185: You call this a security guard?

"Who is he?" Ninth Master asked.

"Twenty years ago, a series of disappearances occurred in Jiangcheng."

Chen Mo's voice was very soft, yet it struck everyone's heart Li Ke a heavy hammer.

"Those who went missing were all famous surgical experts and authorities in neurology at the time."

"The police investigated for ten years and found nothing."

"This old man..." Chen Mo pointed at the screen, "is the former Dean of Jiangcheng Medical College, and he is also my teacher, Lin Changfeng."

"What?!" Old Ghost was shocked, "Elder Lin?! Didn't he... twenty years ago..."

"It was announced to the public that he died in a car accident," Chen Mo said coldly, "even the memorial service only had an empty urn."

"So, he has been here all along."

"Treated as a... toy."

Chen Mo's knuckles turned white from the force.

He heard it.

Even across the screen, across twenty years of time.

He seemed to be able to hear the desperate wail emitted by the heart inside the old man's chest in that video.

Thump... thump...

That was a cry for help.

It was also a plea for death.

"Go to Yunhu Sanatorium."

Chen Mo opened the car door, and the night wind rushed in, messing up his hair.

"Now?" Li Ke looked at the pitch-black night outside, "There are only four of us, one knife, and a few broken computers. We're going to storm that heavily guarded sanatorium?"

"That grandson has definitely set up a dragnet waiting for us!"

"Then let him wait."

Chen Mo jumped out of the car, picked up a rusty iron bar from a roadside trash heap, and weighed it in his hand.

"He thinks we are running for our lives."

"He thinks we will hide and lick our wounds Li Ke rats."

Chen Mo turned around and looked at the three people in the car.

In those dead-fish eyes, for the first time, a flame named "anger" ignited.

"But he forgot one thing."

"When rats are desperate, they will bite off the cat's neck."

"And..."

Chen Mo pointed to his own ear.

"I have already heard his heartbeat."

"In fear."

"He is afraid of us."

Ninth Master was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly grinned.

He tucked the butcher knife, which he hadn't had time to wipe clean, into his waist and scooped up the Golden Retriever.

"Alright then."

"Since Officer Chen said so, let's go to that rich man's den..."

"And set off a real firework for them."

Old Ghost sighed, rummaged through the first-aid kit for a few adrenaline shots, and gave one to everyone.

"You're all crazy... a bunch of lunatics."

He cursed while starting the broken car that made noise everywhere except for the horn.

"Sit tight! Next stop, Yunhu Sanatorium!"

Boom—

The dilapidated jinbei van spewed a cloud of black smoke and, Li Ke an injured beast, roared onto the bridge.

At this moment, it was three hours until dawn.

Less than twenty-four hours remained until Wang Daoming's "head transplant surgery."

And in the center of Yunhu.

In that white devil's den.

The real Wang Daoming was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.

Watching the pinpoint of headlights speeding from afar, he raised the red wine glass in his hand.

"Welcome."

He said softly.

Under his feet, he was stepping on a piece of human skin that had just been peeled off and was still warm.

"Clang!"

The exhaust pipe of the jinbei van finally declared total failure when passing the last speed bump, dragging on the ground and sparks flying.

The black smoke, Li Ke a sneeze from an old man with a severe cold, instantly enveloped the entire gate of the sanatorium.

"This is Yunhu?"

Li Ke covered his nose and poked his head out of the car window.

The scene before them was completely different from the copper walls, iron bastions, and machine gun bunkers they had imagined.

There were no armed mercenaries.

No infrared scanning grids.

There were only two carved European-style iron gates, standing wide open as if welcoming guests at any time.

On both sides of the gate were meticulously trimmed bushes, streetlights emitted a warm yellow halo, and Mozart's "Serenade" was even flowing from the speakers.

Elegant, quiet, and full of the smell of money.

"An empty city strategy?"

