IRCDM Chapter 62

Chapter 62: Passing a Message, So I’ll Be Off First

Chuan Wu was awakened by the whistling wind around his ears, looking at the slender white waist and the pink diamond-studded small pistol attached to it, he was momentarily dazed. But he quickly reacted, reaching out to try and take the gun, but just as he was about to touch it, the world suddenly spun, and his back slammed against the car seat.

Shuangta tilted his head, looked at him, and smiled, “Hi, Father.”

Chuan Wu looked at the delicate-looking, petite man in front of him and frowned, “Are you an experimental subject?”

He didn’t even remember the subject’s code.

Shuangta’s face instantly fell, “Am I not even worthy of a name, Father?”

“…” Although Chuan Wu liked to call the experimental subjects “children,” being called “father” by one still felt very strange. He quickly reacted, “You’re Subject 2, the variant.”

Shuangta perked up again.

“You’ve already been sold to Yi Yuan, why are you back?” Chuan Wu didn’t quite understand. Subject 2 was a defective product. He had sold it to raise funds for his experiments, but the subject’s memory had been wiped before the sale. Normally, experimental subjects wouldn’t run back.

Shuangta twisted his stiff shoulders, observing the weak, pale human in front of him, and said when he heard the question: “Yi Yuan always makes me kill people, and they don’t give me enough nutrient solution, and there are no men to sleep with. Working is not that bad. So I came to find you. As my father, you should provide me with enough nutrient solution, and also find me a lot of men.”

Chuan Wu weakly closed his eyes.

Defective products were indeed defective. A lack of intelligence was a flaw that no amount of strength could compensate for. Even if this variant’s intelligence was the same as that of a normal person, his obsessive personality made him seem more like a madman.

Shuangta tied him up securely with rope, got into the car, and floored the accelerator.

“Where are you taking me?” Chuan Wu asked.

Shuangta smiled, “To the Outer District, of course.”

“I have high mental power dysfunction. Without medication, I’ll die quickly,” Chuan Wu said. “And Dawn Laboratory headquarters has other mutant species. They’ll catch up and kill you soon. Stop and send me back. At least you won’t die.”

Shuangta excitedly widened his eyes, turned his head, and stared at him with bloodshot eyes, “It doesn’t matter, Father. I’ll kill you before they catch up. We can die together—what a wonderful thing! My dear Father, we will blend our blood and bones, completely intimate and inseparable!”

Amid the piercing laughter, Chuan Wu’s mental power fluctuated violently. He closed his eyes helplessly.

Bang!

The car suddenly shook violently, and the windshield exploded into a spiderweb of cracks. Chuan Wu suddenly opened his eyes and saw countless fluttering silver-white hair. A face, androgynous and hard to define, was hidden behind the white hair, coldly looking at him. Before he could feel surprised, the other person’s body exploded, turning into countless translucent tentacles. Those tentacles, like ropes, hooked onto the chain-link fences on both sides of the highway. The huge pulling force made the metal fences creak. The zombies around heard the noise and desperately climbed up, quickly piling up a towering wall of corpses.

“It’s you again—” Shuangta angrily turned the steering wheel. The fences on both sides of the highway shook violently twice, and the foundations underneath gradually began to loosen. It looked like they were about to collapse.

Once the fences collapsed, the zombie horde that had gathered over the years would directly rush onto the highway and then flood into the East District base gate not far away. This place was open to the Outer District exploration teams year-round and obviously lacked sufficient awareness of defense.

Unfortunately, neither Shuangta nor Mu Bo cared.

In the second before the fence was about to collapse, a giant SUV roared in, and someone yelled, “Get out of the way!”

Mu Bo decisively withdrew his tentacles. The next second, the windshield was smashed by Shuangta with a punch. If Mu Bo had been a moment slower, his brain would have been directly pierced through. After Mu Bo dodged, a heavy nuclear bomb directly hit the tires. The SUV rolled several times on the ground and crashed heavily into the fence, causing a commotion among the zombie horde.

Li Yao, carrying a heavy cannon, aimed again at Chuan Wu next to Shuangta.

Liang Huan said, “Keep him alive—”

However, before he could finish speaking, Li Yao fired a second shot without hesitation.

