Chapter 68
A sudden fall.
As the speed increased, Li Yuncheng quickly adjusted his body to compensate for the weightlessness of the fall.
"Thump~"
Suddenly plunged into the water, water rushed in from all directions, bringing a bone-chilling cold and a feeling of suffocation. Li Yuncheng held his breath. After he came to his senses, he kept kicking his legs upwards. Just as he finally surfaced, a person wearing protective clothing, completely wrapped up, pulled him out of the water.
"Cough cough~"
Li Yuncheng lay sprawled on the ground in a disheveled state, wet droplets constantly dripping from his short hair onto the ground.
He narrowed his eyes. The surrounding environment surprised him. Instead of being dark and rough, it was decorated like a laboratory, or rather... He glanced at the person standing there, only his eyes showing.
This place was originally a secret experimental base that couldn't be seen by anyone.
The bright light shining on the smooth floor almost blinded him.
Was he chosen to be used for human experimentation? And what about the girl who was arrested?
He had been carefully following behind, but after turning a corner, he leaned against the wall and a strong fragrance wafted over from somewhere. Then a feeling of dizziness came over him, and he lost consciousness.
Looking back now, they were probably prepared all along.
Just as his thoughts were churning, the person standing in front of him, whose gender he couldn't discern, moved. The person took a few steps back and pulled over a blue... trailer.
This man was very strong. With one lift of his hand, he effortlessly picked up the man, who was over 1.8 meters tall, threw him onto the trailer, and walked towards the front gate.
"Hiss~"
"Gurgle—"
Li Yuncheng, who was rudely moved to a different location, coughed up the water that had been choking him and collapsed onto the trailer.
At this moment, he was in very bad shape. He had no feeling in his hands and feet. In the low temperature, the man, who was soaked to the bone, couldn't help but shiver. His eyes began to become unfocused and glazed.
I don't know how much time passed.
In his dazed state, Li Yuncheng heard noises around him, including footsteps and... sobbing.
Suddenly, someone seemed to be shouting and calling for help.
"Gulu, this i is openly displayed..."
"Help! Help..."
"Help... What are you doing? I have money... I have a lot of money, please let me go!"
"..."
Li Yuncheng's slow-thinking mind told him that he had penetrated deep into enemy territory, and the clear-cut approach was to remain calm, seek opportunities, and conserve his strength, rather than provoke them.
"Quiet!" Suddenly, a male voice with a moderate pitch rang out.
The words were spoken.
Everyone present was like a silenced puppet, unable to utter a sound no matter what they did.
Li Yuncheng, who was still breathing heavily, had his mouth forcibly pressed shut. The scene was completely silent. He tried to look up to see who it was.
Who could possess such great authority?
Is he the mastermind behind it all?
Before he could make a move, the person who brought him in gently threw him to the ground and untied him.
Li Yuncheng's head was spinning. He could only sense that he had been dragged to a place. His consciousness blurred, and his body slowly drifted off to sleep amidst the pain.
"You're awake~"
When he regained consciousness, a woman's voice rang in his ear.
He turned his head and saw a woman with a calm expression. Her hair was tied up tightly, and her clothes were as clean and tidy as possible.
This attitude surprised Li Yuncheng.
His eyes darted around: "Fellow countrymen, aren't you afraid of me?"
The room was large but completely bare, with no furniture inside. Everyone sat silently on the floor, not uttering a word.
Li Yuncheng's lips were chapped, so he licked them with his tongue.
The woman chuckled softly: "Fellow countrymen, everyone in this room is fellow countrymen. As for why we're afraid of you, those who are wicked on the surface are always better than those who are kind on the outside but ruthless on the inside."
"And you served in the military."
Soldiers from the country always inspire a sense of closeness.
Li Yuncheng nodded, propped himself up, and sat up. He replied, "I served, but I'm retired."
"Where is this place?"
"I don't know," the woman answered readily, leaving Li Yuncheng, who had hoped to glean some clue, speechless.
"They'll be here to select people soon."
The woman's words remained understated.
The man frowned, sensing something was amiss. He asked, "How long have you been here?"
"It's been several days, hasn't it?"
Where to select people?
"have no idea."
"Anyway, none of the people who were chosen have come back."
Li Yuncheng, who has never been particularly bright, is not cut out to be a detective, but his intuition is very accurate; those who were chosen are probably in grave danger.
He stared intently at the woman, "You..."
"My name is An Ruo, I'm from S City. I was sold here. What, you still don't believe me?"
Suddenly, footsteps could be heard outside.
"Squat down."
The woman hurriedly dropped a sentence.
Li Yuncheng immediately squatted down, recalling what he had just said about selecting people.
"Bang!"
Several men in black robes strode quickly into the room, each holding a small jade pendant. They aimed the pendant at the recessed area of the room, and with a flash, the door opened automatically.
They didn't come in; they stood still.
The appearance of the man in black robes immediately caused chaos and panic among the crowd, and everyone began to converge in one direction, crowding together in one place.
The man in black robes remained standing outside. The leader's hand gestures changed, but no one could see what he was doing. The crowd panicked again.
"No!"
"I don't want to go, just save me..."
Li Yuncheng looked up and, upon seeing this scene, his eyes widened in shock.
