“Impossible! That woman Qin Sang and her family just live in that rundown place. How could they not find her late at night?”
“At least you were smart enough to find a test subject. Just lock her up for now, as long as she doesn’t die. There’s an experiment coming up that needs quite a few spatial ability users…”
Qu Meijing was groggily awakened by the sound of voices. She tried to open her eyes, but her eyelids were heavy. She felt someone grab her by the collar and throw her onto a cart. She could hear the clatter of the cart’s wheels rolling.
What happened to her? Then the memory from before she lost consciousness came flooding back. She remembered someone breaking into her home while she was asleep. She tried to fight them off. But there were many of them, and they were all skilled. She was subdued in just a few moves, then knocked out with knockout gas.
Qu Meijing hadn’t expected that after stockpiling so many supplies, before she could even enjoy a leisurely life in the apocalypse, she’d be kidnapped. And from what those people were saying, she’d likely be used as a lab rat.
This world had gone mad! Why was it that she got a second chance, only to end up in an even worse situation than her previous life?
In her past life, she had no spatial ability and no supplies, but there were also no mutant insects, no giant bugs. She managed to scrape by, even if it was rough!
In that moment, Qu Meijing suddenly missed her previous life.
Just as her thoughts were wandering, Qin Sang, who had tracked the seed’s energy signature, happened to see her lying on a cart being pushed into a private factory.
The factory was on the outskirts of the city, with a very old exterior. Qin Sang pulled out her phone and checked the map. Then she sent the location to Xu Lin. Soon, Xu Lin replied. The factory used to make furniture. But the owner went bankrupt a few years ago. Afterwards, the factory was sold to an out-of-town boss. There hadn’t been any online information about it since.
“I’m compiling and screening logistics information related to this factory.”
Qin Sang nodded slightly upon seeing this. Checking logistics was indeed necessary. The modern world was a big data world, and logistics information could reflect a person’s or an economic entity’s shopping list. With the shopping list, you could deduce the general purpose of the place.
And Xu Lin didn’t disappoint her. Within just half an hour, Qin Sang received a folder. When she opened it, it detailed the factory’s shopping lists over the past few years.
Part of it was daily necessities; the rest was a large quantity of medical supplies and research materials.
Seeing this, Qin Sang guessed the purpose of this dilapidated factory. It was likely used for research. Combined with their methods, human experimentation was almost certain!
That Fang Ming really had some nerve. He actually wanted to use her for experiments in a place like this.
What could he possibly want from her? Only one thing: her damned constitution that attracted mutant insects.
Thinking about this made Qin Sang very angry. Unfortunately, among the people who just got out of the car, Fang Ming wasn’t there. From a distance, she overheard someone in the group on the phone. The person on the other end sounded like Fang Ming.
That scumbag wasn’t in this factory. If she caused trouble later, she’d be letting him off the hook!
Annoyed, Qin Sang sent another message to Xu Lin. After seeing Xu Lin’s ‘OK’ reply, Qin Sang put her phone back in her pocket. At the same time, she activated the signal jammer she’d gotten from Xu Lin. Apparently, it could help her evade detection by electronic devices.
Holding the signal jammer, Qin Sang carefully approached the old factory.
Thankfully, it was daytime, and she didn’t encounter anyone along the way. But precisely because it was daytime, Qin Sang had to be extremely cautious. After zigzagging, she finally crouched down by a wall about 50 meters from the factory.
At this distance, her mental strength could be put to good use.
Her goal this trip was to take down Fang Ming and the people behind him. And to rescue Qu Meijing.
——
Meanwhile, Qu Meijing had already been locked up. Her cell was like a prison, a large cage meticulously made of stainless steel. Besides her, there were six other people in the cage, men and women. They all looked terrible.
She glanced at them dismissively and then surveyed the cage. After that, she pulled an outdoor logging chainsaw from her spatial space.
“It’s useless. That cage is hardened steel. Ordinary chainsaws can’t cut through it. And even if you could, the people monitoring would come over and beat you up before you finished.”
Qu Meijing was startled by this.
“What do you mean!” Her already strained nerves snapped after hearing this. She started cursing at the speaker. Only after she finished did she notice how emaciated the person was, just skin and bones.
Just as she was about to ask another question, she spotted a familiar face among the few lying down.
She froze for a moment, then burst into loud laughter a few seconds later.
This laughter not only stunned the others in the cage. Even the people watching the monitors thought Qu Meijing had lost her mind. After all, once people were put in the cages, they weren’t given food or drink. They had to handle their own bodily functions. Presumably, they had plenty of supplies hidden in their spaces.
At the same time, Qin Sang, who was using her mental threads to scan the old factory from the wall, was also rendered speechless by Qu Meijing’s loud laughter.
Had she gone crazy? Being locked in a cage and getting that excited!
Qin Sang shook her head and continued extending her mental threads, aiming for the place in the factory with the densest energy.
——
It was an ordinary single-story factory. But underneath the factory, a large basement had been excavated. To be precise, a basement floor (B1).
The ground floor was just an old, cluttered factory. But the basement floor was renovated to a high standard. The style was similar to some laboratories. Inside, there were various lab instruments, people in white coats moving around, various specimens, and many insect or even mutant insect test subjects. And of course, in the corner rooms, quite a few people were locked up. Qu Meijing was in one of them.
Qin Sang was diligently using her mental energy threads to sense the areas with dense energy, while memorizing the faces of everyone she ‘saw’ passing by.
