SSS-level catastrophe? That's my wife!

Inside the building’s laboratory, a man in a gray robe was staring at a test tube on a lab table.

He suddenly frowned and rubbed his temples. "Why is it so quiet all of a sudden? Are all the guards outside fast asleep?"

He gripped the long sword at his waist, and his aura as a seventh-level initial cultivator suddenly erupted, causing the surrounding air to tremble.

As soon as he stepped out of the laboratory, he gasped in shock.

The floor of the experimental tunnel was covered in blood, and dozens of gray-robed corpses lay scattered about. Blood flowed to his feet and soaked his shoes.

"Who goes there, you scoundrel! Show yourself!"

The gray-robed man roared and immediately reached for the red alarm in his pocket with his left hand.

The instant his fingertip touched the button, a crimson wing suddenly flashed before his eyes, moving as fast as a red light.

The gray-robed man felt a chill on his chest, and his body went limp as he collapsed, his eyes filled with disbelief and terror.

Lin Mu snatched the alarm from his hand and said calmly, "It's just a building in the ancient city, yet it's guarded by a seventh-level Awakened. That's quite an eye-opener."

Su Nianhe walked to the gray-robed man's corpse, her eyes filled with disdain, and sneered, "Yes, but it's a pity they ran into us."

"There's nowhere in this world that can hold the two of us back together, don't you think?"

"Don't be too arrogant." Lin Mu turned and walked into the laboratory, his tone still calm: "This world is far beyond our imagination."

"Let's go inside and take a look."

Inside the laboratory, seven or eight corpses dressed in white lab coats lay on the floor.

Lin Mu and Su Nianhe stood at the door, both stunned.

Their pupils suddenly contracted, and the space in front of them was filled with countless transparent glass containers.

Each container contained the curled-up corpse of a "little guy," with an IV tube inserted into its thin arm, containing dark red liquid.

"The Kingdom is a truly depraved organization."

Lin Mu's gaze swept over the label on the container—Experimental Subject Number 001.

"This is just one building in the ancient city."

Su Nianhe added in a cool voice, "Think about it, what about other places?"

"The world is sick, very sick."

"When the sword wielded in the name of justice is used against the innocent, the world is already rotten to the core."

Lin Mu raised his hand to unleash the Crimson Flame, but Su Nianhe immediately grabbed his wrist: "Keep it down. The longer we're exposed, the more secrets we'll uncover."

Lin Mu hummed in agreement and slowly stepped forward.

With each step, a layer of ice appeared beneath their feet, spreading along the ground and instantly covering all the experimental equipment.

The test tubes, computer, and petri dishes were all frozen into ice sculptures, and then with a "crack," they all shattered, turning into a shower of ice crystal powder.

At the same time, a crimson flame ignited in his palm, burning the paper data to ashes without leaving a single spark.

"I'm very curious, how can one person awaken two powers simultaneously? Could you explain it to me?"

Su Nianhe tilted her head slightly, a faint smile playing on her lips.

"Why is it that nighttime is like daytime?" Lin Mu asked calmly.

"You're so boring. When you encounter a difficult question, you change the subject again." Su Nianhe snorted lightly, but did not stop walking, continuing to walk north along the southeast corner of the ancient city.

The guards along their route fell silently, and the stench of blood in the ancient city grew even stronger, but no one paid any attention to the smell, as if the stench of blood was something that was meant to be there.

Inside another building with dim lights, the two walked on the blood-stained floor.

What comes into view is a shockingly large blood bank, with each container covered with model numbers.

"These... do they want to...?"

Lin Mu's voice was filled with disbelief and anger, but before he could finish speaking, Su Nianhe interrupted him: "Yes, that's exactly what you think."

"I've heard about this kind of thing before. Think about it, where do all those people who go missing eventually go?"

Lin Mu's face, hidden beneath his hood, grew even more somber. He asked in a deep voice, "When did you find out?"

"Five years ago." Su Nianhe sneered, and golden wings suddenly unfurled from her right back. "Moreover, according to rumors, even earlier, those people in the Central Government... well, it's just a rumor."

Before the words were even finished, dozens of golden light blades shot towards the silver container.

"Boom—" The container exploded instantly, and blood poured down like a waterfall, forming a red river on the ground.

The two continued forward, treading on the river of blood, their figures disappearing into the dark corridor, leaving behind only broken containers and flowing blood.

Then, inside a building in the northeast corner of the ancient city, a newly renovated laboratory came into view again.

Inside the transparent glass container, the experimental subjects were covered in IV tubes, with dark red liquid slowly flowing into their bodies. Their skin was bluish-purple, and their fingers were twisted into bizarre shapes.

"Another human experiment. This is exactly the same as the experiment in Zhenbei City. It seems that after that place was destroyed, they chose the safest location instead."

Lin Mu clenched his fists, his palms faintly glowing with ice-blue and crimson light.

Su Nianhe moved gracefully, examining the experimental subjects up close. Her delicate brows furrowed as she said, "Heh... how filthy."

Lin Mu suddenly raised an eyebrow: "There's a noise outside."

Outside the building, a man staggered over, holding a bottle of liquor, and drunkenly shouted, "Brother, shift change!"

Suddenly he staggered, as if he had tripped over something, and sobered up considerably. He squinted at the ground.

That's a severed hand!

He suddenly crouched down and moved closer, his drunkenness instantly vanishing. Looking up, he saw that the building was already piled high with corpses.

Holy crap!

He immediately pulled out the alarm from his pocket, and just as his finger touched the button, a figure in black robes suddenly appeared before him. A flash of cold light, and his head fell to the ground.

"The number of Awakened and Mutants we've eliminated is enough to form a large army." Su Nianhe appeared beside Lin Mu.

"How much have you recovered now?" Lin Mu asked calmly.

"Eighty percent, what?"

Su Nianhe smiled and added, "If I were to recover to my full strength, I could slaughter this ancient city all by myself. What kingdom, what Qing King, are they but ants?" Then her voice warmed, "Of course, you are very important to me."

"There are three directions coming towards us."

A cold glint flashed in Lin Mu's eyes as he darted swiftly through the night.

Su Nianhe headed in the other direction, each step she took accompanied by a blood-red lotus flower, and the black-clad guards in the ancient city instantly turned into several clouds of blood mist.

Wherever the two went, blood burst forth.

"Buzz—"

A sharp alarm suddenly ripped through the silence of the ancient city.

Not far away, a gray-robed man, his face ashen, trembled as he violently tossed a black, round object into the air—

"Bang!"

A scarlet signal firework exploded in the night sky.