Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 713: Human Cloning Puppet
According to the captured instructor's description, this is the only way to the basement... and in the current situation, unless Ke Lan and Aya can make a hole in the body of this fusion, there is no way they can reach the basement.
Wait...drilling a hole?
Ke Lan couldn't help but think of a joke she had seen before, which said that a vault had the world's strongest anti-theft doors and windows. Even if the robbers used a cannon to directly bombard the door, they couldn't open it... However, the final result was that a group of gangsters dug a hole in the brick and stone wall, directly bypassed the anti-theft door that was like the "Maginot Line", and stole all the gold in the vault.
"Aya! Can you dig a tunnel next to the wall? We can go through the wall and bypass this monster." Ke Lan said to Aya, "If the main load-bearing structure in the structural diagram has not changed, this wall should not be the main load-bearing wall. Even if it is completely destroyed, the building above will not collapse."
"Let me try... " Aya took a deep breath and punched the hard wall.
"boom!!"
There was a loud bang, accompanied by smoke, splashes and rubble. Ke Lan looked closely and saw that the punch had actually created a circular hole in the wall with a diameter and depth of half a meter. Even the steel bars inside the concrete were deformed.
A blue-purple flame spurted out from Aya's fingertips, and with a light stroke, all the exposed steel bars were cut off. Then, she swung her fist at the round pit again.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
A tunnel just big enough for one person to pass through was forcibly opened up, with Aya leading the way and Ke Lan following closely behind.
When the men in black saw that there was a way to bypass the fusion larvae, they also went into the tunnel.
Ke Lan suddenly had an idea and shouted to Aya, "Destroy the thin wall on one side and connect this tunnel with the passage outside!"
"Got it!" Aya's body sank, and the power center of the cyborg body was running at full speed. It hit the thin wall on one side with an iron mountain. Suddenly, countless cracks appeared on the tunnel wall, which was only a few centimeters long, and they were constantly expanding.
Ke Lan turned around and kicked out the men in black who followed him with a few kicks - he kicked sideways, and these men in black who entered the tunnel directly smashed through the crumbling thin wall on one side of the tunnel and crashed into the arms of the fusion body outside.
By connecting the tunnel with the passage outside, not only can the fusion body be used to eliminate the chasing men in black, but when the fusion body continues to expand, it will also block the artificial tunnel opened by Aya and stop the men in black.
The two of them quickly bypassed the passage blocked by the fusion body. After Ke Lan jumped out of the passage, Aya turned around and punched, directly collapsing the tunnel that had just been opened.
But even if she didn't do that, the fusion's wildly growing body would squeeze into the tunnel, completely blocking the retreat with deformed and disordered fat, muscles and bones.
"We have to hurry! The appearance of these men in black means that the mastermind has been alerted. I'm worried that he will destroy the body of the 'BOSS'!" Ke Lan increased his speed to the extreme, and the whole person turned into a shadow. Aya flew up directly, with multiple thruster nozzles protruding from her waist, back and abdomen, flying at high speed close to the ground.
The two men quickly arrived at the entrance of the basement. Asano Akimasa, holding a knife in one hand, stood guarding the dark entrance like a door god. At his feet were piles of corpses of men in black.
"No one has been in there, right?" Ke Lan glanced at the glass door at the entrance to the basement - the door and the lock were both in perfect condition, with no signs of being forced open.
It seems that no one has ever entered the basement - according to the captured instructor, no one in the entire Nova Chamber of Commerce is qualified to enter the basement except the two of them. If a guard wants to wake up the "BOSS", the first step he has to take is to use violence to smash open the tempered glass door.
This door is like that layer of membrane. As long as it is not broken, it means no one has entered.
Although repairing that membrane would be extremely easy given modern medical standards, from a practical point of view, the entire process did not leave them time to perform surgery... that is, time to repair the door.
It was Aya who opened the door. She simply placed her prosthetic palm lightly on the glass. The next second, the ultrasonic wave gushing out from her palm instantly shattered the entire door.
Asano Akira was still in charge of guarding the entrance, while Ke Lan and Aya stepped over the broken glass on the ground and entered the basement floor of the Nova Chamber of Commerce building.
Due to electromagnetic signal interference, their connection with the outside world has been completely cut off at this time, and Ke Lan doesn't know what the situation is outside... But at the moment, their only choice is to fight quickly and decisively.
As long as we can get that bionic body, we will win.
Following the route provided by the captured instructor, the two rushed at full speed towards the "BOSS's" "bedroom". Along the way, alarms were constantly triggered, and dazzling red light filled the entire corridor. Various automatic defense facilities emerged from the ceiling, walls, and underground. Hundreds of aiming lasers shot out from all angles, chasing the two people's high-speed moving figures...
About 80% of the attacks fell into the air...Automatic defense facilities also have their limits, just like the anti-missile systems of the old era. If the speed of the missile is fast enough, so fast that the anti-missile system cannot react and the anti-missile missile cannot catch up, then this anti-missile system is useless to this missile.
As for the remaining 20% of weapons that could threaten the two, they were destroyed by Aya the moment they appeared.
"It's right in front!" Ke Lan has already seen the sign that says "No one allowed to enter". This is the "BOSS's" bedroom... or in other words, the "warehouse" where the mastermind behind the scenes stores the bionic bodies!
However, the other party did not seem to have considered the possibility that the Chamber of Commerce headquarters might be invaded. The outer wall of such an important room was just a layer of one-way transparent glass with only the most basic bulletproof capabilities. Not to mention Aya, a top-level combat prosthesis covered with cutting-edge weapons, even an ordinary security agent could blow it up with a piece of C4.
Aya did not activate any weapons, but directly used her body to break open the glass wall, and Ke Lan jumped in as well.
