It sounds like the world's technological level is indeed not very high.
Then why were they able to see through the spacecraft's stealth?
"This survey ship is indeed a bit old, but its stealth capability cannot be detected by ordinary life planets." The doctor is very confident in this aspect.
The doctor learned the details by questioning the obese middle-aged man.
The survey ship was shot down by one of the five major groups in charge of this area.
They imprisoned a special type of Zerg that could emit energy waves, and trained that Zerg to monitor the sky and guard against possible Zerg air raids.
So, the doctor was not discovered by this world's technology, but by bugs.
"I see."
The doctor understood that he had not been wronged this time.
It may be because the adventures in recent times have been relatively stable, he was not well prepared and was too rash, and he almost lost his life here.
The fat man they caught was just a small supervisor in the group, responsible for managing this area, and his status was not high.
Higher-level members of the group have already known the news.
It won't be long before they face a more powerful pursuit force.
"How do I hide next?"
The doctor was worried because there were only three hours left before the 24-hour deadline and the enemy's pursuers might come at any time.
At this time, he and the female robot had arrived deep into the factory.
As expected, a large number of insects and living humans are imprisoned here. Everywhere you look, there is blood. The cruel experiments have tortured many people to the point where they are unbearable to live. The wailing sounds are intertwined, as if they came from hell.
“These people are not going to survive.”
The Doctor sighed, "The bug's genes are like cancer, destroying their bodies all the time. Once they come into contact, it's irreversible."
“I’ve heard there are successful cases,” said the female robot.
"Yes, I have heard of it, but it is just a rumor. Imperial law prohibits such experiments." The doctor shook his head slightly. "Once ordinary people come into contact with it, they can hardly survive for more than three days. It is said that psychic creatures can last longer."
Those cages and experimental tables were filled with wailing, mutated humans. They looked as painful and twisted as evil spirits, and even their minds were not clear.
Rather than letting them continue to suffer, it is better to give them a quick death.
We're all going to die in the end anyway.
If they are released, they may pose a threat to the lives of ordinary people during the last period of their lives when they are unconscious.
The doctor and the female robot took their guns and began to quickly clear out the bugs and mutated humans in the cages, shooting them one by one.
“Bang—bang—”
Gunshots rang out, and the roar of insects and wailing of humans deep in the factory gradually became quieter.
The smell of blood in the air became stronger. Fresh corpses fell to the ground, and sticky blood spurted from the wounds. The smell was so strong that it was disgusting. An ordinary person would definitely not be able to accept it.
Fortunately, the doctor has experienced a lot over the years and is almost immune to bloody and horrific things.
If he didn't have such a strong heart, he wouldn't have been able to fight the frequent hallucinations and headaches for so many years.
When the doctor processed the last cage, the human in the cage suddenly pleaded in pain: "No... don't kill me, my wife is waiting for me at home... I want to go home..."
"Are you still conscious?"
The doctor was stunned and temporarily put down the gun.
The man in the cage raised his head. It was the face of a skinny man with unshaven beard. With fear in his eyes, he begged, "Please... please let me go. I just want to go home..."
"You are about to lose your mind and become a monster. Going home will only harm your family," said the doctor.
"No, no, I didn't..."
The man shook his head in panic, quickly exposed his hands and feet, and pulled off his tattered clothes.
He pointed to his intact skin and said hurriedly: "Look, look, I haven't turned into a monster. I'm different from those people."
"Strange, didn't this person become an experimental subject?" The female robot also came over.
Many of the humans they had just dealt with had become mutated, crazy and unconscious, and their appearance and behavior were no different from the monsters in bloody horror movies.
But the person in front of me has a clear mind and all parts of his body are normal.
Maybe he was lucky, and before he was used as an experimental subject, the doctoral incident occurred?
"Yes, yes, I have not been experimented on, please let me go." The man looked panicked and his voice was hoarse, and he kept begging.
If it's really what he said, there's nothing wrong with letting him go.
But the doctor did not simply believe him, but said to the female robot beside him: "Ask the fat man."
"Doctor, you are fat too." The female robot replied calmly.
"I'm fat?" The doctor glared. "After living in space for a long time, normal people will become swollen. You are a mechanical life, how can you understand the suffering of a flesh-and-blood life like me?"
"Perhaps."
The female robot turned around, patted the fat middle-aged man with the gun in her hand, and asked in the language of this planet: "Is the person in the cage an experimental subject?"
