Chapter 127: Taking Over the Right to Use the Southern Merchants' Property
Zhong Xia's parents were with Lu Wenrou and died one after another on the day the city fell. She endured it all for the sake of revenge.
Her earth-based abilities were relatively common and useful, suitable for building city walls. Therefore, she was not captured and remained as a "slave."
When Zhong Xia saw Shan Ran emerge from the smoke and dust covered in blood, she was first stunned, then her eyes filled with tears.
On the day the city fell, Zhong Xia saw Shan Ran from afar. At that time, she was panicked and frail. Compared with the superhumans, she moved slowly. With the help of Gano beside her, she was able to avoid the falling building materials. The two of them quickly escaped that area.
It's been a long time since we last met. Shan Ran is now lean and strong, and you can clearly see the muscle lines under her clothes when she moves.
She was fast and agile; although water and fire powers were inherently conflicting, she managed to integrate them well.
Zhong Xia could no longer discern the other party's level.
She didn't need to know Shan Ran's level, nor did she need to know why she had gained superpowers. All she knew was that Shan Ran shared the same goal as her—revenge.
Most of the people Gongyang Shuyao brought stayed here, but she herself returned to the main family of the First Continent.
To kill Gongyang Shuyao, one must cross two continents and go to the Gongyang family.
At this time, Gongyang Shuyao was in the master's house, and every day was very fulfilling, but also very hard.
Her constitution was very special, and she was highly valued by the Gongyang family.
The Gongyang family arranged for some people from different generations to interact with her so that she could purify the pollution in the crystal core.
She had to purify the environment beyond her capacity every day, but the higher-ups still thought the process was too slow. After some research, they decided to take her blood for experiments.
Shu Yao was initially hesitant, but the long lines of people waiting for her every day were overwhelming, and she also needed to prove her worth, so she agreed to have her blood taken.
The higher-ups valued her highly and were very careful in controlling the amount of blood taken. After each blood draw, they would arrange for specialized healing and light-elemental doctors to treat her, ensuring that her body was not harmed.
Shu Yao's life is peaceful and comfortable now, without any major upheavals, which is a rare kind of happiness in this apocalyptic world.
Every day, they physically purify and collect blood, and then enjoy life to the fullest, being waited on hand and foot, even more carefree than before the apocalypse.
The only drawback is that it cannot leave the ram's house.
But it doesn't matter. The outside world is full of monsters, the environment is harsh, and there is a lack of food and clothing. She doesn't want to go out. She'll just stay in the Gongyang family's cozy nest.
The only regret is that I didn't get to see Shan Ran's body.
However, she had already slaughtered the entire Kunwu squad, and after Kunwu Yecheng died, she even personally destroyed his body.
Even if Shan Ran escapes, she certainly won't live long.
A useless person with no special abilities, who was also put on a kill order, is probably already dead in some remote corner, devoured by a monster.
Shu Yao thought that life would continue to be comfortable like this, but she never expected that one day she would suddenly see Shan Ran's face again.
The base in District 1 of the Third Continent was wiped out, and the territory they had painstakingly conquered was lost once again.
Among the group of people opposite, Shan Ran stood prominently.
Gongyang Shuyao sat up abruptly, pushed away the person serving her, and stared intently at her phone, her eyes almost piercing through the screen.
The phone was scrolling through photos and videos taken by people at the scene. The other party had blocked the network, but the Gongyang family had a high-level digital information ability user who opened a network channel before he died and sent the message back, along with some photos and videos.
The image was rather blurry, indicating that the attacker had taken advantage of the night to launch the attack. The photographer's hand was shaking, and it would have been difficult to recognize the person unless Shu Yao was very familiar with Shan Ran.
Following the same method the Gongyang family had used to find an inside agent, they also found one to cooperate with them from the inside and outside, thus opening the gates of the base.
Shu Yao stared at the profile picture in the photo, her body trembling with excitement. She poked her palm with her finger, drawing blood.
Her blood is very precious.
Drinking directly without undergoing experimental extraction is ineffective.
But what others didn't know was that people came to collect blood every day, and the resulting medicine had a 50% chance of enhancing superpowers without contamination.
Several people immediately crawled over and licked the blood on the ground, and they even started fighting over it.
The commotion nearby bothered Gongyang Shuyao, who impatiently called people in and dragged them all out.
Once the room finally quieted down, she calmed down a bit.
She clearly remembered that Shan Ran didn't have any superpowers!
Why does she not only have superpowers in the photos and videos, but also at a high level?
So she reported this discovery to the head of the household.
At this moment, Gongyang Qing was having a headache.
The experiment on transferring superpowers has hit a bottleneck and has not made any further progress. The success rate can only be controlled at 50% at present.
They coveted the returning merchants, but no one dared to take that step.
Not only are they afraid of dying, but they are also afraid of losing their unique ability to be immortal after failing.
But unexpectedly, Gongyang Rongshu brought such news.
There are people in the world who can gain superpowers without going through experiments.
