Chapter 286: The Conspiracy Suddenly Appears

"I am Professor Du Bo, the chief physician of Nantianmen."

"I am specifically responsible for the medical work of the entire Nantianmen Fortress, and I am also the director of the Nantianmen Treatment Center Hospital."

"A task force has now been established to be specifically responsible for treating Spore Disease; we welcome Researcher Ye Bai to join."

"Your arrival brings great honor to my humble dwelling."

"As the treatment progress unfolds, many of our physicians have also been infected by the Parasite."

"The overall situation is not optimistic."

"Let me briefly explain: the number of people infected by the Parasite is gradually rising."

"And we currently do not have a very good screening method."

"If things continue this way, the entire Nantianmen Fortress may be breached by Exotic Beasts."

Professor Du Bo let out a long sigh and said.

"To avoid causing panic among the many Pet Beast Masters of Nantianmen, we have sealed off the news."

"At this moment, they are like walking corpses, kept in chains by us and stored in the underground of Nantianmen."

"We need Researcher Ye Bai to help us urgently treat this group of Pet Beast Masters."

"Otherwise, as more and more people are infected by the Parasite, our Nantianmen's combat power—when that time comes, perhaps our Nantianmen will collapse without being attacked."

"Nantianmen is a very important gateway for the entire Yan Country region."

There are a total of six Yishou Zhanchang in Yan Country; the Exotic Beasts appearing in this Yishou Zhanchang are not weak in strength and are numerous in quantity.

Every year, a large number of Pet Beast Masters need to be transferred here for defense.

Moreover, the Exotic Beasts in the Yishou Zhanchang are all entwined by a blood-red baleful aura, and their strength is very high.

Du Bo distributed the collected intelligence to everyone.

Ye Bai flipped through the intelligence one by one.

It was written on it that the Spores appeared half a month ago.

A Pet Beast covered in Spores was killed by someone, and the Spores were flying all over the sky.

In less than a day, people started to have fevers, coughs, and said that their bones were aching.

Then, something like a mushroom began to grow on their bodies, and it would hurt if they tried to pull it off.

People infected by the Parasite were all like walking corpses, with colorful mushrooms growing on their bodies.

They all lost consciousness and then desperately attacked others; some people would even explode like mushrooms, infecting more people.

Professor Du Bo's description was quite exaggerated, but Ye Bai had a vague guess in his heart.

That is, since these Spores spread from the Yishou Zhanchang, why are the Exotic Beasts attacking the Nantianmen Fortress completely fine? The intelligence did not continue to say whether there is an infection phenomenon among the Exotic Beasts in the Yishou Zhanchang.

Could these Spores be man-made?

This piece of information is crucial.

If Exotic Beasts were infected by the Spores, then the intelligence should show that the number of Exotic Beasts infected by the Spores is increasing.

But Ye Bai had just taken a look across the city wall and did not discover any phenomenon of Exotic Beasts being infected.

Were these Exotic Beasts cleaned up, or have the Spores evolved and become more concealed?

This concerns the Medium Divine Power Demon God, Mother of Spores, of the Evil Chaos alignment.

Therefore, Ye Bai felt that he could not take it lightly; after all, even Dankalabi and Seere were very wary of the Mother of Spores.

This proves that if they were to face the Mother of Spores, they could both potentially become captives of the Mother of Spores.

Ye Bai immediately sent a message to his martial uncle, listing his conjectures within it.

After Jiao Mu Jiao lowered his head and glanced at the message, he shook his head calmly: "Our medical team has traveled a long distance and must rest first before proceeding with treatment."

"So as to avoid accidentally getting infected with Spores and uselessly increasing the number of infections."

In fact, everyone who came had already been injected with Flame Potion; their body temperature would rise to about 40 degrees, which is enough to resist the erosion of the Spores.

Lan Fa's ability can also replicate Flame Potion on a large scale, so it is more important to clarify the current situation, but his martial uncle does not yet know that Lan Fa possesses this ability.

"How about this, let Ye Bai work a little harder and go take a look at the condition of the patients."

"The rest of us will rest for a while."

After a Clone is replicated by the Mirror Person, it is equivalent to the shadow of the original body, possessing a portion of the original body's memories.

Moreover, this Clone must be activated after Ye Bai's consent.

The consciousness of the Clone is connected to the Mirror Person; if the Clone experiences death, before dying, it will transmit its memories of these eight hours to the Mirror Person.

And once the Mirror Person filters out useful memories, it will pass them to Lan Fa through the contract.

This way, one can know what happened in this Underground Laboratory.

In case there is any problem, the Clone can also take a blow for Ye Bai.

Jiao Mu Jiao gave Ye Bai a wink, and Ye Bai nodded slightly to respond.

"Haha, it was my oversight, it was my oversight."

Doctor Du Bo laughed awkwardly.

"Clap, clap, clap."

"Han Ke, please handle this; I will take Researcher Ye Bai to see those Pet Beast Masters who are suffering from the Spores first."

Han Ke was a short-haired girl with a butterfly-shaped hairpin clipped to her hair.

