As soon as the Human Emperor Banner came out, I became the Lord of the Old Ones

Chapter 97 Swamp Gang

Before he finished speaking, there was another knock on the door.

"Ms. Leliana, it's almost time."

Director Green's respectful voice came, "If you have any further instructions, why not let me carry them out?"

The corner of Leliana's eye twitched.

"No, I'll be right out."

She shouted towards the door.

He grabbed Xu Yan's hand tightly again, lowered his voice, and said hurriedly, "Listen, I will find a way to report everything that happened here to the patrol team, but it may not succeed. It seems that the big boss has begun to doubt me.

"If we are eventually captured by the Black Dream Organization, don't panic or act rashly. You will never escape by fighting alone.

"No matter what happens, you must consult me. For a long time to come, the only people we can trust are each other!"

She shook Xu Yan's hand firmly.

He took a few deep breaths, calmed himself down, and opened the door expressionlessly.

"Tomorrow we will conduct routine inspections of the medical equipment and ventilation system, and pack up everything here."

Under Director Green's vigilant and suspicious gaze, she kept a straight face and gave instructions to Xu Yan.

But at the moment of closing the door, he winked at Xu Yan behind Director Green's back, as if encouraging Xu Yan to persevere in the desperate situation.

The door was locked again.

Xu Yan fell into deep thought.

My guess was correct.

The Black Dream Organization did not give up its plan to enter the "Land of Echoes No. 232".

Dr. Hyde certainly failed.

New tentacles have already reached Dawn City.

In order to make a big move in Dawn City, the Rolling Stone Castle, as a bridgehead, is the key that the Black Dream Organization must control.

Within twenty-four hours, the "Swamp Gang" recruited by the Black Dream Organization will arrive here.

Although this incident greatly increased the number and level of enemies he had to face.

But it also brought new variables.

“The bigger the waves, the bigger the fish.”

Xu Yan murmured to himself, "If handled properly, a bad thing might turn into a good thing."

However, he still needed to confirm a few guesses first.

Xu Yan concentrated his mind and calmed his breath, sensing the ripples of the residual soul lurking in the ventilation duct above the ceiling.

Soon the link to "Jelly" was reconnected.

The "jelly" continued to float in the ventilation duct, and according to the three-dimensional structural diagram that had just been mapped, it stayed above each key area for a period of time.

Soon, Xu Yan's guess was verified.

The entire underground laboratory is divided into seven floors, roughly divided into fifteen or sixteen areas including experimental area, training area, medical area, energy center, ordinary warehouse, special warehouse, reception center, heavy prison, etc.

During the time that Leiliana was talking to him, the administrative area on the two upper floors, including the big boss's office, was in a state of chaos.

The corridor was filled with staff members hurriedly walking with large amounts of documents in their hands.

Someone is using a shredder to break down confidential files.

Some people were urgently storing data in old computers, with the disk drives running at full power and making a squeaking noise.

However, the experimental areas on the lower floors, which housed patients in the middle and late stages of the Soul Erosion Syndrome, and heavy-duty prisons that held various monsters, all seemed to be operating in an orderly manner, with an appearance of "peaceful times".

No one informed the researchers and doctors here that they would all be packed up and taken deep into the wilderness to become glorious members of the Black Dream Organization.

This makes sense.

According to Director Monk and Leiliana, many researchers and doctors were hired from the safe zone by big bosses at great expense, and they are legitimate citizens of the Alliance.

According to Xu Yan's understanding, if the boss's main business is really to provide sensitive experimental data to pharmaceutical companies and card-making companies in the safe zone, and after more than ten years of operation, their research has reached a very core and in-depth level.

In order to ensure the accuracy and security of the data, these large companies will definitely place a large number of "supervisors" in underground laboratories.

“It’s hard to tell who Director Monk’s team actually reports to – the big boss or a large corporation far away in a safe zone.

"Based on the conversation between Director Monk and his subordinates just now, he might have a hidden 'imperial sword' that can be used to behead the big boss with just a single command from the big corporation.

"This is also the reason why the big boss wants to destroy the communication line from here to the safe zone, temporarily preventing Director Monk from contacting large enterprises."

"Even if you're just an ordinary researcher, going to the planning area to make some quick money is one thing, but abandoning your life and property to wander around the world with the fanatical followers of the Black Dream Organization is another matter entirely. What kind of good person would be willing to do such a thing?
"So, Big Boss must wait until the Swamp Gang, under the Black Dream Organization, arrives here in force before he can completely clear the area and quickly seize control of Director Monk's team. "If that's the case..."

Xu Yan didn't mind adding a few more buckets of hot oil to the raging fire, making the entire underground laboratory burn fiercely or even explode completely.

