Free Web NovelChapter 580: Chapter 317: War Correspondent Hu Hufeng and Elite Scout Antlered Mayfly (Part 2)
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Huff...
The autumn wind blew.
Chen Bade’s Divine Sense perceived the falling leaves swept by the autumn wind.
But as always, he didn’t notice the antlered mayflies flying in mid-air.
He also didn’t notice that the two foxes beside him, wearing Immortal Qi Vine Armor, had Hu Hufeng standing on the shoulders of the Wind Chasing Claw, poking its head out to look at his phone, waiting for a message reply alongside him.
Even more, he didn’t notice Hu Hufeng’s impatient expression as it silently crushed three antlered mayflies with its Fox Claw.
What exactly are these little bugs?
Foolishly flying over, only to be foolishly crushed to death?
The Immortal Qi Vine Armor it wore was the latest model from Fox Mountain, the newest equipment, something even the fellow disciples hadn’t had the chance to fancy yet!
And yet, it crushed several flying insects in succession, dirtying its Vine Silk Gloves!
After crushing three more flying insects, Hu Hufeng poked its head again, continuing to stare at the phone screen with Chen Bade, waiting to see the reply.
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In the hotel room, Wang Chonghui collapsed on the bed, looking utterly desolate.
The antlered mayfly was dead again!
Moreover, the antlered mayfly couldn’t even detect who the enemy was, where they were, or what they looked like!
"I..."
His voice carried a hint of tears.
In his mind, the stern voice of the Ancient Immortal resounded!
"No crying!
"Just act like nothing happened!
"Otherwise... he’ll find you!
"Your Prince Blood Technique hasn’t fully awakened. If you are discovered now, you’ll die!"
Wang Chonghui shivered, freezing for a moment as he understood what his master was saying. He quickly lay back on the bed, took out his phone, opened a browser, and visited a photo website as he usually did, continuing his usual habit...
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In the office.
Bai Mo furrowed his brows.
"Not nearby, huh?"
The Fire Toad made several rounds, its eyes scanning the nearby streets, searching hotels, inns, restaurants, residential areas... seeing all sorts of vain girls, sleazy fatties, trembling traveling workers, truant kids... but didn’t find anything unusual.
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In the autumn wind.
Chen Bade stared at the phone screen and suddenly realized something!
He fiddled with WeChat, and was instantly dumbfounded...
It turned out that the "File Transfer Assistant" he had been looking for in the contacts list, the mastermind behind Sichun, was the wrong one all along.
The "File Transfer Assistant" he messaged was indeed a real File Transfer Assistant, a real one!
"Oh! Damn it!"
He quickly sent a new message to the genuine File Transfer Assistant, disguised as the mastermind behind Sichun.
[How’s it going? What’s your situation now?]
The other side quickly replied.
[Lost]
[This was my second encounter with him. In just half a month, his Gu insects seem like... I don’t know how to say... like they’ve been replaced?]
[Actually, the species hasn’t changed, it’s still the same batch of insects]
[But the quality of each insect is getting stronger]
[His growth speed is just too fast]
[I don’t understand]
[I need to go heal]
[I’m really afraid that next time I encounter him, he’ll have turned into a monster]
[But I’m already no match for him, I have to go heal]
[I’m afraid of being tracked by him]
[He’s too strong, his dog nose beetle evolves too fast, I’m afraid that in a few days, his dog nose beetle can track me]
[Where should I go to heal?]
Chen Bade’s eyes lowered, unsure of what to say.
Even through the screen, even through text, he could feel the fear and desperation inside the heart of this Sichun boss.
He shed tears and was about to reply when he saw his phone screen seemingly infected, each button jumping, typing by itself, and sending a message to the Sichun boss.
"This..."
He panicked, his Divine Sense showing clearly nothing around him!
What is going on?
Could the phone really be infected with a virus?
Could that mysterious Gu Dao criminal be back?
Or perhaps...
The phone then automatically typed two short lines, sending them to the Sichun boss.
[You can go to West State]
[Guaranteed safety]
Sichun President Chen Bade stood frozen in place.
His Divine Sense still covered several meters around him, still detecting nothing.
Except for the two messages sent by someone on his phone, everything else was as usual, as if nothing had happened.
