AGTCTCC Chapter 48

Chapter 48, Part 2: Who Exactly Does Fan Yuan Ying Work For?

Xiang Li: “…”

He stared at the sky above Planet C079. The strong titanium alloy mech shell blocked his vision. The air around the wormhole began to distort.

The next second, [Silver] was sucked in. The roar of the mech engine disappeared, replaced by Xiang Li’s familiar quiet, only the whistling wind and the low growls of the Polluted Entities.

Hill stared at the unconscious Shen Gui: “He just left him behind like that?”

Xiang Li didn’t speak, reaching down to pick up Shen Gui, half-lifting and half-dragging him towards the safe house.

The further they went, the fewer Polluted Entities they saw, but the uglier they became. Worm-like mouths exploded open, three layers of ring-shaped fangs curled and pierced flesh, and pus dripped everywhere.

Bai Yan: “What’s the deal with that Experiment Body Number 053 you guys were talking about?”

Hill originally didn’t intend to respond. He was a Worm King, there was no reason for him to speak first.

Xiang Li in the front didn’t plan to speak either. Bai Yan’s words lingered in the air for two seconds.

Hill: “Back then, the lab secretly kidnapped our people, extracted the gene serum of the Worms, and injected it into humans for human experiments, wanting to create a fusion monster.”

“But without a doubt, they failed.”

“Experiment Body Number 053 was the last failure. It was because Number 053 failed that they finally realized this path was impossible.”

Hill: “After changing the experimental plan, they began extracting the immune gene chains from each of the experimental subjects who could barely survive.”

“Number 054 was the first experimental subject cobbled together.”

Bai Yan: “…”

He looked at the silent figure in front, as if the other person hadn’t heard the questions they were discussing, not even pausing his steps.

Safe house.

The walls that should have been snow-white were now covered in dark red veins, semi-solidified plasma hung from the ceiling, and a few pieces of tissue resembling lung lobes dangled from the chandelier.

Bai Yan: “…”

Xue Hu Su!

Hill stood outside, unwilling to enter.

Each step on the floor left a sticky, silk-like trail of blood.

The moment his index finger poked into the wall, dark red flesh overflowed, and fibers of something like nerve bundles wrapped around his knuckles.

“Damn it!” He jerked his hand back and shook it, and a piece of skin tissue with a fingernail stuck to the window glass with a “slap.”

“Xue Hu Su, you son of a bitch!”

“You could have blown up so many other places outside, but you had to die in the house!”

As Bai Yan used the tip of his knife to pick out half an eyeball with fragments of iris attached to it, minced meat on the wall fell down with a rustling sound.

He cursed as he shoveled off the Xue Hu Su fragments stuck to the wall. At this moment, a sound of fighting suddenly came from outside.

Hill, who had been complaining about the disgusting scene in the house, was now surrounded by three Polluted Entities. The soles of his tactical boots scraped against the ground, sparking.

The lamprey-shaped Polluted Entity arched its spine, and three layers of flesh membrane throats “popped” out two meters.

Hill dodged their attacks in a panic, while Xiang Li stood not far away, watching coldly.

“Xiang Li~” Bai Yan poked half his face out of the window, he whispered.

Xiang Li glanced over.

“In the dark pocket on his lower back,” Bai Yan’s Adam’s apple bobbed, “there are β-type nerve inhibitors that can suppress our frenzy.”

Hill: “…”

Xiang Li pressed his wrist. The black Spiritual Power in his hand turned into a whip, and the whip end wrapped around the lamprey’s body, pulling it back.

The Polluted Entity’s body twisted towards Xiang Li.

At this time, Bai Yan shouted to Hill.

“Inhibitors! Give them!”

Only then did Hill realize that these might be their companions. He reached for his lower back and threw out the inhibitor pills in one go.

A few seconds later, the attacks stopped. The attacking Polluted Entities slowly changed, eventually turning into a man, a woman, and a child.

Hill lightly “cursed”: “Damn it.”

This was the first time Bai Yan had heard him curse. He didn’t care about the “Xue Hu Su” in the house anymore, and leaned in, being a smart ass.

He made a “tsk tsk” sound.

“So pathetic.”

