Chapter 5: Stolen Reagents
Three days later, the door of the monitoring room opened and Lin Xi, who was immersed in the nutrient solution, was pulled out of the culture vessel and injected with a rejuvenation reagent.
Lin Xi opened his eyes again, in addition to the bright white lights, there were also clothes beside him.
– A set of black combat uniforms with the L logo.
This process is not unfamiliar. Before the laboratory detected his physical decline, he frequently traveled back and forth between the monitoring room and the outside world.
If it wasn’t for a month of recuperation, Lin Xi would have thought that the laboratory had given up driving him.
Lin Xi got dressed and walked out of the room.
Sure enough, his surveillance officer was already waiting outside the door.
After returning from the resistance camp, Fu Yibo dyed his hair a new color and had an ear stud on his ear. When he saw Lin Xi, the surveillance officer’s lustful eyes immediately scrutinized the person from beginning to end.
He also tried to measure the waist of Number 01 with his eyes.
“Your mission this time is to bring back the stolen reagents from the laboratory. The person who came to issue the mission this time was Dr. Ameka, an assistant to the head of the laboratory”
She spoke in the same cold tone:”Three days ago, the experiment loses important experimental items. Once these reagents fall into the hands of people outside the base, the consequences will be disastrous.”
“The target of this mission is humans?” Fu Yibo asked.
“Yes. Our laboratory was systematically invaded. If the other party is a different species, it is impossible for them to have the wisdom to avoid our room’s protective equipment, so at least some of these guys have a good understanding of the structure of the laboratory.” Dr. Ameka replied.
Fu Yibo whistled and laughed absentmindedly: “Understood, Number 01 and I will definitely complete the task.”
Lin Xi didn’t answer, he didn’t need too much language here.
It’s just… The important reagents in the laboratory were stolen and he was notified to recover it after three days. Indicating that this mission was extremely difficult for the mutants of the II and III generations, so they had no choice but to sent him there.
Ameka quickly verified his idea: “Fu Yibo, six teams of Secret Service have been sent to track this mission and they have all failed. Judging from the recovery of their corpses in the laboratory, the opponents are extremely powerful. Don’t be careless.”
“Understood.”
“Number 01 is an important experimental subject. He is immeasurable for the future development of mankind. You must take good care of him.” Ameka urged again.
“Big sister, don’t worry!” Fu Yibo didn’t care. He just waved his hand with a smile, motioning for Lin Xi to go with him to prepare for the mission.
Lin Xi hesitated for a moment while sitting in his seat, then slowly got up and walked towards the door.
Fu Yibo suddenly couldn’t help but stretched out his foot on the threshold.
Lin Xi stumbled immediately and fell to the ground in embarrassment but was caught by someone halfway.
“Little slut.” Fu Yibo, who succeeded, whispered, secretly and deliberately twisting his waist hard.
Lin Xi let out a low groan from his breathing suppressor and broke free.
Next, the laboratory sent detailed information to the two and prepared tracking instruments and transport aircraft.
Fu Yibo glanced at the information roughly and discarded it.
The surveillance officer is responsible for looking after the mutants and he only needs to leave the dangerous things to Lin Xi, so it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t read the information.
Because, Number 01 never misses.
Thinking of Lin Xi’s figure, Fu Yibo happily took him and the two surveillance soldiers away from the base.
The transport plane was 2,000 meters above the ground and flew over the mountains and rivers. The dark yellow wasteland was vast and boundless, intertwined with the red clouds in the sky on the horizon.
Fu Yibo said boredly: “I heard that you have already bred? How does it feel to be raped by a man?”
Lin Xi knew that he was talking about himself, he didn’t answer. He just looked sideways outside the cabin.
Fu Yibo sat down again: “Don’t say it means acquiescence? I heard the male prostitutes in the underground city say that this kind of work is very comfortable.”
Lin Xi’s pupils shrank slightly.
“Ah, look at my memory! I almost forgot that you were dragged to brainwash after being raped. Can’t you remember what happened that day?”
Lin Xi’an curled his right hand on his lap. His fingertips touched the leg straps that tied the dagger and he quietly retracted it.
Fu Yibo had already embraced him gloatingly: “It doesn’t matter, I’m used to doing this kind of thing. I can help you review it.”
He said and pulled the person in front of him. Taking a deep breath of the woody fragrance on the opponent.
Lin Xi broke free from his restraint in annoyance and opened the distance between the two.
At this moment, the transport plane shook violently.
Fu Yibo tumbled in embarrassment and became furious: “What’s going on?”
The surveillance soldier driving the transport plane hit the dial: “Surveillance officer, we have sailed 600 kilometers. Just now, a bird alien hit the left wing of the plane and the fuselage was damaged.”
