Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 573 Johor Bahru City (6)

Because so much happened in such a short period of time, almost no one noticed. The power outage in the underground complex coincided with the alarm. Even Adenauer, who knew a certain degree of theatricality was necessary, was slightly distracted by the successive raids. Most people focused on Adenauer's brilliant raid and tactical thinking.

But it wasn't that no one noticed this series of coincidences, and some of them did begin to have some doubts. However, they couldn't confirm it, and perhaps this series of events was really a coincidence.

At the same time, on the third floor of the training center.

The sentry team Dr. Li had brought here was divided into three groups, each responsible for different locations. Four guarded the door to Lab 4, four guarded the door to Lab 7, and the remaining five patrolled the corridors. The alarm had previously sounded, and everyone was on edge. They had temporarily forgotten one thing: the sentry teams were organized into groups of 12. So, including the other group split into two to guard the elevators, there should have been 24 sentries in total. However, there were actually 25 sentries currently stationed on the third floor of the training center.

The extra sentry was Adenauer wearing sentry armor. Even if someone suddenly wanted to check the number of people in the team, they would only find out the normal number of people in the team. He was now a member of the corridor patrol team. As long as he found a chance to leave, no one would notice that there was an extra person in his team.

Based on the previous test, Dr. Li didn't seem to have any perceptual abilities, which saved him a lot of trouble. So, as he turned a corner in the corridor, Adenauer slipped into a room on the third floor, successfully separating himself from the group and concealing his whereabouts once again. This seemed to be an office for evaluating experimenters.

The office was deserted. There were some documents and a terminal on the desk, but nothing important. There were two rows of lockers on either side of the wall, likely belonging to the assessment lab technicians. After locking the office door, Adenauer quickly checked the lockers and found some assessment lab technicians' research robes and dust pants. After changing into them, Adenauer picked up a storage box and placed a large pile of useless folders and files inside. Then, holding the filled storage box, shielding his face, he left the office with a dignified manner.

The biological signals that are extremely similar to those of parasites appeared in Laboratory No. 4 and Laboratory No. 7. What he is looking for must be in these two laboratories. Dr. Li is currently in Laboratory No. 7. He may be able to find a way to enter Laboratory No. 4, but the two laboratories are not far apart. If he enters these two laboratories now, he will be questioned. If something goes wrong, he will definitely be discovered immediately. Adenauer needs to think of other ways to enter these two laboratories.

Using his disguise, Adenauer entered Laboratory 5, located across the hallway from the other two labs, under the watchful eyes of the sentries. Several researchers were busy organizing and recording data, and even when he entered, no one noticed him. While pretending to organize documents, Adenauer used his clairvoyance to observe the two labs across the hallway.

Laboratory 4 resembled a robotic medical operating room. Behind a special explosion-proof glass wall sat a group of experimenters and a complex control console. Inside the glass walls lay several large robotic operating rooms, where dozens of precision robotic arms of varying sizes simultaneously performed surgeries on subjects in all the rooms. Through the intrusion of contractor equipment into the control console, Adenauer gained detailed insight into the conditions within Laboratory 4. Internal surveillance footage revealed that the subjects undergoing surgery in the large operating rooms were all second-generation synths. The surgeries were divided into two distinct phases. Two of the operating rooms were performing procedures involving the direct injection of a biochemically labeled extract into the heads of the second-generation synths. Analysis by the contractor's equipment confirmed that the extract originated from the same plant samples he had carried. However, the second-generation synths who underwent the injections showed no immediate effects, so the purpose of the procedures remains unclear.

Another type of surgery was related to his own target. According to the contractor's equipment, these individuals appeared to have completed the injections long ago, and their bodies were showing numerous subtle biological reactions. The biological signals previously detected, similar to those of the parasite, appeared to be this very thing. Adenauer observed through the contractor's equipment that the surgeries on these individuals involved stimulating the areas of their bodies where the biological reactions were occurring with an electric current of a specific frequency. After a certain level of stimulation, the activity of these biological reactions rapidly increased. Parasites similar to those he had seen in Sterburg could be seen rapidly hatching and growing from their eggs in those locations. However, unlike in Sterburg, these parasites stopped growing at a certain size, while the second-generation synths showed no signs of deformation. However, Adenauer noticed that, although they were still not under the control of the parasites, the vital signs they were now emitting were identical to those of the monsters he had seen in Sterburg.

