They got out?
What got out?
Wen Yuzhi and the others still did not quite understand Spider Woman’s words, but soon, another dense burst of footsteps came from the corridor.
A short while later, they saw what these uninvited guests looked like—
A group of humanoid monsters that looked exactly the same as Blood Shark had when he transformed.
Their bodies still retained the outline of what had once belonged to humans, but even more than that, they carried the hideous, terrifying appearance of monsters.
Spider Woman’s pupils abruptly contracted.
“Don’t let them touch you!”
She hurriedly warned them aloud. “If you get bitten by them, every part of the wound that came into contact must be cut off immediately.”
“What happens if you don’t cut it off?” Fatty asked subconsciously.
Spider Woman replied coldly, “Then you’ll become like them.”
Looking at those monsters, Fatty was so frightened by Spider Woman’s words that he shuddered and hurriedly leaned tightly against the tall Saint Clan royal guard beside him.
“Follow me!”
There was no time to care about their reactions. After throwing down these words, Spider Woman quickly rushed toward the corridor on the other side.
Wen Yuzhi and Xi Heyan exchanged a glance. Without needing to communicate, they both tacitly chose to follow behind Spider Woman.
They knew nothing about the situation inside the building. Spider Woman was the only living person they had encountered who could communicate and exchange information. No matter what, they had to follow and take a look.
Spider Woman seemed panicked, but she was not blindly leading Wen Yuzhi and the others around the building at random. Instead, she passed through one corridor after another in a patterned way.
Xi Heyan could tell that she wanted to shake off those monsters.
He tested the waters and asked aloud, “What were those things just now?”
“Didn’t you want to know where the others were?” Spider Woman asked in return.
Whether it was because of those monsters, or because the person asking was Xi Heyan—someone who had been aiming a gun at her head the entire time—Spider Woman’s tone was not very pleasant.
But she still gave them the answer. “What you saw just now was them.”
“They were taken to undergo gene modification too?”
“No. They were infected.”
When she said this, Spider Woman frowned and could not help cursing under her breath. “Blood Shark, that idiot! He dragged all of us down with him!”
“What exactly happened here?” Wen Yuzhi asked this question again.
They still knew nothing about the situation inside the building, but clearly, something unexpected must have happened here.
Spider Woman was silent for a while before she finally said, “A drug in the laboratory leaked. Blood Shark and his men were all infected.”
It was just one short sentence, but it contained a great deal of information.
Under Xi Heyan’s gun muzzle, Spider Woman told them everything she had experienced.
According to her, she and Blood Shark were both high-level bounty hunters. They had accepted a bounty and come here.
Only after arriving did they discover that her task, as well as the task of Blood Shark and his people, was to protect these researchers. During that time, anything that happened outside had nothing to do with them.
At the time, the other bounty hunters were also very confused. Did these few researchers really need so many people to protect them?
Besides, what was going to happen outside...
Would anything happen outside?
Later, they all found out. With the square as the center, a dozen or so nearby streets were trapped. This place had become a massive experimental field.
Those researchers released a large number of stray beasts into the square. These stray beasts were controlled. They would not attack the building, but there was no guarantee that, during the course of this experimental test, survivors would not break into the building.
Spider Woman and the others’ mission was to serve as the building’s security, stopping the survivors who came inside and ensuring that all researchers participating in the experiment remained unharmed.
This mission was not difficult for their group of high-level bounty hunters.
At first, nothing happened inside the building either. Everything proceeded normally.
The survivors fought to live outside, while these researchers stayed inside the building and watched everything happening outside through surveillance.
At noon, they had even set up a betting pool, betting on which survivor would live longer. Even when they saw Wen Yuzhi and the others find the square, these researchers still did not take it seriously.
In their eyes, this group of survivors was already a group of lab rats destined to die. So what if they discovered so many stray beasts gathering in the square?
Did these survivors have the ability to kill so many stray beasts?
What a joke.
