metal door of the exit slowly rose, and Chikage shouted to Ayako: "Get out!" Ayako nodded and quickly followed Chikage out of the laboratory. The moment they ran out of the exit, a black shadow suddenly fell from the sky and blocked them in front of them.
"Finally found you." Black Shadow said with a sneer. He was tall, his eyes were gleaming with scarlet light, and his whole body was filled with a violent aura.
Qianying's face turned ugly: "He is a senior reformer of the Freemasonry."
Ayako gritted her teeth and gripped the dagger, fighting side by side with Qiankage. However, the opponent's speed and strength far exceeded expectations, and Ayako's attack was completely unable to cause effective damage to it.
"Keep running, I'll stop him!" Ayako shouted.
Qianying hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and quickly ran away.
Ayako tried her best to hold the reformer back, but she gradually felt powerless. At the critical moment, a loud noise came.
Li Ming's figure appeared on the battlefield. He was covered in blood, but his eyes still showed tenacity.
"You guys go quickly, leave this place to me." Li Ming said coldly, and then rushed towards the reformer without hesitation.
Ayako gritted her teeth and had to follow Qiankage to evacuate.
Deeper in the laboratory, the cold eyes were still staring at the surveillance screen, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Interesting... It seems that we need to add more fire."
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He pressed a button and the screen read "Ultimate Experimental Subject Unlocked".
The next moment, the entire laboratory was shrouded in a blood-red light...
A blood-red light enveloped the laboratory, and the piercing sirens mixed with the roar of machines, filling the entire space with a sense of oppression.
As soon as Li Ming fought with the modified man, he felt the breath in the air change instantly, and a strong uneasiness came from behind. He turned around quickly and found that the floor not far away began to crack, and a huge hatch slowly rose.
"The ultimate experimental subject... has been unlocked." A sinister smile appeared at the corner of the Cyborg's mouth, and he immediately pounced on Li Ming.
Li Ming did not retreat but advanced, facing the opponent's attack and launching a counterattack. His fists were precise and powerful, colliding with the steel-like limbs of the transformed human, causing a deafening metallic roar. However, the power and durability of the modified human beings far exceeded those of the previous experimental subjects. Even Li Ming felt a little bit of difficulty.
At the same time, Chikage and Ayako had run out of the main building of the laboratory, but they found that all the exits around them were blocked, and people from Amaterasu and Freemasonry were approaching from all directions.
"These people have no intention of letting us leave alive." Ayako said coldly, holding the dagger tightly and assuming a defensive posture.
Qianying quickly checked the experimental data in his hand and said coldly: "I can use these data to detonate the main server and create a strong electromagnetic shock. But it will take time."
"Just do it." Ayako responded in a low voice, her eyes burning with determination.
Inside the main laboratory
As the ultimate experimental body is unlocked, the air becomes duller. After the hatch was fully raised, a huge figure slowly walked out. It was nearly three meters tall, covered with dark red scales, and its muscles swelled to the limit. There was no trace of humanity in its eyes, only an endless desire to kill.
The modified man looked at the ultimate experimental subject with a bigger smile: "You are here, and you finally have a chance to test your ability."
Li Ming's eyes were solemn. He could feel that the threat of that thing was far greater than that of all previous enemies.
The ultimate experimental subject roared, the sound was like thunder, and then rushed towards Li Ming. The speed is so fast that it is almost impossible to catch.
Just as Li Ming avoided its first blow, the ground collapsed completely under the opponent's heavy blow. Amidst the splashing of gravel, Li Ming launched a counterattack without any hesitation. He nimbly went around to the back of the ultimate experimental body and aimed at its joints.
However, the defensive power of the ultimate experimental body far exceeded expectations, and Li Ming's attacks were like hitting steel and had no effect at all.
"Trouble..." Li Ming thought to himself. His physical strength was close to the limit, but the other party showed no signs of fatigue.
Outside the laboratory
Qianying's fingers were tapping rapidly on the keyboard. Cold sweat broke out on her forehead, but her eyes were extremely focused.
"It will take another two minutes." Qianying said.
Ayako gritted her teeth and blocked the charging enemy alone. She was extremely dexterous, and every move she made was crisp and clean, but there were too many enemies, gradually forcing her into a blind corner.
Just when Ayako could hardly hold on any longer, a gunshot sounded from afar. Some of the enemies were shot and fell, and others were on alert.
"Are you okay?" A deep voice came from a distance, and a tall man wearing sunglasses slowly walked over holding a sniper rifle.
"It's you?" Qianying said in surprise.
"The situation is urgent, I will explain later." After the man said that, he raised his hand and shot, knocking down another enemy.
Inside the main laboratory
Li Ming's battle with the ultimate experimental subject became more and more intense. He had been injured in many places, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted. While fighting, he looked for the opponent's weaknesses, but the scales of the ultimate experimental subject covered almost his entire body, making him unable to attack.
The Cyborg stood aside and watched the battle coldly, as if enjoying a performance.
"You're not going to take action?" Li Ming asked coldly.
"I don't need to take action. It's enough for you to die in its hands." The reformer sneered.
A cold light flashed in Li Ming's eyes, and he suddenly changed his strategy. He no longer had a head-on collision with the ultimate experimental body, but continued to use the terrain to roam around while trying to anger the modified person.
"It seems that your Masonic experiment is nothing more than this." Li Ming said coldly.
The face of the cyborg changed slightly, and just as he was about to speak, the ultimate experimental subject suddenly became furious and rushed towards Li Ming, but he nimbly dodged it and crashed into the cyborg.
Taking this opportunity, Li Ming quickly distanced himself, raised his hand to pick up a broken metal pipe, aimed it at the eye of the ultimate experimental subject and stabbed it out with all his strength.
The metal pipe pierced the scales, and the ultimate experimental subject let out a roar of pain, and its movements slowed down instantly.
Outside the laboratory
"The crack is completed!" Qianying shouted excitedly.
She pressed the button and the main server sent out a violent electromagnetic pulse. All electronic equipment inside and outside the laboratory instantly fails, including enemy communication equipment and weapons systems.
"Go!" the man shouted, quickly evacuating with Qiankage and Ayako.
Deep in the laboratory
Li Ming used his last strength to knock down the ultimate experimental body. The modified man was also affected by the shock wave of the electromagnetic pulse and temporarily lost the ability to move.
Dragging his seriously injured body, he reluctantly stood up and quickly left the laboratory. At the end of the corridor, he saw Chikage and Ayako waiting for him.
"Let's go." Li Ming whispered, and the three of them immediately ran towards the exit.
However, when they rushed out of the laboratory, the roar of helicopters suddenly sounded in the distant mountains, and a large number of heavily armed soldiers were surrounding them.
"Again?!" Ayako cursed in a low voice.
"I'm afraid it won't be so easy to escape this time." Li Ming took a deep breath. (End of chapter)