Just as she was finishing her reconnaissance of the underground lab and planning her next move, she suddenly saw, through her mental energy, that Qu Meijing was fighting with a very young-looking woman.
The young woman had delicate features, but looked terrible, as if she hadn’t eaten for days. Qu Meijing, despite having just been captured, was incredibly combative and quickly beat the young woman’s face into a pulp.
No one else in the same cage interfered.
Everyone looked utterly hopeless.
Qin Sang took a look at Qu Meijing and the young woman. Their facial features were about one-third similar. This woman was probably the “white lotus” younger sister Qu Meijing had mentioned.
She didn’t pay much attention to it. It wasn’t really her concern. She resumed her mental scan. This time, she focused on marking the locations of all the mutant insects.
Fortunately, this laboratory wasn’t very large; otherwise, this reconnaissance would have taken a lot of energy.
——
“Beep, beep, beep…”
The laboratory was very quiet, with no noise other than the sounds of some instruments operating. The sudden beeping made the researchers pause. Then, those closest to the alarm immediately went to check what was happening with the test subjects.
And the test subjects setting off the alarms were, without exception, mutant insects. Inside the glass rooms holding these mutant insects, there were almost always disfigured human corpses.
This laboratory was directly feeding humans to mutant insects.
Qin Sang couldn’t tell the exact number, but half of the humans locked up in this laboratory were spatial ability users.
Connecting the dots, Qin Sang’s expression grew darker. She also felt that everyone inside there deserved to die.
She sensed her surroundings once more, confirmed there was no danger nearby, then closed her eyes and mobilized all her energy. The previously thin threads of mental energy suddenly became very thick, like flexible whips.
These whips slipped directly through the gaps in the glass room door locks.
The next moment, the beeping that had just been silenced started up again. The lab researchers began troubleshooting once more.
The mutant insects had already been agitated by Qin Sang’s thin mental threads before. Now, with the mental whips, they finally couldn’t take it anymore.
One by one, as if pumped up, they began using various methods to break down the glass rooms. The weakness of the glass rooms was the glass door locks.
Qin Sang deliberately let her mental whips linger around those locks, enticing the mutant insects to come over and cause damage.
Just as she had envisioned, the door locks were broken, and the mutant insects pounced directly at the mental whips.
Of course, they pounced on nothing. After all, her mental energy couldn’t be seen or touched. The energy she had deliberately wrapped around them earlier was retracted immediately after the riot started.
With the bait gone and having already “escaped,” the mutant insects followed their instincts and went on a killing spree.
Heads were bitten off, headless bodies fell to the ground.
It all happened too fast. The security personnel on duty outside the lab rushed in.
But too many incidents were happening simultaneously in too many labs. The security couldn’t control it all. In the end, they could only rescue a few terrified experts and then use heavy firepower to suppress the rampaging mutant insects while trying to evacuate.
As for the people locked in the cages, no one paid them any attention at that moment. Thanks to the obstruction of the cages and the room doors, these people luckily survived the first wave of mutant insect slaughter.
It was hard to say if they were lucky or unlucky.
However, all of this was actually within Qin Sang’s expectations.
Seeing things proceed as smoothly as planned, she breathed a sigh of relief. She focused again, gathered more energy, and released it.
That’s right, the first wave was to induce the mutant insects to ‘escape’ and kill the perverted researchers. The next wave was to lure these mutant insects out.
This area was open, it was daytime, and there were many people indoors. If mutant insects appeared in large numbers, the authorities would immediately send people to exterminate them. Of course, they would also thoroughly investigate the entire incident.
This way, she didn’t have to worry about the underground lab’s protectors. Of course, Fang Ming would also be implicated. Otherwise, her goal wouldn’t be perfectly achieved.
Just then, Qin Sang sensed mutant insects starting to break out of the underground lab. She didn’t delay any further, sent a quick “all clear” message to Xu Lin, and directly entered her space.
On the other end, after receiving the “all clear” message, Xu Lin immediately called an acquaintance.
Thus, shortly after a few mutant insects escaped and before they could harm ordinary people, an official team arrived.
Xu Lin didn’t stay idle either. While the official team was busy killing the mutant insects, he sent a compressed file of evidence directly to his superiors. The file contained evidence of the dealings between Fang Ming and the underground lab.
He couldn’t find any other incriminating evidence against Fang Ming, but Fang Ming had probably been overconfident about himself or the underground lab. He hadn’t covered his tracks very well in their dealings. Previously, this evidence couldn’t be found. But once the address of the underground lab was located, cross-referencing logistics information, purchase records, and using big data analysis revealed that some of the supplies were purchased through Fang Ming.
And the channel Fang Ming used was through the Academy of Sciences.
See, just buying something could expose a lot.
Xu Lin was particularly skilled at this kind of meticulous detective work.
Meanwhile, Qin Sang, seeing that the authorities had arrived, stayed hidden safely in her space.
The official team acted swiftly. They quickly exterminated the mutant insects that had appeared. After all, the open area was conducive to using various weapons.
After killing the mutant insects, the security personnel and the few remaining experts from the underground lab were either killed or captured. Qin Sang was delighted to see their miserable state. Trash like them didn’t deserve to live.
If it weren’t for needing to uncover the forces behind them, Qin Sang would have eliminated these people herself.
The people who had been imprisoned were all rescued.
Watching Qu Meijing being taken onto an ambulance, Qin Sang knew this mission was complete.
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