Chapter 955 Clone Factory

Qi Lin and Lucas stayed in this laboratory for more than ten minutes. After searching for all the information they could collect, they left here quietly.

This time, both of them were dressed as researchers. Although the uniforms worn by the researchers who were killed could not be worn, Lucas found a locker in the corner of the research room. In addition to clean clothes and shoes, he also found some weapons for researchers to use for self-defense.

Three HK MP7 submachine guns, more than two hundred rounds of 4.6 mm caliber MP7 special ammunition, an FNP pistol using .45 caliber ACP ammunition and thirty rounds of spare ammunition.

This equipment is not enough for the regular army, whether it is range, power or firepower sustainability, but it is enough for researchers who stay in underground research institutes all year round and almost never go out.

As for a situation that cannot be solved with these weapons, then even equipping researchers with large-caliber assault rifles will not help.

Qi Lin took two MP7s himself, gave the remaining one and the FNP pistol to Lucas, and the two walked along the corridor towards the depths of the research institute.

There are independent laboratories on both sides of the corridor, but the people in these laboratories seem to be obsessed with the work at hand. Every air-tight door is tightly closed, and no one else appears. Above the corridor.

The mastermind has indeed carried out a large-scale transformation of this underground research institute. According to the original design, the length of this corridor is only less than 180 meters, but now Qi Lin estimates that it has walked four to five hundred meters, but it is still There is no end.

"Lucas, have you noticed that we are going in a circle?"

"Circle?" Lucas was stunned for a moment, carefully looked at the walls on both sides and the ground at his feet, and then showed a hint of surprise: "This corridor is not straight?!"

In fact, Qi Lin had already noticed this phenomenon from the beginning - this corridor, which was supposed to be straight on the design drawing, turned into something similar to a spiral staircase after turning the first right-angled corner. Such a spiral design, but the diameter of the circle is very large, so large that it is difficult to detect the curvature of the corridor for a while, and it looks like it is in a straight corridor.

But if the corridor is straight, then with Qi Lin's eagle eye ability, he can definitely see the end of the corridor at a glance, but now, his vision is blocked by the curved wall.

"The entire underground research institute has probably been rebuilt, and the design drawing left over from the old era has little reference value," Qi Lin said.

He roughly estimated the radius of this spiral arc, which was probably thousands of meters. According to this calculation, the area of ​​the first floor alone was already several times larger than before.

Coupled with the area of ​​the spiral overlap, I am afraid that the space occupied by this research institute alone is close to the entire underground shelter of Fort Yukon in the old days.

"Why did the mastermind expand the research institute to such an extent..." Qi Lin was a little puzzled. This was no longer a simple matter of expanding the original shelter. It was just digging new earth and moving those Transporting earth and rocks to other places is a arduous project. Construction of the Fort Yukon shelter began ten years before the outbreak of the nuclear war and was not completed until the penultimate year. The amount of work for this new underground research institute is, I'm afraid it won't be smaller than the original Fort Yukon underground shelter.

Is it just for Qin? But according to this calculation, the mastermind should have taken action against Qin a few years ago. It is impossible to delay until the Utopia Project is about to go online before hastily trying to find a way to solve this technical problem.

This underground research institute must have other uses, and the mastermind must have other purposes for building it.

"If that design drawing is useless, wouldn't we be blind now?" Lucas held the MP7 in his hand and looked at Qi Lin speechlessly.

"You can think so... But if this research institute is really a spiral structure, then at least there is no possibility of getting lost, because there is only one road, which is our current corridor... Shh!"

Qi Lin was mid-sentence when he suddenly raised his finger in front of his lips and pointed at an airtight door not far away.

The edge of the air-tight door was making a very subtle "buzzing" sound. This was the air pump balancing the air pressure inside and outside the door frame, which meant that the people in the laboratory were opening the air-tight door.

Qi Lin and Lucas immediately leaned on both sides of the door. Qi Lin took out a Gauss pistol with a silencer, while Lucas inserted the MP7 into his waist and took it out from the pocket of his white coat. I got two scalpels from Conrad's laboratory.

The MP7s assigned to researchers for self-defense are not equipped with silencers. Qi Lin and Lucas will never use them before they are exposed.

The airtight door slowly opened, and a researcher dragged a black body bag out of it. Lucas immediately strangled his neck with his arm, dragged him aside, and then inserted the scalpel into In his throat, Qi Lin walked into the laboratory with such swagger.

This time, Qi Lin planned to leave a few alive and conduct a thorough interrogation.

The researchers in these laboratories seemed to be in groups of five. The four people inside did not see the scene where the companion who went out was dragged away. When they raised their heads, Qi Lin had already crossed The door frame of the airtight door walked to the experimental table.

"Which group are you from? You are in the wrong place. Please go out immediately -" A middle-aged researcher without a mask frowned and at the same time put his right hand into the pocket of his white coat. , holding the grip of the self-defense pistol.

It's a pity that he is just an ordinary person who is not even a first-level evolver. Before he could take out the pistol from his pocket, Qi Lin quickly knocked out the other three people, then stepped forward and pinched Caught his wrist.

"Click——"

His wrist bones were crushed easily by Qi Lin's fingers like crisp biscuits, and before the researcher let out that ultra-high decibel scream, Lucas had already dragged in the body of the researcher who opened the door. , and at the same time closed the airtight door of the laboratory again.