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In the office, Bai Mo retrieved the Fire Toad Balloon and brought the two field reporter disciples back to Fox Mountain.
He felt a bit glum inside.
"The current bandits are getting more cunning, even learning counter-surveillance techniques?"
He didn’t have much time to spend dealing with these bandits.
He could only wait for the next encounter to see what kind of mysterious Immortal Technique they possessed.
At that moment, Bai Mo turned off the live stream and continued reading a paper, wanting to first study the task scheduling system of supercomputers.
"These engineering things were all figured out bit by bit by our predecessors.
"Learning from what’s already been done saves the effort. It’s quite good."
Fang Xiaoyu and Wu Qingyun, having also finished watching Sichun’s live stream, clicked their tongues in amazement, one lowering their head to homework, the other to paperwork.
As for the corn claw, it snuggled in the master’s arms, nuzzling him, continuing to gnaw on its corn.
"Squeak squeak squeak!"
Bai Mo grinned, ruffling his disciple.
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The morning flew by quickly.
Bai Mo was about to go for lunch when he heard a knock on the office door.
Professor Zhang peeked in, half his body through the door, beaming with joy.
"Expert Bai Mo, want to take a look at the Traitor’s Wine project?"
Huh?
It’s only been a morning, and the project has made progress again?
Isn’t that a little too fast?
Bai Mo got up immediately.
"Then let’s go see."
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Vroom...
The car drove on the highway, heading to the east side of the North Suburb Base.
In the car, Professor Zhang was full of delight, completely unbothered by the morning’s Sichun Region incident.
"...Huh?
"Haha, I’m not worried about that.
"West State has already sent skilled experts over, that’s something for them to worry about, not me."
Although Professor Zhang was one of the earliest in the Sequence Seven of the Immortal Committee’s technology lineup, and even possessed the Five-Colored Pill Fire, he never regarded himself as an expert.
"Expert Bai Mo, our task is to produce the Traitor’s Wine!
"Though our Traitor’s Wine can’t handle very high-level Gu Masters, it can deal with some clumsy ones, and it’s capable of mass production!
"What does mass production mean?
"Look at the Sequence Seven Gu Masters, how many are there altogether? Not many at all!
"But the Sequence Eights, Sequence Nines, those petty criminals, there are thousands of them!
"They’re like rats, like flies, harming people everywhere!
"Their strength may be weak, but their numbers are great!
"The harm they inflict on the populace is greater than that of those powerful Gu Masters!
"Once the Traitor’s Wine is mass-produced, if it can incapacitate thousands upon thousands of Sequence Eight and Sequence Nine petty criminals, allowing the vast majority of people to live safely, free from the nuisance of Gu, that would be a great achievement!
"Of course, the credit is yours, and the honor is yours.
"I’m just a steward, I dare not take the credit, hahaha."
Vroom...
The car stopped.
Professor Zhang, in high spirits and with a light step, led Bai Mo into the workshop.
Upon entering the door, they were greeted by rows upon rows of Leaf Decay Chambers in the workshop, shrouded in dim light!
Overnight, these Decay Chambers had been mass-produced to the point of numbering in the tens of thousands in this workshop!
Bai Mo, with the corn claw perched on his shoulder, was slightly surprised.
"Impressive!"
Wearing a white lab coat, he stepped forward to take a closer look at the Decay Chambers, and to his surprise, saw that their indicator lights were on, they were in working condition?
He opened the lid of a Decay Chamber and saw leaves hanging inside...
"This... could it be?"
Professor Zhang followed him, grinning widely.
"That’s right! The leaves are in position!
"And not only that."
Professor Zhang led Bai Mo to the adjacent workshop.
Here, the enormous workshop had been transformed into a laboratory, fully illuminated with hundreds of well-equipped lab benches, each attended by groups of technicians in dust-proof suits, busy either at their benches or moving around with reagents and leaves.
"Overnight, a large-scale experiment setup was completed as well?
"Were laboratories set up overnight, and personnel recruited overnight?"
Professor Zhang waved his hand dismissively.
"Expert Bai Mo, don’t be too surprised, our progress goes beyond this, follow me, hahaha!"