"Yes." The fat middle-aged man did not dare to hide it and nodded repeatedly.
"He just conducted the experiment today?"
"No, no, he's special." The obese middle-aged man explained immediately, "He's been in the experiment for more than seven days, but he's lucky and hasn't died yet."
"More than seven days?"
The female robot was stunned.
The doctor next to him was also startled when he heard this and began to look at the person in the cage again.
If ordinary people were to undergo this kind of experiment, they would almost certainly die, just like those that Su Xia had rescued in the Coral City laboratory before, few of whom survived more than 72 hours.
Mercer had been conducting experiments underground in Coral City for many years, and only recently had he produced more than twenty living semi-finished products.
The man in the cage not only survived the first three days, but his body also showed almost no changes.
Could this be the chosen one?
The doctor frowned and said to the man, "You just lied to me."
"I... I just want to go home." The man pleaded, "I have a normal job, and my wife is waiting for me at home. I was sold here, and she must have thought I was missing..."
"Your situation is very special."
The female robot said to him: "Even if there is no change now, there may be problems in the future. It's okay if you are conscious, but once you are confused, your wife and other family members may die in your hands."
Hearing this, the man's face became even more panicked and frightened.
He shook his head in pain and grabbed his hair with both hands. He looked a little flustered and didn't know what to do.
The doctor and the female robot looked at each other. Time was tight and they couldn't waste time here.
The female robot asked him: "Can you find us a place to hide?"
"Yes, I can."
Hearing this, the man seemed to have found a glimmer of hope and quickly raised his head to answer.
The female robot continued, "In that case, I can let you out first, and you can lead us to hide."
"But, but you said, my body..."
"The person next to me is a top doctor from a powerful empire in the starry sky." The female robot said calmly, "As long as you help us return to the starry sky, we will find a way to develop an antidote for you."
“This… This is great…”
The man looked at the doctor, and there was some light in his cloudy eyes.
Then, the female robot grabbed the lock on the cage, pulled it hard, and with a click, broke the lock.
She opened the cage and pulled the man out.
The doctor found the man's identity information on the experimental table nearby, and discovered a series of experimental data through the identity information.
The fat man did not lie to them. The man had been an experimental subject for more than seven days.
"Alan? Your name is Alan?" the doctor asked, looking at the man's identity information.
"Yes, yes, my name is Alan." The man replied hurriedly.
"He is actually a mechanical engineer, and should be a talented person. How could he be sold here?" The doctor glanced through the identity information on the file and couldn't help but sigh.
"I...I was sold here by a friend..."
Alan shrank his neck, his body was thin, hunched and sickly. It was obvious that he had suffered a lot during this period, and he was completely different from the photo in his ID information.
He is indeed a senior mechanical engineer in one of the five major groups. He has always had a good status and a happy family.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would have been a superior person all his life and would never have come to this area filled with poor and lower class people.
But one of the accident and tomorrow will always come, or maybe they will come together.
Just because of a small job competition, he was knocked unconscious by his friend with a stick, and when he woke up he was already in the factory.
"Tell me, how can we avoid the high-level group's hunt?" the female robot asked him, "You are now an experimental subject. In their eyes, you are no longer a human being. If you betray us, your fate will not be good either."
"I understand, don't worry."
Alan is aware of his situation and he can only cooperate with the doctor now.
As a native of this world, he knows it better than the Doctor and the other two, and he knows exactly how to hide.
"Let's go to the Chaos Zone. We should be able to hide there for ten days."
"Okay, tell me a safe route." The female robot already had a map of the world in her mind, and she needed the route to deduce the probability of various events occurring.
The Chaos Zone refers to the border area between the human race and the Zerg race. It is a long winding line that separates the two races like a national border.
In that kind of area, there are both poor people living at the bottom of society and bugs that may appear at any time.
There may even be humans infested by bugs.
Some chaotic areas are hundreds of kilometers wide, with chaos and danger lurking everywhere. Even the five major groups dare not extend too much power to such areas.
The two races are now in a stalemate, and if too much force is invested on the border, it may lead to a new round of war.
"If we follow this route, we should be able to avoid most pursuit." Alan said his planned route in a hoarse voice.
"Okay, let's go!"
The female robot quickly deduced the situation and felt there was no problem, so she threw a weapon to Alan.
Then she shot and killed the fat middle-aged man.
Before leaving, she left behind a bunch of delayed-detonation bombs.
