Dart let out a roar.
"Sly! Carry the containment target and run ahead! Everyone else, put your lives on the line to buy Sly time!"
With that, he was the first to charge at Blood Saw Man.
He tried to buy time for his teammates with his own body.
At their captain's command, the team immediately changed formation.
Sly, who had been surrounded in the middle, was now pushed to the front.
Just then.
Lu Xiao gave a soft hum.
"Chainsaw Uncle."
Everyone present could hear his call.
But Sly, carrying Lu Xiao on his back, had no attention to spare for anything else and sprinted toward the door glowing white ahead.
Lu Xiao gently patted Sly's shoulder.
"Put me down. He's an old acquaintance of mine."
Sly was on the verge of tears.
"Man, please don't make trouble at a time like this."
The glowing door was only a few dozen meters away. In just a few more seconds, he could step through it.
Dart's voice rang out, sounding as though he had just escaped death.
"Sly, put him down."
Hearing this, Sly hurriedly turned his head.
The blade of the chainsaw in Blood Saw Man's hand was now less than ten centimeters above Dart's head.
The chainsaw's buzzing was piercing.
The air thrown off by the spinning blade carried a thick stench of blood and blasted the glass visor on Dart's face into shards.
At that moment, Lu Xiao patted Sly's shoulder again.
"Put me down."
Dazed, Sly set Lu Xiao down.
"Chainsaw Uncle... I want to go with them."
As soon as he said that.
Blood Saw Man paused, then withdrew his chainsaw, his figure slowly fading into the darkness.
Every member of the team stood dumbfounded.
Sly spoke in a trembling voice.
"Man, how do you even know anomalous creatures?"
Lu Xiao did not answer. He pointed at the door close at hand, which blazed with white light.
"Take me over there."
Having finally encountered humans, Lu Xiao was extremely excited.
Besides, while lying on Sly's back, he had heard them talking about some door and something called 069, which had also piqued his curiosity.
And since they were all humans, he felt some affinity toward this team.
This was the first time he had seen humans in the three-plus years since he had fallen into Dark Prison.
Of course, this was also the first time he had heard the term Dark Prison.
Lu Xiao had many questions at that moment.
But he was not curious about the truth right now. He simply wanted to go with these humans.
Sly looked at Lu Xiao's face, at those lifeless dead-fish eyes.
"Man, are you really human?"
Lu Xiao turned to look at him and gave a somewhat... well... ferocious smile.
Startled, Sly hurriedly took two steps back.
It was not that Lu Xiao's looks were particularly frightening.
It was just that his current appearance was rather horrifying.
His face was covered in grime, with bits of flesh and blood still clinging to it.
When he smiled, he exposed a set of stark white teeth, with a black bone fragment still wedged between them.
Combined with those emotionless dead-fish eyes, he looked horrifying beyond description.
If he appeared in a horror movie, the whole film would probably end up being pulled.
Dart walked over, briefly checked Lu Xiao's condition, and let out a long sigh of relief.
At least the target seemed very lively at the moment.
"All right, enough talk. Back to base first!"
Dart immediately gave the order.
Sly's voice was still trembling.
"M-man! Do you still need me to carry you?"
Lu Xiao shook his head and pointed at his legs.
He indicated that he could walk.
So, surrounded by the others, he went with the group through the door glowing white.
Lu Xiao felt a moment of weightlessness, like riding an elevator.
A moment later, everything brightened before his eyes.
All he could see was white light.
The white light made Lu Xiao's eyes sting.
His eyes had not experienced the stimulation of light for more than three years.
Only after taking a moment to adjust did he look around.
It was a large, open, single-level space, with the surrounding steel walls reflecting a faint metallic gleam.
Another team of soldiers was also in the room.
There were seven of them as well.
They surrounded a humanoid creature nearly three meters tall, its entire body shrouded in a black robe.
The humanoid creature wore a beaked mask over its face.
Lu Xiao could tell at a glance that this creature wearing a beaked mask was definitely not human.
Because Lu Xiao sensed a familiar aura from it.
Sure enough, the creature in the beaked mask let out a strange, cackling laugh.
"You have a familiar smell about you."
It looked at Lu Xiao, the beak on its face splitting open.
"You seem to have spent time in the depths?"
Its voice was extremely hoarse.
Calling it unpleasant was no longer enough to describe it.
The sound seemed not to have come from vocal cords at all.
Before Lu Xiao could speak.
The beaked creature leaned closer and sniffed him carefully.
"I smell a lesion on you."
"I'm a doctor. Would you like me to cure you?"
Just as Lu Xiao was about to answer, Sly hurriedly stopped him in a low voice.
"Whatever you do, don't agree."
Lu Xiao stared at Sly with his dead-fish eyes.
Sly immediately shrank back, nearly crying under the gaze of Lu Xiao's dead-fish eyes.
He shook his head like a rattle drum.
"If you're sick, someone will treat you, but you absolutely mustn't go to him."
Although Lu Xiao did not quite understand why Sly would say that.
This beaked doctor clearly looked so kindly.
At a glance, he was plainly a good doctor with abundant medical ethics.
Why would they not let him seek treatment from him?
Though he could not figure it out, he still intended to cooperate with the human, toward whom he felt a greater affinity.
Then he looked at the beaked doctor and gave a relatively friendly smile.
"Thank you, my friend. I'll definitely come to you when I get the chance."
The beaked doctor gave a strange laugh, then looked at the reception team that had brought him out.
"All right, the deal is complete."
"Which of you is sick and needs my treatment?"
The team that had come to receive them immediately looked at Dart.
After all, they had only brought this individual out of his containment room because Dart had reported a level 1 anomalous life-form.
Naturally, Dart's team would have to bear the price.
Dart took off his helmet and rubbed his temples.
He turned to look at Liuguang behind him, whose hand had been severed.
Without needing to be told, Liuguang took his hand from Xiao Yu and stepped forward.
"Mr. Prison Doctor, I need your treatment."
The beaked doctor addressed as Prison Doctor lowered his head and glanced at it.
Then he fell silent.
At that moment, no one dared so much as breathe loudly.
Only Lu Xiao watched the beaked Prison Doctor with curiosity all over his face.
After a long while, Prison Doctor's voice rang out.
"I think you have other illnesses as well. You'd better let me give you a full physical examination."
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