Chuan Wu’s pupils shrank. He saw the cannon, the shattered windshield, the restless zombie horde, and the glaring white-haired heteromorph reflected in his eyes. He heard Shuangta’s sharp laughter and the roar of the engine in his ears. He slowly closed his eyes.

However, the expected explosion did not occur.

A red figure suddenly arrived, and a protective light sphere was thrown out, directly enveloping the cannonball. She kicked the light sphere into the zombie horde, and the next second, she smashed through the windshield, grabbed Chuan Wu’s collar, and pulled him out.

Shuangta was furious, “Who are you?!”

The woman was not tall. She was still wearing the lab coat she hadn’t had time to take off, and a head of wavy red hair was scattered behind her. If Zhou Suiyu was here, he would definitely recognize her at a glance as Wei Ning, the senior researcher who had received him. Only, her short hair had become long, and her eyes were colder.

“You can call me Variant 1, or you can call me Wei Ning.” Wei Ning looked at him calmly, “From a strict biological point of view, I am your sister.”

“Put my father down!” Shuangta screamed.

Wei Ning turned to look at Chuan Wu, “I told you a long time ago that letting me participate in the experimental group was not a good idea. I’m busy doing those broken experiments every day. Even if you get caught, I won’t be able to save you. Work is already so busy, can you give me less trouble?”

Chuan Wu sighed quietly.

Mu Bo squatted on the fence, cautiously observing the new variant. Although Shuangta was angry, he still had some sense and didn’t attack rashly. Wei Ning pulled down a wheelchair from behind and placed Chuan Wu on it. She stood properly behind the wheelchair, obviously not fully confident that she could kill Shuangta and Mu Bo at the same time, and was still weighing her options.

Soon, the Security Department arrived with reinforcements. Chief Wu Qi was a young man in his early thirties. He had a crew cut and looked very fierce. He assigned some people to reinforce the precarious fence and personally led the rest to set up their weapons.

On the other side, Yue Hang led the Shenfeng Team and cautiously stopped at the end of the highway, blocking the retreat route for Shuangta and the others.

The First stopped quietly between the two groups. Li Yao sat back in the passenger seat, took out a cigarette, and bit it between his teeth, squinting his eyes and staring at the tense situation. He teased, “What a bunch of talent, what are you going to do now?”

Liang Huan answered with a non sequitur, “You want to kill Chuan Wu.”

His tone was certain, without the slightest doubt.

Li Yao, with the cigarette in his mouth, turned his head and laughed, “He’s our common enemy, am I wrong to want to kill him?”

Liang Huan said, “He’s worth more alive.”

Li Yao remained noncommittal, “In this situation, even if he lives, he won’t fall into your hands. The military has always wanted to get him, but they haven’t had the opportunity. Are you planning to go against the military?”

Liang Huan smiled, “Maybe I was originally with the military?”

Li Yao lowered his head and lit the cigarette, “Then it depends on whose side you’re on.”

Liang Huan raised his hand, took the cigarette from his mouth, and extinguished it. He smiled, “No matter which camp I’m in, I will only be my own person. No emperor should serve others.”

Li Yao hadn’t smoked for too long and was caught off guard, coughing as he choked on the smoke. He started laughing, “Baby, you’re really awesome.”

Liang Huan stared at him with deep eyes, “Then who are you on?”

Li Yao looked at him affectionately, “Of course I’m on your side.”

The situation outside the car was about to erupt. The two people inside the car looked at each other calmly. In the end, Li Yao couldn’t help but break the suffocating silence.

“Okay, I’ll go get Chuan Wu back for you.” He said half helplessly, half indulgently, “Don’t look at me so aggrievedly, my heart is about to melt from your gaze.”

Liang Huan said woodenly, “I’m not aggrieved.”

Li Yao reached out and touched his thigh, enthusiastically inviting him, “Come on, give me a kiss before punching the mad scientist.”

Liang Huan frowned slightly and grabbed his wrist.

Li Yao grabbed the back of his neck and leaned in to kiss him, but was caught off guard when he dodged away. His warm lips grazed his cheek. Li Yao bit his ear angrily, raised his head, and looked at him unhappily, arrogantly asking, “Are you capable now, not letting me kiss you?”

Liang Huan looked at him expressionlessly, “When we get back, you can kiss me however you want.”

