Chapter 16 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

A person of religion boasted not. Since Tang Luo had said that he would purge evil, then he had to see it through.

Dr. Jack and the other hostage led the way while Tang Luo followed behind. The three of them headed to the underground experiment lab in the hospital.

Little Chu and Zhou Zhenguo left first. They didn’t have the slightest desire to be a good person or to destroy evil. They merely sighed inwardly that Master Xuanzang was indeed a Master. With fierce and ferocious methods and the heart of Buddha, he was a good man.

Tang Luo didn’t have the intention of letting them come along either.

Should the two of them meet with danger, the straightforward act of saving people would bring Tang Luo virtuous merits too. However, he hadn’t sunk that low yet.

Besides, this behavior of forcing others into danger and subsequently saving them wouldn’t earn him any power of virtuous merits.

If even something like that could work, Tang Luo would have been able to accumulate virtuous merits by whipping up an Infinite Virtuous Merit-Producing Life-Release Machine1 and lying down next to it.

Virtuous merits had their own temperament too.

Earning and accumulating the power of virtuous merits wasn’t a difficult task. However, being deceitful and resorting to tricks wouldn’t work.

A hidden door was opened. What appeared in front of the three men was a spiral staircase, which led downwards, and had walls on both sides.

A few kerosene lamps hung on the walls and provided a degree of visibility.

Tang Luo asked nonchalantly, “How many people are there inside?”

“Huh?”

The limping Dr. Jack spaced out for a moment before he replied, “There isn’t anyone in there.”

“You’re telling me that there’s no one inside such an important experiment lab?” asked Tang Luo.

“There really isn’t anyone in there!”

For fear that this lunatic, who claimed to be a detective, would initiate a new round of Russian roulette with him, Dr. Jack immediately followed up. “There are only test subjects in there.”

Tang Luo’s gaze shifted to the other man.

“I’ve only been here once. There were quite a lot of people in there at that time.”

“It’s not like we’re carrying out experiments today, what would we need people in there for? Having someone guard the one and only entrance would do! You were here as an assistant the other time! Idiot!” yelled Dr. Jack.

Judging from his savage countenance, if Tang Luo hadn’t been here, he would probably have already strangled the bespectacled doctor to death.

“Let’s walk on. Don’t cause any further delay.” Tang Luo couldn’t be bothered to watch them fight.

The trio continued to make their way down. After walking for a minute, another door appeared in front of them. Jack unlocked it with his key.

Inside was a five-meters long passageway. At the end was another door. A faint smell of blood wafted towards them.

“There’s a mechanism here. You must lock the door behind us before you can open the door in front,” said Jack as he stood in front of the second door.

Tang Luo locked the door behind him.

A series of clicks and clacks resounded. Some kind of mechanism had probably been activated.

Dr. Jack opened the heavy and solid wooden door in front of him. A pungent smell, which made one want to throw up, assailed their senses, as though what they had opened the door to was an abattoir.

“Ugh!” The bespectacled man started retching.

By right, one would need to put on a surgical mask when coming down here. It would more or less be able to reduce the smell somewhat. Moreover, the smell wasn’t as bad the other time as to how it was today.

Jack didn’t look any different from his usual self, however. He walked in and switched on the lights.

This was a relatively spacious underground chamber. Approximately five meters high, the area exceeded 300 square meters.

There were more than ten operating stone platforms, which looked like narrow beds in there. Each operating platform was barely enough to fit an adult lying down. There were bloodstains all over the operating platforms. A few of them were even covered by white fabric stained with blood. Underneath the white fabric were ‘experiment materials’.

On the ground next to the stone platforms were several drainage pipes, and the odor came partially from them.

Apart from the stone platforms, there were also various machines and medical apparatuses that looked extremely horrifying.

Electric cables laid exposed, coming across as incredibly crude.

The place looked more like an interrogation and torture chamber than a lab.

Tang Luo and the others pushed the door open and entered the chamber.

A few sounds rang out. And then, as if in response, hoarse cries could be heard, rising and falling at times.

On one of the walls of the room, several long and narrow coffin-shaped holes had been dug out. They were locked by metal gates to form tiny and cramped prison cells, which were used to imprison test subjects.

A few of the cells had probably been dug too close to each other, causing them to connect and form a large prison cell.

The lights in the lab weren’t particularly bright. The rays of light reached only the front part of the cells. The deeper areas were cloaked in total darkness.

Human shadows shifted about as if agitated by the rays of light.

On the walls opposite the prison cells were a few doors as well.

Beyond these doors were the offices of researchers like Jack. A large amount of data was stored in there, including even data on some of the members of the organization. All the data were of middle and lowly-ranked personnel.

As for the behind-the-scenes founders of the organization, those government officials and influential figures would never leave behind such obvious clues and information for others to use against them.

However, Dr. Jack was an extremely important researcher. They could keep their identities a secret from others but not from him.

Tang Luo had already stored the identities of those people in his memory. When he found a suitable timing, he would be able to go ahead and root out the evil.

“Let’s get the data?” Jack limped towards the closed door.

Tang Luo followed after him at a leisurely pace.

The bespectacled man stood at the doorway with an extremely troubled look on his face. He wanted to escape, yet he didn’t dare to. That foreign detective’s behavior was completely unbridled. He was a total lunatic and weirdo.

If he chose not to escape, when the time came where he ended up in the hands of the Cotland Yard, he should still be able to stay alive. After all, he was just an unimportant pawn.

But should he choose to escape, he probably wouldn’t even be able to stay alive.

Unlike Jack, the bespectacled man had personally witnessed the destruction Tang Luo’s table-flipping had caused.

To the other party, killing him was probably as easy as killing a little chick.

After unlocking one of the doors, Jack walked towards the cabinet in the room. “All the files are in there.”

“Take them out,” said Tang Luo.