Chapter 112: Perfect Lifeform Factory
The bell rang, signaling the end of class. After the balding math teacher left the classroom, Chen Ling hurried off to the restroom.
A gust of wind blew into the classroom through the window, refreshing the air. Nora let out a breath of relief. When she turned and saw Yu Xian sitting there with his eyes closed, she closed her eyes as well and cultivated the Sunward Sunflower Divine Art.
Although Yu Xian's eyes were closed, he actually knew Nora had wanted to talk to him. However, he was currently focused on a large garbage processing plant in the northern part of the city.
For this, he had to thank Chen Ling's smelly fart. If not for her, he would not have blocked out all kinds of foul odors and, in the process, discovered that something was wrong with that garbage processing plant.
When he had blocked out various foul smells, many blank spots had appeared in the city model inside his mind. This was especially true for the city's four garbage processing plants, where the blank spots were particularly large.
Besides these four, Silver City also had many small recycling stations. Since he had many other reference points to compare them against, he could easily deduce exactly what lay hidden inside those piles of garbage, even if the piles themselves contained quite a few blank spots.
However, the large garbage processing plant in the north was different. When he filtered out the ordinary household waste there, some unusual outlines appeared. At other garbage processing plants, the outlines of the garbage piles were chaotic and completely irregular.
But at this plant, once he removed the filtered-out sections, part of the remaining outline showed a faint sense of order. It seemed to form a massive rectangular sealed space.
Taking advantage of the break before the final period began, Yu Xian left behind a clone, then teleported into the air above the plant. He looked down at the heaps of trash below him. Massive piles of garbage rose like small hills, while workers along the edges sorted waste into different categories. On the surface, the entire garbage processing plant looked completely normal. But the more normal it looked, the more suspicious it seemed to Yu Xian.
A bubble flew out and quickly transformed into a hand. It descended and swept aside the trash around the garbage mountain. At that moment, ripples appeared across an invisible barrier.
Several workers wearing protective suits and masks realized that the base had been exposed. "Not good!"
They immediately turned and tried to run, but before they could get far, Yu Xian knocked them down one by one. The director of the garbage processing plant stepped out, but Yu Xian struck him as well, and he collapsed with wide, unwilling eyes.
He had dealt with all of them using only his hand-shaped bubbles. They had not even seen him.
Yu Xian took out his phone and called Xiao Cheng. "Deputy Director, I've discovered a suspected secret base in Silver City that may be manufacturing Perfect Lifeforms. I'm requesting support."
This base was protected by a barrier, rendering Super Smell useless. Although he had the Dragon Shield and was not afraid of danger, if the base housed a large number of Perfect Lifeforms, there was no way he could stop all of them on his own. Even if only one escaped from the base, it would spell a massive disaster for Silver City.
Ten minutes later, Yu Lie and other experts teleported to the garbage processing plant one after another. Yu Lie walked up to the barrier and pressed his hand against it. The Heavenly Eye between his brows opened and swept over the surroundings. "This barrier is neither ours nor Western in origin. Its style does somewhat resemble that of the Island Nation."
A beam of golden light shot out from his Heavenly Eye, slowly opening a window-sized gap in the barrier. Inside the barrier was a hidden space. It was astonishingly vast, far larger than the outside suggested.
There was a factory-like building in the space. Around it, squad after squad of uniformed guards patrolled with firearms in hand. The moment the opening appeared in the barrier, they all opened fire toward it.
Yu Lie smiled. He instantly transformed himself into a peregrine falcon and flew through the opening, easily avoiding the bullets. As he approached the guards, he shifted back to his human form. Golden light swept out from the Heavenly Eye between his brows, splitting the guards around him into two.
Xiao Cheng said to Yu Xian, "Let's go!"
The two of them crossed the opening and quickly advanced toward the building. When Yu Xian entered it, a model of the interior rapidly formed in his mind. He frowned and looked downward. "Deputy Director, there is a huge underground space beneath us. Not good! The suspect believed to be Peng Zu is trying to escape!"
He immediately grabbed Xiao Cheng, and the two of them teleported into a room several hundred meters underground. Behind them was a teleportation formation. Ahead of them, an old man in a suit and several researchers stopped in their tracks and looked at the two men who had appeared out of thin air.
Xiao Cheng immediately understood the situation. He smiled, prepared to attack at a moment's notice. "Should I call you... Peng Zu?"
The old man sighed and tossed aside the cane in his hand. "Ever since Perfect Lifeform No. 001 escaped, I knew this day would come. I just didn't expect it to arrive so soon."
Yu Xian's mouth moved slightly, and he transmitted his voice through a bubble into Xiao Cheng's ear. "Deputy Director, be careful. He is a clone. He's trying to self-destruct."
Without another word, Xiao Cheng immediately threw out the gray energy in his hand. The Chrono-Stagnation Domain enveloped Peng Zu and the researchers, freezing them in place.
Far away, the real Peng Zu sensed what had happened to his clone. He took out a pen-shaped remote control, removed the cap, and gently pressed the button. Originally, he had planned to press it only after his clone and several important researchers had left. Now, he had no choice but to destroy everything altogether.
An extremely powerful bomb beneath the teleportation formation detonated with a deafening blast. The instant the explosion erupted, Yu Xian teleported away with Xiao Cheng. Many researchers inside the factory were unable to react before the flames of the explosion swept over them.
Yu Lie had just stepped into the factory when he saw Yu Xian and Xiao Cheng appear beside him. The Heavenly Eye between his brows narrowed. "What happened?"
Xiao Cheng looked at Yu Xian. Yu Xian replied, "We found Peng Zu, but it was only a clone. After we restrained the clone, someone remotely detonated explosives that had been planted in advance."
He was certain that the detonation had not been triggered by anyone inside. After all, he had been monitoring the entire facility, every move made here visible to him.
Yu Xian looked into the depths of the factory, his expression turning grave. "They're coming!"
The next second, a monster covered in burns rushed out from the flames. When it saw people blocking its path, it immediately roared and launched an attack.
Yu Lie frowned. A Perfect Lifeform?
The Heavenly Eye on his forehead fired a beam of golden light, instantly cleaving the monster in two. Flames consumed its remains.
"It was weaker than I expected!" Yu Lie muttered.
Yu Xian replied, "Director, don't let your guard down. That one was only a half-finished product. More Perfect Lifeforms are waking up below. The explosion destroyed the cages holding them, and some... strange experimental subjects are breaking out of their incubation tanks."
In his perception, although the explosion had killed some Perfect Lifeforms, even more were breaking free from their incubation tanks and fleeing toward the surface.
Anyone who had ever kept animals in an enclosure knew that when danger arose in a confined space, they would instinctively try to escape upward. The Perfect Lifeforms were not intelligent, but they still possessed the instinct to survive.