Asura of Tomorrow's Ark

Elena nodded with a heavy face, not knowing whether she was worried about her mission or thinking about those 'innocent' experimental subjects.

At this time, almost five hours had passed since they entered the ruins of Lot 21.

The sun was shining brightly above their heads, and even though the temperature control module of the protective suit was operating at full capacity, they still clearly felt the rise in temperature.

The oxygen meter reading dropped below 30%, and there was not much time left for them to move.

"The radiation intensity here is so high!"

As soon as he entered the substructure area, Provence discovered something unusual here.

The radiation intensity in the channel is abnormally high, almost twice that on the ground. Rather... this is the radiation intensity that a contaminated area should have.

"Ahem... Maybe the reactor code has been leaked? A laboratory like this should be equipped with an independent energy system." Li Ang said with some guilt.

Strictly speaking, the spell unit Li Ang built remotely is very unstable. It will generally collapse on its own after being used once, leaving a lot of radiation behind.

I secretly lost hundreds of Origin Stone skills here. Can the radiation intensity here not be high?

This explanation is reasonable. No one doubts Li Ang's guess, but everyone is also secretly vigilant. Any anomaly may hide dangers that cannot be easily detected.

Perhaps because the radiation intensity here is too high, the walls and ground of the passage are scatteredly covered with a layer of strange black luminous algae, emitting a faint light in the dark environment.

Provence was a little curious and tried to collect some samples of these algae.

Nothing happened along the way, neither encountered the expected traps nor encountered possible infected organisms. The group of people entered the interior of the laboratory smoothly.

"That's right here." Li Ang said.

Broken glass and broken experimental equipment were scattered everywhere, and there was still black material on the ground that could not be traced as blood or dirt. The whole laboratory was in a mess, and even the emergency lights with their own power supplies on the walls had been extinguished. Only the algae scattered throughout the laboratory still emit some light.

Seeing this stomach-churning scene, her instinct as a researcher was activated, and Elena subconsciously rushed out, trying to rescue the equipment that was not damaged, but she didn't even take two steps out. , and was dragged back by his sister.

"Don't be impulsive," Xingji warned Elena with a serious face, "The thing is here, can it still escape on its own?"

Elena opened her mouth, wanting to say something with a complicated look on her face, but in the end she nodded silently.

"Your sister is right, who knows what dangers there are."

ACE patted Elena on the shoulder and comforted, "Don't be impatient, I'll go in first to explore the situation."

"Huang, let's go in first and you cover me."

"OK, put it on me."

The two people, who had worked together countless times, looked at each other and stepped into the darkness ahead without hesitation.

The thick darkness was like an invisible giant mouth, completely swallowing up the two of them. In this space where almost no other sounds could be heard, there was only the sharp scraping sound of their honed boots on the floor. .

Suddenly, the sound stopped without warning.

What followed closely was ACE’s shocked shout,

"Wait, what is this? There's something not right about the corpse here."

Chapter 65 Mutated Clones

Not quite right?

Li Ang frowned. The direction the two of them were heading just happened to be the room where Ayin used to store his clones. Most of the corpses Li Ang observed through perception were piled up there, with only a small part left, maybe. They were washed away by the incoming rainwater and scattered in every corner of the laboratory.

As expected, ACE and Huang discovered those corpses.

What could be wrong with those corpses?Could it be that those two people discovered that these corpses all looked exactly the same?

But the problem is... It has been several months, and the body has long been rotten to the point of disgrace, and it is impossible for them to distinguish the appearance of the body.

Intuition told Li Ang that the anomaly discovered by ACE and Huang might be extraordinary... After all, this is what Ayin left behind, and God knows what the hell is hidden in it.

"I'm going to check on the situation. You guys should be careful."

So, Li Ang left these words and simply walked in the direction where the two left.

"and many more……"

Just when Provence wanted to stop her, Warfarin stopped her.

Under Provence's doubtful gaze, Warfarin shook her head and said, "Let him go."

"...Are we just waiting here?"

Provence couldn't understand Warfarin's intention.

As the important core of the team, shouldn't we protect Li Ang?How could he be allowed to act alone?

"We are waiting here." Warfarin said with great certainty, "It doesn't matter. I believe in the strength of the knight. He is much more powerful than you think."

On the other side, Li Ang quickly came behind ACE and Huang.

The two people blocked the door tightly, one on the left and the other on the right, unable to see the situation inside the room at all.

"Why are you alone? What about the others?"

Hearing the footsteps and looking back, he found that Li Ang was the only one coming. Huang asked in surprise.

"I asked them to wait there," Li Ang replied. "It will be easier to retreat if an accident occurs."

"...Alright."

Huang thought about it and didn't think there was anything wrong with what Li Ang did.

If a large group of people all squeeze into this small space, it will be difficult to deal with whatever happens.

"So what did you find? What's wrong with the body?"

"Specific...I don't know how to describe the specifics. You'd better see for yourself." Huang said with a subtle expression.

As he spoke, Huang took a step forward, leaving a gap for Li Ang to observe the situation.

Simple cultivation cabins are neatly arranged on both sides of the corridor. The cultivation cabins that have lost their energy supply have stopped running, and all the flashing indicator lights have been extinguished.

A few months ago, this place was probably filled with rain, and the glass hatches were all shattered under the impact of the water pressure. This was also the source of the glass fragments outside.

