Chapter 1161: Shock in the Underground Laboratory
by xennovelWalking along the mountain path through the forest for ten minutes.
Long Yi met the person sent by Wang Zhanhang to receive them.
Under this person’s guidance, Long Yi and his team wandered through the forest for over half an hour and then stopped in front of a massive rock.
Long Yi saw the guide feel around behind the boulder, which caused it to move slowly.
It revealed an underground entrance made of steel.
The steel plates parted to the sides, fully exposing the entrance.
Long Yi and the others were dumbfounded.
Without a guide, who could possibly find this place?
After touring the underground lab, they confirmed Chen Dongqiu’s safety and the integrity of the lab equipment.
“Have you finished looking? If so, can we leave?”
Wang Zhanhang looked at Long Yi impatiently.
“Mr. Wang, you can leave, but we must trouble you to cooperate with the body search before you go, as the boss instructed that nothing should be taken from the lab.”
Long Yi looked at Wang Zhanhang and spoke calmly.
Although Wang Zhanhang was unwilling, he had no choice but to agree since the situation was beyond his control.
“Everyone cooperate with their body search.”
Wang Zhanhang instructed others to comply with the body search.
Thus, each person was searched as they exited the underground entrance before they could leave.
Long Yi took advantage of the search to plant several small trackers.
“Mr. Wang, now you can leave. We are officially taking over here.”
Long Yi told Wang Zhanhang in a calm tone.
“Tell Xu Shaochen he won’t be so lucky next time.”
Wang Zhanhang said through gritted teeth, feeling unprecedentedly embarrassed.
Long Yi heard this and smiled indifferently. “Mr. Wang, it seems your luck is better. Otherwise, you might not be leaving today.”
“Hmph! Are all Xu Shaochen’s people as eloquent as he is?”
Wang Zhanhang snorted coldly and left with a dark expression.
Once Wang Zhanhang and his group departed, Long Yi dialed Xu Shaochen to inform him.
After hanging up, Long Yi ordered those behind him: “Search the entire lab to ensure absolute safety.”
They needed to search the lab again, fearing Wang Zhanhang might have planted timed bombs.
“Eldest Brother, leaving the lab’s contents behind might not sit well with the boss.”
The security captain looked at Wang Zhanhang with concern, knowing how important the lab’s contents were.
“We almost lost our lives. Why worry about such things?” Wang Zhanhang retorted before comforting, “Don’t worry, we’re helpless in this situation. We can’t just destroy the lab.”
“Since the contents are with Xu Shaochen, we’ll have another chance to retrieve them. But if destroyed, there’s no way.”
Wang Zhanhang made this excuse out of fear for his own safety.
The security captain didn’t point this out since Wang Zhanhang’s son had fled, and he wasn’t about to abandon the lab.
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Forty minutes later.
Xu Shaochen appeared in the underground lab.
Seeing what Tianqing was researching left him stunned.
In a glass case lay a monkey-like creature.
That’s the best way to describe it, as Xu Shaochen hadn’t seen such a monkey before.
About 1.4 meters tall, its skin was a bluish-green. Besides that, it resembled Earth monkeys.
“An alien creature?”
Xu Shaochen mumbled, bewildered by the reality-defying sight.
But it wasn’t entirely unbelievable, as he’d suspected the three peculiar jade stones in Paradise Island’s lab were alien tech.
“It should be.”
Long Yi replied, handing Xu Shaochen a stack of documents and research data.
Xu Shaochen first reviewed the documents, which detailed the alien’s discovery and subsequent research.
He found one key detail.
That three jade stones were found with the alien body, two of which were missing. One remained with a familiar name.
That person was indeed Xu Shaochen’s grandfather.
It seems his grandfather had a notable past with Tianqing.
After reading the documents, Xu Shaochen turned to the data.
He understood very little, so he only skimmed what he could grasp.
Research showed the alien’s life strength exceeded human levels, with organs stronger than Earth’s humans.
This made Xu Shaochen think of the effects of a genetic serum on ordinary people.
No wonder Xu kept it tightly under wraps. The world was unaware, yet Tianqing knew the genetic serum was Xu Corporation’s research.
Tianqing likely believed the serum was derived from the jade stone his grandfather obtained.
“Seal the information and send the corpse and these files to Paradise Island. Have researchers continue based on Tianqing’s results.”
Xu Shaochen, breathless, spoke urgently. This body might be key to the second-generation serum.
Paradise Island researchers said the first-gen serum enhanced organs to live healthy but didn’t extend life much.
Thus, the second-gen serum aimed to slow aging and prolong life.
But they were stuck, since countering aging and extending life defied nature.
With the alien body, the second-gen serum might come soon.
“Understood, Boss. I didn’t let anyone else in here.”
Long Yi assured him, careful as always.
Xu Shaochen nodded, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, then snapped them open, speaking each word:
“Wang Zhanhang’s group, especially Tianqing’s researchers, must not leave alive.”
The researchers studied the alien body for decades.
Ideally, they’d work for him, but now they can’t.
Thus, they must be eliminated.
Xu Shaochen wouldn’t allow any detail of the underground lab to leak.
Therefore, those who spent decades in the lab must remain silent forever.