Chapter 45
In the basement of a villa in the central residential area of Hope Base, the ground engraved with intricate patterns suddenly lit up with a burst of white light.
The white light faded, and the figures of Gu Qi and Jiu Cang appeared in the basement.
The difference from before is that after the cave was upgraded to level five, Jiucang was no longer a misty little man, but had a solid body. Except for the ancient costume on his body, other parts of his body looked almost the same as a normal person.
That's not right. His body still maintained the size of a misty little man. Even though he looked like a handsome young man with an immortal demeanor, he became more adorable after shrinking down, like a human pendant.
But he was not hanging on Gu Qi, but floating in the air beside her.
Before leaving the basement, Gu Qitong reminded him, "Remember to hide your body."
Otherwise, it would be troublesome if other people saw it. It would be better to wait until the cave is upgraded by two levels and Jiucang can maintain a normal body shape for a long time before introducing him to my brother.
Jiu Cang nodded, a flash of light appeared on his body, and an invisible barrier appeared, so that only Gu Qi could see him.
Gu Qi withdrew his gaze and walked out of the basement.
This villa was the one she lived in when she was staying at Hope Base as Lady Xi. She asked Gu Yuan to help her leave it there when she left.
Taking out the jade token of communication, she checked the unfinished message.
[Xiao Zi just said that he suddenly lost contact with Lan Lan, and Deputy Base Commander Qian forcibly bought the shop. But it's okay, I've prepared another shop for you, also in the center of the base.]
Gu Qi frowned slightly. She was not surprised by Deputy Base Commander Qian's move. To be more precise, she didn't expect him to wait until now before taking action.
Of course, it may also be that the base is relatively chaotic now, which gave him the opportunity to take action. After all, her brother Gu Yuan's status and power in the base are not as weak as in his previous life.
In short, she was well prepared for Deputy Base Commander Qian's move.
What concerned her was the news that Lan Lan had lost contact. Just now, she had tried to contact Lan Lan through the contract, but she couldn't get through, as if she was blocked by something.
[There's no rush regarding the shop. I have other plans. Have two high-level puppets pack up the shop's items and come to my villa to wait for me. As for Lan Lan, I roughly know where she is.]
After replying this message to Gu Yuan, she turned to look at Jiu Cang and said, "Let's go to the underground research institute first."
In Hope Base, she could think of only one person who dared to attack Lan Lan and had the ability to block the connection between her and Lan Lan.
Dr. Jia, the crazy guy who experiments on humans.
Soon, Jiu Cang brought the disguised Gu Qi to the underground research institute through space teleportation.
As for the location...
Looking at the empty warehouse covered with dust, Gu Qi couldn't help but show a look of pity.
But when she left the warehouse, she did not leave empty-handed.
Although there were no more crystal cores, exotic plant and animal materials, etc. in the warehouse, there were many weapons hidden in various corners, including a few relatively crude supernatural weapons.
However, none of them could detect Gu Qi's presence, and were finally easily dismantled and stored by Gu Qi into her space. These weapons were of no use to her, but she could give them to others to play with later.
As soon as she came out of the warehouse, she heard Jiu Cang say, "We found another warehouse."
Gu Qi paused slightly, a look of surprise on his face. Thinking of the main purpose of his coming here, he said, "Mark it and go back when we find Lan Lan."
Jiu Cang silently marked out several warehouses where things were stored.
Two minutes later, Gu Qi followed the spiritual imprint left on Dr. Jia and found his laboratory.
Sure enough, he saw Lan Lan trapped in a cage next to him. The cage was made of forbidden spirit stone.
There is also a device on top of the cage that looks somewhat special. The soul-forbidden stone cage is covered by a gray light screen emitted by the device.
Gu Qi guessed that the device was the key to blocking the connection between himself and Lan Lan.
However, this barrier was not thick. If she wanted to contact him, she could still break it. However, she did not take any action in order to prevent alerting the enemy, and because she could confirm through the contract that Lan Lan was fine.
In the room, besides Lan Lan and Dr. Jia, who were still disguised as her, there was also Deputy Base Commander Qian, and next to him stood a young man who looked somewhat familiar.
Dr. Jia was operating an instrument to detect something, and he looked at Lan Lan with some suspicion and a bit of fanaticism.