As if to confirm his statement, there was another group of migrating large Anseriformes* in front of the transport plane. (n: name of the alien bird)
The surveillance soldier’s complexion changed and hurriedly flew the plane to make an emergency avoidance.
Fu Yibo had to stop harassing Lin Xi. He grabbed the seat and took a look at the location of the tracking device.
He didn’t expect that he would be so far away from the base without knowing it. On the instrument, the tracking and positioning of laboratory reagents is still 300 kilometers away.
“Damn it.” He scolded.
The plane was fast to track but it is 80 kilometers away from the base.
He had to order it to go by land instead.
The transport plane had to make a forced landing in the desert. For the next trip, the surveillance soldiers called out a temporary backup off-road jeep.
However, the conditions of the off-road jeep are very poor. In the desert with a surface temperature of over 60 degrees, its condensation system can only be debugged to a temperature suitable for humans.
Sitting in the car, Fu Yibo felt extremely hot. He gulps down the spare pure water, and has no time to take care of Lin Xi next to him.
The watchmen were no better.
The jeep went on like this for six hours. When the poisonous sun began to gradually set in the west, the Secret Service finally came across a village-like gathering of human beings.
The gathering place is not large. In the western part of the village, there is a two-story earthen fort. The outer mud wall is dry and cracked and it looks old and dilapidated.
“Drip–” the tracking instrument issued a prompt sound, indicating that the laboratory reagents were ahead.
Fu Yibo was so hot that he didn’t want to move, he pushed Lin Xi and his equipment out of the car door with one hand.
“Go and bring the reagents out or you will suffer!” he ordered.
Lin Xi stumbled on the sand and stone. He silently got up to picked up the weapon on the ground and walked to the earthen fort without saying a word.
The surveillance soldiers didn’t get out of the car either. According to their usual habits, they thought that Lin Xi could perform the task alone.
They watched Lin Xi push open the door of the earthen fort by himself in the outside world, entered the interior of the destination and then watched the door on the earthen fort slowly closing.
Two minutes later, there was a rumbling vibration from the ground.
Two minutes and thirty seconds later, the vibrations stopped.
Ten minutes later, there was no movement from the earthen fort and no one came out of it.
“Why so slow!” Fu Yibo said impatiently.
He waited another ten minutes.
The sun was emitting a poisonous residual heat and no one pushed open the door of the earthen fort.
“Fuck, this stinker must not playing any tricks!” Fu Yibo scolded.
The surveillance soldiers did not respond. They waited for another three minutes before finally jumping out of the jeep with guns in hand.
Without Lin Xi there, they proceeded very carefully. When they arrived at the door a hundred meters away, they listened carefully to the movement inside. Until they confirmed that there was no sound inside the earthen fort, they carefully pushed the door open a crack.
It was at this slit that they suddenly smelled a disgusting stench.
Fu Yibo was so disgusted that he almost vomited on the spot. He quickly turned his back and covered his nose but he heard the panicked voices of two surveillance soldiers.
“Surveillance officer, surveillance officer!” The two surveillance soldiers seemed to have seen something and pulled on the corner of his shirt desperately, “No. 01, No. 01…”
“What happened to him?!” Fu Yibo frowned, impatiently shouted back.
Soon, his words were also stuck and he stared at the sight in front of him in shock.
In this earthen fort, there is a pile of meat.
The pile of meat was black and brown in color. It should be a ring-shaped worm alien creature but at this time, it was cut section by section and stacked like pieces of meat in the room.
The huge pieces of meat almost occupied the entire room of the earthen fort. The stench that the surveillance officers and soldiers smelled came from this pile of flesh and blood.
There was a huge pit in front of the pile of meat.
Going further into the pit, a person was lying on the floor, almost motionless.
He was closest to the door and there was a green light behind his neck with the breathing suppressor working. His shoulders had been stained red with blood and the original left hand disappeared, leaving only the left shoulder that was eaten by the monster, the bare bones, and the half of his left lung.
The surveillance soldiers were stunned. It took a while for them to react. They hurried to Lin Xi’s side and turned over his body.
Lin Xi was already on the verge of dying. He breathed as hard as he could, his eyes turned slightly and his out of focus gaze landed absently on the monitoring switch in Fu Yibo’s hand.
Fu Yibo was stunned, he grasped the button subconsciously and the sound of preliminary inspection had already been heard from his subordinates.
“Surveillance officer, Number 01 is injured… His left upper body was eaten by monsters and his left lung was severely damaged… Maybe…”
The surveillance soldier reporting suddenly choked and said in panic and despair: “Number 01 maybe is dying … Surveillance officer, what should we do? He is an important figure in the laboratory. If he dies, those people in the laboratory will definitely punish us severely…”
No. 01 is not only the laboratory’s The strongest weapon but also carries the important plans of the laboratory.
