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Chapter 100: How can a piece of steel be compared to a well-trained body?
West was a man of great skill and courage, and he took the lead and pushed open the door of the mansion.

What comes into view is a spacious and luxurious reception hall with American classical style. The tables and cabinets are all made of dark cherry wood, highlighting a steady and elegant classical atmosphere.

The side cabinets are filled with exquisite enamel porcelain, the walls are covered with retro textures, and there are arty oil paintings and exquisite plaster carvings hanging on the walls, with wall lamps lighting up at regular intervals.

The floor was covered with soft red carpet, the gorgeous crystal chandelier on the dome was turned on, and there were wide spiral staircases on both sides of the hall leading to the second floor.

"There's no danger, go in." West was the first to walk into the mansion.

Zhou Yuan and the other two followed closely behind him, and the moment he stepped into the building, the system's prompt sounded in his ears.

[The first phase of the task has been completed]

[Second-stage mission objective: Enter the secret biochemical laboratory hidden in the mansion]

[Time limit for the second stage mission: 2 hours]

Zhou Yuan followed the crowd into the hall, looking around and asking, "Who is the owner of this villa?"

Kevin stopped in front of a painting and observed it carefully. After hearing the question, he answered: "Jeffrey Raphael, 71 years old, is a tycoon in the American financial world and a world-class super-rich man. He invested in building this villa ten years ago and claimed it to be his own private resort.

Over the past decade, he has often invited celebrities from all walks of life to visit him, including popular stars, top singers, politicians, scholars... and even federal congressmen. He has a very wide network of contacts.

As for what these people did here... hehe."

"What are they doing here?" Zhou Yuan asked curiously.

"Have you heard of Loli Island?"

"I heard."

Zhou Yuan frowned, "This place won't..."

"Yes, this is a place similar to Lolita Island, but in addition to running a brothel, I think there must be other shady businesses, such as body modification, organ transplantation, blood replacement...

After all, this place is deep in the Amazon rainforest. If you are just going to have a party, there is no need to choose such a ghost place. "

"It must have something to do with that weird mold."

Red Fang Qi said: "After entering the experimental area, I did some experiments and found that all the creatures that were parasitic and contaminated by the purple-red mold had super strong self-healing and limb regeneration abilities, and a very small number of animals did not lose their sanity after being contaminated, and even their appearance did not change much.

Considering that the mold leaked from the laboratory, based on the abilities it demonstrated, it is not difficult to speculate that the ultimate goal of this experiment is to make the mold into a potion that can "prolong life", to extend the life of those elderly and dying dignitaries for a few more years, or even change their life form and turn them into mold people.

But now it seems that the experiment has failed completely. "

When he reached the center of the hall, Kevin stopped, took out a huge blueprint from his storage ring, and spread it out on the carpet.

This is the construction drawing of the villa.

"You can even get this thing?" Red Team Seven was a little surprised.

"In this era, for us in The Matrix, there is nothing we cannot find as long as we want to search, unless we completely abandon the Internet and use paper instead," Kevin said proudly.

"Then do you have the drawings of the laboratory?" Zhou Yuan asked.

"No." Kevin said helplessly, "The laboratory was built in secret. I guess they used paper documents for everything."

The four of them immediately sat together and studied the blueprints.

"This villa is very large, and at least 30 servants are needed to ensure hygiene and food are not a problem. However, since the activities here cannot be exposed, all the servants here are actually imprisoned here... X slaves.

According to my investigation, under normal circumstances, there are a total of 34 servants here. If Raphael invites dignitaries and celebrities, the number will increase.

Raphael was still in the company this morning, which means that there are only 34 servants here now. Of course, this is only the number of people in the villa, and the number of people in the laboratory is not yet known.

If you want to know what happened here, maybe you can ask them, if they are still alive."

"I just tried to hack into the surveillance here, but the surveillance system seems to be shut down, so we can only use our legs to find it." Kevin pointed to a certain location on the blueprint, "This is the dormitory. I suggest we go there first."

"I think it's best to go to the dining room and kitchen first," West said coldly.

"That makes sense." Red Team Seven nodded.

