Chapter 348 - 346: These People Are Undoubtedly Going to Die

Chapter 348: Chapter 346: These People Are Undoubtedly Going to Die

Although Chen Xing was in some pain, her mind wasn’t completely clouded.

After she was knocked to the ground, she still had a moment to watch the light from the laser.

The beam itself seemed completely harmless.

It only became dangerous upon physical contact.

’It seems this laser was specially developed just to deal with me.’

’But... I’m afraid you’re all in for a disappointment!’

Though the first laser had knocked her to the ground, the damage wasn’t severe.

Since she could absorb electrical currents, she could absorb something like a laser, too.

On top of that, she had a Thunder Ability. So... although she appeared to be knocked down, she hadn’t actually been harmed.

The bolt of thunder in her hand struck the laser directly, shattering it in an instant.

Chen Xing dusted herself off and stood up, then walked forward like a machine that felt no pain.

She walked down the corridor ahead, and as she rounded a corner, she was knocked to the ground again.

In the instant before she fell, she had already destroyed the unsophisticated laser emitter.

This time, the blast was quite powerful, charring her skin.

And something had pierced through her body.

’A Golden Needle!’

Ignoring her charred skin, Chen Xing activated her Defense Shield and immediately used her Gold Attribute Superpower to pinpoint the Golden Needle’s location.

But something was pulling on the needle; just as she was about to grasp it with her power, it swiftly moved away.

’The pain was agonizing!’

’I was too careless!’

Chen Xing ramped up her superpower. As she wrenched the Golden Needle out of her own body, she simultaneously guided it to find the person inside the wall, sending it piercing straight into their body.

A blood-curdling scream erupted from the next room, followed by a series of agonized cries.

Of course, Chen Xing knew that kind of pain all too well.

She didn’t rush to get up. Instead, she used her Healing Ability to mend her wounds.

At that moment, a figure suddenly appeared at the far end of the corridor.

Chen Xing was in a well-lit area, while the person stood in the shadows, so she couldn’t make out their features.

But... she could feel the overwhelming malice radiating from them.

Seeing that Chen Xing could still move, the figure flickered and vanished.

By the time Chen Xing got up to give chase, the figure was long gone.

’Chen Dingbang!?’

Chen Xing was sure the person hiding in the shadows just now had been Chen Dingbang.

She had seen the hatred in that monster’s eyes before.

’If Chen Dingbang is here, does that mean Xu Anguo is likely here too?’

The thought of potentially wiping out the entire Research Institute in one fell swoop filled Chen Xing with a sudden burst of motivation.

She immediately began to search in the direction Chen Dingbang had vanished.

However, having been burned twice, she had learned her lesson.

The Defense Ability was certainly useful, but she couldn’t rely on it completely for her safety.

It had its own drawbacks.

She only found a single door where Chen Dingbang had disappeared.

But when she opened it and went inside, she found it was just a small warehouse with no other exits.

With no other choice, she backed out and continued her search down the corridor.

The subsequent trials were much like those in the other Research Institutes.

She collected the mutated cacti and pine trees.

Creatures like octopus monsters and crocodile monsters were all incredibly easy to deal with.

Just as Chen Xing was thinking it couldn’t possibly be this easy to wipe out a Research Institute, she found she had apparently cleared the final hurdle.

’Something’s not right!’

’I’m almost certain the person I just saw was Chen Dingbang.’

’Any place he was in couldn’t be this easy to get through.’

With this in mind, Chen Xing headed back into the Research Institute.

All the monsters had been dealt with, so she could just walk through.

When she reached the small warehouse where Chen Dingbang had vanished, she stopped.

After a moment of thought, she entered the warehouse again.

Finding nothing once again, she looked up at the unusually high ceiling.

The other rooms in this facility were likely under three meters tall; a warehouse this high was clearly strange.

She immediately entered her Jiezhi Space, and a second later, she appeared in the area above the warehouse’s ceiling.

Sure enough... above her was a space completely different from the one below.

While the color scheme was also predominantly white, it was decorated with far more care than the area below.

Now visible, she opened the first large door she came to.

Elsewhere, Chen Dingbang, who was staring at a monitor, slammed his fists on the table in a rage.

He couldn’t believe Chen Xing had managed to find this place.

He had revealed himself earlier because he thought she’d been beaten so badly she couldn’t move. Who would have thought she could heal herself in an area that suppressed superpowers?

He became more and more convinced that this damn girl possessed some kind of extremely rare treasure.

He didn’t know if it was the rumored emerald earrings.

’But I’m definitely going to take it!’

Chen Xing’s hearing was sharp. Though the sound of the fist hitting the table wasn’t loud, she pinpointed its direction with precision.

By this time, the door before her had swung wide open.

In the nearly 1,000-square-meter room were countless white hospital beds. On each lay a "guinea pig" dressed in a white hospital gown.

Chen Xing’s heart clenched. She immediately wanted to rush over and destroy the control instruments.

But before she could move, every single person in the room stood up in unison and turned to look at her.

Though their eyes were vacant, Chen Xing clearly sensed danger.

The danger didn’t originate from them.

Chen Xing immediately bolted, trying to get away as quickly as possible. She had to leave, or none of them would survive.

But the moment she moved, the nearest "guinea pig" moved faster, grabbing her. Immediately after, others moved to block her path.

At the same time, as if in some doomsday movie, the "guinea pigs" began to activate a self-destruct sequence, one by one.

Chen Xing watched as their bodies began to glow, one after another, enveloped in light of all shapes and colors.

She glanced around at the people in the room.

Her heart ached with helplessness.

She knew that once this self-destruct sequence was initiated, it could not be stopped.

’These people are all going to die, without a doubt!’

’Is it my fault!?’

’But... I have no choice.’

The instant the light from the first "guinea pig" flared, Chen Xing had already escaped into her Jiezhi Space.

Inside the room, one light flashed after another... a dazzling, tragic spectacle that made one’s eyes burn.

Chen Xing watched as, one by one, the "guinea pigs" dissolved into pools of blood.

’The number tags?’

She didn’t want to collect them anymore.

The closer the numbers on the tags were to her own, the more it pained her.

The flashes of light continued, but Chen Xing moved directly toward the source of the sound she’d heard earlier.

She believed the person she wanted to see was there.

When she teleported into the control room, it was empty.

’But... why do I get the feeling there’s someone in here?’

Chen Xing didn’t reveal herself immediately. Instead, she carefully observed every inch of the control room from her hidden state.

This was the first time she had ever observed the very air so meticulously.

And then, she noticed a distortion in one spot, a ripple unlike the air around it.

She couldn’t say exactly what was different, but it looked something like a human-shaped ripple in water.

Still invisible, Chen Xing lunged forward, her knife plunging into what should have been empty air.

With a wet SQUELCH, her blade sank accurately into her opponent’s chest.

Chen Dingbang collapsed to the ground in pain, staring at Chen Xing with a mixture of disbelief and terror.

’How is this possible?’

’It’s one thing to be discovered while invisible, that’s not so strange. But how did she pinpoint my vitals with such accuracy, as if she could see me perfectly?’

Chen Xing’s expression was cold and detached, utterly unsurprised that the revealed figure was Chen Dingbang. "Where is Xu Anguo?"