After waking up the next morning, Lu Zexuan used the token his father gave him to call a man - a sentinel with the spirit form of a silver wolf. This agent currently worked in the Federal Investigation Department and happened to be on duty on the weekend, so he took a rest in the White Tower dormitory.
Silver Wolf went to the restaurant for breakfast and "happened" to meet Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran.
The moment they passed each other, Lu Zexuan stuffed a note into his hand at lightning speed.
The two of them sat by the window to eat, and Lu Zexuan said to Yu Ran: "This trip is just a way to relax. I'll take you out for a few more days."
Yu Ran nodded in agreement: "Yeah, I am indeed a little tired during this period."
The sentry was sitting not far away, eating with his head down, and he clearly heard the conversation between Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran.
After returning to the dormitory, he opened the note in his hand and saw that it read: "Tell my father that if anything happens to Yu Ran and I, ask him to go to the planet below the Southern Triangulum wormhole in person. If Yu Ran and I are fine, cancel the plan. Don't act rashly."
After reading the information on the note, Silver Wolf tore it up and flushed it down the toilet.
As agents trained by the Lu family, they obey the Lu family's instructions and swear to protect the safety of the Lu family's heirs. This is their duty. Lu Zexuan seems to be in danger, and they must find a way to notify the old general as soon as possible.
He quickly changed his clothes, pretended to go out shopping, and drove away from the White Tower in his hovercraft.
At the same time, Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan returned to the dormitory after dinner, and Lu Zexuan handed the token for summoning agents to Yu Ran.
Yu Ran already knew about the existence of this secret team of the Lu family. Now, at this critical moment of life and death, it might be more appropriate to hand these people over to Yu Ran for command. Lu Zexuan will have to play the role of a "puppet" next and will have no chance to make any extra moves.
Yu Ran carefully put the token away and placed it in the necklace around her neck.
After a while, his communicator rang, and the voice of "cousin" Rong Yingying came to his ears: "Ranran, are you ready? I'll pick you up." Yu Ran said: "Okay sister, we'll come out now."
The two men changed into camouflage uniforms for easier movement and took the elevator downstairs.
When they went out, they saw Rong Yingying waiting for them in the central square. She waved to Yu Ran and said with a smile, "Ran Ran, here! The car is ready, let's go."
Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan followed her side by side and sat in the back seat of the hover car.
This time she did not give Yu Ran anesthetics, because the car drove directly to the space station of the capital star - Yu Ran guessed correctly, the "base" mentioned by the big shot was indeed not on the capital star.
The car arrived at the space station half an hour later. After going through security check, the two boarded an interstellar passenger spacecraft.
Since the purpose was to "travel and relax", Lu Zexuan certainly couldn't drive the military's starship around. Taking a civilian spaceship was a more reasonable way to travel. The people from the Dark Night Organization even bought the tickets for them, and they were VIP first-class tickets - bound for the planet B73 in the Constellation.
Rong Yingying waved at them: "Goodbye! Have fun."
Yu Ran smiled and waved goodbye to her.
When the spaceship took off, his smile quickly disappeared, and he said in his mind: "It turned out to be the B73 base in the Constellation. I have known about the existence of this base for a long time. The neurotoxin released by the blood-thirsty flowers on this planet is the source of materials for their drug development."
Lu Zexuan said: "This should be just one of their experimental bases. Their real base is definitely not in Juchi Seat. It seems that the big man is not confident enough in us and arranged the meeting place in Juchi Seat. Is he trying to test us one last time?"
Yu Ran was silent for a moment, then said, "Just adapt to the situation."
The distance between the capital star and the Norma is very far, but because of the ultra-fast space jump route, civilian spacecraft can reach it in just over half an hour. The two rested in the cabin for a while, and then heard a reminder sound in their ears: "Dear passengers, the planet B73 of the Norma has arrived..."
There was a knock on the door, and the flight attendant came to greet them personally: "Dear guests, please come this way."
VIP passengers can get off the plane early. The two followed the flight attendant out and saw a familiar woman at the pick-up area of the space station.
The woman waved at them with a smile: "Of course!"
—It was Yu Ran’s fake “aunt”, Rong Yingying’s mother. Lu Zexuan had met her once in the hospital and had some impression of her. Her smile was exactly the same as Rong Yingying’s, and it was obvious that she was also controlled.
