220: Zhang Lintianhe panicked!
Myanmar.
The lawless zone, Lin Tianhe’s secret research base, core monitoring room.
Lin Tianhe irritably tore off his tie.
The expensive silk tie was crumpled into a ball and thrown onto the control console, which was covered in monitoring screens.
He stared intently at the main screen—
The satellite image of the research vessel floating in the dead waters of Point Nemo; the signal was still a dead gray-white.
“Useless! A bunch of useless people!!!”
He roared, his well-maintained face contorted with anger, and he slammed his fist onto the metal surface, making a dull thud.
“It’s been a week! No one alive, no body dead! Where is the investigation team I sent?! Can’t even fart out an answer?!”
“Wang Xiaoke hasn’t come back either, I’m almost dying of distress!”
He held his hands in the air, as if cradling Wang Xiaoke’s body.
Beside him, the security chief, dressed in camouflage fatigues with sharp eyes, was sweating profusely, his voice trembling imperceptibly:
“Mr. Lin… the investigation team… has lost contact… The last footage transmitted, just came through… it’s inside the ship… hell…”
He didn’t dare to look Lin Tianhe in the eyes, his fingers trembling as he pulled up an encrypted file.
“Hmm?”
“Eagle Country Headquarters, they finally arrived.”
“Foreigners don’t care about efficiency, it’s been so many days.”
The screen cut in!
Instantly!
The scene captured by the monitoring cameras made the temperature in the entire monitoring room plummet!
Blood! Congealed, flowing, gushing! Painting the cold metal passageway like a slaughterhouse!
Dismembered limbs! Shattered skulls! Organs violently torn out scattered like trash!
The most chilling part was—
—Every corpse, whether intact or not, had their heads brutally opened by some unimaginable force!
Skulls were ripped off or smashed to pieces, red and white matter flowed freely, as if something was greedily extracting the essence from their brains!
“Ugh…”
A young technician couldn’t help but retch.
Lin Tianhe’s pupils constricted to pinpricks! He stared intently at the corner of the screen!
A blurry, barefoot figure, covered in blood!
Although the pixels were blurry, that figure!
That aura of deathly stillness, like ten thousand years of cold ice!
Lin Mo!
“It’s him… It’s him!!!”
Lin Tianhe suddenly stood up, knocking over the expensive leather chair!
“He’s not dead?! And… he’s turned into a monster?!!!”
Panic, like a cold viper, instantly coiled around his heart!
“What did Wang Xiaoke do?!”
“Her useless ex-boyfriend, woke up? And awakened?!”
“Superpowers… it must be that damned deep consciousness experiment! It made him mutate!!!”
He felt a chill run from his tailbone straight to the top of his head.
After years of research,
The company had fully discovered that a person’s Brain Quantum could influence the world.
And Lin Mo,
Was their patient zero for the rewrite research.
The research vessel became his graveyard, but Lin Mo became a demon who crawled back from hell!
The company’s most important “asset” had not only lost control but had also become a deadly avenger!
“Activate the highest defense plan! ‘Scorpion’ level!”
Lin Tianhe’s voice was sharp, carrying an undeniable command,
“All bases enter highest combat readiness! Outer defenses doubled! All armed personnel on standby, Level One!
Notify Eagle Country Headquarters! Find Lin Mo’s whereabouts immediately!!!”
“If he falls into the hands of other countries, all our years of research and effort will be for naught!”
“Yes, Mr. Lin!” The security chief, as if granted a great pardon, immediately turned and ran to issue orders, his steps somewhat faltering.
Lin Tianhe slumped back into the temporarily moved chair, his fingers trembling uncontrollably.
He picked up a glass of ice water, intending to drink, but found the clinking of the ice in the glass particularly jarring.
Lin Mo was back!
With inhuman power!
Back for revenge!
This thought, like a maggot in his bones, gnawed at his nerves.
To relieve his anxiety, he subconsciously picked up his personal tablet, swiped the screen, and wanted to see the outside world’s commotion.
A local Douyin video push notification caught his eye:
【Breaking! Most bizarre buyer appears in Handong City! Carrying ‘Heaven and Earth Bank’ hell money and gold bars to exchange for cash! Turns out they were ALL REAL GOLD!!! (Actual footage)】
“Sensationalism…”
Lin Tianhe sneered, intending to swipe it away, but his finger, as if guided by a ghost, tapped into it.
In the video, a female gold store employee, still shaken, recounted her morning’s strange encounter.
The screen switched.
Several clear photos!
On the counter, a pile of shiny gold foil paper money, stamped with “Heaven and Earth Bank” and “Underworld Currency”!
And… that figure, carrying a canvas bag, turning and walking away!
Although the footage was a bit blurry and shaky, that figure!
That profile of his face! That cold, dead feeling!
Boom—!!!
Like a thunderclap exploding in Lin Tianhe’s mind!
“Clang!”
The glass in his hand slipped!
Shattering on the floor! Ice water and glass shards splattered!
His blood seemed to freeze instantly!
His eyes fixed intently on that retreating figure!
Lin Mo!
He was in Dragon Country! Handong!
Perhaps only a few hundred kilometers from his former sphere of influence!
“How… how did he come back?! Point Nemo… that cursed place… how could he…”
A colossal fear, like a tsunami, instantly engulfed him!
The bloody scene from the research vessel and this figure before him instantly overlapped!
Not only had Lin Mo returned, but he also possessed eerie abilities, and had even… stepped onto the land of Dragon Country!
Who was his next target?!
“Get the backup plane! Immediately! Now!!!”
Lin Tianhe jumped up as if branded by a hot iron,
His voice completely changed due to extreme terror, hoarse and sharp,
“Not to the airport! Activate ‘Hummingbird’! To the backup base! Coordinates Alpha-7! Quick! Leave immediately!!!”
He no longer cared about his demeanor or composure, like a startled beast, he grabbed his jacket, not even having time to put it on, and frantically rushed out of the monitoring room!
What highest defense! What Scorpion plan!
In front of a monster capable of using superpowers, they were all made of paper!
He had to leave this potentially exposed base immediately!
Escape to a more secluded, safer place! The farther, the better!
…At the same time, Myanmar, outside Kaiyuan Casino City.
Lin Mo stood at the edge of a dense tropical rainforest, a muddy path beneath his feet.
The air was filled with the scent of humidity and decaying plants.
Before him was a brightly lit complex of buildings, sprawling like a giant monster in the night.
—Kaiyuan Casino City, one of Lin Tianhe’s important strongholds in Myanmar for his research institute, and a node in his vast network.
This was intelligence provided by a hacker.
Here,
It was a lawless zone.
All kinds of illegal activities could be done.
Human trafficking, telecom fraud, organ trading… anything that could and couldn’t be done was carried out here.
It was also the best place to set up human experimentation.