As for how to visit relatives, Lu Xin actually hasn't figured it out yet.
He just decided to go.
But Chen Jing, the warm-hearted leader who wanted to accompany her to visit relatives, obviously thought more about Zhou Quan than herself. Lu Xin didn't know how much time she spent arranging this, but at this time, following her downstairs, she only felt that it was very smooth.
After reaching the end of the corridor, the waiter led him down the stairs to the kitchen on the third floor. Another "enthusiastic" waiter kindly led Lu Xin and others through the kitchen to the first floor of the hotel. In this way, they did not have to go through the lobby, but directly passed through a back door of the hotel that had been abandoned and had not been opened for a long time, and came to the alley.
"Although what we are doing is not illegal, Central City is too vigilant, and they may also be thinking about us, so they have arranged for people to keep an eye on the hotel in advance. Of course we can also walk out in a big way, but that would be a bit troublesome, so I have made a little more preparation in some steps to make it more convenient."
"The ones Central City arranged to keep an eye on us are just ordinary agents, haha..."
"They don't have the luxury to use ability users to keep an eye on everyone, but it's very convenient for us..."
"..."
After leaving the hotel smoothly, Chen Qing looked very relaxed and explained to Lu Xin.
Lu Xin thinks it's actually quite interesting.
Sometimes he can feel that the leader treats him as a child.
But he didn't mean to expose her. After all, she was the leader. As long as she was happy...
"Just leaving the hotel isn't enough, is it?"
Although Gecko followed, he was still mumbling in a low voice. "Team leader, do you know the specific location of that laboratory? Also, have you ever thought about how we can get there in the shortest time? Now our transportation is under the nose of Central City, so shall we run there later?... Even if we leave the city, we can't show our passes..."
Lu Xin thought about it carefully, and really felt that what Gecko said made sense.
He was a little lucky to have a leader following him.
Otherwise, if Central City doesn't let him go out of the city, he doesn't know what to do...
... Is it possible to call directly?
"It's been arranged."
Regarding these questions, Chen Jing just said casually and led them out of the alley behind the hotel.
The alley led to an avenue on the back, and there happened to be a few large trucks driving over in a row.
Chen Jing opened the door of a car and got in.
Before Lu Xin could react, he heard Little Zhou shouting happily in the car behind, "Little Lu Brother, take my car!"
"Huh?"
Lu Xin couldn't help but be startled for a moment, then cast an admiring look at Chen Jing, opened the door and got in the car.
Old Zhou is the driver. At this time, he is looking at Lu Xin with a moved face, tears welling up in his eyes:
"Brother Lu, I feel so wronged to you. You actually have to risk your life for us..."
Lu Xin was stunned for a moment. "No, I haven't broken any laws until now..."
"Yes yes yes."
Old Zhou nodded repeatedly. "You are not wrong, what is wrong is this damn world!"
Lu Xin: "..."
The convoy already has a pass to enter and exit Satellite City, so leaving the city is naturally a very convenient thing.
In addition, the search when leaving the city was much more relaxed than when entering the city. In addition, these large trucks pulled all kinds of junk. Even the guard next to the steel suspension bridge was too lazy to look through them one by one. He waved his hand and let them out.
Then this convoy drove directly onto the road outside the city, kicked up a cloud of sand and dust, and headed straight to the southwest.
After stopping for a while to pick up some things, Gecko and Chen Jing also came to the truck compartment driven by Old Zhou. Here, there was a dark iron box that the team had just taken out. At this time, the lid of the box had been opened, and there were various weapons inside.
There are spray guns, homemade pistols, submachine guns, revolvers, and several watermelon knives.
"Even I didn't expect that such a good cooperation would lead to a solo operation. We came to Central City as a support team. It was inconvenient to bring too many weapons, and because the matter was urgent, we didn't have time to find another arms dealer to purchase, so everyone could only feel aggrieved. Fortunately, this convoy gave us a lot of help, and they have a lot of weapons..."
Chen Jing said with a smile, then picked at it, took a pistol, and inserted it into the holster next to his thigh.
"It's quite a lot. We can open a rural weapons museum..."
Gecko muttered, rummaging around in the box, stuffing submachine guns, spray guns, semi-automatic rifles, and various types of bullets into his backpack. It was obviously a backpack with a large capacity. When he fell like this, it suddenly became full. The muzzle of the gun stretched out from the mouth of the backpack. It looked like it was arranging flowers, and it looked strangely good-looking.
However, after being picked out by Gecko, there were obviously fewer things in the box. Lu Xin took a look and only saw the watermelon knife.