Seeing this, Adenauer was roughly certain that the experiment being carried out in Laboratory No. 4 was the same as what he had seen in the secret research institute in Sterburg, except that Laboratory No. 4 should have improved the experimental steps in some way so that this experiment could be effective on the second-generation synthetic humans without causing them to lose control. The factor that could stabilize the parasitic state should be the plant sample extracts injected into these second-generation synthetic humans.

Adenauer immediately thought that the research being carried out in Laboratory No. 4 and Laboratory No. 7 might be different steps of the same project. Dr. Li was now in Laboratory No. 7, and he was not sure about this guy's strength, so Adenauer would not risk observing the interior of Laboratory No. 7. But at the same time, if his speculation was correct, then he had also found a way to lure him out of Laboratory No. 7.

According to his understanding, the cessation of parasite growth in Laboratory No. 4 was due to the intervention of the control console, so he only needed to use the contractor's equipment to shut down the control console and let the parasites continue to grow uncontrollably, which might trigger the alarm again. Laboratory No. 4 and Laboratory No. 7 were very important. If any of them had a problem, Dr. Li would definitely go there in person to check it out.

"Overwriting control systems... Completed."

Coincidentally, one of the operating rooms in Lab 4 had reached the stage of stimulating the hatching of the parasite eggs. After the eggs hatched, Adenauer immediately intercepted the control console and released the control system that inhibited the parasite's growth. Sure enough, without the control, the parasites grew rapidly, soon approaching the size of those in the secret laboratory in Sterburg. As the parasites continued to grow, the second-generation synths also let out painful screams. Their bodies deformed at a speed visible to the naked eye. In less than three minutes, they were transformed into creatures that were almost indistinguishable from the monsters in the secret laboratory in Sterburg.

Although this monster has slender limbs, it is incredibly strong. It broke free from the restraints of the operating cabin in an instant, tore the operating cabin apart and stood up. As mentioned before, these monsters possess a certain degree of intelligence, so after breaking free, it immediately rushed to other operating cabins, violently opened the hatches, and then pried open the mouths of other second-generation synths, and sprayed a large amount of secretions from its own mouth. These secretions seemed to be able to provide a lot of nutrition to the parasites that had not reached the adult stage. The second-generation synths who absorbed the secretions, and the parasites in their bodies that had been restricted in their growth level, immediately began to continue growing. Soon, with the first monster's rampage, more and more synths in the operating room were turned into the same monsters.

The operation went out of control, and the researcher behind the glass wall immediately pressed the alarm button. The shrill alarm sounded throughout the training center. Dr. Li in Laboratory No. 7 naturally heard the alarm as well, and immediately rushed out of Laboratory No. 7 and ran straight into Laboratory No. 4.

Seizing this opportunity, Adenauer quickly left Lab 5 and entered Lab 7 before the guards at the gate could react. Time was running out, so Adenauer quickly used the contractor's equipment to scan the lab. The scan revealed that this was the lab where suitable second-generation synthetics would be selected and the parasites implanted. Adenauer quickly used the contractor's equipment to download the relevant data, intending to study it later.

Since he had achieved his first goal, there was no need to stay in the training center any longer. He was ready to leave immediately, but as soon as he walked out, he was stopped by the sentry at the door.

"Go back! No one is allowed to enter or leave Room 7 now..."

"Ping!!"

"Click!"

"Buzz~~~"

Adenauer had naturally thought that he would be stopped by the sentry when leaving, so when he opened the door of Laboratory No. 7, he had a stun grenade in his hand. Sure enough, as soon as he opened the door, the sentry outside stopped him. Adenauer quickly let go of the stun grenade in his hand, and after landing, he controlled the sentry outside the door. Adenauer quickly broke open the laboratory door and a sentry blocking the door, snatched the weapon from his hand, opened fire directly, and then took advantage of the time when the sentry was stunned to quickly annihilate those sentries.

"Clang!!!"

However, just when the sentries outside Laboratory No. 7 were about to be wiped out and only one or two were left, Adenauer's body suddenly flew uncontrollably towards the wall opposite the corridor. When his body smashed through the wall, he found that Dr. Li had appeared behind him at some point, and his right hand had undergone serious changes. It looked like a thick cable full of metal fragments, but according to his own feeling, this mutated arm was completely made of biomass.

"Current Threat Level: High."

