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Chapter 175 Revisiting the Research Institute (4)

Because Zhong Qiang unleashed his auxiliary abilities, Ji Lang and Lin Yun were now incredibly powerful. They once again protected Lu Yuan, Yang Xiao, and Zhong Qiang in the middle, and followed their previous plan all the way down from the first basement level to the third basement level.

The safety door on the third basement level was open. As soon as Ji Lang came down, he saw an empty corridor. There wasn't a single zombie in the corridor. Even though zombies had been rushing up from downstairs all the way down, he found that none of the zombies rushing towards them had entered the safety door.

"What's going on?" After the five people entered the safety door, Lin Yun also noticed that none of the zombies behind them had followed them in.

“No wonder we didn’t see any zombies when we went down to the second basement level yesterday.” Ji Lang walked around the corridor and found that there were no zombies in the open laboratories.

"Is there something here that keeps the zombies away?" Yang Xiao said, and like Ji Lang, he walked around the corridor, checking all the open laboratories. Unfortunately, these laboratories were empty; there was nothing inside. It seemed that everything had been taken away during the relocation.

"How is it?" Yang Xiao strolled back to Lu Yuan's side, and Lu Yuan quickly turned his head to ask him.

"There's nothing here. Did your system say anything?" Yang Xiao asked back.

"The system isn't a dog, what can it say?" Lu Yuan frowned, glanced at the closed labs, and turned to ask Ji Lang, "Captain Ji, did the base specify which lab on this floor is the thing you're looking for?"

"No, they only said it was in the laboratory on the third basement level." Ji Lang took out his communicator again to confirm.

"Then why don't you send them a message and ask?" Yang Xiao said as he leaned over to look at Ji Lang's communicator. Sure enough, just as Ji Lang had said, the message only stated the mission destination: the laboratory on the third basement floor of the Beijing Research Institute.

"Actually, I've been sending messages to the base ever since the team had that accident yesterday, but I haven't received a reply." Although he didn't want to admit it, Ji Lang said calmly.

"Your lousy base must have seen your information, otherwise they wouldn't have sent a new team over." Yang Xiao already had a lot of complaints about the South China base, and now hearing Ji Lang say this made him even more disdainful.

"Tsk!" Ji Lang was particularly annoyed by Yang Xiao's tone. If Yang Xiao hadn't said those words, the person who spoke might have already been beaten flat by him.

"Regardless, now that we're here, we definitely need to get what the base asked for. Otherwise, they'll send another team, and we can't just stay here forever." Lin Yun certainly didn't believe the base would abandon them, nor did he really believe that Yang Xiao and his group's situation was Commander-in-Chief Jiang's doing. Moreover, even if it really was Jiang Xing's doing, it didn't represent the will of the entire Chinese government, so he maintained a neutral stance.

"Hmm." Lu Yuan didn't know what to say at this moment. Anyway, his and Yang Xiao's original purpose was to come here to find relevant information about the "Star Sea Project" and the "Starry Sky Project". Since they were already here, they certainly couldn't leave empty-handed.

"Mhm!" Seeing Lu Yuan nod, Zhong Qiang also nodded in agreement, he was definitely on the same page as Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao.

"Then we'll have to search room by room." Yang Xiao looked at the zombies outside the safety doors at both ends of the corridor. They had been there for quite a while, and not a single one had come in.

"These zombies might be waiting for a stronger, higher-level zombie, which is why they haven't come in yet. We need to hurry." After saying that, Ji Lang walked to a closed laboratory door in front of him.

“This material is the same as the security door.” Lin Yun also looked at the closed door next to him.

"Lu Xiaoyuan! Charge!" At Yang Xiao's command, Lin Yun and Ji Lang saw Lu Yuan punch the door in front of them.

"Holy crap!" Before Zhong Qiang could react, he saw the door panel fly out.

"Lu Xiaoyuan, you need to be more careful next time. What if there are computers or something inside and you smash them?" As soon as the door opened, Yang Xiao peeked inside. Fortunately, the laboratory was quite spacious, with a large open area behind the door and tables and cabinets on both sides.

"Understood." Lu Yuan said, wiping away the metal shavings on his exoskeleton hands while communicating with the system in his mind to adjust the intensity. "Right now, this system can only adjust the mecha's basic functions. I haven't fully figured it out yet."

"It's alright, you've already done a great job. I give you a thumbs up." After saying that, Yang Xiao took the lead and walked in, with Zhong Qiang following behind him like a tail.

Lu Yuan and his group had already opened a door and gone inside, while Ji Lang and Lin Yun were trying to open the laboratory door in another way. However, the locks on these doors were encrypted and could not be opened without a password. The material was also a very hard, unknown metal. Although they had superpowers and their physical strength had been enhanced, they could not smash the door open with a single punch like Lu Yuan could.

After thinking for a moment, the two could only follow Lu Yuan into the laboratory that he had smashed open. The five of them quickly got into the swing of things and searched the entire laboratory.

However, this laboratory, which was originally closed, was completely empty, just like the ones with open doors. The only things left inside were a few pieces of paper, which were just an emergency notice about evacuation.

"Lu Xiaoyuan, next one!" Yang Xiao said, and then he and Lu Yuan walked towards the door of the next laboratory...

Soon, under Lu Yuan's violent dismantling, they searched all five laboratories without finding anything. With only the last two laboratories on the other side of the corridor remaining, the zombies outside the security door still did not make a move.

"Something doesn't feel right!" As he walked to the door of the second-to-last laboratory, Yang Xiao inexplicably stopped. He looked again at the zombies outside the safety doors on both sides, as if they were waiting for Lu Yuan to open the door.

"Shall we open it?" After several adjustments, Lu Yuan had mastered the control of the mecha's power, managing to break the lock without smashing the entire door away.

"What do you guys think, Captain?" Zhong Qiang thought Yang Xiao would say something like "bad," and he was all prepared to defend himself. But who knew that this guy would do something completely different and turn around to ask Ji Lang and Lin Yun.