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Wade laughed loudly. He continued to emphasize Francis' name being the same as a soap company's.

"Bring him with us," Francis spoke as he no longer paid any attention to Val and turned around.

Val was about to warn Wade to keep it down a notch but when he looked at Wade's face, he saw him wink.

At that moment, Val understood what Wade was doing. He realized that Wade had noticed his healed body and knowing what would happen if Francis discovered it, Wade diverted all their attention to himself in order to keep Val safe.

Before Val could even say anything, Wade was gone. He was taken away by the guards while trailing behind Francis.

Even when they were already tens of meters away, Val could still hear Wade's loud and exaggerated laughter across the hall.

Looking at the back of Francis going away, Val heaved a sigh of relief. He was almost discovered, at least he bought himself some time.

Thinking of the sacrifice Wade made for him, Val silently prayed for Wade in his heart.

'Thanks bro, I hope you get your power as quick as you can. Also, please at least let me be awake when your plan starts.'

. . . . . . . . . 

Following that the time at the Institute went by slowly. Days were long and nights were shorter. Well, it's not like the experiment subjects even cared about day and night at this point.

They hadn't even seen the outside world ever since they were brought into the lab.

Meanwhile, for 2 days, Val had been lying on his bed. He was keeping himself awake at all times, for fear of missing the most critical moment in Wade's awakening of powers.

After Wade had left, Val had been waiting for the only chance he might have to leave this cursed lab and if it doesn't happen today than he would have no choice but to make an attempt by himself. 

But it seems goddess of luck was compensating for his previous bad luck.

BOOM

Suddenly, there was a tremor in the base and the sound that come after it deafened everyone's ears! 

Before anyone could react, a wave of scorching heat swept across the base in an instant, accompanied by the shockwave from the explosion, rocking the entire base.

Val had only felt a flash of fire, as gust of force directly pushed his feet off the ground. He was smashed into the wall of his room and slowly slid to floor from there.

Along with the dizziness and pain from colliding with the wall, Val's body was also instantly covered with flames and his hospital clothes had already ingulfed in the flames. Even his exposed skin was starting to burn with an unknown number of bones broken in his body.

If he was still a normal person, these kinds of injuries would be more than enough to kill him a n umber of times.

But not only did Val survive but he also stood back up with a trembling body.

The charred skin on his body was rapidly chipping down, while new skin appeared right in place of the burnt one. His body was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye, the blood flowing from the wounds had also stopped coming out.

In a few moments, all the horrific injuries disappeared without leaving behind any scars. The black coal-like burnt skin had all fallen on the floor of the room.

"Fuck it's so op!" Val was ecstatic despite the dizziness from the collision. The smile stretching across his face made him seem like a maniac worse than Francis. At this moment Val didn't even care a bit about the hall that had turned into a sea of fire in front of him.

Now the follow up to his escape plan was extremely simple, he just have to get out of base somehow in the chaos, straight and simple.

'I mean, who needs a elaborate plan like Mickael scofield... Whatever.'

Although Val was not sure his plan would have worked, when Wade was taken away to be tortured, Francis must've injected him with the serum to make him a mutant. Francis tends to that when he's in a bad mood.

Although Francis probably wasn't thinking of Wade surviving but against his planning Wade gained his Self-healing factor instead, which in turn made him blow up the lab and create a chance for Val to escape.

. . . . . . . . 

The explosion was sudden and lasted for only a short minute. The base was in a mess after the explosion with debris scattered all over the ground.

At this moment, the hall was full of screams and cries for help. One could only see horrifically charred corpses of the experimental subjects or those who survived the explosion but were trapped under the debris and could not escape.

Due to the large number of flammable materials in the research institute, the fire quickly spread to the entire base. The originally gloomy base was now burning brightly in the sea of orange flames.

It was unknown what compound caught fire for the flame to be of such peculiar shade. The smell wafted around, causing Val to cough a few times.

Val than quickly covered his face and immediately ran out of the hall regardless of the obstruction made by fire.

As time passed, Val could clearly feel that the temperature around him was rising rapidly and the scorching air made it more difficult for him to breathe. Because he was barefoot, every step he took felt like a punishment.

If it weren't for his immortality, which ensured that Val was in the perfect state all the time, he might have not lasted even a minute in this fire.

As he was making his escape a figure appeared in Val's sight. Judging by his attire, this person was clearly a guard of the base. The man was clutching his injured right arm and struggling to move forward while using the wall as a support.

The guard also noticed Val at the same time as him. Than the guard was taken aback by Val's appearance and then looked at the burnt gown on Val's body.

"Wait, how are you....."

"Oh there you are Ajax" As the guard turned his head, Val raised his fist without any delay and punched the guard's head with all his strength.

Before the injured guard could react, Val continued to beat his up till the guard couldn't move any more. Val than let out a muffled grunt as his newly formed scratches in his fist started to repair automatically.

'Fuck this body is damn weak. I got more injured than him even when I was the one doing the beating'

After making sure the guard was done for good, Val still raised his foot and kicked him once on the head for extra measure. He vented out all his frustration on the guard for beating him for the previous months.

Glancing at the bloody guard, Val felt a little uncomfortable. It was his first time doing something like this but he did not have many choices and these people did not deserve to be spared either.

"Hah..." Val let out a breath slowly, finally venting some of the resentment that had been pent up in his heart these days.

He then squatted down and searched all over the guard's cloth to find anything important than he took the gun from the guard. This was the first time Val has touched a real gun in both of his lives. It was kind of heavy in his arms.

Val thought for a second then began to take off the guard's clothes and put them on himself.

CRACK

Suddenly the sound of something breaking came from nearby. By now, the fire had died down a little and small pieces of gravel kept falling down from the roof.

Val knew that he couldn't stay there for much longer, otherwise, even if he couldn't die, he would be still be buried alive under the collapsed building and it would be a pain to climb out.

However, the entire space was filled with billowing thick smoke, which made it difficult for him to see anything around him.

"Fuck let's just keep going, Luck will decide whether I reach Wade or the exit first." Val quickly gave up thinking and ran wildly in a direction chosen in whim.