Chapter 273: Stop

Dr. Yi’s bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at Han Meng, and the air fell into a deathly silence.

Han Meng’s hand holding the gun trembled slightly. Only now did he realize what the truth was that Tan Xin wanted him to know by letting him enter the Aurora Base...

It was the incompetence of the Aurora Base, the insignificance of the science humanity currently possessed, and the despair of humanity in the face of a truly unknown catastrophe.

As the heart of the Aurora Domain, the Aurora Base had been researching in secret underground for over three hundred years without any progress. All the resources and manpower invested over these years had turned to dust. Han Meng didn't understand science, nor had he experienced what the scientists felt when facing this disaster, but he could roughly guess... the Aurora Domain was finished.

From the very beginning, the Aurora Domain had no way out. Beneath the surface prosperity and peace of Aurora City lay a tragedy destined for extinction.

And Zhao Yi was just an insignificant speck of dust sacrificed in Aurora City’s futile attempt at self-rescue... Like the five thousand other test subjects, the moment he entered the base, his death was already sealed.

Han Meng’s hand holding Zhao Yi’s file tightened involuntarily, crumpling the paper into a hard lump. He took a deep breath and slowly moved the muzzle away from Dr. Yi’s head.

He turned silently and walked out of the room.

Dr. Yi staggered and fell to the ground. He glared at the departing Han Meng and cursed drunkenly:

"Don't leave... don't you dare leave!!"

"Kill me!! If you have the guts, use your bullet to kill me!!"

"Aren't you here to avenge that kid? Come on!"

"If you don't pull the trigger today, you’re a coward!! A piece of trash!! Come and kill me!! Coward!!"

Han Meng acted as if he hadn't heard him and walked straight out the door. The many white-coated researchers watching outside immediately cleared a path...

Just then, a deafening roar came from the other end of the corridor!

BOOM—!!!

Blinding fire instantly engulfed the dark corridor, and several laboratories were reduced to ashes simultaneously. At the same time, the locks on all the test subject rooms were blown open, and a figure flashed rapidly through the flames!

Everyone was horrified!

"Someone bombed the laboratory??"

"Oh no, the doors to the test subjects' rooms have all been opened..."

"What?? What about the rooms for the test subjects in the very back??"

"They seem to have been opened too... Damn it! Are those things going to get out?"

"Didn't the intruders already escape? Who planted these explosives??"

“……”

Amidst the exclamations of the white-coated researchers, Han Meng’s expression hardened, and he led several enforcers as they rushed into the sea of fire!

At the same time, eerie figures emerged from the deepest rooms. Some crawled on the ceiling like spiders, some oozed through the flames like viscous liquid, and others had faces covered in age spots but crouched before the doors like giants, staring straight at the white-coated researchers on the other side of the corridor...

Various strange, howling sounds echoed on the third floor—sounds of anger, despair, and mournful cries.

This sight made the hearts of the white-coated researchers tremble. They were the creators of these things and knew their current state all too well... Those locked in the deepest part of the corridor were monsters that had completely lost their sanity but still maintained a balance with the calamity fused within them!

They had sealed these monsters in the innermost rooms, using large amounts of drugs to keep them asleep, which was the only way to record their status or conduct deeper experiments. But the sudden explosion had shattered their cages and even jolted them from their slumber!

And now... who would these completely insane, frenzied monsters want to kill the most?

The white-coated researchers retreated down the corridor, their eyes full of terror. Han Meng sensed the murderous intent of these rampaging test subjects, and his expression grew increasingly grim.

"Kill them all, protect the researchers!"

"No... you can't kill them! These are precious experimental materials!" one researcher immediately protested.

"Let them kill."

A naked figure slowly put on a white coat and stumbled out from behind the shattered door.

Dr. Yi looked at the laboratories burning in the sea of fire and the twisted figures, a look of relief appearing on his face instead. "Do you think these things have any experimental value left? Kill them! Burn them!! It would be even better if you smashed all those damn drugs and experimental equipment too!!

Human fusion experiments can't help us understand Lord Aurora at all. Lord Aurora’s fusion has already exceeded the scope of science! Everyone knows this, but no one dares to point it out...

After all, this is the only thing we can do."

Han Meng glanced at Dr. Yi and repeated calmly, "Kill."

A dozen enforcers rushed out, each opening their own domain, and engaged in a fierce battle with the monsters swarming from the flames!

Explosions, roars, and the howls of monsters rose and fell in succession. The third floor of the Aurora Base had fallen into complete chaos. Han Meng did not join the battlefield but instead headed straight for the upper levels.

……

Faint smoke drifted from the pipes. In the pitch-black corridor, a figure walked calmly with his hands in his pockets.

With a large number of high-tier combatants off hunting Jian Changsheng and the third floor in turmoil, the security of the entire Aurora Base was essentially paralyzed. This figure in the one-stripe enforcer trench coat walked all the way to the first floor without anyone stopping him.

As the mastermind behind all this, Chen Ling felt no emotional fluctuation, as if he were just taking a casual stroll in a park.

He didn't care about right or wrong. Since Zhao Yi was turned into a monster on the third floor and died in that form, he simply blew up the entire third floor, releasing the test subjects who were struggling in the same pain as Zhao Yi, letting them act on their instincts.

To be honest, Chen Ling didn't think these test subjects could do much to the Aurora Base. The current chaos was only temporary; in five minutes at most, everything would return to silence... Plus, the base’s construction materials were extremely hard, so perhaps not even a trace of the explosion would remain.

Therefore, he had to leave after blowing up the laboratory, otherwise, if he dragged it out any longer, he really wouldn't be able to get out.

He took out the key he had swapped for earlier using "Scarlet Trickery," opened the checkpoint gate on the second floor, returned to the first floor, and headed straight for the elevator.

Just then, a voice came faintly from behind.

"Stop."