Chapter 86: Laboratory in the Old Factory

In the office, Maika sat at the table with deep eyes and constant thinking.

Opposite them, Logan, Lorna and others were all staring at him, waiting for his decision.

After a moment of silence, Maika nodded and said, "We have to take a look at the laboratory."

After finishing speaking, he said with some hesitation: "It's just that the farm is gradually full now, and the current facilities can no longer accommodate so many people. I'm afraid I won't be able to admit these people into the shelter."

After a pause, he added: "But if you can rescue people, I can send them to Mexico and other shelters. I have these channels."

After speaking, he looked at Logan and others and asked them to decide whether to go or not.

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Logan nodded. He understood Maika's helplessness very well. Nowadays, the only source of income for the shelter is this farm. Although the profit is not small, it has to support more than a hundred people in food and clothing, which is indeed a bit tight.

If more people are admitted, the burden will be too great for the shelter, and it cannot be supported by the current Macca.

Among the crowd, Clarice nodded without hesitation, "Yes, as long as we can save them, we'll do anything."

As long as you escape from the hell like the laboratory, you can go anywhere.

Maika nodded, "In that case, Logan, you are responsible for this matter. You can choose whoever you need to bring with you, and they will cooperate with you."

Logan nodded without hesitation, thought for a moment and then said: "Just Victor, John, Marcus, Klaus, plus me and Clarice."

The people he selected can be regarded as the backbone of the shelter, and Logan is familiar with them, making it easier to cooperate.

As for Lorna, although she is also very strong, it is impossible for Logan to mobilize the defense force of the shelter. Someone must stay behind.

After speaking, Logan looked at Clarice, "Do you still remember the location of the laboratory?"

"Of course I remember!"

Clarice nodded excitedly, "No. 31 Street in North City."

Although she used her teleportation ability to successfully escape the last time she escaped, after escaping from the laboratory, she deliberately remembered the location of the laboratory.

Although that place brought her endless fear, but now she had to go back to save her friends, the little girl showed great courage and no fear in her eyes.

"Beicheng District..."

Logan was silent for a moment, looked at the time, and said decisively: "In that case, let's set off now!"

Soon, all the members quickly gathered outside the farm, got in the car and headed to Beicheng District.

After more than two hours of driving, several people arrived at Street 31 that Clarice mentioned.

Because it is located in the suburbs, it seems a bit deserted here. There is no bustling city, but more factories. Most of the people coming and going are trucks, and the noise from factory operations comes and goes.

There were not many people walking around on the street. Even if there were, most of them were workers in work clothes. It looked like an ordinary industrial area.

Along the way, Logan couldn't help but check the guards at each level.

After more than half a month, the checkpoint guards now seem much more relaxed. Compared with the last time he escaped from the city, the number of checkpoints at the city entrance has been reduced.

Obviously, the last rumor has gradually dissipated, and the influence of mutants has gradually disappeared.

"This is it."

Clarice in the back seat stuck her little head out and pointed at a factory with white smoke coming out.

Victor, who was sitting in the driver's seat, slowly parked the van into a parking space near the factory.

Everyone looked at the factory with some surprise on their faces.

"Inside this factory?"

Logan looked up at the billowing white smoke above the factory with a curious look on his face.

"Um."

Clarice nodded, "I can't remember it wrong, it's in here."

"It seems that the owner of this factory has an extraordinary status."

Victor looked at the factory gate and couldn't help but joked: "It's been a long time since I saw a laboratory for studying mutants in the city."

Most of the laboratories they had come into contact with before were in the suburbs, and most of them were in remote and uninhabited areas.

After all, we are conducting research on mutants. If we accidentally create an uncontrollable experimental subject, it will easily have a great impact on the surrounding residents.

Furthermore, human experimentation is explicitly prohibited, and all their actions must be concealed and cannot be known to the public.

Therefore, for both safety and deception, many laboratories are forced to choose to locate in the suburbs. It is obviously not easy to establish a laboratory in the city.

It seems that this task will be more difficult than imagined. The background of the factory or laboratory is definitely not small.

But now that we have come, we cannot return without success.

"Let me explain the plan."

Logan gathered everyone's attention and began to make a plan to infiltrate.

In fact, his idea was very simple. John and Victor took Clarice outside to meet them.

And he sneaked into the laboratory with Klaus and Marcus, took control of the main control room, and found the location where the mutants were imprisoned.

As long as the constraints on the mutants are lifted, they will have enough power to break out of the laboratory.

During this process, once they are discovered, they must solve the problem as quickly as possible. They must not be allowed any time to raise the alarm, otherwise the pickets and police from the entire city will arrive as soon as possible and directly surround the place.

Not to mention that they won't be able to escape by then, I'm afraid even Victor and the others who are responding outside will be discovered by the pickets.

"Everyone, let's get started."

After Logan explained all the plans, he got into the car behind from the passenger seat.