Based on his own feelings and the threat assessment of the contractor's equipment, the current situation is not optimistic. The strength demonstrated by Dr. Li with just one attack is enough to cause effective damage to himself. However, this did not make Adenauer serious. Instead, he became excited, because he had not encountered such an enemy for a long time since he met those mysterious people at the dock.

Although he really wanted to have a big fight with the other party, Adenauer quickly restrained the impulse. Adenauer's vest had cost Han Zu a lot of energy, and it was not the time to give up and expose him.

After rolling a few times on the ground to absorb the huge impact, Adenauer stopped himself and quickly used his hands to support himself and leaped to the side, avoiding Dr. Li's second attack. Judging from Dr. Li's current performance, his strength was sufficient, but his speed was average. However, even that was only compared to the speed-type enemies Adenauer had encountered before. Compared to his own, his speed was still acceptable.

"It's really you."

After Dr. Li swung his mutant arm to complete the second attack, he retracted his arm and blew away the smoke and dust in the air. Although this action killed all the researchers in the experiment that was smashed by Adenauer, it seemed that Dr. Li did not care about it.

Hearing these four words, Adenauer frowned as he stood up. Could it be that when he was dodging the second attack just now, he accidentally exposed his own strength and let the other party discover his true identity?

But then I thought again, this is unlikely. What the other party said must be referring to Adenauer's identity.

"Anomalous energy feedback detected..."

Dr. Li's first attack struck Adenauer on the left side of his body, not only smashing him through the wall but also shattering the two threaded tubes containing the plant samples. The rupture of the storage device allowed the plant samples to stick to Adenauer's skin. The moment they made contact, Adenauer's body rapidly and passively absorbed the two plant samples. As he absorbed them, an unusual energy reaction emanated from his body. However, before the contractor's equipment could complete its detection, the two plant samples were completely absorbed.

The situation was urgent, and Adenauer didn't pay any attention to it. His attention was all on Dr. Li who had walked in front of him. He quickly took out several stun bombs, and then threw them around Dr. Li and in front of himself. In an instant, the entire space was immediately filled with dazzling flashes. After the light disappeared, Adenauer's figure also disappeared in it.

The stun weapons manufactured by these contractors are very powerful and have never disappointed Adenauer so far, but this time, something seems to have gone wrong.

"Damn it!"

Dr. Li recovered in the same instant the light faded. If he hadn't been caught off guard, he might have been able to largely negate the effects of these special blasts. He wasn't completely blinded, nor was he stunned. But he still raised his arm to shield his eyes, as if he had some peculiar reaction to bright light.

In the split second just now, he saw Adenauer's movements through the gap in his arm. As the stun bomb took effect, he rushed to the window and jumped out. Dr. Li came to the shattered window and looked downstairs, seeing a tiny figure turning into the corner of the road.

Dr. Li frowned. He'd hit the man. Although he hadn't used his full strength, as he'd wanted to keep him alive, he should have been completely incapacitated. However, judging by the distance at which he'd vanished, he seemed completely unharmed. Aside from the ruler of Johor Bahru and his strange assistant, he'd never seen anyone so capable of withstanding his attacks. This man's identity seemed even more complex than he'd anticipated.

"Bell~~~"

Just at this moment, the cell phone in Dr. Li's trouser pocket rang. It was the assistant calling.

"it's me."

"Dr. Li, it looks like you've discovered an intruder."

"Yes, it's one of the three people you captured not long ago. I suspect..."

"Mr. Mayor means to leave him alone for now."

"what?"

"Yes, that is what the mayor means, and the mayor wants you to come to the city hall immediately."

"What about the research here?"

"Don't worry about it for now."

"...I understand. I'll be there in ten minutes."

After hanging up the phone, Dr. Li frowned and took a breath. At this moment, several mutated monsters broke through the wall and rushed towards Dr. Li.

“Bang!!!!”

A mutated biomass, nearly the thickness of an entire corridor, smashed through the third floor of the training center, splitting it in two. Without support, the third floor collapsed, even collapsing a portion of the second floor. A cloud of smoke and dust immediately rose into the air, and the sentries surrounding the training center immediately surrounded it.

"Dr. Li! How are you..."

"Let's disperse. Tell the maintenance and medical departments to come over and do the work."

"Yes!"

However, when the sentries surrounded the training center, Dr. Li, unharmed, walked out of the smoke and dust. He dusted off the dust on his shoulders, gave orders to the sentries, and then left the training center.