Inside the experimental building, the entire corridor was stained with blood, and the lights flickered intermittently.
Perhaps the core energy of the laboratory had not been depleted, as it was still striving to supply power to the entire facility.
Large claw marks were visible everywhere on the walls, almost penetrating the walls, which were over ten centimeters thick. There were drag marks on the bloodstains on the ground.
It seemed that this place had suffered an invasion by monsters, and the experimental personnel had experienced a very terrifying scene before their deaths.
"It's hard to imagine that those arrogant natives would also meet such a tragic end. I thought they were noble even in death!"
Shirley said with a hint of schadenfreude.
She hadn't forgotten the incident when Luo Tianyu restrained her energy, nearly crushing her to death with gravity.
Whenever Shirley heard the word "natives," she naturally thought of Luo Tianyu's smug and infuriatingly arrogant expression.
"With their boxes and combat equipment, their strength is naturally not weak. However, they can't possibly carry these things with them all the time, especially in a laboratory where they have their own work to do, so their guard would naturally be at its lowest."
"Moreover, even with their boxes and equipment, their ultimate weapons are more effective against survivors, and have no effect on those monsters at all. Coupled with the natives' slow reaction speed, unless they were prepared for battle in advance, they wouldn't even have time to react if ambushed, and would be finished off!"
Zhang Chen analyzed.
Shirley nodded. Indeed, without their boxes and that energy, the natives were, at best, ordinary people.
Zhang Chen lowered his head, counted the bloodstains on the ground, and then examined various rooms, saying,
"The monsters must have attacked from the inside, because the external energy defense grid is intact..."
"There aren't many people in this laboratory. It appears to have only 3 experimental personnel. It should be a temporary laboratory."
"I wonder what these people are researching by capturing survivors!"
"I... I think I've found the reason!" Shirley stood at the entrance of a room, where a large number of photos and experimental records were scattered.
Zhang Chen glanced at them. These photos were too bloody and cruel.
They were all images of failed human experiments, completely indescribable. Many of them were no longer recognizable as human.
He picked up a few relatively intact experimental records. As he read the information recorded on them, Zhang Chen felt a chill down his spine:
Since the natives discovered that humans could no longer reproduce, internal factions had once again diverged.
Some wanted to achieve eternal life by creating cyborgs and then repeatedly possessing their bodies, thereby ensuring the eternal survival of the natives.
The other faction wanted to continue searching for the reason behind the cessation of human reproduction.
In order to understand the reason, they had become almost frenzied, and had begun to capture survivors in large numbers for experimentation.
This included fusing human and monster genes, creating new humans for reproduction, and even injecting human bodies with monster DNA for gestation.
Most female survivors experienced the most agonizing deaths, while all male survivors turned into monsters.
However, the stability of these forcibly hybridized monsters was very poor, and they could live for at most 3 days.
This record documented all the natives' insane atrocities, their humanity and moral bottom line completely lost.
The number of victimized survivors exceeded a thousand.
"It must have been a mutated survivor who killed the experimental personnel before their death. This also explains why the external defense grid was not destroyed!"
Zhang Chen said with a sigh as he looked at the report.
Previously, they sought out the natives to uncover the truth. Now, finding the natives as soon as possible was to put an end to all these evil deeds.
Compared to the ruthlessness of these people, the intrigue and deception among survivors in the apocalypse was child's play.
These natives would rather treat tens of thousands of surviving humans as lab rats for experiments than unite them to find a way to end the apocalypse together.
They must all have gone mad!
"Master, look at this!"
"The natives seem to have found new clues!"
Shirley picked up a document from a corner and handed it to Zhang Chen.
The latter took the document and read it. It was a text backup of an email:
"Dear Senior Researcher Xu, Surprise, astonishment, I truly don't know what words to use to express my current feelings!"
"Nature always finds its unique way to solve problems that are difficult for the scientific community!"
"Just as we were desperately seeking the path to human reproduction, our field operatives found a newborn!"
"It can be confirmed with one hundred percent certainty that it is a newborn, because these reincarnators have only been in this world for forty-three days. Even considering the backlash of time dilation on the body, it would be at most equivalent to 5 years!"
"However, we saw a 3-year-old child. Although DNA scans and bone age confirmation were not performed, visual estimation is definitely so!"
"We have all seen children before. The difference between a three-year-old and a five-year-old is very significant. Our field operatives would absolutely not be mistaken. This child was born after they crossed over!"
"Regardless of the reason, since they can give birth to newborns, through research, we can restore our own ability to reproduce, and at the same time curb the reproductive ability of the reincarnators. This is another method that serves two purposes!"
"It's a pity that the enemy camp has strong forces and a large number of people. Our field operatives were unable to break through their defenses!"
"Therefore, I implore headquarters to send reinforcements. That child is of utmost importance to us! I hope to receive your prompt approval!"
Attached to the text was a photograph.
The picture indeed showed a little boy around three years old, with black hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and a face with Oriental features, but his features were more Western. He was a mixed-race child, and very beautiful.
Beside him, a woman was holding his hand.
However, the woman's appearance was not captured in the photo, only one of her hands was shown. It was very fair, appearing to be the fair skin of a Westerner.
It was presumed to be the child's mother.
"Master, did you notice?"
Shirley whispered and reminded him.
"What?"
Zhang Chen was slightly startled and asked.
"Look at the little boy's hands, did you notice anything?"
Shirley pointed at the photo with her finger and reminded him again.
"He... he doesn't have a ring on his hand!" Zhang Chen was shocked!
Indeed, he could clearly see a blue ring on the left hand of the woman holding the little boy's hand.
However, the little boy's hands were both fair and clean, with no rings at all!
"This means that if he can possess the same upgrade ability as us, he can naturally be free from the control of the natives from birth!"
"I think this is also what the natives are more concerned about! They fear that we reincarnators are more adapted to this environment than the natives!"
Shirley said with a smug expression.
"That's right... This little boy can adapt to the gravity of this world without a ring. If he can upgrade... start upgrading from the age of three... then his future strength would be unimaginable!"
Zhang Chen exclaimed.