After saying that, he reached out and picked up Ning Le. Xiang Li also walked over, carrying one on each shoulder as they headed towards the safe house.

Suddenly, he turned his head, his gaze falling on Hill, who was complaining about his shoes being stepped on by pus.

“I want to talk to you.”

Hill raised his eyebrows. This was the first time he hadn’t detected any ice in Xiang Li’s words.

The three of them came to another room. Hill didn’t know where he got another set of clothes, and stared cleanly at Bai Yan in front of him, who looked like he was about to question him.

Bai Yan: “…”

The next second, he transformed into a shadow and drilled into Xiang Li’s shadow.

Hill: “Speak.”

Xiang Li: “The lab kidnapped your people back then. You came to the Main Star, do you want revenge?”

Hill thought for two seconds: “I guess.”

Xiang Li: “Did Qi Xiao and Ning Li An give you the inhibitors in your hand?”

Hill’s eyes narrowed slightly, as if trying to understand something.

“We developed the inhibitors ourselves. How are they related to those two people?”

Xiang Li: “?”

Hill: “Who told you that, did you think of it yourself? You’re really imaginative.”

Xiang Li: “Fan Yuan Ying.”

Hill took a deep breath, feeling choked in his chest, almost unable to breathe.

He gritted his teeth: “No.”

“I don’t know any Qi Xiao or Ning Li An, that’s just what the information my Worms reported to me.”

Hill: “You thought I was in cahoots with them!”

At this time, Bai Yan poked his head out of the shadow.

“Xiang Li, I can testify, he really doesn’t know Qi Xiao and Ning Li An.”

Xiang Li: “Then why did you kidnap Bai Yan?”

Hill: “…”

Bai Yan was a little embarrassed.

“I ran into his shadow myself.”

“…”

Xiang Li: “Misunderstood you, sorry.”

Hill nodded: “Apology accepted.”

“Isn’t that Fan Yuan Ying your people? Don’t you know him?”

Shen Gui: “Isn’t Fan Yuan Ying a Worm?”

The moment the voice sounded, the three of them looked over at the same time. They saw Shen Gui, covered in bandages, appearing at the door, holding onto the doorframe with one hand, with something lying on his shoulder.

Bai Yan turned into human form, picked up the child’s wriggling body of flesh on Shen Gui’s shoulder, and threw it far away with a “whoosh.”

Hill: “…If I hadn’t come to the Main Star, I wouldn’t have known that you guys blame everything on us Worms.”

Xiang Li: “…”

Shen Gui: “…”

Xue Hu Su, who was thrown out: “…”

Shen Gui raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, looking a little tired.

“So who exactly does Fan Yuan Ying work for?”

Xiang Li calmly poured himself a glass of water. He stared at the ripples in the glass, thinking of someone who particularly loved to drink tea.

“Contact the Main Star, and have them ask.”

Who “he” was, went without saying.

Shen Gui: “Fan Yuan Ying died a few days ago.”

“Died!”

“Wu Zhen… Qi Xiao went to visit him in prison before, and then he died.”

Hill had a headache.

“Can’t you humans even protect your own people?”

Shen Gui glanced at him and continued, “Before he died, he kept repeating one sentence.”

“‘The King, he has come.'”

Hill: “…”

So that’s how his reputation was ruined.

He repeated emphatically through gritted teeth: “I don’t know him.”

Xiang Li swallowed a mouthful of water, blowing on it lightly, feeling it was a little hot.

“Oh.”

Hill: Oh your mom.

Although they knew Fan Yuan Ying had died, Shen Gui still made a video call to Chu Qi.

On the holographic blue virtual screen, Chu Qi’s cold face appeared, showing no emotional fluctuations.

“Shen Gui.”

Shen Gui nodded. Chu Qi on the other side sharply noticed a figure drinking water in the corner of the screen and pursed his lips.

Shen Gui: “How is it going?”

Chu Qi didn’t speak. The scene on the screen changed. He was still in his mech, and mutated Worms were constantly slamming into the mech’s outer shell, making “thumping” sounds.

The others stared at the scene on the screen, making sounds of pity.

Hill: “Tsk, looks like our Worms will be dominant next.”

“The future is death.”