Klaus understood and held the hands of Logan and Marcus, and the three figures disappeared from the car in an instant.

When John saw this, he immediately got out of the car and opened the compartment door.

Logan and the other three slowly got out of the car and walked towards the factory invisibly.

The guards at the factory gate are very lax. Just like many normal factories, there is only a security room at the door with a few security guards sitting inside.

And these security guards were obviously not very competent. A few of them were gathered in the security room smoking cigarettes and chatting. They were completely unaware that three tiny footsteps had crossed the security room and successfully entered the factory.

"These security guards really neglected their duties. They sneaked in so easily. I thought it was like in the movies. I needed to knock them out and then put on their clothes."

Klaus couldn't help but mutter under his breath.

"Stop talking and go this way."

Logan tugged on his arm and led the two of them in the direction they determined.

Now the three of them are invisible, and each other cannot see each other's status. All actions can only be done by pulling on the arms.

As Logan walked, he looked at the factory.

Before setting off, Clarice simply drew a blueprint for him. According to the route on the blueprint, Logan knew that the laboratory was underneath the factory, but the exit was designed to be very secretive, so he had to look for it carefully.

At this time, workers in the factory are busy, and various machine tools are making noisy noises. Uniformed staff are constantly busy in front of the machine tools, producing batches of industrial parts.

This is the disguise of this laboratory. If you just look at it from the outside, this is a very ordinary parts processing factory.

But no one would have thought that underneath this seemingly normal factory, a bloody biological laboratory was running.

Logan recalled the drawings drawn by Clarice, and after some careful exploration, he found the entrance to the underground laboratory.

This is an underground passage hidden behind two big trees. The door is blocked by the tree trunks. If Logan hadn't read the drawings in advance, it would have taken a lot of effort to find this secret place.

The entrance is not simple at first glance. It is all made of fine steel, which is very hard. There is also a special guard room and monitoring next to it.

The place is heavily fortified and not even a mouse can sneak in, especially since there are surveillance cameras all around the gatekeepers.

It's a pity that Logan and the others were invisible and couldn't be seen by the naked eye. They arrived at the gate right under the nose of the security guard.

Marcus reached out and touched the door at the entrance, and said helplessly: "No, this door is too hard and cannot be broken open by brute force."

After a pause, he added: "And I guess once this kind of door is damaged, it will sound an alarm on its own."

Logan nodded. This door felt like it was on the same level as a bank vault, and it was unlikely to be destroyed by brute force.

"You can swipe your card over there to enter."

Klaus looked at the card machine on the side of the door, "It's just that we don't have a card..."

The three of them were completely in trouble. After all, they couldn't just sit here and wait for the people below to open the door and come up.

I don't know how long it will take.

Just when the three of them were at a loss, there was suddenly a roar of cars behind them.

Several people quickly looked back and saw a truck speeding towards them.

"It's the picket team's car. They are indeed cooperating with the picket team!"

As Logan pulled the two of them away, his eyes were fixed on the picket logo spray-painted on the truck.

The truck finally stopped in front of the basement door, the window rolled down, and the picket on the driver's seat waved to the security personnel, "Check the door is open."

The security personnel in the pavilion came out and carefully checked the vehicle, including the people in the driver's seat, the car chassis and even the roof, as long as they could hide people.

Logan noticed that the compartment of the truck was covered with white cloth. One of the security personnel lifted the white cloth to check. There were several pickets sitting inside, guarding an iron cage in the middle.

The guard only took one look and then ended the search and let him go.

Marcus cursed in a low voice: "I think they are escorting mutants. These damn guys never treat mutants as human beings!"

Anyone who can be treated like this by several pickets and locked in such a big cage is definitely a mutant.

Seeing his fellow tribesmen being imprisoned in cages, Marcus was filled with anger.

"Shh!"

Logan quickly interrupted his anger and whispered: "Stop talking, be careful of being discovered!"

After saying that, he stared at the truck and said, "When the gate opens later, we will climb on the truck and follow the truck in!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a member of the picket team got out of the car and swiped his card. The heavy door slowly opened and the vehicle started.

"Now!"

Logan quickly pulled the two of them, jumped on the running board behind the truck, grabbed the frame of the truck, and followed the truck into the basement.

The basement was obviously built very deep. After driving for a while, we finally reached the special parking area.

This is an empty parking lot with several trucks parked. The lights are dim. Due to the lack of sunlight for many years, the overall environment seems very cool.

Logan and his companions hurriedly jumped out of the car and trotted to the side to observe.

"Let's see what they are transporting first. If they are really mutants, then we don't have to look for them. Just follow them!"

Logan spoke in a low voice, staring at the truck at the same time.

After all, this basement is not small. If you look blindly, it may take a long time.

If these patrol teams are transporting mutants, it will make it easier for Logan and his companions to lock the target area.

"Unload, unload!"

At this time, the patrol teams also got off the car and waved their hands to move things from the car.

