novelraw Chapter 307 - 187: Ancient Immortal Dynasty’s General Selection Platform! (Part 2)
Chapter 307 - 187: Ancient Immortal Dynasty’s General Selection Platform! (Part 2)
"Let’s eat the Immortal Beast roasted for us first!"
"When Old Chen returns, I’ll roast for him personally!"
While eating the roasted wings from the Immortal Beast, everyone wore odd expressions. The batch that Wan Bocheng had just roasted was charred outside and bloody inside, discarded to the side.
...
On the opposite mountain, along the mountain path, Chen Wenquan suddenly heard a "plop" sound behind him.
Another "thud" sound followed.
Upon turning around, he saw a person covered in talisman paper, who had fallen and revealed themselves, a bloody hole on their head, oozing red syrup-like blood.
His face instantly paled. Trembling, he reached into his pocket to feel the USB flash drive his junior brother gave him, then went to fetch his phone.
...
In the distant forest, Tie Ta’s Spiritual Sense was suddenly activated. He lowered his head, lifted his foot, and saw a maple leaf-shaped talisman on his shoe sole losing its spiritual energy, curling, and falling off, blown away by the mountain wind.
...
Cars after cars of official vehicles arrived at the Red Leaf Temple scenic area.
Several entrances were sealed, prohibiting tourists from entering.
On the mountain path, the bodies of the enemies were already removed, with gray lines marking the contours of the corpses on the ground and unfading pools of blood.
The people from the Committee’s Material Division were busy collecting various traces.
The students from the Immortal Grass Experimental Class, led by Professor Zhang, slowly came along the mountain path.
Bai Mo and Wu Qingyun were at the end of the class.
Seeing the blood on the ground, the boys widened their eyes, while the girls covered their mouths.
Professor Zhang sighed.
"Feeling the gore? The gruesomeness?
"Today, let’s use this opportunity for you to get a taste of the bloodiness and harshness of our work.
"The enemy killed this time was a senior manager from the Dark World, named Li Yindao, Sequence Eight, a figure holding real power in the Dark World.
"The lives he took... not many, fourteen. But all fourteen were our Committee’s senior members or key figures!
"He was indeed a very frightening character."
Among the boys in the class, Yang Zhan, Wan Bocheng, and others found it quite odd.
"But... Professor... You say he’s a figure of real power, a big shot, yet he died rather casually."
"Killed with a single shot, wasn’t he just a minion?"
Professor Zhang pulled the corners of his mouth.
He originally wanted to have the students experience the gore and harshness.
But these kids actually found the enemy too weak?
"He died easily because he was unlucky, discovered by the mysterious alchemist of West State City!
"Whether someone dies casually or like a minion depends on who their opponent is."
Wan Bocheng suddenly understood!
"So it was the boss behind the scenes, huh."
That made it much easier to comprehend.
Being shot down in a second by the boss behind the scenes isn’t shameful.
Yang Zhan’s expression also changed instantly, his eyes sparkled, and his face was filled with longing.
He didn’t know who the boss behind the scenes was; he only knew the boss once saved his mother!
"Is it that person..."
Suddenly, Wan Bocheng noticed something odd again.
"Professor, I researched many of the achievements of that boss behind the scenes!
"I’m a loyal fan of him!
"He is an alchemist. Does he use guns?
"It feels quite bizarre!"
Professor Zhang shook his head.
"Your current level isn’t enough; there are many records you’ve never seen.
"His methods are diverse; among them are indeed guns.
"Moreover... his gun is actually produced by our West State City... uh..."
Professor Zhang noticed he had said a bit too much, so he stopped talking.
Bai Mo stood at the back of the group, feeling odd.
"For someone with real power in the Dark World, it’s unlikely they would be foolish. They should be aware of the dangers in coming to West State City.
"Even if the Red Leaf Temple scenic area is outside West State City... they should exercise enough caution.
"Could it be they have an unavoidable reason to come?
"Is it... Ancient Immortal?"
Bai Mo sniffed the underlying issue.
"Other Ancient Immortals know what Zhang Qiren is doing, wanting to find Zhang Qiren?
"Is the Dream Origin really so consequential?"
While contemplating, at Bai Mo’s feet, Black Nose was frowning, lifting his head, occasionally looking here and there, vigilantly watching.
Bai Mo then noticed Teacher Chen in the distant pavilion.
He saw him pale-faced, slightly trembling, sitting in the pavilion making a record, accompanied by several members of the Immortal Technique Committee.
Old Chen is just an ordinary person; encountering something like this must have scared him out of his wits, right?
Bai Mo was musing when he suddenly saw from afar that Old Chen, who was taking notes, raised his head, frowned, and abruptly raised his voice.
