Chapter 301: Can This Thing Run Away?

Actually, Yu Sheng thought it through clearly—he was not a "professional."

Of course, if one strictly counted from the perspective of a business license, he was indeed a licensed "Spirit World Detective," which would make him a professional in combating supernatural phenomena among ordinary people, but in the face of such an extremely specialized situation, he still had enough self-awareness.

If it were about entering an unknown foreign land to map it out relying on his fearlessness, or tasting the saltiness of an unknown entity, or even being thrown at an unbeatable Dark Angel to fight to the death, he would have no problem, but this tower in front of him was clearly the kind of high-level cult stronghold hiding a bunch of secrets; for someone like him, a clueless greenhorn, to go in and investigate would just be causing trouble. It was uncertain what he could find out, but dying inside immediately was a sure thing.

He wasn't afraid of death, but he didn't want to die without even getting a kill assist, only leaving a mess of blood behind; moreover, rushing in recklessly to sacrifice himself might cause trouble for the actual investigators who would follow.

Thinking this in his heart, after sending a message to the Special Operations Bureau explaining the situation here and stating that he would maintain observation from a safe zone nearby, he led Hu Li and the others to retreat to the edge of that "Polluted Land," hiding in a cluster of crystal-grown "bushes," waiting for the Special Operations Bureau team to arrive while keeping an eye on the movements of that Gao Ta.

Everything was very quiet; that tower still stood silently in the center of this dark land, the Gao Ta and the large, strange plot of land surrounding it like a jarring and incongruous scar in a city, with no one (or anything that wasn't human) coming out of that tower.

Two Irins lay on Yu Sheng's shoulders, one on the left and one on the right, poking their heads over the crystal clusters to look at that giant tower, whispering one after another: "There's no movement at all." "Hey, do you think there's anyone inside that tower? Do they know we found them?"

"Definitely someone, it's such a huge facility, and I can even feel that Artificial Saintess hiding inside the tower; wouldn't she have a group of maintenance personnel around her?" Yu Sheng said with a serious face, "And they definitely know they've been exposed, after all, I made such a huge commotion just now."

"Then why is there absolutely no reaction inside?" Hu Li lay next to Yu Sheng, leaning over to whisper quietly.

"I don't know... maybe they are all ambushing inside," Yu Sheng guessed, "just waiting for us to recklessly go in and investigate, then suddenly five hundred axe-wielding soldiers jump out from both sides of the main gate..."

"I have already covered the entire area with my divine sense," Xuan Che's voice sounded from the side, "as long as anyone leaves that tower, they will definitely not escape my eyes."

"That's good." Yu Sheng nodded, and immediately his gaze involuntarily fell on Xuan Che, staring at him for several seconds.

Xuan Che felt a bit uncomfortable under this gaze: "Your Excellency... is there something wrong with this junior?"

He had become polite and reserved again.

"Nothing, I just remembered the moves you used when fighting just now," Yu Sheng recalled the opponent's earth-shattering, simple straight punch from before, as well as the string of operations before the battle started involving taking pills, burning talismans, and casting spells, his tone inevitably a bit strange, "honestly, it's quite different from the style of cultivators in my impression."

Xuan Che's face immediately became a bit embarrassed: "You make me laugh, this junior... uh, I am actually not very good at fighting with others; these few clumsy moves are very crude."

"Is that so?" Yu Sheng was somewhat surprised, then looked again at the treasure sword still floating behind the other person, and spoke again, "I saw you draw a sword, but I didn't see you use it..."

Xuan Che's expression on his face became even more embarrassed: "This... I actually don't know how to use a sword either."

This time, the surprise wasn't just Yu Sheng's; even Irin widened her eyes: "Then why did you draw a sword immediately and let it float behind you..."

"This sword was a gift from the Sect Master of the Divine Weapon Peak; it has the effect of stabilizing one's realm, advancing one's cultivation, and improving one's qi and blood spiritual nature," Xuan Che quickly explained, "although I don't know how to use it, bringing it out can assist in battle."

Yu Sheng listened with his mouth agape, while Irin instantly reacted: "So it's purely because this equipment has high stats, you carry it out to add attack power, right—but actually your swordsmanship level is 0, and you put all your points into fist techniques?!"

Xuan Che thought for a moment, looking very honest: "... You can understand it that way."

Then he noticed the subtle and amazed expressions on Yu Sheng's, Irin's, and even Hu Li's faces nearby; he probably couldn't hold back himself either, so he quickly started explaining again: "I cultivate under my master; what I actually specialize in are the three arts of alchemy, talismans, and medicine. Strictly speaking, I am actually a Physician—not being good at combat is natural."

Then he paused, adding a few more sentences: "These few unknown fist and foot techniques were also forced on me by my master during daily practice; he said that a healer travels the world to help, often encountering life-and-death difficulties, inevitably getting entangled in trouble; learning some fist and foot techniques to protect oneself is the only way to endure for a long time."

Irin blinked her eyes, translated Xuan Che's half-vernacular, half-classical words in her mind, and suddenly clapped her hands: "Oh! I get it, Medical Disturbance Explosion Fist, right?"

