The air inside the warehouse seemed to freeze. The gun in Wang Zhengming's hand glowed coldly, and the bodyguards behind him surrounded him in a fan shape. Zhao Jianfeng subconsciously stood in front of Chen Mo and said in a low voice, "I'll hold them back. You go first with the evidence!" Chen Mo, however, grabbed his shoulder and glanced over the flammable goods piled up in the corner, having already made up his mind.
"Deputy Director Wang, do you think this can cover up the crime?" Chen Mo deliberately raised his voice to draw everyone's attention, "The top management of 'Prometheus' has long wanted to abandon the chariot to protect the commander. You are just a pawn that can be discarded at any time!" Wang Zhengming's pupils contracted slightly, clearly indicating that this sentence had hit his weak point. Taking advantage of the moment when the other person was stunned, Chen Mo grabbed the fire extinguisher beside him and smashed it hard at the shelf.
The shelves collapsed with a loud crash, petrol drums rolled on the ground, and a pungent smell spread. Chen Mo took out a lighter. The flame flickered in the darkness. "All the materials stored here are highly flammable. Are you sure you want to die with us?" Wang Zhengming's expression changed suddenly. He gritted his teeth and said, "Give it to me!" "Live and see the person, die and see the corpse!"
A fierce gun battle broke out inside the warehouse. Chen Mo and Zhao Jianfeng, under the cover of the shelves, fought back while moving towards the ventilation openings. Bullets kept brushing past their bodies. Zhao Jianfeng was hit in the arm and his sleeve was stained red with blood. Just as they were about to approach the ventilation opening, Wang Zhengming suddenly attacked from behind. The moment Chen Mo heard the gunshot, he instinctively pushed Zhao Jianfeng away. The bullet brushed past his waist, and the burning pain made him almost unable to stand steadily.
At the critical moment, a siren suddenly sounded outside the warehouse. Wang Zhengming's expression changed dramatically. It was obvious that he didn't expect the police to show up suddenly. It turned out that before entering the warehouse, Zhao Jianfeng had secretly informed his trusted colleagues that if the situation was not right, he would immediately bring someone to offer support.
Taking advantage of the panic of Wang Zhengming and others, Chen Mo and Zhao Jianfeng fled in panic. They jumped onto the waiting police car, which sped through the night. Chen Mo, clutching his wound and enduring the excruciating pain, said to Zhao Jianfeng, "The International Medical Symposium is still three days away. We must find evidence before then to stop their plan!"
Back at the police station, Chen Mo was rushed to the hospital for treatment. Lying in the hospital bed, he was still thinking about the progress of the case. Zhao Jianfeng sat by the bedside and told him the latest investigation results: "We found out that 'Prometheus' has a secret laboratory in Jiangcheng, right in a mountain on the outskirts of the city." But it was heavily guarded there and it was by no means easy to get in.
Chen Mo struggled to sit up and said, "No matter what, we have to give it a try." He recalled that when in the "Underground Palace", Su Qing had mentioned a code word - "The Nightingale Returns to the Nest", which was said to be the secret code for communication among the members of "Prometheus". Perhaps, they can use this code word to sneak into the laboratory.
Three days later, despite the doctor's dissuasion, Chen Mo was discharged from the hospital ahead of schedule. He and Zhao Jianfeng disguised themselves as members of "Prometheus", carrying forged documents, and arrived at the foot of the mountain where the laboratory was located. When passing through the first checkpoint, Chen Mo uttered the code words "The Nightingale returns to its nest", and the guard indeed let him pass.
However, when they entered the laboratory, they found that the security here was far stricter than they had imagined. Each area requires triple verification of fingerprint, iris and password, and surveillance cameras are everywhere. Chen Mo and Zhao Jianfeng carefully avoided the guards and moved towards the main control room where the core materials were stored.
Just as they were about to reach the main control room, the alarm suddenly went off. It turned out that there was a loophole in their documents in the system, which was identified by artificial intelligence. Immediately, the alarm bells rang in the laboratory and fully armed soldiers rushed in from all directions. Chen Mo and Zhao Jianfeng were forced into a room where experimental samples were stored, and the door behind them was slowly closing.
In the corner of the room, Chen Mo discovered a huge culture chamber, in which a humanoid creature was floating. Its appearance was similar to that of a human, but its body was covered with strange patterns. Zhao Jianfeng's face turned deathly pale. "Could this be the genetic weapon vector they developed?" Before the words had even finished, the glass of the culture chamber suddenly began to crack. The creature inside seemed to sense the movement from the outside and slowly opened its eyes...