Chapter 120: The Secret of Coral City
"There are many secrets beneath this city."
Su Xia folded her arms and spoke in a relaxed tone.
He pointed downward and said, "Perhaps you can find time to take a look down there. The bugs are not as fragile as you think."
"It seems you know a lot."
A blue halo flickered slightly on Yu Tuo's face, and he did not deny Su Xia's words. There were indeed many secrets hidden under the Coral City.
The importance of more than a dozen small cities around it is not as great as Coral City.
Su Xia reminded: "I think you should go down and take a look tonight, otherwise things may develop in an uncontrollable direction."
"You and I are enemies, why are you reminding me?"
"Because there are still thousands of humans in this city."
Su Xia looked calm, and after she finished speaking, she turned around and flew away.
He burst out with all his strength, like an arrow shot from a bow, and soon disappeared into the vast night sky.
But Yu Tuo did not chase after him, but rose slowly, overlooking the lights of the entire city, as if thinking about something.
A moment later, he flew back to the mechanical clan's base.
This base is located directly north of Coral City. The ground part looks like half of a sharp blade piercing the sky. The interior is mainly white, supplemented by cool blue tones. Huge transparent screens are hung above the hall, and data flows on the screens like flickering crystal chandeliers.
Machines of various models are walking around the base, some are humanoid and some have very strange appearances.
As soon as Yu Tuo returned to the base, he told his assistant: "Take me down there and give me the latest information."
"Yes, please follow me."
Communication between machines is very convenient, and many things can be done by directly transferring data.
This assistant was not in human form, but in the shape of an oval egg, only the size of a basketball, silver-white in color, and floating beside Yu Tuo.
He led the way for Yu Tuo, and together they came to an elevator deep in the base. He took off the silver-white metal shell on the front and flew to the elevator for identification.
A light blue light swept across his and Yu Tuo's bodies, and then the elevator door opened.
"Come in."
The two entered one after another and flew down with the elevator.
There are many similar elevators in the mechanical base.
In addition to these vertical elevators, there are many horizontal and even diagonal passages underground.
These crisscross passages, like complex nests built by ants, connect the entire underground. Ordinary people may not even be able to tell the direction when they enter.
"bite--"
The elevator door slowly opened, and a chill hit me in the face.
Before Yu Tuo walked out of the elevator, he heard the wailing and humming of countless insects.
The underground space is very large, still in the style of white and blue interwoven, with no end in sight.
This is just the first layer close to the ground. There are layers of experimental areas further down, like the eighteen levels of hell. The sounds of those insects are like the howling of endless evil spirits in hell.
Many researchers, both human and mechanical, were wearing tight white protective suits and shuttling through the passages that separated the experimental areas.
Among them, most of the human researchers wore special earplugs to block out the wailing that was enough to drive them crazy.
After seeing Yutuo, the human supervisor of this area immediately ran up to him, with a humble smile on his face, and said, "Master Yutuo, why are you here?"
Yu Tuo said in a cold tone: "If I don't come, those bugs will probably crawl out."
"No, don't worry!" The supervisor said with a smile, "I patrol this area every day. No insect can escape my eyes. They are all locked up tightly. Not a single one can escape!"
"Yeah?"
Yu Tuo thought of Su Xia’s words.
He has a lie detector system that can determine whether a person is lying based on his heart rate, breathing, micro-expressions, movements, tone of voice and other characteristics.
Although Su Xia was wearing a metal mask, Yu Tuo could judge that he was most likely not lying.
The supervisor asked cautiously, "Sir, the underground has been operating safely for many years. Why are you suddenly worried about this?"
"The Masked Stranger let me take a look."
Yu Tuo disdains to deceive his subordinates and always speaks the truth.
"ah?"
The supervisor was stunned and thought he had heard it wrong.
He hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "Sir, is it the wanted masked man?"
Yu Tuo nodded: "Yes, it's him."
The supervisor immediately felt wronged. He did not expect Yu Tuo to doubt him because of an enemy's words, so he said, "Sir, that masked man must be deceiving you. Your time is so precious, you can't be fooled."
"He didn't need to lie to me."
"If anything goes wrong, you can just throw me to feed the bugs!" The supervisor vowed and guaranteed Yu Tuo.
"Okay, take me to see it."
…
When Yu Tuo was checking out the underground world, the entire Coral City had been awakened.
The rumbling sounds of helicopters, the sounds of gunfire, and the sounds of patrol reports alternated throughout the city, as if returning to the night when the refugees rebelled.
But Chang Yu and others are already safe.
The escape network they built using sewers, ruins passages, secret strongholds, etc. played a key role.
In the city, commanders from various areas began to communicate with each other:
"What should I do? Those rebels are gone!"
"Report to the city lord, then just look around and pretend to be there."
"Which city lord are you reporting to?"
"this……"
Since Qi Lang lost contact, Yu Tuo went straight back to the base.
