160: Chapter 160 My sister discovered an underground entrance and wants to go in and take a look.

"Rumble — —" The selfie stick stopped rolling on the cold concrete ramp.

The camera lens was aimed squarely at the bottom of that heavy metal gate.

The yellow and black hazard stripes looked particularly glaring in the dim light.

The tens of millions of onlookers in the livestream were staring with their eyes almost popping out. They could even clearly see the finger-thick alloy rivets on the edge of the gate, as well as a wisp of chilling, frigid mist seeping from the crack.

"This door... is incredible!"

"I bet my green hat on it! This is definitely a nuclear bunker-level gate!"

"Look at that access control system! Is that red light a retinal scanner?"

"What kind of damn Pharmaceutical Factory is this! Even the core laboratory at Pfizer headquarters doesn't have this level of security!"

The barrage comments were refreshing like crazy.

Chen Nuo stared blankly at the phone that had rolled down the slope, her mind going blank for two seconds before she suddenly reacted.

She lifted the hem of her down jacket. Wearing a pair of small white ankle boots, she ran down the ramp with a rhythmic patter.

"Hey! My phone!"

She bent down and picked up the selfie stick. The screen wasn't even cracked.

But she had no intention of looking at the hair-raising analyses in the barrage comments. Because she was standing right in front of that massive gate.

A biting chill seeped out from the crack, drilling straight into her bones. Chen Nuo couldn't help but shiver.

She looked up. The door was massive, standing at least five or six meters tall. It was covered in extremely complex mechanical interlocking gears, and the blood-red skull biohazard symbol in the center didn't look like decoration a legitimate Pharmaceutical Factory should have.

On the right side of the door was a black control panel emitting a ghostly glow. Not only did it have a keypad, but also palm print recognition, iris scanning, and even a slot similar to one for drawing blood samples.

Chen Nuo swallowed hard. She turned her head and looked at Chen Yuan, who was walking quickly down the ramp.

"Brother." Chen Nuo's voice trembled slightly, but it was filled more with an irrepressible curiosity and suspicion. "What kind of place is this exactly?"

Chen Yuan strode over. A gentle smile still hung on his handsome face, but his pupils, hidden behind gold-rimmed glasses, contracted slightly.

He stepped directly between Chen Nuo and the gate. He took the opportunity to block the phone camera's view with his broad body.

"This is the waste treatment area of the Pharmaceutical Factory." Chen Yuan said without blushing or skipping a beat, his voice steady and without a hint of fluctuation.

"It stores some volatile and corrosive experimental waste chemicals. To prevent leakage and environmental contamination, the security level is a bit higher."

"Waste treatment area?" Chen Nuo clearly wasn't buying it. She craned her neck to try and see the door from behind Chen Yuan, but Chen Yuan reached out and gently pressed on her shoulder.

"Brother, don't treat me like a three-year-old child!" Chen Nuo pouted. She raised the selfie stick in her hand, pointing at the crazily questioning barrage on the screen.

"The netizens said this door is nuclear-blast proof!" "What kind of waste treatment looks like Resident Evil? What's with that red skull?"

She stared into Chen Yuan's eyes, her tone carrying a hint of coyness, yet revealing a stubbornness that wouldn't give up until she reached her goal. "Brother, are you hiding something from me?" "Take me in to see! Just one look!" "I promise not to touch anything!"

Chen Yuan's heart twitched violently. Go in and see? If the door opened, with hundreds of Tyrants in suits and sunglasses inside, and skinless Lickers hanging upside down from the ceiling... never mind the tens of millions of netizens whose worldviews would collapse. This girl could be scared into a heart attack!

"No." Chen Yuan's voice instantly turned cold, carrying an unquestionable firmness. "You cannot go in there."

He looked straight into Chen Nuo's eyes, his brain working at superluminal speed to conceive an impeccable excuse. "Nuo Nuo, this is no place for playing around."

Chen Yuan's expression became extremely serious, even carrying a hint of sternness. "I said just now, inside is the waste treatment area, and also our company's most core animal genetic map cultivation library."

"It is in an absolute sterile negative pressure state." "You haven't gone through the sterilization procedure, and you aren't wearing a protective suit. Once you go in, the external bacteria you carry will instantly contaminate our culture dishes worth over a billion US dollars!"

Chen Yuan pointed at the metal gate. "What's more, there is high-concentration disinfectant gas inside." "Just one breath, and your respiratory tract will suffer irreversible damage. Do you want to spend the rest of your life lying in a hospital bed relying on a ventilator?"

These words were spoken with resounding force. Combining intimidation and high-pressure labels, it could be called a mix of soft and hard tactics. If Victor were here, he would definitely applaud his boss wildly for this perfectly improvised performance.

Chen Nuo was taken aback by her brother's sudden sternness. Since she was little, Chen Yuan had almost never lost his temper with her. This terrifying sense of oppression from a superior made her instantly lower her head like a child who had done something wrong.

"I... I was just curious..." Chen Nuo kicked the pebbles at her feet aggrievedly. She looked at the comments on the barrage claiming he was "feeling guilty" or that "something is definitely fishy," and although she was still a bit suspicious, she couldn't find any fault in her brother's words.

An experimental library worth over a billion US dollars. If it were really contaminated because of her, she couldn't afford to pay for it even if she were sold. "I'm sorry, Brother." Chen Nuo sniffled, obediently lowering the hand holding the selfie stick. "I won't go in." "Let's go see other places."

Chen Yuan let out a long sigh of relief in his heart. The nerve that had been stretched to the point of snapping finally relaxed a little. He had fooled her. He had finally managed to fool this deadly little ancestor.

"Good girl." Chen Yuan put on a gentle smile and reached out to ruffle her soft hair. "Later, Brother will take you to eat authentic Texas barbecue; you've gotten so thin from hunger."

He turned around, preparing to take Chen Nuo away from this place of trouble. As long as they were far from this door, everything could still be saved.

However. Fate, that bitch, always likes to slap you hard when you are most relaxed.

Just at the moment Chen Yuan took his first step. "Vroom — —!" An extremely dull, highly penetrating mechanical roar exploded behind the two of them without warning.

Chen Yuan's footsteps froze abruptly. His blood seemed to congeal at this moment. His pitch-black eyes instantly contracted to the size of pinpricks.

That was the sound of the material transport program set by the base's bottom-level system starting! Every day at exactly 3 PM. The underground bio-vault would automatically open a gap to receive fresh live meat feed transported down from the factory above through pipes.

And now. The hands of his patek philippe were pointing exactly at 3 PM!

"Click — —" The heavy electronic lock made a crisp sound of popping open. Immediately after. In Chen Nuo's surprised gaze. In the lens that tens of millions of netizens in the livestream were staring at intently. That heavy metal gate, claimed to be nuclear-blast proof, accompanied by a teeth-grinding sound of hydraulic gear friction. Slowly. Slid open to the sides, creating a half-meter-wide gap.

A biting cold air, mixed with the pungent smell of formalin and the stench of raw meat and blood, instantly gushed out from that pitch-black gap.