Xiang Li turned his head, his gaze focused on Hill.

Hill turned his head, avoiding eye contact with Xiang Li. The Polluted Entities on the screen attacked even more fiercely, and the mech was almost unable to move, the muzzle of the cannon blocked by corpses.

The whole sky was gloomy, it was hard to tell if the cloud cover was too thick or if there were too many Polluted Entities.

“Colonel!”

Someone shouted from the screen. Chu Qi connected to the mech’s connection. The voice on the other end was terrified, with a hint of imperceptible trembling.

“Colonel, the Main Base’s signal is cut off!”

The next second, Chu Qi’s video call was also cut off. Shen Gui almost instantly dialed back, but there was no electronic sound indicating connection failure. Only flickering snowflakes appeared on the screen in front of him.

Hill glanced sideways at Bai Yan, who was piecing together corpses, his eyes filled with disgust as he stared at the corpses on the ground.

Xue Hu Su, who was sitting and piecing together his own leg with Bai Yan, exploded immediately: “What are you looking at!”

Bai Yan slapped him on the back of the head.

“If you explode again, you’ll be on your own.”

Xue Hu Su whispered in dissatisfaction: “Tch.”

“I want to go back to the Main Star.” Shen Gui’s voice was a little hoarse.

“Who are you talking to?” Xiang Li raised his eyes, “There are no humans here. Do you think you can go back in this state and be a drag on Chu Qi?”

Shen Gui was silent.

Xiang Li: “You stay on C079, I’ll go.”

The others: “?”

“What are you going to do? Ask Chu Qi for that file? He clearly doesn’t want to tell you.”

Xiang Li: “Old Yan is still there, and the old man Yu Han too. He used his name for buying things on the black market before. If he dies, who will pay me back?”

What time is it now, who cares about your little bit of money.

Hill said that in his heart, but his body stood up obediently, and he raised his hand to create a small, simplified black hole.

“I’ll go with you.”

Bai Yan: “What are you going to do?”

Hill: “If I don’t go, I’m going to become as black as you.”

Main Base.

Xing Zi Mu was tied backwards to a metal chair, a suppressed hiss escaping his throat. The blue light of the electronic gag pulsed on his jawline, reflecting the dark red stains on the white coats of the two people opposite him.

Qi Xiao: “Pollution level of 3.2, tsk, so slow.”

“How are the α and γ zones?”

Ning Li An: “The smugglers from the black market buried thirty tons of magnetic shielding layers underground, the source of pollution can’t be sent in– now the entire γ zone is a scrambled signal.”

This was the first time Xing Zi Mu had heard Qi Xiao and Ning Li An’s voices. The familiar voices made two figures flash through his mind in an instant.

Xing Zi Mu’s eyes were half-closed, his heart beating faster and faster. He was sure he had heard this voice somewhere.

Where?

Where!

“Ding~”

Suddenly, the door to the management level was opened.

Xing Zi Mu: “!”

Sang Quan Shi Li stood behind the door, supporting his knees with both hands, breathing heavily, wiping the sweat from his forehead with one hand, looking like he had run all the way over.

“Xing Zi…”

His voice stopped abruptly. Sang Quan Shi Li also clearly saw the situation in front of him, and his pupils trembled violently.

One second, two seconds. Sang Quan Shi Li was about to run out almost subconsciously, but at the same time, Qi Xiao picked up something beside him and threw it over there.

A sonic wave receiver brushed past Sang Quan Shi Li’s body and stuck into the wall, the end trembling up and down.

Sang Quan Shi Li: “!”

The next second, Ning Li An appeared in front of him, reaching out expressionlessly to hold Sang Quan Shi Li’s shoulder.

Sang Quan Shi Li mobilized his Spiritual Power skills, wanting to control the Spiritual Power of the person in front of him, but no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn’t feel a trace of Spiritual Power fluctuations.

Sang Quan Shi Li bit his teeth, his tongue along with it, his mouth instantly filled with the taste of blood, bright red blood flowing from the corner of his lips.

He didn’t know if it was his illusion, but Ning Li An in front of him looked flustered for a moment, and then suddenly reached out to wipe away the liquid overflowing from the corner of Sang Quan Shi Li’s lips.

“!?