Chapter 528: Underground Laboratory

Yang Yixie had already been quite displeased with this saintess before; the fusion of the two worlds, the intrusion of mutations into reality—judging from various scattered clues, these were all her doing, and without realizing it, he ended up taking the blame for someone else.

Their conversation mostly covered the internal situation of the Chen Family, including who was loyal to the Chen Family and who might be a church-planted underground agent, etc.

This information was very useful for Meng Kexin, but for Yang Yixie and Xi Rensheng, it seemed rather boring.

Their upcoming mission probably isn't just following Mu Lingxiao and them, step by step taking back the Chen Family, right?

Forget it; although that would likely net them a lot of experience, it would probably be quite troublesome.

What originally required running over to save people was simplified by Ying Duo into a single blast that just plowed straight through, so naturally they didn't want to bother with other troublesome matters.

But fortunately, it seemed as if heaven had heard their wish, or perhaps because Ying Duo had blasted a hole in the Tianmian City dungeon map, the surrounding environment was changing rapidly.

The world began to collapse; the walls, debris, and even the trash around them turned into the most primitive data streams, as if being uniformly reclaimed by the system core, all surging upward.

Hua Jian Lei slowly walked out from a bright light gate nearby; he and Lao Bao also triggered some plot events, but there were no important clues.

Roughly speaking, it was just about that guy who had renamed himself Dieyezhe entrusting a child to his old friend, while he himself chose to become a subordinate of Lingxiao; although Lingxiao is an elusive figure in the Slum's Divine Dragon, Dieyezhe's reputation keeps growing.

Consequently, the status of Lingxiao, whom he regards as the boss, also rose with the tide.

However, Lingxiao also has genuine accomplishments and enjoys deep trust from the boss of the Undercurrent; aside from his mysterious whereabouts, there seems to be no problem.

Of course, in others' eyes, Lingxiao has always been here; but if they want to see Lingxiao, they must always first get past Dieyezhe.

As a result, nobody really knows whether the Lingxiao they see is a phantom created by Dieyezhe's illusionary arts, or just someone who happens to have time to come and do a cameo.

Over the past period, the identity of Lingxiao seems to have been used by several people at once; but while the face used for this identity is Mu Linyuan's, the identity itself is merely Mu Lingxiao.

And they happened to run into Mu Linyuan playing the role of "Lingxiao".

Although everything seemed normal, Hua Jian Lei felt something was off, but couldn't pinpoint where that strangeness came from.

In the end, he merely mentioned it to Ying Duo.

Their information exchange was basically done, and the surrounding data streams had finally finished uploading.

All the light points simultaneously fell downward, and around them, a brand-new dungeon scene began to be projected.

Ying Duo lifted his head and scanned the surroundings; they were standing in a huge underground research facility.

The arched ceiling was very high, made of poured grayish-white concrete, unpainted, revealing thick pipes that were still leaking water downward.

Gray-green moss grew in the gaps between the floor tiles, making them slippery underfoot, and the air was filled with a strange smell of rust mixed with mildew.

The corridor was very long, with no end in sight.

On both sides of the wall, every few steps there was a door, the paint peeled off more than half, revealing the dark red anti-rust coating underneath.

"Where is this place again?"

Hua Jian Lei was a bit puzzled; he knew that the information Ying Duo's side had obtained was somewhat related to human experiments, so he wondered which underground laboratory's interior they were currently in.

Meng Kexin had never been to this place before, but she noticed the inconspicuous Chen Family crest in the corner.

The Chen Family crest, which they once took pride in, seemed to have been deliberately scratched by someone; if she weren't so familiar with the pattern, she probably wouldn't have been able to recognize it.

Ying Duo suddenly stepped forward, and the soles of his shoes made a faint, soft sound on the floor, echoing in the empty corridor.

Unlike the unfamiliarity felt by others, despite the scene having changed greatly—whether it was the aged look or the shift from pixels to a truly tangible world—this place was not unfamiliar to him.

This place is the underground laboratory of the Black Stone Mountain Range.

It is the place where Ying Duo's exploration level hadn't even risen much, and due to various factors, it eventually collapsed.

Oh, by the way, the blame for the final collapse of the Black Stone Mountain Range was also pinned on Ying Duo's head by the church people.

Otherwise, how could it be said that he and the church people are destined to clash?

Remember, he had previously found a report on human experiments here; the church conducts many human experiments in this place, so is this meant to show them the truth of those human experiments?

"What are you looking at?"

A familiar male voice suddenly rang out; several people jerked their heads back to see, and they saw two youths who had appeared at some point not far behind them.

That was Yue Chengzhang, about to come of age; he no longer wore the slightly juvenile school uniform of the Academy, now bearing a few inconspicuous scars, looking less talkative and much more steady.

"This is my younger brother, Su Jingchuan, whom I've mentioned before; he entered a year after us, and this is a photo taken when their mercenary corps was formed."

Su Jingming said this while waving the photo in his hand at Yue Chengzhang.

In the photo, the teenager in the center position frowned tightly, seeming rather disdainful; if it weren't for the brown-haired girl gripping his shoulder tightly, he might not have agreed to take this photo at all.

"Oh oh, I remember now—it's the brother you mentioned before who's always given you headaches, right?"

As soon as Yue Chengzhang opened his mouth, his talkative nature was exposed; the person who originally seemed quite steady suddenly started firing off rapid-fire remarks.

"I recall that you and your brother are really quite different; that guy always looks like someone owes him a lot of money."

"And when it comes to fighting, he goes all-out recklessly; I'd say you should take some blame for your brother's outrageous fighting style—since he couldn't learn your gun-fighting technique, he's actually started wanting to learn sword skills from me."

"Uh, when I get back, I'll try to talk him out of it."

Su Jingming also hadn't expected that Su Jingchuan had actually sought out Yue Chengzhang; in fact, Su Jingchuan had already learned almost all of the essence of his gun-fighting technique, and the reason he can't reach that level is simply a lack of talent.

"But......"

"Actually, I'd rather you go help me persuade him; he really doesn't need to follow my path."

"Rather than saying he's chasing after me, it's more like I'm chasing after him—after all, if an older brother gets crushed by his younger sibling, that's pretty embarrassing, isn't it?"

"If you had seen it in person, you'd surely be astonished—his forte isn't gun-fighting, but sniping."

"That's a talent I could never catch up to, no matter how I train."