"How would we know if we don't try?" Yano shouted. "Going up is a dead end. If we go down, we might still have a chance!"
Just then, Sun Hang suddenly stopped.
He shook his head. "No. Going down is too late, too."
"What?!" The Fisherman froze. "Are you sure?"
"The third underground level of the Nameless Island laboratory is an enormous network of tunnels. Even if we could teleport to the entrance of the third level right now, it would still take more than fifteen minutes to reach the nearest Escape Tunnel. According to the Nameless Island laboratory's contingency plans, once the explosives are detonated, the entire underground section of the laboratory will completely collapse within eight minutes... So it's too late."
"Then aren't we dead for sure?" The Fisherman's face went gray. "Fuck, I haven't even held a woman's hand yet..."
"But there's another route." Sun Hang said. "A... 'hidden passage.'"
A three-dimensional image of the laboratory's underground structure gradually became clear in his mind, and a passage that had never existed on the blueprints slowly emerged.
"Follow me," Sun Hang said.
Guided by his memory, Sun Hang quickly led the other two to what appeared to be the entrance to a ventilation duct. The Liquid Metal blade, enhanced with Sharp Blade, made short work of the rusted-shut steel cover. A faint smell of seawater, mixed with rust, immediately drifted out from the pipe.
"Where does this pipe... lead?" Yano could not help asking.
The Nameless Island laboratory's underground layout was exceptionally complex. There were over a thousand different tunnels for personnel and cargo alone, while the ventilation ducts, sewage pipes, and drainage pipes numbered in the tens of thousands. Even with Yano Seiichi's extraordinary memory, there was no way he could remember the location and route