Yu Sheng almost spat out right there: "What the hell is a Medical Disturbance Explosion Fist!"

Then he recalled the scene just now where Xuan Che punched out and blew hundreds of meters of road surface into dust; the follow-up words he wanted to complain about somehow couldn't be spoken, and he could only admit that the little doll's summary was very accurate—that was indeed very explosive...

Even Xuan Che, after being stunned for a moment, suddenly brightened his eyes, clapped his hands and praised: "What Irin said is exquisite! This name is good, this name is good—when I return, I will tell my master that this fist technique he created has a name!"

Irin, hearing this, quickly waved her hands: "Then when you go back, don't mention that I said this name; just say you came up with it yourself." Xuan Che looked very righteous: "How can that be? Greedily taking credit goes against the path of cultivation; this name was bestowed by the Miss, I must explain it clearly to my master."

Irin: "... Damn, how did I run into a blockhead!"

Yu Sheng didn't make a sound either, just eating melon and watching the show on the side, and just then, a suddenly transmitted low hum interrupted the conversation between the little doll and Xuan Che.

That humming sound came from the giant tower.

The few people hiding behind the crystal clusters instantly turned their gaze toward that towering giant tower, and then simultaneously saw that shocking scene—

The entire tower was flickering.

Just like a trembling phantom, that dark Gao Ta actually began to flicker slowly in place; with every flicker, a low hum that was unbearable to endure, as if even the space was trembling slightly, came from inside the tower, and accompanying this flickering process, the illusory overlapping sensation that originally only maintained on the upper part of the Gao Ta also began to spread rapidly toward the lower part of the tower; a scene that felt like multiple images stacked on top of each other, dizzying to the point of making one's head spin, quickly covered the entire tower body!

Irin's noisy commotion immediately rang out: "What the heck is this! What are you doing! Are you going to transform and set off?!"

Yu Sheng opened his mouth, and just as he wanted to say something, he was suddenly interrupted by a booming sound coming from the distant high sky.

The few people looked in the direction the sound came from in shock, and saw two strange aircraft covered in semi-transparent energy shields, with an overall elongated triangular shape, appear in the sky; they roared, tearing through the thick fog, arriving in an instant, then without hesitation locked onto the flickering Gao Ta and continuously fired more than a dozen glowing white light orbs.

!

Immediately, almost at the same time, as if an army had been airdropped from another dimension, more than a hundred figures wearing heavy powered armor appeared out of thin air beneath those two aircraft; these heavy-armored warriors quickly adjusted their postures in the air relying on jetpacks, and before even landing, they poured a massive barrage of fire toward the giant tower.

Physical missiles, high-energy beams, constrained particle clusters, various types of firepower Yu Sheng recognized and didn't recognize began to pour crazily toward that flickering Gao Ta.

After a brief moment of confusion, Yu Sheng realized that the Special Operations Bureau's "investigators" had arrived—he had just texted to call in a deep-diving unit, the kind of heavy firepower unit with "Hunt Owl" bomber boats.

Regular army-level firepower bombing covered the entire Gao Ta in the blink of an eye; the deafening explosions and shockwaves caused by various energy shrieks dispersed the nearby clouds; Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment at first, thinking that the Special Operations Bureau team would first try to get close and investigate the strange tower, but he didn't expect that as soon as the main force arrived, they would start a relentless bombardment, but immediately after, he understood what this relentless bombardment was for.

After the initial round of firepower successfully blew away a layer of energy shield around the Gao Ta and some "auxiliary buildings" floating in the high sky, he saw that most of the subsequent attacks by the Special Operations Bureau directly "penetrated" that flickering giant tower!

Even Irin reacted quickly, letting out a cry of shock: "... Damn! That thing can run away?!"

The entire tower was undergoing some kind of "teleportation."

The Special Operations Bureau team was trying to destroy the entire facility before this thing left here, but obviously they couldn't make it in time.

The firepower from the "Hunt Owl" bomber boats and the deep-diving unit continued to bombard the direction of the Gao Ta, but as time passed, more and more attacks directly penetrated that layer of illusory phantom; the humming sound emitted by the Gao Ta during teleportation became sharper and sharper, even piercing through the noise of the artillery bombardment, piercing through the entire "City in the Fog."

Yu Sheng finally couldn't sit still.

He couldn't let this thing run—he didn't want to let this thing run.

The Artificial Saintess, the strangely appearing City in the Fog, the Bronze Knight hidden in the thick fog, the sneaky Cult of the Holy Hidden... too many secrets were hidden in this tower; he had worked hard to tear this thing out of its disguise, and still hoped to rely on it to solve the funding problem for a bunch of infrastructure projects in the valley; how could he just let it run away?

Moreover, for something with this style, once it runs away, the consequences will be endless!

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth, and before a slightly considered idea could fully take shape, he turned his head to look at Hu Li: "Give me a tail!"

"Huh?"

"Plan B, launch me over there!"

(End of this chapter)