Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 135 - 108 Fortress Agent_2

Chapter 135: Chapter 108 Fortress Agent_2

Maya couldn’t help but laugh and cry, "I’ll do the corpse looting." Obviously, she was not satisfied with the task of looting corpses: Juvenile Ghost.

So Lin Wu took action. With Maya drawing attention and her sharp dagger at the ready, Lin Wu easily circled to the back and stabbed the zombies to execution, quickly taking care of four of them. What bothered Lin Wu was that these zombies were wearing bullet-proof vests and high-grade steel helmets, but where were their guns... Where were your guns? Had you traded them for alcohol?

What they found on the zombies were just bits and pieces, and Lin Wu particularly liked one of the lighters, pocketing it directly. They searched the helicopter and found a list detailing the food ingredients transported by the helicopter. After browsing through it, Maya took the list and the two of them reached the gates, using an ID card to open them.

...

Inside the gate was a world of its own, clearly a laboratory. White was the primary color theme, with white walls, and even the zombies were dressed in white lab coats.

The laboratory covered an area of about one thousand square meters, with two floors lit brightly, and staircases in the northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest directions. The main body on the second floor was an observation deck, from which one could have a clear view of the first floor.

The number of zombies wasn’t too high, including six special zombies. To not miss any information, they looted every zombie they killed. Besides the usual trifles, Lin Wu obtained a key labeled as "safe key."

Beyond the individual labs separated by glass, there were also electrical rooms, generators, washrooms, dormitories for four, and other amenities. The second floor only had one large room.

In an area on the first floor resembling a small auditorium, there was a projector screen. Maya turned on the projector, projecting the image on the screen, which was not a movie but rather a lot of data. After some searching, Maya found that the projector was connected to an antiquated computer.

Maya sat in front of the computer, fiddled with it for a while to gain access, and then poked the screen with her hand for a long time with no response until she figured out how to use the mouse and keyboard.

There was an hour and a half left. Maya checked the computer data on the first floor, while Lin Wu had already broken into the door of the large room on the second floor. Inside the room, there were two separate spaces, one was an office, and the other was not, marked with a warning sign for biological threats. Through the glass on the door, Lin Wu saw rows of professional-grade refrigerated cabinets for temperature-controlled storage.

Using the key, Lin Wu opened the safe, took out a diary and a stack of documents, and went downstairs to hand them over to Maya. Read them himself? He wasn’t going to read; after enduring more than a decade of studying, he had finally graduated from college—no way was he keen on going through these dry materials again.

Besides, Maya’s intelligence was definitely higher than his. If he could read a word, Maya could surely read 1.00000001 words. For the sake of team efficiency, it was obvious that Maya should be the one to go through the documents.

This wasn’t laziness; it was teamwork.

Lin Wu didn’t bother Maya, and after ensuring there were no zombies around, he went to the office to turn on the TV, which displayed only static. He sat in the office chair pretending to be busy, flipping through some magazines he found in the drawer. After a while, feeling a bit guilty, he snuck to the door and peered down to see Maya diligently reading through the material, completely unaware of his presence.

Lin Wu paced around the office, observing the decorations and murals, then wandered on the first floor for a while, examining the labs and the ancient instruments.

With one hour remaining, Maya and Lin Wu pried open the other room in the office, entering the sample storage. Maya looked serious and didn’t engage in conversation with Lin Wu. She held the documents, comparing them with the contents of the refrigerated cabinets. Once she found what she was looking for, she meticulously copied down the item details in a notebook.

Since he had joined forces with such a studious person, why should he, a poor student, exert himself? Lin Wu touched this and looked at that, entering every laboratory on the first floor in search, finding nothing of value. With Maya busy and himself unable to just stand around, he decided, out of sight, out of mind, to sneak out of the lab, sit in the dining hall for a while, and then rummage through the helicopter again.