But he didn't mind, he just asked Gecko to get his two guns back.
Among the three people, Gecko should have the greatest demand for firearms and the most stringent requirements.
"Now, it's time to share the intelligence."
Chen Jing took out the tablet from his backpack, looked at Lu Xin, and said with a smile, "Since you decided to visit your relatives when you returned to the hotel, do you know where Chen Xun... your relatives are now?"
Gecko's eyes widened. "You don't all know, right?"
Lu Xin and Chen Jing ignored him.
"As for the location, I heard them whispering when they were at the chemical plant. It was a place called Buffalo City."
As soon as Lu Xin spoke, Gecko next to him was stunned for a moment. Why didn't I hear it?
Chen Jing showed an approving look and said, "If I had known better, I wouldn't have wasted so much effort and asked you directly."
From what she meant, she already knew.
Lu Xin did not explain to them that it was not him who heard it, but his sister.
This is not her fault, after all, her sister likes to run around, so when Xia Chong asked her to stay in an office with the support staff from Qinggang to sort out relevant information, she kept wandering around here and there, and soon she found out all the news that should be heard and shouldn't be heard, including, what they mentioned, a place called Buffalo City.
After Chen Xun and Zhao Shiming, who was kidnapped by him, left Satellite City No. 7, they rushed there overnight.
Because they were too impatient, they couldn't even hide their traces well, and were quickly tracked by Central City's Infiltrator. And now that it is certain that the two of them are there, it is also certain that the final laboratory is there.
"Buffalo City is not far from Central City, only more than 300 kilometers away. If you take a helicopter, you can reach it in two hours. However, the fame of Central City has attracted a large number of wilderness wanderers to gather here and established gathering points one after another. Buffalo City is one of them. A survey three months ago found that Buffalo City is now home to at least 100,000 people."
Since Chen Jing can say this name, it naturally means that she also knows this location, and she has already studied the information about this place. "It is precisely because of these people that Central City needs ability users to go out to solve this matter."
"Instead, directly use long-range weapons of mass destruction!"
"..."
After finishing speaking, Chen Jing's face became more solemn and said, "After knowing the location, there is one more important thing."
"Black Table, that is, what your relative is doing now..."
"But this time we entered the city, we had no support, and we did not have Information Analysis Team to provide us with information inquiries and supplements at all times, so we need to understand this mission in advance. Central City has more information than us, but did not choose to share it with us on many things. However, fortunately, researcher Mo Yi still made speculations about this mission and gave information."
As she spoke, she took out a tablet from her black backpack, lit up the screen, and swiped lightly.
"Whether it is No. 1021 Special Pollution Event that Black Table triggered last night, or the secret laboratory under the chemical plant, it can be seen that the essence of their experiments is actually the development, research and utilization of a special spiritual body..."
"That is, among the thirteen abnormal spiritual bodies, the power code-named 'life'."
"..."
"Life?"
Lu Xin was slightly startled, and his face became more serious.
He still remembered that when Mom left, he specially told himself that if he encountered monsters or things related to Third Stage, or related to the thirteen special spiritual bodies, he should be more careful... This shows that they are very dangerous!
"Yes, although Central City obviously does not want us to know the specific research information of the secret laboratory under the chemical plant, nor does he tell us what parasites they lost, Doctor Mo Yi still saw some clues from some remaining traces and equipment left in the secret laboratory. Dr. Zhao Shiming is responsible for some kind of research on this type of spiritual body."
Chen Jing spoke seriously and said, "Black Table should also have mastered this kind of spiritual body."
"And we can speculate when they obtained this spiritual body."
"When Crimson Moon incident first came, Eclipse Research Institute had already collected samples of thirteen abnormal mental entities. However, the chaos of the world at that time also affected Research Institute. He experienced migration, betrayal, and experiments out of control. Among them, the 'escaped laboratory' incident was the hardest hit to Research Institute, and even affected its subsequent development..."
"..."
Lu Xin Gecko all listened silently, no one dared to be careless at this time.
"This kind of mental power has very terrifying characteristics."
Chen Jing made a few strokes on the tablet, then handed it to Lu Xin and said, "Other mental powers can affect people or other animals, but there are very few that directly interfere with reality. Spider-type's ability users can twist their bodies to do some actions that ordinary people cannot imagine. This is a rare phenomenon of mental power interfering with the body..."
