Chapter 567 - Uninvited Guest
Chapter 567: Uninvited Guest
Su Lun’s eyebrows were only slightly red at the tips, but now, his entire eyebrows were as red as blood.
His breathing hitched, and he sank into deep thought.
Xiong Wei laughed and slapped Su Lun’s shoulder before he said, “Brother, you only have one chance. Are you going to run away from the lair like some defeated dog with your tail between your legs, or are you going to take the risk to rule the lair with me? This is a simple multiple-choice question. With your intellect, it shouldn’t be a hard choice.
“Alright, I don’t like forcing people. That’s the end of our conversation. If you don’t make up your mind before I walk out of this door, then forget it, and just pretend that I haven’t said anything. We’ll just let fate decide where the lair will head next!”
Before his voice could fade away, Xiong Wei actually turned around and strode toward the door.
At the moment he turned around, Su Lun’s eyebrows trembled, as if a mask over his face cracked, and an incredibly strange smile spilled out from the cracks.
But it took him only 0.1 of a second to put that smile away.
Even the cracks on the invisible mask mended perfectly.
“Wait, Gang Leader Xiong…”
He lowered his head and strode over to catch up to the other man.
Xiong Wei was also smiling, and his smile was like a burning ball of fire.
But his gaze was incredibly cold and sharp.
It was just like his body, which gave off the contrasting feeling of him being tall but weak at the same time.
The lower half of his face was split into a grin, but the upper half of his face was filled with rage. He could not wait to cut the murderer who killed his favorite son into pieces.
Su Lun caught up to him and walked by his side.
But every time he took a step, he was half a beat slower than Xiong Wei and remained slightly behind him.
Xiong Wei had become famous a long time ago, and he was currently murderous.
Unlike him, Su Lun was not used to fighting. He also spent a long time as a think-tanker and a right hand man. His presence was suppressed, which made it look like he was just a decoration beside Xiong Wei.
The corridor was filled with elite fighters from Golden Tooth and Black Bone.
They were all fierce people covered in tattoos who were murderous and did not care about their own lives.
Even though they did not know what their leaders had been talking about, judging by their looks, they had to have come to some form of agreement or at least formed a cooperation.
These were unusual times for the lair, and the cooperation between Golden Tooth and Black Bone would definitely be even more valuable than crystals.
Hence, the elite fighters from both sides looked at each other and surrounded their leaders before they walked out in a mighty manner.
The further they went, the more people joined them. Soon, aside from people from Golden Tooth and Black Bone, they were also joined by Poison Scorpion and the middle-sized as well as small gangs.
They could tell that Golden Tooth and Black Bone had formed an alliance, and Phantom Bear Xiong Wei used some method to actually walk in front, as if it was his duty. They were all shocked by this.
They looked at each other and weighed the pros and cons. Aside from the informants from Poison Scorpion hurrying back to report their sightings, the other middle-sized and small gangs followed behind Xiong Wei and Su Lun.
Once they were out of the tunnel and arrived at the largest open-air arena in Mutual Gold Coliseum, there were already hundreds of fighters gathered beside Xiong Wei and Su Lun.
“Now, let us drag Meng Chao out of his dark corner!” Phantom Bear Xiong Wei looked around and felt really satisfied with what he saw.
With a ferocious expression, he said to Su Lun, “There is only one thing that I must make clear. I can elect you as the highest commander, but I must be the one who kills Meng Chao. I will personally dig out his organs, cut them into pieces, and chew them slowly before I swallow them. I will eat him for three days and nights so that I can strip all his bones of flesh, and even when I finish the last piece of flesh, I won’t allow him to die!”
“Don’t worry, Gang Leader Xiong.” Before the public, Red Brows Su Lun regained the professionalism of a professional manager and presence of the God of Wealth. He smiled in a coquettish and mysterious fashion. “I promise you that before long, you’ll definitely be able to see Meng Chao.”
Xiong Wei laughed, then scowled and wanted to speak to the gangs in the lair before the leader of Poison Scorpion arrived so that he could create the reality that was bound to come.
But at that moment, a deafening roar suddenly came from the sky.
“An enemy attack?”
All the people became nervous.
“It’s not an enemy attack!”
The next second, they sighed in relief. They could tell that the sound was neither the sound of flying-type monsters flapping their wings nor the Apocalyptic Beasts bringing forth death and destruction with their roars. Instead, it were the roars of large propellers of an armored airship pushing this giant forward.
It was humans’ very own weapon.
Since the lair was small and had a complicated environment, they could lock down the entire region with just anti-aircraft bases. There was no need for them to equip themselves with armored airships, which were carriers for long-distance attacks.
Could they be reinforcements?
But wasn’t the lair under full lockdown now? Why did it seem like there were reinforcements who came in to provide support to them?
It has to be known that the situation in the lair right then was not as simple as an abnormal beast lurking inside and robbers wreaking havoc.
In the morning, a major explosion had occurred in Leprosy Village. The flames and shockwaves might not have spread to the world outside, but the smoke that contained crystal particles and all sorts of poisonous and corrosive substances had enveloped the entire lair like a demon with its teeth bared. A circular area of more than ten kilometers became heavily polluted.
