Chapter 159: Vegetative State
Lin Ye: Good, I've located Yongsen Laboratory and am currently en route. Be careful - the enemy likely knows the target location too. That missing persons mission is probably some kind of experiment. Search the surrounding area, you might find some surprises.
Zhao Yu: Damn it, don't let me catch those bastards! They almost took my precious thing!
Shen Bing: Can't be helped, it's too prominent.
Li Qihou: Anyway it's not like it was useful. Gone is gone.
Lin Ye: I'm a doctor. Need me to install a new one for you?
Zhao Yu: ...Bro, can I choose the specifications?
Lin Ye: I'd recommend something more balanced, otherwise it might affect movement.
Zhao Yu: Doesn't need to be that exaggerated, just slightly bigger is fine.
Li Qihou: Aren't you afraid the mutation organ might not obey commands?
Zhao Yu: Huh? Then forget it. Lin Ye: I'm encountering some trouble here, you guys chat.
Closing the chat room, Lin Ye glanced at the traffic police following his sports car, feeling somewhat annoyed. He hadn't driven much and forgot you couldn't go too fast in the city.
The sports car was fast, but the traffic officer showed no intention of giving up. Lin Ye had to use spiritual energy impact acceleration method to speed up further. As long as he got out before being arrested, no one could prove he was speeding.
After all, the sports car wasn't his.
Lin Ye executed a half-circle drift to park the sports car near Sunshine Sanatorium's main gate, then used the momentum to drift out of the vehicle.
The extremely diligent traffic officer followed closely, drifting to a stop with tires leaving marks on the road.
"Wait! You're under arrest!"
The traffic officer chased after Lin Ye from behind.
"Comrade, you can put tickets on my car, as many as you want."
Lin Ye felt somewhat helpless - he didn't dislike people who took their work seriously.
"No, you're suspected of dangerous driving. This is beyond just tickets - you'll be detained for at least a month plus pay fines."
The traffic officer said seriously.
"I'm the investigation team captain from Public Security Bureau, currently on a mission. How about this - after I complete this mission, you come find me. If you can find me, I'll go to detention with you."
Lin Ye took out Bill's credentials and waved them.
"Knowing the law yet breaking it - that makes the crime worse."
The traffic officer tried to take Lin Ye's credentials for recording, but Lin Ye had already put them away.
"If I don't complete this mission, many people who shouldn't die will die. Are you sure you want to arrest me?"
Lin Ye took out a spiritual energy light machine gun and walked toward Sunshine Sanatorium.
The traffic officer was startled by the spiritual energy light machine gun. He hesitated for a moment, then finally chose to follow behind Lin Ye.
"This isn't your patrol area. Are you here to slack off?"
Lin Ye glanced at the guard who was alertly standing up and the surveillance camera at the entrance. Both exploded in succession.
Red and green flesh painted the security booth's windows.
"What are you doing!"
Seeing the guard explode, the traffic officer quickly drew his pistol and aimed at Lin Ye's back.
"Is your flesh green? Use your brain."
Lin Ye ignored the traffic officer and quickly entered Sunshine Sanatorium.
The traffic officer paused, looking at the red and green flesh on the security booth glass, deep in thought.
Sunshine Sanatorium appeared to have only three floors above ground, but Lin Ye sensed a tunnel leading downward beneath the sanatorium.
As soon as Lin Ye entered the sanatorium's lobby, a group of staff members roared and charged at him.
During their charge, numerous flesh-covered branches tore through their bodies. The fleshy branches writhed constantly, transforming these staff members into mobile flesh thickets.
Lin Ye raised the light machine gun and began sweeping the lobby. This was how you communicated with monsters that couldn't understand language.
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat...
Hearing the machine gun fire, the traffic officer hurried into the sanatorium, where he witnessed a scene he would remember for the rest of his life.
The approaching flesh thickets emitting fierce roars, the investigation team captain firing with unerring accuracy, the sounds of gunfire and monster wails, the turbid yet fresh scent of blood...
Years later, the traffic officer could still accurately recall this moment.
The gunfire ceased as Lin Ye emptied the hundred-round magazine.
The charging monsters had been shredded into pieces. Faced with the symphony of metal and spiritual energy, they were too fragile.
"Happy New Year."
Lin Ye reloaded and walked directly toward the underground tunnel located deep on the first floor.
This time the traffic officer didn't hesitate, following behind Lin Ye with his pistol drawn.
"What are you doing? A few thousand yuan salary isn't worth risking your life for."
Lin Ye took out his small mirror and checked his reflection - only his own face appeared.
"This isn't my first time seeing these monsters, but last time I arrived too late. If this is the monster's nest, I can't just walk away."
The traffic officer admired Lin Ye's marksmanship, but he truly couldn't understand why a man would check his mirror before combat.
"Here, can you use this? Doesn't matter if you can't, just don't shoot me."
Lin Ye took out a spiritual energy rifle and several magazines for the traffic officer's protection.
"I can. I used to be Public Security Bureau staff too."
The traffic officer took the spiritual energy rifle and expertly checked its condition.
"Good. Our objective is to kill all enemies below - no prisoners. Understand?"
Lin Ye used his spiritual energy blade to cut through the lock and pushed open the hidden door leading to the tunnel.
The pitch-black passage was deathly silent, like a giant maw waiting to devour everything.
"Received. No prisoners."
The traffic officer smiled. He liked this captain.
Lin Ye led the traffic officer to the small track vehicle leading underground, but the power in the tunnel had been cut. They could only proceed on foot along the tunnel.
In the darkness, numerous plant people quietly approached the two, but in Lin Ye's perception, they stood out like torches in the dark.
Invisible shotgun backstab spiritual energy blades silently activated. Whenever plant people approached within a certain distance, they would explode on the spot.
Although the traffic officer was a third-tier spiritual energy user, his mental energy was average, with far less perception range than Lin Ye. He could only hear the explosions, and after taking a few steps, could perceive pools of minced meat.
If not for clearly sensing that Lin Ye was only second-tier, he would have thought Lin Ye was a mid-level expert sent from above.
Lin Ye silently absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy. This world's spiritual energy concentration was average, so he needed to carefully control his consumption.
These plant people had no obvious vital points. If attacks lacked sufficient power, they might get up to continue fighting, or even split into two enemies.
Fortunately, the shotgun backstab spiritual energy blades mainly consumed external spiritual energy. Though they required high mental energy, Lin Ye least feared mental energy consumption.
With Lin Ye clearing the path ahead, their speed wasn't much slower than the small track vehicle. Before long, Lin Ye detected an underground structure.
However, since the construction materials here were similar to Public Security Bureau's, he couldn't perceive the internal structure of the building either.