Chapter 263: 43rd Floor: This Research Lab is Mine Now
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 263: 43rd Floor: This Research Lab is Mine Now
"Go! Don't kill them, capture them all alive!"
"Uwoooooooh!!!"
As if he'd been waiting for this, the Troll King charged out first.
Just then, two guards arrived, drawn by the commotion.
They stylishly drew their swords and unleashed some kind of sword aura, but…
Ting!
It was blocked effortlessly by an arm.
All my summoned beasts receive a 20% boost from my stats.
Since my defense is over 10,000, their defense is also over 2,000.
And look at that thick hide. A mere human having 2,000 defense is one thing, but a massive creature of that size and mass having over 2,000 is a different story entirely.
Even a Swordmaster would have a hard time cutting through that. Of course, if you just kept hacking away at it like chopping a log, you might eventually succeed, but it's not like they'd just stand there and take it, would they?
This means you'd need a transcendent being, like a Grand Master, to even stand a chance.
But these guys? Just some guards who can use a bit of sword aura through some shady means?
It's like shooting a pistol at a tank.
CRUUUUNCH!!!!
The two guards were stomped by the troll, turning into a pool of blood in an instant.
"Kwoooooooh!! I've gotten stronger!!!"
"Hey! I told you not to kill them!"
It's a bit of a shame they don't inherit intelligence.
If only they'd inherited even 20% of my intelligence... huh? Maybe not.
In any case, the beasts who inherited my power started a riot in the lab.
"Alright~ everyone, chaaaarge!!"
"Bad lab people! Get revenge!"
"Kill them all!"
KABOOOM!!!
"I said don't kill them, you idiots!"
The research lab boasted tight security, but it was powerless against a riot from within.
Sleep gas was released and partition walls descended, but they were no match for my summoned beasts, who were now several times stronger.
The partitions, built to withstand considerable impact, shattered with a single punch from an ogre. As for the sleep gas, inhaling it only made them a little drowsy; they didn't fall asleep. Their increased defense stat had given them a basic resistance.
"I-I surrender! Please spare me!"
Before the researchers could even send an SOS to their headquarters, my summoned beasts rushed in and captured them all. To be honest, the giant monsters just made a lot of noise and didn't do much. It was our Pukteu Tribe pig warriors who quickly ran in and subdued everyone.
Unfortunately, all the guards were dead, but the Research Lab Director and five other researchers survived.
"Stay put."
I gathered them in one of the researchers' secret rooms for now.
Seeing the fresh bloodstains and the unrecognizable pulp of what used to be people, they completely lost their minds.
I've taken over the lab, but this is just the beginning.
'How can I get through this smoothly?'
The guards and the lab are supposed to be inviolable.
Normally, just for killing a researcher, I should be fired and the mission would end in failure.
But there's still hope.
Our headquarters is clearly hostile toward the lab.
Although they can't be openly hostile due to their mutual interests, they must be looking for an opportunity.
'That's right. In the end, it's our headquarters that fires me. No matter how much of a fit the lab's headquarters throws, it's over if our side lets it slide. And for that to happen, what I need is none other than... a justification!'
A justification.
If I have a good reason for killing the researchers and starting a rebellion, it might just work.
'As expected, my head is much clearer after sex...'
First, I unsummoned the Pukteu Tribe and sent them back, then went up to the first basement floor to gather all the guards.
"Warden, what in the world is going on?"
"You killed the researchers? Aren't we fucked?"
"I told you not to cause any trouble..."
"Calm down. They... me..."
For a moment, the words got stuck in my throat. But... I have to do this.
'Right, this isn't something I can hide just because it's shameful.'
It's not easy to tell someone, 'I was raped, boo-hoo.'
Especially when it wasn't even a human, but a monster with a super-dick over 50cm long that turned you into a gaping fucking cunt?
I didn't actually get stretched out, but people will generally assume I'm completely ruined until they've had a go themselves.
Pity would be one thing, but there will definitely be men who think, 'So that bitch is a slut now, huh? Maybe I can fuck her ass?'
Nevertheless... I have to do it!
"They... sexually assaulted me and forced me to crossbreed with a monster. They used drugs to cloud my mind and attacked me when I let my guard down, thinking they were my colleagues. What's done is done. I chose revenge, and I succeeded."
At my words, some looked shocked, while a pervert like Berto, just as I expected, was looking at me with an expectant expression, as if thinking, 'So if she's a ruined slut now, does that mean she'll do it with me?'
"Either way, we'll all become criminals if we just leave things as they are. From now on, we're taking over this lab. I have a mission for all of you. You three, interrogate the researchers. You can torture them if you want. The rest of you, gather and search this facility. Our objective is to secure evidence of the lab's illegal experiments and proof that they attacked me."
"What...?"
The guards' faces flickered with the thought, 'Why are we becoming criminals too?' but after thinking it over... wasn't it a pretty good offer?
They nodded. A few of them seemed excited at the thought of torturing the researchers as they pleased.
"Might not be... so bad?"
"That pig bastard, the director, is dead meat."
"Fuck it... I'm in!"
'Come to think of it, some of these guys lost comrades because of the lab before I arrived.'
They already held a grudge against the lab.
Just in case there might be a traitor, I split them into two groups of three.
It's unlikely that three or more of them are traitors.
"Alright, move out, gentlemen. We are taking complete control of this lab!"
""Yes, ma'am!!!""
And so, the large-scale search of the lab began.
The researchers resisted.
A high-level secret laboratory, located at the far end of the facility, required a complex security procedure.
