Another Production Line Dismantled

Gurgle, gurgle. Water surged in the ancient well in the courtyard, and suddenly, many pale-skinned, shriveled monsters with no eyes or noses crawled out. Baring huge teeth and gaping wide mouths, they screamed as they launched an attack on the crowd.

Faced with these naked monsters, Shi Tiexin had only one thing to say: "Hit them!"

This time, he got to savor the sheer dominance of using many against few. Watching those monsters fall without any ability to fight back amid the hail of bullets, Shi Tiexin felt that this was how battles against villains ought to be—comfortable.

At first, his men had been badly rattled when they suddenly found themselves fighting such horrifying-looking things. But after the initial panic, they quickly discovered that aside from being ugly, these things had no particular strengths. Their power, especially, was indeed not great, and the gun barrels gradually steadied.

The flames burned ever fiercer, while more of those monsters kept emerging from beneath the well.

"Haul away every corpse of these things. Dissect what needs dissecting, research what needs researching. Oh, and find a few especially outstanding-looking ones and make them into specimens for people to view. Next time they see one, at least they won't piss themselves in fright." Shi Tiexin began issuing orders. "Bring that excavator up too. There has to be a secret passage beneath this well. Dig it open!"

More than ten minutes later, the excavator truly made it up the mountain and began its Lanxiang-style operation amid the blazing firelight.

A large truck stopped nearby and opened one of its winged sides, immediately transforming into a temporary command center. Shi Tiexin sat in the broad chair within, watching several hundred subordinates bustle about as they searched for the secrets here as though digging three feet into the