Ark Undead

"But the question is, where did he get so many sea cucumbers?"

A teammate behind Scout asked.

"Haijir?"

Ace shook his head, correcting him.

“These people are not Hai Si.”

As he spoke, he rummaged through the pile of corpses and finally found something that looked like a card on one of the bodies, which he then showed to everyone.

“They are residents of Victoria.”

This is Victoria's citizenship certificate, which contains the owner's name and place of origin—the most basic information.

"I think we have found the whereabouts of those missing infected people."

As he spoke these chilling words, Ace stood up from his half-squatting position and patted his hands, which had just touched the nearly decaying flesh.

"Isn't that precisely why we've come to punish Theresis?"

Ace's gaze toward the corpses held a mixture of resentment and helplessness.

Yes, just as Ace guessed.

After the fall of Lontinim, most of the missing people, including the infected who were taken away by the Iberian soldiers, gathered here.

They became props for Theresis's research, spending their final days in the underground facility in Londinium, their bodies remaining with these containers.

"These corpses are probably only a small part; Lentinium has a large population. Although many escaped, there are definitely more than just a few dozen people."

Ace picked up his shield again, pulled down the goggles hanging on his head, and held them in front of his eyes.

"Let's go first. Forget about intelligence, we at least need to see if there are any survivors."

...

After passing through several corridors, the view in front of everyone became increasingly spacious.

No one could have imagined that such a vast area was built underground in Londinium for mysterious research.

Furthermore, based on the construction dates of some of the iron pipes Scout and his team observed along the way, they speculated that this place had only been built a few years ago.

In other words, within a few years, Theresis's activities in Lontinim had enabled him to build these things right under everyone's noses.

Nobody even knew about this news.

This clearly demonstrates that there are some unspeakable deals among the top echelons of Victoria.

If Vina knew what had happened here, it was foreseeable that the new king of Aslan would hold a grudge about it for some time to come.

It's not just the corpses that can be seen everywhere on the road.

They also saw batches of culture tanks used to preserve the bodies and tissues of monsters that were still in the experimental stage.

Some of the jars even contained what appeared to be a sleeping monster.

Ace and his team simply took some basic photos of these things and uploaded them to Rhodes Island's public network, believing that the Doctor would find what he was looking for there.

And those who went missing did indeed encounter a group of them.

However, the survivors have almost lost the ability to communicate.

"Hello?"

Ace tried to talk to the people inside through the iron bars. But the people leaning against the wall kept their heads down and ignored her.

Beside them was a Victorian who kept banging his forehead against the wall, seemingly oblivious to Ace's words.

Left with no other option, they had to use Huang's chainsaw to cut open the iron railings before going inside to check on their condition.

"Pupils are unfocused and unresponsive to sound. Suspected mental impairment."

Logos jotted down these conclusions in his notebook, then continued to look up at the guys.

"It was as if he had completely lost the ability to react to the outside world. Moreover, his physical condition was very poor; he was not only thin, but his skin was also a very pale white color."

"Their state is as if they have lost consciousness and lucidity, trapped in a dream that only they know."

Looking at these people, Ace couldn't help but sigh again.

Melanie, however, felt a sense of familiarity towards these people who showed no reaction to their actions.

Just like when the Undead first arrived in Londinium, and he sat by the campfire.

It has no personal emotions whatsoever, no joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness, and it is not sensitive to any external stimuli.

It's like being dead, but physiologically still alive.

"There's nothing we can do, there's no response at all. We can only try to get them out of here first."

After a brief discussion, the elite operators decided to have Scout's team take the survivors back along the original route.

The elite operators, on the other hand, must continue down this path.

By the time everyone got here, they realized that this was the place where Theresis conducted some kind of special research.

And there must be other Theresis secret weapons buried here.

Otherwise, if an entire research lab were only meant to supply one dragon, the pardoners under Theresis would probably be a bit off their minds.

The correct way to understand this seems to be that they managed to create another dragon and some other monsters right under the noses of Londinium.

Sure enough, right after Scout's team left with those people, Ace and his group entered through the next door and found some scenes that no one had expected at all.

"So it was all here all along."

Logos stared at the life support tanks placed on both sides; his intuition told him that this place was dangerous.

In fact, everyone knew that they had stepped into dangerous territory.

The clean passageway stood in stark contrast to the area the group had previously traversed.

Some of the monsters in the life support tanks on both sides were even gently swaying their tails.

Some were half-asleep, with one eye half-open, and their pupils would follow the footsteps of the crowd.

This is a still intact cultivation and storage area where these monsters spend their modified lives in life support tanks.

Moreover, these people were just ordinary citizens of Lentinium.

They could even see scraps of cloth on some of the monsters.

In the far distance of Ace and the others' line of sight, a figure in a black robe was standing with his back to them, staring up at a screen hanging on the wall.

Upon seeing that figure, everyone immediately gripped their weapons, displaying their vigilance.

"The guest that Wang was waiting for arrived, but it took a little longer than expected."

The figure in the black robe turned around, raised his hand, and gently removed the black hood.

The body of the black-robed man was formed by the exoskeleton of an insect and its slender limbs.

Without a doubt, this is one of the Pardoners, a Pardoner who has completed the Abyss Transformation.

Now, their faith is no longer in Belga, the goddess of sin who shares the same faith as Shining, but in the gods of the abyss who bestow new blessings upon them.

He was standing here to wait for Ace and the others to arrive.

"He originally thought that the man would be the first to arrive here, but it seems that even predictions can be wrong sometimes."

The man he was talking about was undoubtedly the immortal.

There was a hint of regret in his voice, as if failing to wait for the immortals was a dereliction of duty on his part.

But what he said next sent chills down everyone's spines.

"It's alright if it's not enough. Please accept these gifts on my behalf."

Before he finished speaking, his figure, like a shadow, gradually deepened and finally faded away in the light.

It felt like someone had erased the paper with an eraser.

As he left, a red light suddenly appeared on a control panel behind him.

Melantha only vaguely remembered that the last thing she saw before she lost consciousness was Ace turning around, holding his shield behind him, then pressing his head down to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, no sound could be heard from anyone else.

Inside the city, the battle between the steam-powered armor and the dragon continues.

Almost all the surrounding buildings have collapsed.

Meanwhile, the weapons wielded by the steam-powered armor became increasingly fluid.

Vina was quite adept at it at first, but the longer she operated it, the more she understood how the armor worked.

The relationship between the two has changed from a turn-based system to a power struggle.

Meanwhile, among the three Deepsea Hunters who were mingling in the Second and Third Legions and were working with other legion soldiers to besiege the Iberian regular army, one Deepsea Hunter wielding a greatsword received a communication request from the Doctor.

"PhD?"

"The coordinates have been sent to your communicators. Ace and the others need your help now!"

The doctor's voice was also somewhat anxious; he had never imagined that there would be such a trap in the place where the dragon was born.

It didn't actually prevent anyone from dying; instead, it got Ace and his friends into trouble.

Skadi is now the strongest of the three Deepsea members.

Melanie is here too.

Skadi wasn't initially in a rush. But upon hearing Melantha's name, she spoke without hesitation.

"I'll go right now!"

495. A fleeting glimpse, six thousand words

A few days ago, the Rhodes Island main ship.

"Miss Skadi?"

The medical staff stared blankly at the bounty hunter standing in front of them, not expecting that today would be the day this girl was discharged from the hospital.

Saying he was discharged from the hospital is a bit of a stretch. After all, there was nothing about his health that required medical treatment.