Li Yao laughed, “I’m not running away, you stingy guy.”

Liang Huan ignored him. Li Yao casually grabbed his waist, turned around, grabbed the equipment bag behind him, and yanked open the door, getting out of the car.

Lu Biao’s voice came from the external chip, “Brother Liang, the patrol group is all in position. The target is outside the car, should we intercept immediately?”

Liang Huan glanced at Chuan Wu in the wheelchair and issued the order.

In the distance, Chuan Wu leaned back in the wheelchair and looked at the people around him: the eager Shuangta, the murderous Mu Bo, and the fully armed Security Department. He even saw Li Yao, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time. But none of this was enough to cause much fluctuation in his emotions. Until, through the windshield of the heavy SUV, he met the eyes of the blurry figure inside.

High mental power dysfunction made him very sensitive to mental power fluctuations, especially after he modified it. He almost instantly recognized the other person’s identity. A trace of blood finally appeared on his pale face, and he murmured, “It’s Number One of Group Two…”

Liang Huan met his gaze with a cold expression. The mental power fluctuation attempting to link with his mental power hadn’t succeeded when it was brutally severed by another savage mental power.

Li Yao rolled up his sleeves and grinned, “Dead cripple, casually linking with other people’s wife’s mental power, isn’t that a little impolite?”

Chuan Wu raised his eyes, “Wei Ning, bring Number One of Group Two back.”

“Understood.” Wei Ning agreed decisively. Her speed was extremely fast. Before the group of humans could react, she had already crossed Shuangta. She flicked her scimitar, directly severing Shuangta’s neck. Mu Bo jumped down from the fence, but his surging mental power seemed to be hindered by something. Wei Ning flicked the scimitar in her hand, directly pierced Mu Bo’s abdomen, twisted it hard, and threw him onto Shuangta. The two experimental subjects’ mental sources were instantly sealed, and they lay on the ground with wide eyes, unable to move at all.

Wei Ning turned her head and glanced at the people in the Security Department. Wu Qi immediately broke out in a cold sweat and ordered everyone to retreat more than ten meters. After all, they and Chuan Wu were not enemies—at least not on the surface.

Wei Ning ignored all the humans and rushed straight towards the heavy SUV where Liang Huan was. But Liang Huan sat in the car, unmoved.

“Hmm?” Wei Ning made a very light sound of inquiry. The next second, Li Yao killed his way out, kicking her shoulder. Bullets flew directly towards the back of her head like they were free.

Wei Ning dodged quickly, but fell directly into the hunting net that Li Yao had spread out. Her movements were momentarily sluggish. The next second, anesthetic was sprayed out. Wei Ning quickly held her breath. Li Yao flicked his bracelet, turning it into a police baton, and smashed it directly on the back of her neck, immediately making a cracking sound of bone fracture. Wei Ning’s neck bent into a strange arc. The needle-shaped mental power inhibitor embedded in the police baton directly paralyzed her nerves. Wei Ning was forced to take half a step back.

Li Yao sighed, lifted his eyelids, looked at Chuan Wu, and said a little irritably, “I already said, don’t touch my wife, why can’t you understand human language?”

Chuan Wu gnashed his teeth and laughed, “Li Yao, are you crazy, liking an experimental subject? Aren’t you the most disgusted with modified alien species?”

“None of your business.” Li Yao moved his wrists, which he hadn’t moved for a long time. Seeing Wei Ning rushing up, the irritation in his eyes increased, “Compared to modified alien species, I still hate you mutants the most.”

Even if Wei Ning had inhaled the anesthetic and had the inhibitor injected, her speed was still ridiculously fast. But even so, Li Yao hadn’t fallen behind. In Liang Huan’s view, his speed was even a bit faster than Wei Ning’s—this was far from Li Yao’s limit.

In other words, whether it was killing alien species in the Outer District before, being held hostage in the Black Market, or capturing Shuangta with the combined efforts of everyone in the Administrative Court building, Li Yao had never used his full strength.

He even very cunningly kept his strength at a level that was just about equal to Liang Huan’s. Occasionally, he would pretend to be weak to gain the other person’s concern and sympathy.

