AGTCTCC Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Chapter 23 – Plan Complete

Xiang Li wanted to say something, but ultimately just nodded.

At night, Yan Zhou Ping squatted on the rooftop of a house, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, gazing down at the distant laboratory, taking a deep drag.

Next to him, Xiang Li was dressed head-to-toe in black, black clothes, black pants, and a pair of black sunglasses…

Yan Zhou Ping took the cigarette from his mouth, staring at the person beside him who was adjusting the black sunglasses on his face.

Yan Zhou Ping: “Why are you wearing sunglasses?”

The person carefully adjusted the sunglasses, and upon hearing Yan Zhou Ping’s words, raised a hand to adjust the frames.

Xiang Li: “For show.”

“…”

The next second after he spoke, Xiang Li vanished from the spot. When he reappeared, he was already at the entrance of the laboratory.

“Beep~”

Xiang Li casually threw the access card he was holding onto the ground.

In front of him, the laboratory doors slowly slid open, the mechanical arms hanging on the walls busily working in their designated areas.

The sound of “tap tap” footsteps was extremely clear in the silent, deserted laboratory, and the source of the sound didn’t bother avoiding the surveillance cameras, his pace arrogant.

Although he had only been in the laboratory for a few days, Xiang Li’s initial goal had been this door card that could open the laboratory.

It wasn’t difficult to enter the laboratory unnoticed, at least not for them, these “Polluted Entities.” What they lacked was an identity to push forward and take the blame.

The identity of “Wu Zhen” was perfect for that.

Xiang Li passed the workstations where the researchers usually conducted experiments, without a glance, his pockets bulging.

Finally, he stopped in front of Professor Lai’s private laboratory.

Xiang Li reached into his pocket and grasped a silver metallic-looking gun. The muzzle slowly rose, aiming at the door.

Bang.

Bang.

Bang!

Three close gunshots rang out, followed by a piercing alarm.

The door in front of him remained unchanged. The Safari bullets only left three shallow scratches on it.

The shrill, continuous alarm made Xiang Li subconsciously frown, then the corners of his mouth lifted in an uncontrollable arc.

He released the gun, and it slipped through his fingers, falling to the ground with a crisp sound.

Xiang Li stretched and took off the sunglasses covering his face, then made a face at the Star Chart camera.

“Wu Zhen!”

“Xiang Li!”

Professor Lai’s voice overlapped with Yan Zhou Ping’s voice in his earpiece.

At this moment, Professor Lai was looking at the face of the person in the laboratory through the Star Chart, his face full of disbelief.

Under Professor Lai’s questioning, “What are you doing?” Yan Zhou Ping’s voice slowly came through the earpiece.

“The surrounding magnetic field links are isolated. Estimated reinforcements will reach the laboratory in about ten minutes.”

Xiang Li: “Correction, seven and a half minutes.”

“?” Yan Zhou Ping paused in his actions, not understanding why he said that.

Xiang Li thought to himself, he knew Chu Qi’s strength better than Old Yan.

Yan Zhou Ping’s data was based on general data, but Xiang Li could tell at a glance what level Chu Qi’s abilities had reached.

“Chu Qi, the laboratory was invaded at 1:34, the suspect, Wu Zhen, is armed…”

Chu Qi frowned the moment he saw the message. Glancing at the silver-white blob beside him, his fingers flew across the keyboard to reply and he quickly prepared himself to head to the laboratory.

Xiang Li turned and walked towards a corner. Professor Lai’s laboratory was just a front; there was nothing inside.

He walked to a wall, reached out, and black Spiritual Power condensed in his hand, forcefully blasting open the wall.

Behind the wall was an unknown hidden room.

The Star Chart surveillance was cut off by Yan Zhou Ping. On the rooftop, the black figure gradually split into two, three, four…

Accompanying this was the fading of Yan Zhou Ping’s body.

Several shadows ran in different directions. Xiang Li didn’t explain why it was seven and a half minutes, only saying that there was no need to send a shadow to the southeast.

Yan Zhou Ping vaguely guessed something and tacitly agreed.

Shen Gui: “Chu Qi, we have someone intercepting us here.”

Chu Qi: “It’s quiet on my side for now.”

After speaking to Chu Qi, Shen Gui looked up at the distant black figure. His handsome peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly as he stood up and stretched his limbs.

The black shadow was not at a disadvantage against Shen Gui and the other mechs’ attacks. On the contrary, it seemed to be suppressing the mechs.

“Bang!”

Suddenly, a shell was fired from behind Shen Gui, aimed at the black shadow, a direct hit.

The black shadow dodged Shen Gui’s attacks and was somewhat surprised by the shell, barely managing to dodge it.

Everyone’s eyes turned to Xing Zi Mu behind Shen Gui, holding a shell-firing gun.

The massive mechanical gun rested on his shoulder, his expression cold, and the expression in his eyes as he looked down at Shen Gui clearly said, “Waste.”

Shen Gui: “…”

What did he mean by rolling his eyes at him?

He just rolled his eyes, right? You all saw it, he rolled his eyes at me!

Xing Zi Mu threw the disposable launcher on the ground with a heavy thud, the Source Stone at his waist emitting a faint glow in the dark.

Unlike them, Chu Qi arrived at the laboratory very smoothly. The door was tightly closed, and there seemed to be nothing amiss.

It was dark all around. Yan Zhou Ping watched him enter the laboratory quietly from the rooftop in the distance.

Yan Zhou Ping: “Tsk.”

The inside of the laboratory and the outside were like two different worlds. The mechanical arms had all been damaged, and sparks leaked from the connections from time to time.

Chu Qi carefully observed the surroundings and quickly arrived at the door of Professor Lai’s laboratory.

