NOVEL NEXT Chapter 457: Reaping the Fisherman's Profits
Li Hui nodded, and then he suddenly stepped on the gas, charging toward the southwest.
After leaving the Technology Institute, some wicked dragons were still chasing after Ye Xuan and their vehicle, but all of them had been taken care of by Ye Xuan using the thread kills technique.
"It seems that there's no ambush outside. Are we going straight back to the rescue station now?" Li Hui asked with some excitement.
"Head back to the rescue station, but we don't drive into it. Find a safe place to park the car near the factory, then we sneak in," Ye Xuan said.
Li Hui nodded and drove the car towards the factory.
Soon, as they were about to arrive at the factory, from a distance, Ye Xuan heard gunshots coming from inside, indicating that it must have been chaos in there.
"Boss, there's a lot of weeds next to the factory. Let's park the car here; it should be safer," Li Hui said, finding a deep patch of grass next to the factory and speaking to Ye Xuan.
"Okay," Ye Xuan nodded.
Once Li Hui had parked the vehicle, Ye Xuan pulled open the door and got out. Since the fire axe Ye Xuan had used before was corroded by the wicked dragon's mucus, he now took up the large machete that Li Wanlong had used before.
"My watermelon knife feels a bit off too; I need a new weapon," Tang Xuerou said, and then she got out of the car and started looking for a weapon in the trunk.
Li Hui followed her.
Aside from the bow and arrows, Li Hui also stuffed some darts into his messenger bag. Seeing the bag on Li Hui's body, Ye Xuan frowned: "Is that bag collected from one of Li Wanlong's underlings?"
"Yeah, you guys brought it back. I thought it's convenient for carrying stuff, so I took it," Li Hui said.
"Before using that backpack, was there anything inside?" Ye Xuan continued to ask.
Li Hui thought for a moment, then slapped his hand: "Oh, I remember now, there indeed was something in the backpack. I didn't throw it away; it's put over here in the trunk."
With that, Li Hui took out a bottle and a piece of paper from a corner near the trunk and handed them to Ye Xuan.
"This bottle is the same eyedrops we had before." Ye Xuan glanced at the bottle in his hand and passed it to Tang Xuerou.
The eyedrops used by the mutant at Li Wanlong's base found by Tang Xuerou were the same as those in Li Hui's bag.
"It seems that after mutating, mutants do have their weaknesses; they really need these eyedrops. Perhaps, this could be a subject for research," Ye Xuan said as he unfolded the piece of folded paper.
On the paper was a crooked line of writing: "Brain pulp, wicked dragon blood, wicked dragon flesh."
"What the hell is this stuff?" Li Hui, looking at the paper in Ye Xuan's hand, was puzzled.
"It should be the speed of mutation after eating these things. Brain pulp has the quickest mutation, then wicked dragon blood, and wicked dragon flesh is third," Tang Xuerou conjectured.
Ye Xuan nodded. Previously, at the large supermarket, those who consumed wicked dragon flesh mutated very slowly, but today, the two people in the rescue station mutated directly after eating brain pulp.
This indicated that, as written on the paper, different consumption led to different mutation speeds.
However, Ye Xuan still couldn't understand why people inside the rescue station would willingly eat the brains of wicked dragons, such disgusting things. How did Death Reincarnation convince them?
"Forget it, pondering so much now is pointless. Let's just go check inside the rescue station first. I think it must have descended into total chaos by now." Ye Xuan said.
"Alright, let's go." Tang Xuerou responded, grabbing a saw, and followed Ye Xuan.
Seeing Tang Xuerou, a slim girl, carrying a saw, Li Hui felt that his few darts seemed inadequate, so he picked a spring-loaded fruit knife before following them.
Ye Xuan tucked the paper into his pocket. If mutating differently was because of eating different parts of the evil dragon, then those who had eaten the evil dragon's flesh and hadn't mutated yet... there might already be many inside the rescue station…
The factory base.
"Boss, let's get out of here, it's too chaotic."
"Wait a sec." Ye Xuan lowered his voice and grabbed Li Hui.
Li Hui, seeing Ye Xuan's serious expression, followed his gaze looking forward, and sure enough, a group of people had climbed over the fence.
"The person leading them is Shadow." Tang Xuerou said.
Ye Xuan looked closely. The man in a black hoodie leading the group from over the fence was indeed Shadow. However, this could also just be one of his shadow characters.
"And there's Brother De." Li Hui pointed at another man dressed in khaki casual wear following behind Shadow. It was indeed Brother De.
But Brother De, who previously was only level 2, was now level 10.
"Brother De was only level 2 before, but now, he is level 10. I think he must have become a mutant." Ye Xuan slowly said, focusing on Brother De in the distance.
"Damn, mutants level up that fast?" Li Hui couldn't help but exclaim.
"Shadow must have given him a lot of help for him to level up so quickly." Tang Xuerou said.
Ye Xuan nodded. Shadow had given sweet deals to Brother De, so Brother De would follow Shadow loyally and do his bidding.
"But... what are they doing here now?" Li Hui wondered.
"Obviously, Shadow planned the transformation of the people in the rescue station into mutants from the start, and now that there is massive chaos, him coming out is just to reap the benefits of the fisherman." Ye Xuan explained.
Tang Xuerou's face looked very unhappy watching the group that had come in.
"You knew Shadow when you were beta testing the game. What do you think of the situation now?" Ye Xuan turned his head and asked Tang Xuerou.
"The most terrifying thing about Shadow isn't his Spiritual Power abilities, what's truly frightening is that there isn't a single true word in his mouth. Even if you're confronting him, none of the words that come out of his mouth can be trusted..."
Tang Xuerou said as her eyes also took on a distant look: "During the beta test of the Death Reincarnation game, Shadow was already strong. Moreover,
in the beta game, he had an ally, who was even more fearsome than Shadow. Maybe in the Death Game, Shadow has also allied with that person."
Ye Xuan listened and furrowed his brow: "Are you saying that Shadow has an ally, and that ally is even stronger than him?"
"All I know is that his ID was Night Charm. I don't know if he's changed his name in the Death Game," Tang Xuerou said, popping a piece of chocolate into her mouth, "Anyway, this Night Charm is very mysterious, and after the beta ended, he was ranked number one."