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After two hours, a Little White Rabbit appeared before them. No need to be puzzled; this was Dawn’s true form, selected by Blue Star people through voting. Dawn’s first avatar was a handsome man in a suit, prompting some to question why Dawn couldn’t be a woman. The second avatar was a beautiful young woman, raising concerns about the objectification of women. The third avatar was a blue ribbon, fluttering about, with many pressing for green, and others for red.

At last, by the 100th avatar, Blue Star legally established that Dawn’s true form would be the Little White Rabbit, explicitly stating that it was a mix of black, yellow, and white, with a black tail, white fur, yellow rings around its eyes, and of indeterminate gender and age.

Little White Rabbit issued a magnetic mixed male and female electronic voice, "Lin Wu, Maya, nice to meet you."

Lin Wu retorted, "Bullshit, we’ve met many times before."

Maya turned to look at Lin Wu, "You want to argue with an AI?"

Lin Wu sighed, "Forget it, can’t win against it."

Little White Rabbit got to the point, "First of all, congratulations on finding the secret location in Home Game. Can we start now?"

Maya beat Lin Wu to the punch, "Yes." Who knows what Lin Wu would have said.

Little White Rabbit said, "Please correctly describe this place, the more details the better."

Maya replied, "This is the A6 biolab under the Fortress Company."

In 2040, a team of scientists contacted the World Health Organization, claiming that two years earlier, a mysterious person had funded them to cultivate and edit a hybrid virus. After the first phase of work was completed, the mysterious person sent two samples of synthetic viruses. The team discovered that one sample was a synthetic virus with highly contagious properties and a relatively low fatality rate, while the other had poor transmission capabilities but an extremely high fatality rate. The mysterious person was willing to invest a large sum of money for the scientists to complete the composition of the two viruses and create a super virus.

After culturing and researching the two samples, the World Health Organization believed that things were not so simple. According to the United Nations investigation, the mysterious person was an unknown rich man who had been advocating online for protecting the Earth by annihilating humanity. The World Health Organization believed that the mysterious person had many samples in his possession.

To prepare for a potential man-made disaster in the future, it was essential to clarify the information on the two synthetic viruses. The World Health Organization signed a secret commercial contract with Fortress Company, handing over the research and analysis task to them. Fortress Company then established five secret laboratories, planning to find the virus information contained in the two samples by analyzing viruses currently known to humanity.

The five secret labs needed viruses preserved by the World Health Organization for their work, which included the notorious smallpox and its variants, thus the security level was very high. The five labs were located in desolate places, and not only did Fortress dispatch special agents to supervise the technicians, but Fortress could also burn down the labs at a moment’s notice if necessary.

Maya continued, "In the Home Game, there are a total of 40 secret laboratories. Each time a lab is opened, it will disappear at 8 AM the next morning and reappear randomly somewhere within the Home Game."

Little White Rabbit, "Your answer is very comprehensive and correct."

System prompt: Discovered secret 1/10, earned bonus points, and as it’s the first discovery of A6, reward points are multiplied by 5. Every additional secret discovered will exponentially increase the point reward.

Lin Wu said, "Dawn, don’t think we’re easy to fool, zero times 5 is still 0. How many points exactly?" He of course knew that Dawn wouldn’t deceive him. This was a provocation.

Little White Rabbit calmly replied, "I can’t tell you. What I can say is, when a player’s points reach a certain value, the Home Game point ranking query system will be updated."

Lin Wu couldn’t be bothered to argue with it, "The reward." Regardless of whether you flatter or curse it, its attitude towards you remains unchanged. Of course, don’t swear or insult others; otherwise, it will tattle.

Little White Rabbit said, "Before that, you still need to answer one question for me. A6 lab is being discovered by players for the first time, are you Fortress agents?"

Lin Wu was taken aback and looked at Maya, who was also confused, "No, we are not."

Little White Rabbit looked at Lin Wu, waiting for an answer. Lin Wu countered, "What do you mean by Fortress agents?"