Coral City is now in a very embarrassing situation.
Chai An, who was supposed to act as the city lord, was missing, and the office was empty, so all the messages were piled up in a mess on the desk.
Qi Lang is naturally not dead yet, as the vitality of a level three creature is very strong.
Su Xia waved his hand casually, causing him to fly directly from the sky above the manor to the jungle nearby, breaking countless branches of trees and falling heavily on a relatively soft piece of land.
“Hiss…Ah…”
Qi Lang felt like his whole body was about to be torn apart, and the heart-wrenching pain almost made him faint.
But Zhao Si next to him kept howling miserably, and his voice was so creepy that Yu Tuo couldn't even faint.
Qi Lang endured the pain and shouted: "That's enough! Stop shouting if you're still alive!"
Zhao Si wailed, "It hurts! It hurts so much!"
Qi Lang became impatient and said, "If you scream again, forget about returning to management!"
Zhao Si: “…”
It's finally quiet.
But right now, a big problem lies before the two of them.
After what happened tonight, can they all return to management?
Qi Lang doesn't want to lose his current position.
Zhao Si doesn’t want to do that even more!
After this traitor came to power, he did things that were detested by everyone. He placed undercover agents in various families and forces. Once he was abandoned by the mechanical race, the powerful people in the city would not let him go.
Even though the severe pain from his broken arms was still there, Zhao Si had to try his best to calm himself down.
After a while, he was sweating profusely from the pain, and he said tremblingly: "Sir, I have another way. Let's quickly contact Yutuo City Lord and tell him this method..."
"We can't even move right now, how can we contact each other?"
Qi Lang struggled hard, but still couldn't break free.
The heavy steel bars wrapped around the two men were layer upon layer, like dumplings, and it was unknown how many layers there were.
At this moment, a ray of light suddenly appeared in the distance, shining through the layers of trees and leaves, as if it was the light of hope sent by an angel to Qi Lang and the others.
"Who's there? Can you hear me? I'm the city lord!"
Qi Lang shouted hurriedly, promised the other party a large sum of money, and asked him to come and rescue him.
Soon, the light source gradually approached.
The sound of footsteps came closer and closer.
Qi Lang squinted his eyes and finally saw the person coming.
"Xiao Chai! How did you find this place?" He was overjoyed. "Come and save me, and untie these damn steel bars from my body!"
"Don't worry, sir."
Chai An arrived, stepping on a pile of dead leaves, his tone calm.
He wore gold-rimmed glasses and was well-dressed, but he was holding an old portable circular saw in his hand, which seemed out of place with his temperament.
Then, amid a burst of sparks, the steel bars on Qi Lang's body were sawed off one by one.
When it was Zhao Si's turn, Chai An calmly asked, "Mr. Zhao, I see your two hands are almost broken, how about I saw them off for you?"
"No! Don't!"
Zhao Si screamed, looking panicked.
Even broken bones are still connected to the tendons. How painful would it be if they were sawed off alive?
"Oh well."
Chai An raised his glasses, picked up the circular saw, and began to untie Zhao Si.
But whether intentionally or unintentionally, he would always accidentally cut a little bit of Zhao Si's flesh when cutting the steel bars, causing Zhao Si to scream in pain.
Zhao Si was of course aware that the secretary disliked him, but he had no choice but to endure it.
After a while, Qi Lang couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Xiao Chai, stop playing. Time is running out. We have to go back and find a solution."
"yes."
Chai An smiled slightly and quickened his pace.
When Zhao Si was finally rescued, his whole body was stained with blood, as if he had just been fished out of water of blood.
But he didn't care about the pain, not even the dizziness from losing too much blood, and said tremblingly: "Quick... let me contact Yutuo City Lord... I still have a way..."
That was his way of saving his life and his last hope. He would not use it until the critical moment.
But at this moment, a voice that made Qi Lang and Zhao Si extremely frightened suddenly sounded under a tree not far away.
"What's the solution? I want to hear it."
Su Xia leaned against a tree, clasped her hands, and had a calm expression.
Zhao Si trembled all over, and his last hope was shattered.
The most torturous thing in this world is to have hope and then fall into despair.
"You...you are here to kill me?"
"Yes, but no." Su Xia said coldly, "Someone will kill you."
He waved his hand casually, and the scattered steel bars wrapped around Zhao Si's body again, tying him up tightly.
Then, Su Xia took off into the air and disappeared into the distance with Zhao Si.
…
At this moment, Chang Yu and others have already reunited with the rest of the members.
There were many people in the Zero Point Tavern, so their meeting place was in the tavern, a secluded place.
This place is in the southwest corner of Coral City, under a ruin, and was once a three-story underground garage of a building.
None of the members of the North Wind Story Club died in this mission, only a few were slightly injured.
This was all thanks to the commotion Su Xia caused.
"Okay, everyone is here!"
"No, the mask hasn't come back yet..."
