Chapter 271: A Mountain of Bones
As early as when Zhao Si was in charge of the intelligence department, his father's pharmacy was one of the many suspects.
Even before Zhao Si, the pharmacy was already on the danger list.
It is suspicious enough that a master-level figure like my dad keeps a low profile every day, does not pursue fame or fortune, and stays in this small city like an ordinary old man.
In this age of fame and fortune, from a normal person's perspective, being indifferent to fame and fortune is abnormal.
In the past, there were so-called "masters" who said they were indifferent to fame and fortune and were unwilling to come out of retirement, but in fact they were just waiting for a better price.
In addition, the eldest disciple Gu An is also one of the reasons why his father is suspected.
Moser knew the true relationship between Gu An and his father, so as soon as he got the news, he ordered Yu Tuo to lead the troops to surround the entire pharmacy.
"Lord Yu Tuo, we found the metal that Lord Mercer mentioned down there." A mechanical creature in charge of the search hurried up to the first floor and reported to Yu Tuo.
"Well, I'll go take a look." Yu Tuo responded calmly.
His main body was too huge, so he couldn't enter the basement.
With a click, the mechanical armor on his shoulder separated, revealing a black launch hole, and then an oval silver-white metal ball was ejected.
The small metal ball was about the size of a bowling ball, and its surface was covered with cracks. Strands of dark blue light were faintly visible in the cracks.
“Crack—Crack—”
The metal sphere cracked, and mini robotic arms appeared on the left and right. The arc-shaped carapace on the back unfolded, and the oval lower half split into four parts, becoming four mechanical legs.
This is also Yu Tuo's clone, mainly used for reconnaissance work. It is flexible in movement and has strong combat capability.
He began to move. His four sharp metal legs made a tinkling sound on the wooden floor. He followed the ants all the way down, passed the first underground floor, and came to the second underground floor.
The half-body that looked like an alien first attracted his attention, but he made the same judgment as the other mechanical creatures.
"Hybrid?"
Yu Tuo's eyes flickered. During his time in the underground laboratory, he had come into contact with many failed products, many of which looked similar to this corpse.
He himself was very opposed to this kind of behavior. He always felt that hybrid organisms were uncontrollable and would cause trouble sooner or later, so he just glanced at them twice and then looked away.
"Where is the box?" he asked his subordinates.
"It's just ahead. Please follow me, sir." The subordinate replied respectfully, "This underground world is huge. That old man has opened up the underground areas of the surrounding streets. The area is no smaller than the underground floors of our base. I really don't know how he did it."
"Besides that metal, have you found anything else?"
“Not for now…”
The subordinate answered like this, but then felt that it was inappropriate. After all, Yu Tuo was once a human being, so he added: "There are some very commemorative collections from before the war, and there are also many precious materials. If you are interested, we can..."
"No need."
Yu Tuo refused in an indifferent tone, showing no interest in these things at all.
With his current status, treasures in the eyes of ordinary people are all within his reach.
Things that are too easy to get are not precious.
And he has always only liked to pursue power.
Soon, Yu Tuo saw the pitted metal in the box. After careful observation, he instructed his subordinates: "It is that kind of metal. Take it back to the underground base and arrange a few more people to protect it along the way."
"yes!"
"Where's Su Xia?"
"In that corner, there are many people there." The subordinate pointed to a dark corner, "They found the entrance to the third underground floor and are currently looking for the key."
"Take me to see it."
"Okay, please follow me."
The subordinates respectfully led the way in front, introducing the other items found on the second underground floor along the way.
In this endless dark underground area, the most stored items are naturally potions, which are enough to support several large-scale wars.
There are also some special potion formulas that have been improved by my father, and even the mechanical race needs to refer to them.
The mechanical race also obtained some of the spacecraft wreckage, and naturally knew that a very glorious pharmaceutical civilization had once been born in the starry sky.
The path of medicine is also a possible evolutionary path.
The mechanical race itself cannot use potions, but it can learn from some development experiences, draw on each other's strengths to overcome its weaknesses, and gather the strengths of all schools to forge its own path.
