“If you like it, just use it for now. When you become more capable later, or when your Master, I, strike it rich, I’ll get you an even better one,” Lu Chenxing said with a smile.
“Thank you, Master, for bestowing this blade!” Guan Yang played with it for a while before putting it into his ring. He then said to Lu Chenxing, “Master, I just ran into Principal Bai. He asked to see you.”
“Oh, alright. I’ll go over now.” Lu Chenxing turned to Guo Jiahao and said, “Remember to watch the shop!”
“Don’t worry, Big Brother! Leave it to me!” Guo Jiahao responded with a laugh.
Hearing the address “Big Brother,” Guan Yang looked at Little Fatty with some surprise. He had thought he was just a shop assistant for his Master, but he was actually a subordinate?
Would his Master not get beaten up by his parents for taking in an underage subordinate like this?
For a moment, Guan Yang felt a little worried, but he didn’t say much. After all, his Master had his own considerations when doing things.
……
Upon reaching the teaching building, Guan Yang went to find the teacher who was currently giving him one-on-one lessons, while Lu Chenxing went to the Principal’s office.
“Knock, knock, knock.” He politely knocked on the door.
The next moment, the door opened, and he stepped inside.
At this time, Bai Yuntian was sitting behind his desk, seemingly deep in thought. Only when Lu Chenxing approached did he wave his hand and say, “Sit.”
Lu Chenxing sat down as instructed. Then, Principal Bai tapped a recording stone on the desk, and a picture immediately appeared before the two of them. “Take a look at this first.”
The image seemed to be recorded in a laboratory, full of a sense of technology. Inside a special cage made of runes, there was a large gray rat.
“Isn’t this the Plague Lord’s clone?” Lu Chenxing was a little surprised. “I thought it had already been eliminated!”
After cutting off the connection between the Plague Lord and the clone, the clone had been taken away by Bai Yuntian. Two or three days had passed, and this clone was still alive?
“Yes, at the time, we originally planned to directly conduct an anchor point attack for the Esoteric Scholars, but the Technology Scholars developed a device that can randomly extract some fragments from the target’s memory, so we wanted to test it out,” Bai Yuntian explained.
Lu Chenxing then interjected, “So this is the footage of the experiment?”
“Yes, this matter is a bit unexpected. This clone was brought back by you, so you also have the right to know.” Bai Yuntian looked at the screen, his expression serious, and said, “It’s about to begin.”
At this moment, a researcher in a white lab coat walked into the screen and placed the gray rat, along with its cage, into a large device.
The researchers’ chatter came from the screen.
“I heard this is a clone of the Plague Lord. I wonder what it will extract.”
“This thing hasn’t been tested yet. There’s no certainty if it will succeed, or if it will extract nothing at all.”
“Oh, come on, it was just something made for fun. If we really wanted to get information, wouldn’t it be better to just let those immortal cultivators use soul-searching techniques?”
“Hey! Don’t talk nonsense. Be careful if Researcher Yi hears you; you’ll be in for it then!”
“Yeah, yeah! Researcher Yi took the time to create this device precisely because he doesn’t get along with those immortal cultivators. Two years ago, when he went to ask for information, he was even ambushed by those soul-searching people, which is why he wanted to do it himself. If you say that, be careful you don’t get disciplined!”
“Alright, alright, I won’t say anything, is that enough?!”
The information revealed in the casual chat among the few people made Lu Chenxing’s mouth twitch a little. Sure enough, wherever there are people, there are conflicts, and where there are conflicts, there will be grievances.
A moment later, a blurry image appeared on the machine’s display screen. It was unclear, like distorted color blocks, swaying back and forth, making people feel a little nauseous.
The image was intermittent, and at the same time, indistinct voices came through. Some were deep male voices, some were female voices, and there were also the overlapping, gender-neutral voices of Phantom Demons.
“…Human race…again…cannot…”
“Kill…all…die…”
“You little demons…obey…order…”
“Human race…all…must die…”
At this point, the display screen suddenly went dark. The people in the laboratory were silent for a moment, then someone cautiously spoke up:
“Did you all hear that?”
“Hmm…it seems to be these Strange Beast discussing the human race?”
“No way, why did I hear something like ‘the human race must die’?”
The laboratory fell silent again. Clearly, everyone had heard it. After a moment, someone reacted, “Quick, go find Researcher Yi!”
Then the researchers scrambled to find the Researcher Yi they mentioned, and the recording stone was also turned off and taken away at this moment.
After the footage finished playing, Bai Yuntian looked at Lu Chenxing and asked, “Do you have any ideas?”
“Me?” Lu Chenxing pointed to himself and asked somewhat unexpectedly, “I’m only two-stage! This kind of major matter concerning humanity is useless to ask me about!”
A seventh-stage big shot asking a two-stage person if he has any ideas about something concerning the lives of all humanity?
This scene seems a bit surreal, doesn’t it?
“Although you are only two-stage, you have a knowledge system that has never appeared before. There should be some cases or something in this knowledge system inheritance, which is also why I came to you,” Bai Yuntian didn’t feel there was anything strange, waving his hand to explain.
Seeing Lu Chenxing somewhat silent, he then said, “Just say whatever you want. If you really have no ideas, that’s fine too.”
Then, without waiting for Lu Chenxing’s reply, he began to speak to himself, “I just find it very strange. Why do these alien races want us dead so much? From the moment the human race first stepped onto the Zhu Tian Battlefield, they began to collectively besiege our human race.”
“Before, we always thought that it was because we suddenly appeared and affected their distribution of interests, which is why they relentlessly pursued our human race, wanting us to withdraw from the Zhu Tian Battlefield.”
“But now it seems that’s not the case?”
Bai Yuntian stroked his chin, pondering, “The voice in the footage said ‘Human race…again.’ What exactly does this ‘again’ mean?”
As an immortal cultivator, he deeply trusted his intuition. For big shots like them, intuition was not vague, but truly and concretely existed.
Now his intuition told him that this word “again” was very problematic!
“The human race was inexplicably relentlessly pursued as soon as they appeared…” Listening to Bai Yuntian’s words, Lu Chenxing always felt that this kind of thing sounded familiar, but he couldn’t recall it at the moment.
Looking at the pensive Bai Yuntian, Lu Chenxing really wanted to say something, but he truly had nothing to say, because his current understanding was no different from Bai Yuntian’s; he also thought it was most likely a matter of interests.
So he spread his hands and said to Bai Yuntian, “I think it should still be a matter of interests, but interests can be deep or shallow. Just like all living creatures instinctively make choices that are beneficial to themselves; this is called seeking advantage and avoiding harm.”
“Perhaps if the human race were all dead, it might bring some benefits to those alien races, who knows?”