After doing all this, the three of them quickly fled the factory and returned to the garbage dump where they had been hiding before to take out the entire set of power armor.
After putting on the armor, the doctor moved faster and picked up Alan in his hands.
“Go!”
The three of them fled along the predetermined route.
Not long after running, a loud explosion was heard from a factory in the distance. Smoke billowed and flames shot into the sky, which could be seen from a long distance away.
Three hours passed quickly.
Logically speaking, the mothership floating outside the planet should also send an unmanned ship down to look for the doctor.
But the doctor didn't receive any information. His heart sank and he said, "The situation is not good. The unmanned ship that came to look for us may have been shot down."
"Escape to the chaos zone first, then talk!"
"good!"
The pursuit force was right behind them, so the three did not dare to stop and continued to flee towards their destination.
It was not until that night that they arrived at the outskirts of the chaos zone.
The soil in this area is even poorer, like a barren Gobi Desert.
They saw some human settlements but did not stop, heading deeper into the area until they stopped outside a smaller settlement at three in the morning.
"This should be safe enough."
The doctor took off his armor and packed each armor module into a gray cloth bag.
The female robot put on a dark yellow robe, a hood and a mask to disguise her identity.
Outside the gathering place, the wind was howling and the land was desolate.
A group of three entered the gathering place at night.
With the help of Allen, they rented an old wooden house with a basement in a marginal area.
"Let's hide here for the next few days and wait for the mothership to find us." The doctor leaned against the wooden door of the basement and let out a long sigh.
But the female robot shook her head slightly: "It's not safe here yet. There is something deep underground."
"Zerg?"
"Well, there are slight vibrations underground throughout the area caused by the movement of Zerg ."
"It seems that the Zerg have already planned to cross the mixed zone and find an opportunity to attack the area controlled by humans."
The peace of this planet is about to be broken, and a racial war is expected to break out soon.
But none of this concerns the Doctor, all he wants now is to get back to the mothership safely.
He drank some cold water and ate half a piece of dry bread to fill his stomach.
"Would you like something to eat?" The doctor handed the other half of the dry bread to Alan.
"Thanks……"
Alan took the dry bread. He had been tortured in the factory and had been running for his life for most of the day. Now he was almost at his limit.
The dry bread before me seemed more precious than ever.
He took a bite, but before he could chew, his face changed and he spat out the food in his mouth in panic.
"I...what's wrong with my teeth..."
Alan's face turned pale as he stared at the mixture he had spit out, in which there were several blackened teeth.
Seeing this scene, the doctor and the female robot were both stunned and immediately drew their weapons.
"Alan, calm down!" the doctor growled.
It was obvious that Alan was beginning to change.
"No, it shouldn't be like this..."
Alan was at a loss, the bread in his hand fell, he took a few steps back in panic and bumped into the wall behind him.
He grabbed his hair in pain, but felt a pain in his fingers.
I put my hands in front of my eyes and took a closer look, and I found that the nails on my ten fingers had begun to fall off.
"No, no, I can't turn into a monster." Alan looked at the doctor with despair in his eyes, almost pleading, "You have to save me, you must save me, my wife is waiting for me at home, she has prepared dinner and is waiting for me to come back..."
"Calm down, I will definitely save you!"
The Doctor and the female robot exchanged a glance.
If Alan became delirious now, they would have no choice but to shoot him dead.
Fortunately, the current changes have not affected Alan's mind, and he can still understand what the two say.
"Okay, okay, I'll calm down, calm down..."
Alan leaned against the wall, his lips trembling and he covered his head in pain.
This mutation is too complex to be traced.
Even Dr. Aigar didn't know how long he could hold on and what he would eventually become.
"well."
The doctor had no choice but to sigh softly.
The next few days were a torment every day.
Although the five major groups did not dare to send too many forces into the chaotic zone, they still sent a small group of soldiers. Yesterday, a group of soldiers hurriedly passed by.
The people here only know that they are looking for something, but they don't know what exactly they are looking for.
In the basement, Alan's face became paler and paler.
He had been curled up in a corner, trembling all over, his clothes soaked with sweat from pain, and he kept muttering: "I won't become a monster, I won't become a monster..."
The Doctor and the female robot have been keeping an eye on his situation.
Both of them were amazed at the strong willpower of this native, which was so rare that one might not be able to be found among millions of people.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, his body was still changing.
His arms had turned dark brown, and the skin had become hard and wrinkled.