The clones floated out of the damaged culture cabin, and when the rain subsided, their corpses were naturally piled up in the lowest place here.

This is what Li Ang observed with his perception. There is nothing strange about these corpses except that the residual radiation is relatively strong.

However, when Li Ang saw the situation here directly with his naked eyes, he found that it was completely different from what he observed in his perception.

"Are these the corpses you were talking about? I don't think these look like corpses at all..." ACE murmured.

"...This is a flaw in my spell. I can only observe the shape of the object. It does happen that the mannequin is regarded as a corpse."

"This is not a mannequin either."

Huang complained casually, but she could also understand what Li Ang wanted to express.

"So what are those things on the body?"

No one present could answer Huang's question.

The corpses were indeed those corpses. Li Ang could still vaguely identify some physical features belonging to Ayin, but those corpses were not what he had imagined before. Because they had been soaked in water for several months, they rotted and swollen, causing their size to grow several times. .

There was a thick layer of something that shouldn't be growing on those corpses - black algae growing sporadically in every corner.

Densely dense black algae covered every inch of the corpse's skin, and even the eye sockets, mouths, and ear canals were filled with the same stuff. Dozens of corpses were stuck together to form a huge whole, exuding a feeling of There was a chilling light.

Unexpected situation...

"Something's not right about the situation. I think it's better for us to retreat temporarily."

After hesitating for a moment, ACE said this.

Those black algae look like some kind of scavenger, but the possibility of them being malignant parasites cannot be ruled out.

Who knows whether these black algae grew when these experimental subjects were alive or after death?Maybe it was some kind of dangerous experimental product in the laboratory that leaked after encountering a natural disaster.

The protective clothing they wore was designed with only Originium radiation in mind. Who knows if it can withstand the parasitism of this black algae?

"It's okay with me, just make your decision."

Huang just felt a little off-putting, and she didn't think about it as much as ACE.

At this moment, a scream came from not far away, interrupting the three people's thinking.

That was...Elena's voice.

The moment they heard the scream, the expressions of the three of them changed.

"Oops." ACE shouted in a low voice.

This place... is indeed very dangerous. Their manpower is too small and they should not explore here.

Nor should they act separately, putting both sides in danger at the same time.

ACE turned around and wanted to rush back to the entrance to meet Elena and others who were in danger.

However, the mutation occurred much faster than he expected. Before ACE could take a step, there was a series of intensive friction behind him and the sound of limbs falling to the ground.

Those swollen and weird remains stood up under the control of some unknown force, looked up to the sky and let out a silent roar, then rushed towards the nearest ACE.

ACE made a prompt decision, turned around and hit the 'heads' of the remains with a backhand hammer.

The one-handed war hammer whizzed down and landed heavily on the remains' head.

However, the head of the remains did not explode like a watermelon and was smashed into pieces.

The war hammer made a dull sound as if it had hit a piece of strong rubber. The huge force knocked the remains to the ground, leaving a deep dent on the forehead.

However, it was obvious that the depression on the forehead did not affect the movement of the remains, and it was still struggling to get up from the ground.

Seeing that the attack had no effect, ACE flew up and kicked back the twitching remains on the floor, knocking the other remains that were about to get up to pieces.

"Let's go! Don't get involved with these things."

ACE greeted Li Ang and Huang, turned around and ran away.

Unless he was impatient, ACE had no desire to fight these tough mutants in such a narrow terrain.

"There's one coming from behind too!"

In Huang's exclamation, a shaky shadow appeared at the other end of the corridor.

Elena screamed, which meant that they were also attacked. According to Leon's perception, there were indeed several corpses outside.

Now, those corpses have also come to life, blocking their way back.

In order to remind the two of them, Huang's reaction was slightly slower.

By the time she opened the extension device on the handle of the chainsaw and turned the chainsaw into a nearly two-meter-long hot-melt chain sword, ACE had already rushed over with astonishing momentum.

"Step aside!"

Hearing ACE's shout, Huang subconsciously stepped aside. She felt as if a heavy truck was roaring past her.

I saw ACE holding the big shield in front of him and hitting the black remains extremely arrogantly. The slow movements of the remains were completely insignificant compared to ACE's speed.

Just when it opened its arms, as if it wanted to hug this uninvited prey, ACE's shield had already made negative distance contact with its face——

The barely human-shaped head was twisted and deformed by the impact of the shield, and the huge impact almost formed a circle of ripples in the air visible to the naked eye.

ACE's figure paused for a moment, and the remains in front of him were like a cannonball, speeding up and flying out with a loud noise, and stuck to the wall on the other side.

"...Wow, that's so fierce."

Looking at ACE's back, Huang said in a daze.

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up!"

Hearing Huang's sigh, ACE said angrily.

Huang shrugged, turned to Li Ang and said, "Hurry up, those things behind you are going to get up again."

From beginning to end, the two of them had no intention of letting Li Ang take action.

Li Ang could only stuff the Rhode Island long sword that he had just pulled out back into it.

[Are these clones of Ayin?How did it become like this?What strange experiments did he do on himself? 】

This doesn't quite look like the projects that Li Ang knew about, nor does it look like the product of the 'Dream' project, and... these things always give Li Ang an inexplicable sense of immediacy.

However, there is no more time for Li Ang to think now.

He followed ACE and Huang and returned to the entrance of the laboratory as quickly as possible.

The battle situation here was much more anxious than before. Warfarin and others faced three identical mutants at the same time.