Afterwards, the Gongyang family called in laboratory personnel for emergency research. Through the videos and photos they received, they discovered that Shan Ran possessed an absurdly large number of supernatural abilities.
There must be something special about her!
Researchers were eager for new experimental subjects, while high-ranking officials like Gongyang Qing were greedy for multi-elemental superpowers.
Losing a base is nothing; their top priority now is to capture Shan Ran.
Gongyang Qing wished he could kidnap the person immediately, but sea transport was a big problem.
Since taking over the Yu family's business, their cooperation with marine life has been very disharmonious.
They wanted to use their power to intimidate the animals and force marine life to obey them, but the animals refused and completely ignored humans, even demanding that the two sides sever ties and end their cooperation.
Marine creatures are the masters of the water; no matter how powerful a human with superpowers is, they can't possibly defeat them underwater.
Left with no other option, the aristocratic family prepared to follow the terms previously agreed upon by the Yu family and the marine life, but the head of the marine life objected.
The leader disliked these powerful families, so the families had to keep making concessions, and the final terms were very unfavorable to them.
For example, the boss stipulated that there could only be one transport trip every ten days, and the size of the transport ships was limited, much smaller than the previous steamships.
The powerful families could only transport a limited number of people, making it impossible for them to launch a large-scale attack on the Third Continent.
Just as they were discussing how to obtain Shan Ran, Hope Base had already completely taken control of the Third Continent.
Chai Ze never imagined that he would one day stand at the top of the continent.
Not long ago, he was a small base leader who had been forced into a corner, carefully trying to survive with a group of people, and living in constant anxiety, not knowing when the other two bases would swallow him up.
However, he has now become an executive officer in mainland China.
He turned his head to look at Shan Ran. Of course he knew that although he seemed to be the base chief of Hope Base, Shan Ran had the highest reputation on the entire continent.
She is the superhuman with the most abilities to date, calm and decisive, ruthless but not indiscriminate in killing.
She's like a perfectly tuned machine; all her actions are geared towards that goal in her heart.
He asked her, "What is your goal? Isn't it good to hold onto the Third Continent?"
Shan Ran shook her head. "No, I want revenge."
For those who died, for Lu Wenrou, Cheadle, the Kunwu Squad, Wu Chuyu, Ennia, and everyone in the safe zone, for Rhine and Xie Qingheng of the Second Continent...
"I can't stop."
Over the next year, the First Continent launched several attacks on the Third Continent, but all of them ended in failure, and they even lost control of the Second Continent.
The remnants of the Yu and Lawrence families, together with other smaller families and bases, and in cooperation with the Hope Base, gradually annexed the territories of the powerful families, eventually bringing them all under their control.
At the same time, the marine life unilaterally severed ties with the aristocratic family, no longer assisting them in their sea voyages, and instead devoted themselves to the Hope Base.
The aristocratic families were furious and sent representatives to negotiate with the marine creatures, arguing that they were treacherous and dishonest.
The representative of the aristocratic family quoted extensively from classical texts, speaking with great enthusiasm and his cheeks flushed. Finally, he looked down and saw a bunch of strangely shaped creatures in the sea staring at them with wide, innocent, and bewildered eyes.
Each of their eyes seemed to say, "What are you saying?"
The representative nearly spat out a mouthful of blood, and finally rolled his eyes in anger before being hurriedly carried away.
The powerful families had considered using force to coerce them, but the superpower levels of marine creatures were all honed through real battles with monsters.
Unlike many people from aristocratic families who use potions to enhance their strength, which is often misleading.
We can't win by fighting, and they won't listen to reason. There's nothing we can do, so this matter can only be left unresolved.
The First Continent became an isolated island; those outside couldn't get in, and those inside couldn't get out.
However, the fog on the First Continent was so abundant that it occupied a lot of land, leaving them with too little space to live.
The powerful families were in a state of utter chaos, yet utterly helpless. They could only intensify their experiments, including raising the level of their supernatural abilities and transferring them, in an attempt to increase the success rate of their experiments.
Six months later, they finally increased the success rate of transferring superpowers to 70%.
A success rate of 70% is already very high. Now we've not only reached a bottleneck, but we also don't have enough test subjects.
The major clans would never use their own family members for experiments. Once they had used up all the captured people, they could only use their subordinates and servants who were dependent on them.
However, it's impossible to bring all these people together for experiments; otherwise, the members of the aristocratic families would have to do things themselves.
At this point, Gongyang Shuyao had completely become a blood bag for the family. The higher-ups tore off their pretense and imprisoned her, drawing her blood and bone marrow every day to mass-produce medicine. Once the blood was drained, they would not waste any more energy on treatment.
She lay dying in the dark basement, muttering incoherent curses against the Gongyang family.
Finally, the day arrived when the head of the family was able to conduct experiments, and a grand drama unfolded among the three families as they vied for control of the returning merchant from the south.
In the end, the Gongyang family ceded many benefits in order to secure the right to use the Nangui Shang.
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