Chapter 512: Do I Even Need to Look? (10/10, Autumn Subscription)

"Do I even need to look?"

"Today, even if the King of Heaven himself came, it still has to be Xiao Xuedou!"

So Fang Yue said matter-of-factly, "Xiao Xuedou, of course."

"Wrong, it's Ghost Hunt!" Qing Chen said excitedly, his pitch high and shrill.

Fang Yue's face darkened.

"... I'm starting to understand why you have such a bad reputation within the Phoenix Organization."

"That's not the point, big shot. Think about it—this is 【Ghost Hunt】, this is 【Ghost Object】, and this is 【Ghostly】! A trinity! This has never happened before. If we find a way to combine these powers! Think—what would Xiao Xuedou become?"

Fang Yue thought about it, and could only imagine Xiao Xuedou turning into a Big Blood Fight; his meager imagination simply couldn't conjure up any good outcome.

Jing Yan, on the other hand, grew brighter and brighter in the eyes, more and more excited, and suddenly slapped his thigh.

"Brilliant!!"

He ran excitedly up to Qing Chen: "Brother Qing Chen, you have to help Xiao Xuedou complete the Three-in-One Plan, it will definitely become the strongest baby! And I, I will be the Hunter who owns the strongest baby!!"

"Good!! Don't worry, I will definitely try my best. Before, I only studied theory, never actually got hands-on, but now there's a chance, I will definitely cherish it well, let's work hard together! Give Xiao Xuedou a beautiful future!"

"A beautiful future!!"

Two grown men, kindred spirits, eyes clashing with passion, only a soul communion of flesh against flesh away.

Fang Yue's face darkened.

Not even a stroke of the brush yet, yet these two acted as if the deed were already done, lost in fantasies of an infinitely beautiful future.

Please! While you're daydreaming, Lord Han's life and death are still unknown!

Just as Fang Yue thought this, on the bookshelf, he suddenly felt a small bump.

Very inconspicuous; if Fang Yue hadn't been searching with his whole body and mind, he might not have noticed any difference between this spot and the surrounding lacquered bookshelf wood.

He pressed lightly.

Creak, creak.

At the head of the bed, a protruding cube slowly popped out, with a keyhole on top.

"... Pretty advanced."

"Big shot, that's where you underestimate this game. Although the game is set in our ancient Eastern background, in reality, the technological content inside is not low at all—it's just that the direction of development leans toward the ghostly side.

Using all sorts of ghostly materials, they can make unimaginable things. For example, if you often suffer from insomnia, have the people at the 【Ghost Object Production Department】 make a 【Sleep-Inducing Mask】, similar to a face mask—apply it to the face, and aside from sucking blood and lifespan, possibly killing you in your sleep, it can basically perfectly solve insomnia, sleep quality through the roof!"

... Wake up in one go, straight to a remake, restart at age 0—that sleep quality really is something...

Fang Yue glanced at Qing Chen, wondering whether he should seal Qing Chen's mouth shut.

Clearly such a genius researcher—why does he have to talk so unpleasantly...

He inserted the key and turned it.

Creak, creak.

The bed surface slid away, revealing a downward staircase.

Picking up the Human Soul lamp beside him, Fang Yue went down the staircase.

Jing Yan and Qing Chen followed behind.

Just like Liao Guanjia's room secret chamber, it was the same—going down for quite a stretch before barely reaching the bottom.

But unlike Liao Guanjia's secret chamber, Ma Zuo's Underground Secret Chamber had much more space, divided into many rooms.

Fang Yue had the two split up and scatter to search for Lord Han's whereabouts.

Lin Ling had said he saw with his own eyes Lord Han being sent into Ma Zuo's room.

Lin Ling wouldn't lie about something like this, so Lord Han had to be here.

Thinking of Lord Han—once honored as Rain-rank, now tormented to a living death by Ma Zuo of the Xiantian Realm, possibly subjected to all sorts of experiments every day—Fang Yue's fury in his heart could not help but surge upward.

Lord Han's kindness to him remained vivid in his mind; without Lord Han, Fang Yue absolutely could not have reached where he was today.

So Lord Han had vanished, had been captured—Fang Yue was truly furious.

Now that he was finally about to see Lord Han again, Fang Yue's heart was both stirred and uneasy.

He feared that when he saw Lord Han again, all that would be left was Lord Han's corpse—or simply a brain soaking in pale green liquid, or an eye, a tooth, something like that—not Lord Han still whole and alive.

Although Lord Han had once said he wasn't so easy to kill. But this was the Phoenix Organization, a place that did scientific research, specifically studying phenomena like Lord Han, itching to take Lord Han apart piece by piece, dissect him into slices, to dig out the secret of Lord Han's immortality.

In his unease, every time Fang Yue pushed open a door, he had to take several deep breaths before bravely pushing it open.

But regrettably, behind every door were either various supplies or various weapons—completely Ma Zuo's personal little warehouse, feeling somewhat different from a secret chamber in the traditional sense.

When Fang Yue pushed open the eighth secret chamber room, his pupils suddenly contracted sharply, and he froze on the spot.

"Bai... Xiaoya?"

That's right—in the eighth room, a girl was being held, and it was unmistakably the appearance of her game character Bai Daya, just as Bai Xiaoya had once described to her!

How could... how could she be here?!

Fang Yue was dumbfounded.

To find Bai Xiaoya, he had almost mobilized all of Qingsi County's forces, practically turning the entire Qingsi County upside down; outside, Yuan Jie had worried herself thin by several jin.

But he just couldn't find her, just couldn't find her.

With no follow-up leads or clues at all, Fang Yue had even been pessimistic for a time, thinking that Bai Xiaoya's in-game character had already been killed, already dead beyond dead.

But he never expected... to be here, in Ma Zuo's secret chamber, to see Bai Xiaoya again!

Fang Yue grew excited, so excited goosebumps rose all over his body.

His breathing grew rapid, thrilled almost beyond his control.

What the hell is called what the hell a surprise!

This is what the hell a surprise!

Fang Yue never in his wildest dreams imagined that in the Phoenix Organization's Underground Stronghold, in Ma Zuo's secret chamber, he would find Bai Xiaoya, whom he had been searching for so long!

At the fastest speed, rushing to Bai Xiaoya's side in an instant, Fang Yue hurriedly patted Bai Xiaoya's face.

Seemingly afraid that Bai Xiaoya's condition was not good, Fang Yue pried open her mouth and fed her a few pills, but Bai Xiaoya was like she was dead, not a single stir.

His face changing, Fang Yue probed, and his pupils suddenly contracted sharply; his heart gave a thump, and his face went deathly pale in a flash.

There was... no breath!

Bai Xiaoya... no, it should be said the Bai Daya from the game—she was already dead!

"No... how could this!!"

Fang Yue's eyes instantly reddened.

At this moment, he deeply regretted, deeply regretted giving the Horse Seat too easy a death!

Going to sleep, will try to update earlier today.

(End of chapter)