Chapter 3745: Chapter 3736: The Natives’ Mummy

Facing the Central Guards Brigade, the members of the 633 Special Service Team all bowed their heads, not daring to speak.

They had completed so many missions worldwide, yet this was the first time they were captured.

If this got out, it might be hard to get good missions in the future.

"Tie them all up and keep working."

Lin Yi gave the order, and the Central Guards Brigade got busy tying up the Special Service Team members.

"Better to be safe."

Ning Che murmured and gestured a hand chop to the two groups.

The two groups stepped forward, each delivering a hand chop, knocking out all the members of the 633 Special Service Team.

"Come on, let’s keep working, continue searching."

Lin Yi commanded the others to continue searching inside the cave.

The places visible to the naked eye had no noteworthy spots, but experience kept telling them that places like this could very well hide secret chambers, so they couldn’t let their guard down.

Members of the Central Guards Brigade took out tools from their bodies and kept knocking on the walls.

In this way, they continued for over half an hour, ending up with nothing.

"Don’t just keep knocking on the walls, there’s also the ground and the stone table. See if they are hollow, maybe there’s a compartment inside."

Following Lin Yi’s suggestion, the two groups started knocking on the stone table and the ground, and Xiao Bing even used thermal imaging.

Lin Yi sat cross-legged on the ground, staring at the skeletons in the stone cage, gazing for a long time.

"Still studying them?" Ning Che also sat down beside him.

"Look at the shape of their skeletons; they seem normal, like just regular animals, very ordinary."

As an expert in the clinical field, Lin Yi is quite authoritative in the medical domain, able to analyze a lot just by looking at skeletons.

"I’ve seen the skeletons of those mutated animals, and their skeletal structure is quite similar to normal animals."

"So what you’re thinking now is that these animal corpses are just normal animals, but their appearance on the mid-late stage of the island seems very abnormal."

Lin Yi nodded, agreeing with Ning Che’s analysis.

"And look at their leg bones; considering their overall body size, the leg bones are a bit thin, which makes it hard to support such a body," Lin Yi said.

"When a person becomes overweight to a certain extent, they can’t walk properly because their leg bones can no longer support their body."

"I think it’s normal to have doubts; they were kept here as experimental subjects, so having some incomprehensible physical features on them is quite normal," Ning Che said.

"Moreover, the biological structure in the mid-late stage seems to be similar."

"No, there are still significant differences," Lin Yi said.

"Along the way, we saw the Jungle Boa, and that thing similar to a Komodo Dragon; they are all hybrid things, which are quite different from these monkeys in front of us."

"So, what’s the focus of your concern?"

"The content of the natives’ experiment," Lin Yi said.

"I used to think they were doing hybrid experiments and enhancing their combat power through taming, but after seeing this lab, things might not be as simple as we thought."

Ning Che stayed silent, pondering Lin Yi’s concerns.

"Moreover, this place is very close to the ruins I visited earlier. Now it can be determined that the mysterious ruins are a dwarf laboratory. Normally, as two hostile races, the Nakxi Clan can’t possibly arrange their secret lab here, even if they were the strongest race, it would still be unreasonable."

"So you think this place isn’t the territory of the Nakxi Clan?"

"I do have such thoughts, but the few corpses in front of us, with bodies not much different from humans, indicate a connection with the Nakxi Clan, but I can’t be certain now."

Ning Che patted Lin Yi on the shoulder, advising him.

"The situation is urgent now, beyond our ability to figure it out; maybe the Sheepskin Scroll will have answers, take the things back first and talk later."

Lin Yi nodded; this was all they could do for now.

"Sister Ning, Team Leader Lin, there’s a new discovery!"

Zhao Xile’s words caught the attention of the others.

Lin Yi and Ning Che turned back to find her standing in the back corner, tapping on the floor with her face close to it.

"It’s hollow here."

"Let me see."

Xiao Bing took out the thermal imaging and scanned the floor.

"It really is hollow underneath."

Lin Yi and Ning Che walked over, looking at the thermal imaging instrument.

They found the hollow spot was alongside the rock wall, about half a meter wide and a meter long, and relatively regular in shape, which made them more convinced that something unspeakable might be inside.

At this moment, Sui Qiang had already taken out a tool and worked with others, spending more than ten minutes prying open the ground.

When the stone slab was pried open, an unusual smell wafted from inside.

It wasn’t a foul, decaying smell; there was even a hint of floral fragrance, prompting everyone to put on masks to avoid poisoning.

"Take it easy, no rush."

Sui Qiang nodded and coordinated with Ma Tongliang and Zhao Yunhu to slowly pry open the stone slab.

Soon, they found the slab was like a drawer, with two-thirds inserted into the rock wall, and it took everyone’s combined strength to pull it out.

When the stone slab was fully extracted, everyone gasped.

Underneath the slab was something like a stone coffin, covered with a thick pelt of unknown origin.

But the shape concealed underneath became more and more evident!

It looked very much like a corpse!

Sui Qiang put on gloves and removed the fur on top.

The sight beneath left people speechless!

A mummified body, preserved exceptionally well!

Lin Yi held a flashlight and stood in the front with Luo Qi.

Within less than a minute, Luo Qi provided an analysis.

"It’s about 1.5 meters long, but considering the shrinkage in the mummy, it should have been around 1.8 meters when alive."

"That tall?" Zhao Xile remarked.

"It would suggest that this should have been the Nakxi Clan’s experimental site, right?"

"That seems to be the only possibility."

All signs indicated that this was likely the gathering place for the Nakxi Clan.

The small, dog-sized entrance and the strange distribution of the experimental site were still bothering Lin Yi.

If it was truly for defending against the Dwarf Clan that required such careful concealment, why choose this place at all?

Could it be due to the terrain?

But this place seemed unremarkable, so why choose it?

Or could there be other hidden reasons?

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