He controlled "Jelly" remotely and returned to the ventilation duct above the ordinary warehouse.

The big boss's escape plan gave him a golden opportunity.

Now, all the staff loyal to the big boss are busy blocking the news, sorting out important supplies, preparing battle cards, and dealing with the coming storm.

Ordinary warehouses that store general supplies have become empty and no one cares about them.

The "jelly" fell lightly from the vent.

The tentacles stretched out, bringing back a large amount of supplies.

Sugar, flour, electrical wiring, abrasive cleaners, bleach containing hydrogen peroxide, medical solution containing acetone, large amounts of preservatives and paint, and six pressure spray cans.

Xu Yan was highly focused.

With the help of "Dr. Hyde's Meditation Method", thoughts turned into invisible ripples, continuously flowing into the body of "Jelly", turning the guardian spirit into an extension of will, with extreme precision and dexterity.

Like an ant moving house, he moved all the supplies back to the ventilation duct bit by bit.

The two bags of sugar and flour were too large to be carried as a whole, so they had to be removed from the packaging and packaged separately.

Some of it was spilled during the process, but was completely absorbed by the "jelly" with its sticky body.

As for the removed packaging, it was stuffed into the corner behind the shelf.

Of course, these materials are only auxiliary.

The real key is the card-making materials that were secretly transported into the ventilation duct through the "jelly" earlier.

Using these materials, Xu Yan can create more than fifteen one-time consumable skill cards.

Based on the current situation and the auxiliary materials he had obtained, he selected three types and made a total of six "gifts".

He asked "Jelly" to deliver the six gifts to the blower that led directly to the laboratory and administrative area, to the ceiling above his head, to the pharmacy, and to the special warehouse where rare materials were stored.

It took a total of five and a half hours to complete all of this.

At this time, a slight strange noise was heard from above the ventilation duct.

Xu Yan's idea moved, and he hurriedly called "Jelly" to float over to check.

It was discovered that on the platform facing the elevator, the big boss was accompanied by a dozen of his men wearing masks and wrapped tightly, with their swords drawn and their bodies tense as if facing a great enemy.

As the winch rotated, the elevator slowly descended.

The two men opened the emergency door with some difficulty.

Nineteen visitors from afar, wearing hooded windproof cloaks, goggles, and off-road boots, with swords and guns bulging under their cloaks, stepped into the boss's lair, bringing with them the smoke and smell of blood from the deep wilderness.

The big boss's body is as huge as a fortress, and his momentum is already astonishing enough.

The opponent's leader had a high bulge on his back, as if it was a congenital deformity, but he was half a head taller than him.

With every step he took, the spikes on the soles of his off-road boots made a harsh collision sound with the ground, suppressing the boss's momentum.

Retro goggles embedded in flesh and blood, no lips, sharp teeth exposed directly to the air, metal hoses extending from the high humped back to the throat and abdomen, a cape exposed in place of the left hand, rusty iron claws and other features, together formed a notorious name in the wilderness area:

"Festering Hawke".

Xu Yan once hunted Johnny, the "Red Maned Lizard" from the Swamp Gang.

He also has some understanding of Johnny's boss, the leader of the Swamp Gang.

When he was still known as "Rustyclaw Hawke", he was a gifted mechanic with unique insights into the technology of the Archaic Civilization. He specialized in wandering the wilderness ruins, collecting the old souls of the Fourth Age, absorbing memory fragments, replicating Archaic technology, and creating all kinds of bizarre weapons and equipment, which he sold to wilderness gangs for huge profits.

Unfortunately, during an exploration of the ruins, he encountered the Old Ones and was entangled by the [Festering Knight].

The "Rotting Knight" is the product of a powerful life form from the First Age that fell into a poisonous swamp. Its flesh rotted and melted, but its pain turned into resentment, which slowly fermented in the depths of the swamp.

Such residual souls are usually very unstable, full of high uncertainty and danger. They are difficult to capture with seal cards and cannot coexist harmoniously with human flesh and blood.

Even among the "evil spirits", they are an extremely unpopular species.

Generally speaking, humans whose bodies are invaded by the "Festering Knight" will experience itching, swelling, pustules, and ulcers within a period of several days, weeks, or even months. Pieces of flesh and blood will fall off the body, and eventually even the internal organs will turn into a pool of mud, and the human will die from ulceration.

However, "Rusty Claw Hawke" designed an incredible treatment method with his mechanical talent and extraordinary perseverance.

As soon as the ulceration occurred, he removed the ulcerated part and the surrounding limbs, and replaced them with steel prosthetic limbs that replicated the technology of the magic machine.

Even the internal organs are no exception. If any organ is rotten, it will be removed without mercy and replaced with an artificial organ.

(End of this chapter)