Rescue in Progress
Having received confirmation from Lilith, Lu Li suppressed his doubts and began to concentrate on controlling his own transformation, hoping that there were intelligent people outside!
Outside the Morgue, the female doctor and Professor Liao were staring intently at the parameters on the computer screen, while a phone call nearby carried reports from Laboratory Number Seven regarding Experiment Number Seven, the Bronze Tree.
"At the time, Dr. Lu was conducting a routine inspection of test subject Number Seven and did not use any unconventional methods. Dr. Chen also done so before..."
"I don't need your shirking responsibility and tedious, useless reports." Professor Liao interrupted the report on the phone, suppressing his anger, and said coldly, "Tell me, can you find out why the alternate dimensions are collapsing one after another? Didn't you say before that these spatial structures were very stable?"
"This... we need time..."
"Useless!" Professor Liao could no longer contain his anger and shouted.
"Um... Professor Liao." A nurse stood up, hesitated for a moment, and said timidly.
"What's going on? Which security guard died this time? Can you please not bother me with such trivial matters!" Professor Liao was getting a little frantic. That useless Laboratory Number Seven, which implemented the equally useless Utopia Project, had failed despite investing a lot of manpower and resources, causing quite a bit of turmoil. However, it did yield some gains, obtaining more than a dozen alternate dimensions.
But now the alternate dimension has collapsed for no reason, which means that all their investment has gone down the drain. This is a huge mistake. If the City-State United Government finds out, next year's budget will be drastically reduced. Does this nurse have any sense at all? She's bothering me with such a trivial matter at a time like this.
Of course, they haven't thought about the real consequences of the spatial collapse yet. After all, they haven't witnessed such a thing firsthand, so they don't know what it's all about.
"It's not Professor Liao, but the two life forms that disappeared before have reappeared, and one of them is behaving very strangely," the nurse said, her voice trembling with tears.
"Let's take a look." The female doctor became interested, and Professor Liao, with doubt and lingering anger, looked at the nurse's computer. He saw that the heartbeat signal on the screen was beating at a unique frequency and repeating continuously.
"This frequency..." Professor Liao was stunned for a moment, then quickly opened a document on his computer and typed the frequency repeatedly. Before long, lines of concise text appeared on the document. The female doctor's face changed drastically upon seeing this, and she looked at the Morgue not far away in horror.
The two fell silent for a moment, their faces turning extremely grim.
"What should we do? Run, or do as he says? Can we be sure it's true?" The female doctor's face turned pale. If what he said was true, then they either had to pack their things and run away now, waiting to be punished by the City-State United Government and made scapegoats for this incident, leaving a bad name for eternity, or they had to do as Lu Li said and immediately go get the Bronze Tree and rush to meet up with Lu Li.
"It's better to believe something is true than not, and all the signs seem to match what he said. We can't afford to gamble." Professor Liao no longer had the energy to punish the others. Now there were only two choices: either run away and wait to die, or die a death that would bring eternal infamy. He saw through those people from the City-State Alliance all too well. When you could bring them benefits, they would call you brother, but once something went wrong, they would definitely push you out as a target to appease public anger.
Either he should believe the message Lu Li sent and take the Bronze Tree to try and save it. If he fails, he will simply die. If he succeeds, although he will still face punishment from the City-State Alliance, his abilities will still lead to him being given an important position. Given this, isn't the choice between these two paths obvious?
Picking up the phone, Professor Liao shouted almost in a roaring tone, "Bring the Number Seven test subject to the Morgue entrance. You have ten minutes... less than five minutes, or I'll strip you of your position as the lab's chief researcher and tell your wife about your affair with the female graduate student."
"Professor Liao, this is not in accordance with procedure..."
"Screw your program! You have four minutes left!" Professor Liao cursed, gripping the phone tightly and yelling at the nurses and security guards in front of him, "Now, all of you, move out and clear away all obstacles leading inside! I don't want anything stopping me for even a second!"
"Sound the alarm. You're fast, go and meet up with test subject Number Seven. Don't worry about your stamina, I'll arrange for someone to take over for you," Professor Liao quickly told the female doctor, then picked up the phone and dialed a number.
"Is this Captain Chen? Get to the Morgue entrance immediately, the faster the better." Professor Liao hung up the phone. He had done all he could; whether it would succeed was now up to fate.
The security captain was puzzled when he received Professor Liao's call, but as the de facto person in charge of the hospital, he could not disobey Professor Liao's orders, so he immediately handed over his work to his deputy.
Captain Chen despised this vice-captain from the bottom of his heart. He was jealous, short-sighted, and had disgusting Insect Species abilities. If it weren't for his relative's connections at the hospital, he wouldn't even have had the chance to obtain the Divine Power Mask, let alone the position of vice-captain.
"Call me if anything comes up. Lock up the Flame Species you just captured, and lead the team to catch those guys who broke into the hospital. Handle any problems yourself." After saying this, Captain Chen walked directly into the hospital, leaving his Insect Species deputy behind him with a venomous look in his eyes.
As Captain Chen walked into the passage, his shoulder blades twitched, and a pair of jet-black wings emerged from his clothes. With a slight flap, he flew at an incredible speed to the Morgue entrance, where he saw only Professor Liao standing there.
"About 25 minutes left!"
"What?" Captain Chen was taken aback by Professor Liao's words and asked reflexively.
"There's a huge bomb being generated inside. In 25 minutes, it will blow up most of the city!" Professor Liao pointed to the Morgue and said, "Your family lives near the hospital, right? I remember you have a lovely daughter."
With a flap of wings behind him, Captain Chen flashed in front of Professor Liao, grabbed him by the collar, lifted him up, and slammed him against the wall. "You bastards, what have you done?"
"What we did is irrelevant. What's important now is that we need to get something inside and give it to someone; perhaps he can stop the explosion." Professor Liao, unperturbed by the treatment, continued, "At your speed, you should be able to fly out of the blast radius in 25 minutes at full speed. But taking your wife and children with you is practically impossible. There was a car accident on the elevated road today, and the Mask Rampage berserk, causing a traffic jam. Even if you notify them, you won't be able to escape without the help of Flying Species. So, for your family, fight for it, Captain Chen!"