Over time, this change is almost irreversible.
Seventy-two hours have long passed, and the mother ship's automatic response system has been upgraded. Logically, there should be more unmanned ships looking for them.
During this time, the two of them were paying attention to Allen and observing the surrounding situation.
At noon on the fourth day, a loud noise suddenly came from the distant sky.
“Boom—”
The doctor and the female robot went out to check, and both showed surprise on their faces - it was a small unmanned ship.
They finally waited for it!
On the ground, the doctor's face only appeared for a moment before it was read by the unmanned ship and matched successfully.
"It's coming!"
Even the female robot had a smile on her face.
Although it is called an unmanned ship, there is enough space inside it to take away the doctor and the female robot.
However, almost the next moment, two teams of soldiers belonging to the five major groups appeared around the gathering area.
They drove rough off-road vehicles, with smoke and dust billowing behind them, and rushed towards the gathering area at a high speed. One of them held a loud speaker and shouted: "Aliens, put down your weapons!"
The instructions were that they had to capture several aliens alive in order to obtain all the knowledge in their minds.
This was followed by several gunshots.
“Bang! Bang!”
The bullets hit the soil near the cabin, causing dust to fly.
The doctor was unable to react in time and was shot twice. His right arm and leg were broken and he fell to the ground.
"hiss……"
The doctor's face turned pale with pain and sweat rolled down his cheeks.
The purpose of those people was obvious, they wanted to incapacitate the doctor and the female robot and prevent them from boarding the ship.
Others fired at the unmanned ship in the sky, trying to shoot it down.
"Doctor, how are you?" The female robot regretted deeply that she had not been able to block the two bullets.
"It's okay, just a broken arm and a broken leg, I...hiss..."
The doctor tried to stand up, but the severe pain almost made him convulse, and even basic movements became difficult.
Time is running out and the situation is critical.
It's the final moment.
Once caught, they might have to stay on this planet for the rest of their lives.
"You go back first!" The doctor shouted anxiously to the female robot, "After returning to the mothership, find a chance to come back and save me!"
"No! I'll take you with me!"
The female robot was very stubborn. She stood in front of the doctor and used her body to block several bullets for him.
Their mothership is only used for exploration and tourism and does not have strong attack capabilities at all.
If the doctor is imprisoned or hidden by the five major groups, the female robot will have no choice but to return to the mothership and can only go back to the star field ruled by the empire to ask for help.
But this place is too far away from the Imperial Star Region, and it takes two to three years to go back and forth.
"Listen to me! You go first!"
The doctor was so anxious that he gritted his teeth and pushed the female robot away.
If we don't leave now, both of us will be left here, and then it will be really over.
At this moment, Alan's voice suddenly came from the cabin: "You...you go quickly, I will help you stop them..."
"Alan, are you still awake?"
Hearing this, the doctor looked towards the door of the cabin.
The next moment, the wooden door slammed open and a tall armored humanoid walked out.
Alan, he actually wore the doctor's power armor.
The armor opened fire at full power, with bullets and energy bombs whizzing towards the group soldiers in front, suppressing them in an instant.
"Hurry up, this mecha has very little ammunition left! I can't hold it down for long!"
Alan's face was pale and sweaty. He endured the pain of the mutation and shouted at the doctor and the other man.
Ahead, not far away, the unmanned ship had slowly landed.
"good!"
The female robot immediately picked up the doctor. She only cared about the doctor's safety and didn't care about the life or death of this native.
But the doctor felt guilty, as he knew that Alan placed all his hopes on him, but he knew nothing about experiments in this area.
How can we reverse this mutation and turn Eren back into a human again?
The Doctor had no idea what to do.
"No...we can't leave him behind!"
"Doctor, we have no choice now!"
The female robot didn't even turn her head and ran towards the ship carrying the seriously injured doctor.
After the unmanned ship landed, the female robot received some terrible news: "There are Zerg flying creatures approaching the mothership. We must drive the mothership away immediately after we return!"
"What?"
The Doctor's face changed. After returning to the mothership, couldn't he even come back to look for Alan?
In the back, Allen gritted his teeth and output firepower, suppressing the soldiers of the five major groups, and turned around and shouted: "Go! Go quickly! I can still hold them back!"
"Alan...I'll be back!"
The doctor endured the severe pain and shouted: "Three years! I promise! Three years at most! I will definitely come back and turn you back into a human!"