I Am Extraordinary Alone-Chapter 658 - 656: The Last Lottery Ticket

Wang Mingxue and Professor Feng Nuoyi had escaped from Greenland Base three months ago.

They had encountered several chases from the Descendant Army en route, and were forced to abandon several trucks and many pieces of experimental equipment. The soldiers who had fled with them suffered heavy casualties, and ultimately, only 1,400 people remained. They boarded an icebreaker ferry at the southeast corner of Greenland and left the Arctic Circle.

Fleeing was not a pleasant experience. Wang Mingxue constantly worried about Wang Ye, whose fate was unknown. Fortunately, they did not encounter the Descendant Army at sea, allowing the remaining people to rest relatively peacefully for over a month.

They scrounged for supplies in the coastal towns they passed, finding no living souls in the cities. The world seemed eerily emptied. Wang Mingxue took on heavy responsibilities, becoming the commander of the remaining soldiers. These last 200 plus soldiers were tasked with protecting over 1,200 scientific researchers with limited ammunition, facing an enemy far stronger than they were.

Professor Feng Nuoyi was continually making his last preparations. His team had started setting up an experimental environment on the ship. As they moved away from the Arctic Circle, temperatures gradually rose, and the big blocks of ice sealing Leng Kai and three members of the Demon Marine Corps would slowly melt.

Their destination was Fen Niu Island in Danazhou, a reserve base for a fallback plan. Its conditions were far from those in Greenland, but it was better than drifting at sea.

However, no one knew the current state of that place.

The ferry slowly docked, and the remaining people nervously and wearily set foot on this island hanging off the extreme east of Danazhou. The backup base was located in the valley of the island. Before Divine Power Tianyang’s troops launched indiscriminate attacks around the world, Commander Lu had already invested a considerable amount of money and labor to build this place.

Leading a 20-person assault team, Wang Mingxue spent two days delving deep into the island’s interior to scout the situation at the base first. If the Descendant Army had already discovered and occupied it, they could quickly turn around and evacuate. But if it was only destroyed, they would still choose to enter it. After all, there was no place left on earth where humanity could seek refuge.

Wang Mingxue’s team was the first to reach the outskirts of the base. After figuring out where the main gate was, they set up camp in an open area nearby and waited until nightfall to begin their investigation.

After three months of fleeing and hardship, everyone was in rough shape, with insufficient food and an even greater shortage of ammunition. Now, each person only had two magazines. Their clothes had been worn for a long time, and the entire group looked like beggars.

They snuck up to the entrance of the base’s main gate cave under the cover of darkness. As soon as they showed their faces, four towering figures surrounded them, and two high-powered searchlights turned on, blinding them.

"Drop your weapons! Don’t move!" A man shouted from the top of the cave.

Everyone was extremely tense, but Wang Mingxue heard a familiar voice. She looked up, and the other party also saw her face clearly.

"Hey! It’s you!" The man suddenly laughed, stepping into the light.

"Li Suyuan!" Wang Mingxue recognized him.

After some time...

Wang Mingxue and the people she brought with her were wolfing down instant noodles in the base’s lobby. The passage to the corridor was blocked by a boulder, and the elevator to the lower levels was broken. A generator sat at the fire stairwell entrance, with four Demon Marine Corps members sitting on top of weapons boxes, oiling gun barrels.

"Why do you all look like beggars? Where are the others?" Li Suyuan asked, arms crossed, leaning against a stone pillar.

After finishing her noodle soup, the joy of reunion with her old friend had faded, and Wang Mingxue shook her head with a sigh.

Li Suyuan guessed the outcome and asked, "What about Wang Ye? He underwent the first batch of surgeries with me. Where did he go?"

"I don’t know, perhaps he’s dead. The descendants attacked us, and among them was an especially powerful one. I suspect it was one of His elites. We had no chance to fight back," Wang Mingxue said.

"Greenland Base should have thousands of members from the Demon Marine Corps," Li Suyuan was still a bit surprised.

"Not enough. This power is still not enough. The Demon Marine Corps might be able to contend with the Descendant Army, but to compete with Him, it’s far from sufficient..." Wang Mingxue said.

"Commander Lu will think of a way, right?" Li Suyuan said.

"Grandfather... Commander Lu is also dead," Wang Mingxue said.

Li Suyuan fell into silence.

Everyone was downcast for a while, but Li Suyuan felt that this wouldn’t do and quickly said, "The loss is indeed heavy, but we’re still alive, aren’t we? There have been some situations here... it seems there was an earthquake, the main structure of the base has been damaged, and we’ve been clearing the debris for the past half year."

"I thought this place had been discovered too. Are there only four of you?" Wang Mingxue said.

"We have 20 people, scattered across different locations on the island. Now, without drone and satellite support, we can only rely on our own eyes for reconnaissance. How many people do you have?" Li Suyuan said.

"One thousand six hundred forty-two people, most of them are scientists, with only 200 combat personnel. We are in desperate need of weapons, ammunition, and living supplies. Can the supplies here sustain so many people?" Wang Mingxue asked.

"If we can dig out what’s below, we could get this base up and running again. The food reserves might not be sufficient; we’ve pretty much scoured the island for anything we could find. However, there’s a reserve of food on the lowest level of the base, as well as ultraviolet light chambers for growing plants," Li Suyuan said.

"Is the laboratory still functional?" Wang Mingxue asked.

"The lab is also intact, but the biggest issue is electricity. I doubt whether the solar power generator can support the scientific team’s electricity usage. What else do you need to research? There’s no point in research now. We need weapons; we need an offensive plan," Li Suyuan said.

"Don’t even think about offense. Going to Him now is practically suicide. Professor Feng Nuoyi is still alive; he came out with us. He has one last trump card... to perform a transformation surgery one more time! To turn us into Him," Wang Mingxue said.

"Is that possible? It sounds like pure fantasy," Li Suyuan expressed his doubt.

"This is the last lottery ticket of our lives. Whether it works or not, we have to scratch it off and see," Wang Mingxue said.

Then, the group of more than sixteen hundred people gradually relocated to the damaged underground base. The hall couldn’t accommodate so many people, so they assigned personnel to start clearing the buried sections and set up temporary camps in the valley outside.

Two weeks later, the laboratory and the food storage room were cleared first, followed by the underground plantation. Everyone made a home here, and the ice block containing Leng Kai and the Black Medicine of Divine Power Tianyang were also put in place.

Professor Feng Nuoyi commenced his final research. Super soldiers like those from the Demon Marine Corps could not withstand Divine Power Tianyang because only a monster can destroy another monster. He intended to create a monster that could slay a god, and so, humanity’s ethics had to be completely abandoned.

The remaining body of Leng Kai was pieced together with the remains of three from the Demon Marine Corps, forming a complete body. Then, they used Divine Power Tianyang’s Black Medicine as a base, fusing it with all the Black Medicine they had, roughly fourteen thousand types.

Feng Nuoyi did not expect Leng Kai to come back to life; he merely used the cobbled-together corpse to test the rejection and side effects of the Black Medicine and to observe the reactions of this mix in the human body, trying to improve the survival rate for use on other people.

He was well aware that the work at hand was humanity’s last lottery ticket. Whatever the outcome, he would have no regrets.