Chapter 53 You treat me like a gas station...

Bombs are something that can be easy to find, but they can also be quite difficult to deal with.

Mante City never prohibits its citizens from buying weapons, guns, and ammunition; however, the more harmful something is, the more expensive it is. Ling Qiu searched extensively and found that even the cheapest high-powered bomb cost several hundred thousand Mante dollars.

To completely destroy Noah's entire company building, at least 20 bombs would be needed, and to ensure the best effect, she couldn't choose the cheapest option.

This is an astronomical price!

Ling Qiu opened her eyes wide, threw the tablet aside, and slumped onto the sofa in the Manwell family's house.

Her gaze shifted downwards, glancing at Cyrus, who was washing dishes in the kitchen. She pursed her lips, slightly twitched her earlobes, and said, "...Husband."

Cyrus nearly dropped the smooth white plate in his hand.

"Hmm," he replied calmly, without turning around.

"Can I ask you for a favor?" Ling Qiu blinked.

She knew that even if Cyrus didn't turn around, he could still see her expression.

"Speak," Cyrus said coldly.

Ling Qiu couldn't help but smile. She knew that Cyrus was still upset because she hadn't said "I love you" to Him again.

"Could you send me some more money?" Ling Qiu lay on the sofa, gently swinging her legs, her dark eyes looking lively and cunning.

"How much?" Cyrus remained aloof.

"Hmm... full." Ling Qiu quickly stuck out her little tongue. "There are so many things I want to buy."

These two words successfully made Cyrus turn around, and the expression on Manwell's face was incredibly complex.

"Full? Miss, what do you take me for? A gas station?"

Cyrus's strange tone was full of suppressed frustration, which made Ling Qiu giggle.

“I’m serious, Bobo.” Ling Qiu tapped her cheek with her fingertip. “Bombs are expensive.”

"If a large amount of money suddenly appeared in your account, do you think the bank would become suspicious?" Cyrus said.

“Oh…right.” Ling Qiu overlooked this point. Mante City had long since abolished cash transactions. Now, apart from private purchases between individuals, all other transactions must be conducted online.

Seeing Ling Qiu's expression turn dejected again, Cyrus sighed and then said, "Who told you that you need to go through legal channels to make bombs?"

"Huh!?" Ling Qiu sat up abruptly. "You mean..."

“We can steal it, and these things aren’t counted every day, so it’s not that easy to get caught,” Cyrus said.

"Ah, where are we going to steal it?" Ling Qiu asked. Although she had been a hacker for a long time, military information was always kept very confidential and was very difficult to obtain. She also did not know the specific address.

With a flick of his finger, Cyrus conjured a moving image before Ling Qiu's eyes. Ling Qiu paused, looking at the luxurious villa, the bodyguards, and the servants, and asked, "Where is this?"

"The Manson family mansion."

Ling Qiu arrived at the Manson family mansion that night. When she entered the mansion, she discovered that although the building looked like an English castle on the surface, it was actually completely mechanized inside.

The walls and floors are all made of metal, emitting a faint luster. The fact that the builders of a mansion chose to use metal indicates that there are many hidden rooms and mechanisms inside.

"Are you sure I won't be spotted if I just walk around here?" Ling Qiu asked as she walked down the empty corridor. "It looks like they'll install surveillance cameras here, and the kind that aren't easy to spot."

"You don't seem to trust me very much?" Cyrus's tone rose slightly. "Miss, even if you kill someone here, I can make sure you get away unscathed."

Ling Qiu certainly didn't doubt Cyrus's abilities. She simply felt that Cyrus, a primitive man, well... a primitive monster, after all, had to learn language from AI. What if he didn't understand the high technology of this world?

There are many things that He has not yet seen.

Even with Cyrus protecting her, Ling Qiu still walked with extra caution, afraid of accidentally triggering some mechanism. She wasn't worried about safety, but mainly about delaying the progress. She couldn't wait too long, and Lululan couldn't do anything about it either.

Following the corridor, guided by Cyrus, Ling Qiu entered a secret room. Behind the secret room was a hidden door, and the corridor that opened seemed to lead to a bedroom.

This bedroom feels like a completely separate room, with only one corridor leading to it and no windows around it; the layout feels quite strange.

"Is there a bomb inside?" Ling Qiu asked uncertainly.

Cyrus's voice softened slightly: "The incident with Universal Corporation won't be the only one."

This suggests that Noah Corporation, or the evil entity behind it, is plotting the next explosion, which is the next sacrifice.

Ling Qiu blinked more slowly. She stared at the door, stepped into the corridor, and then silently opened the bedroom door.

It was a large room with a noticeably high ceiling. In the center of the room was a velvet chair with a drab dark green carpet underneath.

However, what is even more striking than these are the countless portraits hanging on the entire wall.

However, what's even more unsettling is that although the person in these photos is clearly the same, Ling Qiu feels that each one looks different.

Her eyes told her that these people were all Mamborra, but her intuition told her that they were not the same person.

Ling Qiu shivered slightly. She recalled seeing Mamborough at Noah Company; he looked so young. But in the photo Li Jiale had given her, he didn't seem so young anymore…

More than a decade ago, when her parents were still alive, Mamborra was already a high-ranking executive at Universal Corporation…

“It’s shedding its skin,” Ling Qiu suddenly murmured.

Beneath Mamborough's human skin, there may not even be any human components left.

Just like the human body that Cyrus had transformed into before, it was empty inside. That guy was changing skin, peeling off the old skin and replacing it with new skin.

"Why?" Ling Qiu murmured, "Is it different from you, unable to freely change its appearance?"

It's so troublesome to peel off someone else's new skin.

“I think this must be some kind of agreement,” Cyrus said. “Noah’s predecessor was probably just a small evil spirit. At least I’ve never heard of it in the divine realm. It was fed to this size by human lives one by one.”

Ling Qiu understood. At the beginning, Noah was very weak and couldn't even generate its own form. So it signed some kind of agreement with this person called Mamborra, parasitized Mamborra, and then manipulated the Manson Family to drive it, offering countless lives to nourish it.

"Where is the bomb?" Ling Qiu looked at the empty room; apart from the paintings and a chair, there was nothing else.

"Lift the carpet, and the thing is underneath."

Ling Qiu did as instructed, and then she saw another hidden handle under the carpet. If she hadn't looked for it specifically, she wouldn't have even noticed that there was a handle there.

She opened the handle and smelled a strong metallic scent.

She looked down at the dark, gloomy cellar and asked, "How are we going to take it back?"

"Put it in your pocket." Cyrus's tone rose at the end.

"What?" Ling Qiu paused. "Are you kidding me?"

“I’m not joking, miss,” Cyrus said with a laugh. “Why don’t you give it a try?”

Ling Qiu picked up a miniature bomb, only the size of her palm. She might be able to fit a few in, but she needed many…

She stuffed one in, and just as she was about to stuff in the second, she froze.

The pocket was empty; the bomb was gone.

"Huh?" She paused for a moment, then began to pick up the items quickly, her figure almost leaving afterimages. Even after knowing that she had enough, she picked up a lot more.

"Insatiable greed," Cyrus commented on her behavior.

Ling Qiu: "Why not take it if it's free!"

Now that she has the bomb, she can go blow up Noah's Company!

“I have a question for you, Bobo,” Ling Qiu said. “If you can gain power through sacrifice, then can the people from the Manson Family who were killed in the bombing be considered as sacrifices I made for you?”

"..."

Her words caused Cyrus to fall silent for a rare moment.

Cyrus: "Sometimes I suspect you are the real evil, Lingqiu."