Chapter 166: Little Fellow [Part 1]


    The originally tranquil underground base began to stir. The base’s defense system that had been dormant all this time reactivated after it had detected the energy waves from Cillin’s shots. The power that had been stagnant all this time also began to operate as well, causing many ces to be filled with light. However, they were all warning lights.


    A mechanical voice rang, “Outside threat detected. Please enter voicemand!”


    “Fuck, why is there a thing like voicemand in this ce!” Lung cried out.


    “Voicemand is incorrect. Please reenter!”


    “...” Lung fell silent and looked at Cillin.


    Cillin gave him a ‘I have no idea either’ expression. They had not imagined that the defense system in this ce had not bepletely paralysed despite being buried underground and subjected to crustal movements for so many years.


    A moment of silenceter.


    The mechanical voice rang once more, “Repeat. Outside threat detected. Please enter voicemand!”


    Cillin looked at the gray cat, and that fellow was also crouching there in a daze.


    Lung toyed with a device in his hands and did not say anything.


    The mechanical voice rang for the third time, “No effective voicemand detected. Terminalmand initiated!”


    “Terminalmand? What terminalmand?” Lung asked.


    Suddenly, Cillin recalled the researchb beneath the slums back then. If these mad researchers were all simr, then...


    “Run quickly! The base’s self destruct program has been activated!” Cillin pulled and Lung and charged towards outside along with the gray cat.


    “Self destruct?! WTF, how could they bear to part with all this?!” Lungined while running.


    “Less bullshit, more running. I have no intentions of turning into a fossil!” Cillin charged at the front.


    “I don’t either!”


    The two men and a cat ran along the way they came from like they were flying, but the passage had been shut off a long time ago. Lung summoned the scannedyout of the base and was about to search for other passages.


    “There’s no time. Tell your robots to dig on the spot!” Cillin cried out.


    “But this isn’t the passage entrance, and the walls are too tough. It’ll take a long time to prate it, not to mention that excessive force will cause the ce to copse!” Lung said while ordering his excavator robot to dig the ground. In reality, the situation was just as he said.


    Because the underground base was ratherplicated, Lung did not bring many robots with him. He had brought only the pathfinders and excavators. The small excavator robots looked just like frisbees when they were folded up, and when they dug into the ground they would extend several metallic pieces put together at a certain angle to drill apart obstacles before them like a drill.


    However, much effort had obviously been spent on this underground base, and the non-passage walls were reinforced by multipleyers. They would need high energy cutting beam to drill this type of wall apart, but time waited for no one.


    After seeing the digging effects of the excavator robots, Cillin said to the gray cat, “Wheeze, go! Be the vanguard!”


    And then Lung watched the multiple reinforced walls his robots were struggling against using high energy cutting beams being prated in two seconds by the cat.


    With this hole, the expansion of the hole became much easier.


    With the gray cat was drilling at the front, and the excavator robots were expanding the hole behind it, Cillin and Lung climbed up the dug hole.


    “What’s that sound?” Lung asked.


    “Desertification.”


    “Fuck!”


    Lung personally thought that his math was his weakness, but even he could count that at this speed they were totally going to be desertified ten secondster.


    The good news was that there weren’t too many of these multiple reinforced walls. After the walls had been prated, getting through the stones and soilyers on the outside became much faster.


    The shashashasha noise behind them conjured far greater pressure than a rattlesnake could have. Five seconds, four second, three seconds...


    They could get out in time!


    The moment the duo burst out of the ground surface, they swiftly extended their hoverboards and jumped on it. Cillin scooped the gray cat into his arms and flew towards the distance on the hoverboard.


    The second after they left the ground surface, the hole they had just burst out from had already been desertified. In fact, the desertification was still expanding towards the surroundings.


    “That, that scared me to death! Fuck this underground base, that was way too clo...”


    Lung didn’t manage to vent out his emotions before a loud explosion cut him off, and the expanding shockwave threw the two hoverboards that hadn’t flown too far off yet into the distance.


    Peng, peng. Cillin and Lung crashed on the ground one after another.


    “Peh! Peh!” Lung spat out the sand in his mouth repeatedly. He had no time to spare forining since his mouth was filled with sand and soil.


    The duo werepletely covered in dust and sand. They both cut an incredibly sorry figure.


    “Those maniacs sure are ruthless. I had thought they would leave the base intact so they could one daye back and walk the memoryne, but who would’ve thought that they would desertify it outright plus one massive explosion...”


    Cillin cast a nce at Lung. Even at such a time, this fellow had the spirit to chatter away incessantly.


    When he recalled the scene inside the base, the final few cages at the ce where the research subjects were imprisoned were all empty. This also meant that the important research subjects had either all been transferred, or had escaped a long time ago. The rest of the research subjects were either abandoned, orcked the ability to escape.


    As for the most precious research subjects among them, naturally the researchers would not let their efforts go to waste. How could they possibly not take away the things they had spent much effort to research?


    “Fuck, time was too short. There was no time to acquire any info at all.” Lung said regretfully while staring at the message disyed on his device. The device in his hands had seized the opportunity to hack into the system for useful data when the base’s defense system hade online. However, the final results were not good.


    Cillin moved sideways and lifted the gray cat’s head towards him. A sh clearly went across its eyes.


    Tsk, still as terrible at lying as usual.


    After raising his eyelids once, Cillin no longer looked at the gray cat.


    It would appear that when the defense system and other power instations had started automatically, the gray cat had also seized the opening to hack into the system and steal some information. In fact, it was much faster than Lung’s device and had reaped quite a sizable amount of data. However, the gray cat was also quite shocked by the information it received. The molecr biological experiments conducted on animals and humans were just too terrifying to the gray cat.


    Cillin stood up and kicked at Lung, who was covered in sand, sitting on the ground with spread legs, and patting at his device while sighing, “Get up and let’s go. Who knows if there might be more troubles.”


    “Well, I guess there’s nothing left here anyway. Let’s return to the starship right away.” Lung summoned the transmissions sent by the robots he had scattered at various ces. The work at several important sampling points had all beenpleted, the fossils had been selectively dug up, and the spacene should have enough space to store all the items.


    Cillin nodded and took a few steps. But he stopped again when he saw the gray cat looking.


    “What’s wrong?” Cillin asked.


    “Something is looking at us.” The gray cat looked towards a direction.