Death!

The machine restraining Li Yuan slowly opened. He flexed his wrists. "That person isn't dead, right?"

"Of course," Wang Haonan said.

"Where is Sequence 009 being contained?"

Li Yuan shook his head. "I'm not sure. I only know we weren't being held in the same place."

"It seems the Nine-Tailed Fox intends to execute Sequence 001 and 004."

"They didn't intend to execute you?"

Li Yuan shifted his gaze. "They've been drawing my blood. It seems they developed some kind of serum, and I'm the raw material for it."

Wang Haonan recalled the documents he had found in the other laboratories.

"It should be Reinforcement Agent No. 01. I saw it at another experimental base before."

As he spoke, Wang Haonan took a vial from his pocket and tossed it to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan caught the vial and sensed it. "These are Deep One cells. Strange, how did they unlock the cell lock?"

"What cell lock?"

Li Yuan shook the vial in his hand. "These cells are inherently infectious, but their infectivity has been locked."

"And I'm the only one who knows how to unlock that cell lock."

"But now, they somehow unlocked it and kept the cells in a restricted state of constant activation."

"Normally, once this serum is injected into a human body, they'll instantly be transformed into Fishmen."

"But they found a way to limit the cells' infection, preventing them from fully transforming the human body. Sure enough, the anomaly I sensed before wasn't without cause."

"So it wasn't for nothing that I let myself get captured. This trip was worth it. Listen to me..."

Li Yuan suddenly smiled. "I have an idea."

"An idea?"

The moment Wang Haonan spoke, red lights suddenly flashed throughout the base, accompanied by an incredibly blaring alarm!

"Incident No. 01, containment breach!"

"The Delta Extreme Response Force is en route to the out-of-control area!"

Wang Haonan turned around, but Li Yuan shoved him aside.

Facing the armed soldiers, Li Yuan suddenly released a bizarre sound wave.

The sound wave came from his abdomen, as though it carried some kind of melody.

Upon hearing Li Yuan's ventriloquism, the soldiers suddenly clutched their heads and fell to their knees!

"Urgh, argh!"

Fish scales and green skin began spreading across the soldiers' bodies, while their frames rapidly swelled and stretched their uniforms apart!

Li Yuan turned around. "These people have all been injected with Fishman cells. Although only in small amounts, as long as I unlock the cell lock, the Fishman cells will transform them in an instant."

"All I can say is that the Nine-Tailed Fox made me a fine wedding dress."

"I'll handle things here. That person must have given you another task, right?"

Wang Haonan nodded, and his figure instantly vanished from where he stood.

After Wang Haonan left, the Nine-Tailed Fox's newly established Delta Extreme Response Force all turned into Fishmen.

The advantage of this new unit was that every member had been injected with Fishman cells.

Unfortunately, Li Yuan had discovered that secret.

"Let's go. Let's see what good things those Nine-Tailed Fox have collected."

The Fishmen, armed with firearms, parted to make a path. Li Yuan led the way through the laboratory corridor.

Ahead was the Light Containment Zone.

Li Yuan looked over the containment lockers and happened to spot a skeletal hand.

A placard beneath it read:

SRW Number 009-14: Hand of Greed.

Danger Level: S.

Containment Information:

The Hand of Greed split off from Sequence 009. It can move on its own and float like a ghost hand, and 009-14 is especially fond of women's buttocks.

At the same time, 009-14 can be attached to any limb of a living being. Once the Hand of Greed is attached, the creature's will can freely control 009-14.

However, 009-14 possesses an extremely potent Mental Contamination meme. Once touched, it will immediately activate the strongest desire in a creature's heart, which must then be acted upon at once.

Contact with 009-14 is strictly forbidden, and no women may appear before 009-14.

Seeing this, Li Yuan grinned and smashed the glass with a single punch before entering the containment chamber.

"Sequence 009 sure has plenty of trash creations."

After kicking apart the containment apparatus holding 009-14, the hand crawled out and gave Li Yuan a V sign.

Li Yuan's mouth twitched, and he turned to look at the other containment chambers.

The Hand of Greed immediately followed him, floating at his side.

"What's this, a murderous electric fan?"

009-8: Murderous Electric Fan.

Danger Level: RS.

Containment Information: In appearance, 009-8 is merely an ordinary electric fan, but it possesses indestructible properties.

It must remain powered for 24 hours a day.

Otherwise, 009-8's blades will detach from its body and slaughter every living creature in sight like a propeller.

If the facility loses power, all personnel must immediately evacuate this area. Once power is restored, D-Class Personnel must enter the facility first to confirm whether 009-8 is receiving power.

Li Yuan took one look, then silently left.

It was best not to touch this one.

That was what he thought, but the Hand of Greed seemed to have other ideas. It quietly went over and unplugged the Murderous Electric Fan.

The instant the plug came out, the fan blades spun free, slicing through glass and stone as they shot away at high speed!

Elsewhere.

The Deep Containment Zone.

Wang Haonan found Sequence 009, whose entire body was covered in steel spikes.

"Yo, long time no see."

Sequence 009's pupils shifted, but steel spikes had pierced through his tongue and mouth, leaving him unable to speak.

Seeing this, Wang Haonan pulled the spike from his mouth.

"Have you been living comfortably here?"

The Splitter moved his head. "Even if you hadn't come, my people would've come for me. Oh, no, they're already outside."

Wang Haonan smiled faintly. "Is that so? But I'm not here to save you."

"I'm here to kill you."

As Wang Haonan spoke, he casually dug a Monkey-patterned Stone out from his waistband.

"Look, I picked it up on the way."

The Splitter's pupils contracted. "Hey, hey, hey, don't joke around. I admit I was talking too loudly before!"

Wang Haonan nodded. "You're talking pretty loudly now too."

"Rat."

As soon as he spoke, a beam of light shot from the Monkey-patterned Stone in Wang Haonan's hand and struck the Splitter, instantly turning him into a rat.

The so-called Immortal Body merely meant that the flesh could regenerate without limit.

In that case, there were actually many ways to kill such an immortal body.

For example, killing his soul, or altering his body and turning it into that of an ordinary person.

Or using something capable of erasing or obliterating concepts could also kill him.

After the Splitter became a rat, Wang Haonan grabbed him. He picked up a cleaver, brought it down, and chopped off the rat's head.

The rat's body twitched for a while, then went still.

Wang Haonan weighed the stone in his hand. "This thing really is useful."

As he spoke, Wang Haonan spread his fingers and revealed another eight stones.

"At least your death has a little value."

With that, Wang Haonan stepped onto the reflective floor and vanished from the spot.

His figure darted back and forth between the floor and ceiling, yet the corridor was empty.

When the other researchers arrived later, all they saw was a white mouse with its head cut off.