Chapter 220 - Chapter 220: Desperate situation (1)
Chapter 220: Desperate situation (1)
Translator: 549690339
Song qingxiao became more cautious as they approached the laboratory.
She was extremely careful with every step she took. This place was the birthplace of evil that caused the genetic mutation of the island’s creatures. Even though it had been abandoned for more than ten years, it still revealed a gloomy and strange aura.
About 30 to 40 meters away from the laboratory, several abnormally large trees rose from the ground. Their entangled roots interweaved, forming a natural shield, as if to block the people who were going to the laboratory.
After song qingxiao went around the gaps between the roots of the tree, she was keenly aware that the ground under her feet was different from before.
The ground in the forest was covered with thick leaves, which felt soft and rotten to the touch after they rotted. When one stepped on them, the dead leaves covered the back of one’s feet as if they could not reach the bottom and were about to suck people in.
The ground behind the tree was much harder than before.
Song qingxiao bent down and slashed the dead leaves on the ground with the dagger.
With a sizzling sound, the leaves on the ground were peeled off, revealing the stone slabs laid inside.
The flat slates were covered in mud. She kicked them away with her feet and could vaguely see the patterns on the slates.
These patterns were exquisite. When the Zhou consortium first built their secret research lab on this Island, they were also ambitious and full of expectations.
Who knew that in just a dozen years, the world had changed and people had changed. These exquisite things were all buried in the dust.
Song qingxiao kicked the soil a few times, revealing a few stacked stone bricks. The soil and leaves were kicked away by her, scattering everywhere.
Apart from the rotten leaves, there were no traces of insects.
Number seven looked at her and pouted in confusion.
“Look over there,”
Iler voice attracted song qingxiao’s attention. About ten meters away from where number seven was pointing, there were traces of broken walls and ruins.
It was a tall, arched gate made of an unknown black stone. It was about 20 meters tall, with a gate in the middle and two arched doors on both sides.
There were words inscribed on the plaque, and the buildings on both sides were covered with unknown vines. Under the dusky sky, it looked unusually desolate.
With a cracking sound, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, splitting into several streams and illuminating the world. The plaque was engraved with the words:Longevity technology, a few words.
longevity technology?”
Number seven mumbled to himself, then twitched the corner of his mouth,”
“It seems like the Zhou family really doesn’t want to die.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the lightning in the sky flashed, followed by a ‘boom’ sound of thunder. It was so loud that people’s ears seemed to have lost their sense of hearing for a moment. After a long while, they heard a ‘buzzing’ sound in their ears.
The ground seemed to have sensed the danger of the heavenly Thunder phenomenon and trembled slightly, as if countless animals were running for their lives under their feet.
Number seven arched his back, the hair on his head almost standing on end.
He turned to song qingxiao and said,
“Shall we go in?”
Song qingxiao furrowed her brows and revealed a rare look of hesitation.
There was something strange about this forest. The closer he got to the laboratory, the more intense the strange feeling became.
There were no living creatures in the forest. She had even dug up the soil, but she couldn’t find any traces of snakes, insects, rats, or ants.
There were two possibilities in this situation.
Either the laboratory was so polluted that it exceeded Mr. Zhou’s and the others ‘initial expectations and went out of control, so there couldn’t be any living things nearby. Realizing this, the Zhou’s people evacuated one after another, and the infected creatures died one after another.
The second possibility was much scarier.
Song qingxiao remembered what professor Yan had said not long after they had arrived on the island.lt was natural selection. Among a pile of defective products, one would stand out and become the final winner after being selected by the environment and various aspects, thus evolving to a higher level.
These words were like a demonic voice that reverberated in song qingxiao’s mind.
Song qingxiao was more worried about the second possibility.
All living creatures had the instinct to seek good fortune and avoid disaster. If a mutated creature that had ‘evolved’ to an unpredictable stage appeared here, it would be so powerful that other things would instinctively fear it and become the ‘Emperor’ at the top of the food chain, causing the other mutated creatures to go extinct one after another.
She hoped that this was not the case. Otherwise, she was afraid that she would be in big trouble for this mission.
However, the more worried she was, the more she felt that the air around her was chilly, making her feel cold all over.
Above their heads, after the tiny lightning illuminated the sky, fog could be seen with the naked eye. Just as No. 7 had said jokingly before, this place was like the residence of a big demon in a horror comic.
She licked her lips. She didn’t know when it started, but her heart began to beat faster and faster. The sound was louder and louder, and the movements were more and more intense. It hit her chest, causing her internal organs to ache with every breath she took.
‘Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong…’
Song qingxiao pressed her chest hard, trying to calm herself down. This was probably the aftereffect of falling off the cliff and breaking her ribs. However, it was also because of the pain from her wound caused by her heartbeat that she was able to maintain a certain level of calm.
She resisted the urge to turn back. Now that things had come to this, she had no other choice.
The trial mission had not been completed yet. God’s trial meant that out of the seven trial-takers who entered, only one would survive.
There were still three types of mutant creatures that needed to be killed and two more trial-takers that needed to be sacrificed. If there were any mutant creatures here, she would have to get through this level no matter what to return to her own world!
Song qingxiao suppressed the fear in her heart and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. She stuck out her tongue and licked her dry lips.
No. 7 had already slowed down her pace. She could clearly feel the invisible pressure in the air. She wanted to speak and break the silence.
“Do you think number 3 is here?”
“I don’t know,” Song qingxiao was not in the mood to chat with her. She focused as much as she could. The two of them walked under the flat sign. Song qingxiao was a cautious person. When she passed by the wide arched gate, she subconsciously looked to the sides.
At the right corner of the main door, the crawling vines seemed to have been peeled off, and a large gap appeared, revealing the black crystal below.
If it was during the day, it might be more eye-catching with plenty of sunlight, but in this dim situation, the black stone pillars and the dark green vines were really indistinguishable if one did not look carefully.
If she wasn’t so cautious, she wouldn’t have found out.
The gap was about 20 to 30 centimeters above her head. Song qingxiao was 1.69 meters tall, which meant that the gap on the crystal pillar was about two meters high.
She kept this in mind. The two of them passed through the arched door and saw the inside.
Behind the arched door was a large concave pool, and in the middle of it stood a stone statue that was nearly five meters tall..