CH 56

“Do not engage in cross fire with them until necessary.” Lu Shangjin stuffed him with a tube of injection, rolled up his sleeve and gave him a shot. “Hurry up.”

“What is this?”

“My dad’s blood serum.”

A chameleon omega gland serum. After injecting this, thermal sensation, gait detection and monitors can be shielded, but not the human eye.

Xia Jingtian was stunned for a moment before sharply giving himself a shot.

“The effect can only last for an hour, so you must pass through the three probe doors leading to the underground freezer within half an hour.” Lu Shangjin put on the finger-piercing gloves with the anaesthesia needles attached and effortlessly flipped down the stairs, “Go and turn the patrol away towards the left, I’ll open the door.”

“Copy that~” Xia Jingtian pursed his lips and tapped his headset before flipping down the steps of the high platform from the other direction and landed silently, like a big cat foraging for food.

Lu Shangjin pressed his temples and raced closer to the heat-sensitive detection door.

To avoid the patrol attracted by Xia Jingtian’s movement, Lu Shangjin pried the front cover of the access combination lock open and gently opened the line of route. He enabled his J1 ability “extreme vision” so that the pupil of his right eye will be concentrated, and then he used the precision microneedle to remove several tiny contacts.

The detection door slowly rose to the top before closing immediately. Lu Shangjin closed the cover of the access lock and walked in. 

As the probe door became less than half a meter close to the ground, Xia Jingtian rolled in. He got up and adjusted his body armor, “Hey, were you gonna shut me out?”

“It’s really dangerous inside.” Lu Shangjin frowned, and continued to walk on.

On the right was a whole row of sealed laboratories, and on the left was a neatly organized line of open grids with about a dozen turns. 

A foul smell permeated the corridor. 

Xia Jingtian swept a glance behind them as Lu Shangjin crouched down to solve the second combination lock.

A sound of metal scraping the ground was slowly approaching. Suddenly alert, Xia Jingtian turned around immediately and picked up the loaded M16 before squatting down, but there wasn’t a person to be seen in all four directions.

“Hurry up, I think someone’s coming.” The tips of Xia Jingtian’s fingers began to sweat.

Lu Shangjin’s right eye glowed with a translucent blue transient film from frequent use, his fingertips delicately picked at the fine needle reaching inside the line, whispering, “I’m already going really fast.”

The sound of scraping metal disappeared, but the sense of danger nearby did not. Xia Jingtian relaxed his breath, put his finger on the trigger and licked his lips, “If we have a crossfire with PBB, then what?”

“Your glandular pheromone DNA will be blacklisted and glandular hunters around the world will be able to get your bounty notice, and until death is confirmed you will have to run in every corner.”

Lu Shangjin was still focused on unlocking the combination, “Do you regret this?”

“As my ge said, death under the peony.” Xia Jingtian let out a breath of air, carefully listening for any noise around them. 

Lu Shangjin didn’t reply.

But he felt that his brother didn’t mean it like that.

The slight metal dragging across the ground began to slowly approach again.

Tap, tap.

Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, like a dormant approaching beast, wandering beyond the sight of its prey.

Lu Shangjin also picked up on the sound, a layer of sweat forming on the tip of his fingers. He couldn’t go any faster with his unlocking actions as the slightest carelessness will set off the alarm.

“He’s here.” Xia Jingtian clenched his jaw, his T-shirt that clung to the body armor was soaked in cold sweat and stuck to his spine.

Something in the shadows at the end of the corridor approached the two, and suddenly, a steel claw was exposed to the light.

Immediately afterwards, it stepped out and let out a low growl.

It was a semi-mechanical dog wearing a tempered glass sheath on the back of its neck, half-German Shepherd, with specially made mechanical limbs and jaws.

The tempered glass shield at the back of its neck was filled with culture fluid in which an individually isolated human gland was slowly pulsating.

“Fuck me.” Xia Jingtian froze for a moment, “A dog, Lu Shangjin, a dog Lu Shangjin.”

Opening its sharp steel teeth, the mechanical dog lunged over, right as the detection door finally started to slowly rise. Lu Shangjin dragged Xia Jingtian while opening a narrow crack and rolled in. Using ten times the pull of gravity with his hands, Xia Jingtian pressed down hard on the detection door and it made a muffled thud against the wall, followed by the click of the dog’s paws scratching the door right as it clicked shut.

“…” Xia Jingtian’s heart was racing, he let out a breath of relief and turned around.

Lu Shangjin pulled out silenced pistols from his tactical belt and tossed them a few times in his palms. He held them against his shoulder straps and pointed his hands straight ahead.

A dozen of the same mechanical dogs approached, drooling.

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