Chapter 428: 428: Defective Product

Chapter 428: Defective Product

The next level of the church corresponds to the second card Han Dong drew.

[Level 3] Unaffiliated.

The card surface only shows three dots.

Descending the dim stone steps, they arrived at a “Closed Type”, “Maze Type” ultra-large detention area, its scope far beyond the original area of the church.

Separate cells existed below, hundreds to thousands in number, forming a maze-like prison district.

[Omen-Failure of the Sect’s Experiment]

Fear Value: ★★★

Misfortune: The Sect was established from the Crusades’ eastern expedition hundreds of years ago, using the blood sacrifice of war, they accidentally opened the [Door] for the first time, from the Door they glimpsed an indescribable life form that had no facial features on its head but twisted tentacles, possessing strength far exceeding humans.

Led by the crusaders, they established the [Faceless Sect].

Since then, the Sect has been secretly recruiting instructors, embarking on a comprehensive ‘communication experiment’.

Through the human body as a medium, they hoped to establish contact with the world on the other side of the door, hence acquiring the powerful strength to conquer the world.

However, the obtained abilities were extremely difficult to control.

Even now, many members of the sect cannot wield them, the instructors lost their selves during the ‘acceptance’ period and became failures.

However, the failures also possess decent combat strength.

Therefore, various local sects build large detention facilities to contain these failures, in preparation for unexpected needs.

[Requirement]: Please find the secret passage to the deepest part of the sect in the prison maze.

……

“There’s no demand to kill individuals, is the theme of this time to navigate the maze? Searching for the exit certainly won’t be as simple as it sounds…otherwise, the failures imprisoned here would have escaped long ago.

Finding the exit is one difficulty.

The remaining point of difficulty lies in these ‘failures.’

If we can’t find the exit in a short time, we may be annihilated.

Since, the Mother Mind Worm of the previous level could entirely kill the townspeople infected with the G virus, the failures here should also have a method to deal with the zombies.

Collective action could ensure safety, but it certainly won’t help us find the exit in a short time.”

Having thought of this,

Han Dong turned to look at the Zombie Corps, asking them to pair up according to their respective mutation functionalities, forming small groups of two.

In the meantime, Han Dong used black magic to create a raven feather, handing one to each team.

Any discovery could be conveyed to Han Dong through the feathers…of course, this also included ‘death messages’.

“You come with me…”

After the mind worm incident in the church hall, Han Dong had high expectations for the [Crossbowman] in his team, who had made multiple pre-emptive accurate shots, and even inflicted effective hits on the mother creature.

This youth, he had a bow attached to his wrist, and he could use his ribs as arrows.

From Han Dong’s perspective, this youth was the best G virus carrier among all the townspeople, the virus’s changes to his body completely matched his advantages in life.

Also, because he consumed the eggs of the mind worm, this youth’s consciousness became clear, he was able to control his mutated body normally, just like the protagonist David.

“What’s your name?”

“Kelvin Charles, I will fully assist you, Sir.”

This youth didn’t bear any prejudice against Han Dong naturally, plus, after witnessing Han Dong’s capabilities, he showed exceptional respect towards Han Dong.

“Right!”

……

“Strange…why is there nothing?”

At first, when they arrived at the underground prison, the few cells near the entrance of the surface steps didn’t have any ‘failures’, that’s fine.

As Han Dong went deeper, walked hundreds of meters, all the cells they saw were still empty.

There was no existence of the failed sect members that lost their consciousness due to their inability to control the energy from the other side of the Door mentioned in the description of the Omen.

“Hmm?”

Han Dong noticed something dropped outside the cell nearby, he immediately went forward to check.

“This is…A finger? It seems like it was forcefully broken off when trying to escape the cell due to the bars squeezing it…

However, if I was the one trapped, while forcefully escaping the cell and my fingers get squeezed, I would adjust accordingly, so as not to completely break and tear my whole finger, right?

Besides, even if my finger broke off, I would pick it up and reattach it, right?

The monsters here, they should have such a simple regeneration capability.

Unless…this failure did not escape the cell on his own, but was forcefully yanked from the cell.”

After Han Dong inspected some dried flesh residues left on the iron bars, he further confirmed this speculation.

There was something terrifying down here…

During the process of going further in, they still haven’t seen any failures, the abnormal silence made Han Dong feel uncomfortable.

This kind of abnormality often implies greater danger, if they can’t find out why the failures disappeared, themselves along with the people with them might be in danger.

When they progressed straight to the end,

A white steel door was at the end of the road.

The door was stamped with the Sect’s ‘Faceless Emblem’.

Just that, the door still had traces of large amounts of dried blood and completely pressed in handprints, multiple handprints…causing the door to be forcibly destroyed.

“A lab?”

In the laboratory area that could accommodate about twenty staff, various experimental instruments lay scattered all over the floor, apparently, a violent hunting incident occurred here.

Glancing at the blueprint of the human body drawn on the wall, and some surgical tables in the rooms inside,

Han Dong speculated that the sect’s scientific researchers have always been conducting experiments on the ‘failures’ here…the specific scenes are indescribable.

“Kelvin, sort all the paperwork inside the lab…perhaps we could find the answer to the total disappearance of the ‘failures,’ or maybe information about the exit.”

“Understood, Sir!”

Just when both of them were gathering the papers scattered inside the lab.

“Instantly annihilated?!”

One of the raven feathers allocated to Zombie Corps by Han Dong lost contact, this meant death to the small zombie group…which was odd.

These were zombies infected with the G virus, in the movie ‘Biohazard,’ they were unkillable creatures.

But now, they died almost instantly, nothing useful was relayed back.

“It seems…thing lingering in the detention area is not simple.

The level three difficulty might lie only in ‘how to escape from the maze’, but the ‘thing’ that haunts the detention maze exceeds the level of difficulty of this omen.

Therefore, ‘requirements’ of the omen did not demand us to kill this monster, only asked us to find the exit of the maze.

We must hasten to gather information, otherwise, it would be dangerous.”

All information was fully collected.

“Kelvin, you guard the door…alert me the moment you sense any life forms nearing, DO NOT attack.”

“Understood, Sir.”

From there, Han Dong entered a state of absolute concentration, speed reading.

Many key words were captured by Han Dong.

[Chimera Project], [Exponents α more than ten times the stable value], [Abandon failures], [Complete closure of the detention layer]…

“These fools…”

Just when Han Dong was reading, contact with another feather was severed.