The duty of the surveillance officer and surveillance soldier is not only to take care of the weapon, but also to protect the experiment when necessary.
Especially after the selective breeding program.
However, Fu Yibo and the two monitoring soldiers obviously failed to fulfill such responsibilities and obligations.
Fu Yibo also panicked. He held the monitoring device and his forehead was covered in cold sweat: “Impossible, impossible! No. 01 has never failed the mission, he must have done it on purpose!”
In order to verify the statement, he gritted his teeth and viciously kicked Lin Xi.
Lin Xi was instantly kicked aside by him. The mutant twitched convulsively, his originally out of focus eyes immediately stiffened and the pupils in his eyes gradually enlarged.
After a while, blood overflowed from the breathing hole of the breathing suppressor, dripping on the ground.
Fu Yibo, as if he had never seen it, stretched out his hand to take off Lin Xi’s clothes.
If this were normal, the mutant would definitely rebel against him.
Unfortunately, when he tore up all the mutant’s clothes and even raised his thigh, Lin Xi still didn’t respond.
He seemed like a mutilated rag doll, being manipulated at will.
The surveillance soldiers finally couldn’t stand it anymore and they hurriedly stopped Fu Yibo’s behavior: “Monitor, if he is dead, we will all be treated as experiments for the third-generation mutants, please save him!”
The physique of mutants is different from that of humans. Experiments have proved that as long as number 01 has a breath, he can quickly repair his injuries with the help of his own abilities.
But this premise is that if he can breathe like a normal person.
Only then did Fu Yibo regain his senses.
He let the two surveillance soldiers back away, turned over Lin Xi’s body with trembling hands and found the temporary release switch of the surveillance device on the back of the opponent’s neck.
The release of the respiratory suppressor consists of two parts, one is the laboratory password and the other is the surveillance officer’s iris authentication.
The surveillance officer has the right to control outside and can release the respiratory restraint of the respiratory suppressor through the iris, allowing No. 01 to quickly restore all his abilities.
This setting is based on the fact that the surveillance officer and No. 01 cooperate to deal with various dangers.
It’s a pity that Lin Xi’s current surveillance officer is only responsible for having fun beside him and has never thought of fighting with him.
But now, the surveillance officer can only make amends and try to release the respiratory suppressor to let Lin Xi continue to live.
He verified his iris and watched the signal light on Lin Xi’s neck turn red.
At the same time as the signal light changed, he also saw Lin Xi’s remaining butterfly bone on his right shoulder move slightly.
He was stunned, suddenly felt that something was wrong and wanted to control the switch again.
However, he reacted too late.
‘Thud…’
The remote breathing suppressor control switch fell to the ground, along with it is a severed wrist.
Fu Yibo opened his eyes wide and after two or three seconds, he felt the piercing pain in his hand and screamed.
The surveillance soldiers standing beside them also widened their eyes. They were shocked to see the dead Number 01 suddenly cut off the surveillance officer’s arm. After a while, they picked up the machine gun in a panic and fired at the mutant.
Before they fired more shots, the vines that suddenly rose behind Lin Xi quickly pierced their hearts.
Two more bodies were found at the scene.
Lin Xi took back the vines and stood up from the ground.
“Lin Xi, you actually betrayed the base!” Fu Yibo finally reacted, clutching his broken wrist and quickly backing away. In a short while, he retreated to the entrance of the big black hole.
The gravel beside him fell rustling into the hole, but there was no reply.
Fu Yibo stopped in fear.
Lin Xi had already picked up from the ground and walked towards him.
His skin was pale and bloody, his body was slender and his left lung was being regenerated.
Fu Yibo swallowed: “Lin Xi, you don’t dare to kill me. I only temporarily unlocked your device and the secret of the laboratory is on it…”
He wanted to say “the password of the laboratory”, which is related to surveillance official iris verification of the respiratory suppressor in the bundled verification. Once the wrong input is entered three times, the laboratory will intervene in the investigation to prevent the monitored person from escaping.
However, the words stuck in his mouth.
Because he suddenly thought that in this operation, they were 900 kilometers away from the base.
The communication here is not connected to the laboratory.
Fu Yibo’s face was stiff. He looked at Lin Xi and saw that the other party had already expected all this. He used his remaining hand to grope around the back of his neck and took off the suppressor between his neck.
Before the mask fell off, Lin Xi’s hair was withered and gray.
“Goodbye, Officer.”
He raised his gun and pulled the trigger.
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Edited: 7/19/22
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