Chapter 197

After hearing the scream of the Wasteland Pioneer warrior, Lu Chi's first reaction was that the basement was hiding Evolutionaries or Beast Kings from other countries.

At Lu Chi's command, the Wasteland Pioneer warriors quickly surged towards the basement.

In less than ten seconds, the entire outside of the basement was surrounded, including the outward passage of the building, which was blocked, so that no one could escape from here.

Lu Chi saw the Wasteland Pioneer warrior, whose arm had been shot. It wasn't a vital point, and the enemy didn't follow up after the first shot. The Wasteland Pioneer was leaning against the corner of the basement wall, his face very pale.

As a Divine Descent Evolutionary, being successfully ambushed in this situation was a disgrace.

*Pa!*

Lu Chi pulled the other man over and noticed something was wrong. The wound on the Wasteland Pioneer's arm was rotting and turning black at an alarming rate, spreading quickly.

"Get me a knife!" Lu Chi reached out and lowered his voice. Someone handed him a small, scalpel-like knife. Lu Chi cut open the Wasteland Pioneer's wound and used the tip of the knife to pry out a silver bullet. Lu Chi squinted and saw that the bullet wasn't solid. The front of it had burst open like petals, with some hollow spaces inside, as if something had been loaded into them before.

Lu Chi guessed that the substance in the hollow spaces must be the cause of the festering wound on the Wasteland Pioneer's arm.

"It should be some kind of chemical substance, highly corrosive..." Lu Chi threw away the bullet and looked seriously at the Wasteland Pioneer warrior. "Bear with it."

Before the other man could react, Lu Chi chopped down with the knife, and the Wasteland Pioneer warrior's arm was severed from the shoulder!

The pain of losing a limb was just as intense for Evolutionaries as it was for ordinary people. The Wasteland Pioneer warrior instantly broke out in a cold sweat, but he gritted his teeth and didn't scream. He chewed on an Ancient-grade fruit. The wound on his severed arm quickly stopped bleeding, and new flesh began to grow, regenerating the limb.

The severed limb, however, festered away completely in just twenty seconds, even the bones turning bluish-black.

Lu Chi lightly stepped on the bones of the severed arm and found that they had become very brittle, snapping with a *crack*...

"Be careful..." Lu Chi frowned. This kind of bullet was obviously a new type of weapon, indicating that a powerful enemy was indeed hiding in this basement.

He waved his hand, and a Cerebral-type Wasteland Pioneer came over and pressed against the wall of the basement.

*Buzz!*

A terrifying brainwave assault went straight through the already breached basement door, like a raging tide without mercy!

"Ah!"

A shrill scream came from inside the basement. Lu Chi randomly pulled out a high-explosive grenade, about to throw it into the basement, but at that moment, the Cerebral-type Wasteland Pioneer suddenly widened his eyes and shouted, "Sir! Wait! Something's not right!"

"I can sense that the humans in this basement have very weak brains and poor mental strength! They shouldn't be Evolutionaries!"

Lu Chi hesitated. "What did you say?"

Thirty seconds later, Lu Chi took the lead, and a dozen Wasteland Pioneer warriors followed him into the dark basement.

One of them pulled out a flare from his waist, and the dazzling light instantly dispelled the darkness.

The basement was filled with a foul smell. Near the door, a white youth lay unconscious on the ground, still holding a strangely shaped pistol in his hand, which must have been the weapon that hit the Wasteland Pioneer warrior earlier.

Lu Chi picked it up from the other man's hand, examined it for a moment, then raised the gun and shot at the nearby wall. With an explosive sound, stones and debris flew from the wall, and a bluish-black liquid splattered, actually emitting wisps of white smoke. This bullet could even corrode stone!

"Take it back." Lu Chi casually tossed it to someone nearby and continued to survey the basement.

The basement wasn't large, only a little over a hundred square meters, and as far as he could see, there were no passages or stairs, making it impossible to escape or hide. The entire basement was laid bare.

A dozen people were lying on the cold ground, some old, some children, all huddled together, with only some cardboard under them. In the corner, there were some instant noodle packaging boxes.

"Sir..." One of the Wasteland Pioneer warriors came over, carefully searched the belongings of these people, and then handed an identity document to Lu Chi, which he had found on a middle-aged blond man wearing glasses. "Europeans!"

Lu Chi glanced down. It was a work permit.

"Thirteenth Research Laboratory of the Septagon Forces, National Academy of Sciences Academician Damian Miller!"

When Lu Chi saw the words on the work permit, his eyebrows shot up like two sharp swords, and his pupils contracted.

This expression represented… shock!

Lu Chi's composure was usually unshakeable, rarely changing even in the face of life and death, but now he showed such an expression, which could only mean that what he was seeing was completely beyond his expectations!

The Septagon Forces were the general designation for the European Evolutionary team!

And the Thirteenth Research Laboratory was a factory specifically created to build special equipment for European Evolutionary teams!

If this man's identity was real, then this European man should be enjoying the highest treatment in the European Union, treated like a national treasure. How could he be in a basement in a ruined city with a group of people like refugees?

Lu Chi thought of the firearm that had shot the Wasteland Pioneer warrior earlier. The bullet's firing speed, power, and effectiveness didn't seem like something ordinary people could create. Combined with this work permit, the other man's identity could be confirmed to at least eighty percent!

"..." Lu Chi looked at the middle-aged man lying unconscious on the ground, his gaze slowly turning fiery. He turned to the Cerebral warrior and asked, "How strong was the brainwave assault you used just now? It didn't kill him, did it?"

...

When Damian woke up again from his unconsciousness, he felt that he wasn't lying on the cold cardboard in the basement, and the air no longer smelled of foul excrement. His brain was still a little dizzy, but he tried to open his eyes and saw a white, clean, and bright ceiling.

For a moment, he began to feel dazed, thinking he had returned to his apartment in the European Union research lab.

He took a full three minutes to recover, his pupils began to focus, and then he suddenly sat up straight, frantically patting himself down.

"You're looking for this, right?" Just then, a voice came from the opposite side.

Damian suddenly turned his head and saw a Yan Huang man sitting there, smiling, holding a USB drive and a few blueprints in his hand.

"Give it back to me!" Damian suddenly exploded, reaching out to grab the other man.

*Buzz!*

Suddenly, a tremendous force of gravity descended from the sky, and Damian fell heavily to the ground, unable to move.

"I've looked at the things inside, and they're really surprising!" Li Tianyi shook the USB drive in his hand and said, word by word, "Tyrannosaurus Rex'-type individual combat armor complete design data, brand new Evolutionary equipment, completely surpassing the first generation!"

"I never thought, Heaven would give me such a big surprise!"

"I'll be taking this!"