Chapter 266: Life Is Tough, and the Cat Sighs

"Oh dear, who knows?"

"Never mind. We’re just ordinary researchers anyway, not some big-shot PhDs, so it has nothing to do with us."

"Haha, you’re right. We’ll help if we can, and if we can’t, we’ll just be there for show."

"Forget it, never mind. I’ll just follow the instructions when the time comes."

As soon as the two turned the corner, Lin Yun hit them on the head with a stick, knocking them unconscious. Lin Yun had perfect control of her strength, and not a drop of blood was drawn. The little Bloodmoon member next to her quickly dragged them to a corner, tied them up with vines, and tossed them aside, finishing the job in no time. The people outside would come in and drag them out in a little while. If one woke up, he would get another whack. It should not be a big problem.

Just to be safe, after listening to their rambling, they wandered around the upper floors of the research institute. If they encountered someone, they would just hit him with a stick, and he was done for on the spot, like a mini assembly line. After arriving at the second basement level, they crouched in a corner, waiting for the "Big Doctor" from the third basement level to come up. Lin Yun gripped her stick again, ready to wait for the person coming up from below.

They waited and waited, but the elevator remained motionless.

A young Bloodmoon member yawned. "What should we do? Why aren’t they coming up yet?"

"I don’t know. What are they dawdling over? Didn’t they say they’d move the things upstairs later? Where did they move them to?" the other young one followed with soft, muttering chatter.

They had not found anything on the ground floor or the first and second basement levels. It seemed they were quite cautious, and would not come up from below until the very last minute.

Now to Mo Tu’s side. They had already planted two bombs in the corners of the research institute. The purpose was not to blow up the research institute, but simply to lure people over later. After burying them, Mo Tu led her people in to quickly drag out the unlucky ones who had been knocked unconscious, and then hung them upside down in the trees. Not far from the research institute, several unlucky figures were hanging from the trees, fluttering in the wind... Looking at Yang Yu and the others: they really had no morals.

Then Yang Yu quietly moved over there, and seeing that one of them seemed to be waking up, she quickly looked around. Suddenly her eyes lit up, and she picked up a stone from the ground. With a loud clang, the unlucky guy fell asleep again. Yang Yu, who had witnessed everything, said nothing.

After dragging everyone out, Mo Tu and her people found many handy wooden sticks nearby and left a few people to keep watch around the area. The rest of the sticks were used to hit the unfortunate ones hanging in the trees. Yang Yu remembered that these bastards and those big-shot PhDs were in cahoots! Her ram horns had been gouged out personally by one of the researchers here! All these years later, her horns still had not grown back. Later she had come to terms with it. Her horns would never grow back. But that did not stop her from beating up those rotten bastards!

Moth Punishment thought the same. Although he had done some bad things with the three giant rat tribes in the past, when the human experiments fell on him, he had realized how wrong he had been. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the harder he hit. Then he stopped, feeling an overwhelming sense of regret. Die Yuan and his fellow sufferer exchanged a glance and each saw the regret in the other’s eyes. They had been wrong. How could they have been so foolish as to listen to the words of the three giant rat tribes back then? It had caused their people to suffer so much all these years. The island of the Corpse Butterfly Clan had sunk into the sea, with no survivors. The two men put down their sticks and sat down on the ground. They were tired of fighting and did not want to fight anymore. No amount of fighting could make up for what had happened back then.

Seeing that the two of them had stopped, the others gradually stopped as well. Two clever little Bloodmoon members wandered among the beaten and injured captives, and whenever they found one about to regain consciousness, they immediately gave him another blow. They made sure no one woke up beforehand.

"What’s wrong with you two?" Yang Yu sat down next to them.

Moth Punishment and Die Yuan remained silent. But Yang Yu could probably guess why the two were silent. She sighed. "Everyone makes mistakes sometimes."

Mo Xing opened his mouth but did not know what to say. But he had killed many humans, and those humans had all been wronged. He felt ashamed whenever he thought about how he had acted back then. Yang Yu did not say anything more. She just patted the two of them on the shoulder. She and Que Tong had been imprisoned in the same jail, and she knew a lot about them, but she had no right to speak on this matter.

Little Bloodmoon, along with the goats and the sparrows, went to keep watch around the area, leaving several former and current clan leaders to keep an eye on the captives.

...

In a corner on the second basement level.

Sang Biao yawned. Why wasn’t this person coming out yet? Even the cat was sleepy. He nudged Lin Yun. "Youyou, the cat wants to force his way in."

Lin Yun pressed down on the cat’s head. "No, you can’t force your way in. It’ll attract the giant rat tribe, and things could get into trouble. Please control your terrible thoughts."

Sang Biao pursed his lips and had no choice but to lie back down. Life was tough, and even a cat sighed. He did not know how long they would have to squat here. People downstairs, hurry up and come up! The cat wanted to finish quickly so that he could go home and sleep.

Perhaps Sang Biao’s prayers had an effect, because Bai Yu, who was standing nearby, noticed that the light on the elevator door had turned on. Someone was coming up! Bai Yu gave Lin Yun another wink. Lin Yun and the others immediately put on the white lab coats and masks they had taken from the researchers, stood up, and prepared to walk toward the elevator.

A few seconds later, the elevator doors opened.

Dr. Centipede looked up and was about to walk out when he was startled by the researchers standing outside. He had not expected anyone to be there at that hour. That was good, though. It saved him the trouble of having to call someone.

"Since you’re all here, you shouldn’t have anything to do, right? Come downstairs with me and carry some things."

The group quickly shook their heads and squeezed into the elevator. Several tall, sturdy young Bloodmoon members shielded Lin Yun and Bai Yu behind them. They had to be careful, since they were carrying Sang Biao and Tuan Tuan, lest Dr. Centipede discover them in the elevator.

But... Dr. Centipede twitched his nose. He seemed to smell something. This startled the young Bloodmoon members, who feared he might have noticed something.

"You guys went into the forest? Did you catch some animal?"

Lin Yun quickly replied in a gruff voice, "Yes, Doctor. People outside say there’s a tiger in the forest, so we were thinking of seeing whether we could catch it and show it to you. But it still managed to escape. Maybe it left some scent on us."

Dr. Centipede nodded, showing no suspicion. He still trusted these researchers. Although they sometimes liked to slack off, they would not dare to fool him.