Since the sky was covered by rolling smoke and colorful clouds, visibility was almost zero.
The ground also looked as if it had been assaulted by a sandstorm, so visibility down below was really low too. Usually, no one could see each other’s faces clearly even when they were only five meters away. If they were more than ten meters away, they would not be able to even tell whether the creature in front of them was a human or a monster.
Besides, the lair had countless illegal buildings that were unique to the place, along with a really confusing underground layout formed by various holes, and these made the place naturally chaotic instead of orderly.
The armored airship would also be easily affected by the crystal powder that went through incomplete combustion, since the propellers and engines were activated by spirit energy. This might result in it stopping in the air.
All the monitors and perhaps even all the operating systems in the cockpit would face incredible spirit energy magnetic field interference, so the pilot could forget about controlling the airship in the air that had an unprecedentedly complicated spirit energy magnetic field. There was a high chance that the whole thing would go out of control and even plummet to the ground.
This was one of the reasons behind why the government had to perform a lockdown on the lair and could not send a large amount of reinforcements inside.
Just as everyone expected, when the airship entered the smoke that raged fiercely and looked like a deformed dragon exposed to radiation, the deafening roars became strange.
First, there was a stutter. Sometimes, it was loud, but sometimes, it was like a growl.
Then, the airship started swaying left and right, up and down. It was as if the pilot had already lost control of the armored airship and was wandering in the thick smoke and dark clouds like a headless chicken.
In the end, the airship let out a few loud bangs and the roars turned into shrieks. There was even the piercing sound of metal fatigue, as if the pilot of the armored airship had done everything they could to draw out all the potential from the engines and propellers, thus causing the armored airship to reach the point of falling apart in the air.
Along with a screech that pierced people’s eardrums, a path was finally torn open through the smoke and clouds, and a battered armored airship descended from the sky.
It was perfectly acceptable to describe the armored airship as having gone through hundreds of battles and being in a terrible shape.
Its blimp was covered in patches, no doubt to cover up the holes.
The left wing had lost a propeller, and the two engines on the right were burning. They were releasing smoke as black and thick as ink.
The metal pod under the huge blimp was covered in dents and intersecting claw marks, as if it had faced for a long time against flying-type monsters before it managed to escape certain death.
Instead of saying that the airship descended, it would be more apt to say that the pilot and the passengers no longer had any hope and decided to just wing it by closing their eyes and crashing into the largest empty space in the lair like dead weight, which meant that they crashed into the open-air arena in Mutual Gold Coliseum.
The elite fighters gathered in the coliseum quickly spread out.
With a loud thud, the armored airship went limp.
Then, as smoke rolled about in waves and dust flew, it let out a poof and fell apart.
Xiong Wei and Su Lun looked at each other. Neither of them could tell the background of these people. Were they mad? Why did they choose to provide reinforcements to them at this time? Everyone knew that this was the most tiring and thankless task ever!
Poof! Poof! Poof!
A figure in motorized armor gradually formed in the smoke.
The motorized armor seemed to have suffered severe impact when it descended and broke down. Sparks flew all over the place.
Hence, when the person walked out, they ripped off the motorized armor like newspaper from their body. The armor and helmet were already out of shape.
Once they were gone, the person’s form came into everyone’s view. The newcomer had long and powerful legs, voluptuous and powerful waist and butt, pretty and aggressive face, and a seemingly amused but confrontational eyes.
“Whew…”
Lu Siya removed her last piece of shattered armor and combed her messy long hair before she turned her head to look at the armored airship, which had now turned into scrap metal. An enigmatic smile appeared on her lips.
“It’s her?”
Phantom Bear Xiong Wei and Red Brows Su Lun’s expressions turned really dark.
No one expected that the person sent to provide reinforcements to the lair would be this dangerous and troublesome woman.
Even though she was not even in her thirties, she was an outstanding presence among the hundreds of third generation members of the nine great cultivation families and a brilliant person. She was one of the few people who could stand on equal grounds with Shen Yupeng.
A few years ago, she was just a mine explorer and Spirit Sensor of average fighting strength, so she was sent to the abnormal beast research department by the Lu family, which was a department they did not pay attention to.
But once the abnormal beast research department emerged as a dark horse, her position in the family rose by leaps and bounds.
She knew how to seize her chances as well. Just like Meng Chao, she was baptized by the Red Radiance Jades and Blue Origin Crystals under Raging Waves. Aside from being a mine explorer, she also successfully ventured into her second occupation as a martial artist by using stones to fight.
And during the Blessed Paradise Murderous Pets and Noble Descent Hotel ambush, she worked together with Meng Chao and became a crucial reason why humans were able to turn the tables.
Due to her repeated contributions and since her father was in charge of the most important mineral company under Sky Pillar Corporation, the Lu family slowly started to teach her as the most important person among the third generation.
Over the course of half a year, they invested an astronomical amount of resources into Lu Siya to make her the model superhuman. They wanted to make her popular and turn her into an idol for all the people.
So why did this model superhuman and idol of all people not kill monsters beautifully in the battlefield at the borders of Dragon City? That was the place that would let her rake in war achievements in the easiest way!
Why did she come to the lair?