Deputy Base Commander Qian glanced towards the door from time to time, as if waiting for something.
"Dad, how long do we have to wait?"
"I heard that the base is surrounded by zombies, and more mutant plants, mutant beasts, and zombies are coming to the base. Why don't we leave quickly?"
As soon as the young man spoke, Gu Qi remembered that this man was the son of Deputy Base Commander Qian.
It was not the son born to the original wife who had fused with the water crystal core, but Qian Chaoduo.
But he didn't look very well now. His face was pale and sickly, and his body was a little hunched. He was very different from the greasy and arrogant young man she saw last time, which was why she didn't recognize him at first.
Facing Qian Chaoduo's urging, Deputy Base Commander Qian glared at him and said, "Why rush? Even if those monsters have reached the base, we still have those idiots to hold them back."
Thinking of those who were willing to defend the base to the death, the tension and fear on Qian Chaoduo's face eased a little, but he was still a little anxious and uneasy.
He looked up at the person trapped in the cage and Dr. Jia who was standing next to him with an excited look on his face, but his gaze finally stopped on the floor in the center of the laboratory, which was a slightly different color from the surrounding area.
Qian Chaoduo once again approached Deputy Base Commander Qian and whispered, "Dad, how about we dig some more energy stones while we still have time?"
After hearing what he said, some greed appeared in Deputy Base Commander Qian's eyes. The energy stone is really a good thing. It is much better than the crystal core and can also relieve his headache.
However, when he saw Dr. Jia out of the corner of his eye, Deputy Base Director Qian suppressed his greed and scolded Qian Chaoduo, telling him not to covet the energy stone anymore.
"But……"
Qian Chaoduo wanted to say something else.
Deputy Base Commander Qian raised his hand, wanting to slap him, but when his eyes met his pale, sickly face, he retracted his hand and said, "No buts. Stay here honestly. What's more important, the energy stone or your life?"
Just at this moment, Dr. Jia was also attracted by the noise and looked over. He looked at him with a sinister look in his eyes, but a strange smile hung on the corner of his mouth: "If you want it so badly, I'll give you the key and you can go down and dig it yourself, how about it?"
Qian Chaoduo's eyes lit up, but then froze when he noticed Dr. Jia's look, as if he had thought of something terrible. He looked terrified and quickly shook his head: "No, no need."
He didn't want to be used as a test subject by this madman.
Although his father loves him more, Qian Chaoduo knows very well that in his eyes, he is more important. Just like last time, no matter how much his father loves him, he is still persuaded by Dr. Jia, right?
Seeing that he stopped making noise, Dr. Jia continued to look at the instrument in front of him, glancing at Lan Lan from time to time, with even more suspicion in his eyes.
Gu Qi, who was hiding in the corner, looked at the three people with disgust, and there was an undisguised murderous intent in his eyes.
Sure enough, the expansion of the hidden spiritual vein cracks and the explosion of spiritual energy were related to them.
There was a hole under the floor in the middle of the laboratory that was slightly different in color, and under the hole was a crack that had been blown open. Gu Qi used his mental power to detect the exposed spirit stone.
The energy stones they were talking about should be spirit stones. Judging from the traces around them, a lot of spirit stones had been dug out by humans.
Gu Qi quietly came to the side of the cage.
Because of the Forbidden Spirit Stone, although Lan Lan could continue to disguise herself as her, the disguise gradually became unstable because it was only consumed and not restored. Although there was nothing unusual about her appearance, her aura was slightly leaked.
This is probably why Dr. Jia expressed doubt.
Gu Qi transferred some spiritual power to Lan Lan through the contract, allowing her to stabilize her disguise again.
Lan Lan was delighted when he felt the input of spiritual power. In order to avoid letting the three humans notice anything, he quickly resisted the urge to look up and around, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Gu Qi looked at Dr. Jia and was not surprised to see that the ecstatic expression on his face suddenly froze, revealing a look of disbelief.
"How could this happen..." he whispered, "Why did the fluctuation suddenly happen?"
Dr. Jia hurried forward to check the cage. After confirming that it was in good condition, his expression of confusion became even more pronounced.
Suddenly, he thought of something, walked quickly to the door of the laboratory, and pressed a button beside the door.
"Scanning..."
