AMBTMS Chapter 181

Li Shu was not an evolver, so the alarms specifically set to target evolvers in the laboratory hadn’t been triggered. Under 1314’s guidance, Li Shu perfectly avoided all the possible alarm devices along the way.

The laboratory was very quiet in the middle of the night. Most of the researchers had gone to rest, with only a few security personnel active. Li Shu observed that all the patrolling guards were evolvers, but not like Gu Lin. These were artificially stimulated, similar to those who had attacked them before.

In other words, these people were artificially created evolvers. The power within them was far less natural than other evolvers, always giving off an indescribable sense of discord. It seemed these people were also part of that person’s experiments.

Li Shu was dressed in a pitch-black cloak, which easily blocked any external detection. Without any hindrance, he found the source of the power he had left behind.

It was a solitary room. An unconscious man lay on an experimental platform. The trace of power he had left behind disrupted the flow of energy within the man. To outsiders, it would seem that the man had suddenly lost his strength. Professor Fang didn’t know what had gone wrong, so he simply left the man there to study the cause.

Li Shu silently approached. The man, who was sensitive to danger, instantly opened his eyes. Without any cover, and under the bright lights, Li Shu saw the man’s face clearly.

It looked somewhat familiar.

Li Shu frowned. This person seemed to have appeared in the original owner’s memories.

Before he could recall anything, the man spoke, “Who are you?”

Having not spoken for a long time, the man’s voice was hoarse, like rusty gears grinding against each other, making it unpleasant to hear. But Li Shu didn’t focus on the man’s voice. He was more concerned about whether the man regained consciousness.

The last time they met, this man had been nothing more than a killing machine. To better control these weapons, Professor Fang would erase their self-awareness during the experiments. However, the man before him clearly had self-awareness.

Li Shu abandoned his original plan. He had intended to find this person and eliminate him, but now that the man had regained his memory, the situation could change.

Retracting the spiritual power gathered in his hands, Li Shu said in a calm, emotionless tone, “I’m here to give you a chance for revenge. Do you want revenge?”

The man suddenly clenched his hands.

Revenge.

It was something he had never dared to imagine. He didn’t know how long he could stay conscious. Even if it were just for one day, or even an hour, before he lost consciousness again and reverted to that half-human, half-ghost state, he wanted revenge.

He desperately wanted to take revenge, for himself and for those who had been destroyed.

A flame flickered in his eyes, which grew brighter and brighter, until it illuminated the entire world.

“I want revenge!”

He heard his own voice, a howl as if from the depths of hell, the roar of a vengeful spirit. He didn’t care where this strangely dressed person had come from or what his purpose was. He only wanted those people to pay!

Li Shu was quite satisfied with the man’s attitude. Due to his identity, Li Shu couldn’t always come to cause trouble for the laboratory. But sending them a powerful opponent? That was something he was more than willing to do. He had planned to nurture someone, but now he had found a ready-made one.

With a slight movement of his fingers, the man didn’t have time to feel anything before the restraints binding him were undone. The specially made ropes designed to deal with evolvers broke effortlessly.

His body, having been immobile for a long time, was extremely stiff. The man slowly sat up from the experimental platform, lowering his eyes to look at the neatly severed restraints. A dim light flickered in his gaze.

If he hadn’t personally experienced the power of this seemingly ordinary strap, he would have suspected it was just a regular one.

Just as he was about to raise his head, he caught sight of a red light in the corner of his eye. The man’s face changed drastically, “There’s surveillance here!”

The surveillance was on twenty-four hours a day, with someone constantly monitoring it. If anything unusual was discovered, people would immediately be dispatched. Although the laboratory seemed loosely guarded, there were many high-level evolvers. Thinking of certain things, the man’s face darkened.

He didn’t want anything to happen to the person who had the ability to break into the lab, and all because of him.

“You have to leave quickly. I’ll find a way to hold them off.”

“Don’t worry, they won’t notice anything. If they could, they would have known the moment I entered. Do you know where the others are?” As soon as he entered, Li Shu had already had 1314 take control of the laboratory’s surveillance. Faced with a system from a higher civilization, the lab’s firewall was pathetically fragile.

1314 easily gained full control of the lab, but their time was limited. The people in the lab would soon notice something was wrong, so they needed to achieve their goal in the shortest time possible.

It wasn’t that he was afraid of the people in the lab; he was just in a hurry and couldn’t afford to be delayed.

After injecting a portion of spiritual power into the man’s body and waiting for him to recover a bit, the two headed toward the lab’s human reserve room.

It was clear that this place was one of Professor Fang’s more important bases. In just a short distance, they encountered several groups of evolvers, all in the same state as the man had been. Li Shu tried, but found that these people couldn’t recover their minds.