However, these researchers did not know that fate had played a joke on them.
The drug in the laboratory leaked.
As a space pirate, greed was practically carved into Blood Shark’s bones.
Moreover, this man did not have any moral bottom line. He did not care at all about the experiments the research institute was conducting. He even saw enormous profit value in these stray-beast experimental subjects.
When space pirates took a liking to something, they would not buy it with money. They would seize it, rob it, plunder it.
So while the researchers’ attention was drawn by the situation outside, Blood Shark led his subordinates and secretly slipped into the laboratory.
“Those idiots...”
Spider Woman cursed under her breath. During the process, for some unknown reason, there was a leak, and they were directly infected.
The space pirates who turned into monsters seemed to develop the same intense craving for flesh and blood as the stray beasts outside.
The floor with the most living people was this one. The researchers were basically all here.
One could imagine what happened when a group of monsters in the middle of mutation, desperately craving blood, rushed in.
What was even more troublesome was that after being bitten by these monsters transformed from space pirates, normal people would also turn into monsters.
The inside of the building instantly descended into chaos. In the confusion, Spider Woman was also separated from Se’an. The latter had gone somewhere unknown, and her arm had also been bitten by a monster during the fight.
Spider Woman made an immediate decision and cut off the bitten right hand. She followed Blood Shark’s trail all the way here and encountered Wen Yuzhi and the others.
“That is everything I know.”
Spider Woman’s words also explained why Wen Yuzhi and the others had caused such a huge commotion outside, yet the people who had planned this game had not reacted at all.
Because at that time, these researchers had already been unable to take care of even themselves.
Only...
Wen Yuzhi still felt that something was a little strange.
The laboratory was such an important place. Why could Blood Shark, an outsider, enter and leave so casually?
The other party had even been able to come into contact with the drugs inside. Had not a single one of so many researchers discovered it?
And Wen Yuzhi had not forgotten that after Blood Shark saw them, he had said they had all been tricked. He had been tricked too.
If the other party had been infected because he stole drugs...
Why would he use the word tricked?
Wen Yuzhi looked toward Xi Heyan, and the other party happened to look over as well.
The young man quietly moved a little closer to him without showing anything on his face.
Using his body as cover, Wen Yuzhi gently tugged on Xi Heyan’s sleeve.
The latter held Wen Yuzhi’s hand in return.
The instant his hand was wrapped in that burning-hot palm, the young man’s eyelashes trembled almost imperceptibly.
Wen Yuzhi had not expected Xi Heyan to directly choose to hold his hand.
But it could not be denied that the warmth continuously passing over from the other party’s palm, and the slightly tightened strength, both gave him a sense of security.
Wen Yuzhi thought for a moment, then gently traced something on Xi Heyan’s palm with his fingertip.
The latter’s expression remained calm. He looked ahead without any expression, only his body was slightly stiff, and the veins on the back of his hand protruded somewhat.
Then, when the young man looked over, Xi Heyan nodded in a slightly unnatural manner.
Wen Yuzhi knew that this meant Xi Heyan had understood him.
Thinking this, Wen Yuzhi wanted to withdraw his hand.
But when he tugged...
Eh O.O?
He could not pull free.
The strength in Xi Heyan’s hand was still very tight.
And the other party’s gaze was vigilantly observing the surroundings, as if he had not noticed Wen Yuzhi’s situation at all.
Seeing this, Wen Yuzhi also felt that he probably should not disturb him right now.
As for their hands...
If they were holding hands, then they were holding hands. Anyway, was it not very normal for friends to hold hands?
Thinking this, Wen Yuzhi instantly stopped caring about the matter.
While the two of them were secretly making small movements in the back, Spider Woman had already brought them to another floor. Here, they temporarily shook off that group of monsters.
Spider Woman had only just breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Wen Yuzhi’s crisp, pleasant voice drift faintly from behind her.
“Actually, I still have one more question...”
Spider Woman: “...”
