Xia Chujian frowned and softly asked Quan Yuxun, "...Do you think this machine is just for gene sequencing?"
Quan Yuxun was also holding a high-powered LCD flashlight, searching around the other side of the room.
Hearing Xia Chujian's words, he quickly walked over and glanced at the light of Xia Chujian's flashlight, and his whole body shook.
Even someone as calm and composed as him almost lost color for a moment.
But fortunately, Xia Chujian was in front of him, with her back to him, and did not see his strangeness.
Quan Yuxun took a deep breath and said in as steady a tone as possible, "...I know what they were doing here."
Only then did Xia Chujian turn her head and look at him inquiringly.
Quan Yuxun took a step forward and stood side by side with her, opening a button on the flashlight in his hand.
The light of the flashlight changed from a direct beam to a scattered white light.
Instantly, the entire room lit up, instead of just the small area it was shining on.
As the entire room lit up, Xia Chujian also saw the full view of the house.
It turned out that in addition to the advanced equipment and instruments she had seen along the way, there were also cabinets embedded in the walls.
In the cabinets were huge glass bottles, filled with colorless liquid.
In the liquid, strange objects floated up and down.
Quan Yuxun's voice was heavy, "...This is a biological gene laboratory."
Xia Chujian's pupils shrank sharply: "Doesn't the empire's law prohibit gene research?"
"The law also prohibits murder, but can it stop people from killing?" Quan Yuxun said calmly, "Obviously, someone is secretly doing gene research here."
"Why?" Xia Chujian looked up and scanned those strange objects, not feeling surprised, "Researching new humanoids?"
"There are already enough types of humanoids, who would spend so much to research new humanoids?" Quan Yuxun said thoughtfully, "Maybe, they are not researching humanoids, but researching the genes of humanoids and humans..."
Xia Chujian had a flash of inspiration: "...Is it for gene evolution?!"
This was the only reason she could think of for conducting such research at such a great cost.
Quan Yuxun nodded slowly: "That should be the reason."
Xia Chujian said in surprise, "Is this what you came to find?"
Quan Yuxun: "..."
He smiled wryly and shook his head: "No, this is not what I'm looking for."
Saying that, he looked around the room again.
Although the surface here was not as severely damaged as the outside, it could be seen that the equipment here had lost its function, and the experimental data inside should also be gone.
And the objects soaked in those glass bottles were obviously abandoned.
Xia Chujian really wanted to ask, what exactly are you looking for? But Quan Yuxun didn't say, so she couldn't ask.
She looked in the direction Quan Yuxun had come from and found a rectangular device there.
It looked like a medical cabin. The cabin door of the medical cabin was wide open, and it was scorched black inside, as if the circuit inside the cabin had caught fire and directly burned the entire medical cabin.
Next to the medical cabin was a quantum optical brain host device, about half a person's height and about one meter in diameter.
This quantum optical brain host device was not only scorched black everywhere, but also seemed to have been hammered with a heavy hammer.
The device was full of pits and bumps, the wires were in a mess, and then they were cut into sections with scissors and scattered everywhere.
This was to physically destroy the quantum optical brain for fear that it would not break.
Quan Yuxun looked around the room for a long time, and slowly took out something from his pocket, which looked like a small black button.
Holding the button, he finally felt a pulse that he had been expecting for a long time coming from the button! There was a special energy induction he was looking for here! Quan Yuxun held the button tightly in his backhand and took a deep breath.
That thing did fall here.
However, judging from the energy waves measured by the instrument, this thing should no longer be here, leaving only a section of residual energy waves that may take many years to decay.
Quan Yuxun looked up at the roof of the room.
He didn't know his current location, but he was certain they were still in the South District underground.
In other words, they hadn't left the South District.
And that event had occurred in the skies above Mulan City's South District.
So, that thing should have fallen here first?
But why did its energy fluctuations appear in Da Fu Prefecture? Recalling the coordinates predicted by the High Priest, Quan Yuxun fell into deep thought.
While Quan Yuxun was pondering, Xia Chujian stood beside him, looking around aimlessly.
"Na—woo!" A demonic whisper came from the doorway.
Quan Yuxun's ears twitched, and at the same time, the button-like device in his hand emitted a stronger energy fluctuation.
He abruptly turned his head, looking at the dark doorway. Seemingly infected by Xia Chujian, he unhesitatingly raised the submachine gun in his hand and fired a burst at the entrance.
Xia Chujian also looked towards the doorway and said in surprise, "...What's wrong? Is there something there?"
Quan Yuxun didn't speak. He gripped the submachine gun in his right hand and the button in his left. The closer he got to the door, the stronger the energy fluctuation from the button device became.
That thing hadn't left?
It was right at the door?
Quan Yuxun could hardly believe his luck.
Xia Chujian quickly picked up the Large Sniper Rifle, squinted, and followed behind Quan Yuxun, inching her way out of the room.
The doorway led to a narrow corridor, which was empty.
Quan Yuxun frowned.
He hadn't misheard; there had indeed been a whisper from the doorway.
Where did that thing go? Quan Yuxun subconsciously followed the energy fluctuations from the button in his left hand, moving towards the increasingly stronger direction.
The two of them walked out of the corridor and into the destroyed laboratory hall from before. A humanoid monster appeared before them.
Xia Chujian and Quan Yuxun widened their eyes simultaneously.
This, this, this… wasn't this the flame-seaweed-ball-shaped sculpture from the surface?!
So that sculpture wasn't impressionistic, but realistic!
They now truly saw that the object that looked like black flames from afar and chaotic seaweed up close was neither flame nor seaweed, but flat, seaweed-like tentacles!
