The corridor echoed with intense gunfire. When Lin Ye peeked out again, there wasn't a single living person left there.

Some dark shadows were wandering aimlessly about. Lin Ye, carrying Little Qi, quickly passed through the corridor piled with corpses.

Under Little Qi's influence, those dark shadows didn't approach Lin Ye.

After getting through the corridor, Lin Ye dealt with several soldiers blocking the way and soon reached the area where the Void Breakers were imprisoned.

Those organization members were locked in cells, with only their eyeballs able to move throughout their entire bodies.

There were almost no Void Entities near the prison area, which might have been related to Zhang San.

Lin Ye knocked out the guardian and dealt with the suddenly appearing Void Entities, then found the prison keys from the guardian's body.

The two began rescuing the Void Breakers in the cells. By distributing keys, they soon freed everyone in the prison.

Besides organization members, there were also some captured wild Void Breakers here. Some people didn't even know what Void Entities were.

"Little Qi! I knew you'd be alright! Thanks so much this time, you're really the most reliable newcomer!"

Yellow Hair excitedly patted Lin Ye's shoulder.

"This place is about to completely voidify! We need to get out of here quickly!"

"But several companions were taken away by those doctors—we can't leave them here!"

"But if we don't leave now, we'll all die here!"

"This is probably caused by Boss Zhang's ability. Areas affected by his power only gradually deteriorate. We don't have much time left."

"They should be upstairs. I'll go up to rescue them. You take these Void Breakers who don't know how to use their abilities yet and escape through the side of the base. There are extremely few Void Entities over there—it should be the escape route the team leader left for us. Lin Ye, you should leave with them too."

Little Qi said seriously.

"No, I'm going up with you. I still have a promise to fulfill. Doctor Qi should be upstairs. It's time to settle this."

Lin Ye picked up Little Qi with one arm and quickly ran toward the emergency stairwell.

"Wait, take me with you! I can help you deal with Void Entities!"

Yellow Hair chased after them from behind.

"One burden is enough—I don't want to carry two people around running back and forth!"

Lin Ye couldn't help but voice his true thoughts from the depths of his heart.

"Uh, alright then, I won't go cause trouble. You two must come back safely!"

Yellow Hair thought about it—he really wasn't good at handling such chaotic situations. He might indeed hold the two back, so it was better to leave with the main group.

Lin Ye just waved his hand without saying more.

Because he wasn't sure if he could return either.

The stairs were covered with Flesh Slime Monsters everywhere. With Little Qi's help, Lin Ye smoothly fought his way through them.

He also happily farmed plenty of Portal Fragments along the way.

By the time they reached the floor where the Laboratory was located, Lin Ye had already collected nine Portal Fragments and a large number of colorless fragments.

"They're in the Laboratory ahead. Sister Qi and some researchers are inside too."

As soon as they approached the Laboratory, Little Qi provided information about the people inside.

Lin Ye placed Little Qi behind him, then with a gun in his left hand and fishing rod in his right, he kicked open the Laboratory door.

"You've finally come."

Doctor Qi stood deep inside the Laboratory. Beside her were over a dozen operating tables, each displaying two human bodies disassembled into parts. Most prominent were those liquid containers holding intact brains.

The vast Laboratory contained only her alone—no Void Breakers nor the researchers Little Qi had mentioned.

Little Qi trembled as she grabbed Lin Ye's sleeve. No words were needed—Lin Ye already understood what had happened to those Void Breakers and researchers.

"Are you waiting here to die? Is this what you betrayed the organization to obtain?"

Lin Ye didn't immediately attack. He strongly disliked Doctor Qi, but he didn't think she was a fool. Since she was so calm, there must be some problem he didn't know about.

"Sigh, I didn't want it to be like this either. But your attack came too quickly. I could only use these researchers' brains to connect with the Void Breakers' brains. As long as this experiment succeeds, we can find the key factor to becoming Void Breakers."

Doctor Qi also didn't want to use these precious researchers as experimental materials. But with the base about to fall, if she couldn't complete the experiment now, it would be difficult to find such a good opportunity again.

As for those researchers, they could only dedicate themselves to humanity's future.

They should have been prepared anyway, since they had also wielded blades against innocent fellow humans.

"You think you can defeat us with these brains? No, you have other reliance. Let me guess... it wouldn't be that Void Breaker who attacked the organization, would it?"

Lin Ye stared at Doctor Qi's facial expressions, making inferences based on her changing demeanor.

"Where is he hiding? Behind those operating tables? No. In that cabinet over there? Also no. Behind those instruments? Still not right... Could it be inside the ventilation duct? Heh heh, so he's hiding in the ventilation duct!"

Before even finishing his last sentence, Lin Ye raised his gun and began spraying bullets at the ventilation duct above.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang...

After firing half a magazine, Lu Jian forcibly opened the vent and lunged down toward Little Qi from above.

Although he wore high-performance bulletproof armor, several unprotected areas still had bloody holes shot through them.

Little Qi tried to use her ability on Lu Jian, but found her ability had suddenly failed.

Lin Ye wanted to swing his fishhook to kill Lu Jian, but suddenly noticed Doctor Qi pulling out a rifle and aiming it at his head.

Help Little Qi or dodge the bullets—two options surfaced in his mind, and he could only choose one.

His raincoat had already lost effectiveness. If he didn't want to die, he had to abandon Little Qi and retreat into the corridor.

If he helped Little Qi, Doctor Qi would blow his head off.

"Who said you can only choose one? I want both!"

At the critical moment, that voice sounded in Lin Ye's ears again.

Lin Ye suddenly realized—he didn't need to choose between the two options at all. He held weapons in both hands, and he had already calculated everything. These two pieces of trash couldn't possibly be faster than him!

Bang bang bang!

Lin Ye swung the fishing rod in his right hand, slicing through Lu Jian's neck, while his left hand fired, breaking Doctor Qi's gun-holding arm. Her gun barrel jerked upward, sending all her bullets into the ceiling.

"You... how can you... use abilities! You fucking... aren't... a Void Breaker?"

Lu Jian clutched his neck, struggling to spit out bloody foam. His carotid artery had been severed by Lin Ye, spraying bright red arterial blood everywhere.

"Idiot, I never said I was a Void Breaker."

Lin Ye felt that the voice that had been helping him all along was actually the Void Breaker themselves. The Void Vision and three Void Weapons had all been lent to him by that entity.