# Chapter 126: The Laboratory
"Tang!"
In front of the building, Professor Connors, wearing a sterile white coat, was waiting early at the entrance with several Researchers.
Lane pulled open the car door for Tang Song. Professor Connors immediately stepped forward, extended both hands, and tightly clasped Tang Song's hand.
Tang Song's eyes swept over Professor Connors' intact right hand. He playfully patted his right hand and said,
"Congratulations, Professor, on achieving your wish!"
Professor Connors, who had always worn a gloomy, serious, and rigid expression, smiled so wide his gums showed.
He hadn't laughed so heartily in many years, ever since losing his right hand.
"Tang, I owe it all to you!"
Professor Connors was filled with gratitude. Without Tang Song, Professor Connors knew in his heart that his experiment would never have succeeded so quickly.
Especially before meeting Tang Song, the Oscorp Board of Directors had already intended to stop funding him.
Tang Song not only invested in his research project but also helped him solve the most critical problem in the experiment.
Although it was merely providing a blood sample from a high school boy.
However, the gene chain in Peter Parker's blood perfectly compensated for the shortcomings in his transcription genetic experiment.
After solving the problem of the transformation between Lizard and human forms and the experiment succeeded, Professor Connors was the first to inject the improved Lizard Serum.
As he expected, the Lizard gene chain repaired onto the human gene chain, and the Lizard regeneration ability directly restored vitality to his severed right hand.
This was also the reason Professor Connors resolutely decided to switch allegiance and follow Tang Song.
Professor Connors accompanied Tang Song into the building, which was currently shut down. At a Corner inside the building, Professor Connors extended his right hand and placed it against the wall in front of him.
A blue light palm print comparison holographic image appeared. Moments later, the wall in front slowly moved back, revealing a silver-white elevator leading to the lower level.
Professor Connors stepped forward, about to confirm his iris using the iris scanner on the elevator.
Tang Song, leaning on his cane, looked at the camera above the elevator and said, "Red Queen!"
"Boss! Welcome!" A clear, cheerful little girl's voice suddenly came from the camera above.
The silver elevator doors slid open to the sides. Tang Song nodded to Professor Connors, gestured with his hand, and walked inside.
Fox linked arms with Tang Song and followed him in.
Lane and two Bodyguards followed closely behind.
Professor Connors stared blankly at the camera above the elevator for a moment, then quickly followed them.
The elevator descended smoothly and quickly. After a soft 'ding' sound, the elevator doors opened, revealing a Passage Outside.
It was a white Passage with many sensor lights distributed along the walls on both sides. As Tang Song and the others walked by, the sensor lights lit up one after another.
As Fox walked down this Passage, her innate killer's instinct made her hair stood on end, as if she was being aimed at by dozens of guns simultaneously.
"Boss!"
Fox subconsciously tightened her grip on Tang Song's arm, raising her head to look at Tang Song's face.
"Don't worry, it's just some laser defense measures!"
Tang Song looked at the laser emitters hidden within the sensor lights on both sides of the Passage.
The design of this Passage was his work, inspired by the laser passage controlled by the Red Queen in *Resident Evil*.
Just like the original version in *Resident Evil*, the laser controller for this Passage was also controlled by the artificial intelligence, Red Queen.
Outwardly, it was to prevent intruders; inwardly, it was to prevent test subjects from escaping the Hive Laboratory.
After all, during this time, Lane alone had sent over a dozen different types of strange dark creatures and mutated monsters, totaling over thirty.
After passing through the Passage, they arrived at the living quarters for Professor Connors and several Researchers.
There were individual offices and luxuriously furnished apartments.
This floor, which had been constructed in advance, was located on the negative second floor of the entire Hive.
The area covered reached twelve thousand square meters, roughly equivalent to one and a half football fields.
The spacious space allowed these Researchers who had switched allegiance with Connors ample resting space.
The separated apartments were each around eighty square meters, with one bedroom, one living room, an independent bathroom, and windows equipped with intelligent environment simulators.
Even though they were underground, they could still see the scenery Outside simulated by the Red Queen in real-time through the windows.
Housing allocated upon joining, coupled with a salary 30% higher than Oscorp and an additional annual bonus of one hundred thousand US dollars, was enough to attract these young Researchers in droves.
After visiting the living quarters of several Researchers,
Tang Song also checked the dining environment in the laboratory employee Restaurant.
A daily food standard of one hundred US dollars per person: fried chicken, hamburgers, fries, cola, Mexican burritos.
Italian pasta, steak...
Tang Song personally went to the Restaurant kitchen to take a look. Seeing the dazzling array of ingredients prepared by the chef, and confirming that the laboratory employees were well taken care of in terms of accommodation and dining,
Only then, accompanied by Professor Connors, did he head towards the experimental area behind.
Between the living quarters and the experimental area, there was also a Passage, densely packed not only with the same laser emitters.
In front of the Gate leading to this Passage, there were routinely four fully armed Paper Soldiers on duty. Entry and exit from the experimental area required their inspection, especially when coming out of the experimental area.
They were also the second layer of security assurance from the experimental area to the living quarters. Four Paper Soldiers who had been injected with Lizard Serum, if they truly encountered a test subject escaping from the experimental area, their combined strength would be enough to handle most sudden situations.
Even if they encountered a tough opponent, the four of them could hold out until reinforcements arrived.
At the end of the laser Passage, two specially made alloy gates sealed the Passage.
Professor Connors stepped forward and passed through face recognition, iris scanning, and fingerprint unlocking in sequence. Only then did the two specially made alloy gates slowly open.
Inside the laboratory area, it was also a sterile white environment. Experimental curtain walls made of transparent four-layer bulletproof glass successively separated over a dozen laboratories ranging from dozens to hundreds of square meters.
The glass of these curtain walls was specially made. The four-layer bulletproof glass could not only automatically adjust between single and double-sided views, but its hardness was also sufficient to withstand the bombardment of high-intensity artillery shells.
...
"Tang, the test subject in this laboratory is a Cicada Person! A type of dark creature that emerges from underground once every seven years to hunt prey, drag it underground, and slowly devour it! One hunt is enough for them to hibernate for seven years!"
In a laboratory less than forty square meters, a monster that looked like an upright golden cicada was curled up in the Corner, its compound eyes occasionally glancing around.
"This creature is documented in dark Grimm's fairy tales. They feed on humans and can mimic the physical appearance of the people they eat!"
"Currently, we are researching this creature's hibernation ability and transformation ability!"
Tang Song stood in front of the one-way glass, looking at the test subject inside.
Professor Connors introduced the situation and use of the test subject from the side.
"Boss, this guy ran into our venue to hunt and was directly pinned down by Frank!"
Lane stepped forward and told Tang Song the origin of this Cicada Person.
Tang Song nodded and, accompanied by Professor Connors, walked towards the next laboratory.
(end of chapter)