A mechanical sound echoed through the room, and a red light swept across the entire laboratory.
"The scan is complete, everything is normal in the laboratory."
Dr. Jia's face turned even uglier. How could everything be normal?
If everything is really normal and the cage is intact, how could the energy fluctuations that have just been detected suddenly disappear?
Someone just threatened me, saying they've captured you and told me to go immediately to a place near the underground research institute. I'm guessing it's Deputy Base Commander Qian and his men who captured Lan Lan, who was disguised as you.
This was the message Gu Yuan had just sent. Gu Qi was reading it when he heard the mechanical voice.
"What's wrong?" Deputy Base Commander Qian looked puzzled. "Is there something wrong?"
Dr. Jia's face was grim. He didn't answer his question, but asked, "Any news from over there? Why haven't they caught him yet?"
Just at this moment, Deputy Base Commander Qian's communicator rang.
After the call was connected, Deputy Base Commander Qian's face turned ugly after hearing what his subordinates said.
"Gu Yuan didn't take any action after receiving the news." He frowned and looked at the person trapped in the cage. "It seems that Gu Yuan doesn't care about this sister as much as he lets on."
Looking at their expressions, Gu Qi suddenly thought of something. He changed his shape again and released the invisibility technique.
"Are you looking for me?"
A voice that sounded extremely familiar to Deputy Base Commander Qian and Qian Chaoduo rang out in the room.
The three of them turned around and looked, all with expressions of horror.
"You...how come you are here?!" Deputy Base Commander Qian subconsciously tightened the weapon in his hand.
After the panic, Dr. Jia quickly raised his superpower gun and pulled the trigger at "Gu Yuan".
The gun fired a glowing red bullet that instantly came in front of "Gu Yuan" and then hovered there.
"Gu Yuan" raised his hand and waved, and the supernatural bullet instantly turned into ashes.
Dr. Jia widened his eyes, unable to believe that the supernatural gun he had spent so much time developing was so useless.
Thinking about how "Gu Yuan" appeared here quietly and that the heavy surveillance systems he had set up in the institute did not detect anything at all, Dr. Jia was even more unwilling to believe it.
How could something he made be so useless?
Suddenly thinking of something, Dr. Jia quickly pressed another button at the door of the laboratory.
The next second, a spirit-binding stone cage fell from the sky, accurately covering "Gu Yuan" inside.
"Let's go, let's get out of here!" Dr. Jia turned to Deputy Base Commander Qian and said, running outside as he spoke.
His intuition told him that the cage he was so proud of could only hold "Gu Yuan" for a while.
“Click…”
A faint but not to be ignored voice reached the ears of the three people.
Qian Chaoduo couldn't help but look back, and then the horror on his face became even more intense: "He broke open the cage!"
"How is that possible?" That was an energy-blocking cage, and he even turned on the electric grid!
Dr. Jia also turned his head to look, and then saw that "Gu Yuan" ignored the electric net on the cage and gently broke the other pillar, but there was no sign of electric shock on the other party's hand.
However, after "Gu Yuan" came out of the cage, he did not chase them, but walked towards the cage next to him where "Gu Qi" was held.
Dr. Jia quickly withdrew his gaze and ran in one direction at a faster pace.
Can't stay here anymore!
The three of them thought of this in tacit understanding and walked towards the retreat route they had prepared long ago.
Behind them, Gu Qi, disguised as Gu Yuan, took out a jade communication token and sent out a message.
[I've found Lanlan. Now go to the north gate of the base. There's a surprise.]
On the other side, although Gu Yuan was a little confused after receiving the news, he immediately went to the north gate of the base.
Almost as soon as he arrived at the north gate of the base, he heard someone exclaim.
"Holy crap! Why did a hole suddenly collapse outside?"
"Be alert and be careful of that hole!"
"Could it be that some mutant beast dug it out? Damn it, why did these monsters target our base?"
Gu Yuan climbed up to the wall of the base and saw a car that had failed to brake rushing out from inside. There were several zombies on the front of the car, and screams were coming from inside the car.
"What the hell kind of car are you driving!"
"What's going on! Isn't this an underground passage? Why is it on the ground?"
Both voices sounded very familiar, like... Qian Chaoduo and Deputy Base Commander Qian.
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