Chapter 919: Escaping the Base

919. Escaping the Base

'This is way more useful than a D-Class personnel's body.'

Lin Ye hadn't yet figured out the purpose of the symbols on his body, but judging purely by physical strength, this body was far superior to that of a D-Class personnel.

Perhaps others wouldn't be able to adapt to the alien anatomical structure of a Fleshy Monster's body, but to Lin Ye, that was no problem at all.

Lin Ye found several weapons lying abandoned on the shelves. He took the weapons and left this blood-drenched room.

After the Monster Main Body died, the remaining Fleshy Monsters in the base had all perished. Lin Ye wandered around the base a few times and found an exit that could lead out of the base.

However, Lin Ye didn't find that core project area. The map Su Yue provided simply didn't match.

"Sealed the main door shut too, what a waste of time."

Lin Ye used his tentacle to deal with the flesh structures near the exit little by little. These flesh structures were inscribed with all kinds of chaotic blood-colored symbols, and dealing with them was extremely troublesome.

Without this new body, even if no one stood in his way, Lin Ye would have had a hard time opening the door.

It took half an hour for Lin Ye to finish dealing with all the flesh structures.

"Finally, I can get out."

Lin Ye opened the gate.

Outside was a gray-white expanse of land covered in fruit trees. Above his head was not a blue sky, but a pitch-black cosmos.

In the center of the dark curtain hung a silvery-white moon, and the moon had features approaching those of a human face. At this moment, those massive eyeballs were staring fixedly at Lin Ye.

"Uh... sorry to disturb you."

Lin Ye retreated back into the base and shut the gate.

He finally understood why that Monster Main Body had sealed the gate shut.

Thud!

The base suddenly shuddered violently. A giant hand pierced through the gate and grabbed the body Lin Ye had just acquired.

That giant hand was incredibly fast, and Lin Ye had no room to dodge at all.

Lin Ye was dragged outside. The end of the arm connected to a hollow void, and no one knew what was inside that void.

The giant hand tossed Lin Ye into that fruit tree forest, then returned to the other side of the hollow.

'What the hell is this thing?'

Lin Ye lay beside a fruit tree. Only upon arriving here did he get a clear look at the specifics of this forest.

The surface of the fruit trees was covered in gray, cotton-like filaments, and those filaments were constantly writhing, like countless tiny bugs.

The branches of the fruit trees were laden with fruits of various colors, and those fruits were also composed of the filaments.

All the fruits were wriggling incessantly, looking as though they'd been pixelated.

Lin Ye had just scrambled up when he saw dense filaments sprouting from the gray-white ground beneath his feet. Those filaments crawled onto Lin Ye's body and merged into his interior.

'This is...'

Lin Ye suddenly got a very bad premonition. He forcefully drew his pistol and pressed the muzzle against his own head.

Bang!

The bullet struck patches of filaments. He wanted to keep pulling the trigger, but even more filaments grew from inside his body, stopping his movement.

Fortunately, Lin Ye had long since prepared for suicide. The pistol was only the surface-level measure. At the moment he fired, his nerve bundles had already destroyed his brain.

Lin Ye collapsed to the ground, his line of sight slanting. Beneath a fruit tree, he saw the remains of a human.

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[Remaining Simulation Attempts: 8]

Lin Ye opened his eyes. He was back on the dorm bed.

'So the Fleshy Monster's main body was a rather troublesome research project after all. Turns out it was a Safe Zone guard...'

This time Lin Ye didn't rush to go out. The situation outside the base was extremely troublesome. Running around out there might not even grant him the chance to kill himself. Better to lie here and think about what to do next.

'Why does this simulation mission feel so much more troublesome than usual? Could it really be affected by the Lucky Coin?'

Lin Ye felt the situation outside the base might be even more troublesome than what he'd seen. If he wasn't careful, problems could arise.

'I still need to escape from here first. But Teacher Wang's side is troublesome. If she doesn't leave the Infirmary, it'll be hard to get the drugs.'

Lin Ye got up and went to the toilet to check the corpses. He needed Zhao Jie and the others' help.

Repeating his previous actions, Lin Ye smoothly made contact with Zhao Jie and the others.

This time he planned to save Zhao Jie and the group, and thoroughly search the entire research base.

The outside situation was far too troublesome. He needed a little bit of help.

So this time he chatted a bit longer with Zhao Jie and the others, so that later they at least wouldn't start fighting right away.

Through the conversation, Lin Ye deepened his connection with these students. Afterward, he repeated his previous actions and entered the Infirmary to obtain the drugs.

After taking the drugs, Lin Ye once again transformed into a brain.

Relying on the special spiritual imprint, Lin Ye opened the container and returned inside the body.

This time Lin Ye moved faster than last time. The moment the alarm sounded, he was already walking to the side of the door.

Having dealt with two Fleshy Monsters, Lin Ye took the weapons to release those survivors. Excluding the bastards who'd attacked him last time, this release process went even smoother than before.

Lin Ye led the survivors to the Armory. After grabbing weapons, they began clearing out Fleshy Monsters inside the base.

These organization members weren't actually weak. They just hadn't adapted to the environment here yet.

Lin Ye also wasn't sure how to lure out the Fleshy Monster's main body. He couldn't exactly kill everyone else and leave only his own head.

Same as last time, the Fleshy Monsters couldn't be killed off no matter how many he killed. Lin Ye could only keep slaughtering the newly appearing Fleshy Monsters, trying to force out the Fleshy Monster's main body.

But the result was the same as last time. Only when everyone else was dead and only one head remained would the Fleshy Monster's main body appear.

Lin Ye used the same method as last time to deal with the monster's main body.

'Sigh, all for nothing.'

Just like last time, all those organization members died.

Lin Ye could only control the new body and check the research base once more.

This time Su Yue likewise drew out the base map and the location of the core project. Lin Ye compared the two maps and found this time's wasn't very different from last time, just with a few extra details.

Lin Ye searched again according to the map, but still couldn't find the so-called core project area.

'What should I do? I can't just go out like this, can I?'

Lin Ye definitely didn't want to be grabbed by that giant hand into the orchard again.

'Maybe I can study this body.'

Lin Ye began studying this new body. He needed to find a way to survive among those creepy things outside.

The symbols on the Monster Main Body were extremely complex. It took Lin Ye quite a while before he figured out the meaning of some of the symbols.

'This should be about right. I don't need to understand all of it completely, just enough to use it.'

Lin Ye activated the power of some symbols. A layer of blood-colored shield wrapped around his body.

'The remaining symbols are probably related to those Fleshy Monsters. Studying them would be too complicated.'

Lin Ye didn't continue studying. He prepared to go outside and give it another try.