Xingtie: My silly online friend is actually a raccoon!

After reading Xing's detailed explanation of Honkai energy, Lu Ze became extremely vigilant.

However, the other party's answer was professional and well-organized, which was completely different from his usual casual and unrestrained chat tone. This huge contrast made him want to test the waters.

He quickly swiped his finger across the phone screen, intending to make a few jokes and see if he could figure out the other person's true state.

[Jin Xing's son-in-law: Why were you talking so seriously just now? Did you copy and paste this?]

The message had barely been sent when Xing's reply popped up, still in that playful tone.

[Galaxy Baseball Man: Guess?]

Lu Ze couldn't help but chuckle, and took the opportunity to continue probing.

[Jin Xing's son-in-law: Guess if I'm going to guess.]

But this time the reply was a mess; there were no complete words, only half-sentences and a bunch of random symbols.

Galaxy Baseball Man: Guess what I'm guessing...~+@#↗

Looking at the messy content on the screen, Lu Ze instantly understood the key point.

Hehe, it seems that Xing definitely has someone by her side offering advice and answering her questions.

With just a few casual words of probing, he became completely certain of one thing: he wasn't just chatting with his silly online friend.

Normally, it's Xing herself who makes the jokes, but when it comes to professional topics like Honkai energy and laboratory settings, others will help answer the questions.

Having figured this out, Lu Ze felt a bit more confident and stopped worrying about it, turning his attention to the storage room in front of him.

Knowing that short-term contact with a 0.02% concentration of Honkai energy is harmless, and that only long-term exposure would pose a risk, he completely put aside his concerns and pushed open the metal door of the B20-7 spare storage room.

The door was open, and a small room of about ten square meters came into view.

The room was lined with neat iron storage shelves, but most of them were already empty, having been completely emptied, with only a few miscellaneous items piled up in the corners.

Old cleaning tools and several monitoring instruments with broken casings and completely scrapped were scattered on the ground, along with several unopened solid wood boxes.

His gaze swept across the room, and he saw a researcher's white lab coat hanging on the top shelf, with a small patch of dried blood on its surface, giving the deathly silent room a strong sense of eeriness.

A simple desk was placed against the wall in the room. The desktop was empty and clean, with only an old tablet lying flat on it. It was probably the work equipment used by the previous staff to record the entry and exit of supplies.

Lu Ze walked straight to the table, picked up the tablet, and tried to operate it.

The equipment is in good working order and can be turned on normally. The software inside is very basic, consisting only of a basic inventory recording program and an internal communication platform for the research institute. There is no private entertainment content.

The dry inventory ledgers were not worth investigating, so he directly opened the internal communication platform and quickly found a new, unplayed voice recording.

Lu Ze immediately clicked play.

A panicked, hurried researcher's voice, mixed with subtle electrical noise, slowly drifted out.

"...The Honkai energy infusion experiment failed again, but that girl named Sirin is still alive... She's even smiling at us. Bishop Otto has ordered the 'Herrscher Catalysis Protocol' to be activated tomorrow, and we must move that Honkai Beast embryo to the restraint chamber next to Reactor B5... The key is in Patrol Captain Angelite's belt... (buzzing noise)... Wait, there's a sound coming from the ventilation duct—"

The voice suddenly stopped, leaving only the piercing sound of electricity echoing continuously.

This crucial recording abruptly ended.

Lu Ze slowly put down the tablet, his expression becoming completely serious.

He had previously believed that the only threat to this research institute was the researchers who conducted insane experiments.

But the recording made him realize that the strange noises in the ventilation duct meant that there were unknown hidden monsters inside, and the dangers in the shadows were far more complicated than he had imagined.

The situation was urgent, and he dared not delay. He immediately sent all the information he heard in the recording to Xing.

This time, Xing completely stopped joking around. The reply was serious and full of warnings.

[Galaxy Baseball Man: There might be Honkai Beasts in the ventilation ducts. Be careful. With your current strength, you can handle ordinary Honkai Beasts, but you can't deal with the advanced ones.]

[Galaxy Batman: Also, that patrol captain named Angelit, whose full name is Angelit Shaniat, is the strongest person in this Babylonian laboratory, with strength reaching the level of an A-rank Valkyrie.]

Subsequently, Xing sent a detailed introduction, carefully explaining the combat power level, fighting ability, and overall strength level of the A-rank Valkyrie.

Lu Ze carefully read through all the content, silently comparing his own strength to it, and his heart sank instantly.

With his current strength, he is no match for an A-rank Valkyrie.

If they were to encounter each other head-on, they would be instantly killed without any chance to fight back.

He took a deep breath and fully realized the desperate situation before him.

Following the guidance sent by Xing, he needed to obtain the B5 area key from Angelite, go to the bottom layer to find the Honkai energy reactor, and then use it to create chaos so that he could find an opportunity to escape from the laboratory.

This was his only way out when facing a laboratory whose strength far surpassed his own.