In the office, Maika sat at the table, his eyes were deep and he was thinking constantly.
Opposite them, Logan, Lorna and others were all staring at him, waiting for his decision.
After a moment of silence, Maika nodded and said, "We have to take a look at the laboratory."
After finishing speaking, he said with some hesitation: "It's just that the farm is gradually full now, and the current facilities can no longer accommodate so many people. I'm afraid I won't be able to admit these people into the shelter."
After a pause, he added: "But if you can rescue people, I can send them to Mexico and other asylums. I have these channels."
After speaking, he looked at Logan and others and asked them to decide whether to go or not.
Logan nodded. He understood Maika's helplessness very well. Nowadays, the only source of income for the shelter is this farm. Although the profit is not small, it has to support more than a hundred people in food and clothing, which is indeed a bit tight.
If more people are admitted, the burden will be too great for the shelter, and it cannot be supported by the current Macca.
Among the crowd, Clarice nodded without hesitation, "Yes, as long as we can save them, we'll do anything."
As long as you escape from the hell like the laboratory, you can go anywhere.
Maika nodded, "In that case, Logan, you are responsible for this matter. You can choose whoever you need to bring with you, and they will cooperate with you."
Logan nodded without hesitation, thought for a moment and then said: "Just Victor, John, Marcus, Klaus, plus me and Clarice."
The people he selected can be regarded as the backbone of the shelter, and Logan is more familiar with them, making it easier to cooperate.
As for Lorna, although she is also very strong, it is impossible for Logan to mobilize the defense force of the shelter. Someone must stay behind.
After speaking, Logan looked at Clarice, "Do you still remember the location of the laboratory?"
"Of course I remember!"
Clarice nodded excitedly, "No. 31 Street in North City."
Although she used her teleportation ability to successfully escape the last time she escaped, after escaping from the laboratory, she deliberately remembered the location of the laboratory.
Although that place brought her endless fear, but now she had to go back to save her friends, the little girl showed great courage and no fear in her eyes.
"Beicheng District..."
Logan was silent for a moment, looked at the time, and said decisively: "In that case, let's set off now!"
Soon, all the members quickly gathered outside the farm, got in the car and headed to Beicheng District.
After more than two hours of driving, several people arrived at Street 31 that Clarice mentioned.
Because it is located in the suburbs, it seems a bit deserted here. There is no bustling city, but more factories. Most of the people coming and going are trucks, and the noise from factory operations comes and goes.
There were not many people walking around on the street. Even if there were, most of them were workers in work clothes. It looked like an ordinary industrial area.
Along the way, Logan couldn't help but check the guards at each level.
After more than half a month, the checkpoint guards now seem much more relaxed. Compared with the last time he escaped from the city, the number of checkpoints at the city entrance has been reduced.
Obviously, the last rumor has gradually dissipated, and the influence of mutants has gradually disappeared.
"This is it."
Clarice in the back seat stuck her little head out and pointed at a factory that was smoking white.
Victor, who was sitting in the driver's seat, slowly parked the van into a parking space near the factory.
Everyone looked at the factory with some surprise on their faces.
"Inside this factory?"
Logan looked up at the billowing white smoke above the factory with a curious look on his face.
"Um."
Clarice nodded, "I can't remember it wrong, it's in here."
"It seems that the owner of this factory has an extraordinary status."
Victor looked at the factory gate and couldn't help but joked: "It's been a long time since I saw a laboratory for studying mutants in the city."
Most of the laboratories they had come into contact with before were in the suburbs, and most of them were in remote and uninhabited areas.
After all, we are conducting research on mutants. If we accidentally create an uncontrollable experimental subject, it will easily have a great impact on the surrounding residents.
Furthermore, human experimentation is explicitly prohibited, and all their actions must be hidden and cannot be known to the public.
Therefore, for both safety and deception, many laboratories are forced to choose suburban areas. It is obviously not easy to establish laboratories in the city.
It seems that this task will be more difficult than imagined. The background of the factory or laboratory is definitely not small.
But now that we have come, we cannot return without success.
"Let me explain the plan."
Logan gathered everyone's attention and began to make a plan to infiltrate.
In fact, his idea was very simple. John and Victor took Clarice outside to meet them.
And he sneaked into the laboratory with Klaus and Marcus, took control of the main control room, and found the location where the mutants were imprisoned.
As long as the constraints on the mutants are lifted, they will have enough power to break out of the laboratory.
During this process, once they are discovered, they must solve the problem as quickly as possible. They must not be allowed any time to raise the alarm, otherwise pickets and police from the entire city will arrive as soon as possible and directly surround the place.
Not to mention that they won't be able to escape by then, I'm afraid even Victor and the others who are responding outside will be discovered by the pickets.
"Everyone, let's get started."
After Logan explained all the plans, he got into the car behind from the passenger seat.
Klaus understood and held the hands of Logan and Marcus, and the three figures disappeared from the car in an instant.
