Chapter 127 Attacking The Base (1)

Doctor Lincoln walked toward Damian, carrying the needle containing the serum that should grant someone else a new ability or kill the person.

That was the ordinary procedure, as no one had survived the serum until then, and Doctor Lincoln believed it wouldn't be different that time.

So he pierced the needle in Damian's arm, injected the serum, waiting for the results.

< serum Detected>

<User cannot get new abilities>

<Exchanging abilities to attributes>

<+10 to All Attributes>

Damian read the notification that popped before his eyes, and it made them shine! He knew there was no way he would get another ability. The only reason he had any was because of the system.

But the free attributes were unexpected, and at least something good happened to him in that situation. The only problem was: how would Damian explain the serum did not kill him yet gave him any ability?

The Doctor stared at him, puzzled, frowning his eyebrows, trying to understand what was happening.

"How are you feeling?" Lincoln said.

"Nothing strange, Doc. But I don't feel any difference, like a new ability or something."

Damian couldn't tell that the serum did not work because of his giant bloodline, or perhaps the system had blocked the serum as well; either way, it did not work.

That was the first time something like that happened, and Doctor Lincoln saw that as progress, and for that reason, he said, "Guards, look Gregory in one of the cells."

Damian knew there was a chance something like that could happen; even if it was slim, it could still happen. After what happened with the two serums, both not working like intended, Doctor Lincoln decided to lock Damian in a cell for better study.

"Doctor Lincoln, you don't have to do that. Look, I can still do my job here and return when you need to study something. I am alive and well and not crazy," Damian said.

"Wait," Doctor Lincoln said to the guards.

He stood there, thinking about what Damian had said for a while, and it made sense. The cells were for those changed by the serums or prisoners waiting to get injected with the serum.

Damian looked fine, and he was still a military working in the base, so locking him there did not feel like the right call.

"You can live your life normally, and I will ask for you if I need anything. Understood?"

"Of course. Count on me, Doc."

Damian sighed in relief. If he ended up in a cell, that would make all of his plans even harder, and that could cost everything!

'I am not that worried about this because, in a few days, I will leave this island,' thought Damian.

At least that day, the assistant job ended for Damian, so he returned to his security room, leaving Doctor Lincoln alone inside the lab, thinking and researching the events that happened.

"What the fuck happened down there? I saw through the cameras!" Samuel said the moment Damian stepped inside the room.

Samuel went to work every day and couldn't understand why his daily partner was absent. So, he checked all the cameras, looking for him, and sure thing saw him inside the lab with Doctor Lincoln.

'Why is he there?'

That was the first thought that crossed his mind, and at first, he believed it was only an assistant job until Doctor Lincoln injected two serums into him.

"For some reason, Lincoln used me as a testing subject, and despite getting nothing from the serums, at least I did not go insane or die like everyone else," Damian said.

"He did that? Fuck. That guy is getting crazier. Why would he test something incomplete in us?" Samuel said.

The job and the things he saw on that island were not what he expected when first accepting the job. It should have been an easy trip, watching a few cameras on an island, getting a good paycheck, and going home afterward.

But the horrific things he saw Lincoln do in that lab would never fade from his mind, and Samuel wondered if his paychecks would cover the emotional damage he received while working there.

'He seems like a nice guy. I hope he does not die when we invade this place.'

After that not-so-great experience in the lab, Damian returned to his daily job of watching the cameras, using his breaks during the morning and afternoon to explore the military base, learning the guards' patterns and the spots he and he and his friends could use to exploit the base.

The cameras made that task harder, as Damian could not write anything down as he saw it because the people watching the cameras would see his suspicious movements, which could make their plan go down the drain.

'My memory is not my strong aspect, but it will do.'

Damian stayed in that same routine for six days more. He left the military base a few times, just like when Gregory did, and used the chance to send messages to his friends, explaining the weak spot he found and how his plan would go.

For the past few days, Damian did not only do his security job and mapped the base but also prepared a few bombs, placing them in various buildings of the military base.

Considering all the cameras, doing something like that was quite the hustle. Still, just like everywhere, there were blind spots Damian could use to move around the base without people seeing him, and the number of cameras inside the buildings was lower than outside, with the lab and cell block being the exception.

It was a lot of work, but Damian did it, and when the night of the attack arrived, the military base was in uproar and chaos! Some of the base buildings suddenly exploded, creating a spreading fire that destroyed the green inside, spreading like crazy!

Everyone was running around, trying to extinguish the fire and rescue those who got hurt by the explosion. The number of dead and hurt people was not small, diminishing the number of capable soldiers that would fight.

Damian was not someone anyone paid attention to, so he made his way to a specific corner of the base with a hole in the wall!

Usually, guards would stay there to protect the hole, as they still had to get the workers to reconstruct it, but with the explosions, there was nowhere there anymore.

It was through that hole that Magnus, Aurora, Ashley, and the tribe entered.