Those who unloaded the goods were all special police officers of the patrol team. There were a total of six people, and everyone had a rifle on their body. They worked hard to move the cage out of the car.

"Damn, it's really a mutant!"

Marcos looked at the goods in the cage and couldn't help but clench his hands tightly, his voice full of anger.

In the cage, six mutants sat together in a decadent and numb state, with collars on their necks. They seemed to be soulless bodies, leaning against the cage numbly, as if they had given up struggling.

"Damn it, this group of patrols really cooperated with the laboratory. They captured mutants to provide them to the laboratory, damn guys!"

Because of anger, Marcos couldn't help but exert force with both hands.

Klaus on the side couldn't help but take a breath and complained: "Don't pinch, it hurts so much!"

"Who's there!"

However, this voice was discovered by a patrol, who was instantly alert. The gun on his back was quickly pulled in front of him, pointing in the direction of Logan and others, and spoke sternly.

But fortunately, it seemed that only he accidentally heard the conversation, and the other five patrols all looked at him blankly.

"No one, you must be hallucinating."

A special police officer looked carefully at the blank area. There was not even a pillar, and no one could be hidden at all, and they didn't see anyone.

"Okay, put your gun away. It's safe here. No one can get in."

Another SWAT officer pushed the gun down in his hand and signaled him to put it away.

The SWAT officer with the gun looked at the wall not far away with a confused look on his face, put away his rifle, and scratched his head in surprise, "There's really no one here. Am I really hallucinating? I've never had this before."

"Stop talking nonsense."

The two SWAT officers pushing the cage rolled their eyes at him, "You're just tired. Just go back and have a few drinks after sending it away."

This cage is specially made, and there are two wheels underneath, which can be easily carried.

"I think you're just tired and hallucinating. If you can't do it, get in the car and rest. We can send you this time."

A SWAT officer patted him on the shoulder and signaled him to get in the car.

"It's okay, Captain. I can still move."

The SWAT officer put away his gun and went to pull the cage together.

But when he left, he couldn't help but glance back. He always felt that he was not hallucinating just now.

In the distance, Logan and the other two looked at the backs of the SWAT police and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, they were not arrested."

Logan exhaled. If a fight really broke out here, the entire basement would probably be blocked, and it would be difficult for them to escape.

"Hurry up and follow up, find a way to rescue the mutant."

Marcos couldn't help but urge him, and then he pulled Klaus and Logan to run up with the SWAT.

Clarice didn't have a blueprint of the basement. She only knew that the basement was very large, but she didn't know where the specific departments were.

She couldn't even remember the location of the main control room, and she had never been there.

After all, she relied on the ability of teleportation to escape the blockade step by step, and didn't stay in the laboratory for too long. She only knew that the laboratory was underground, and she didn't know more.

Everything had to be found by Logan and his team.

Fortunately, there were these SWAT police leading the way, which was much more convenient.

Soon, Logan and his team followed the SWAT police to a freight elevator.

Fortunately, the freight elevator was large enough, and after the cages were transported in, there was still room for several SWAT officers to stand in.

Logan and his team looked at the empty space, gritted their teeth, and squeezed in.

At this time, the SWAT officers were only ten centimeters away from them, and they could touch them as long as they moved a little more.

Logan could even clearly smell that the SWAT officer in front of him had eaten Mexican chicken rolls in the morning!

At such a close distance, Logan and his team couldn't help holding their breath.

Fortunately, these SWAT officers were very relaxed, chatting about trivial matters in the elevator, and occasionally saying a few dirty words, which made other SWAT officers laugh.

In such a relaxed environment, they didn't notice that there were three special forces standing less than ten centimeters in front of them.

Boom!

The elevator descended to the bottom floor, and Logan hurriedly ran out with the three of them.

The SWAT officers also pushed the cage and walked through a long and narrow corridor, with Logan and his team following closely behind.

Then, the loudspeaker in the corner suddenly issued a prompt sound.

[Entering the scanning phase, please do not move]

After the voice fell, the special police stood straight and habitually waited for the scan.

However, Logan and the others were stunned for a moment, and when they reacted and wanted to escape the scanning area, it was too late.

A grid of infrared rays intertwined, like a net in the sky and the earth, scanned from all directions.

As the scan ended, the display screen next to it lit up.

"Scanning is over, there are fifteen people in total, welcome in."

An ethereal voice came from the loudspeaker, and the scanned images of fifteen people appeared on the screen. The door at the end of the corridor also slowly opened, revealing bursts of light.

"Fifteen people..."

Listening to the voice in the loudspeaker, the special police was stunned for a moment, looked at the image on the screen, and then looked at the few of them.

In an instant, the face seemed to see a ghost and became flustered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"No, including the guys in the cage, there are only twelve of us in total!"

He shouted loudly, took the rifle behind him in his hand, and looked around vigilantly.

The other five people also felt creepy, their faces turned pale in fear, raised their guns, and leaned their backs tightly against the cage.