Chapter 155: Self-Destruct Program

Several minutes passed, and the smoke inside the warehouse gradually dissipated. The ground was littered with eliminated enemies, with only Ling Chen standing.

He holstered Wolf Kiss, wiped off the fresh blood remaining on his hand, and then contacted Tang Yuan on the walkie-talkie.

"Old Tang, where are you?"

"I’m outside the warehouse. Ling Chen, you’d better get out quick, we’re in big trouble."

Hearing this, Ling Chen immediately rushed towards the outside of the warehouse.

Coming out of the warehouse, Ling Chen saw that there were still many people in the base, but these people were minding their own business, and no one was paying attention to him.

"Ling Chen, over here."

Looking up, Ling Chen quickly went to Tang Yuan’s side and asked, "What’s the matter?"

"The exits of the base have all been sealed, and there’s this." Tang Yuan gestured towards the LCD monitor installed on the wall.

Instantly, a row of red numbers on the monitor’s screen kept jumping.

Six minutes forty seconds!

Six minutes thirty-nine seconds!

...

Watching the numbers gradually decrease, Ling Chen needed no explanation to understand their meaning.

"They’ve initiated the self-destruct sequence."

Tang Yuan nodded, his expression grave, "I’ve just checked, the steel plates at the exits are ten centimeters thick; it’s impossible to break through. Those doors are remotely controlled, and they can’t be opened from inside the base."

"What about backup?"

"It will take another ten minutes to arrive."

Ling Chen’s pupils tightened. By the time the backup forces arrived, they would have long been blown to smithereens. No, they must find a way to escape the base.

Thinking this, he quickly returned to the warehouse. Soon after, he came back to Tang Yuan’s side with a pile of grenades.

"Let’s try this."

Tang Yuan immediately caught on, took a few grenades, lined them up, and placed them in the gaps of the iron door, linking them with a thin rope.

After everything was ready, the two retreated thirty meters away, hiding in a corner of the wall. At Ling Chen’s signal, Tang Yuan gently pulled the thin rope.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Suddenly, a series of earth-shattering explosions erupted, and the blast waves caused the entire base to tremble, with dust falling from above.

Ling Chen waved away the swirling dust in front of him and eagerly looked towards the iron door. However, the result was greatly disappointing; the iron door was completely undamaged.

At this moment, in the Boyang Company’s office.

Zhu Hong watched the monitoring screen tremble slightly with a massive amount of smoke appearing, and he couldn’t help asking, "Has the self-destruct sequence detonated?"

"No. We’ve just detected an explosion inside the base, but it wasn’t the self-destruct program."

Zhu Hong frowned slightly, "Then what happened?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a computer technician stood up, carrying a laptop, and came to the office desk, placing the notebook in front of Zhu Hong.

"Boss, I’ve locked onto two suspects through the monitoring footage. I’ve checked the base’s personnel list, and these two aren’t on it." With that, he tapped the keyboard twice, and two images captured from the monitor were immediately enlarged.

"It’s them!"

Seeing the two men in the picture, Zhu Hong’s face immediately fell.

"Ling Chen, it’s you again, ruining my plans." He clenched his fists, teeth gritted, his eyes showing a hint of viciousness.

"Keep a close eye on him for me; I want to watch him be blown to pieces."

"Yes, boss."

Time passed by the second.

For Ling Chen, time now could only be counted in seconds, with minutes feeling extravagantly long.

With only six minutes left, he must figure out a way to escape within six minutes, otherwise, they would undoubtedly die.

At this time, the internal staff of the base had gathered in front of a round iron door, shouting loudly at the surveillance cameras, in hopes that someone would open the evacuation passage and let them escape.

But no one responded to them.

Ling Chen entered the laboratory, turned on the computer, and pulled up the base’s blueprint, searching for an exit.

"Old Tang, the ventilation ducts should lead outside."

"It’s no use, I’ve tried it. All ventilation ducts have been sealed off; we can’t get out. Once the self-destruct sequence is activated, all exits are sealed without exception, unless we can break through that iron door."

Ling Chen frowned slightly; if that were true, they really had no hope left and would just be waiting to die. However, he wasn’t someone who would resign himself to fate. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, he wouldn’t give up.

While speaking, Ling Chen saw a man in a suit sitting in a corner of the laboratory, pale, covering his face, and crying.

He approached, patted the man’s shoulder, and asked, "Are you a staff member here?"

"I take care of the logistics, everything from food to accommodation."

"Do you know this base well enough to tell if there are any other exits?"

"If I knew that, why would I be sitting here waiting to die?"

"Then do you know who controls this base?" Tang Yuan asked.

"Apart from the key personnel, no one knows. The laboratory here is off-limits; we’re not qualified to enter. They say they’re doing cancer research, a national secret project. Everyone who works here has to sign a confidentiality agreement."

Hearing this, Tang Yuan couldn’t help but curse, "Those bastards, using the nation as their cover."

Ling Chen was somewhat helpless, having asked all this time without gleaning useful information.

He stood up and continued to search the laboratory. Before long, he found a folder left on the floor.

The folder detailed the cargo numbers; Ling Chen looked through them one by one until his gaze was suddenly caught by a few of those numbers.

"Old Tang, follow me."

Without any suspicion, Tang Yuan quickly followed behind Ling Chen, both entering the warehouse.

"What now?"

Ling Chen pointed to the iron boxes in the warehouse and said, "These boxes have the same numbers as the goods in the laboratory. They must contain necessary items for the lab; maybe the contents can tell us what experiment they’re conducting."

Tang Yuan took a quick look, slightly knitting his brows, "These boxes are equipped with six-digit electronic password locks and independent power supplies. How do you plan to open them?"

"This..." Ling Chen hesitated for a moment, his gaze shifted elsewhere, and his eyes suddenly brightened. He walked over to a previously eliminated enemy’s body, bent over, and picked up a stun gun.

Returning to the iron box, he aimed the stun gun at the password lock and rapidly pulled the trigger.

Accompanied by a flash of electric light, the previously lit password lock immediately went dark. Seeing this, Ling Chen’s mouth curled into a slight smile. The stun gun’s charge was very high, enough to damage the electronic lock and short-circuit the power supply’s circuitry.

"Old Tang."

Following Ling Chen’s gesture, the two lifted the heavy box lid together and carefully opened it.