This place felt like a cage for monsters.
Following the prophet's feeding sequence, if Shen Qingyang had swallowed the remaining king fishes, it was uncertain who would win or lose in today's battle.
An octopus has three hearts, a main brain, and each arm has a secondary brain that can think independently. Tang Xunan had severed seven secondary brains and killed two hearts of this giant octopus.
However, the giant octopus still hadn't completely died, displaying incredible vitality.
Shen Qingyang knew that facing Tang Xunan head-on, the current odds were not high, even underwater.
He was buying time.
Tang Xunan's golden eyes shone like a fire in the pitch-dark underground. After some thought, he took out a cigarette from his uniform pocket.
A nearby team member immediately tensed. "Captain Tang, stay calm!"
Tang Xunan paused.
Without lighting the cigarette, he gently exhaled, producing dragon breath.
The cigarette butt fell to the ground, creating ripples on the water's surface. Instead of extinguishing, the fire spread like wildfire, melting the black tentacles like oil. They quickly retreated in one direction.
Tang Xunan drew his knife and chased after them.
But soon, a wall of fire rose in front of him.
Interweaving flames formed the figure of 07.
His eyes were more lively than when Luochuan Botanical Garden met.
Tang Xunan tightened his grip on the knife. "So, you've really defected."
07 didn't answer this question. In fact, he didn't dislike Tang Xunan.
Sometimes, 07 even felt pity for him.
"Long time no see. I have no physical form now, and life is not bound by time. So, dealing with me would be troublesome," he smiled. "Interested in chatting?"
"Just ten minutes. After that, I won't stop you. If you want to kill me, it'll certainly take more than ten minutes, right?"
07 stared into Tang Xunan's eyes and smiled. "Number 10."
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Ninth underground floor.
Chaos reigned here. Occasionally, there were screams.
Sweat dripped from the prophet's forehead; his skin folded layer by layer, like a water monkey with many wrinkles.
Many experimental chambers were opened, awakening dormant test subjects. However, none of them were what the prophet needed.
In a fit of rage, he grabbed a researcher, choking his neck. The person behind him angrily asked, "What's going on? Where's 01? The Hound?"
The researcher still wore the deputy director's badge for the first time. This was the first time he faced a high-level pollutant without protective measures, resulting in bleeding from all seven orifices. "Di-director, 01... ran away."
"Ran away?! Why would he run?!"
"He... the headquarters didn't support his project. So, he just ran..."
"This useless piece of..." The edge of the eyelid of the eye on the prophet's face revealed tiny sharp teeth. With one bite, he severed the researcher's head.
At the edge of City A, a few steps back, was the East Three Provinces.
01 stood on the Great Wall, gazing into the distance, in the direction of the Blue Dragon Reservoir.
As a product of biological evolution and technology, much of his body had been replaced with metal.
01 held a dog.
A month ago, Gong Weibin injected dog genes into his body again.
He had been conducting this genetic modification experiment for many years, involving Harbingers and pollutants. After injecting dog genes, these "dogs" became extremely loyal to their owners, and the direction of the test subject's mutation gradually aligned with that of dogs. The experiment was highly successful and had become stable.
Now, 01 had a dog's tail, and a tailbone that would sway with his mood.
Based on this experimental success, Gong Weibin secretly established a "Hound Base" in his hometown to breed pollutants.
Undoubtedly, 01 was the most injected dog.
Gong Weibin, after years of research, knew that pollution and evolution were irreversible. He never believed that humans had any hope or future. Despite appearing hawkish and hostile to pollutants externally, it was merely a disguise for his radical experiments.
He knew that the headquarters had plans to establish a survivor base. Eventually, the internal strength of humanity would undergo a reshuffle. In the near future, controlling powerful pollutants would be equivalent to controlling nuclear weapons.
And he would build an army of pollutants.
Gong Weibin brought 01 back to his hometown, joyfully opening the life capsule.
This time, he not only wanted to inject dog genes into 01 again but also wanted 01 to completely transform into a pollutant.
He succeeded.
But the experiment failed.
After enduring humiliation for decades, 01 had long grown tired of being a dog.
"I've always been curious about what happens when human genes are transplanted into a dog's body."
When 01 spoke, his voice sounded like processed mechanical noise; his vocal cords had been damaged in a modification decades ago
.
"It seems you really like it, don't you?"
The dog 01 was holding had a human-like head and a puppy-like body.
This head belonged to his former researcher.
Gong Weibin's lower body had been artificially mashed into a ball of flesh in an extremely unscientific way and then stuffed into the dog's body, leaving only the head outside.
Gong Weibin's expression was horrified, but like someone frightened, he bent down, wagging his tail and barking, "Woof! Woof woof!"
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