"Xu? What?"
Xu Ruina was greatly alarmed. If there was anyone with the surname Xu, it had to be Xu Linna.
Moreover, her laboratory happened to have one of Xu Linna's bodies that Zhang Chen had previously captured.
"Keep an eye on this guy, I'm going inside!"
Xu Ruina's expression sharpened, and she waved her hand gently.
The giant faceless zombie pressed the dying Wang Hai'an to the ground with its palm, leaving a gap in its palm without killing him.
Zhao Xiyue knew that this series of plots was orchestrated by Wang Hai'an, but it was impossible that he was acting alone.
There must be accomplices.
Wang Hai'an had to stay alive until all other hidden threats were found.
"I'll go with you, Exorcist!"
Zhang Wenwen nodded slightly and followed closely behind.
Zhao Xiyue and the somewhat drained Qian Xinxin looked at Wang Hai'an.
Xu Ruina gently raised her left hand, and a shadow descended from the sky.
The Wind Wing flapped its huge wings, blowing away the dust and smoke in the laboratory, revealing the incomplete laboratory building.
It looked like it had been blown up from the inside. A large opening was blasted on the west side of the fifth to tenth floors, with steel bars and wires exposed to the air. Countless paper documents fluttered down from above and were blown everywhere.
"Xu Linna, this guy actually launched a sneak attack!"
"Unforgivable!"
Xu Ruina roared and leaped into the corridor on the eighth floor.
Zhang Wenwen, with the True God Cult's guard army, followed closely.
"Professor Tang, Professor Mo! Are you both alright?!"
Xu Ruina shouted in the corridor.
Before the battle, Xu Ruina, along with the two professors and a group of researchers, were conducting the final human propagation experiment here.
The experiment was only 20 minutes away from yielding results. Xu Ruina had come out to suppress the situation to prevent the chaos outside from affecting this important experiment.
She never expected that her departure would give Xu Linna an opportunity.
"Researcher Xu... cough cough, I'm here..."
Tang Houde struggled out from the rubble, his hands covered in blood as he fumbled for his glasses on the ground.
At the other end of the corridor, his eyes were completely shattered and whited out, rendering him unable to see.
"Professor Tang, where is Professor Mo!"
Xu Ruina rushed over, helped Tang Houde up, and asked.
"I... I don't know. The experimental results were about to come out when the laboratory above suddenly exploded, and we were all blown away by the airflow!"
"Assistant Shirley is also nowhere to be found, and my ears are still ringing!"
Tang Houde shouted at the top of his lungs.
It seemed that the explosion had indeed caused quite a shock to his ears, affecting his hearing.
"I understand. You continue searching for other researchers here, I'll go inside to check!"
Xu Ruina said and walked directly towards the depths of the corridor.
There, the Gromos cyborg, mummified by Mo Ran's spider silk, was kept.
Bang!
When Xu Ruina pushed open the door, her face turned pale.
As expected, the room was empty, with a large amount of dissolved spider silk scattered on the floor.
Judging from the messy footprints on the ground, there should be three people.
One footprint belonged to Mo Pai, and the other two barefoot footprints. The larger one belonged to the Gromos cyborg, and the smaller one belonged to Xu Linna's body.
"We fell into a trap..."
"Xu Linna had been planning this for a month?!"
"How did she do it?!"
Xu Ruina slumped to the ground dejectedly.
It turned out that sending Xu Linna's intact body for experiments was entirely a ruse.
Her initial target was to abduct Mo Pai, as he was the chief researcher of the Genetics School, possessing knowledge and research capabilities that other researchers lacked.
Xiao Bai, from before, was the result of Mo Pai's research.
However, due to obstruction from the council, coupled with factional divisions within Raven Laboratory, and the suppression of the progressive faction towards the Genetics School.
This ultimately led to the cyborg project remaining in a semi-finished state.
Xu Linna's research on cyborgs had also hit a bottleneck, which was why she needed Mo Pai to help her advance the cyborgs' strength! kanδん
"Exorcist, the inspection is complete. Apart from Professor Mo Pai's disappearance, all other researchers are present, albeit with varying degrees of injuries. It's not a major problem; they'll recover after some rest!"
Zhang Wenwen walked to Xu Ruina's side and reported.
"As expected... Xu Linna's scheme has succeeded..."
"Quickly report this news to Zhang Chen, he needs to be careful."
"Xu Linna possesses the core fragment of the Time Meteorite, and with Mo Pai, her cyborgs are likely to become more terrifying existences in the apocalypse than any ultimate creature!"
"Hurry, hurry!"
Xu Ruina shouted.
"Yes, I will notify the True God immediately!"
Zhang Wenwen did not dare to delay and reported everything that had happened here to Zhang Chen.
On the other side, on the edge of the giant mushroom forest.
Zhang Chen, Katerina, Zhang Mo, and Li Tieniu were searching for the buried laboratory.
When he saw this message, Zhang Chen was also very shocked.
However, after a few minutes, he suddenly realized an even more shocking reality.
From the moment he obtained Xu Linna's husk body, he had been falling step by step into Xu Linna's plan!
Xu Linna possessed the core fragment of the Time Meteorite, which allowed her to see the short-term future.
She had already seen that Wang Hai'an would launch a rebellion in the fourth walled city in the future, and at that time, all the experts in the city would be absent, and the laboratory's defense forces would be weak.
Therefore, she had planted this husk, which could accommodate Xu Linna's consciousness, in advance, deliberately letting Zhang Chen bring it back to the laboratory.
Then, she sent a Gromos cyborg with spatial abilities to pretend to capture the natives, but its actual purpose was to be sent to Zhang Chen, so he could store it in the laboratory.
These two key figures were planted in the laboratory and remained dormant, waiting for Wang Hai'an's rebellion.
Then Xu Linna seized the opportunity to inject her consciousness back into the husk.
With her strength, Shirley naturally couldn't resist.
Then Xu Linna quickly found Mo Pai, then released the Gromos cyborg from its restraints, and opened a portal to escape...
This series of operations was simply flawless!
This was the terrifying aspect of the Time Meteorite core fragment.
It could calculate all possible futures, allowing Xu Linna to choose the plan that best suited her interests to execute...
If she could truly use the Time Meteorite without restraint... it could be said that she was almost invincible.
"This woman... is really becoming more and more troublesome..."
Zhang Chen said with a frown.
This was the most powerful existence he had encountered, without exception.