An Astonishing Discovery
The Vice Captain looked up in despair and saw that his fingertips were touching the other man's cold metal armor.
Body heat was quickly conducted upon contact, and the chill, incongruous with the season, traveled from fingertips to the heart.
Then, as his gaze moved upwards, he saw the terrifying mask, like that of the Grim Reaper. One of the blood-red goggles gleamed with a crimson light, while the other eye stared at him expressionlessly.
"You want... to take it?"
A dry voice sounded as the extremely cold and cruel man opened his palm, revealing a large-caliber silver pistol in his hand.
The Vice Captain desperately wanted to snatch the gun, but looking into the man's eyes, it would be a miracle if his mental defenses didn't crumble.
He shook his head, trembling, and his body began to instinctively back away.
Suddenly, as he stepped backward, he tripped over something, his foot twisted, and he fell backward. Fortunately, he managed to brace himself with his hands.
but...
Why is my palm warm...?
It's still a bit sticky.
I squeezed it; it was a little soft.
The Vice Captain's mind was already racing. At this moment, he seemed to realize something, and he looked down shakily, then glanced back.
With just one glance, his abdomen began to convulse. The Vice Captain abruptly turned his head back and then vomited.
"Ah!!! Don't kill me, don't kill me, I beg you, don't kill me! I have a wife and children to support, I don't want to die."
The seemingly tall and imposing Vice Captain was now completely broken down. Snot and tears were mixed together, and his legs were too weak to stand up. He stopped retreating and instead crawled forward desperately.
What tripped him was a leg...
He didn't know whose leg it was, because it was a severed leg, and the sticky, warm sensation on the ground was blood.
He only glanced back half a meter before he couldn't look any further.
As the Vice Captain of a squad in the direct line of the Gaoling Family, he had taken several lives, but he had never seen a murder scene that resembled a slaughterhouse...
Former companions were torn into pieces in just a few seconds.
All he knows now is that his strong will to survive compels him to live.
"I don't want to die, I can't die, please let me go."
A person on the verge of death is both the most dignified and the least dignified.
How one faces death is truly the ultimate test of a person's courage.
For almost 99% of people, it is virtually impossible to remain calm upon seeing such a scene resembling a human slaughterhouse.
The Vice Captain's survival instinct was amplified to an extreme degree at this moment.
He didn't know how he crawled over there, his bloodied hands tightly gripping the other person's legs, which were covered in metal.
A cold hand pressed down on his head and then forcibly turned his head back to its normal position.
A cold gaze met those fearful eyes.
"Can we... have a pleasant... conversation now?"
The man rarely spoke, but each time he did, it was with a rusty, grinding quality, and his extremely slow tone created an atmosphere of intense, oppressive fear.
The Vice Captain nodded tremblingly. "Please, I'll agree to anything you say, please let me go."
His left hand released the Vice Captain's head and then slowly covered his right palm, where the large-caliber silver pistol was placed.
Without any visible exertion of force, just a gentle rubbing motion, the Vice Captain witnessed his beloved sidearm being crushed into a lump of scrap metal.
Then, it was casually tossed onto the ground like trash.
Then the man spoke in a low voice, "Go to the materials... lab. If you can't get there... you die."
The word "death" was as simple to him as breathing.
The Vice Captain, who dared not lower his head, nodded tremblingly, afraid that if he spoke too slowly, he would suffer the same fate as the one behind him who would be torn to pieces.
"You can go, you can go! The key is in this room, I'll get it for you, just don't kill me."
Seeing that the man showed no intention of making a move, the Vice Captain scrambled to his feet and ran to the safe in the corner. Trembling, he opened it and took out a black card.
"This is the pass to enter the workshop."
He didn't dare say that he couldn't get into the lab inside; he just wanted to survive.
"Lead the way."
His calm tone remained noncommittal as he stared at the Vice Captain, the claw blades on his fists retracting with a whoosh.
When the Vice Captain turned around, he finally saw the bloody scene inside the room.
Ugh~
He leaned on the table and vomited a large amount, finally walking out of the security room in a daze.
Now all he wants is for his brothers outside to blow his head off when they see the demon behind him.
However, reality dealt him another heavy blow.
As he stepped out of the room, his eyes unconsciously glanced at several hidden sentry posts.
But at this moment, the only sounds in the factory area were the lonely chirping of insects and the footsteps of the two of them.
There was no one there!
After walking a few steps, a faint smell of blood drifted into his nostrils.
The Vice Captain sniffed and looked in the direction of the scent.
Then he finally saw the hellish scene around the corner...
There were several pieces of shredded guns, and then the corpses of six burly men, all cut in half.
Thick blood stained the ground beneath the corpses a deep red, and under the starlight, some of the still-uncongealed blood reflected a profound crimson.
His stomach churned again, but the Vice Captain forced down his fear and continued walking. He was determined to fight for even the slightest chance of survival.
Like a walking corpse, the Vice Captain stepped over the bodies and blood of his comrades and walked straight toward the Smelting Workshop not far away, followed by a terrifying man walking slowly behind him.
The shadows of the two people stretched longer and longer under the light.
Ten minutes ago.
Inside the laboratory, Mu Fan was observing with great interest the items displayed in the shop windows one by one along the corridor.
"Is it true that factories must accumulate technology generation after generation?"
"It's a must."
"So, do you think it's necessary to steal their technology?" Mu Fan's eyes scanned the glass panes.
"No, I have no interest in the technology here. Some of the glass display cases you're looking at contain rare minerals, which can all be analyzed using instruments."
"The other part is probably products they acquired from other factories, and they wanted to try to analyze the composition of these castings. Just take a look. This glass cabinet serves more as a shelf than as an analyzer."
After saying two sentences in quick succession, Black showed great disdain for the methods used by the Chad Factory, even though he was currently in control of the factory's equipment.
Oh, I forgot to mention, this factory's equipment is far more advanced than their technology.
Hearing Hei's disdainful words, Mu Fan stopped asking questions and continued browsing.
This appears to be a shoulder armor piece, and its shape is relatively intact.
This must be some kind of component of an assault rifle.
Hmm, this...
Etc!
What's this?!
Mu Fan's eyes widened in disbelief.
Inside the glass display case in front of him, there was an armor module, about 70 centimeters in diameter, displayed quietly.
The armor module was intact and undamaged, but it showed signs of combat, though only minor scratches and no dents or deformations.
When Mu Fan first saw the armor module, he didn't pay much attention to it. He just frowned slightly because a sense of familiarity arose in his mind.
However, when he took another step faster, he finally discovered a small line of tiny characters in the lower left corner of the armor!
It was this line of text that made Mu Fan's breathing quicken instantly!
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