The person in front of the door had his back to him, playing with a square box in his hand. The laboratory next to him had been violently destroyed, and the samples and facilities inside were severely damaged.

“Wu Zhen.” Chu Qi aimed his gun at him.

“…”

Xiang Li turned around and greeted Chu Qi openly.

“Good morning, Colonel Chu.”

Chu Qi glanced around at the surroundings. The person in front of him was grinning, and the cube-shaped object in his hand was constantly changing direction as he manipulated it.

Noticing Chu Qi’s gaze, he held up the object in front of Chu Qi and waved it a few times, then put it in his pocket.

Xiang Li said to himself, “Although there was a slight accident in the plan, the result is about the same.”

His voice seemed to have a kind of magic, and the bullet in Chu Qi’s hand was delayed in firing.

Xiang Li finally raised his eyelids, staring at Chu Qi with his obsidian-like eyes, and said maliciously, “My dad was protecting me until the last moment before he died, so you must not let me die either!”

The moment his voice fell, countless well-equipped combat personnel rushed in from the door.

…

Xiang Li stood next to Yan Zhou Ping, his hands in his pockets, watching a group of people in the distance escorting “Wu Zhen” into a vehicle.

Chu Qi was the last to come out, still holding the “thing” that “Wu Zhen” had put in his pocket.

Xiang Li only glanced at it and turned away.

His voice was cold enough to merge with the night: “You can stop now.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the vehicle escorting “Wu Zhen” exploded instantly.

When the two returned home, Xiang Li took out the cube he had put in his pocket earlier.

Several Source Stone veins were exposed on it, making it look more like a completely cut mineral.

Yan Zhou Ping took the cube, his palm vaguely transparent.

Xiang Li glanced at it and quietly poured himself a glass of water. The other party took the cube and took out a pry bar from the side to pry it open. There wasn’t a single gap, and he pried with difficulty.

Xiang Li simply reached out, grabbed it with his fingers, and directly crushed it with force.

Yan Zhou Ping carefully pushed the fragments aside. A glass bottle was hidden in the cube.

It contained a drop of red liquid, suspended in the middle of the glass bottle, shaking as they moved.

Yan Zhou Ping frowned slightly, and walked towards the basement with the glass bottle, pulling the person who was drinking water along the way.

Xiang Li took off the mask on his face and threw it on the ground, solidifying his Spiritual Power, the sharp end about to pierce his fingertip.

Yan Zhou Ping grabbed his arm to stop him.

“What are you doing?” Yan Zhou Ping asked him.

Xiang Li: “See what the difference is between my blood and it.”

Yan Zhou Ping refused: “I don’t need you, go away.”

Xiang Li softly said “Oh” and used some force to break free from Yan Zhou Ping’s hand.

What were two big men doing, pulling and tugging?

Yan Zhou Ping didn’t care about his movements. Seeing that Xiang Li had no intention of drawing blood, he turned around and carefully extracted a little of the red sample for careful observation.

Neither of them spoke. Xiang Li stared at his movements and slowly asked.

“Old Yan, am I going back to Planet C079 next?”

Yan Zhou Ping: “Don’t you still have the identity of Xiang Li?”

“…”

Xiang Li scratched his head, silent.

Their initial plan was to use “Xiang Li” to take the blame, but they gradually discovered that Chu Qi was too wary of “Xiang Li.”

Their actions were hindered or monitored, so they had no choice but to expose “Xiang Li,” change faces, and change identities—”Wu Zhen.”

“Wu Zhen” had contact with Chu Qi, from Chu Qi’s seventh to seventeenth year, ten years.

Originally a person who “suddenly disappeared,” he would be more open to action than “Xiang Li.”

Then they began planning the appearance of “Wu Zhen,” Yan Zhou Ping began publishing his experiments online, attracting the attention of people in the laboratory.

And “Xiang Li” and Chu Qi were not idle every time they were together. He slowly mixed the addictive Spiritual Power in his blood into Chu Qi’s Spiritual Form, increasing it a little every day.

Chu Qi’s thinking was gradually numbed, and finally his thinking was controlled by Xiang Li, making him dependent on him.

When the Polluted Entities broke out during the monthly exam, “Xiang Li” escaped in advance, the Spiritual Power control stopped, and after Chu Qi’s metabolism was completed in a few days, all the effort would be wasted.

So they rushed to the laboratory with a brand new identity card, and then took the initiative to find Chu Qi.

Every second after they met, Spiritual Power was guiding Chu Qi’s thinking.

Finally, he was caught in Chu Qi’s hands, and then died in public, a perfect ending.

The target was obtained, and the “person” died without any evidence.

Yan Zhou Ping looked at the person in front of him who was lost in thought, reached out, and waved his hand in front of the person’s eyes.

Xiang Li: “Brother Yan, even if we get the antidote, can we really become normal people again?”

Xiang Li ignored the hand waving in front of him, turned around and lay on the lab table, staring at the red liquid in the glass jar.

“I don’t know.”

Yan Zhou Ping said truthfully.

“Buzz…”

Before he could say anything more, a burnt smell entered both of their nostrils.

“Surprise!”

A slow, sigh-like sound.

Then a dark hand rested on Xiang Li’s shoulder, the owner of the hand resting his head on the other side, gradually approaching Xiang Li’s neck.

“Brother!” The other party said with a grin.

“I’m suffocating!” The other party’s hand gradually tightened, his voice becoming sharper.

Yan Zhou Ping panicked instantly when he heard this, stood up and made a fan-like gesture with both hands towards the other party.

“Ancestor, shush shush shush, calm down, don’t explode!”

“If you have fun, we’ll be the ones who have to work hard to piece your body back together!”