The two people who entered the "bedroom" just happened to see a tall and thin figure slowly crawling out of a device that looked like a medical cabin.
"Oh no, it's too late!" Ke Lan was shocked. Their pace was still a little slow... "BOSS", wake up!
The tall and thin figure turned around and looked at the two people. It was a very ordinary male face. Apart from the extremely pale skin, it was the type that would be drowned if thrown into a crowd of people. This face was even so ordinary that it would not leave any impression at first glance - the lack of any characteristics was its biggest feature.
"Stop him—"
Before Ke Lan finished speaking, an extremely strange and mocking smile appeared on this featureless and extremely mediocre male face - the next second, the entire head exploded as if hit by a large-caliber weapon.
The headless corpse fell on its back with a dull thud.
"Grass!"
Ke Lan couldn't help but curse, but he didn't feel very frustrated - the body structure of bionic people is very different from that of real people. Their main control systems, including the CPU chip, are located where the spine is interrupted. In addition to some sensory organs and vocal organs, there are not many important parts in the head... This is like a famous meme in Gundam: "It's just that the main monitor is broken."
The fallen headless corpse did not continue to self-destruct. Thick, fishy-smelling crimson liquid slowly overflowed from the torn neck and flowed onto the floor.
Ke Lan felt something was wrong.
There is indeed "blood" in the bionic human body, but this "blood" is actually the lubricant and hydraulic fluid in the mechanical parts, a pure industrial product... Even if this thing has a smell, it should be the smell of motor oil, not this blood-like smell.
Although it is technically possible to make this type of liquid have a bloody smell that is difficult to distinguish, it is not necessary in practice.
Even the most discerning customers only need a realistic appearance for a bionic man. No one would choose to stab a bionic man and then smell the "blood" that flows out of it...
Unless this bionic man has adopted a large amount of biochemical body structure - such as cultivating muscles and planting dermis on a mechanical skeleton... but even for this kind of bionic man, the amount of bleeding will not be so large.
The biochemical part is just decoration. What drives the bionic body is the hydraulic device inside the skeleton and the power furnace connected to it, rather than the muscles attached to it.
Not only that, the users of bionic humans often have to maintain and replace these biochemical bodies, because these biochemical bodies do not have a long lifespan and are very easy to be damaged.
To use the words that Layton often says, "Flesh and blood are weak, but machinery can soar."
For pragmatists like the Undead Crew, they would not choose to implant a large amount of biochemical tissue into the body of the bionic man - whether it is the bionic body of Demeter, a middle-aged beauty, or the bionic body of Aphrodite, which can almost be called the pinnacle of human beauty, the two bionic bodies have very little biochemical tissue. The skin is made of a soft material developed based on silicone, and it feels no different from real skin. But if you cut this layer of skin with a knife, there will be no bleeding, and you can only see the elastic filler underneath that is used to replace the fat.
The bionic body of "Justice" Themis was made directly of alloys and polymers, without even a "fake human skin" being bothered to cover it, so much so that when Ke Lan first saw "her", he even mistook her gender.
As a bionic body used to control the remnants of a heretical sect, the requirements are actually very low - at least it just needs to look like a human.
Of course, it’s okay even if it doesn’t look very human.
Anyway, what those believers believe in are not human beings.
Ke Lan held her breath and walked to the side of the corpse.
He squatted down, stretched out two fingers, and pushed away the remaining flesh stuck to his neck.
It's real meat... not some filler made of high molecular polymer. Just pinch it lightly with your fingers and blood will immediately seep out of the meat.
The tendons that had lost their elasticity were pulled out from the gaps in the muscles, and several major arteries shrank into the flesh, with sticky blood still gushing out from the holes.
The broken cervical vertebra revealed the white bone surface, and Ke Lan could even feel the sticky medulla inside.
This is a human being, not a android.
Ke Lan was a little surprised... Was there something wrong with the direction of her reasoning?
However, the special pass for the convoy transporting weapons to the attackers can only be issued by members of the Undead Crew, and it requires the joint signatures of three members rather than a single person... This means that there must be a traitor within the Undead Crew.
Without the cover-up and concealment of the traitor, it would be impossible for the remnants of this heretical sect to continue such a cruel biological and chemical weapons experiment inside the Ark.
Moreover, if there is no traitor, then how do we explain those men in black outside?
The "BOSS" of the Nova Chamber of Commerce is a human being, not a bionic man, which has no direct relationship with the result of the inference...but, since he is a living person, why does he spend most of his time in hibernation?
If it is a bionic man, then the reason can be explained by daily maintenance and equipment care. It can even be considered that the insider reduced the frequency of using the bionic man as much as possible in order not to expose himself... But if he is a living person, how can this be explained?
Narcolepsy?
No, no, no… Ke Lan shook her head vigorously.
This person is indeed a living person, but he is not a natural human being in the true sense. Instead, he is the same kind as those men in black outside.
He is a clone. It doesn't matter whether he is a β-type clone, or γ, Δ or something like that... What matters is the means of controlling him.
Chips will be implanted in the clones' brains during the fetal stage. The undead crew members can not only observe the clones' perspectives and give orders to them through the chips, but can even remotely control the clones... This kind of operation has a much smaller risk of being discovered than bionic people.
What he wanted to blow up just now was not his own head, but the "remote control chip" hidden in his brain.
As for the remaining headless corpse, it is no longer of any value.
The clue was broken again.
"What's wrong?" Aya noticed the change in Ke Lan's expression and asked worriedly.
"I've been tricked... This guy is a puppet. The chip that controls him should be in his brain, but now his brain has exploded, and the chip has probably been burned to ashes."