The two walked over calmly, and Yu Ran smiled and said, "Aunt, long time no see."
The woman said enthusiastically: "Yingying told me that you were coming to Juchizuo, so I came to pick you up in advance. Let's go, I have prepared a table of delicious food to welcome you." She invited the two of them into the car and set the navigation route.
Planet B73 is a desolate resource planet, and most of the people here have been controlled by the organization.
Yu Ran had lurked here for a period of time in order to carry out the mission. She knew the situation of this planet and the approximate location of the base. Therefore, the big shot was too lazy to use anesthetics to cover up and directly asked her to drive Yu Ran to the border of the safe zone.
The boundary of the safe zone is surrounded by an electromagnetic defense network tens of meters high, making it impossible to get out.
But the amazing thing is that after this "aunt" parked her car in an open space, the open space suddenly sank -
The sudden feeling of weightlessness caused Yu Ran to frown slightly. Lu Zexuan's face showed no expression, but he thought in his mind, "It turned out to be an underground base. No wonder the military patrols didn't find anything wrong."
No one knew how deep this underground base was dug. The car fell for several hundred meters before it finally came to a suspended stop.
A deep, dark passage appeared before my eyes.
The car drove into the underground passage and after passing through the first security gate, it continued to move forward quickly.
The darkness around them almost swallowed them up, and Yu Ran even had the illusion that he and Lu Zexuan were walking step by step towards the depths of hell.
The hover car drove underground for a long time, and after many tests, it finally reached its destination after 10 minutes.
A dazzling white light appeared before my eyes.
Yu Ran looked up and saw a huge building dozens of stories high in front of him. The exterior walls of the building were painted black and red, with many strange runes on them. Those runes were like seals drawn in blood, with a weird dark style. Coupled with the fact that it was located underground, it gave people a strong sense of psychological discomfort.
Yu Ran said: "Open the five senses sharing."
In the spiritual world, the two began to share the five senses.
Lu Zexuan's hawk-like sharp eyes could clearly see the situation on the rooftop - it turned out that this was the place where the blood-thirsty flowers grew and reproduced. Densely packed blood-thirsty flowers surrounded the building. Through the skylight, one could see that those blood-thirsty flowers grew extremely vigorously, with layers of red petals stacked up as if stained with blood.
This base is very safe and hidden.
The Marshal had long known that they had a base on the planet B73, but had never been able to find out its exact location - he had never expected that they had built a huge underground high-rise in the center of the contaminated area.
Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan stopped in front of the building, and a masked man came to meet them. It was a familiar bronze mask, but who was behind it? The man said nothing and turned around and walked forward, so Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan had no choice but to follow him.
There were many laboratories inside the building. Those laboratories were neatly arranged, and through the glass windows one could see many advanced instruments and equipment inside. If it weren't for the strange location of the building, Yu Ran would have thought that the two of them had come to some scientific research center.
The masked man led them to the 18th floor and stopped. Unlike the other floors which were filled with laboratories, this floor was over 10 meters high, like an enlarged version of a zoo, with tough iron nets separating the rooms into individual rooms, each containing some strange animals...
No, that's not an animal.
Yu Ran realized what it was and his heart tightened slightly.
—These locked-up “monsters” are probably all deformed sentinels, failed products of experiments!
The frenzied sentinels can still maintain their human form, but have only temporarily lost their sanity. High-level guides can find a way to save them. However, the deformed sentinels are half-human, half-beast monsters. Not only do they have no sanity, but they also have to endure the pain of flesh and blood separation caused by their deformed bodies.
In the first cage, there was a distorted sentinel whose spirit form was a python.
His head still looked like a human, but the part below the neck had completely turned into a python. His body was twisted and coiled together, but he still retained his human-like head, exploring the surroundings back and forth, and his tongue would occasionally stick out, like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue.
This strange scene of "human head and snake body" made Yu Ran feel cold in his heart.
Next to her was a deformed sentinel whose spirit was a fish, kept in a fish tank as big as a house. She had a very pretty face, and should have been a beauty when she was still in human form. Now that she had been deformed, her legs had turned into a tail, and her body was covered with fish scales. She just floated in the fish tank, motionless, staring blankly at Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan who were passing by.
