novelraw Chapter 95 The False Man
Chapter 95 The False Man
Chapter 95 The False Man
"Help me find someone, from Vulcan Technology, who went to that abyss in the ruined city about two weeks ago."
"Why should I help you investigate? What does this have to do with Parker?" Clyde Wixon said nonchalantly.
Chu Wuji didn't say anything, he just sent Parker's live stream address to Clyde.
In the scene, Parker is awkwardly using his newly activated ability to fight a fugitive whose body is made of stone.
"I thought you'd need to put in some effort to get it done." Chu Wuji knew that Clyde was referring to Parker's unreliable ability.
"Isn't it normal for people to unleash their potential when facing life-or-death situations?"
"Don't mess with me." Clyde said this and hung up the phone. A short while later, all the information about Ding Li was sent to Chu Wuji's email address.
In return, Chu Wuji also sent Clyde a photo he had just taken of a concrete doll with eyes growing out of it, giving Clyde a headache.
If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up; the short ones just need to find the tall ones.
Clearly, Clyde, who has at least five sixth-tier experts under his command, is the tallest person Chu Wuji can find at the moment.
I glanced at Ding Li's report briefly. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about it. It was nothing more than that he was released by Vulcan Technology after committing manslaughter and became a martial arts instructor.
But soon, Chu Wuji realized something was wrong.
According to the records, on the day Chu Wuji killed Ding Li, he was indeed assigned a mission to go into the abyss with the team, but the mission was not written in the records at all. It was as if Vulcan Technology had nothing better to do than let them go for a stroll in the abyss.
After that, Ding Li, who had been killed by Chu Wuji, left the abyss unharmed with the group and then dutifully continued to serve as his martial arts instructor.
Until today, Ding Li, who was on holiday, encountered Chu Wuji.
Isn't that obvious? Doesn't Chu Wuji know that Ding Li's problems occurred after his death?
The results report was also a riddle; the mission details were deleted, and the action report on what Ding Li did in the abyss was also deleted—it was all missing.
Before Chu Wuji could call back to question him, Clyde called back first.
"Where did you find this thing?" The other person's tone was unusually serious.
He had acted nonchalantly when Chu Wuji killed his son, but now he was speaking in an extremely serious tone, as if he were urinating in his pants on a crowded subway and trying to hide the stench from others.
Chu Wuji didn't mince words and directly recounted everything he had seen in the sewers.
"That's all for now. Also, what was Ding Li's mission? Could you provide all the information?"
"...Even Lianyun City is here now?"
Clyde muttered something, then raised his voice: "Now that you've seen it all, I'll tell you what you need to know."
"You can think of it as a virus from the abyss."
"Vulcan Technology was conducting an experiment on artificial humans. The experiment went out of control, and the test subject was infected with this virus. Then, he encountered Ding Li, whom you killed, and escaped from the abyss by assuming Ding Li's identity."
"And then they settled down in the sewers of Cloud City?"
"You can understand it this way: don't get involved in this matter, I'll send someone to handle it." After saying that, Clyde added, "I might need your help if necessary, twenty million at a time."
Clyde then hung up the phone.
Chu Wuji frowned. The last thing the other person said sounded like he wasn't sure either.
And he wants to stay out of it?
If this happened elsewhere, it wouldn't be so bad, but the problem is that these strange things have made their home in the sewers.
Chu Wuji didn't want to one day go to the toilet and have a bunch of eyes pop out of the toilet bowl to open his buttocks' eyes.
"Necessary precautions are still necessary..."
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Although Clyde's words were vague, Chu Wuji basically guessed that this so-called virus from the abyss and the [Abyss Evolution] that Parker carried were the same kind of thing.
However, the former is far more harmful and contagious than the latter.
No... it's also possible that the latter was simply inactivated. Chu Wuji hasn't forgotten the terrible state he was in when he was infected.
"By the way, what would happen if Parker got an eye infection?"
Of course, Chu Wuji was just thinking about it; the idea of creating a father for oneself only happens in tokusatsu dramas.
"However... since that spitting monster was able to come to the rescue so quickly, excluding the possibility that it was their home base, then the sewers of Yun City have basically fallen."
Furthermore, these yellow lizards can also disguise themselves as humans by wearing human skin, so it's unknown how many people have been replaced.
With this thought in mind, Chu Wuji walked out of the alley and unleashed his full senses.
The next moment, Chu Wuji's expression turned ugly.
He sensed an aura identical to that of the yellow-skinned lizard nearby.
Is it really possible to scan it with just a simple scan?
Looking up, I saw a middle-aged man with a receding hairline, carrying a briefcase and walking across the road where Parker had smashed a hole. He also had a terminal tucked into his ear, seemingly making a phone call to a client.
Judging from his appearance, he is a very unfortunate corporate slave.
But Chu Wuji's senses told him clearly that the person in front of him had become the same as Ding Li.
This feeling was just like the fake people in the horror works that Chu Wuji had read in his previous life.
He raised his finger, his inner energy gathering at the tip, but after a moment's hesitation, he lowered it.
Not to mention whether the contamination from the deceased's eyes would spread, if it caused a riot among the things in the sewers, Chu Wuji wasn't confident he could stop it.
Just one spitting lizard that came to help was enough to make Chu Wuji flee in a sorry state. He couldn't even imagine how disgusting and terrifying it would be if hundreds or thousands of these cockroach-like creatures crawled out of the sewers.
Now we can only pin our hopes on Clyde, and hope that he's a reliable person.
Chu Wuji glanced at Parker's live stream on his brain and, seeing that the other was still getting beaten up, stopped paying attention to him.
Chu Wuji sent Chu Tong a message saying he would be home tonight, then hailed a taxi and arrived at a bridge pier under a large bridge.
He skillfully found the mechanism, and the bridge pier opened a crack, revealing the building inside.
Chu Wuji leaped down and returned to Ronan's secret base.
With a tug, the iron gate, which he had previously physically locked shut, finally reached its end and fell off the wall.
Three pairs of bewildered eyes met Chu Wuji's gaze amidst the smoke and dust.
"You guys actually didn't leave."
The three people in the base were naturally Shinohara Makoto and the others who had been tied up by Chu Wuji that day. However, the thorns on their bodies had been removed, their wounds had been simply bandaged, and they were sitting around the table eating canned beans.
Chu Wuji naturally pulled out a seat and sat down.
"From now on, I'll be your boss."