As the text on the electronic screen at the door of the last laboratory changed, He Ao walked to the elevator at the end of the corridor with satisfaction.

"Why are you covered in blood?"

In front of the elevator door, a middle-aged man wearing glasses glanced at He Ao doubtfully.

He Ao followed his gaze and saw the white stains stuck to the corners of his white coat, "Sorry, I didn't pay attention just now and got a little stain on it."

"Since you've sneaked in, you have to be careful."

There was a sigh from beside me.

Sharp claws fell from the sky.

"Thanks."

He Ao pulled out the short sword that pierced the chest of the 'man' in front of him.

Milky white liquid flowed along the tip of his sword.

Normally, human blood is red.

Ding--

The elevator has arrived.

He Ao glanced at the elevator, dragged the body into the nearest laboratory, and closed the door again.

When he returned to the elevator door again, the elevator happened to be fully opened and there was no one inside.

He Ao walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the 32nd floor.

Unlike the only 'minion' in the institute, Red, this building is full of minions with white blood.

There may be no humans here anymore.

However, most of these 'turned' minions are in E-level strength, and some of the team leaders are in D-level, which is far inferior to Red, who is at the peak of C-level.

It seems that Red's powerful 'minions' cannot be 'created' easily.

The elevator moved up at an extremely fast speed. In the short time it took He Ao to think about it, it had already reached the thirty-second floor.

As the elevator door opened, the environment that greeted He Ao's eyes was completely different from the area where the enhanced medicine was located below.

Here, the laboratories are not distributed along corridors, but a wide hall covers the entire floor, and everyone acts in the same hall.

The hall is about ten meters high and is surrounded by steam pipes that are steaming and somewhat rusty. Huge pipes crisscross the entire bottom of the hall.

In the middle of the hall, there stood a huge square machine, and steam with a light milky white color was constantly escaping from the gaps in the machine.

The entire hall was filled with a warm atmosphere, not only physical warmth, but also spiritual warmth.

The surrounding life force was so rich that it seemed to condense into a solid substance.

He Ao stepped out of the elevator and stepped into this life force.

There are some windows at the edge of the hall, through which you can see the city shining with neon lights outside.

The grand city forms a sharp contrast with the steam pipe structure in this hall.

It's just that the city full of high-rise buildings is now completely shrouded in hazy fog.

A huge thick fog enveloped all the flickering lights.

He Ao walked to the window and took a look. From this perspective, he could no longer see any figures in the fog.

His appearance did not attract any attention in the hall.

Maybe the lights here are too dim and people can't be seen clearly, or maybe 'they' themselves don't pay much attention to things that have nothing to do with them.

The 'people' that He Ao met in the enhanced potion research area below basically all have similar characteristics.

A creaking sound came from overhead.

He Ao raised his head and saw that the pipe above his head seemed to be trembling with steam, as if a gap was about to break at any time.

The steaming heat has been spreading in this hall.

In a federation driven by electricity, steam and flame seem to be a long time ago.

He Ao walked to the square machine in the middle of the hall and stopped.

He felt a strong power in this machine, which belonged to the power of martial arts 'qi'.

This machine should be the one that can produce "qi" as mentioned in the research institute's information.

This huge machine is completely black, with a length of 20 to 30 meters and a width of 20 to 30 meters. It is the most conspicuous and largest object in this hall.

In front of the machine, there are small faucet-like things arranged neatly.

Some researchers will take special test tubes to the faucet. After verifying their identity, some colorless and transparent liquid with a light white color will flow out of the faucet and fall into the test tube.

These liquids look like the 'qi' in the life potion.

But Qi itself is colorless and formless.

He Ao was still a little confused at first about how Qunxing Pharmaceutical materialized the qi. From the liquid, it seemed that they did not extract pure qi, but used the diluent of the Fountain of Youth to 'extract' the qi.

Judging from the hot gas that comes out of the machine from time to time, this kind of extraction may require steam from the diluted solution of the Fountain of Youth to achieve.

Those huge pipes at the top of the hall should be the pipes that transport and circulate this steam.

He Ao's eyes glanced around.

Life potions do not need to be developed like strengthening potions. The preparation of life potions seems to be a relatively mature operation.

But even so, this deployment is not safe.

The researchers used robotic arms to control the extracted 'gas' and mix it with a milky white liquid that seemed to be a diluted solution of the Fountain of Youth.

This ratio seemed very difficult to control. Just as He Ao was scanning, a test tube exploded. The researcher who was controlling the test tube was blown away on the spot, and the robotic arm was also blown into pieces.

At the moment when the researcher was blown away, He Ao saw the exoskeleton protruding from the surface of his body. These hard bones withstood most of the impact force and the flying mechanical parts.

But he still spit out a mouthful of white blood, climbed up with difficulty and left.

And almost instantly, a new researcher picked up the robotic arm and sat in his original position.

These researchers may have taken the "Fountain of Youth" to some extent, been transformed by the Fountain of Youth, and gained inhuman bodies and long lives.

But now it seems that eternal life may not be a good thing.

Because this may mean that work never stops.

He Ao's eyes continued to scan, and finally stopped at a small machine in the corner. The machine was running non-stop, and customized transparent test tubes emerged from the machine one by one.

This kind of test tube seems to be a test tube used to store "qi".

While He Ao was looking at the machine, someone was picking up the fragments of the test tube that had just been blown up and pouring them into the machine along with some small 'marbles'.

He Ao stared at the marble, which looked very familiar. He touched the inner pocket of his coat and found several similar marbles there.

It's just that there is purple mist in his marbles, but not in those poured into the machine marbles. It seems that it is a device used to create a customized test tube that isolates the 'gas'.

And those marbles are the soul-eating beads after being used.

He Ao withdrew his gaze, took steps, walked around the huge machine in front of him and began to observe carefully.

Generally speaking, this kind of machine has steps to facilitate people's movement during maintenance.

He raised his head and glanced at the smoking cracks on the machine. The machine seemed to have been used for a long time, and the lid was not tightly closed. Maybe you could see something through the cracks.

Soon, he discovered steel pipes on the side of the machine that went vertically up the machine and were welded to the machine.

This appears to be a simple access ladder.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed the ladder steel pipe above his head. He wanted to go up and see what was in this machine.

The copy ends tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Chapter completed!