I brought the researchers over and threatened them to open it, but...
"Kugh... It doesn't matter! Without our biometric data and passwords, you won't be able to access any information! If you force the door open, the inside will automatically be incinerated, the data will be deleted, and headquarters will be notified! Let us go. If you do, we'll pretend this never happened."
To open the secret lab and all its security devices, I needed their fingerprints and passwords.
I could get the fingerprints by cutting off their hands, but the passwords?
"Should we torture them?"
"No."
There was no need for torture.
I have the <Hacking Lv.80> skill in the heart Ellie gave me.
Level 80, no less.
The advanced security system they were so proud of was cracked as easily as a whore's gaping cunt that spreads for anyone.
Beep-boop~
Click!
"That was easy. I'll open all the doors in the secure area. Let me know if you find any that are still blocked."
"H-How..."
"Our security!!"
The Research Lab Director and the other researchers were horrified.
"And re-educate those bastards."
I was trying to be nice, but they dared to threaten me without knowing their place. The guards' furious kicks sent them flailing. The director squealed like a stuck pig as he struggled.
I stopped paying attention to them and entered the security room.
The lab was filled with machines that used technology on par with modern facilities.
'Which means they have CCTV, too.'
I easily cracked the password on a computer-like device with my hacking skill, and sure enough, all the CCTV footage of me was still there.
The gas being sprayed. Being forced into that strange chair and sexually harassed. Even being made to breed with the monster...
'I don't know if this will be enough, but it's all evidence.'
As for how to transmit the data, the answer would lie in the data extraction tool they were supposed to give me during the next supply drop.
For reference, the next supply drop is in a week.
I can send the information I've gathered to headquarters then.
'And as a bonus, I should dig up all their other illegal activities.'
My guards hunted down the researchers like rats and scoured the lab, leading to some very significant discoveries.
The lab's purpose wasn't just to tame monsters.
In addition to creating new beasts through crossbreeding, they were also researching how to summon demons using sacrifices, studying immortality, experimenting with aphrodisiacs and narcotics, and researching the Demon King and True Ancestor Vampires. There was a wider variety of projects than I'd expected.
"Malcolm, what here is illegal?"
"Um... actually, all of it is illegal. I mean, it's our job to uphold the law, but even I didn't know they were conducting such a wide range of illegal research."
The data on these illegal experiments was all meticulously recorded.
It was protected by a very high-level security program, but of course, I broke through it easily with my hacking skill.
I was also able to find the place where they kept the test subjects.
'So these are the presences I felt on my first day.'
They were alive.
Submerged in the green liquid of life support systems, they were sleeping with oxygen masks over their mouths.
It seemed some were successful crossbreeds, but they were being stored until issues like short lifespans or mental instability could be resolved. Others were...
'They planned to use them like the Demon King on the 10th basement floor.'
The secret of this underground prison, this artifact.
The lights and various facilities here run on the bio-energy of the Demon King chained on the 10th basement floor.
This lab had been experimenting with all sorts of test subjects in various ways to figure out how such an artifact could have been created in the past.
And they'd actually had some success.
It wasn't energy, but they used a substance from one slime as an aphrodisiac and were able to continuously harvest sleep gas from another creature.
'It's a complete bio-factory...'
Unconscious, unable to even die, they were being exploited by the researchers.
But there was one thing they hadn't been able to find: a broodmother.
Creating the mutants was all well and good, but their biggest problem was the lack of a broodmother to reproduce them.
That's why they were willing to take a risk and forcibly capture me to use as their broodmother.
They must have thought that if their research succeeded, they could easily cover up whatever happened afterward.
'Here it is.'
So, as expected, there was a file on me.
The investigation results had already determined that my uterus had a different structure from that of a normal woman. It was also recorded that I had given birth to Augusper's offspring in just three hours, and that the baby had been born incredibly strong.
I could also see the messages the Research Lab Director exchanged with his headquarters, and they were quite shocking.
[Completely fooled the Warden sent by the Vance Kingdom. Raped her with an aphrodisiac and she didn't say a word, so she's either completely inexperienced or has a ton of experience. Seems easy to use. Looks arrogant, but she's just an empty-headed, easy woman.]
'That son of a bitch... he was deceiving me from the very beginning?'
And empty-headed?!! An easy woman?!! I'm not that bad!
Honestly, I'm still not sure what he deceived me about, but in any case, his talk about getting along was all a lie.
He clearly intended to trick me, get information from my side, and drive a wedge between me and my headquarters.
[The stupid Warden got done in by Augusper. One researcher died, but we plan to use this opportunity to make her the broodmother for our test subjects.]
That was his last communication with headquarters.
I checked all the messages from their headquarters as well. They were all directives to deceive the guards and conduct experiments in secret. The last message even approved using me as a broodmother.
"Hmm... But is this all? It still feels a little... ambiguous."
I've gathered a lot of minor evidence, but something, something is still missing.
Our side must have known these guys were doing illegal things in the first place, and wasn't my counterattack a bit of an overreaction? Headquarters could see this and just cut their losses by getting rid of me.
'Isn't there something more definitive?'
As I was digging through their research data again, something peculiar popped up.
[Demon King Revival Plan]
They had been conducting research on how to break the seal of the Demon King on the 10th basement floor—the one who had tried to destroy the world.
"Whoa... this, if this went wrong, it would be the end of the world. If I play this right, it might just work... Let's see here."
There was more to it than I expected.
Just as I was about to start reading it carefully from the top,
"Warden? What are you looking at?"
Malcolm appeared silently behind me.