When John saw this, he immediately got out of the car and opened the compartment door.
The three of them, Logan and others, slowly got out of the car and walked towards the factory invisibly.
The guards at the factory gate are very lax. Just like many normal factories, there is only a security room at the door with a few security guards sitting inside.
And these security guards were obviously not very competent. A few of them were gathered in the security room smoking cigarettes and chatting. They were completely unaware that three tiny footsteps had crossed the security room and successfully entered the factory.
"These security guards really neglected their duties. They sneaked in so easily. I thought it was like in the movies. I needed to knock them out and then put on their clothes."
Klaus couldn't help but mutter under his breath.
"Stop talking and go this way."
Logan tugged on his arm and led the two of them in the direction they determined.
Now the three of them are invisible, and each other cannot see each other's status. All actions can only be done by pulling on the arms.
As Logan walked, he looked at the factory.
Before setting off, Clarice simply drew a blueprint for him. According to the route on the blueprint, Logan knew that the laboratory was underneath the factory, but the exit was designed to be very secretive, so he had to look for it carefully.
At this time, workers in the factory are busy, and various machine tools are making noisy noises. Uniformed staff are constantly busy in front of the machine tools, producing batches of industrial parts.
This is the disguise of this laboratory. If you just look at it from the outside, this is a very ordinary parts processing factory.
But no one would have thought that underneath this seemingly normal factory, a bloody biological laboratory was running.
Logan recalled the drawings drawn by Clarice, and after some careful exploration, he found the entrance to the underground laboratory.
This is an underground passage hidden behind two big trees. The door is blocked by the tree trunks. If Logan hadn't read the drawings in advance, it would have taken a lot of effort to find this secret place.
This entrance is not simple at first glance. It is all made of fine steel and is very hard. There is also a special guard room and monitoring next to it.
The place is heavily fortified and not even a mouse can sneak in, especially since there are surveillance cameras all around the gatekeepers.
It's a pity that Logan and the others were invisible and couldn't be seen by the naked eye. They arrived at the gate right under the nose of the security guard.
Marcus reached out and touched the door at the entrance, and said helplessly: "No, this door is too hard and cannot be broken open by brute force."
After a pause, he added: "And I guess once this kind of door is damaged, it will sound an alarm on its own."
Logan nodded. This door felt like it was on the same level as a bank vault, and it was unlikely to be destroyed by brute force.
"You can swipe your card over there to enter."
Klaus looked at the card machine on the side of the door, "It's just that we don't have a card..."
The three of them were completely in trouble. After all, they couldn't just sit here and wait for the people below to open the door and come up.
I don't know how long it will take.
Just when the three of them were at a loss, there was suddenly a roar of cars behind them.
Several people quickly looked back and saw a truck speeding towards them.
"It's a picket team's car. They are indeed cooperating with the picket team!" As Logan pulled the two of them away, he stared at the picket team's logo spray-painted on the truck.
The truck finally stopped in front of the basement door, the window rolled down, and the picket on the driver's seat waved to the security personnel, "Check the door is open."
The security personnel in the pavilion came out and carefully checked the vehicle, including the people in the driver's seat, the car chassis and even the roof, as long as they could hide people.
Logan noticed that the compartment of the truck was covered with white cloth. One of the security personnel lifted the white cloth to check. There were several pickets sitting inside, guarding an iron cage in the middle.
The guard only took one look and then ended the search and let him go.
Marcus cursed in a low voice: "I think they are escorting mutants. These damn guys never treat mutants as human beings!"
Anyone who can be treated like this by several pickets and locked in such a big cage is definitely a mutant.
Seeing his fellow tribesmen being imprisoned in cages, Marcus was suddenly filled with anger.
"Shh!"
Logan quickly interrupted his anger and whispered: "Stop talking, be careful of being discovered!"
After saying that, he stared at the truck and said, "When the gate opens later, we will climb onto the truck and follow the truck in!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a member of the picket team got out of the car and swiped his card. The heavy door slowly opened and the vehicle started.
"Now!"
Logan quickly pulled the two of them, jumped on the running board behind the truck, grabbed the frame of the truck, and followed the truck into the basement.
The basement was obviously built very deep. After driving for a while, we finally reached the special parking area.
This is an empty parking lot with several trucks parked and the lights are dim. Since it has not been exposed to sunlight all year round, the overall environment looks very cool.
Logan and the others quickly jumped out of the car and jogged to the side to observe.
"Let's see what they are transporting first. If they are really mutants, then we won't have to look for them. We can just follow them!"
Logan spoke in a low voice, keeping his eyes fixed on the truck as he spoke.
After all, this basement is not small. If you search blindly, you may not know how long it will take.
If these pickets were transporting mutants, it would make it easier for Logan and the others to lock in the target area.
"Unload unload!"
At this time, the pickets also got out of the car and waved their hands to carry things from the car.
Those unloading the goods were all special police from the picket team. There were six of them in total, none of them had rifles on their bodies, and they struggled to move the cages out of the carriages.
