Chapter Fifty-Seven: Underground Research Facility

  The apathetic woman held Li Ling's hand and walked into this last maze, the lost area!

  The two of them took their first step into this place... the lost area, and what unfolded before their eyes was a million inverted reflections! It made one's eyes widen in wonder.

  Li Ling clutched her abdomen, a wave of nausea surged up to her head, with a dizzy and vomiting feeling.

  "People who come here are often tormented by the inverted reflection in the mirror. If they can close their eyes, it might be a little more bearable." The apathetic woman had already closed her eyes, and although she had closed them, she could still lead the way clearly.

  Li Ling nodded, thinking that this was indeed a good method. He closed his eyes, relying solely on feeling, and slowly moved forward, holding the hand of the apathetic woman.

  "I've closed my eyes now, hoping you won't lead me into a ditch."

  The apathetic woman didn't feel any humor and said lightly: "You're a very cautious person!"

  "Are you vigilant enough to be an assassin? I think you should have investigated my background clearly, I am the world's top killer!" Li Ling sighed slightly.

  "Alright, I understand. I won't ask you how it is, because I never lie!" the apathetic woman said calmly.

  "What if we encounter a situation where we have to lie?" Li Ling asked disbelievingly.

  "Then I won't say anything." The apathetic woman said indifferently.

  "You really are a person without any sense of humor!" Li Ling said intentionally tightening his grip on the cold and detached woman's warm hand.

  "I advise you not to make any moves, otherwise, I might just throw you into this labyrinth." The apathetic woman said coldly.

  "Ah, right! I haven't even asked for your name yet!" Li Ling had been on guard against the other person all along, and only now remembered to ask for their name.

  "I have no name, I only have a code!" The woman's words were devoid of emotion.

  "How can a person not have a name? Are you assigned a code as soon as you're born?" Li Ling asked in astonishment.

  The indifferent woman didn't say a word, perhaps there were some things she didn't want to say, after all, she never lied.

  Li Ling didn't want to force the apathetic woman to speak, but a person, if they don't have a name and only a code name, then that person is quite pitiful. Because having a name makes one human, having a code name can only make one an object or a machine, an existence that can be discarded at any time.

  The two of them didn't speak for another hour until the cold woman finally stopped.

  "We're here, you can open your eyes now." The apathetic woman said to Li Ling.

  "Oh, really?" Li Ling playfully opened one eye, and indeed, in front of them was a base, an underground base.

  Then Li Ling looked back and saw that the maze was behind him. However, he still had no idea how he managed to get out of it.

  "A05, this must be Lieutenant Colonel Li Ling." A middle-aged man in a black suit walked out of one of the entrances to the front base.

  The middle-aged man looked very spirited at first glance.

  "Yes, my task ends here." The apathetic woman said.

  Li Ling took a glance at the apathetic woman and felt that she was hiding a deep sorrow in her heart.

  "You can let go now, Li Ling Shang Shi, I should be going back." The apathetic woman lowered her head to look at the two hands clasped together.

  Li Ling awkwardly loosened his grip, gave an embarrassed smile and said: "Sorry about that, I forgot for a moment. After all, it was quite dangerous in the maze just now, so I held on a bit too tightly. Don't mind."

  "It's nothing..." The apathetic woman turned around indifferently and walked towards another passageway in the base.

  In front of us, there are three large channels, but no one is guarding them.

  Li Ling quickly scanned around and found that the place was filled with surveillance cameras and various security systems.

  "Officer Li Ling, please follow me." The middle-aged man in a suit said politely.

  "Alright, I've already been transferred twice anyway, so it doesn't make a difference this time." Li Ling said with a tone of complete helplessness.

  "Li Ling Shang Shi, regarding this, we express regret, but for safety considerations, our personnel had to be processed in a hierarchical manner, so, it was divided into external personnel, middle-level personnel, and internal personnel." The middle-aged man said.

  Li Ling carefully sized up the middle-aged man in front of him, his sturdy build, robust muscles, steady pace and regular gait.

  He is probably a soldier, because the temperament he exudes is what a soldier should have!

  Since it's military personnel, could this be a military base?

  "Li Ling, please wait here for a moment, I'll go inform the research group." The middle-aged man took out a gold card and swiped it on the wall, an iron door automatically opened, and the middle-aged man walked into this secret room.

  Li Ling took advantage of this rare spare time to take a look around the base. The cave wall was a completely iron-cast copper wall, and even the ground was made of alloy steel. It must have taken a lot of manpower and resources to build this place.

  Then the iron gate opened and a middle-aged man walked out from inside.

  "Officer Li Ling, come with me." The middle-aged man led Li Ling into this secret room.

  Inside the secret room, there were many advanced research facilities. Some things Li Ling had never seen before, but the culture medium he had seen. In these culture dishes, a lot of pure culture medium was filled, and some ** people were placed in them, including both men and women.

  Li Ling's eyes widened in incredulity, and the miraculous place shocked him deeply.

  In the area after the culture dish, I finally arrived at an area with normal human activity. These people were all wearing white uniforms and were inside a bulletproof window, discussing something intensely, but due to the excellent sound insulation, nothing could be heard from outside.

  A middle-aged man pressed the doorbell, and the person inside could hear it. A refined-looking middle-aged man in his thirties got up and came to open the door.

  The elegant man saw him, hastily opened the bulletproof door, walked quickly towards Li Ling, stretched out his hand and grasped Li Ling's right hand, saying: "Hello, Li Ling, we've been waiting for you for a very long time."

  The middle-aged man nodded and went down after seeing the task was completed.

  "Come, come with me. I need to have a word with you in private." The refined man was more affectionate towards Li Ling than he would be towards his own son.

  Li Ling was also deceived for a while because Li Ling did not know this person.

  "Who are you?" Li Ling asked.

  "My name is Guan Xiao, you can call me Xiao Ge." said Guan Xiao with a warm smile.

  "Xiao Ge, it was you who invited me here." Li Ling didn't mind calling him older brother or anything.

  "It's okay, but the one who introduced you is our leader, also known as the big boss in their words." Guan Xiao said with a slight smile.

  "What's going on with this research institute? They're actually using live humans in the culture dishes outside, aren't they?" Li Ling asked, somewhat surprised.

  "Oh, those are all part of the research plan." Guan Xiao said with a smile as he gazed at the culture dishes.