276: The despair in the dream bubble

Time quickly passed during the pleasant hotpot meal for four.

Shui Yuqianxi had a great time teasing Luo Sha.

This hotpot was for four, no, to be precise, it was for five people.

Lin Ti, in front of this warm scene, no longer wanted to express his thoughts or speak.

He just wanted to watch silently.

After Shui Yuqianxi saw them off, she put down her cane and sat on the sofa.

She sat there quietly for a long time without speaking, like a different person.

Pressure, pressure.

An invisible haze enveloped the entire Haizhou City, giving Shui Yuqianxi a suffocating pressure.

The situation in reality would not be like in stories.

Villains would not let you grow slowly, developing little by little.

After the First Generation was exposed, Mu Men Depei directly eliminated the First Generation.

Then, without seizing the Summoner, he unhesitatingly abandoned decades of planning.

He quickly withdrew his forces to deal with them.

Even if they fought with the fastest speed, risking their lives to gain power.

Now in Haizhou City, they still had no choice but to confront Mu Men Depei head-on.

It seemed as if they were chasing Mu Men Depei to Haizhou City.

But this was an unavoidable situation; they had to cultivate a new generation of Summoners.

They had to stop Mu Men Depei's plan.

Because after Mu Men Depei, there would be even more monsters.

It was Mu Men Depei who forced them to Haizhou City.

Shui Yuqianxi leaned back on the soft sofa, closed her eyes, and covered her forehead with the back of her hand.

She felt the cold, smooth touch of the back of her hand.

She did not like to expose her softness to others, so no one would realize her softness and exhaustion.

This was a habit she had developed due to her upbringing.

The warmth just now was merely a false dream she had created, like a bubble that would burst at a touch.

Meanwhile, inside the Summoner, Lin Ti silently watched all of this.

Lin Ti, who had repeatedly split his consciousness, could no longer be considered a human or a living being.

He was merely a consciousness.

He no longer talked to himself or spoke.

Devoting all his energy to digesting knowledge that humans could not comprehend, he was now more like a program.

A program that had given up on continuing to pretend to be human for self-amusement.

Instead, he was striving with all his might, abandoning everything that could be abandoned, just to gain more power.

...

"An anomaly has appeared."

"A national exoskeleton experimental center has been discovered in Haizhou City, recruiting a large number of test subjects under the guise of experimental equipment."

Listening to White Feather's intelligence report, Shui Yuqianxi simultaneously checked the sent documents on her computer.

"Are there any casualties or physical mutations?"

"No, all test subjects show no abnormalities, and their energy reactions are the same as ordinary people."

"Nor have any test subjects gone missing; everything is strictly carried out according to standards."

"But no problem is the biggest problem."

"We are also constantly tracking the locations of these test subjects and conducting intermittent monitoring."

White Feather and Shui Yuqianxi both knew this.

And they knew that the human world had long been controlled by monsters.

Given the status of those high-level monsters in the human world, conducting such an experiment would be incredibly easy.

Moreover, the three monsters that had already appeared in Haizhou City all had mechanical implants and modifications.

At this critical juncture, a mechanical experiment appeared in Haizhou City, recruiting test subjects.

It looked problematic no matter how one saw it.

However...

"The number of recruits is too high, far too high."

Shui Yuqianxi scrolled down her tablet, and the densely packed list of recruited personnel seemed endless.

To monsters, humans were merely materials.

Aside from necessary slaughter to maintain human fear of monsters, monsters treated non-humans like livestock.

Under non-essential circumstances, how could they kill in large numbers?

Such a loss of humans would excessively cause human panic for monsters.

At the same time, it would also lead to personnel loss.

If all these test subjects were transformed into monsters, even if they were only the lowest-level monsters.

It would be a catastrophe for Haizhou City.

And...

If all these test subjects were transformed into monsters.

How could the current strength of the Fourth Generation possibly withstand it?

The Machinist Armor's endurance was not strong; under the impact of a large number of monsters, he could only fight to exhaustion and death.

Even with her outstanding endurance as a Sea Spirit, she could not face such a wave of monsters.

Is it Mu Men Depei...

Wherever that evil-flowing fellow went, tragedy would ensue because of him.

"The Fourth Generation is ready to infiltrate and investigate the situation."

"Him?"

"Is that child going to skip class again? It wouldn't be tomorrow, would it? Tomorrow is Yu Lai's Chinese class, he actually dares to skip Yu Lai's class!"

Shui Yuqianxi once again adopted the identity of a Chinese teacher.

"Not one day, but a week."

"Skipping class for a week..."

"Does he still want to clear his name? But after dealing with that principal, he seems indifferent to that aspect."

Shui Yuqianxi was a little worried.

But currently, the only one who could spare time to deal with this matter was this high school student.

Fortunately, although he was a high school student, the Fourth Generation was at least an adult.

This was not hiring a minor.

...

The experimental center was built within a factory park in the suburbs.

The park had a few low-rise buildings and a huge factory, surrounded by a brick wall.

At this time, many applicants were queuing inside the factory building, undergoing physical examinations.

The examination included physical fitness, vision, and a medical history survey.

During the experimental period, three hundred yuan in experimental compensation would be given daily.

Therefore, so many people were recruited.

Many of these people were migrant workers from nearby areas, as well as some freelancers.

They had no fixed jobs; wherever there was money to be made, wherever temporary workers were recruited, they would go.

They also had no savings or reserves, and their ability to withstand risks was extremely poor.

An accident could directly knock them down, unable to stand up again.

Among the migrant workers, most had families.

They came to Haizhou City alone to work, saving every penny to send money back home.

They only reported good news to their families, not bad.

Family was the only remaining sanctuary in their hearts for their souls to rest.

It was also their only weakness.

For their families, they could endure the boss's insults, and they could endure the humiliation of being coldly treated when asking for wages.

They could even abandon the dignity of being the pillar of their family and kneel to the boss in front of everyone to get their wages.

Such high-paying experiments attracted these types of people.

Gongye Shiyi blended into the queue of applicants, and after entering the park, he had been observing.

However, neither his naked eye nor his Summoner detected any monster aura.

"Little fellow, you look like you should still be in school, why did you also come here to earn this money?"