Chapter 268 Like...a fish?
Mao Li's loyalty to Zuo Shan has never been in doubt. They have been through so much together, and there is no way he would abandon her and run away alone when danger comes.
But he's not by her side now, and she's facing a robot left behind by a scientific madman who has absolutely no loyalty.
She can't lose her temper; she needs to calm down!
Zuo Shan took a deep breath, composed himself, and then said to Panda, "Can you send me away from here and back to where I came from?"
"Of course, my new master!"
By the way, after you fell, your two companions also found the mechanism and jumped down.
However, I sent them to another place and temporarily detained them to prevent them from affecting your physical transformation.
Should we send them back to their original location as well? Panda seemed very cooperative.
"Yes! It would be best to send us up together!" Zuo Shan nodded hurriedly.
Although she didn't know who the two companions Panda was talking about were, they were probably Mina and Matt, right?
"Master, please!" Panda made a respectful gesture of invitation.
Zuo Shan then noticed that the pool filled with green slime where she had been lying had turned into a pool of clear water, and she was now lying in the water with her mouth and nose covered by water.
Strange? Why didn't she choke on the water? And she was talking to the panda in the water earlier, as if the water didn't exist and was just her hallucination.
With Panda's gesture, the water in the pool was instantly drained, and the splashing sound reminded her that this was not an illusion.
No, impossible! If it wasn't a hallucination, she would have drowned long ago if she were completely submerged in water like this!
Perhaps understanding her thoughts, Panda smiled and explained:
"My new master, your body has been modified so that your skin can now breathe freely in water. From now on, you can breathe freely in the water like a fish."
"Like, like, like... a fish?" Zuo Shan was shocked. Could it be that she also had gills like a fish?
However, she couldn't care less about that now, because as several beams of light shot out from Panda's fingertips, her body was propelled upwards.
Before she could even utter a sound, she had already arrived at the open elevator door.
She saw Matt sitting blankly in the elevator, and Mortilan standing next to him with a furrowed brow.
He was holding a motionless robot cat in his arms, as if it had run out of power and been forced to shut down.
When they jumped down after chasing her, they both fell into a small, enclosed room, where Mortilan found the robot cat lying in the corner.
He recognized it as the robot cat named Mochi from the Fan family, and he knew that this cat was quite special and not an ordinary robot cat.
But since Shanzi hadn't mentioned Mao Li, he didn't inquire about it. However, he knew that Shanzi valued the cat highly, so he simply picked it up and held it in his arms.
As he pulled out his triangular dagger, preparing to force his way into the room, he heard a boy's voice:
"Don't be impulsive. Your companions are in my hands. I advise you to wait here obediently for a while. Once the time is up, I will reunite you with your companions. Otherwise, I cannot guarantee the safety of your companions."
He was temporarily threatened by the warning and could only stay where he was and wait.
After waiting for about four hours, just as he was losing patience and about to make a desperate attempt to break down the door and rush out, he was taken to this elevator.
Then he saw the person who had been troubling him all along.
Before he could even speak, he saw Zuo Shan rush over and hug... the robot cat in his arms.
"Mao Li, Mao Li, how are you?" Zuo Shan asked anxiously.
"Don't worry, he just accidentally followed you into the energy shielding field. Without the support of energy, he was forced into a deep sleep. He will be fine once we leave this place."
Panda's voice came from beneath her feet. Zuo Shan looked down and saw a metal box leaning against her feet.
“Master, you can’t abandon Panda. After your body has been modified by the gene-modifying fluid, there might be some minor side effects. You’ll definitely need Panda’s health guidance then,” the boy’s voice continued.
Zuo Shan suppressed the urge to kick the box away and held Mao Li tightly in his arms without saying a word.
She discovered that only she could hear Panda's voice, and only she could see the metal box. Neither Mordiland nor Matt seemed to have noticed Panda's presence.
"Fan, how are you? Are you hurt? Is anything bothering you?" Morti Lan Dun suppressed the bitterness in his heart, grabbed her, and looked her over carefully.
He never imagined that in her heart, a Doraemon was more important than him, her fiancé, even though he was self-proclaimed as her fiancé.
"I'm fine, how are you guys?" Zuo Shan quickly glanced at the metal box at his feet and asked.
She knew that Panda was in this box, or rather, that this box was his transformed body.
With such a ticking time bomb by her side, she dared not tell them anything.
"Madam, it's good that you're alright. We're all fine, not even a scratch. It's just that the master was worried sick about your safety!" Matt quickly chimed in.
The adult is the type to give quietly and doesn't like to show off, so his personal assistant has to help him show off a little.
As they were talking, the elevator began to ascend and soon returned to the place where they had fallen.
The moment the elevator hit the ground, Mao Li woke up and returned to stealth mode. The three of them sensed their superpowers again, and Zuo Shan took the opportunity to store the metal box under his feet into his spatial button.
At this moment, Monton and Mina were frantic with worry. The adults and Matt had mysteriously disappeared, along with Zuo Shan.
They didn't know what had happened to the adults, and everyone tried every possible means, but they still couldn't find out where they had gone.
Everyone was baffled. Logically speaking, with the strength of the adults and Matt, even if they encountered a ninth-tier mutated beast, they shouldn't have disappeared without a trace.
We should at least have a fight!
Mengtong advocated reporting to the family head, but Mina insisted on waiting, because in the current situation, even if the family head came in person, he would still be at a loss.
Jian Qiong also dutifully released her contracted plant, the mutated giant python Teng Naga, which kept searching everywhere, but unfortunately, it was all in vain.
Everyone was like ants on a hot pan, not knowing what to do. Just when Mina couldn't hold on any longer and was about to compromise, listen to Mengtong's advice, and report to the head of the family, the adult finally appeared.
Mortilan glanced at his subordinates and said calmly, "We accidentally discovered a passage in this room, and then we all fell down it."
Beneath the floor of this room lies a field that isolates supernatural abilities; even I, once there, become no different from an ordinary person.
The exact size of the venue is unknown, because as soon as we went down, we were trapped in a small room.
After trying many methods, we finally managed to summon the elevator by accident, and we took it back to the ground.
My personal suggestion is that if we want to explore this area, it would be best to choose some strength-type ability users. They have strong physiques, which gives them an advantage over those of us who mainly rely on our abilities.
"If any of you have any doubts about this, you might as well go down and investigate for yourselves." As he said this, he glanced at Jian Qiong.
Everyone present except her was his subordinate. He was afraid that Jian Qiong would suspect there was a treasure underground and would be unwilling to leave.
Jian Qiong shook her head decisively. She firmly believed what the adults had said about a field that isolated energy.
Because she had sent Naga to search carefully countless times before, but they still couldn't find any trace of them, it was clear that there was indeed a special field underground.
Furthermore, the information Naga returned indicated that its vines could not penetrate the floor of this room, not because it was too hard, but because its power completely disappeared once it reached the ground.
“My lord, I have no objection to this. The main objective of this mission is to explore the underground seed vault. Now that we have found the item, let’s leave.” Jian Qiong said decisively.
The thought that her powers would all disappear if she were somewhere filled her with immense fear.
Without her superpowers and Naga's help, she's just a fragile weakling; any second-tier strength-type could easily knock her to the ground.
She never wanted to experience such a helpless scene in her life.
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