Chapter 619: Underground Grotto
The bubble messenger cast a glance at Meng Chao.
He felt as if he was being stared at by a real human, and he could not help but shudder.
But the bubble messenger did not cast her attention on him. She directed her gaze at A’Ji.
The bubbles tore up, which caused the air to ripple, and it sounded like a ghost crying.
“Brother, I thought you died, that’s why I attacked the lair,” the bubble messenger said airily. “I didn’t expect that you’d still be alive, and you became… so familiar. That’s good.
“Don’t be impatient. I’ll soon return to Dragon City and come find you…”
Meng Chao and Lu Siya were dumbfounded when they heard this.
Their brain cells worked so madly that a lot of them died.
They did not expect that the bubble messenger that appeared from the Vortex’s carca.s.s would know A’Ji.
Based on the t.i.tle she used to refer to him, they were also really close to each other.
In an instant, their gazes on A’Ji turned really strange and wary.
As for A’Ji, the moment he saw the bubble messenger, his expression became really ancient and strange.
He was not yet ten years old and his face was young, but he gave off the feeling that he was an old man who was around eighty years old and at the end of his life. This unique sense of age was mixed with sentimentality and endless regret.
“Th-This isn’t real. This can’t be real…” A’Ji was in a daze. He looked at the bubble messenger, and suddenly, two drops of murky tears slid down his eyes.
With a trembling hand, he tried to touch the bubble messenger’s face.
But at the moment his fingertips touched her, the bubble messenger collapsed and turned into bubbles once more.
They popped and turned into nothing.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya were on guard, but they did not detect any signs of life from the bubbles and dust.
Rows of golden words surrounded by fire finally jumped up at the top right hand corner of Meng Chao’s vision.
[Congratulations, Fire Relayer. You killed the Vortex and saved the lair citizens as well as protected the order in Dragon City. You built a firm foundation for the victory at the borders of Dragon City. All of your contributions have earned you 693,326 contribution points.]
[Congratulations, Fire Relayer. You broke the limits of your life and won against an enemy more powerful than you were. This isn’t a show of your victory alone, but is also proof of your courage and existence as an intelligent life form. You gained an additional 10% reward. Increased contribution points by 69,333.]
[Increased progress of the Mystery of the Supernatural Ent.i.ties by 11%. Current progress: 71%. Increased contribution points by 12,563. Congratulations, Fire Relayer. You are soon going to discover the truth hidden behind the Supernatural Ent.i.ties.]
The words then turned into golden rays of light that surged into his torn body.
Meng Chao gained so much pleasure from it that he shuddered. He blinked, and against his control, faint golden tears flowed from his eyes.
‘It’s finally over, right?’
“We survived?”
After transforming into a brand new body, Meng Chao had the major problem of feeling as if his physical body was not one with his nerves and mind. He bit down on his lip, but he still felt as if he was in the clouds.
With all his strength, he crawled to Lu Siya and leaned against the Queen Bee. Then, through the heat and breathing they emitted, he became certain that they were really alive.
“Yeah. Even though I seem to run into the worst situations possible every time I team up with you and become horribly mangled, we managed to live again!” Lu Siya said with a sigh and looked at the chaotic battlefield.
After falling silent for a moment, she narrowed her eyes and snorted. Then, she said in displeasure, “But when did you get so good with Divine Nine Dragon Seals? Why didn’t you ever tell me? Also, why do I think that your regeneration abilities are getting more insane? The speed you used to heal your wounds was almost faster than that of the Vortex.
“Also, this gene medicine known as h.e.l.l’s Blood should be even stronger than Raging Dragon Blood, and that’s the strongest gene medicine in the market. The usual superhuman wouldn’t be able to absorb it directly in such a simple and crude fashion. Why were you still able to jump around happily after drinking so much h.e.l.l’s Blood? Why does it feel like… you’ve been reborn, even?
“Meng Chao, somehow, I think that you have an increasing number of secrets that you’re keeping from me.”
Meng Chao found himself stunned speechless for a moment. After being in a daze for a long time, he said, “Big Sis Ya, I remember that I told you a long time ago that everyone has their own secrets and goals. We’re definitely the best partners, so there’s no need for us to know all of one another’s secrets. That way, two people of completely different backgrounds, ident.i.ties, and personalities could get along happily. Have you forgotten that?”
This time, it was Lu Siya’s turn to be speechless.
She gritted her teeth, used Meng Chao’s shoulder as leverage, and pushed herself to her feet.
“Forget it, we’ll talk about it later!”
