Chapter 1154: Another Group of People?

It hadn't been long since the exploration team entered Shennongjia, but someone had already guessed that the Nine Lords' abilities might be related to the fields they studied, and even made specific arrangements to counter them. This surprised Chen Ling a little.

And since the other party did this, it meant they were already trying to grasp the whereabouts of the Nine Lords. At least in their eyes, the missing Yang Xiao had been labeled an "unstable factor," just like Lu Xun.

"There's an ambush..." Lu Xun's brows furrowed slightly. "Breaking in head-on isn't very realistic. Since that's the case, we can only think of other ways..."

"No need."

Lu Xun and the others were stunned and turned to look at Chen Ling at the same time.

"I'll go in from the front. You guys guard the other exits around here and don't let them secretly transfer the person."

"Director Chen, you want to break in head-on? That's too dangerous!"

Under the flickering street lamp, the bright red opera robe walked calmly toward the dark, deep mountain, and a boning knife slid gently into his palm... Whether it was the three people's imagination or not, a terrifying aura seemed to be radiating from the red shadow.

"Just by them... they can't stop me."

……

Deep mountain laboratory.

In the spacious laboratory, an aged figure wearing a protective suit slowly picked up a bottle of blood flowing with mysterious light, his brows furrowing tighter and tighter.

"How is this possible..." Professor Ye muttered to himself.

"Professor Ye, have you made any discoveries?" Another assistant wearing tight protective gear asked immediately.

"I need a batch of lab mice."

"We have them, Professor Ye, they have all been prepared for you."

The assistant walked outside the laboratory door and said something to the figure standing guard outside. In a short while, a dozen iron cages containing lab mice were sent in.

"Professor Ye, before you arrived, we had already extracted Dr. Chu's blood and injected it into biological samples... but none of them could live for more than three minutes. Dr. Chu's blood seems to be highly toxic to other organisms." The assistant reminded him proactively, seemingly not wanting Professor Ye to waste time on these experiments.

Professor Ye didn't respond; he just walked slowly to the test bench to perform chemical preparation and dilution on that bottle of blood...

After a long time, he injected several different reagents into this batch of lab mice.

"Time." Professor Ye asked.

“19:48。”

Professor Ye picked up a stack of analysis reports on the table and began to read them carefully. Those were the research materials on Chu Changqing by other personnel during this period, which had now all been summarized and sent to Professor Ye's hands.

Time passed minute by minute. Soon, the first lab mouse let out a miserable screech, gnawing at the cage crazily as if it had gone mad, biting out deep marks, and then exploded into a spray of blood on the spot!

Immediately after, the second and third ones also began to show anomalies...

The assistant on the side observed the lab mice's reactions carefully while lowering his head to record, seemingly not surprised by the fate of these lab mice.

The primitive mechanical clock turned silently on the wall. The long second hand was like the Grim Reaper's scythe, gradually harvesting the lives in the cages. Professor Ye sat in the wheelchair, looking at the clock from time to time...

As if waiting for something.

……

"Time's up."

At the entrance of the tunnel, several fully armed figures walked out slowly, heading toward different guard posts along different directions. "Shift change!"

The figure on the guard post let out a long sigh of relief, completely relaxing. While handing over work to his colleague, he whispered:

"I say, with so few people lately, is it really okay?"

"Why do you care so much? We stand guard when we're told to... And I heard that besides us, there are some experts hiding in the mountains. They are the ones truly guarding this place."

"Experts... like those martial arts masters in TV shows?"

"How would I know?"

"Fine, fine, I'm leaving first."

As his colleague left, the figure on the guard post skillfully picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance... Just then, he seemed to have discovered something and let out a soft "Huh?"

"Is that a person?"

In the thermal imaging binoculars, a figure was approaching the tunnel entrance. And for some reason, his imaging was different from other humans; in the binoculars, he looked like a humanoid black fire radiating terrifying heat.

It was the guard's first time seeing such an image. He put down the binoculars in a daze and looked with another pair. In the dim light, he could barely see a ghostly red-clothed figure walking slowly toward here.

"Damn... in the middle of the night, is it this creepy??"

He muttered. The next moment, the red-clothed figure's gaze looked over here gloomily.

The guard's scalp tingled instantly. He immediately grabbed the firearm beside him and was about to shout a warning when a strange red python crawled out from the person's sleeve, crossing a hundred meters in an instant!

*Sizzle*—

Blood-red splashed on the guard post, and a figure fell straight down from the air.

"Enemy attack!!!" Shouts came from the other guard posts. Countless gun barrels were raised at the same time, pulling the triggers at the red-clothed figure!

*Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat*—

Tongues of fire sprayed wildly in the darkness, and dense bullets tore through the night.

Red paper tentacles danced in the air, casually deflecting all the bullets. Chen Ling swept a glance at all the guard posts and rotated the boning knife in his hand downward.

"Press."

The next moment, those elevated platforms were crushed by extreme gravity and collapsed with a roar!

Dust flew in the darkness. In just a short moment, all the heavy weapon guard posts were wiped out...

For Chen Ling, breaking through these guard posts was as easy as pie. What he really cared about were those possessors of the Divine Path hidden in the dark... However, in this era, the ranks of Divine Path possessors were generally not high. With Chen Ling's current strength, killing his way through here shouldn't be a problem.

Chen Ling walked slowly through the ruins of the guard posts but didn't see anyone coming out to stop him, a flash of doubt crossing his eyes.

Strange...

Was he overthinking it?

There was no decent defense arranged here at all?

Just as Chen Ling intended to break into the tunnel to take a look, a roaring explosion suddenly sounded from the other side of the mountain!!

*BOOM*—!!!

The terrifying torch of the explosion shot straight into the clouds, dancing wildly like a fire dragon, actually gouging through the mountain and the earth. At the same time, several Divine Path pressures descended suddenly!

Chen Ling was stunned. He stood in place, his face full of bewilderment.

"Director Chen, why did you attack from the other side of the mountain?" Yang Xiao's voice came through the phone, seemingly also very puzzled.

"...It wasn't me. I haven't attacked yet."

"Not you?" Yang Xiao was also stunned for a moment.

"Strange... besides us, who else has set their sights on this laboratory?"