Ninth Master gripped his butcher knife tightly, vigilantly staring at the empty security booth.

"Didn't that pervert say he welcomed us?"

Old Ghost slammed on the brakes, and the broken car, which only had three shock-absorbing springs left, swayed three times in place.

"Welcome my ass."

Old Ghost pointed at the ground, "Look at the ground."

The asphalt road was very clean, a bit too clean.

But under the illumination of the car lights, one could see very fine, whitish scratches on the road surface.

Those were traces of high-pressure water gun washing.

"About ten minutes ago, this place was just washed."

Chen Mo pushed open the car door, his feet stepping on the wet road surface.

His ears twitched slightly.

The sound of wind.

The rustling of leaves.

And...

"Zzz... zzz..."

A faint sound of electric current passing through nerves.

Very dense.

"Don't get out of the car."

Chen Mo suddenly held down Ninth Master, who was about to jump out of the car, "Back up."

"Huh?" Ninth Master was stunned, "We're already at the door, why back up?"

"I said back up!"

Chen Mo's voice suddenly rose.

But it was too late.

Just the moment Ninth Master's one foot hit the ground.

The geometrically trimmed bushes on both sides of the road suddenly moved.

No, they didn't move.

They "split" open.

There was no warning.

And no shouting.

A dozen black shadows, Li Ke cannonballs ejected from hell, rushed straight at the jinbei van with a fishy wind.

"F*ck!"

Ninth Master reacted extremely quickly, backhanding a slash with his knife.

Clang!

A crisp sound of metal clashing.

The butcher knife, which could chop through a pig's thigh bone, was actually deflected.

Amidst the splashing sparks, everyone finally saw the true face of the attackers.

They were not human.

But they were definitely not animals either.

They had human limbs but were crawling on the ground Li Ke dogs.

There was no skin on their bodies, red muscle fibers were exposed, and numbered tags were pinned on them.

The most terrifying thing was their heads.

The entire skull was wrapped in a metal exoskeleton, and where the eyes should have been, two cameras emitting red light were embedded.

There were no tongues in their mouths, only two rows of titanium alloy sharp teeth gleaming with cold light.

"What the f*ck is this?!"

Li Ke was so scared he fell back into his seat, frantically shaking the car window, "Is this Resident Evil?!"

"It's a 'Scavenger'."

Chen Mo coldly spat out three words.

He heard it.

Inside the chests of these monsters, there was no heartbeat.

Only the sound of a micro-vortex pump running at high speed.

"Hum— hum—"

That was the sound of hydraulic drive.

"They are cyborgs." Chen Mo dragged Ninth Master back into the car, "Their pain nerves have been severed, and their bones have been replaced with carbon steel."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A dozen "Scavengers" were crazily ramming the car body.

The already nearly scrapped jinbei van was instantly dented Li Ke a tin can.

A sharp claw pierced through the sheet metal, grazing Old Ghost's ear and stabbing into the back of the driver's seat.

"Drive! Ram through!" Chen Mo roared.

"I can't ram through!"

Old Ghost slammed on the gas pedal, but the strength of this group of monsters was astonishingly great; they were actually pushing against the front of the car, forcing it backward.

The tires ground out billowing white smoke on the ground, emitting a piercing screech.

"Then don't blame me for not playing fair!"

Li Ke suddenly pulled out a remote control with a yellow label from that tattered backpack.

"What is this?" Ninth Master asked while fiercely smashing the head of a monster trying to crawl in with the handle of his knife.

"I swiped it from that basement earlier!"

Li Ke was sweating profusely, his fingers trembling as he pressed the red button.

"Since that grandson Wang Daoming connected this place to the network, the control crystal chip for these monsters must also be on the local area network!"

Beep.

Signal transmitted.

The dozen "Scavengers" that were crazily tearing at the car door suddenly froze in unison.

Just Li Ke dolls with the pause button pressed.

The red light in their eyes flickered a few times and turned into an eerie green.