"No way! This is a significant matter and cannot be casually mentioned to you. I have to talk to Professor Zhang!"
Personally talk to Professor Zhang?
Is he going to talk about Zhang Qiren’s defection?
Even frightened to that extent, he still cares about Zhang Qiren’s return and defection?
It seems they really had a good relationship back in the day?
...
Dark clouds gathered, and the wind howled.
On the winding mountain road of Fox Mountain, a car "whoosh" dashed out, leaping into the air, then "boom" slammed back down to the ground.
The car’s shock absorption was immensely impressive; the body trembled lightly a few times, and the vibration vanished without a trace.
This was a car with enormous wheels, and between the four wheels was a vehicle platform.
Seated in front of the platform, wearing overalls, was the driver, grinning as he drove.
"Whirr whirr whirr!
"Awo awo awo!
"Whirr whirr whirr!"
On a much larger seat at the back of the platform sat Bai Mo, lounging back, crossing his legs for a more comfortable position.
The gusty winds of Fox Mountain swept across, making the wind feel even stronger on this speeding car!
"Peh!"
Bai Mo straightened up, spat out a mouthful of sand, and showed a wry smile...
"Does it mean that this car still needs a cover?
"Or perhaps a front windshield?"
While sitting on the car, his Divine Sense went under the car’s platform, feeling the entire vehicle’s operation.
The engine and bearings of the car were a bamboo rod as thick as a bowl!
The bamboo’s nodes were movable. Each segment of bamboo spun at different speeds.
Providing energy to the rotating bamboo was a special potion emitted from between the bamboo nodes, or rather... the scent of the potion! This aroma rose, was absorbed by the bamboo nodes, provided energy to the bamboo nodes, allowed the bamboo nodes to rotate, and powered this vehicle... That’s right, Bai Mo had successfully consumed Nasal Soup, enabling him to use his evolved sense of smell to concoct a suitable automobile fuel.
The car’s shock absorber was a Scaly Mushroom, a type of rigid mushroom. This mushroom usually grows in seismic zones, and what it loves most is vibrations!
"Hmm, not bad, the operation is stable."
Bai Mo grinned.
The entire vehicle was quite solid; even if taken to the real world to bump into a tank, he wouldn’t be afraid!
Whoosh...
The car dashed down the mountain, rushed into the herb fields, and quickly weaved through the lanes.
In the driver’s seat, the man in overalls howled while fiercely stepping on the gas, and the fox fur was combed backward by the headwind!
In the back seat, Bai Mo sometimes wiped his face and sometimes spat out a mouthful of sand from the wind!
The master and apprentice observed the herb fields like a passing caravan, observing the bustling foxes in the fields.
"Whirr whirr whirr!"
Suddenly, they saw beside the woods ahead, a fox waving its front paws, hopping and calling out.
With a stamp on the gas and a twist of the steering wheel, the man in overalls stepped on the brakes, stopping the car by the woods.
The fox that was calling them turned out to be Big Head, holding a broken Bronze Scissors.
"Whirr, awo awo awo!"
The man in overalls quickly jumped out of the car, carried down a toolbox, and started repairing it on-site.
"Awo, whirr whirr whirr!"
...
Before long, the man in overalls helped three apprentices repair their tools.
On the way, they encountered Small and Big Eyes transporting fertilizer and Peach Blossom Eyes transporting a newly matured batch of bamboo rods.
"Whirr whirr whirr!"
"Awo awo awo!"
Cars on Fox Mountain don’t have horns, but coincidentally, they also don’t have roofs. When foxes meet cars, they use calls to greet each other.
The man in overalls carried his master out of the herb fields and headed to the rear mountain of Fox Mountain, to the relic excavation site.
Along the way, the car wheels ran over countless pits and mud, circumvented large swamps, bypassed the dormitory valleys of Ancient Immortals, heading for the latest excavation site.
"It’s just along this path; you have to climb the slope.
"The new excavation site is on the hilltop of this little hill."
Fox Mountain’s automobiles boasted powerful horsepower and enormous torque. After a cry from the man in overalls, he stomped on the accelerator, and the wheels churned up rolling dust as he carried his master swiftly up the hill!
Whoosh...
As the car reached halfway up the hill, Bai Mo could see from afar the fiery red silhouettes of the fox apprentices wielding shovels, digging into the soil.
An enormous bronze stele had already been excavated, etched with three large characters... rather than sequence text, they were the universal text of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, which needed no sequence, just literacy to understand.
Bai Mo hadn’t researched much, but he happened to recognize the three characters.
Sitting in the car at the moment, he furrowed his brow.
"These three characters are... General Selection Platform?"