"But the mental power code-named 'Life' is different. Its only function that has been discovered so far is to directly affect people, or to interfere with reality. The reason why it has this code name is because it can make anything have a strong and uncontrollable vitality. Just like a piece of flesh and blood cut from the body, it can give this piece of flesh and blood the characteristics of life."
"... In addition, the Beginning is a parasitic product with this kind of spiritual power. It is originally a piece of flesh and blood."
"... the flesh and blood of an unknown creature."
"..."
Lu Xin frowned as he listened to Chen Jing's story.
He thought about a lot, from the brain-shaped monster he met in White Tower Town, to the Hell Squad he met before, to the flesh-and-blood squirming monster he saw in the detention center. They were obviously not humanoid, but they were not Mental Monster that only he could see, but monsters with real entities, even lives... Could it be because of this?
Are they all born because of this spiritual body codenamed "life"?
Therefore, even though they should not have life from any angle, they still have it.
Ugh, if you think about it, it's a bit disgusting.
"Damn it, if you say that, isn't it basically certain?"
The more Gecko listened, the more horrified he became, saying, "If making God's Body sounds like a crazy joke, then the research on the spiritual body code-named 'Life' may indeed make this joke become a fact..."
"Of course, it's mostly distorted facts."
"..."
"This is the only information we know now."
"As for how far Black Table has researched 'life' and what their purpose is this time, it can be said that we don't know much more than you do. Our mission this time also originally included the investigation of the truth."
Chen Jing finished saying these words, heaved a sigh of relief and said, "You can take a look at the information first."
Lu Xin and Gecko nodded and looked down at the tablet.
What is displayed on the screen is the records of various research and experiments conducted on the spiritual body codenamed "Life". If you scroll down, you will find that there is an alarming amount of data, but most of it is purely experimental observation results.
For example, the flesh and blood that is parasitic on a "life" spiritual body will become abnormally active.
This activity includes eating other organisms to grow, and showing strong aggression and reproduction.
The flesh and blood parasitized by the "life" spiritual body can withstand high temperatures below 300 degrees. When faced with high temperatures above 300 degrees, they will also be burned to death or turned into ashes. However, when the remains come into contact with fresh flesh and blood, there is still a certain chance of contaminating the fresh flesh and blood, turning the originally lifeless fresh flesh and blood into viable little monsters...
Most of the contaminated flesh and blood have no obvious intellectual characteristics.
For contaminated flesh and blood, the chance of being observed in a stable state in a hundred experiments is zero.
After the D-class personnel came into contact with the contaminated flesh and blood, signs of large-scale rotting flesh and blood first appeared on the contact surface. Soon, new granulations with aggressive and devouring characteristics were born from the rotting flesh and blood. The granulations parasitized in the bodies of the D-class personnel and continued to spread. In the end, the D-class personnel were completely contaminated and turned into Flesh Monster with no trace of intelligence.
The entire pollution process takes thirty-four minutes.
Weaknesses: High temperature, various weapons that can destroy the parasitic mental body, and strong pollution can cause damage to it.
But because of its high-intensity growth ability, all weaknesses are not fatal...
"It feels a bit scary..."
Gecko looked at it for a while, then subconsciously shrank his head and swallowed.
"I should say, it's a bit disgusting."
Lu Xin handed the tablet to Chen Jing, thoughtfully. "It tastes like rotten meat..."
"Uh-huh!"
Chen Jing and Gecko turned to look at Lu Xin at the same time. Even Chen Jing's expression was obviously confused.
Lu Xin was a little embarrassed and hurriedly explained, "I guessed..."
Gecko and Chen Jing looked at each other and adjusted their expressions, showing a look like I believe you.
Chen Jing relaxed slightly, exhaled, looked at the time, and said, "With the speed of the convoy traveling at full speed, we should be able to reach Buffalo City within three hours. After arriving at the location, as a team, we sneaked into the city while trying not to conflict with Central City, and found the location of the laboratory in this abandoned city where hundreds of thousands of refugees gathered."
She turned to look at Lu Xin: "What will you do after you find your relatives?"
Lu Xin calmed down for a moment before reacting. He looked calm and said softly, "My relative likes to cut open living people without anesthesia. He also likes to study such disgusting flesh and blood, and even turns people into madmen..."
"So..."
He paused, a gentle smile appeared on his face, and there was a real sense of excitement, which made his voice softer:
"Of course I have to persuade him to change his ways and make sure he doesn't turn to crime again..."
It's only three hundred words short of five thousand words, so it can barely be counted as five thousand words, right?
If you try harder, it will be the third update.
So, you guys can reluctantly vote for Old Ghost, right?