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The rusty iron door was an up and down opening and closing type. Now the transmission part was rusted, and Xu Yi had never thought of opening it by technical means.
The thing that was most abundant in the wasteland was discarded metal sticks that could be used as crowbars. Several flesh puppets strong enough to wield M249 light machine guns came out together and tried to push the crowbars inside.
Even though they worked together, they were unable to pry the iron door open at all. Seeing this, Xu Yi found more than ten strong men from the Blood Machinery Clan, and inserted more than ten crowbars into the door. They worked together to finally pry it open to the width of a person.
It was not completely dark behind the door, but miraculously there was light. On one side of the room were several large glass jars of liquid, some silver, some blue, and some purple.
The fluorescent lights of various colors complement each other, making the surroundings basically visible.
In addition to several large jars of unknown liquid, there was also an equipment similar to an operating table used for surgical operations placed in the center of the laboratory.
On the other side are two culture chambers covered with glass, connected by several rubber pipes. After such a long time, the rubber has become brittle and I don't know how many times they can be used.
Next to the culture chamber is the filing cabinet that Xu Yi values the most. There are no experiments ongoing in the entire laboratory, so there are no taboo scenes.
Opening the filing cabinet, Xu Yi quickly looked through the documents one by one, recording something from time to time. The paper of the documents had become very brittle, and a piece might be torn off with a little force, so just in case, Xu Yi recorded all the key points he saw.
The information is very detailed, explaining the uses of various equipment and reagents placed in the laboratory.
The project being carried out in the laboratory was just as Xu Yi expected, and was related to the origin of the flesh and blood puppets.
What Xu Yi believed to be the cultivation chamber was actually the main carrier for transforming flesh and blood puppets, called the modulation chamber.
The liquid that emits fluorescent blue is called a decarbonizer, and the purple liquid is its oxidation product. It is marked in the information as being highly toxic and cannot be used.
The silver liquid is a metal separation liquid. When combined with a decarbonizing agent and a large amount of flesh and blood, it can transform a human into a semi-mechanized, semi-flesh and blood creature.
The metal ion content in the transformed organism is extremely high, the cell activity is far lower than that of normal humans, and the natural cell aging rate is also much lower than that of normal human cells.
This also explains why the Blood Machine Clan's attributes are most obviously superior to those of ordinary people, which are concentrated in strength and physique. Strictly speaking, the Blood Machine Clan should be classified as a modified creature.
What surprised Xu Yi the most was the original intention of launching this experiment. According to the experimental records, the original intention of launching the experiment was to fight against a biochemical disaster called "biochemical fog".
After several twists and turns, the direction of the experiment was set on enhancing human's own cell resistance, and the half-mechanical and half-flesh creature was the final product.
The high metal content in cells increases their stability, while the low activity effectively reduces the number of cell divisions, effectively preventing people from turning into horrible biochemical monsters whose cells proliferate wildly, without major side effects.
The original experimenters left the underground research institute after completing the experiment. Due to the discharge of waste heavy metal liquid, a heavy alkali element appeared at the main entrance of the laboratory at some point.
The experimenters had no way to deal with it, so they had to seal the main door, and dug an upward passage in the stone wall behind the institute, built a simple elevator, and brought the last batch of test subjects back to the ground. They themselves disappeared.
The elevator's ground exit was actually built into a load-bearing column of the canning factory, but the researchers placed a strange black statue in front of the column to conceal the existence of the elevator passage...
Perhaps it was to prevent the flesh puppets from waking up and discovering the passage, returning to the laboratory, and opening the main door out of curiosity, and encountering the heavy alkaline element that they were unable to defeat...
Seeing this, the corners of Xu Yi's mouth twitched. Every time his consciousness descended, there was actually such a thing. The so-called darkness under the lamp is nothing more than this.
Who would suddenly cast a detection spell on the place where they have been standing...
Xu Yi also discovered the original name of this canning factory: Chuanjing Herring Canning Factory.
Judging from the place name, it seems that this was originally a fertile land surrounded by rivers. However, in the disaster of the "biochemical fog", the rivers dried up, the land became barren, and even the human civilization in this area was almost destroyed.
After the Blood Machine Clan awakened, they split into several groups due to food shortages and each of them looked for food. They only managed to hold on for decades until the moment when Xu Yi's consciousness descended...
Before the transformation, they were just ordinary human beings. In this scorched earth with no hope, people needed support in their hearts to fight against a life full of suffering that was completely different from the life before the disaster.
Thus, a name gradually spread among the crowd - the God of Wasteland!
And the origin of all this, according to records, is five kilometers east of this processing plant, which is the boundary of the spread of the "biochemical fog" and the deeper secrets of this area.
They had to go to the east once, as the Blood Machine Clan still hoped to increase their numbers there. However, Xu Yi did not plan to explore further at the moment. What was more urgent was the unknown orc demigod who was so close that he was about to attack their home...
I tried the elevator left behind by the experimenters. The gears and chains had not been oiled for many years. The rotten and damaged wooden boards made it hard to tell how many blood-machine babies weighing 200 kilograms each could stand on it.
Amid the creaking sound of gears, Xu Yi finally chose to return along the same route with the Blood Machinery Clan.
Squeezing out of the narrow stone wall, with his back to another fork leading to the south, Xu Yi could still feel a lingering ominous aura even through the incarnation of [Broken Shadow].
This underground place is still shrouded in a thick haze. For example, the heavy alkaline elements that were born out of nowhere, and the ugly giants that wandered above the ruins, which were obviously different from the creatures on the surface, all told of the various mysteries that came from the south...
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It's time for the weekly parent-child holographic call again.
"…I fought hard to defeat the giant bull demon, and then killed nine bone demons, and finally I took first place."
"Xiao Yi, how many of your clansmen are left?" Xu Qin frowned and looked at Xu Yi who was narrating calmly. The first thing he looked at was not the ranking or honor Xu Yi had obtained, but the long-term development.
The mother also looked over here with concern, a rare expression of worry on her face.
"247."
"Not many people were lost. You're quite capable, much more capable than I am." The two elders relaxed. They were afraid that this boy might get impulsive and use up all the resources in the Divine Realm.
"Dad, Mom, let me tell you something..."
According to Xu Yi's calculations, he would most likely have to face it this week. If he didn't say anything, he might really have to tell his parents about it in tears after the Divine Realm was destroyed.
(End of this chapter)