In the years since the end of the war, not only the human race has been developing, but the mechanical race is also developing. Moreover, the mechanical race, which occupies the vast majority of resources, is developing at a faster speed. This is one of the reasons why many people see no hope.
At this time, in that dark corner, a group of mechanical creatures were watching Su Xia looking for the key.
"This one is not... this one is not..."
Su Xia was holding several large bunches of keys in her hands. They were heavy and jingled when she shook them. Some of the keys had paper instructions on them, while others had nothing on them.
Dad left in a hurry and didn't give many instructions. He probably felt that there was no need to explain such trivial matters and just let Su Xia find it herself.
I don't know how many keys I tried. Even the mechanical creatures known for their patience felt tired. Finally...
“Crack—”
The lock core popped out with a crisp sound, and the passage leading to the third underground floor was finally opened.
Su Xia collected all the keys, looked focused, took off the heavy lock, and slowly opened the heavy cover, revealing a dark entrance facing downwards.
As soon as it was opened, a smell of decay instantly surged up from underground, as if it had been sealed for thousands of years, mixed with bursts of cold and chilly air.
“Huff…”
A cold wind was howling below. I didn't know how big the space was. The wind was shrill in the darkness, like the wailing of an evil spirit, giving me goose bumps.
More rotten smells rushed up with the wind and continued to pour out.
Su Xia was the first to be hit.
He covered his mouth and nose, frowned slightly, and felt very uncomfortable.
This cold and eerie atmosphere made him feel as if he had instantly moved to the world of Grave Robbers' Chronicles and Ghost Blows Out the Light.
Behind him, a mechanical creature said doubtfully, "It looks eerie, like the entrance to a cemetery. I heard that this area used to be a mass grave. Could there be something bad down there?"
"How many times have I told you that we are the product of technology and we are materialists!" another mechanical creature refuted him, "Even if there is a real ghost down there, we will beat it until it admits that it is not a ghost!"
"That makes sense, you go first!"
"No, let Su Xia go first!"
“…”
Su Xia was speechless and took out a mask and put it on.
The smell of decay down there was too strong, so the mask only served as a psychological comfort. After all, his body was a player template and he couldn't die.
He turned on the flashlight, and the dazzling light shone into the entrance of the passage, and all he could see was a row of cold stone steps leading down.
The steps continued to extend deep underground, until finally even light could not reach them and they were slowly swallowed up by the cold darkness.
"It's quite deep." Su Xia thought, "Can Dad really dig out such a large underground world by himself?"
He held the flashlight tightly, took a few slow breaths of fresh air, and then prepared to go down.
At this time, Yu Tuo just walked over.
The mechanical creatures surrounding the entrance pushed aside and made way for a path: "Lord Yutuo!"
"Um."
Yu Tuo responded indifferently, walked to the underground entrance and took a quick look.
Then, he used all four of his mechanical legs to exert force and actually jumped directly in. Without any hesitation, he landed steadily on a step below.
"Anyone who wants to come down can do so. It's not dangerous."
Yu Tuo did not wait for everyone. After he finished speaking, he continued to walk down the stone steps at a moderate pace.
Su Xia followed closely behind and walked in holding a flashlight.
A chilly and cold breath blew towards him, brushing his skin like a pair of cold knives, chilling him to the bone.
He looked carefully and found that the stone steps and the stone walls on both sides were bluish-gray in color. They were a very hard rock with many man-made marks on them.
After walking down about a hundred meters, the space in front of me suddenly became larger.
The stone wall on the right is still there, but the left side is empty, with only a huge . The entire staircase is hanging on the cold cliff, and there is not even a railing on the left side. If you are not careful, you may step on empty air.
"It should be an underground cave left over from the past, and it just happened to be discovered and used by your teacher." Yu Tuo, who was walking in front, suddenly spoke up, "This area used to be rich in stone materials. We also encountered a similar space when we were developing an underground base. The organization at the Zero Point Tavern also has the same underground space."
"Lord Yutuo, so the underground of Coral City is just a series of giant holes?"
"Well, this city is located on a bubble."
Yu Tuo said nothing more after that.
Su Xia stared around, thinking as he walked.