To tell the truth, what she feared most right now was this sentence from Wen Yuzhi!
Because accompanying this sentence would definitely be the young man’s obedient, quiet “threat.”
Unfortunately, under the obvious power of the inflatable hammer, and the hidden gazes of all the guardians beside him, Spider Woman still wiped her face and squeezed two words through her teeth.
“Go ahead...”
No matter how one listened, that voice sounded utterly weak.
Wen Yuzhi seemed not to notice Spider Woman’s reluctance at all. His eyelashes lowered, and the curled lashes cast a faint bluish shadow beneath his eyelids. This appearance also made him look very obedient.
However, the question Wen Yuzhi asked made Spider Woman’s heart skip a beat.
“You said you were sent to be modified as a tool. You must hate those people very much, right? The people who sent you to the research institute, and the research institute that transformed you into this form...”
Wen Yuzhi spoke slowly. His pace was not fast, enough for Spider Woman to hear every word clearly.
“From your words, I can sense your resentment and killing intent. Since you hate these people so much that you wish you could kill them, why would you still be willing to protect these researchers?”
This was a contradictory point about Spider Woman.
After all, to some extent, she was also a victim of modification experiments. When she mentioned experiments and the research institute, the expression on her face was furious.
How could such a Spider Woman willingly protect these former “enemies” in her eyes for the so-called bounty reward?
And why would the researchers dare to entrust their lives to a victim they had persecuted?
Moreover...
Wen Yuzhi knew that the research institute had its own armed forces. On the warship where he had been kidnapped, as well as in the laboratory on Blackrock Star, he had seen those guards in combat uniforms.
Since the research institute had internal guards, why would they hire outside bounty hunters to protect the researchers?
All these doubts made Wen Yuzhi feel that Spider Woman was very suspicious.
The timing of her appearance was also very coincidental. Right when Wen Yuzhi and the others had just gained some understanding of the experimental plan, Spider Woman appeared as a victim of experimentation.
And those words Spider Woman said—rather than saying Wen Yuzhi and the others had threatened her into saying them, it would be more accurate to say that she herself had taken the initiative to say them.
For what purpose?
To obtain their sympathy and trust?
Wen Yuzhi felt that it was not that simple.
Spider Woman just knew that all that obedience and quietness was fake!
This was clearly a little devil full of bad ideas!
She sighed. “Was it that obvious?”
“Very obvious,” Wen Yuzhi said, giving her no face at all.
Spider Woman choked. “I want to take back my previous evaluation of you. You’re not cute at all.”
Wen Yuzhi was not angry in the slightest. “It’s fine. As long as Dad thinks I’m cute.”
The two of them verbally exchanged a round. In the end, Spider Woman was defeated. She touched the necklace at her neck.
“Because those of us who have been modified are all controlled by the research institute.”
What Spider Woman had not told Wen Yuzhi and the others earlier was that everyone who had received gene modification had to rely on medicine provided by the research institute in order to survive.
Otherwise, they would very quickly die from mental sea collapse.
Those nobles thought they were the masters of these tools, never knowing that the research institute was the one truly holding the lifeline of these experimental subjects. From the moment they were forced to accept modification, these so-called tools had already become weapons of the researchers.
Spider Woman was no exception.
It was only that her situation was rather special. Because of her past as a mining slave, Dan had given her an opportunity to take revenge on her enemies.
She killed the wealthy merchant who controlled that mining planet, and she also killed the researcher who had modified her.
Spider Woman seemed to have obtained freedom, but in truth, she was still controlled by the research institute.
This time, she had also come here because she received orders from the research institute.
However...
Spider Woman looked at Wen Yuzhi and the others. “You may not believe me when I say this, but I actually bear no malice toward you. What I said was all true. It’s just that I’m not too clear on what happened with Blood Shark either. In my impression, he wasn’t such a reckless person.”
Spider Woman paused here, then said, “And the reason I came to find you was because I wanted to take you out. After all, I still owe someone a favor.”