The only thing he hadn’t lied about was his awful mental power. Every time Wei Ning used a mental power attack, this guy would solidly take a hit, and then retaliate during the other person’s mental paralysis, repaying evil with evil.

Li Yao was smashed against the windshield, and Wei Ning smashed through the glass with a punch, her fist only half an inch away from Liang Huan’s nose.

Li Yao used the hunting net to entangle her arm, forcing her fist away from Liang Huan. As a result, a familiar chuckle came from his ear.

He turned his head in shock and saw Liang Huan sitting in the driver’s seat, smiling at him, “Add oil.” (cheer him up)

Li Yao almost lost his breath, glared at him fiercely, grabbed Wei Ning and rolled onto the highway.

Estimating the combat power of both sides, Liang Huan floored the accelerator and rushed straight towards Chuan Wu. The Security Department and the Shenfeng Team opened fire almost simultaneously.

Gunfire, zombie roars, and the fence rattled.

Li Yao and Wei Ning turned their heads almost simultaneously. Wei Ning’s first reaction was to loyally protect her master. Who knew that Li Yao was running even faster than her. Before Liang Huan’s SUV rushed over, his bracelet turned into a grappling hook, directly hooking onto the rear edge of the car. He stepped onto the roof in a few steps, wrapped the chain around Chuan Wu’s wheelchair, and whistled towards the sky.

A silver-black unmanned fighter plane roared past, directly knocking down the fences on both sides. The zombies next to it surged out, and the Shenfeng Team and the Security Department were too busy to take care of themselves. The fighter plane approached the ground and released a rope. Li Yao grabbed the rope, and a mechanical arm stretched out from the fighter plane, directly grabbing Chuan Wu’s wheelchair.

Everything was so caught off guard.

Whether it was the variant species or the humans, by the time they reacted, Chuan Wu had already been thrown into the fighter plane’s cabin. Li Yao hung in mid-air with one hand, arrogantly waving at the dark mass of zombies and humans below, laughing very wildly, “Thanks for your hard work, brothers! Wife—take care!”

Liang Huan opened the car door, looking at his rising figure with a gloomy expression.

Bang!

The rope hanging him snapped, and Li Yao, before he could be surprised, fell straight into the zombie pile.

“Target shot down.” Lu Biao’s voice came from the earpiece.

“Intercept Chuan Wu, collect the mutant species and modified alien species.” Liang Huan issued the order, picked up the crowbar behind the car, and jumped towards the direction Li Yao fell, cleaning up the surrounding zombies before Li Yao could act.

Li Yao climbed up dazedly, looking at Liang Huan in disbelief, “What the…”

Liang Huan smiled slightly, “Li Yao, didn’t you say you wouldn’t run?”

Li Yao was shocked, “Flying doesn’t count.”

“…” Liang Huan’s smile didn’t reach his eyes.

“Careful!” Li Yao suddenly pushed him to the side, blocking Wei Ning’s attack, and said angrily, “Why is it so difficult to have a good breakup when you’re in love?!”

Wei Ning was also angry, “Hand over Chuan Wu!”

Li Yao retreated repeatedly, “Liang Huan told me to do it, I wanted to hand him over, but you have to ask him!”

Blatantly throwing dirty water in front of the person involved. Although it wasn’t the first time Liang Huan had been slandered like this, he never expected that Li Yao could do this without changing his expression.

Li Yao felt guilty and refused to meet his eyes. His actions became more and more perfunctory. Taking advantage of Wei Ning turning her head to look at Liang Huan, he directly smashed a smoke bomb on the ground, turned around, and burrowed into the dense zombie crowd, disappearing like a fish in the sea.

Wei Ning turned to look at Liang Huan.

Liang Huan said, “Chuan Wu is in Li Yao’s hands.”

“Of course I know, but capturing you to exchange for Chuan Wu from his hands is easier than killing him directly.” Wei Ning flicked the scimitar in her hand, “Number One of Group Two, I’ve heard so much about you, let me see your strength.”

Liang Huan turned to look in the direction Li Yao had fled, and laughed out loud in anger.

This should be the most chaotic and disorderly day in the East District base’s Immigration and Exit Center in the past decade.

