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

Chapter 99 Director's Decision

The shattered corridor was completely blocked by flames, black smoke and collapsed ceiling.

He felt severe pain all over his body, and his ten fingers turned into melted candles.

He wanted to scream out in terror, but it felt like there was a red-hot coal stuck deep in his throat, and no sound came out.

He struggled to get up, but touched something soft and rotten.

He held it before his eyes tremblingly, and found a severed arm with a card reader tied to it.

Good news, it wasn't his hand.

The bad news is that judging from the tattoo on the back of the hand, the owner of the broken arm is none other than the armed guard who followed him.

The worse news was that the arm was not bloody or burnt by flames, but was neatly severed by a clean knife.

Only then did he realize that the mountain of flesh that had been pressing down on him just now had been lifted up high by the terrifying power lurking in the darkness at some point.

Like a freshly slaughtered lamb hanging from a hook, still twitching.

Accompanied by the sound of "crack, crack" of bones breaking.

The armed guards emerged from the black smoke with a horrific appearance, which made Director Green's scalp explode and his hands and feet numb.

Every steel and iron muscle in this humanoid weapon's body was twitching wildly.

The humanoid weapon that had just exuded a powerful oppressive force turned into a ball of blood and flesh.

And his guardian spirit...

Director Green was horrified to see the "Golden Kite Knight" struggling in the black smoke.

As soon as its owner summoned it, it was attacked by a double attack of flames and shock waves.

Before it could gain a foothold in the violent wave of psychic energy, a strange black arm pierced through its psychic shield and invaded its residual soul core.

What a terrifying arm this is!

The purple and blue blood vessels bulged out like snakes, winding around the ever-expanding muscles.

Hundreds of black runes drilled out from the depths of the flesh and blood, releasing savage black flames, and transformed into hungry worms, trying to drill into the body of the "Golden Kite Knight" to feast on him.

But these black worms were frightened by a more powerful and violent golden flame, and had to obey the command, and obediently surged to the front end of the monster arm, to the palm that was open like a bloody mouth, and together with the more ancient and mysterious power gushing out from the palm, they turned into tentacles, fangs and claws.

The tentacles tightly wrapped around the gaps in the armor of the "Golden Iris Knight", making it unable to move.

Sharp claws pressed down on its joints, and black runes and golden flames took turns bombarding the psychic defense line of the "Golden Kite Knight".

The fangs penetrated deeply into the core of the Golden Kite Knight's residual soul, like a super-powerful water pump, madly absorbing the Golden Kite Knight's already fragmented memories, skills, emotions, personality, glory and even everything.

Faced with the ancient demon that seemed to have crawled out from the deepest part of the underworld, even the Holy Knights of the First Age lost the courage to fight to the end.

Like his master, it became a lamb to be slaughtered.

First came the sword and shield, then the armor engraved with golden irises, and then the limbs, bones and internal organs.

The details carefully constructed by the remnant souls of the past dimmed and collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and were reduced to the purest energy.

It was swallowed up by the giant python-like strange arm with "slurp, slurp".

Soon, the last wisp of soul fire of the "Golden Iris Knight" was extinguished in the black fog that gushed out from the Nine Nether Demon Lord, as if it led directly to the endless abyss.

Director Green heard someone swallow in the darkness.

Let out a sigh of lingering regret.

Then, the palm was still torn, revealing a strange arm with a bloody mouth, which was gently placed on his shoulder.

Xu Yan, with his handsome face and harmless expression, emerged from the darkness and came before his eyes.

"Don't be afraid. Your soul is too weak. I'm not interested."

Xu Yan smiled and comforted the other party, "I just want to ask you a few small questions."

……

The core area of ​​the underground laboratory.

A total of three research teams, focusing on special medicines for spiritual erosion, extraction and packaging of evil spirits, and weaponization of patients in the late stage of spiritual erosion, are working here.

The series of explosions just now cut off the communication system, monitoring system and lighting system, temporarily turning this place into an isolated island.

The thick smoke and flowing fire that continued to flow in through the ventilation ducts further intensified the tense atmosphere.

Fortunately, the core laboratory was already equipped with the highest standards of fire prevention, anti-toxic and explosion-proof facilities.

In extreme cases, it can even cut off the invasion of external toxic gases and rely on an independent internal circulation oxygen system to last for more than 48 hours.

