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Chapter 1362: Chapter 1214: Unless There’s a Miracle (Subscribe please!)
Mexico.
West coast.
Nearly seventy nautical miles from the shoreline.
There lies an island with an area of only a dozen square kilometers, relatively flat land covered in thick tropical vegetation, among which stand out several man-made structures.
These.
Are not made of wood.
But are rather concrete constructs similar to lighthouses.
Dozens of them.
Placed haphazardly across the island.
And amidst these ’lighthouses’, essentially at the island’s center, a two-story building over ten meters tall looms, partially obscured. The building covers a wide area, with many trees artificially planted on it.
Around the building.
There are military green camouflage nets.
Whether inside.
Or outside the building.
There are dense surveillance cameras and fully armed security personnel, and atop the lighthouses, more armed guards; around the island’s perimeter, within numerous bunkers, dark holes aimed at the sea surface.
Surface-to-Air.
Surface-to-Surface.
Surface-to-Sea.
...
All kinds of unconventional weapons are readily available.
Should anyone try to make an attempt, they would surely understand its formidable power.
On the wharf.
Marlo Rodney followed behind the group.
He was heading towards a boat, glancing around cautiously. Today was a special day. After such a long wait, this time, as he went out on a task, he planned to escape en route.
Five years ago.
His brother went missing.
After extensive investigation.
At last, by the grace of God and taking advantage of his position as a CIA agent, he got a lead. He knew his brother had been recruited by this sea island laboratory, but, this was a Mexican enterprise.
He was American.
Even as a CIA agent.
He was just a minor character.
He had no control whatsoever.
Therefore.
He resigned.
After exerting Herculean efforts.
He finally became one of the security personnel here. After two years of diligent work and several promotions, he finally got to see his own brother. After exchanging words, the two brothers prepared to leave this sinister laboratory.
In those two years.
He witnessed the evil of this laboratory.
These people.
Were simply devils.
Conducting experiments on living humans.
Just like the main villains in movies, his brother told him that the laboratory had many experimental directions but mainly focused on four areas: Immortality, Virus, Enhancement, Treatment.
Just hearing the names.
One would know what they meant.
Strictly speaking, this was not really something novel. In the world, there are always some ambitious individuals who want to explore these paths, all for one purpose: to survive and to survive better, in pursuit of a perfect life.
The first and third, can prolong life.
The second and fourth, can be exchanged for money.
With money.
You’re alive.
That constitutes a perfect life.
Every single one.
Is actually trampling over moral taboos.
Thus.
The cliched story began. With an explosive sense of justice, he prepared to reveal this truth to the world. As for personally destroying it, to be honest, he could only make a slight impact—the island’s security personnel numbered in the hundreds.
Him alone.
Even adding his brother to the equation.
Would still be just two people.
It was impossible to destroy this place—even his brother had no access to the significant areas of the laboratory, which was quite frustrating. In the end, he only had one choice—exposure.
And today.
He was about to follow the team.
To transport a batch of new experimental subjects. The sources of these subjects were diverse. This time, they were going to a slum in Mexico, where they had the cooperation of the local dark forces.
These people.
Would help them find various experimental subjects.
Gather them together.
And then hand them over, personnel selected based on the laboratory’s needs—old people, children, women, patients, basically no one was turned away. The ultimate outcome was predictable, with a death rate of nearly ninety-five percent.
Even at ninety-five percent,
Those who survived hardly stood a chance of walking out of the lab.
Because,
Those who lived were just data.
With that thought,
He desperately wanted to get out, create chaos, and then escape, to report to the CIA and plug the lab; he believed that the righteous United States and its citizens would never allow the existence of this laboratory to continue.
After boarding the ship,
The vessel sailed out to sea.
Just as Marlo Rodney was planning how he would escape later,
Suddenly,
"Bang~~"
From behind,
A laughing comrade swung a rifle butt at him, and before Marlo Rodney passed out, he turned to see a mocking grin, no, a bunch of laughter.
At that moment,
He was confused.
Thump...
He hit the ground, and then the ship changed course, bypassing the wharf to the other side of the island, zigzagging through a crack to another wharf unknown to Marlo.
"I’ve delivered the person to you."
"Good."
After that,
They continued to carry out their task.
Marlo Rodney was taken to a dilapidated room, where the concrete was overgrown with moss, and the floor was covered with dried blood that had coagulated countless times.
Walking on it...
It was all sticky.
The rusted fences were a far cry from the cleanliness elsewhere.
"Whoosh..."
A bucket of sea water.
Chilling to the core.
Marlo Rodney instantly came to his senses.
Feeling the pain at the back of his head, he shook his head vigorously, and his vision gradually cleared. When he could see the person in front of him clearly, he was stunned. This was not the person in charge of the lab.
---Dr. Jars.
He was the chief scientist here and the actual manager, the head of the devils.
"Hello there, Mr. Marlo Rodney." Dr. Jars waved at Marlo with a smile.
"What, what are you doing?" Marlo struggled.
Dr. Jars smiled and said, "Nothing much, just dealing with a threat. Truth be told, I haven’t played such an interesting game in a long time. I didn’t expect that after playing with you for two years, you would quit the game. I’m so disappointed."
"What game?"
"What do you think?"
"It’s you who said..." Marlo glared.
Dr. Jars took the opportunity to explain, "Right, I knew your purpose from the day you walked in, or rather, I knew you even before you came in. Otherwise, do you think, it’s that easy to enter this laboratory?"
"Nearly all our security personnel have been trained from childhood, they are loyal to the lab, loyal to the organization. Have you not even figured out this much in all this time you’ve been here?"
"..."
Marlo was speechless.
It really was like that.
Before, he had tried to get close to those people, to network with them, but those people were all tight-lipped, saying it was forbidden to exchange personal information, but it turned out these people had no ’personal information’ at all.
They were more akin to devoted warriors.
No wonder.
Marlo said fiercely, "You’re a sicko."
Dr. Jars shook his head, "No, no, no. Given our different stances, you have no right to judge others. I hate it most when people like you, who think they’re on some moral high ground, freely criticize and label the actions of others. By what right do you do so?"
"You have no place to judge me, and the law of the world is not qualified to pass judgment on me, Mr. Marlo. These past two years, you have brought me quite a bit of fun, so I’ve specially approved you to try out our new drug."
"What new drug?" Marlo asked.
"The new drug that your brother is researching." Dr. Jars produced a tube of medicine.
"What?" Marlo’s face changed.
Dr. Jars said playfully, "Don’t worry, you are not the first batch; actually, we have already made improvements, it’s very safe. Now, we are just expanding the testing scale. The people you brought this time are to finalize this generation of the product."
"Huff, huff..."
Marlo’s breathing became more labored.
This drug,
He knew it.
It was an enhancement drug that was several times more potent than adrenaline.
It greatly increased the human senses too.
Belonging to the ’enhancement’ category of products, now, it was clear they were not nurturing him, but testing it on him so that their people could turn him into a punchbag, the kind you hammer to death.
Seeing the white coat approaching closer and closer,
Marlo felt a bit desperate.
Unless,
A miracle happened.
Otherwise,
He was sure to die today.
