Zhang Chen found the prompt increasingly mysterious.
Someone must be manipulating this from behind the scenes, but it certainly wasn't the progressives.
"Tell me, where did Tang Houde go?"
Zhang Chen leaned back, as if sitting on air, and then disabled the positional control of the two staff members.
After his divine power control was upgraded, his mastery over his abilities became even more proficient.
*Snap*. Half of Tang Houde's leg, still in his pants, fell to the ground.
"Does a lab rat that escapes its cage suddenly turn into a person?"
"You are not qualified to ask me questions!" kan shu wu . xia
A spectacled staff member said sternly.
"Hmm, very brave!"
Zhang Chen nodded.
Then, the sound of creaking bones breaking was heard, accompanied by heart-wrenching screams.
In just a few minutes, the staff member's bones were dislocated, and he died tragically in front of Zhang Chen, before transforming into a wisp of white mist and vanishing.
"And you, are you perhaps equally brave?"
Zhang Chen's lips curved upward into a sinister, terrifying smile.
"Ah!"
The staff member was so scared he collapsed onto the ground.
Although he had been trained to protect the interests of the natives and never reveal information about them to the reincarnators easily.
However, his colleague's death was too brutal, and the chilling sound of bones shattering still echoed in his mind.
At this moment, all courage and oaths were scattered to the nine heavens.
"You'd better prove you have value in being alive!"
Zhang Chen continued.
"I... I'll tell you everything I know!"
The staff member, kneeling on the ground, trembled and said.
"Where did Tang Houde go?"
Zhang Chen continued to ask.
"Professor Tang went to a safe house, but I don't know the exact location of that safe house..."
"Before, we had over thirty thousand laboratories worldwide, and a considerable portion of them were converted into safe houses after the virus outbreak."
"In the New Era, we installed teleportation devices in some key laboratories."
"That is, the most traditional type of teleportation device, capable of teleportation without relying on our core teleportation equipment."
"But... where Professor Tang went is the most core secret, I have no way of knowing..."
The staff member explained with an innocent expression.
"Then tell me, where are the other people on the Lighthouse?"
"Why did I only see dozens of people along the way? As far as I know, the Lighthouse should have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. It's impossible for there to be so few!"
Zhang Chen pressed further.
"This is an experimental zone. The other survivors are in the civilian area, in an underground base about twenty kilometers from here."
"Professor Tang said that because reincarnators need to enter, civilians must be separated from you to prevent accidents..."
The staff member's eyes flickered as he spoke.
It was likely that Tang Houde's original words were not so tactful, perhaps much harsher.
This could be seen from how Tang Houde always treated him like a lab rat.
To him, all reincarnators were merely humanoid experimental subjects. wAp.kanshu wu.net
*Boom!*
Just as Zhang Chen was about to interrogate him about the specific location of the civilian area.
A huge crack appeared in the wall.
Xiaobai walked out from inside.
"Dad, are you okay!"
Then Mo Ran followed, and the two girls rushed into Zhang Chen's embrace.
"I'm fine, what happened to you?"
Zhang Chen asked.
"They were about to perform some kind of disinfection, but the equipment they opened wasn't disinfection equipment at all!"
Xiaobai said indignantly, her face cold.
"Oh? How do you know it wasn't disinfection equipment?"
Zhang Chen was surprised.
Xiaobai shouldn't have much understanding of the progressive faction's technology, and she didn't even understand social etiquette yet.
"If it were something else, I might not recognize it, but they brought out hibernation pods!"
"I used to sleep in one of those. My good friend even showed me pictures of the hibernation pods, so of course I remember!"
"These bad guys wanted to lock us inside, but I wouldn't fall for it!"
Xiaobai's "good friend" referred to Xu Ruina.
It was with Xu Ruina's guidance that Zhang Chen found Xiaobai and had come this far.
"And then you rushed out? Where are those bad guys?"
Zhang Chen reached out and stroked Xiaobai's intelligent little head, asking with a smile.
"Before I could even show my displeasure, the entire room suddenly flickered with red and dim lights, and an annoying sound started playing."
"When these bad guys heard that sound, they suddenly rushed into the teleportation gate without any hesitation!"
According to Xiaobai's description, it was highly likely that Zhang Chen's destruction of the energy absorption device had directly triggered the alarm.
Or perhaps Tang Houde, seeing the situation was bad, had triggered the alarm beforehand, and everyone had escaped through the teleportation gate according to the pre-arranged plan.
The staff member in front of Zhang Chen was likely a remnant left behind to protect Tang Houde.
As soon as Xiaobai finished speaking, the elevator doors in the hall opened.
Zhang Wenwen and Angelina also walked over.
The difference was that Zhang Wenwen was carrying Tang Xiaoen, and Angelina was carrying the squad's mechanic.
"True God, these guys really were suspicious. Fortunately, we were cautious!"
"But those staff members ran too fast, they all cleared out before we could make a move!"
Zhang Wenwen said as she roughly threw Tang Xiaoen onto the ground.
"It's the same on my side. What they sprayed wasn't disinfectant, but anesthetic."
"But they underestimated us a bit. This dose of anesthetic is ineffective against our physique!"
Angelina said with a cold smile.
"Hmm... the entire base is indeed deserted. Apart from these few people, there's no one else!"
Zhang Chen activated his Absolute Vision and carefully scanned the entire base.
There wasn't a single energy fluctuation.
"Speak, Captain Tang, what's going on?"
Angelina strode forward and firmly placed her foot on Tang Xiaoen's chest.
The AI battle armor offered no defense in front of her; with a slight exertion of force, Angelina could crush Tang Xiaoen's chest cavity.
"I... I don't know either!"
"If I knew their plan, wouldn't I have run away too?"
"How could I have been foolish enough to wait for you to catch me in the lounge?"
"But speaking of which... where are the others from our squad? Why are only the mechanic and I left?"
Tang Xiaoen's expression suddenly changed, and he asked.
"We only found you and the mechanic. As for the others..."
Angelina and Zhang Wenwen exchanged glances. The latter took out a blackened piece of metal from her ring and tossed it in front of Tang Xiaoen.
"No bodies were found, only these."