Director Monk, who was in charge of this area, had experience working for several large medical companies in the safe zone and had personally witnessed numerous experimental accidents. He was experienced and meticulous. As soon as the explosion occurred, he organized everyone.

Collect supplies, organize equipment, wear gas masks, extinguish fires and exhaust smoke, try to contact the outside world, and find escape routes.

Everything was done in an orderly manner, and order and people's hearts were soon stabilized.

"Director Monk, there's a sound here!"

Although the elevator platform and escape route leading to the upper floor were temporarily blocked by the collapsed ceiling.

But they heard a continuous cycle of three long and two short knocking sounds in a broken ventilation duct.

There were faint shouting sounds, probably someone outside trying to contact them.

However, when Director Monk and several senior researchers put their ears to the mouth of the pipe and listened attentively, the content coming from deep inside the pipe made them turn pale and their hearts tremble.

"Director Monk, can you hear me?

"The big boss betrayed the alliance and joined the Black Dream Organization!
"He's got the Swamp Gang and is planning to sell us all out to the Black Dream Organization!

"This explosion is their conspiracy. Next, they will use the excuse of putting out a fire as an excuse to arrest us one by one!"

Director Monk's body temperature, which was already much lower than that of ordinary people, dropped to near zero degrees in an instant.

His entire face was a strange, dark blue color, making him look more and more like a frightened vampire.

He took the large wrench handed to him by the senior researcher.

"Bang bang bang, bang bang!"

He banged hard on the ventilation duct and shouted in the direction of the sound, "Tell me your name and identification code. How did you know?"

The other party did not give his name and only answered the last question:
"I saw Festering Hawke, the Swamp Gang leader, and overheard their conversation.

“There were too many of them and they blocked all the exits, so we couldn’t escape.

"The only way is to release all the experimental subjects and fight them!

"Oh no, they are coming, they are coming, ah——"

A shrill scream ended the brief conversation.

No matter how hard Director Monk knocked on the pipe, all that was left in the depths of darkness was the sound of flames licking metal and thick smoke twisting and crawling.

Director Monk spat out a mouthful of thick black phlegm, shouldered the large wrench, and glanced suspiciously at the researchers around him.

As a director, he has ten times more information than an ordinary researcher.

Rather than saying that they are experts hired by the big boss at a high salary, it would be more accurate to say that they are "supervisors" sent to this underground laboratory by the medical companies and card-making companies in the safe zone.

Although the communication line with the safe zone was temporarily interrupted, he still heard some rumors through his own channels and learned that the financial backers and major customers behind this underground laboratory were very dissatisfied with recent events and were thinking of kicking the big boss out of the game.

Director Monk originally planned to leave in a few days.

Return to the safe zone with the core team and years of accumulated experimental data.

Get a large sum of money in exchange from medical companies.

After that, you can enjoy life, set up your own independent laboratory, or accept new employment and go back to your old job in an underground laboratory in other planning areas.

I didn’t expect that the bastard boss had such a keen sense of smell and sold them out first!
Director Monk's eyes were as sharp as a knife.

Most of the researchers here were brought by him from the safe zone. Most of them were his students and subordinates who had followed him for many years. Their loyalty was absolutely impeccable. They would never defect to the Black Dream Organization even if they were beaten to death.

The remaining half were recruited by the boss from the wilderness area, and were personally trained by Leliana at Rolling Stone Castle. They...

These local researchers immediately felt the pressure and understood their current situation.

He could not help but raise his hands and cry out in injustice.

God is my witness, they suffered so much in the wilderness and used up so much luck just to be able to live a peaceful life in Rolling Stone Castle, with no worries about food and clothing, and even go to the Rolling Stone Club every now and then to have a good time!

Many people even marry, have children, and settle down here. Apart from those whose jobs are more sensitive, they are just ordinary office workers.

Who is willing to put their head on the line and join those lunatics from the Black Dream Organization to fight against the League of Heroes and "stop the end of the world"?

Judging from the other party's unscrupulous behavior of blowing up the underground laboratory, we can see how crazy these lunatics are.

Therefore, these local researchers also expressed from the bottom of their hearts that they would absolutely obey Director Monk's orders and only seek a way to survive.

However, we also need to consider whether the information is reliable.

The guy on the other end of the ventilation duct didn't report the identification code, so who knows if it's real or fake.

(End of this chapter)