Yu Ran had a strong, bad premonition in his heart. He immediately issued an order in his spiritual world: "Nine-tailed Fox, block all the information in Zexuan's brain."
Nine-tailed Fox: "Received."
Everything in front of Lu Zexuan's eyes suddenly turned white and he could not see anything, as if he was shrouded in a thick fog.
He had led the Falcon Special Forces on missions over the years and had often encountered deformed Sentinels, so when he suddenly saw the deformed pythons and fish just now, his expression did not change much.
Yu Ran blocked his perception, obviously worried that there would be more unbearable scenes. Lu Zexuan naturally cooperated with him, following Yu Ran closely, with no expression on his face.
At this moment, a familiar mechanical voice suddenly sounded from the roof: "Yu Ran, welcome to Experimental Base No. 1. These are all failed products of the experiment. I locked them up for further research. Do you think this place is like a novel and interesting zoo?"
Yu Ran resisted the urge to curse and said with a smile, "It's quite interesting, much more fun than the zoo in the capital planet."
The man said, "Humans are amazing, especially the Sentinels. After they are deformed, they look all kinds of different, each one cuter than the other. There are human heads and snake bodies, humans and wolves combined, as well as lions, bears, crocodiles, lizards, and all kinds of marine creatures - I have a very rich variety of deformed species here. However, they are not very obedient. After all, after being deformed, the Sentinels have no brains and only the instinct to attack. That's why I put them in cages."
Yu Ran looked at the giant net in front of him and asked, "Is this a high-voltage electromagnetic net? Will it knock them out immediately after they touch it?"
The mechanical voice said, "That's right. If they touch the net repeatedly, their bodies may be burned. Some mutants are too stubborn and insist on struggling. They don't feel any pain even when half of their bodies are burned."
Yu Ran: “…”
This psychopath!
In his eyes, human life is worthless. The deformed sentinel actually became his plaything? !
There were countless cameras flashing on the roof. The person sitting in the main control room looked at Yu Ran's expression and smiled, "Keep going, there are more fun things to do. This is my favorite pet, and the only one here, an S-level aberration sentinel."
Yu Ran heard the sound of his own heart beating violently.
S-level Sentinels are extremely rare, and he actually raised an S-level mutant...
That bad premonition lingered in Yu Ran's mind, causing his heart to ache like a needle prick.
As for Lu Zexuan beside him, his perception of the spiritual world was blocked by the nine-tailed fox. At this moment, he could not see or hear anything. In this situation, there was no way his acting skills would be exposed, and he just had to pretend to be expressionless.
The key is Yu Ran, who cannot show any abnormal emotions.
Yu Ran quickly adjusted his expression and continued walking forward with a curious smile: "S-level Deformed Sentinel? I have never seen one before. I heard that the combat power of S-level Deformed Sentinel is very terrifying, enough to destroy a human city. How do you control him?"
The mechanical voice said: "You will know when you see it."
Yu Ran walked briskly, but his heart was extremely heavy—he had already guessed who it was.
At the end of the corridor, there is a huge cage.
The space of this cage is almost as big as a football field. It is surrounded by densely packed high-voltage electric grids, and in the center of the cage... there is a huge golden eagle imprisoned.
—Golden Eagle, a raptor-like spiritual body inherited by the Lu family.
However, this golden eagle was different from General Lu's. It had a circle of pure white feathers under its neck, which made it look like it was wearing a white necklace. Its huge body took up half of the cage, but the majestic bird of prey in the sky was now in a very embarrassed state.
Many of its feathers were burnt, its wings on both sides were forcibly broken, and its body and neck were tied tightly with iron chains as thick as arms, so that its head could not move at all.
Above the golden eagle's neck is an extremely handsome face.
With sharp eyebrows, bright eyes and a high nose bridge, he inherited the excellent appearance genes of the Lu family.
It was a face that was somewhat similar to Lu Zexuan's. However, there was no more vivid expression on his face. At this moment, the whites of his eyes faded, and his pupils were as black as ink.
His eyes were dull, as if he was dead, yet alive.
—The deformed Major General Lu Chengan was actually imprisoned in this dark place!
(End of this chapter)