"Damn, what a mutant!"
Marcos looked at the goods in the cage and couldn't help but clenched his hands hard, his voice full of anger.
In the cage, six mutants sat together in a state of decadence and numbness. They all had collars on their necks. Each of them seemed to be a soulless body, leaning against the cage numbly, as if they had given up struggling.
"Damn it, these pickets are really cooperating with the laboratory. They capture mutants just to provide them to the laboratory, damn guys!"
Because of his anger, Marcos couldn't help but use force with his hands.
Klaus on the side couldn't help but gasped and complained: "Stop pinching, it hurts so much!"
"Who's there?"
However, this sound was discovered by a picket, who immediately became vigilant. The gun slung behind him was quickly moved in front of him, pointed in the direction of Logan and the others, and spoke sternly.
But fortunately, it seemed that he was the only one who accidentally heard the conversation. The other five pickets all looked at him blankly.
"No one is there. Are you hallucinating?"
A special police officer looked carefully at the empty area. There were no pillars, so there was no way to hide anyone, and they didn't see anyone.
"Okay, put the gun away, it's fairly safe here, no one can sneak in."
Another SWAT officer pressed down the gun in his hand and motioned for him to put it away.
The SWAT officer with the gun raised looked at the wall not far away with a confused expression, put away the rifle, and scratched his head in surprise, "There is really no one, am I really hearing something? This has never happened before."
"Stop being so nagging."
The two special police officers pushing the cage rolled their eyes at him, "You're just tired. Just go back and have a few drinks after delivery."
This cage is specially made and has two wheels underneath, making it easy to transport.
"I think you're just so tired that you're hallucinating. If that doesn't work, you can get in the car and rest. We can just take you there on this trip."
A SWAT officer tapped him on the shoulder and motioned for him to get in the car.
"It's okay Captain, I can still move."
The SWAT officer put away his gun and followed suit to pull the cage.
It's just that when he left, he couldn't help but roll his eyes back. He always felt that he was not hallucinating just now.
In the distance, the three of them looked at the backs of the special police officers and let out a long sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, I wasn't sent down."
Logan exhaled. If a fight really broke out here, the entire basement would be sealed off, and it would be difficult for them to escape.
"Hurry up and find a way to rescue the mutant."
Marcus couldn't help but urge, and after speaking, he pulled Klaus and Logan and ran up together with the SWAT police.
Clarice didn't have a drawing of the basement. She only knew that the basement was very big, but she didn't know where the specific departments were.
She couldn't even remember where the main control room was, and she hadn't been there.
After all, she relied on her teleportation ability to escape the blockade step by step. She didn't stay too much in the laboratory. She only knew that the laboratory was underground, and she didn't know much about it.
Everything has to be found by Logan and the others themselves.
But fortunately, there are these special police officers leading the way, which is a lot more convenient.
Soon, Logan and the others followed the SWAT team to a freight elevator.
Fortunately, the freight elevator is big enough. After the cage is transported in, there is still room for several special police officers to stand in.
Logan and the others looked at the free space, gritted their teeth, and squeezed in.
At this time, the distance between the SWAT police and them was only ten centimeters, and they could touch them as long as they made a slightly larger movement.
Even Logan could clearly smell that the SWAT officer in front of him had eaten Mexican chicken tacos in the morning!
At such a close distance, Logan and the others could not help but hold their breath.
Fortunately, these special police officers were very relaxed, chatting about trivial matters in the elevator, and occasionally making dirty remarks, which made other special police officers laugh.
In such a relaxed environment, they did not notice that there were three special people standing less than ten centimeters in front of them.
Boom!
The elevator descended to the bottom floor, and Logan quickly ran out with the three of them.
The special police also pushed the cage and walked through a long and narrow corridor, with Logan and the others following closely behind.
Then, the loudspeaker in the corner suddenly sounded a beep.
[Entering the scanning stage, please do not move]
As soon as the voice fell, the SWAT officers stood upright, waiting for the scan as a habit.
However, Logan and the others were stunned for a moment. By the time they reacted and wanted to escape from the scanning area, it was already too late.
A grid of intertwined infrared rays scanned from all directions like a dragnet.
As the scan ends, the adjacent display lights up.
"The scan is over. There are fifteen people in total. Welcome in."
An ethereal voice came from the loudspeaker, scanned images of fifteen people appeared on the screen, and the door at the end of the corridor slowly opened, revealing bursts of light.
"Fifteen people..."
Listening to the voice from the loudspeaker, the SWAT officer was stunned for a moment, looked at the image on the screen, and then looked at them.
For a moment, that face seemed to have seen a ghost, and it became panicked at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"No, including those guys in the cage, there are only twelve of us in total!"
He yelled loudly, took the rifle behind him in his hand, and looked around cautiously.
The other five people also felt terrified, their faces instantly turned pale with fear, they raised their guns and leaned their backs tightly against the cage.