In the middle of the sphere formed by the seaweed-like tentacles, a black goat's head filled with an aura of evil was revealed. It was missing an eye, clearly hit by Quan Yuxun's burst earlier.
He had not only shot out one of its eyes but also pierced several of its tentacles.
However, this thing's vitality seemed extremely strong.
Right before their eyes, this thing was visibly repairing the places that had been pierced by Quan Yuxun's burst of submachine gun fire, even including the blinded eye, which was generating new flesh! Quan Yuxun felt a sense of foreboding and immediately raised his submachine gun, continuing to shoot at the tentacle-seaweed-ball goat monster.
Da-da-da-da! Da-da-da-da! After a series of gunshots, the tentacle-seaweed-ball monster was knocked backward by the kinetic energy of the bullets.
Just as it was flying backward in mid-air, the tentacle-entwined, seaweed-like monster suddenly split open in the air.
No, not split open, but divided!
It directly split into two, one tentacle ball splitting into two tentacle balls.
A new black goat's head grew in the center of each tentacle-seaweed ball!
Quan Yuxun's pupils constricted sharply, as if he had remembered something. His heart suddenly beat rapidly, thump-thump-thump-thump, the sound so loud that even Xia Chujian noticed it.
She turned her head to look at Quan Yuxun and calmly asked, "...What's wrong? Are you afraid?"
Quan Yuxun said, word by word, "...We can't kill it. It… it is Bunis, known as… the Mother of Procreation, with the ability of infinite repair and reproduction…"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She glanced at him and said coldly, "If it's so powerful, let my Large Sniper Rifle give it a try."
Saying that, she raised the Destroyer 1 Large Sniper Rifle, this time, she even looked through the scope.
While they were talking, the tentacle-seaweed-ball monster continued to divide.
It split in two, two into four, and four into eight.
In just a moment, it had split into eight seaweed monsters waving countless flat tentacles. At the center of each tentacled seaweed sphere was a black goat head so evil it exuded wisps of black gas!
The eight black tentacled seaweed sphere monsters floated in mid-air, surrounding Quan Yuxun and Xia Chujian.
Then, the eight black goat heads simultaneously lowered, facing them, opened their mouths, and emitted high-frequency roars.
Although Quan Yuxun was wearing a helmet that could defend against Rank A peak Mental Strength, it seemed to have very limited effect.
His head throbbed with pain, and his expression twisted hideously.
Quan Yuxun was incredibly shocked to find that he could no longer control his actions! He released his grip on the Submachine Gun, trying to cover his ears.
That shouldn't be the case. What was the use of covering his ears at this time?
Shouldn't he pick up the gun and keep blasting it?! But an irresistible Mental Strength emanated from the eight black goat heads, not only suppressing his body but also trying to control his will, his soul!
Quan Yuxun's eyes widened, as if he could see the undisguised malice and madness in the black goat's eyes.
"Shoot… shoot me… kill me…" Quan Yuxun didn't want to say it, but he was controlled by the black goat, uttering words that twisted his face in extreme agony.
In that instant, the reason Quan Yuxun had barely regained told him that he was finished, he would die by Xia Chujian's gun.
Xia Chujian was finished too, because she had killed Quan Yuxun.
The person behind this scheme was so vicious…
But Xia Chujian didn't shoot him.
The Quantum Optical Brain app on her wrist was simulating bioelectricity, frantically shocking her.
She knew that this damn thing that could split itself was releasing Mental Strength.
Quan Yuxun was clearly affected by this terrifying Mental Strength.
This time, Xia Chujian vaguely felt that this monster called "Bunis" had a unique Mental Strength.
She sighed, and in a flash, she flipped her wrist and struck Quan Yuxun's neck with the butt of her gun, knocking him unconscious. She then bent down and picked up the Submachine Gun he had dropped on the ground.
In the end, she had to face everything alone.
Xia Chujian resignedly raised her Destroyer 1 Large Sniper Rifle and calmly said to the eight seaweed sphere monsters, "...Do you know how you died? — Died of ugliness."
Ka-chunk!
She neatly pulled the trigger, ejecting a magazine.
The high-energy sniper bullet spun out of the long barrel, directly hitting the black goat head in the center of the tentacled seaweed sphere directly in front of her.
The black goat head was opening its mouth, roaring intently, trying to control this ignorant female human.
A sniper bullet with explosive firepower entered its wide-open mouth with lightning speed.
Bang! The sniper bullet exploded directly in its brain, instantly destroying all its nerve centers and energy core.
The black goat head instantly turned into a cloud of black blood mist, disappearing without a trace along with its terrifying Mental Strength.
Without the nerve center and brain, the tentacles on its seaweed sphere monster body spasmed, reaching into the air as if to grab something, but they couldn't grab anything, and could only fall to the ground with a thud.
Then came the second, the third…
Xia Chujian quickly turned the muzzle of the Large Sniper Rifle, like playing whack-a-mole, and killed five black goat heads in one go.
She found that once the black goat heads were destroyed, the seaweed-like tentacles lost their vitality.
Moreover, unlike when Quan Yuxun fired, when they were killed by her, they could no longer reorganize and split!
Because they were all lying dead on the ground, not repairing and reorganizing at a speed visible to the naked eye like before.
Xia Chujian breathed a sigh of relief, now it was stable.
How many bullets would she have to waste if this thing could continuously split and reorganize?!
Just thinking about it made her feel sorry for her bullet expenses…
However, just as she was about to attack the sixth black goat head, the remaining two tentacled seaweed sphere monsters in mid-air seemed to have become smarter.
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