If a few small nuclear weapons like "Voice of Destruction" were detonated underground , would it cause the entire Coral City to collapse and sink directly into the ground?
Of course, this is a tactic that will kill a thousand enemies but injure a million of your own people, and all the humans in the entire city will be buried with them.
“Hey, this is…”
A mark on the wall attracted Su Xia's attention and made him come out of his thinking state.
There were three claw marks on the stone wall, of varying depths, as if they were left by some violent animal.
Continue walking down and you will find more claw marks.
In addition to the claw marks, there are other similar marks on the stone walls and steps.
With Su Xia's current strength, he could just use a few pieces of metal to leave marks on the wall.
"The claws of some creature are very hard, comparable to metal. Could it be a bug?" Su Xia thought silently, "Has there ever been a living bug imprisoned here? Did Dad want to use fresh bug materials to make potions? Or... is he also doing experiments?"
With suspicion, Su Xia continued to go down and saw more and more traces.
Now his ugly clone has become the leader of two insect nests and has a better understanding of the structure of various insects.
He was almost certain what kind of insect had left some of the marks.
"These small holes look like they were made by the sharp-backed worms... and this mark should have been left by the black-winged claws..."
After going about 300 meters deep, the two finally reached the bottom.
The rest of the mechanical creatures followed, all behind, not moving very fast, collecting information as they walked.
The road at the end of the stone steps was blocked, leaving only a corridor forward, and it was still dark ahead.
Yu Tuo found a lever and pulled it hard.
“Ka——”
The entire underground world lit up instantly. Bright lights lit up one after another at the top, and light also appeared on the surrounding walls. The darkness nearby was driven away, but the coldness in the distance remained.
There was no light in the deepest part of the underground as far as the eye could see. It was still pitch black, with a cold wind howling, and it seemed as if there was a black fog rolling.
After seeing the true appearance of part of this underground space, the mechanical creatures still on the stone wall were shocked, and even they felt creepy.
"Why are there so many corpses? Is this really a cemetery?"
"I tried to scan just now, but something interfered with me. I thought there was a pile of rocks below..."
The area illuminated by the lights was covered with corpses of all sizes.
The skeletons were stacked one on top of another, and various creatures were mixed together. It was impossible to tell their specific race. Some bones looked normal, while others looked extremely deformed, as if they came from some mutated monster.
If you were a timid person, you might faint on the spot after seeing this horrifying scene.
Above the countless skeletons, there is a suspended corridor made of steel.
Following the corridor, you can walk to the center of this bone area, where there is a huge circular stone platform.
"It seems that your teacher is also conducting secret experiments. The central platform is his experimental area." Yu Tuo stepped onto the suspended steel corridor. "The countless are the creatures that died in his experiments."
"The teacher never told us about it."
"Well, probably because he doesn't want to destroy the image of him in your hearts."
It's normal to think about it. Given the personalities of Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu, they would definitely not be able to bear it if they knew that their father was secretly conducting experiments and so many people had died.
In their hearts, Dad is just an ordinary family member whose hands have never been stained with blood.
Su Xia also walked onto the suspended steel corridor.
He could see that some of the skeletons below belonged to humans.
If all these humans died because of Dad's experiments, then Dad's previous image would be completely subverted.
But he vaguely felt that things might not be that simple.
The two walked up the circular platform, one in front and one behind, along the suspended corridor.
Above is a huge laboratory, which is similar to the mechanical clan’s underground laboratory. It has all kinds of experimental instruments and equipment, but it has a more simple atmosphere.
The laboratory door is open and no key is required.
A large amount of paper materials, electronic materials, video files, photo records, etc. are all intactly stored in this laboratory, and even have special label classifications, so there is no need to spend time looking for them.
"Let me see..."
Yu Tuo jumped onto a long table where documents were stored, took out the document at the top and read it carefully.
Su Xia also took a copy of the document to look at it.
He flipped through it casually and found a file of the experimental subject, which recorded the personal information of the experimental subject, with accompanying photos and the number of the accompanying video file.
[Experimental Subject: 00218]
[Survival time: 64 hours]
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