Chapter 266 - 263: Giving Him No Chance of Survival

Chapter 266: Chapter 263: Giving Him No Chance of Survival

In the moment Chen Xing hesitated, the masked man turned invisible again.

"What did you just say? You know this masked man?" Just moments ago, she’d asked him about it, and he’d claimed he didn’t know.

She asked the question, but her eyes remained fixed in that direction.

Just a few seconds later, the wet footprints reappeared.

He was heading toward a patch of dry grass.

And the instant he stepped onto the grass, the footprints could no longer be tracked.

’To hell with it!’

Chen Xing tossed out two grenades in quick succession, blowing up his potential paths.

As if seeing her actions, the footprints quickly reappeared on the concrete surface.

Lu Haoran was also watching the situation. Seeing the footprints vanish and then reappear, he understood the man was invisible. "I must have seen him somewhere before!" But he couldn’t remember where.

Lately, he’d been feeling more and more strange.

Although his memory wasn’t fragmented, he always felt like he was forgetting something—like with Chen Xing, Brother Jin, and now this person’s silhouette.

Chen Xing was now certain. Lu Haoran was a guinea pig, too.

That was the only way to explain the sense of familiarity Brother Jin had mentioned feeling toward him.

Meanwhile, the masked man realized that if this kept up, he’d be finished sooner or later!

So, steeling himself, he stripped completely naked, even taking off his shoes.

In the sub-zero temperature, he felt like he was about to turn into a popsicle.

But to survive, he had no other choice.

He never would have thought Chen Xing would be so ruthless.

She wasn’t giving him any chance to survive!

’In that case, don’t blame me for being cruel!’

He’d originally wanted to probe her abilities further, but not anymore. Now, he just wanted to see her suffer, to see her in pain, to see her wish she were dead.

Chen Xing and the others watched as the clothes and pants suddenly fluttered to the ground. When they tried to look for footprints again, they were, of course, gone.

However, the area was wide open. Even if he escaped, he couldn’t get far without any clothes on.

About five minutes later, a slit opened in a corner of the dry, yellow grass—so small that you wouldn’t notice it unless you looked closely.

"I know where he went!" Chen Xing immediately prepared to lead them off the boat.

But Lu Haoran stopped her. "What about your tiger?"

’Right!’

Chen Xing had them get off the boat first. "It’s inside. I’ll go call it out!"

In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the spot where the slit in the dry grass had opened.

They had been looking in the wrong place all along!

The boat was just a decoy. This was the real entrance to the Research Institute.

"What kind of person is Xu Anguo?" Chen Xing asked the two men as they searched for the mechanism.

’They’re family, so they should know something about him, right?’

"My uncle-in-law rarely attends family gatherings or anything like that. I’ve only seen him a few times in total, let alone know him well," Lu Haoran said honestly.

On the surface, Xu Anguo seemed gentle and cultured, and he didn’t get involved in the usual scheming and infighting.

"To be honest with you, I’ve never met him even once!" Zhang Jingtao hadn’t been married to Lu Yanran for many years. He had only heard of the man but had never seen him.

Chen Xing: "..." ’And I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him twice?’

The first time, she had just thought he was a stranger and felt nothing.

But the second time she saw him, she felt that Xu Anguo was anything but a man without ambition.

"Why would he suddenly make a move against the Lu Family?"

"I’m curious about that too. So far, I still don’t think my sister’s disappearance has anything to do with him."

"You can’t judge a book by its cover!" Zhang Jingtao didn’t think so. "If he was such a good person, why would he create a twisted place like this Research Institute?"

Recently, in his search for his wife, he had investigated the Xingguang Research Institute again and again. It was only then that he discovered they were using people for experiments.

What was most despicable was that it wasn’t voluntary.

And what was most unforgivable was the rumor that they used to experiment on newborn babies.

The thought of his wife and child being used as test subjects made him frantic with worry.

The baby was due in a few months. He had to save them, no matter the cost.

Chen Xing glanced at Zhang Jingtao.

She saw his determination to find his wife and child.

She walked over to the spot in the dry grass where the slit had appeared and slammed down hard.

With a loud CLANG, the door hidden flat beneath the grass was knocked loose, revealing a staircase.

Chen Xing picked up the door and tossed it onto the grass outside.

Lu Haoran was relatively composed, but Zhang Jingtao was a little stunned.

’This woman is vicious. I can’t afford to cross her, I really can’t.’

The two men followed Chen Xing inside and discovered that the decor was somewhat similar to the National Capital Research Institute.

If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, they never would have believed there was actually a Research Institute here.

This Research Institute was unknown to Lu Bingtian, which spoke volumes about Xu Anguo’s ambition.

It seemed he was always working for the Lu Family, but in reality, he had been planning for himself all along.

Thinking about it that way, the Lu Family’s safety was also in grave danger.

After walking a few meters, they came to a black wooden plank door.

Without much effort, Chen Xing gave the door a light pull, and it fell off its hinges.

It really wasn’t that she was strong; the door was just flimsy.

The space beyond was pitch-black, just like the door, making it impossible to see inside.

Zhang Jingtao immediately gathered his superpower, and a ball of fire ignited in his hand, illuminating the surroundings a little.

The sight was so startling that he almost dropped the fireball on the ground.

In the two-meter-wide corridor, both sides were lined with twitching plants.

Because Chen Xing had night vision, she had already seen these plants and was already one step ahead of them at the other end of the corridor.

At the other end was another black wooden door.

But this door didn’t look nearly as simple.

It seemed to be alive; the entire surface of the wooden planks was covered in small, thorny plants.

Lu Haoran and Zhang Jingtao, following behind her, stared at the handle-less door, a bit at a loss.

Lu Haoran took out a gun and prodded the door panel. He touched it for less than a second, but while the door didn’t move, the thorny plants began to crawl up his handgun.

Seeing them about to reach the grip, he had no choice but to throw the gun away.

"How do we get past this?" Although Zhang Jingtao had a superpower and was a former soldier, he had rarely left home since the apocalypse, not wanting to worry his wife.

As a result, he hadn’t encountered many monsters.

"Back up!" Chen Xing extended her arm, pushing the two men back.

Lu Haoran kept a wary eye on the plants lining the walls.

Once there was some distance, Chen Xing took a grenade from her large backpack and tossed it at the door.

A plume of thick smoke billowed for a few seconds before dissipating.

Looking at the black door again, it was as if nothing had happened. In fact, it seemed to have gotten even thicker.

’We’re really going to let a wooden door stop us?’

Chen Xing said to the two men behind her, "In a moment, I’m going to punch through it. Whoever can get through, go. If you can’t, wait outside or find another way in!"

After speaking, she put a little more distance between herself and the two men, pulled out a grenade, and threw it at the Big Black Door.

The instant the bomb exploded, a thick iron pipe appeared in her hand, and she hurled it forcefully at the wooden door.