After swiftly dealing with them, the two stopped in front of a metal door. The man reminded him, “This door requires Professor Fang’s biometric information to open.”

Li Shu nodded. He approached the retina scanner, and the moment his eyes locked with it, countless codes generated in his vision. Using the host’s eyes, 1314 quickly cracked the system.

With a “click,” the door opened.

A trace of confusion flashed in the man’s eyes. He had been here for so long and he sometimes regained a sliver of consciousness. Although it was always fleeting and left him with no time to act, it was enough for him to learn about this place.

So he knew that this door could only be opened with Professor Fang’s authority. If anyone else tried, they would be attacked indiscriminately. He had considered releasing the people inside, but there was no way. One wrong move, and he’d drag everyone to their deaths with him.

But this mysterious person who suddenly appeared and whose face was hidden had easily opened the door. Who was this person, and what was their relationship with Professor Fang?

Now was not the time to think about these things. Calming his thoughts, he stepped through the door.

It was a large room, the cold white lights illuminating everything inside without leaving anything hidden. The room had numerous capsule-shaped transparent chambers, and inside each was a person. Some were evolvers, some were ordinary people. Without exception, all of them were Professor Fang’s experimental subjects.

The evolvers’ mental states were slightly better than those of ordinary people. They were confined inside glass chambers, with countless tubes inserted into their bodies. These tubes were connected to a large metal device outside, and the people inside relied on them to stay alive.

They had been locked in there for an unknown amount of time, dazed and lethargic. When they saw someone enter, most of them only glanced up indifferently before slowly lowering their heads again.

Only a few had fierce expressions, desperately pounding on the walls of their chambers.

From the moment they entered the room, the man struggled to control himself, trying not to lose control and do something to disrupt Li Shu’s plan. He had once been one of these people, so he knew very well what they had gone through—or rather, what they were going through.

He also knew that places like this weren’t limited to just one. When his mind had been muddled, as Professor Fang’s most successful product, he had visited several similar locations.

Pointing to the ones making the most commotion, he said to Li Shu, “These people must have just been brought in. Professor Fang hasn’t had the chance to do anything to them yet.” Otherwise, they wouldn’t be this lively.

Having gone through those things himself, he knew that if Professor Fang had done anything, these people wouldn’t be so energetic.

The people trapped inside didn’t know who the person wrapped in the black cloak was, but that didn’t stop them from being angry. They had been confined here, forced to watch as those deranged people committed countless atrocities, while they themselves could do nothing. They were filled with hatred.

Every day, someone was taken out. Some were brought back, but their condition grew worse and worse. Many more never returned at all.

Even in the apocalypse, human experimentation remained forbidden, a line that couldn’t be crossed. Some of the people here had been involved in these matters before, and they felt cold inside. How much power was shielding these criminals, allowing them to act with such impunity?

They didn’t know the identity of the person who had come this time, but anyone who walked through that door was an enemy.

There was no time to waste. The moment they entered the room, Li Shu instructed 1314 to start cracking the code to open the chamber doors.

[Host, you need to hurry. From the moment this door opened, our location has been exposed,] 1314 reminded while decoding.

[I know.] Under the hood, Li Shu’s expression was completely hidden.

As 1314 had said, Professor Fang had already noticed someone had infiltrated the lab. Professor Fang was a very cautious person. He had set up double layers of security in all important areas of the lab. As soon as someone breaks in, the information would be relayed to him. When he opened the surveillance feed, unsurprisingly, he saw nothing.

But that didn’t mean nothing had happened. He quickly stood up and activated the alarm.

The moment the alarm sounded, all the chamber doors opened.

Amid the piercing alarm, there was no time to explain anything. Now, they didn’t have to worry about making too much noise and attracting others.

The people who had suddenly been released looked confused. They wanted to ask questions, but the blaring alarm already explained everything—they were being rescued.

The most energetic ones were the first to react, quickly pulling out the tubes from their bodies and helping others out of the glass chambers.

1314 calculated the optimal route, and Li Shu followed its directions as they ran out. He had originally planned to create some headaches for Professor Fang, but the plan had to change. With so many people now, he couldn’t just leave them behind.

[Host, it’s impossible to completely avoid them.]

[We don’t need to avoid them completely. Just get me out with these people safely.]

As his blood rushed through his veins, Li Shu became even calmer. It had been a long, long time since he had felt this kind of excitement. He wasn’t afraid of facing those people, but he had to consider the people behind him. At the very least, he had to get them out alive.

These people had been imprisoned for a long time, and some had undergone experiments. They were running on pure willpower, which inevitably slowed their pace. After turning another corner, they came face-to-face with the enemy.