MDT Chapter 171 Part 1 (Patreon)

Chapter 171 Part 1: Ten Seconds to Oblivion

Though numerous, the monsters were all low-level.

Soon—

The battle was over.

Biaozi gazed at the pile of monster corpses littering the corridor, then turned to his team and said in a low voice, "Report casualties."

"No injuries."

"No injuries."

"N—"

Not a single person was injured. The corridor had been wide; if it had been any narrower, with the web of fire woven by eight 'Tidal Wave Gatlings,' no monster could have broken through before the energy stones were depleted.

"Zhang Yi, collect all the monster corpses—"

"Yes, sir."

Unable to contain himself, Zhang Yi excitedly opened his refrigerator the moment the order was given and began stuffing the monster corpses inside. He loved this refrigerator. On the entire Stellar, there were two things he loved most.

The first was the refrigerator, the second was meat buns.

"Move on."

They encountered no more monsters on their journey forward; every creature in the corridor had already charged them.

After advancing for about ten minutes, the view finally changed. The entire way had been nothing but corridors, like a massive underground labyrinth.

Ahead lay a massive plaza.

The plaza was lined with cylindrical containers filled with an unknown green liquid. A monkey was submerged in each container, and many of the containers had been shattered.

Clearly, the monkeys from earlier had escaped from the broken containers.

"Some kind of biological experiment?"

Biaozi scanned his surroundings, then looked toward the center of the plaza, where a glass-walled laboratory stood, filled with screens and experimental instruments.

The laboratory was empty.

No living, but there were dead ones.

There were seven human corpses in white robes, the bloodstains from them almost completely dry. A handgun lay on the floor—it must have been a suicide.

“Take everything in the laboratory.”

Receiving the order, Biaozi walked up to the glass laboratory and once again swung his great axe with all his might!

However...

This time, there was no crisp sound of shattering glass as before.

Instead, a dull thud echoed, the axe handle vibrating in his hands. The laboratory glass showed no sign of cracking. After several more attempts, he finally gave up.

The glass was too hard to break.

But he saw a card reader at the entrance. He opened his palm, and as the 'first layer palm' retracted into his arm, a card appeared in his hand—the one Boss Mang had given him.

He pinched the card and placed it on the reader.

Beep.

A faint sound echoed, and soon, the glass walls of the laboratory retracted.

"Start packing!"

…...

Outside the military base.

Inside the Stellar, Chen Mang watched several lines of text flash across the control console screen. Biaozi and his team had returned safely. From thr core laboratory, they'd brought back a blueprint, numerous experimental instruments, a chip, and a large machine that resembled a printing press, but many times larger.

It wouldn't even fit in a refrigerator.

Zhang Yi had carried it back on his shoulders.

This large machine was their greatest prize from this trip.

The chip contained all the lab's experimental data, the final words of the researchers, and the lab's logs. After absorbing all the information from the chip, Xiao Ai was summarizing it on the screen.

Ten minutes later.

The information stopped scrolling across the screen.

"..."

Chen Mang was silent for a long time before he finally picked up the blueprint in his hand.

[Stimulant Syringe Production Line].

A yellow-grade accessory blueprint.

When applied to injuries, it provides complete pain relief, an extreme energy boost for a limited duration, partial injury restoration, and significant strength recovery, with no adverse effects.

It wasn't needed on the train; the train had better alternatives.

But for field missions, its effect was significant.

Although not feeling pain often wasn't a good thing, it usually meant you would die very quickly.

But with this, sentinel casualties on external missions would be greatly reduced.

And this military base.

Its only mission was to research and manufacture this 'blueprint'.

Yes.

Blueprints could be manufactured, and that large machine was the instrument for making these blueprints. Through extensive experimental data, they first researched how to produce this drug, then how to produce the drug's production line.

Finally, using this instrument, they manufactured the 'Stimulant Syringe Production Line' blueprint.

And now this instrument was on the train, which meant—

Chen Mang turned to Xiao Ai, "We have the machine on the train now. Can we manufacture blueprints?"

"Yes."

Xiao Ai nodded. "This machine still has seventeen 'blank blueprints.' All the data for manufacturing the 'Stimulant Syringe Production Line' has already been input into it. It just needs to be connected to the electrical system and generator to provide power, and then it can manufacture seventeen more 'Stimulant Syringe Production Line' blueprints."

"I mean, can we make other blueprints? For example, if I just think of one... say, a 'Lighter Production Line Blueprint'?"

"No. It requires extensive experimental data and many researchers to conduct various experiments. Perhaps in the future. And if it were just a 'Lighter' accessory, the research would be much simpler than a 'Lighter Production Line Blueprint.'"

"Mm."

Chen Mang didn't speak again. For example, a Level 1 train could craft the white accessory 'Single Bed,' but it was a single accessory, not a 'Single Bed Production Line.' A moment later, he suddenly laughed.

This harvest was really good.

That card from the 'Ten-Pace Kill' train was really useful. Without it, Biaozi and his team couldn't have gotten into that laboratory.

The 'Anime' train had also brought him to a good place.

They were both good people. When he had the chance, he'd light an incense stick for both of them.

Oh, wait, the former wasn't dead yet. He'd wait until he was.

Although the machine was useless for now, as long as he collected enough experimental data and found enough researchers, one day, he could create and design the accessories he wanted.

As for the story of this laboratory, it was also very simple.

A long time ago.

Or maybe not so long ago. 

Biaozi was looking for a medical examiner among the residents, preparing to perform an autopsy on those human corpses to determine the approximate time of death.

The laboratory was ordered to research the 'Stimulant Syringe Production Line' blueprint.

But it involved biological experiments.

During the experiments, it was easy to create some extremely terrifying monsters. This had happened many times before. To prevent this, the military base was located underground, and many heavy weapons were placed on the surface in case a terrifying monster was created and escaped from the experimental base.

And in the experimental base.

The glass laboratory at the core of the deep plaza had an extremely high defense level. That way, if anything went wrong, the bombs buried in the walls of the entire laboratory corridor would detonate, burying all the created monsters deep underground.

And the researchers and experimental data could survive in the laboratory, waiting for rescue.

Later, some problems did arise, just not within the laboratory. The city suffered a devastating blow from countless monsters; the entire city became a monster's playground, and all living creatures were slaughtered.

The laboratory, buried deep underground, had escaped disaster.

But after losing contact with the outside world for a long time, and with the experimental monkeys in the laboratory also beginning to mutate and slaughter the assistants and staff outside, the researchers, unable to escape and with no hope of rescue, chose to commit suicide in despair.

But the experimental data and instruments were preserved.

That was all.

That was the whole story of this secret underground laboratory. And hidden in the laboratory's instruments was an AI. According to Xiao Ai, it was a 'Research AI,' with no human emotions, only responsible for calculating data. When the instrument was restarted, this 'Research AI' could be reawakened.

Whew.

Chen Mang let out a light breath, stretched his body, and continued to pilot the Stellar through the air toward the next anomaly on the map.

This was the first time he had seen humans in the ruins of a mechanical civilization.

He had originally thought the mechanical civilization was entirely robots. Now it seemed there were humans as well—he just didn't know who was in charge in this civilization, humans or robots.

It didn't seem to be humans.

At least, if humans had built the city, they probably wouldn't have built it like this.

All the office buildings looked almost the same, from the roads to the high-rises, all a single dark black color. All the roads were extremely straight and standard, with no greenery, no parks.

Extremely dull and boring.

This didn't fit human aesthetic concepts.

Even if it was initially designed as a refuge city, you couldn't completely ignore its residential properties, right?

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