In the dark abyss, hundreds of Chen Family soldiers, equipped with night vision goggles, advanced rapidly.
They did not fire tracer bullets, simply because with their night vision equipment, they had good visibility here; firing tracer bullets would only negate the advantage of night vision.
Ahead, Moheshili led the way, quickly eliminating Dayu's God Women and Demon-subduing Vajras.
Moreover, when striking the God Women, Moheshili's strength was noticeably greater, with a hint of personal vendetta involved.
Chen Yu sat sideways on the Qingniu, his expression calm as he waited. After clearing the outer perimeter, all the soldiers swarmed into the laboratory, quickly searching every plant, every corner.
However, they were soon disappointed. None of the instruments detected any signs of life.
The people they were chasing seemed to have vanished into thin air! Like a detective pursuing a murderer through a speeding Orient Express, chasing from the front of the train to the rear.
But the murderer, upon entering the last carriage, performed a magic trick and disappeared.
Only a Joker playing card remained, discarded in the empty incinerator in the data center.
The Chen Family troops used sonar equipment and life detection equipment, but to no avail.At this time, Chen Yu calmly held the playing card, a subtle sneer playing on his lips.
Qing Chen and others had killed nearly 10,000 Chen Family soldiers, and had toyed with the Chen Family army for several days, and yet they dared to leave a playing card as a provocation.
Even though the two sides were already in a life-or-death struggle, few people dared to provoke a Federation Demi-God like this! And most importantly, the other party had taken away all the hard drives and data from this place before he even arrived.
The secret of becoming a god, the one he had longed for, had also disappeared with it.
This was the most important thing.
In the face of the path to becoming a god, whether or not he personally killed Qing Chen was no longer important.
A low-ranking officer whispered, "Could they have used the legendary Key Gate to leave?" The chief of staff explained, "According to intelligence, someone needs to stay behind to close the Key Gate after it's opened, so we can rule out the Key Gate theory for now."
Chen Yu calmly ordered, "Demolish everything in the laboratory, tear down the walls. If they left through the Key Gate and no one stayed behind to close it, they will naturally fall back out.
Since someone performed a magic trick on us, let's uncover the principle of this magic trick."
The demolition operation began, and the Chen Family engineering corps began to dismantle the entire laboratory. The ceiling was removed, the walls were pushed down, desks were overturned, and even the toilet bowls were smashed.
And surprisingly, they did find some things: a rusty pistol hidden in the water tank, a recorder hidden in the compartment of a desk, some adult toys and a small whip in the employee dormitory, and a diary.
Qing Chen and the others were in a hurry, and they certainly couldn't have searched so thoroughly, and luckily, they didn't care much about these things… Chen Yu looked at these items with an expressionless face, his expression unchanged.
This wasn't what he wanted.
He opened the diary, but the pages were yellowed, and the handwriting was slightly blurred: September 24th, Two more doctors came to the secret base today. They brought the data left behind by Dr. P at another base, saying it was related to the god Ren Xiaosu, recording the key physical parameters of Ren Xiaosu when he coexisted with cancer. But I'm not very interested in this; I just want to know when the company will agree to let me build a female bionic body. I remember we have quite a few gene samples of female Metahumans.
October 2nd, The test subjects are having problems today. The previous inhibitors are gradually becoming ineffective. We are trying to improve them, but their bodies seem to have developed drug resistance.
October 7th, Dr. S said that spies from other organizations have infiltrated the secret base. The problems with the test subjects and the bionic inhibitor seem to be related to them.
The bionic bodies are also starting to have problems. They are shaking in the glass containers, as if they are about to wake up.
When I went to the toilet, I heard Dr. S and Dr. D say that if the situation continues to worsen, we must manually cut off all supplies, kill them, and issue a purge order through the facebug.
I'm a little scared.
November 3rd, We caught the spies, but the losses were heavy. One bionic body ended its hibernation and actually opened its eyes in the glass container.
The diary ends here. It was hidden in the compartment of a wooden bed and was not discovered.
It seems that keeping a diary was not allowed in this secret base.
Chen Yu saw this and became even more eager. He knew that the secret of the path to becoming a god did exist here, but he couldn't get it.
He thought to himself, did Qing Chen get it? He probably didn't get it either. The hard drives here are hundreds, even thousands of years old, and simply cannot be repaired.
The Chen Family soldiers also confirmed that there were extensive burn marks in the incinerator; the fire must have burned all the key data.
So what he didn't get, Qing Chen shouldn't have gotten either.
However, whether Qing Chen got it or not, Chen Yu would find a way to capture Qing Chen and make him tell the truth under excruciating pain.
At this time, the soldiers also pushed down all the glass containers in the laboratory. However, the place that should have been the stairs was firmly blocked by Zard, looking exactly the same as the other bases below the ground.
In the end, a laboratory was reduced to ruins, but the magic trick was still not revealed.
It was as if the Joker had performed not a magic trick, but magic.
……Countdown 96:00:00. In Forbidden Zone 008.
A field camp was retreating from Forbidden Zone 008.
The field camp was moving through the forest, with dozens of War Robots at the forefront. They were like mobile fortresses, firmly protecting the land soldiers behind them.
