Chapter 1325: Dialogue

Chu An!?

Lin An staggered, the aura that had risen in an instant stalled, then, as if teleporting, he instantly appeared before Chu An.

In the dimness, beside a node faintly glowing with a pale azure light, Chu An now seemed to lose strength and squeezed out from the rift.

Regardless, his face remained calm; watching Lin An rush up to him, Colonel Chu simply nodded calmly and gave a soft hum.

"Where did you run off to!?"

"You can tear open a spatial rift!?"

Taking a deep breath, Lin An asked quickly. Although he had already reached the Fourth Stage, in his perception Chu An still only had First Stage strength. But seeing this man walk out of the rift with his own eyes, to believe Chu An was only First Stage would be to see a ghost!

But for some reason, he always felt that the suddenly appearing Chu An now looked unusually pallid.

At the same time, the little Mo Ling perched on his shoulder also turned to look at Chu An.

However, before the two could say more, the next second Chu An slightly opened his mouth, as if wanting to say something; his right hand trembled as he tried to hold up his slightly askew glasses frame, and the moment he opened his mouth, a gush of sweet-smelling blood uncontrollably spilled out.

"Chu An!?"

Four minutes later.

In the laboratory with only the three of them, Lin An watched with a complex expression as Chu An continually fed him various potions, his doubts growing ever stronger.

Chu An was injured.

But he could not sense at all what was wrong inside this man's body.

After Colonel Chu refused to let him mobilize power to heal, he merely staggered back to the laboratory like an old man on his deathbed, alone and searching for something.

After gulping down a tube of unknown reagent with his head back, Chu An now seemed to feel a bit better, turned and said:

"As you can see, I have indeed suffered some minor injuries."

"But the spatial rift wasn't torn open by me; I was sent back by the system."

"I used up the system permission you gave me."

Chu An lightly lifted his glasses frame; although his face was still pale, he looked much better as he spoke calmly, as if he had returned to his former self.

Standing where he was, Lin An listened to Chu An's words and couldn't help but fall silent.

Given his understanding of Chu An, he naturally knew this guy was changing the subject, not wanting to say why he was injured, and even less wanting to tell him what had actually happened.

Seeming to guess what Lin An was thinking, Chu An gave a stiff laugh and continued:

"I'm sorry, some things turned out beyond my expectations; I also didn't expect to be away for so long."

"I used the permission you gave me to open a dungeon, originally intending to bring back a little something. Unfortunately, I underestimated the dungeon's difficulty."

"After all, I am only at the First Level."

After giving a somewhat stiff explanation to Lin An, Colonel Chu glanced up and down at him while speaking, then his formal smile grew even wider.

"You've reached the Fourth Stage, Lin An."

"Good, I believe you've already taken care of those few Alien Species, right?"

Listening to Chu An talk to himself, Lin An let out a light breath and stopped pressing the guy for why he was injured.

He had too many questions; since Chu An didn't want to answer, he switched to something else.

"I killed those four Fourth Stage Alien Species, but I want to know what exactly happened inside the dungeon."

"Were you on the scene?"

"You previously had me temporarily abandon the Cataclysm Rule, timing my emergence? Do you know when the Alien Species would strike?"

"What did you intend to bring back? Don't tell me it was a miscalculation; if it was a mistake, what's up with Mo Ling?"

Six questions in a row.

Having said that, Lin An stared straight at Chu An; he still had many questions, but for now asking these few would suffice.

He had lost his memory of the glow dungeon, but deep down he could guess that someone must have set something up.

That person could only be Chu An.

As for the Cataclysm Rule matter, he realized it suddenly after the battle ended.

Had he emerged even a few seconds later, Faction Long An would surely have been destroyed! At that moment, Qing Ya could wait no longer, preparing to let a Fourth Stage Alien Species personally strike!

And from the information revealed by Qing Ya, he became even more keenly aware that the timing of mastering rule power was closely tied to the rule itself! Rules have levels!

That group of Alien Species mistakenly thought his combat strength was weak, solely because his promotion speed was incredibly fast!

With such a promotion speed, it's utterly impossible to master powerful rules!

In other words, if Lin An had then chosen to simultaneously master the Cataclysm Rule, it would only severely delay his progress to the Fourth Stage, leaving everything too late!

Reversing this timeline, Lin An felt it was too coincidental, too precise...

You should know, when Chu An mentioned the Cataclysm Rule to him, it was already before his first trip to the battlefield where the Corpse Emperor resided! That was before the confrontation match!

This makes it impossible for him not to suspect that Chu An already knew when the Alien Species would act! Perhaps even their strength...

The problems derived from this are even harder to imagine.

At the same time, without Chu An speaking, the little Mo Ling perched on Lin An's shoulder suddenly widened its eyes in great shock, its arms wrapped around his neck tightening suddenly.

"Four Fourth Stage!?"

"Lin An, you killed four Fourth Stage!?"

Panicked, shocked, worried.

Even though he had just been sulking, upon hearing Lin An's words, Mo Ling was suddenly overcome with dread, instinctively feeling him up and down, as if fearing Lin An might have a wound that would soon kill him.

She and Jing Tian, among others, had speculated about what the earlier explosion was, but they could never have imagined how many Alien Species Lin An actually faced.

In their imagination, Lin An had just reached the Fourth Stage; likely taking down a single Fourth Stage Alien Species would already be considered extremely terrifying.

To be frank, four Fourth Stages... even hearing about it afterward is still too shocking!

That's... the Fourth Stage!

This bastard isn't about to die from serious injuries, is he!? He's just barely holding on now!?

Noticing Mo Ling suddenly looking a bit flustered, worried he might be about to die, Lin An slightly shook his head, indicating he was fine.

In the silence, he simply stared straight at Chu An, wanting to know the answer Chu An had in mind.

Both were smart people.

After a moment, Chu An hesitated slightly, nodded, and directly answered the key point of his question.

"Yes, I know the situation of the Alien Species."

"Actually, I indeed know when they will act."

"I didn't tell you before, just didn't want to add to your pressure."

As his words fell, a flash of coldness passed through Lin An's eyes, and after his repeated contemplation, an answer he had once guessed.

"The situation inside the Alien Species, I don't believe you could know it from people like Nie Ping!"

"The number and personnel of the Alien Species' deployment, this kind of matter is absolutely considered top-secret even within the Alien Species!"

"To be able to know this point even before the confrontation match..."

"To be able to know the secret of the Fourth Stage..."

"To be able to calculate all of this..."

"Chu An.."

"You are an Alien Species!?"