pjbooks Chapter 173 Underground Caves
Chapter 173 Underground Caves
The elevator doors slid open to both sides.
A chilly, damp air rushed directly into the elevator.
Lin Fan sneezed and rubbed his nose.
"Wow, is there really this much space down there?"
He looked around in surprise. He had been down here before, but he had never discovered that there was another secret beneath the laboratory!
However, it's a bit dark around here...
However, just as he was thinking this, Night Owl raised a high-lumen flashlight.
The light instantly pierced the surrounding darkness, illuminating the environment.
What appeared before them was a huge natural cave, the size of a football field.
Abandoned excavators and mining carts were scattered all around.
The ground was covered with dried, dark brown stains.
There were clearly signs of prior activity.
Night Owl led the two towards the deepest part of the cave.
Soon, a black metal wall blocked their way.
In the center of the wall was a tall, heavy double door.
There are no gaps on the surface of the door.
In the most conspicuous position, there is a blood-red inverted cross.
At this moment, the owl also stopped.
"Sir, this is it."
"The research team had already used laser cutting, liquid nitrogen freezing, and miniature armor-piercing projectiles. But in the end, not even a scratch was left."
"This is very strange; once it is subjected to physical attack, a layer of black light will appear on its surface."
Lin Fan stepped forward and reached out to touch the door panel.
It was icy cold.
"Isn't Umbrella a tech company that researches bio-viruses? How come they're getting involved in religious superstition?" Lin Fan asked, turning his head.
Li Xiulan didn't answer. She walked to the door, placed her hand on it as well, felt it for a moment, and then spoke:
"Step back."
Upon hearing this, Lin Fan and Night Owl immediately took two steps back.
At the same time, Li Xiulan immediately activated her ability without hesitation, and in an instant, the inverted cross suddenly lit up with a dazzling blood-red light.
A visible black ripple spread out from the door, heading straight for Li Xiulan's face.
"snort."
Li Xiulan snorted coldly and suddenly clenched her five fingers.
The surrounding air instantly twisted and deformed.
There was a crisp "snap" sound.
The metal door, which even armor-piercing bullets couldn't penetrate, had a large round hole missing in the middle.
No fragments, no residue.
She used her spatial abilities to teleport that piece of metal, along with the inverted cross on it, to an unknown location.
Even though he was somewhat prepared, Night Owl couldn't help but swallow hard when he saw this scene.
At the same time, the moment the door was broken open...
An extremely strong stench gushed out from the hole.
The smell is extremely pungent.
It smells like rotten meat, putrid blood, and formaldehyde fermenting together.
Lin Fan immediately pinched his nose and backed away.
"vomit……"
He gagged.
"Is this some kind of direct route to a septic tank?"
On the contrary, Li Xiulan, who was standing in front, seemed to be unaffected and stepped directly across the hole.
The owl quickly followed.
Seeing this, Lin Fan could only grit his teeth and follow.
After entering the door, a long, old corridor came into view.
As the three entered, dim, yellowish old lights illuminated both sides of the corridor.
Following the corridor, the three soon arrived at a spacious area with rows of huge glass cylinders neatly arranged on both sides.
The glass was covered in grime, contained an unknown liquid, and had a shadowy outline.
Lin Fan approached a cylindrical object.
After wiping the grime off the glass, the situation inside was immediately revealed to them.
What was inside was the body of an adult male.
But the body had been disemboweled, its internal organs removed, and it was stuffed with white feathers.
The feathers were embedded in the flesh at the base.
On the back of the male corpse, a pair of withered fleshy wings were forcibly sewn together.
Holy crap.
Lin Fan was startled by the male corpse inside, and immediately wiped another cylinder next to him.
There aren't any corpses in there.
But it was a disgusting mass of rotten flesh, with three eyes growing out of the middle of it, and they were moving unconsciously.
Even after seeing many grotesque monsters, Lin Fan couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.
As they walked and looked around, the contents of the vessels on both sides became increasingly astonishing.
Some things are even things that shouldn't exist in this world.
"They are trying to merge organisms from different dimensions."
At that moment, Li Xiulan's voice rang out.
Night Owl gripped his straight knife tightly:
"What on earth is Umbrella up to?"
"No, I don't think Umbrella would do something like this." Lin Fan shook his head thoughtfully. "It might be the Vatican, or perhaps..."
He didn't continue speaking, but turned to look at his mother.
"Mom, do you think those three 'rotten flesh angels' might have come from one of these jars?"
"It's possible, but not necessarily. Everything in here is a failure."
Li Xiulan stopped in her tracks.
"Moreover, although I haven't been able to track down where the passage that descended led to, it certainly wasn't here."
However, just as the group was talking...
A sound of shattering glass came from deep within the corridor, followed by a series of similar sounds.
"Snap! Snap!"
Dozens of glass cylinders shattered simultaneously.
Green liquid mixed with foul-smelling rotting flesh poured out.