As they marched, the soldier operating the drone reconnaissance said, "There's a situation. Unknown personnel have appeared in the Forbidden Zone, alert!" All the soldiers knelt half-way, forming a hidden guard around a Chen Family painter.
The soldier operating the drone suddenly said, "Wait, is that Li Shutong? It looks like he's coming towards us! Conceal yourselves, repeat, conceal yourselves, the enemy is coming towards us!" The camp commander suddenly asked, "Is it just Li Shutong?"
"Yes, just one!" The Chen Family painter breathed a sigh of relief, then sneered, "Does a single painting think it can get its hands on us? Don't worry, it'll cost too much to kill him, I'll take care of him."
This Chen Family painter was only B-class, but if only one A-Class painting came, he could handle it.
The next moment, he crushed six paintings in succession. In an instant, Gandharvas, Demon-Subduing Vajras, and flying God Women, various gods and Buddhas, flew out together, charging towards Li Shutong.
This Chen Family painter controlled them to Li Shutong's side.
But a sudden change occurred.
In the moonlight-bathed forest, Li Shutong's figure disappeared in the blink of an eye. In a single breath, Li Shutong reappeared.
The six painted gods and Buddhas exploded into light, dissipating into the air, as if someone had set off six fireworks in this Forbidden Zone.
The Chen Family painter and soldiers sensed something was wrong. Was the difference between an A-Class painting and a B-class painting so great?! Even a moment seemed extremely long to them.
Everything in this forest seemed to be frozen, everyone stiffening in place; only Li Shutong was still moving.
Li Shutong disappeared again. Everyone felt a gust of wind sweep past, and when Li Shutong reappeared, he had already grabbed the Chen Family painter's neck in the crowd, easily lifting him up, and questioned, "Aren't Chen Family painters supposed to be cowards? Why have you become so brave? Your first reaction when you see me isn't to run away…" Li Shutong's voice was full of doubt. He only guessed that this was the time Fire Pit came to Forbidden Zone 008, so he wanted to see if the Grand Elder had brought him any Forbidden Artifacts.
But before he saw the Grand Elder, he stumbled upon such a strange incident… Why was the Chen Family army here? Why wasn't the Chen Family army afraid of him? Why was the Chen Family painter so brave? Li Shutong couldn't figure it out, but he was greatly shocked. He felt that the Chen Family's combat effectiveness had reached a new level, to the point of being fearless.
It was only at this moment that the Chen Family painter finally understood what had happened.
In his heart, he had already cursed Chen Yu to death… This was the real Demi-God Li Shutong, Chen Yu had misled me! For some time, they had seen reports showing that Chen Yu used the painting of Li Shutong to attack the field regiment, that Chen Yu used the painting of Li Shutong to attack the field brigade, that the painting of Li Shutong carried a Gatling gun and went on a rampage, that the painting of Li Shutong carried two grenades… Such reports were so frequent that when the Chen Family painter first saw Li Shutong, he thought, what's there to be afraid of Li Shutong without a Gatling gun.
As a result, he kicked a real iron plate, and when he kicked it, his whole body suffered a comminuted fracture… With a click, Li Shutong twisted his neck.
The Chen Family soldiers raised their guns and fired, but Li Shutong's figure disappeared again. Five hundred soldiers in this battalion were sent flying, hitting the trees, falling like a painting slowly.
The sound of thud after thud was endless, the leaves in the tree crowns were shaken down by the corpses, like a heavy snowfall.
Dozens of War Robots surrounded Li Shutong, their mobility comparable to that of B-class Gene Soldiers, quickly surrounding Li Shutong.
But another series of sparks erupted, a gust of wind blew past, and dozens of Autumn Leaf Blades accurately struck the energy cores in the robots' chests, exploding into balls of fire.
From beginning to end, the soldiers never saw where Li Shutong was.
This was a complete massacre.
A completely effortless massacre.
Li Shutong stood in the forest, looking around. He pulled up the battalion commander, the one he had deliberately spared: "I want to ask you something, why aren't you afraid of me?" The battalion commander was about to cry: "We're afraid, we're really afraid, you've misunderstood…"
"Oh?" Li Shutong was puzzled: "You don't seem to show that you are afraid. Tell me exactly what happened."
The battalion commander recounted the events of the past few days, and Li Shutong's brow furrowed deeper and deeper.
Qing Chen appeared in Forbidden Zone 008? Was he also here to rob the Grand Elder? Damn it, my disciple beat me to it this time.
Then he heard that Qing Chen was being chased by Chen Yu, his killing intent growing stronger.
When he heard the battalion commander say that Qing Chen had disappeared, he slowly relaxed and began to focus on other matters.
Chen Yu? A young Chen Family painter who doesn't paint gods and Buddhas, but paints himself? There's a problem.
A big problem! The key is, Li Shutong imagined six versions of himself, each wielding a Gatling gun and running wildly through the forest, and suddenly felt that his image was about to be ruined.
Almost subconsciously, he thought that this must have been Qing Chen's bad idea.
But why would Chen Yu paint him? Li Shutong had a certain premonition, but he didn't know whether it was good or bad… He only felt that the world had suddenly become absurd.
After Li Shutong killed the battalion commander, he did not venture further into Forbidden Zone 008, but turned around and quickly withdrew from Forbidden Zone 008. This place was not suitable for a long stay.