She looked a bit playful and cute, wearing a suit, her face full of dignity. "Everyone, please follow me. My name is Han Ke, and I am a member of the Logistics Support Department. If you have any problems with food or lodging, you can tell me, and I will arrange it quickly."

"Thank you for traveling thousands of miles to come here; our environment is a bit more difficult."

"We will use a buffet format for every meal; I hope everyone will be mindful."

Ye Bai and Lan Fa were both assigned to a room.

After they checked each other for any eavesdropping equipment or methods in the room, Ye Bai directly transformed the Clone of the Myriad-Changing Silkworm into a Guangming Nüshen Die.

This Pet Beast directly expanded a Barrier and activated the communication method left for him by his senior uncle.

A projection of Jiaomu Jiao Zhang Jian appeared in mid-air.

"Ye Bai, have you discovered something?"

Zhang Jian asked Ye Bai.

"Yes, I have a question now: since the Spores were clearly transmitted from the Yishou Zhanchang, why haven't I heard any rumors of Exotic Beasts being infected by Spores?"

"Could it be that those Exotic Beasts infected by Spores have all vanished without a trace?"

Ye Bai raised his own doubt.

Jiaomu Jiao had just investigated and it was indeed very suspicious: "According to the intelligence I have gathered, apart from that one Exotic Beast covered in mushrooms, no other Exotic Beasts have been infected by Spores."

"Could these Spores really be man-made?"

If so, that would be a massive conspiracy.

Nantianmen is a very important barrier for Yan Country, relating to the safety of one-quarter of Yan Country's territory; once it falls and the secondary defensive fortress is also breached, nearly one-quarter of the region will be reduced to scorched earth.

The terror of an Exotic Beast Beast Tide is something everyone on Blue Star is well aware of.

If the Spores were truly man-made, then that person is a sinner against all of humanity.

"Then Ye Bai, do you have any suspects?"

Jiaomu Jiao is also tasked with supervising the entire Nantianmen and checking for any personnel violations.

"Not for the moment."

"However, we must manufacture enough Flame Potion as quickly as possible."

"I suspect that some people will definitely put on a very guilty expression and state that the raw materials for manufacturing Flame Potion are in short supply, requiring you to go to a very dangerous place to collect them."

"That place is likely already rigged with traps; once you arrive, you will either be killed or trapped."

"Taking advantage of the gap while you are lured away, they can then manufacture the illusion that I was hunted and killed by Exotic Beasts."

Ye Bai analyzed the enemy's next move, and Jiaomu Jiao felt it was ridiculous that the massive Nantianmen Fortress would have a shortage of raw materials.

"That won't happen; the massive Nantianmen Fortress is the largest-scale Exotic Beast raw material production base in the entire Yan Country."

"It supplies about thirty percent of the Exotic Beast raw materials for the entire Yan Country."

"No matter how scarce things are, it is impossible for there to be a shortage of raw materials."

However, the senior uncle was quickly slapped in the face; he soon received information from the logistics personnel at Nantianmen that raw materials were insufficient and manpower was lacking.

It was necessary to go to a very dangerous valley to collect them.

However, this is now a matter of life and death, and they hope that Lord Jiaomu Jiao can head to the valley, as many Pet Beast Masters in the Laboratory are already unable to wait.

Jiaomu Jiao quickly called Ye Bai back: "You guessed it."

"It seems they are very wary of me being here."

"Do you think we should lure the snake out of its hole?"

"And then secretly catch them in the act?"

Jiaomu Jiao put forward a suggestion, which was directly rejected by Ye Bai.

"No, as soon as you go out, senior uncle, you will fall into their trap, and I will definitely die then; a Fangri Tu cannot resist an assassination."

Ye Bai knows that the Corpse Speaker will come to Nantianmen, and he is the important combat power for breaching the entire Nantianmen.

He is not clear if the Corpse Speaker has any connection to the Abyss Spores, but Ye Bai knows clearly in his heart that once Nantianmen falls, one-quarter of Yan Country will be reduced to scorched earth.

"Senior uncle, I suggest urgently having our grandmaster come over, or do you have any items there that can summon our grandmaster?"

Ye Bai felt it would be safer to summon his grandmaster.

"Rest assured, I possess a World-Breaking Teleportation Stone, a personal treasure given to me by your grandmaster; once I am trapped, as long as I crush this World-Breaking Teleportation Stone, your grandmaster's Eighth Rank Clone will immediately appear."

That the grandmaster's Clone can be transmitted over can be considered the greatest stroke of luck.

Wait, Eighth Rank Clone!!! "Senior uncle, has our grandmaster broken through?"

Ye Bai's eyes widened, and he asked Zhang Jian curiously.

"Uh-huh."

"Your grandmaster was already an Eighth Rank Pet Beast Master when he was guarding Nantianmen."

"It's just that after he was poisoned by Blood Gu Poison, his strength had been declining more and more over these years."

"It wasn't until junior sister found a way to expel the Blood Gu Poison that the teacher broke through the Eighth Rank bottleneck and became a Ninth Rank Pet Beast Master."

"As for how strong the teacher's current strength is, I really don't know."

"White Tiger Marshal once said that the teacher's strength is slightly weaker than his, but very close."

(End of this chapter)