She looked around, and when her gaze landed on the grand inheritance Saber Jin Wanhao left behind, greed became more prominent on her face. “Now, let’s clear up the battlefield and think about how we’re going to handle the matters afterwards to claim all of the Underground Emperor’s treasures as our own!”
Half an hour later, the medical cabin in Saber Jin Wanhao’s treatment room was restored and could be used after some simple maintenance and cleaning.
Meng Chao poured in a lot of high-calorie nutritional fluid and used the treasures Saber Jin Wanhao left behind to carefully create a medicine worth cities.
In any case, even though everything around them was the Underground Emperor’s legacy that he’d spent his entire life gathering, Meng Chao felt no psychological pressure about using it. He ferociously put in a lot of supreme-grade materials and filled the tank.
If it were not for such a coincidence, even the owners of the nine great cultivation families would be unable to use more than one hundred supreme grade materials to create bathwater to soak themselves in it.
Forget about lying inside to enjoy it. Just standing beside the medical cabin and sniffing at the lingering fragrance caused every cell in Meng Chao’s body to moan in hunger.
He could not help but gulp. However, he still squashed down his impulses and said to Lu Siya, “Big Sis Ya, go in and get treated first. Your injuries are worse. You have to be treated in time, or you’ll have all sorts of sequelae in the future.”
“I’m not badly off,” Lu Siya said and pursed her lips. “You drank so much h.e.l.l’s Blood in one go. You look like you’re fine, but you might have countless hidden injuries caused by the rampaging spirit energy tearing at your spirit meridians and organs. You should get treated first. I’ll do it later.”
“I’m fine. I’m in a good condition now. I can kill another Vortex—Bah. I take that back. Please don’t come back. But anyway, this is what I mean,” Meng Chao said regretfully. “The main problem is that you were dragged into this because of me, and since you’re a great friend, you even entered Saber Jin Wanhao’s secret lab with me. You nearly died due to the horrifying Vortex. You’re truly a great friend, and if I didn’t do my part as a good friend, I’d be letting our friendship down.”
“Don’t. I didn’t do it for you. It’s for my own benefit. Now, I’ve already obtained what I want.” When Lu Siya remembered the spoils that were worth astronomical figures, she licked her lips and grinned.
“Are you two done?”
As they tried to make the other go first, A’Ji could not bear to listen to them. “Hurry up and let me go! All the treasures, medicine, and medical cabin here belong to me!”
Meng Chao and Lu Siya narrowed their eyes. Their gazes were like sharp blades that swept back and forth over A’Ji.
At that moment, A’Ji was in a really pathetic state.
His spirit energy and physical body were drained by the two Celestial Tyrant’s Star Shattering Slash, which left him incredibly weak.
Then, after Meng Chao and Lu Siya killed the Vortex, they pounced on him and bound him up with a rope that weighed half a kilogram. He looked like a dumpling.
But they were not done. When they discovered a lot of horrifying secrets in the underground lab, they came back and put shackles on him.
They were the heavy ones used to keep the Broken Claw Dragon and other fierce creatures in check in the cages.
He was bound by eight shackles. After the duo put crystals into them, they also connected them to electricity, which made it look like A’Ji was pinned under a mountain. No matter how he struggled, it was in vain.
But Meng Chao and Lu Siya still hung him upside down, so his blood flowed from his legs to his head, causing his face to turn red and neck to thicken. He looked really pitiful.
At any other moment, Meng Chao would definitely not stir up such a fuss for a normal boy.
But A’Ji was definitely not a normal boy. In fact, he might not even be a human. What was hidden underneath that thin body could very well be a dangerous and terrifying spirit, so no matter how wary they were of him, it was fine.
“All yours?” Meng Chao scoffed and tossed a stack of papers under A’Ji’s head. He said coldly, “If that’s the case, all the research data and experiment data here is yours. Could you explain how they came to be?”
Many photos had been spilled on the floor. All of them showed b.l.o.o.d.y and torn up humans.
Earlier, when Meng Chao was gathering up the materials, Lu Siya carefully searched through the other rooms in the underground la and found a lot of fierce monsters’ samples, along with this bone-chilling experiment data.
By the looks of it, Saber Jin Wanhao had used the name of entering isolated training to conduct evil research underground.
They would not have said anything if his research was just conducted on monsters like the Broken Claw Dragon, but the dozen or so confidential doc.u.ments Lu Siya found showed that Saber Jin Wanhao had used humans as his research subjects as well.
More than ten superhumans who were above average in strength had died horribly in the secret lab!
This discovery caused Meng Chao and Lu Siya to shudder.
The lab was not a grave Jin Wanhao built for himself to die in peace! It was a demonic underground grotto that swallowed people whole!