"Hiss... ah... ah... you... ah... who are you? What are you going to do?" The severe pain and fear made the body of the researcher in front of him shake like a sieve, while Qi Lin remained silent. Silently, he snatched the pistol from his pocket, then grabbed a beaker nearby, smashed it on the experimental table, and then held a sharp piece of broken glass against the other person's ear.

This is also the location of a large artery, but unlike the throat, if you cut it here, the person will not die quickly because the blood pours back into the trachea, but can struggle for a long time. During this time, He will feel the sensation of blood constantly draining from his body and death approaching gradually.

"You...what are you going to do?" These researchers have not received special interrogation training, and their psychological quality is not even a little bit inferior to that of the soldiers in the base. The broken glass in Qi Lin's hand only scratched a layer. Even the blood droplets had not yet seeped out of the epidermis, and a light yellow liquid with a foul smell was dripping out from the researcher's trousers.

"Guess?" Qi Lin suddenly narrowed his eyes, smiled and patted his cheek, then picked him up and threw him heavily on the experimental table.

In order to fix the experimental subject, the experimental table was originally equipped with restraints, shackles and the like. With the help of these restraint devices, the researcher finally experienced the feeling of the experimental subject being unable to move and being slaughtered.

"Don't... don't kill me... I will agree to whatever you ask for... Please, please don't kill me..." The researcher began to cry and beg for mercy. He wanted to struggle, but Kai The restraints made of Frau were tightly stuck on both ends of each of his movable joints.

Qi Lin did not interrogate him directly, but placed the black body bag on the experimental table and opened the zipper of the body bag.

Inside the bag was also the corpse of an Ayakui clone, but the condition of this corpse was already unsightly—the entire chest had been cut open, not a single piece of flesh and skin on the body was intact, and the skull had also been removed. The cranial cavity was filled with gauze soaked in blood.

The brain, which is supposed to be located in the head, is suspended in a glass jar on the experimental table, filled with electrodes.

This glass jar looked very familiar to Qi Lin. They had seen an identical glass jar in the underground vault of the Federal Reserve Bank in Anchorage, and that glass jar was exactly what the mastermind had given them. A trap set.

Brain in a vat…

The quality of this clone is obviously better than that of Conrad and the others. Qi Lin can even feel the powerful mental fluctuations inside through the glass jar... Although it is not comparable to the original body, but compared to The clone from before was not a little bit stronger.

Qi Lin tried to send out the thought beacon, but was immediately strongly rejected by the brain, and the mental powers of both parties even came into a head-on confrontation. It was precisely because of this collision that the glass jar was actually filled with A large number of cracks appeared, and the life-sustaining fluid directly spurted out, and the clone's brain shrank rapidly...

"No... don't..." When the researcher who was imprisoned on the experimental table saw this scene out of the corner of his eye, even though he screamed in despair, he wanted to turn his head, but it was a pity that his The neck, jaw and head were all firmly fixed, unable to move at all.

After losing the life-sustaining fluid, the clone's brain quickly lost its activity, and the powerful mental fluctuations dissipated not long after, except for the liquid on the ground and the shrunken instant noodles at the bottom of the glass jar. Nothing is left of the walnut-like brain.

This laboratory is closer to the bottom of the institute than Conrad's, and the experiment they conducted seems to be more advanced than the one Conrad and the others did.

"What are you studying in this experiment?" Qi Lin sat down on the edge of the experimental table on one of the few areas that was not wet, and asked the researcher on the experimental table.

"Testing, testing the effect of spiritual power on retaining the human body's self-awareness after being materialized... That clone is one of the few individuals whose mental power is close to the original body, but... but..."

The researcher wanted to accuse Qi Lin of destroying a nearly perfect experimental subject, but when he thought that his life was still in the other party's hands, he immediately gave up the idea and shut his mouth obediently.

"How many such clones have you cultivated?"

"Such a clone? You mean the mental strength reaches..."

"I mean the clones of this little girl. How many are there in total?" Qi Lin asked sharply.

"I...I haven't counted, but there should be more than 3,000 clones in the process of being cultivated in the breeding farm alone. As for those embryonic bodies that have not been implanted with genetic sequences, they may have to be better." Tens of thousands..."

"Then where is her true body?"

"It should be in the cloning factory. The genetic sequence of the clone comes from the spinal cord of the original body. In order to create a clone that is as close to the original body as possible, they must collect enough data... This girl was sent here not long ago. , Now we are all in a hurry..." The researcher stammered, his eyes carefully scanning Qi Lin's body.

"Where is the cloning factory?"

"In...in the 'cylinder'..."

"Cylinder?"

It took Qi Lin a minute to figure out what the "cylinder" the researcher meant - the laboratory of this institute is built in a spiral structure, and this structure will naturally leave a gap in the middle. It is located in a large cylindrical space, which is like a hole in the middle of a spring, and the clone factory built by the mastermind is "placed" inside this cylinder.

"What about Qin? Where is he now? Don't tell me you don't know who Qin is."

"Qin...I know...but I really don't know where he is now...We researchers don't have enough authority to access experimental subjects of Qin's level, even clones," the researcher replied.

"Very good, then the last question, how to get to this cloning factory?"

"Go along the spiral corridor to the fourth floor. There is a black airtight door. There is a lateral passage inside that leads directly to the cloning factory... However, entering the cloning factory requires multi-factor authentication, so you can't get in."