Zhou Yuan immediately realized why they said that - by observing the food reserves in the restaurant and kitchen, he could be the first to know the status of the survivors in the villa.

The four of them arrived at the restaurant and there was no food on the table, so they went straight to the kitchen.

The kitchen was clean and tidy, with no signs of having been tampered with, indicating that the incident was not during mealtime and no one had been to the kitchen since it happened.

Zhou Yuan opened the refrigerator door, which was full of food.

"The food hasn't been touched. I'm afraid everyone here is dead."

He immediately raised his eyebrows, realizing something was wrong. "If mold can't get into the villa, then what killed the people here?"

"Let's go to the dormitory and check. Maybe they are not dead, they are just hiding." Kevin said.

The group quickly arrived at the dormitory.

[The door is locked, and there is a lot of poisonous fog floating in the room, but this is not a problem for you. ]

The tip from the Eye of Identification gave Zhou Yuan something in his mind.

West went forward and pushed the door, but it didn't move at all and was locked. He then kicked it hard, bang!
The entire door was kicked away by a huge force and embedded in the wall at the end, with dust rising everywhere.

As the door opened, wisps of green poisonous mist floated out of the room.

Everyone quickly retreated.

"let me."

Red Team Seven waved the magic wand in his hand, and the transparent crystal inlaid on the top of the wand lit up. Then a hurricane roared out, blowing the escaped green poisonous mist back into the room.

The air swirled, forming a vortex with powerful suction, sucking in all the poisonous fog in the room, and finally condensing into a round glass sphere, sealing all the poisonous fog inside.

Clang! The glass ball fell, rolled on the ground for a few times, and hit a head.

It was a distorted face, full of pain and despair.

Looking around, the whole room was littered with corpses, all naked men and women with collars around their necks.

[Control collar, an alchemical item that is banned by the Control Bureau, Alchemy Association and other organizations, but there are always alchemists who secretly make it because it is very profitable. It can only be used by ordinary people. The wearer will obey the controller's orders, but will still retain his normal will - it is really an extremely evil item. 】

Zhou Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly. The presence of the poisonous fog meant that these servants were killed intentionally.

Kevin counted the number of bodies on the ground, exactly 34 people: "The servants rarely appear in the dormitory at all. Even when they are sleeping, there will be people on duty, which means that they were called here. After they arrived at the dormitory, the person remotely closed the door and the exhaust system, releasing poisonous fog to kill them all.

The only one who has this authority is Raphael."

"Not Raphael." West said calmly, "He still doesn't know there was an accident here."

"you sure?"

"Sure." West nodded.

"If it's not Raphael... then it should be the laboratory's emergency avoidance procedure. Once an accident occurs in the laboratory, the servants in the villa will be killed first to prevent the virus and fungi from spreading through humans as carriers." Kevin analyzed.

He paused and his expression became serious. "If that's the case, then the emergency avoidance procedure should also include measures against outsiders, such as traps or something. We were probably just lucky that we didn't encounter any just now. Everyone be careful next time."

indeed so.

Zhou Yuan looked to the side and a note popped up:
[On the surface, this is an exquisite plaster sculpture of a lion head, worth tens of thousands of dollars, but in fact it is a deadly flamethrower. As long as it senses someone in front of it, it will spray out high-temperature flames. ]

"Since everyone is dead, we can only rely on our own strength to find the laboratory."

Kevin made a "please" gesture to West, "Uncle, you are the strongest, you go ahead and lead the way, is that okay?"

West nodded and walked to the front, and a few steps further ahead he saw the lion-head flamethrower.

Zhou Yuan thought about it for a moment and did not remind him. He wanted to see if the other party could react and test the strength of this "cleaner".

boom!
The moment West walked in front of the lion's head flamethrower, a beam of red flame spewed out from the lion's mouth. The temperature was so high that even Zhou Yuan, who was walking at the back, felt a wave of heat on his face.

Clang!
West raised his arm, and a green round plate shaped like a shell instantly unfolded, blocking the invasion of the fire wave.

