"It's this guy!"
Bai Ye looked at the restricted zone mission and his gaze fell directly on Dr. Dale's name.
This guy was famous.
However, Bai Ye only knew his name and had never seen him in person.
Because, in Bai Ye's previous life, by the time he arrived at the Ruined City, Dr. Dale was already dead.
At that time, Dr. Dale only existed in the background story, a legendary figure of the Rhine Company, who had made full contributions to the Rhine Company's dominance. Dr. Dale's contributions were present in various artificial human research projects.
Most importantly, the mutant crystal human project was developed and led by Dr. Dale.
Regarding the mutant crystal humans, the Rhine Company was ultimately unsuccessful.
There were two reasons for the failure.
The first was Allen. He discovered the mirror world and within it, found everything about the mutant crystal humans, discovering and exposing the Rhine Company's conspiracy, which triggered the artificial human revolution.
Ultimately, under Allen's leadership, the artificial humans overthrew the wealthy district ruled by the Rhine Company. Although the Rhine Company did not directly exit the stage, they lost the Ruined City and retreated elsewhere.
But in this story, there was still a very important character, and that was Dr. Dale.
In the story, Dr. Dale had almost completed the development of the mutant crystal humans.
Absolute obedience, physical qualities exceeding those of artificial humans, and high-hardness crystals brought extremely high defense. Furthermore, by utilizing the genes of mutated artificial humans, they created crystallization abilities.
Dr. Dale had almost perfected the mutant crystal humans. At that time, only one final step was missing. With all aspects meeting the standards, the only thing the mutant crystal humans lacked was stability.
During prolonged combat, the mutant crystal humans would experience a loss of control.
However, no one thought this was a problem, and everyone believed Dr. Dale could overcome the final hurdle.
Just then, a problem arose, and that was Dr. Dale's ambition!
At that time, Dr. Dale believed that as long as the research on mutant crystal humans was completely successful, he could create an army of mutant crystal humans.
An army of absolute loyalty and obedience.
At that point, let alone suppressing the artificial humans, what was the Rhine Company in comparison?
The combat robots controlled by the Rhine Company were also insufficient to contend with an army of mutant crystal humans.
Given this, why should he continue to serve the Rhine Company?
He could rule the wasteland!
He could become the King of the Wasteland!
Thus, the ambitious Dr. Dale decided to stir up trouble. But the problem was that Dr. Dale was a bit unlucky, and his ambition and plan were discovered by the Rhine Company.
Undoubtedly, the Rhine Company arrested Dr. Dale immediately.
Yes, it was only an arrest, not a killing, as the research on mutant crystal humans was inseparable from Dr. Dale.
But this was also why the guy was unlucky. During the arrest, Dr. Dale attempted to resist, and accidentally fell down the stairs, ending his life!
For the Rhine Company, the loss of Dr. Dale meant that the development plan for mutant crystal humans had completely stagnated.
Even worse, when Dr. Dale's scheme was exposed, he was preparing to flee and destroyed a portion of the research data in his computer.
This portion of the data was in Dr. Dale's mind. It was obvious that Dr. Dale was also clever. If he failed to escape and was captured by the Rhine Company, he could use this data as a bargaining chip.
Then...
This unlucky fellow, before he could negotiate, tripped and fell, ending his life.
But misfortune aside, in the background story, Dr. Dale was a character who had almost completed the crystal human research and was on the verge of subverting the entire wasteland. If he had lived, he would have been a great boss.
Did such a character have related restricted zones?
Most likely, yes!
However, Bai Ye had never participated in it.
By the time Bai Ye arrived at the Ruined City, Dr. Dale had already become a thing of the past, existing only in stories.
Now, Dr. Dale's name suddenly appearing gave Bai Ye a few more moments of realization.
Compared to his previous life, Bai Ye had clearly arrived at the Ruined City much earlier in this life.
Therefore, if the story of the Ruined City were to be divided into progress points,
It was clear that Bai Ye was currently in the "prequel" stage of this story, which was Dr. Dale's era.
Allen discovering the mirror world and exposing the truth should be the main story.
However, it seemed that because Bai Ye had brought Allen into the mirror world too early, Allen had joined the prequel story.
Of course, it could also be said that due to Allen's involvement, the prequel was about to become the main story?
Bai Ye found it a bit convoluted, but it didn't matter. The core idea remained the same. For Bai Ye, it was to help Allen discover the Rhine Company's secrets and expose the truth about the mutant crystal humans.
As for Yimi...
Bai Ye speculated that perhaps this guy's target was Dr. Dale!
Based on the information from his previous life, Dr. Dale had the ambition to break away from the Rhine Company and establish himself as king using the mutant crystal humans.
Therefore, Dr. Dale, strictly speaking, could not be classified as belonging to the Rhine Company's faction.
This would explain why Yimi shot Li Chengjie, somewhat assisting Bai Ye, but not intending to cooperate with Bai Ye, and not ruling out conflict with Bai Ye.
Because both sides were enemies of the Rhine Company.
However, Bai Ye was aligned with Allen, or more directly, with the artificial humans.
And Yimi, was likely aligned with Dr. Dale!
This would explain the previous confusion. Both sides had a common enemy, but their factions were not ones that could cooperate.
After all, Dr. Dale did not intend to do anything good with the mutant crystal humans; he wanted to become the King of the Wasteland. In essence, replacing the Rhine Company with Dr. Dale, the fundamental situation remained the same.
As for the current situation, Bai Ye felt there was no major problem.
Although Bai Ye had not visited the third laboratory restricted zone in the mirror world in his previous life,
He had visited the third laboratory restricted zone in the real-world Ruined City.
The restricted zone missions in both places were different, but the structure of the restricted zones would definitely be almost identical. Otherwise, why would it be called a mirror world?
Therefore, Bai Ye knew the way!
He just needed to continue leading Allen and the group deeper into the third laboratory.
Although the restricted zone mission had no direct connection to Allen and his group, Bai Ye still had hidden quests, didn't he?
Bai Ye thought as he walked forward, signaling the others to follow him into the elevator.
"Isn't that a bit risky?" Ji Ruyue hesitated, looking to the side. "It's very dangerous."
Ji Ruyue spoke cryptically because there were surveillance cameras inside the elevator. The reason for the danger was also because of the surveillance cameras, which would directly expose their whereabouts.