Chapter 458: Chapter 335: Turned Up Nothing
Bi Shi looked me up and down after she finished speaking. I was a bit worried that she might notice something. The pockets in my athletic shorts weren’t as loose as those in my outer clothes, and the sharp cone shape made a slight bulge. If Bi Shi knew about it, she’d surely notice it in my pocket.
"What are you doing? Wearing so little out in broad daylight, doesn’t Professor Chen care?"
Bi Shi’s focus was clearly elsewhere, which gave me some relief, as I walked towards the room where I stored my backpack.
"You came just in time, I almost lit up the light orb. Wearing less was to minimize the loss."
There was a strong man in Bi Shi’s team, and Wang Le was tucked under his arm, seemingly unconscious.
Noticing my gaze, Bi Shi explained, "Not dead, just knocked out."
In the room where I stored my stuff, I dressed neatly, put on my backpack, and walked back to face Bi Shi. Beside her were more than a dozen people, all looking spirited with bright eyes. I’d allow them to take the light orb, having assessed the power gap between us.
If it came to forcibly taking it, we definitely couldn’t beat them. Anyway, the ’core’ was in my pocket, and if she wanted the ’natural gas’, she could take it.
After the light orb disappeared, a big hole was revealed on the ground, below which seemed to be a room with quite a few corpses lying on the ground.
"Where is your Professor Chen?" Bi Shi asked, evidently in a good mood, with a lilt in her voice.
"He’s missing. By the way, do you know about the core? My teammate was targeted, is there a way to remove the negative control from him?"
"It’s okay now, once the light is stored in an enclosed space, it loses its effect."
"Oh, so nothing weird happened when the ancient city was underground."
"How about it, want a hitchhike? If not, I’m taking off."
"Let’s go. I still have people to find. It’s not just Professor Chen, there’s an old man missing for years." I waved my hand, turning my gaze towards the corpses in the pit. New and old bodies piled up, and to find Miss Tang and her father, I might have to search through them all.
"Truly a dedicated and hardworking comrade, search on your own, we have other matters to attend to, bye then."
"No inside info for me?"
"I’m using it to stir up things, anyway, you’re not interested, so don’t ask too much."
"Alright, help promote the breakfast shop for me, I see many of your fans are from Huaxia."
"You’re something else! Got it." Bi Shi snapped her fingers, and the big man let go of Wang Le.
She turned around gracefully and left with her group. Before leaving, Miss Gourd nodded and smiled at me.
She is from our tribe, with half of Bi Shi’s team being of the same tribe, she’s been quite busy lately, with significant results.
After they left, I relaxed, thankfully they didn’t notice or discover the crystal I had hidden.
My search for Chen Qinghan was not an excuse. The light orb vanished, and he hadn’t appeared, I was a bit worried. Turning around, I jumped into the big hole, which seemed to be part of the city’s drainage system.
A circular space, with several drainage channel openings on the wall, allowing a person to walk inside them upright.
"Professor Chen—Chen Qinghan!" I shouted a couple of times into the tunnel, then started searching through the pile of corpses for familiar or semi-familiar faces.
I had met Miss Tang before; I still remembered her appearance. Even if she had been dead for a week, the preservative abilities of the Big Head would slow down the drying process.
I used a hook stick to lift off the upper layer of corpses, checking them one by one. Some bodies were unclothed, some wore very old clothes, and some had new clothes, just dirty.
Not everyone invaded by an Evil Spirit dies immediately, but dead ones will certainly be used as tools by the Evil Spirit.
I found fatal wounds on several bodies, even gunshot wounds, bullets pierced through hearts or lungs.
They were probably first killed, and then Big Head created the illusion that they were still alive, letting these people wander in the ancient city as Evil Spirits, doing its bidding.
"Professor Chen, Chen Beast?" I kept calling Chen Qinghan while flipping bodies, no matter what, I didn’t believe he would die so easily, unlike Mike and the others.
"What did you just call me?" Chen Qinghan’s voice came from a drainage opening on the wall.
"Chen Qinyou, isn’t ’Qinyou’ fitting now? It’s the trend."
"You’re looking for me among dead bodies?" Chen Qinghan came out of the drainage hole covered in dirt, looking okay on the surface, with all limbs intact.
"I am looking for Miss Tang and her dad."
"They’re not here, they’re there." Chen Qinghan gestured behind him, and Miss Tang emerged from the tunnel, supporting a gray-haired man.