One by one, the chosen people flew towards the door without any resistance. Li Yuncheng clenched his fists and tried to get up, but a pair of hands beside him held him tightly.
Li Yuncheng turned around, and An Ruo, with her back hunched, kept shaking her head, telling him not to act impulsively.
hateful!
Seeing the man she had just met stop his fidgeting, An Ruo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They really don't even know their own methods; how could they possibly handle them?
That's incredibly tactless, what a reckless fool!
An Ruo tried her best to shrink back and hide in the crowd.
The man in black robes stood silently, the only sounds in the room being the chosen one's angry curses and pleas for mercy.
Each blow struck Li Yuncheng's chest, causing him intense anxiety.
He kept glancing at the black-robed man at the door, pondering what to do.
He needed to find a place to get out of there as soon as possible; Jinli was still waiting for him outside.
Having been away from home for so long, and being in a foreign country, Jinli must be incredibly worried. Besides, things are so chaotic here; what if Ali…
Before he could even feel annoyed.
The next moment, he suddenly felt a strong suction force. He was a strong middle-aged man and had no resistance at all. He was pulled into the air, let alone made any other movements.
An Ruo was startled.
How could this be!
The newcomer was actually selected.
Before she could react, she also felt that irresistible force.
She was selected too!
Holy crap!
Why is she so unlucky?
Li Yao, and that bastard, you just wait. If I survive, I will never let you get away with this.
Depend on! ! !
...
Um
Lingxi stared at the compass, somewhat incredulous.
Li Yuncheng's position was beneath her feet.
She closed her eyes, and the sounds of the surrounding area flashed before her eyes. The jungle ahead was quiet, except for the occasional seabirds flying over. Everything else in the forest was normal and there was nothing amiss.
Since it's not on top, it can only be on the bottom.
Lingxi glanced at her feet, and without hesitation, immediately used her earth-burrowing technique to burrow underground.
Fortunately, Cang Min didn't have the luxury of setting up arrays in the underground city.
Lingxi entered steadily, and the moment she entered, she swiftly concealed herself.
really--
There's more to it than meets the eye underground.
Ling Xi's face showed no surprise. She was currently on a spacious platform, brightly lit, with several passageways in all directions.
She took out her compass, about to determine the direction.
"Tap tap..." A series of footsteps approached from afar.
Lingxi immediately shrank into the corner.
Several men in black robes walked out of a passage ahead. Lingxi could tell from their tall stature that they were all men, and the leader was surrounded by spiritual light, appearing to have a higher cultivation level than her.
He looks like a person who practices spiritual cultivation.
Suddenly, the leader in black robes stopped and looked around.
Lingxi immediately lowered her gaze.
The man in black robes behind him stopped, puzzled: "Sect Leader?"
"fine."
Mu Shen had just felt that someone was spying on him from the shadows, but with his master here, he figured no one would dare to intrude.
"Walk."
The group of people walked away with light steps.
Lingxi watched them walk away. She felt something was off about the leader of the cult, but she didn't know why.
"Master, this person must be very important," Lingxi thought as she was about to follow.
Suddenly, another group of people walked up from behind her. The leader was still wearing a black robe, which covered him from head to toe, as if he were someone who couldn't be seen by others.
Wait a minute~
They were a bunch of despicable and utterly filthy people.
However, Lingxi glanced at the black-robed leader again. The spiritual light emanating from him was very faint, much weaker than that of the sect leader from before. Behind the black-robed man were more than a dozen ragged people.
With each step the man in black robes took, the person behind him followed.
The ranks were orderly and unusually quiet, like puppets.
But the fear in everyone's eyes, and the tears on some people's faces, showed that they still had normal emotions and were living, breathing human beings.
Lingxi realized something was wrong.
She activated her spiritual eye, and the scene instantly shifted. Transparent threads emerged from the dozen or so people in front of her, with the ends of the threads held in the chest of the leader in black robes.
Therefore, the entire group was controlled by the black-robed figure and unable to resist.
What an annoying spell.
Lingxi felt a deep disgust and was about to summon the True Fire of the Sun to burn away their control, but remembering the purpose of her trip, she withdrew her hand.
Never mind, wait until something big happens later.
The procession moved at a moderate pace.
When the two finally revealed their faces, Lingxi ignored the man's scar for the time being, but was somewhat surprised when she saw the woman next to him.
How did she end up in here?!
I didn't see Li Yao. Could it be that Li Yao did this?
Lingxi didn't think too much about it and silently followed behind them.
The underground area was vast, resembling a city. They seemed to have taken a long detour and arrived at a deep mountain area about the size of two football fields.
There is a crooked opening at the top, which is not sealed off, and the surrounding area is all hollowed-out mountainside.
At this moment, a full moon quietly stands in the sky.
Lingxi floated up and landed on a protruding corner of the mountain wall.
People kept entering from that entrance below, and soon, a refined gentleman, as white as jade, appeared on the platform.
Beside him, the cult leader he had just met stood behind him, speaking to him with great respect.
Upon seeing the person who arrived, Lingxi subconsciously held her breath, almost revealing herself in her excitement.
She guessed his identity: Su Yuan's friend and the behind-the-scenes founder of the Guiyuan Divine Cult, Cang Min!
It's finally out!
Who is it?
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