First, the highest researcher of Dawn Laboratory headquarters was kidnapped by unknown terrorists, and then the high-precision protective net, said to be able to defend for a hundred years, was overturned, and a large number of zombies poured into the highway. Many exploration teams returning from the Outer District thought their home had been overturned, and the exploration teams leaving the border were blocked halfway, thinking that a zombie mutation zombie tide had struck;

The Security Department was chased by zombies and ran back desperately. The Shenfeng Team of the Eastern Third District was fighting zombies and repairing the protective net, with a huge, suspected paralyzed transparent species and an exposed top star of the Eastern Fourth District’s Kaiongsar Club tied to the rear of their car;

It is said that in the end, the Deputy District Chief of the Eastern Third District saved the day, and a heavy nuclear bomb directly destroyed the Second Gate of the Eastern District base, blocking the frantically pouring zombies and the approaching alien species. In desperation, he “accidentally” destroyed the military’s outbound passage. Several mechs from the military had to participate in the battle together, and finally resolved the crisis.

As for the whereabouts of the highest researcher Chuan Wu, it became an unsolvable mystery. During this operation, Wei Ning, the senior researcher of Dawn Laboratory, whose position was second only to Chuan Wu, was also seriously injured. She said that Chuan Wu was likely to have died in the accident.

The host in the news sat upright, “…Currently, the Second East Gate is being repaired. The Eastern Third District is in a debt crisis. The Immigration and Exit Center said that the losses amounted to 20 billion Condensed Coins. The military channel losses and mech consumption amounted to 50 billion Condensed Coins… As of now, Liao Yuan, the District Chief of the Eastern Third District, has made no statement on this…”

“What statement do I have? Ah? You tell me, what statement should I have?!” Liao Yuan collapsed and knelt in front of the coffee table, grabbing his hair, “I just took a day off, why does the Administrative Court of the Third District owe 70 billion again!!! Can someone give me an explanation???”

Geng Lin looked at the ledger numbly, “Currently, the Administrative Court of the Third District owes a total of 163.2 billion Condensed Coins to various parties. However, there is good news. Our Deputy District Chief has received commendation from the base, and the bonus is as high as 100,000 Condensed Coins.”

“Ahhhhh—” Liao Yuan shouted and rushed to the window.

You Zhao Chen and Jiang Chudong stopped him on the left and right. Ling Xuan and Pei Zhong Yuehang sat on both sides. Deng Meng and Lu Biao stood behind the sofa with guns, Liang Huan sat on the sofa calmly drinking health tea, and slowly opened his mouth, “Liao Yuan, don’t worry, now your position as the District Chief of the Third District is completely secure.”

Liao Yuan cried and laughed, “Haha, why don’t you come and do it.”

Liang Huan comforted, “My ex-wife ran away, and my younger brother fell into a coma. I’m not as depressed as you are.”

Liao Yuan collapsed and hugged his head, “You said it was your ex-wife! And which good person’s younger brother is a lump of snot alien?! One hundred and sixty-three point two billion, one hundred and sixty-three point two billion! Kill me!”

Liang Huan lowered his eyes and sighed.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

Liao Yuan said, “It must be creditors coming to collect debts. Brothers, grab your weapons and kill him!”

Liang Huan raised his hand, and Yue Hang walked over and opened the door. Outside was Uncle Yang, leaning on a cane.

“Uncle Yang, why are you here?” You Zhao Chen and the others were puzzled.

Uncle Yang frowned and said, “Li Yao suddenly called me and insisted that I come over to help him clock in, saying that he had to get full attendance on the last day and that you had to transfer the money to his account on time, otherwise he would blow up the Administrative Court building.”

The skinny old man vigorously searched his pockets and took out a crumpled piece of paper, “Liang Huan, this is for you from Li Yao.”

Deng Meng quickly took it, made sure there was nothing wrong, and handed it to Liang Huan.

Liang Huan unfolded it. On it were two lines written in a hasty manner:

[There is a mental power frequency interference chip on your lower back.]

[I put it there.]

A candy rolled out from the half-unfolded piece of paper. There was a fingerprint stained with grease on the candy wrapper. It rolled past the light screen in front of Liang Huan and fell to the ground.

In the background image of the personal light screen, Li Yao, wearing a black combat uniform, had cold eyes and a steady gaze. In the thick night, he was raising a gun to the screen, his killing intent fully revealed.