Chapter 157 – Small Ind<hr>


    TL: Tannh?user


    ED: NoriPixel<hr>


    “Can you urately determine the direction of the small scaleboratory?” asked Liu Gan towards Yin He.


    “I can,” replied Yin He, nodding his head.


    “Then bring us there.” said Liu Gan, handing over control of the yacht to Yin He. As she read the coordinates in theputer data, Yin He began to orientate and pilot the yacht towards the small scaleboratory.


    As the yacht approached the vicinity of the location Yin He had mentioned, the width of the river began to broaden, opening up to take the shape of argeke. At the center of theke were several small inds. Some inds had nothing on them, and others had a few buildings. They seemed to have had few visitors. At the very center was aparativelyrger ind, and at a nce, one could tell that this ind had been transformed and reinforced.


    Thisparativelyrger ind had a high wall and had a dock. Beside the dock, two small boats were anchored, both of them flipped over on the surface of the water. It was clear before the catastrophe; this ce had frequent visitors. There should be some other boats that had not been tied up and had been blown away to some other location by the tornado.


    If there really was a small scaleboratory here, if it was constructed here, it would definitely not be easily discovered. However, wouldn’t it be very inconvenient to build it here? Moreover, it was extremely inconvenient for the staff members of theboratory toe and go from work, requiring that they take a boat.


    However, this wasn’t the problem that Liu Gan was worrying about.


    If the Trembling World was a game, the San Xing Corporation’sboratory should have a copy of all the locations of the treasures. Moreover, it was a single-use copy. Whoever found it first, would be able to use it. Therefore, they needed to find all of the San Xing Corporation’sboratories as soon as possible. Increasing his strength, as well as his ability to survive in the Trembling World, would both be extremely helpful.


    As the yacht approached the shore, it pulled up beside the dock. After Liu Gan dropped the anchor, Yin He was the first to jump ashore. After she reached shore, she securely tied the bow and stern of the yacht to the dock. Only then did Liu Gan call awake everyone else on the deck of the yacht, allowing them to get off in an orderly fashion to the dock.


    The sky was slowly darkening. The entire surface of the river was enveloped by the darkness, shrouding the two shorelines of the river and giving everyone an oppressive feeling.


    “What is this ce?” Some of the members were in a daze after they descended from the yacht, somewhat baffled as they gazed upon their surroundings.


    After this hair-raising escape, the momentary rest on the yacht had be exceedingly treasured. Setting foot once again on the drynd after reaching shore gave everyone feelings of anxiety and fright. Although people sometimes gained courage from being in a crowd, it wasn’t much use in the Trembling World, no matter how many people you had. Who knew when death would descend upon a certain person?


    “This ce is an ind at the center of theke. The hour iste. We can tidy up this ind and temporarily settle here.” Liu Gan did not speak of the matter regarding the secretboratory. On the one hand, he couldn’t confirm its existence. On the other hand, he did not want to cause any unnecessary panic.


    “Aren’t we on the river? When did we enter ake?” asked a team member, clearly not fully conscious.


    “Isn’t that simple? The river widened and took the form of ake,” replied Zhang ShengLi, answering that team member’s question.


    “To think this river would unexpectedly be so wide and form thiske. There is even arge ind at the center of thiske. It seems like the ind hasn’t experienced a rain of zombies. Presumably, this ind should beparatively safe,” spected Wang DeCheng.


    “I know what this ce is! This was previously ake, and because it took the shape of a semi-circle that was simr to a half-moon, its name was called Half Moon Lake. Reportedly, the small inds in theke were purchased by the rich and powerful of Ningjing City, building vis on them. In peacetime, there normally wouldn’t be peopleing here,” said Zhou MingLiang. He became seemingly clear-headed, immediately opening his mouth to introduce the location to all team members.


    “Let’s first go explore and take a look at the situation on the ind,” said Liu Gan to the team members, taking the lead to walk off the dock. He walked towards the ind, walking up the steps.


    The center of the ind was encircled by a ring of high walls. The terrain of this ind was quite high. The entire ind did not seem to be formed by a sandbar in the middle of the water. The ind was covered in materialsposed of reinforced concrete; it seemed as sturdy as arge shoal rock in the middle of the ocean.


    After the yacht had descended onto the dock, everyone climbed to the height of the third floor and arrived at the top of the ind. For the top of the ind to have such high topography, it seemed that the ind’s structures would not be submerged even if the tide rose.


    The center of the construction was surrounded on all sides by high walls, blocking all of the structures at the center. In general, because of the height of the ind and the high walls, boats passing by the ind would not be able to clearly see what the situation was.


    After they had climbed up front the dock, they found arge metal gate at the middle of the wall. Moreover, it was locked. Zhao Meng took out his lock-picking tools, and after busying himself, pried open the lock. Liu Gan had everyone take a few steps back before suddenly pushing open the metal gate. Afterwards, he retreated to side, taking precautions against anything abruptly charging out.


    However, nothing happened. Yin He also did not indicate that she had detected any danger. As such, Liu Gan led everyone through the metal gate and inside.


    Under the dusky light of nightfall, one could see a courtyard at the very center of the ce. Beyond the courtyard was a two story building that upied a significant area. At the center of the courtyard was a flowerbed. This courtyard was typical of Chinese style architecture.


    Although the courtyard did not have any wandering zombies, it still gave off a sinister feeling. The distant dark two-story building particrly gave off the feeling that no one would know what was hidden within and that something would burst through the door and charge out at any moment.


    On the floor of the courtyard were several corpses that appeared to have been dead for several days now. After walking over to study closely, it was discovered that these corpses all had arge hole in their heads. The brains inside of the skulls were all gone. All of the heads were empty shells.


    Aside from this, all of the corpses had signs of injuries from cuts and chops. Some of the corpses even had daggers stabbed into them. The odd condition of these corpses made everything about the small ind be ominous immediately.


    After seeing this, looks of rm were revealed on all the faces of the team members Some began to nervously and restlessly looked all around at their surroundings.


    “Everyone be on alert, form groups of four and take defensive formation. The members of each squad must not be dispersed or separated. It is likely that someone hase here before and caused something horrific to happen,” ordered Liu Gan. He extended his hand to stop everyone, having them maintain defensive formations and increase their alertness. Afterwards, he had Yin Hend on the ind to investigate.


    “What was it that ate their brains?” Zhang ShengLi asked Liu Gan after he moved closer to inspect the corpses. After he had reached level 5, his courage had clearly be greater than before.