"It's a biological suit, and a very advanced one at that, which is integrated with the body and becomes a part of it. In this way, [Designated Clothes Explosion] should not be effective..." Zhou Yuan had a thought in his mind.

Just as West was about to destroy the mechanism, he heard a "click" and the flames suddenly stopped.

"Ok?"

All four of them were a little stunned.

The agency was dismantled.

"It wasn't me." Zhou Yuan spoke first.

"It's not me either." Red Square Seven followed up.

"This shouldn't be the case. How could the mechanism shut down automatically..." Kevin was full of confusion. It was obviously not him who did it. Then he had a guess.

"There may be living people in the lab!"

"Are you sure it's a 'human'?" Red Fang Qiyouyou said, "Why do I feel like it's a deformed form contaminated by mold?"

"Okay, then it's a mutant contaminated by mold." Kevin also felt that it was unrealistic for there to be living people in the laboratory. As it was a severely infected area, even they would find it difficult to survive there.

"Assuming that it was the mutant who shut down the mechanism, then the other party's intention is very clear - they want us to find the laboratory smoothly."

Kevin laughed. "After an accident, the emergency escape device will completely seal off the laboratory. Only Raphael, with the highest authority, can lift the seal. The aberrant is trying to use us to escape."

"They can't get out." West said lightly. He was a ruthless man who didn't talk much, and he had the demeanor of a master.

"Then I have nothing more to say, let's keep moving forward."

The group explored around the villa, looking for the location of the laboratory.

The Eye of Identification had already started guiding Zhou Yuan, but since West was leading the team, he did not show it and planned to find an opportunity to pretend to "accidentally" discover the laboratory.

When everyone came to a lounge, suddenly, a shrill and urgent alarm sounded without warning.

Wow!
The wall of the lounge suddenly opened, and one after another, hideous-looking combat robots made of steel walked out from the space inside the wall, with scarlet killing light in their eyes.

Buzz—the energy engine roars as it runs at maximum power.

"What the hell? The emergency avoidance procedure has been activated again?" Kevin looked confused.

"Leave these six to me, and the rest are yours."

Zheng!
A mantis knife popped out from each of West's arms. The blade was sharp, with a red glow on the edge and surrounded by fine, high-temperature arcs.

He swung his sword, and it was as clean and quick as a hot knife cutting through butter, cutting a battle mecha in half at the waist, sending out a large number of sparks.

"I'm so handsome?"

Zhou Yuan widened his eyes. This was so cool. He would definitely try this on himself later!
"Brother and sister, I'm not good at fighting, so I leave it to you." Kevin shrank behind Zhou Yuan with a smile. Although he was older than Zhou Yuan and Hong Fangqi, he shamelessly called them brothers and sisters.

Red Fang Qi's face suddenly fell. Kevin saw it and quickly realized that he had said the wrong thing: "It's a handsome man and a beautiful woman..."

"Can I have the left one and you have the right one?" Zhou Yuan asked.

"Handsome guy, I'm level 3 and you're level 2, okay?"

Red side seven curled his lips and rushed forward waving his staff.

Go, on!

"Aren't you a wizard?!" Zhou Yuan and Kevin were both stunned.

boom!
I saw a rose-red flame burning on Red Fang Qi's staff. He gathered all his strength and smashed it hard like he was hitting a baseball, and actually blew up a battle mecha and disintegrated it.

"The ultimate secret of the mage is close combat, hahahaha!" The seven on the red side laughed and danced the magic wand dizzily as if he was playing with a stick. Because it was enchanted with fire, it looked even cooler.

Zhou Yuan's approach was even simpler and more brutal. He didn't even activate his protective qi and just went for a punch, blowing up a battle mecha with pure force, sending fragments flying everywhere.

How can a piece of steel compare to a well-trained body!

These battle mechas were as fragile as bubbles in front of the extraordinary people. The battle was resolved in less than 30 seconds, leaving behind a pile of debris and crackling sparks.

"Something's not right, guys."

Zhou Yuan scratched his chin. "Do the mutants in the laboratory want us to let them out, or do they want to prevent us from entering the laboratory?"

He paused, "Or...both?"

(End of this chapter)