Arcane energy surged in Ye Feng's hand, forming multiple peculiar runes that precisely corresponded to the runes on the doorknob, as if a key was being inserted into a lock.
"Click!"
After Ye Feng nodded to Xiao Xiao and Yue Miao, he turned a knob, and the rune door instantly opened, a bright white light shooting out from within.
The three of them quickly entered behind the rune door, their expressions extremely alert as they scanned their surroundings.
Unlike the dimness outside, this place was as bright as if it had been fitted with fluorescent lights, due to the presence of some kind of luminous gemstones.
"Big Brother, it's so spacious here, no people, no zombies or monsters... It doesn't look like a place to store treasures either... A lot of things are just scattered on the ground..." Xiao Xiao said softly after surveying the area.
"Mm!"
Ye Feng nodded and walked to the only desk in the secret room, examining the open documents on it.
"Kollergi must have been very confident in the security of this place... He didn't even close the vault door..."
"However, for those who can enter here, such a metal vault is useless... It looks more like a regular cabinet for storing documents..." Yue Miao said as she walked around, seemingly talking to Ye Feng, or perhaps to herself.
Ye Feng remained silent, engrossed in flipping through a large volume of documents on the desk.
"Brad Base's cyborgs... Fusions, enhancement serums, desperation drugs... Experiments... Validation failed... Validation failed... Validation failed..."
Ye Feng was quite perplexed. According to the records, Kollergi had personally overseen all the experiments in Brad Base, from the simplest prosthetic limb installations to complex brain transplants. However, regardless of whether the experimental subjects survived or became stronger after modification, Kollergi had marked them all as validation failures.
"Kollergi conducting so many experiments in Brad Base... Turning Brad Base into a concentration camp for all sorts of monsters... was to validate something..."
"Validate what?" Ye Feng muttered to himself as he flipped through the documents.
"Rustle~ Rustle!"
As Ye Feng rapidly turned the pages, he quickly skimmed through a thick research document. The research document recorded all of Kollergi's validations... The specific content of these validations was unclear... However, one thing was certain: Kollergi's validations lacked an item called 'Ancient Artifact No. 1,' which was why all the experiments failed...
"Big Brother, there's also a document in this hidden compartment... And a pattern of an angel!" At this moment, Xiao Xiao's voice rang out.
Ye Feng turned his head and saw Xiao Xiao taking out a small stack of yellowed papers from a safe in a wall mechanism, which looked quite old.
"Let me see!"
Ye Feng strode forward and examined them with Xiao Xiao.
"This..." Even with a hasty glance, Ye Feng's face immediately showed shock. The stack of documents Xiao Xiao found also recorded some kind of experiment that used a special substance called 'Ancient Artifact No. 1.' And this Ancient Artifact No. 1 was actually related to angels... it was angel essence extracted from angels.
"Angel essence extracted from angels... Is this why Brad Base held auctions... and had angels as the ultimate auction items..."
"It seems the previous guess was mostly correct... But what kind of experiment did Kollergi intend to complete with angel essence..." Ye Feng glanced at the watch on his left wrist, his brows furrowed tightly.
Then, he looked at Yue Miao, who was also examining a stack of documents, and asked, "Yue Miao, how is it? Did you find anything on your end?"
"Yes!" Yue Miao nodded. "Kollergi is very skilled at conditioning the blood ancestor's body... Therefore, even though he isn't a vampire, he is deeply trusted by the vampires... According to these documents, Kollergi's various haphazard experiments in Brad Base... were also for the blood ancestor's body, to help the blood ancestor awaken. It seems something happened to the blood ancestor's body..."
"The awakening of the blood ancestor requires Ancient Artifact No. 1..." Having said that, Yue Miao looked at Ye Feng with confusion in her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Ye Feng noticed the doubt in Yue Miao's eyes and frowned slightly.
"Based on my understanding of Kollergi, this guy is no saint... But these documents all record how Kollergi conducted experiments... how he helped the blood ancestor of the vampire clan..."
"They don't mention Kollergi's own goals... This doesn't make sense..."
"Kollergi went to so much trouble, spending so many years in Brad Base, and it certainly wasn't just to help the blood ancestor awaken. His borrowing the power of the vampires to capture angels and obtain angel essence was probably only one of his objectives..." Yue Miao quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"Big Brother, look at this!" At this moment, Xiao Xiao handed Ye Feng a piece of parchment. The parchment was very old, with holes in many places, as if pierced by sharp objects, and a noticeable part of one corner was missing.
"Is this... a map?" Ye Feng asked with some surprise after a careful look.
"Mm!" Xiao Xiao nodded. "I found it where I found that small stack of papers. It was hidden very secretly. I almost overlooked it after seeing those papers!"
"This... Hmm?!" Ye Feng was examining the ancient parchment when suddenly, his eyes lit up, and his expression became astonished. He touched the holes on the parchment, tugged at them slightly, and then turned to Xiao Xiao, "Xiao Xiao, could you take out the Angel Blade?"
"Oh, okay!" Although Xiao Xiao didn't quite understand, she didn't ask further. With a flash of light in her hand, the Angel Blade, Wang Ming, appeared in her grasp.
Ye Feng took the Angel Blade and held it against the holes on the parchment to compare...
"This... Big Brother... Were the holes on this parchment caused by the Angel Blade?" Seeing this, Xiao Xiao immediately understood. Because the white blade of the Angel Blade had a very unique shape, and Xiao Xiao was very familiar with it, she understood as soon as Ye Feng held it up for comparison.
"Mm..." Ye Feng nodded, falling into deep thought. "The Angel Blade... Did an angel once try to destroy this parchment...?"
"Big Brother, should we leave here now? The auction is about to end, and it's quite far from the auction venue!" At this moment, Xiao Xiao glanced at the Rolex watch on her right wrist and said.
"Mm, alright!" Ye Feng nodded. He quickly searched the scene again, collected all the documents into his spatial warehouse, then took out a large number of grenades, C4 explosives, white phosphorus bombs, napalm bombs, and so on, and set up a proximity detonation device at the entrance of the room that would trigger if anyone entered, before leaving.
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