Mutant Child

Turning off the Information Panel, Richard used Flash to return to the Second Underground Floor.

Although the Mutant Agents from the Action Department wouldn't be able to return anytime soon, he wasn't planning on just waiting idly for them.

After flashing back to the Second Underground Floor, he saw Sabretooth wrestling with a Clone.

Although both were Humans, at this moment, Sabretooth and the Clone were grappling like two primitive beasts.

You give me a claw, I return a claw! You slit my throat, I'll pierce your eyes!

Neither Sabretooth nor his Clone used any particularly refined combat techniques.

Compared to the Clone, Sabretooth possessed far superior combat experience and skills.

But unfortunately, these two advantages couldn't allow him to quickly kill the Clone in front of him.

Not only that, he finally understood how annoying an enemy with Super Self-Healing ability could be.

"Need any help?"

Seeing that the Clone in front of Sabretooth was "unharmed," only its clothes were tattered and covered in blood, Richard asked Sabretooth.

"No need, I can handle it myself!"

Sabretooth quickly replied.

"Then you take your time resolving it. I'm going down to the Third Underground Floor to take a look."

With that, without waiting for Sabretooth's reply, Richard used Flash to arrive at the Third Underground Floor.

Although Sabretooth's informant hadn't provided intelligence about the Third Underground Floor, they had only said that there might be something very terrifying down there.

But he could now confirm what was on the Third Underground Floor.

Sentinel Robots! The terrifying things the Sabretooth informant mentioned were Sentinel Robots.

This meant that the Third Underground Floor was likely the Hangar, Maintenance Area, Monitoring Room, etc., for the Sentinel Robots.

Richard hadn't guessed wrong.

As soon as he flashed to the Third Underground Floor, the first thing that appeared before him was the Sentinel Robot Maintenance Area.

Inside the vast Maintenance Area, various tools and spare parts for Sentinel Robots were laid out.

Besides that, there were actually several Mutant children imprisoned in the Maintenance Area.

To be precise, they were Mutant children locked in metal cages like lab rats.

After seeing these Mutant children, Richard, who already had little goodwill towards the Department of Mutant Affairs, became even more disgusted with the Department of Mutant Affairs.

Although Mutants had Superpowers that ordinary people didn't, no matter what, Mutants were Humans.

Furthermore, judging from the state of these Mutant children and the fearful expressions on their faces, they had all experienced some inhuman treatment.

As expected, these Mutant children were all sent down from the laboratory on the Second Underground Floor.

As for why these Mutant children weren't sent to the Mutant Prison but instead to the Sentinel Robot Maintenance Area on the Third Underground Floor, the reason wasn't hard to guess.

These Mutant children should all have good Superpowers.

They were sent here so that the Sentinel Robots could replicate their Superpowers.

Seeing these Mutant children with faces full of fear, Richard walked directly to the metal cages where they were held.

Then, the Masamune in his hand flashed out like lightning.

Chichichichi!

The sharp Masamune easily cut through the metal cage locks.

"Come out, it's alright now."

Richard said to these Mutant children.

The cage locks had been cut, and these Mutant children only needed to gently push to leave the cages.

But upon hearing Richard's words, not only did they not come out of the cages, but they instead retreated to the deepest part of the cages with fearful faces, curling their bodies up completely, trembling as they looked at him.

This...

Although he didn't know what these Mutant children had experienced, judging from their current actions, they were all very afraid of leaving the cages.

Or rather, they all had extremely severe psychological trauma and instinctively resisted leaving the cages.

Seeing this scene, Richard became even more disgusted with the Department of Mutant Affairs.

He didn't think he was a good person, but he had his own bottom line.

Putting aside other things, he couldn't bring himself to perform all sorts of horrific Human Experimentation on Mutant children.

Not only that, he wouldn't go around killing people like a perverted serial killer just to Plunder more Superpowers.

Looking at these Mutant children with faces full of fear, Richard took out a Disposable Phone he had prepared beforehand from his System Space.

A Disposable Phone refers to a non-contract or prepaid short-term service bundled phone model that can be used by simply topping up, without requiring any registration or contract signing.

In the United States, these types of Disposable Phones are very common, can be purchased at supermarkets, and are not expensive, making them popular among illegal individuals and criminals.

To facilitate tonight's operation, he had specifically purchased several Disposable Phones while shopping for groceries with Clarice at the supermarket.

Taking out a disposable phone, Richard dialed Clarice's number.

Soon, the call connected.

"I'm on the third underground floor right now. I found a few mutant children with severe psychological trauma. Open a spatial gate and come take them away."

Richard said to Clarice.

"Okay!"

Clarice immediately replied.

A few seconds later, an irregular oval spatial gate appeared near Richard.

As soon as the spatial gate formed, Clarice walked out of it and came before Richard.

"These little ones are a bit scared of me and don't want to come out."

Richard pointed to the mutant children inside the cages and said to Clarice.

"Okay, leave it to me."

Clarice nodded, walked up to one of the metal cages, and said to the mutant child inside:

"Come out, we won't hurt you. We'll take you away from here."

After speaking, Clarice raised her fair, jade-like right hand and extended it towards the mutant child inside.

Perhaps it was because her tone was gentle, or perhaps because she was very beautiful and also a woman.

After hearing her words, the mutant child curled up in the corner of the cage hesitated for only two or three seconds before gripping Clarice's right hand and crawling out of the cage.

With the first one out, the remaining ones were simple.

Without much effort, Clarice coaxed all the mutant children out of the cages.

Under Richard's gaze, Clarice took these mutant children through the spatial gate and returned to the building rooftop from before.

After the spatial gate closed, Richard, holding the Masamune, left the maintenance area.

After walking around the third underground floor, besides those few mutant children, he didn't encounter anyone else.

Not only that, but he also found that many things on the third underground floor had been destroyed.

To be precise, they had been destroyed not long ago.

Clearly, before his arrival, the staff on the third underground floor had not only evacuated in advance but had also destroyed the important documents and equipment that couldn't be taken away.

The reason Richard knew this was because he saw surveillance footage of the staff evacuating and destroying things in the surveillance room on the third underground floor.

They really ran decisively!

Richard muttered to himself! From the surveillance footage, the evacuating staff were not mutants.

Furthermore, judging by their actions during the evacuation, they must have had various contingency plans for evacuation prepared long ago. Their evacuation was orderly and without panic.