A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 445: Purge, Fu Yanhe in Imminent Danger?

Chapter 445: Chapter 445: Purge, Fu Yanhe in Imminent Danger?

Shen Yanhe and the young woman halted in their tracks upon seeing the scene behind the door.

They now stood on the edge of a "cliff," beside which dangled a ladder made of chains, designed for one person to climb up.

In front of them lay a massive deep pit.

Inside the pit were densely packed bodies, countless in number.

The bodies were so decayed they had long since deteriorated to skeletons; some remained in the pit while others seemed to reach out in a desperate bid to climb out...

Shen Yanhe could roughly guess their ages from the skeletal remains.

Old and young, and adults as well...

So many, more than she could count.

A foul stench wafted from the pit, causing Shen Yanhe to bend over and retch uncontrollably.

She finally realized where those failed experimental subjects were taken to be disposed of.

It was here.

No wonder.

No wonder this was the way to the outside world.

No wonder, this was the ’Gate of Life’.

How could Fu Weizhi dare!

How could he dare to kill so many people!

Shen Yanhe felt even sicker, as tears of a physical reaction were forced out of her eyes.

The usually expressionless young woman stared at her for a while.

Then, hesitantly approaching, she awkwardly raised a hand to pat Shen Yanhe on the back.

It took a while for Shen Yanhe to stop the surging urge to vomit.

Wiping the tears from the corner of her eyes, her face dark with emotion, she looked at the deep pit before her, feeling an unprecedented desire to kill Fu Weizhi.

She had to kill Fu Weizhi!

"People..." The young woman suddenly gazed past the door, her hoarse, slow voice letting out a single word.

Shen Yanhe came to her senses, gave a cold glance at the door, slammed it shut, and led the young woman to the ladder beside them.

"Let’s go!"

They could only think of escaping and linking up with Fu Yanhe before they could muster the manpower to deal with Fu Weizhi.

She couldn’t take him on alone.

At least, not right now.

The young woman didn’t move, but pointed at the ladder, indicating for Shen Yanhe to go up first.

Shen Yanhe didn’t fuss, grasped the dangling chain with one hand, and began climbing the ladder made of iron chains, with the young woman following closely behind.

As she was about to climb out of the pit, Shen Yanhe heard a disorderly and heavy tread of footsteps from above.

At the same time, the door of the laboratory at the bottom of the pit resonated with a series of violent banging noises.

Shen Yanhe stopped her movements, her heart sinking with caution.

There were people above and below.

Was it possible that she really couldn’t escape this time?

Shen Yanhe gritted her teeth in secret, holding the chain with one hand while fishing out a USB drive from her pocket with the other.

She extended it towards the young woman.

The young woman looked up at her with confusion in her eyes.

Shen Yanhe’s gaze locked onto hers, she spoke earnestly, "If someone comes, don’t worry about me, take this and run to the east. There will be someone there to meet you."

"Hand this over to a man named Fu Yanhe. He will take you to see Lu Jing."

The young woman blinked, took the USB drive from Shen Yanhe’s palm, opened her mouth to swallow it, and hid it under her tongue.

Shen Yanhe took a deep breath and, with nerves taut, continued to climb upwards.

Calculating the distance while she ascended, the footsteps above grew clearer, and there were indistinct murmurs of conversation.

But Shen Yanhe couldn’t make out what was being said.

She could only see that there seemed to be several figures above her.

As she was about to reach the edge, Shen Yanhe’s breathing grew heavy, and her eyes were cold and stern.

She forcefully stepped on the chain, using the momentum to leap upwards.

Immediately, she clenched her fist and violently smashed it towards the figure closest to the iron chain staircase.

The figure reacted quickly, stepping back and firmly catching Shen Yanhe’s swinging fist.

Just as Shen Yanhe was about to kick, a cry of alarm rang out, "Madam!"

This cry of alarm made Shen Yanhe narrowly stop her kick towards the figure.

Following that, someone came over with a lamp.

The bright light made Shen Yanhe squint subconsciously, and only after her eyes adjusted to the brightness did she clearly see the face of the person in front of her.

The person who had caught her wrist, about to be kicked by her, was Yi Fang.

Scattered around him stood Wu Fang and several members of Luo Wang, all of whom had injuries on their faces and bodies that made them look rather ragged.

Wu Fang’s usually stern face revealed a look of joy, and even his eyes reddened, "It really is you! Thank goodness! We’ve finally found you!"

Yi Fang grimaced and shook his palm, "Sss, Madam, you’re really strong, my palm is nearly crushed."

Upon seeing them, the tension in Shen Yanhe’s nerves finally relaxed.

She first went to the edge of the hole and pulled the young woman out from within.

Yi Fang and Wu Fang warily observed the strange woman who appeared, "Madam, who is she?"

"She’s an old acquaintance I rescued from inside," Shen Yanhe said nonchalantly.

Finally, she looked around and not seeing Fu Yanhe’s figure, she felt an ominous foreboding in her heart.

Her face darkened, and she frowned, "Why is it just you guys, where’s Fu Yanhe? Where’s my eldest senior brother?"

Yi Fang and Wu Fang’s expressions immediately turned ugly.

Wu Fang clenched his teeth and said, "The Chief has been injured."

"What? Injured?" Shen Yanhe’s face changed dramatically, "What happened?"

Yi Fang, with a grave expression, said, "Madam, we can talk while we walk. Right now, you’re the only one who can save the Chief."

Shen Yanhe nodded and hurriedly followed with the young woman in tow.

On the way, Yi Fang told Shen Yanhe how Fu Yanhe had discovered her disappearance and had traced her here.

After Fu Yanhe had received the location of the Underground Laboratory that she’d sent to him, as well as the layout map, he immediately brought people over.

But as they neared the laboratory, they were stopped by a young man.

"That young man’s subordinates were very strange," Yi Fang said with a frown. "They were very aggressive, did not fear pain, did not fear death, and wouldn’t die immediately even if shot."

"Just like the zombies in post-apocalyptic novels, very hard to kill."

"The Chief left those people to us to deal with, and he went to confront the young man. During the fight, when he killed the young man, the Chief was wounded in the abdomen."

Continuing on, Wu Fang said, "Not only that, but before the young man died, he injected the Chief with something."

"That has caused the Chief to remain unconscious."

"Athanasia," the young woman who had been silent up until then, suddenly spoke.

All present turned their heads to look at her.

Her expression remained wooden, without any emotional fluctuation, as she mechanically said, "He was injected with athanasia."

"Just like me, just like me."

Her speech was disjointed, but Shen Yanhe understood what she was trying to convey.

Her face immediately grew extremely troubled.

Athanasia appeared to be the drug repeatedly mentioned by those people, developed by Doctor P.

She knew that Fu Weizhi had sent an assistant to capture Fu Yanhe, and she trusted that Fu Yanhe would resolve the issue with the assistant and come to rescue her.

But she did not anticipate an accident would occur.

The assistant had been carrying such a dangerous drug with him.

And had injected Fu Yanhe with it before dying!

With a heart filled with urgency, Shen Yanhe’s steps grew even larger, wishing she could immediately fly to Fu Yanhe’s side.

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