The next moment, the three saw more than a dozen dark figures scrambling towards them from the darkness, using both hands and feet.
Night Owl stepped forward, blocking Li Xiulan's path.
The long sword was drawn.
Leading the charge was a four-legged creature with its bright red muscle texture clearly visible.
It has three baby heads growing on its neck.
The three heads opened their mouths simultaneously, revealing fine, sharp teeth, and leaped up to bite at the owl's throat.
The owl gripped his knife with both hands, ready to strike.
Li Xiulan, however, was the first to snap her fingers.
The space around the deformed monster that leaped into the air instantly became displaced.
The three heads fell directly to the ground.
The monster's body lurched forward another two meters due to inertia, twitched a few times, and then remained still.
Before the group could get a good look, a dozen more monsters pounced on them from behind.
Li Xiulan remained unfazed and repeated the same method.
In the blink of an eye, these monsters were sliced into several even pieces by invisible spatial blades.
Blood and entrails were splattered all over the metal floor.
Seeing his mother so cool, Lin Fan couldn't help but give her a thumbs up:
"Mom, with your skills, it's a shame you're not running a meat processing plant."
"Shut up."
Li Xiulan glanced at him.
"Stay close."
After saying that, she lifted her foot and walked forward.
At the same time, the sound of shattering glass became more and more frequent, and the number of monsters also increased.
In an instant, hundreds of Frankenstein monsters of various shapes and sizes emerged from the end of the corridor.
There were priests with octopus tentacles, headless tyrants with crosses embedded in their chests, and fleshy tumors covered with eyes.
They roared, emitting sharp mental waves.
An ordinary person would go insane upon hearing this sound.
Li Xiulan waved her hand casually.
A transparent spatial barrier enveloped Lin Fan and Night Owl, isolating them from mental attacks.
Lin Fan's eyes lit up as he looked at the dark mass of monsters.
"Mom, don't do these dirty and tiring jobs."
Lin Fan chuckled, a thought forming in his mind.
It directly connected to the mental link in my mind.
"We're having a buffet!!"
The voice just fell.
Above Lin Fan's head, dark ripples spread through the space.
A black vortex with a diameter of three meters appeared out of thin air.
A chilling, viscous, and extremely malevolent mental pressure descended instantly.
The horde of monsters that had been running wildly down the corridor suddenly stopped.
They looked up at the black vortex, their bodies beginning to tremble uncontrollably.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
At the same time, a dozen thick, dark purple tentacles emerged from the vortex.
The tentacles are covered with suckers and rotating eyeballs.
The moment the tentacles emerged, they swept excitedly towards the monsters, much like a pervert seeing a naked beauty.
In an instant, the tentacles grabbed the first group of monsters and dragged them into the vortex without hesitation.
No matter how the monsters struggled, the suckers on their tentacles clung tightly to their flesh.
The barb got stuck in the bone.
A chilling chewing sound emanated from the depths of the vortex.
The giant squid enjoyed its meal very much.
"Eat slowly, and stop smacking your lips," Lin Fan said with a look of disgust.
"Delicious...deliciouser than fish from the sea..." The giant squid's consciousness came out in fits and starts.
It simply stretched its tentacles even longer, plunging them directly into the monster horde, shoving them into its mouth like skewers of candied hawthorns.
Hundreds of ferocious mutated monsters were completely reduced to lambs to the slaughter in the face of even more evil tentacles.
Less than three minutes.
The corridor was cleaned spotlessly.
All that remained was a ground covered in green slime.
The giant squid let out a burp, its tentacles reluctantly scraping the ground before retracting back into the vortex.
The vortex closed.
Night Owl watched the scene unfold, his forehead covered in cold sweat.
He was a well-informed high-ranking member of the Dark Knights, but this purely Cthulhu-style way of eating still caused him to experience stomach cramps.
"Young master... your pet has quite the appetite," Night Owl managed to say.
"It's so-so, but I'm a bit picky about food." Lin Fan waved his hand.
Li Xiulan ignored their idle chatter.
She walked straight into the depths of the corridor, and soon, another large door appeared before the three of them.
The door was ajar.
Push open the door.
Suddenly, everything became clear.
It is an extremely large underground circular hall.
The walls were completely covered by a dark red biological tissue.
And those tissues were still twitching slightly.
The dome of the hall was filled with countless translucent culture bags hanging upside down.
The number is at least several thousand.
Moreover, inside each pouch, there was a humanoid creature silhouette curled up.
In the very center of the hall was a circular pool of blood, several tens of meters in diameter.
The pool was churning with a thick, pure black liquid.
Black vapor rose.
Countless transparent tubes, resembling blood vessels, connect one end to the culture capsule on the dome and the other end plunges into the blood pool.
The black liquid flowed continuously through the pipes into the culture capsules.
"Holy crap, is this mass production?" Lin Fan's eyes widened.
"This isn't mass production." Li Xiulan stared at the blood pool. "This is blood extraction."
blood draw?
Lin Fan couldn't help but widen his eyes...