Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon-Chapter 251 - 250 Approaching the Origin

Chapter 251: Chapter 250: Approaching the Origin

Chapter 251 -250: Approaching the Origin

Corona Company…

This was a name unheard of by all players. Yet the fact that such an astonishingly large secret base was created by a company was in itself quite surprising.

“What are these ‘alien life forms’?” Zhang Zhiyuan asked.

“Uh… I don’t know how to describe them. They look like monsters that you’d only see in dreams, with tentacle-like things sprouting from the upper half of their heads…” Pedro racked his brain to describe.

Zhang Zhiyuan exchanged a glance with Anthony.

There was no doubt it was the Parasitic species.

“How do we get to the main laboratory?”

“Go left when you exit here; there’s an elevator at the end of the corridor that goes straight down, my ID card can pass the identity scan.”

Zhang Zhiyuan turned his head to look at Leisk, who nodded slightly, “The presence is indeed coming from that direction.”

Anthony leaned closer to Zhang Zhiyuan and whispered, “Kill them all?”

“Of course not, they are people who have surrendered, they’ve already given up resisting!” Zhang Zhiyuan immediately vetoed, “We can’t become those bloodthirsty monsters!”

“This is special warfare behind enemy lines, who knows if they have reinforcements. And how are you planning on handling so many prisoners? We don’t even have handcuffs.” Anthony said with disdain.

“Wait wait wait… Since you guys aren’t sent by any international law enforcement, there’s no need to detain us!” Pedro seemed to guess their thoughts and quickly said, “My men can disarm and leave the base on their own, and we will definitely not be enemies with you again!”

“Do you think I’m going to believe you?” Anthony scoffed.

“I can be your hostage!” Pedro argued eagerly, “Besides, having someone familiar with the layout of the base will make it easier for you to achieve your objective, won’t it?”

“Let them go,” Ailuodi spoke up, “We don’t have the time to waste on these people. Although by doing this they will most likely escape legal punishment, it is better than killing them after they have surrendered.”

The players all understood that Ailuodi was an official player for Paradise, and even in the world of Earth, she could still exploit her advantages, which gave her words somewhat more weight.

Even Anthony didn’t want to conflict with her.

“Since you’ve spoken, we’ll do it your way.” He flicked the muzzle of his gun, “Everyone except for the squadron leader, get out. By the way, do they know where the exit is?”

Yet no one on the scene moved a step.

“Of course they know. There’s a hidden door under the rocks facing the sea on the north side of the island.” Pedro shouted to his subordinates, “Follow my orders, evacuate the laboratory base now and don’t come back!”

It was then that everyone hesitantly left, their faces filled with surprise as if they couldn’t believe the Paradise team had let them go just like that. Some of them glanced back several times, as if they were afraid they would be shot from behind all of a sudden.

“Alright, let’s hurry to the underground laboratory.” Ailuodi urged, “Are there any traps or mechanisms down there?”

“No, that’s the highest-level biological laboratory. They wouldn’t even welcome the defense division going down there, let alone install weapons,” Pedro explained as he led the way.

“How do you know we’re not sent by an international law enforcement organization?” Cui Zhen’en asked curiously.

He glanced at Anthony, “I feel you have the same scent as me… the smell of freedom that comes from working for money…”

“Just say we’re mercenaries.”

“Mercenaries come in many flavors… some are slaves to money, but you guys are different…”

“Different how?” she asked subconsciously.

“Aside from money, you’re also pursuing other things… like honor, achievement, or excitement…”

“Hah, you’re beating around the bush trying to fish for information about us!” Anthony said with an ill-intent.

The other party immediately knew to shut up.

After descending five floors, the elevator emitted a soft ding, and the number on the panel changed to B7. At that moment, Zhou Zhi leaned against the wall and slowly slid to the ground. “I… probably can’t go on…”

Blood was almost soaking his entire sleeve, flowing from his arm.

The dwindling effects of the medication, coupled with excessive blood loss, made it difficult to persevere even with maximum pain suppression.

“That… we were just following orders, and personally, I’m truly sorry for this brother’s misfortune…” Pedro hurriedly put on a look of regret.

However, to his astonishment, the others seemed completely indifferent to their companion’s impending death. Only Zhang Zhiyuan bent down to pat his shoulder, saying, “That’s enough, you can rest now.” The rest merely glanced over and turned their focus back to the slowly opening elevator doors.

Were these people all cold-blooded killers who had grown indifferent to life and death? Yet they had spared their own men, maintaining a strange adherence to battlefield morality…

For the first time, Pedro realized he couldn’t see through his opponents at all.

This was even more baffling to him than their overwhelming strength.

The sealed doors of the laboratory naturally would not open for them, but that posed no obstacle; Zhang Zhiyuan shot through the locking mechanism twice before prying the doors apart with his hands.

Immediately, an alarm sounded in the laboratory—

“Warning: Airlock malfunction detected. All personnel, please cease work and evacuate in an orderly manner.”

“The source of the scent is less than a hundred meters from us,” Leisk swallowed hard, “everyone must be careful.”

Ailuodi noticed that even with the alarm triggered, the corridors of the laboratory remained undisturbed, without a single person in sight.

“There are actually no researchers in the lab?”

“They had already evacuated when you blew up the ventilation shaft,” explained Pedro. “These people are the company’s most valuable assets, and their evacuation routes are different from ours. It is said that the main laboratory is connected to a deep submersion port, which is the passage they use to transport the test subjects.”

“That includes people too… right?” asked Ailuodi in a tense voice.

“Yes, sometimes it’s dozens of people on one ship,” he cooperated quite well. “A few years ago, there were more animals, but lately, it’s all switched to humans. But tell me, has the person who hired you disclosed the truth to you? Do you know how dangerous the object stored here is?”

“Do you know?”

“I… had the fortune to see it once…” Pedro said in a low voice, “The monster with tentacles sprouting from its upper body was mutated after coming into contact with that thing. I don’t know what your employers asked you to do, but you’d better not rashly approach it.”

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“We’re here,” said Leisk, stopping in front of a laboratory room at the head of the corridor, “the source is right behind this door.”

The pristine white door was marked with a level five classification and a series of warning icons alongside.

‘Do not enter.’

‘Silence required.’

‘Radiation warning.’

‘Biological leak warning.’

‘Uncertainty damage warning.’

The first four icons were understandable, but the last warning sign seemed a bit strange. Nevertheless, for the Paradise team, not even death itself was formidable enough to stop them at the door marked with a few icons.

As the main laboratory was in an evacuation state, they easily pulled open the room’s sealed door.

Behind the door was an oval room of about thirty square meters, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in white sound-absorbing tiles, which looked neat and clean. In the center of the room stood a huge glass column connected to various equipment and pipes at the top. However, what drew the most attention was the item stored within the column—it wasn’t a person, nor was it any kind of monster, nor did it resemble the Causality Evil God itself. At first glance, it looked like a blood-red stone, floating in a culture fluid, throbbing rhythmically with the beat of their hearts.

But Ailuodi soon realized it wasn’t the stone itself that was pulsating, but rather the space around it—the glass column, the many tubes inserted in the stone, all were rhythmically undulating as if a small section of space had been twisted.