Chapter 131 Red Hair
This is Zhao Si’s last chance and also his last secret.
Apart from this, he really has no other means to save his life.
He still held on to a glimmer of hope, hoping that Su Xia would let him go and allow him to go back to work as an undercover agent.
This is what he does best.
"You... you don't have an identity in Coral City, so you can't investigate. Let me go back, and I'll do whatever you say..."
"Well, that's a good idea."
Su Xia nodded slightly, seeming to be considering it.
Hearing this, Zhao Si's Adam's apple rolled. He endured the severe pain and didn't even dare to howl, for fear of causing Su Xia's dissatisfaction.
He looked up at Su Xia with difficulty, with a glimmer of hope for life in his eyes.
But Su Xia changed the subject: "I think you should still remember how Yu Tuo evaluated you, right?"
"No...no, please believe me...I won't betray you again..."
Zhao Si was extremely panicked. If he hadn't been tied to a chair, he would have wanted to kneel down to Su Xia on the spot.
He still remembered that Yu Tuo said at that time:
There is no such thing as trust for someone who even betrays his own compatriots.
He betrayed the North Wind Organization to save his life before, and now he is willing to betray Coral City to save his life. What about next time?
Once you have done it for the first time, there will be countless times!
But this was Zhao Si's last hope. He pleaded hoarsely, "I won't betray you again, I really won't. I swear to God, please let me go ..."
"swear?"
Su Xia's face was indifferent. No one believed in this stuff these days.
With a wave of his hand, he summoned more than ten tiny grains of metal, intending to get some more information from Zhao Si .
Seeing this scene, Zhao Si trembled all over and was shrouded in despair.
But at this moment, he suddenly screamed: "You...your hand...hand..."
"What hand?"
Su Xia frowned, thinking that this guy was trying to delay time.
He lowered his head and looked at his arms, his expression suddenly froze.
On his arms, red hair visible to the naked eye had grown out at some point.
"What's going on?"
The hairs swayed gently, were two or three centimeters long, and continued to grow, like dyed seaweed.
Su Xia's heart trembled, and she remembered a novel she had read. Could this be the legendary unknown old age?
But he hasn’t reached old age yet!
At this moment, he suddenly felt a sharp pain between his eyebrows.
It was as if something was tearing at the flesh between his eyebrows.
It's the red crystal!
"This thing is really weird!"
Su Xia made a prompt decision and took off the mask.
When changing one's appearance, the red crystal will blend into the entire face through the center of the eyebrows, making it look like it has disappeared.
But at this moment, this thing revealed its true form.
Su Xia stretched out her right hand and tried to take off the diamond-shaped red crystal between her eyebrows .
But the crystal seemed to have taken root in his skin, sticking tightly to his brow and drilling deeper.
The pain became more and more intense.
Su Xia made up her mind and exerted force suddenly.
“Sizzle—”
He exerted force with his right arm and tore the red crystal off.
The center of his eyebrows instantly bleeds, and even a piece of flesh and blood was taken away by the crystal. The warm blood flowed all over his face, looking extremely creepy.
One side of the red crystal was stained with Su Xia's blood and flesh.
Su Xia thought of the original description of the red crystal.
[Some masks cannot be taken off after being worn for too long]
This thing was dropped by a humanoid BOSS covered with red hair in the mine.
After falling, the BOSS's body turned into the appearance of an ordinary miner.
When Su Xia picked out the red crystal on his head, the red hair on his arms began to gradually disappear.
"It's not hair, it seems to be a thin and soft crystal of energy."
Su Xia could feel that when these hairs dissipated, some of the special energy also dissipated into the air.
He took a healing potion to speed up the recovery of the flesh and blood between his eyebrows.
At the same time, as the crystal was removed, his disguise gradually disappeared and he returned to his original appearance.
Zhao Si, who was tied to the bench, was shocked when he saw Su Xia's face. He widened his eyes and shouted in shock: "It's you! It's you! How could it be you..."
He was struck by lightning, and the expression on his face was almost frozen.
Perhaps he was too shocked that he temporarily forgot the pain and even tore the corners of his mouth when he shouted.
Su Xia glanced at him calmly and asked, "Why can't it be me?"
"You are just a little alchemist apprentice, how could you..."
Zhao Si's face turned pale. It turned out that the masked man had been by his side all along, and he was one of the undercover agents he had arranged!
He couldn't believe it!
This young apprentice was clearly just a chess piece that could be discarded at any time, but now the identities of the chess piece and the chess player have been switched.
No, he is not even a chess piece, at most he is a discarded piece.
Zhao Si was in despair again.
He claimed that he was best at "undercover" things, but he couldn't even see through the undercover agents he had arranged.
Su Xia ignored him at this moment, but looked quietly at the red crystal in her hand.
The description of this crystal has changed.
【Name: Red Crystal】
[Level: Unleveled Item]
[Type: auxiliary items]
[Description: A crystal from the void that contains enormous energy. The energy is full of chaos, evil, and madness. Please do not try to absorb it.]
[Note: Place the crystal between your eyebrows and you will see a chaotic world]
[Note: This crystal still has the ability to change your personal image. It is recommended that you use it within one hour a day. If you exceed this time, you may be infected by unknown evil energy and turn into a monster without consciousness.]
[Note: Those with weak wills should not possess this item]
[Note: Those with evil hearts should not possess this item]
【Note:……】
While reading the description, Su Xia suddenly heard a faint voice in her ears.
The strange voice seemed to come from a distant void, erratic, with a hint of evil, repeating:
"Absorb it...absorb it..."
"Um?"
Su Xia shook the crystal, feeling confused.
The erratic voice next to my ear was so unpleasant, a little hoarse, neither male nor female, and sometimes high and sometimes low. Only a fool would listen to the instructions of this voice.
If it was a cute girl's voice, he might find it a little attractive.
After this mutation, the way to use this red crystal also changed.
Even if you don't stick it between your eyebrows, you can still change your image, but only for a maximum of one hour a day.
"Stick it on your forehead, and you will see a chaotic world?" Su Xia looked at the annotation, "Isn't this world chaotic enough?"
The system comments would not lie to Su Xia.
Su Xia pinched the crystal between her thumb and index finger, then carefully moved the crystal back to her forehead.
There seemed to be a slight attraction between the crystal and his brow. After putting it on, it did not need any additional fixation and stuck firmly to his brow.
Then, a feeling of dizziness came over me.
Su Xia's pupils instantly turned dark red, making him look more ferocious. There were also many more bloodshot in the whites of his eyes. The world in front of him suddenly changed, and he could faintly hear unusual sounds in his ears.
A blurry laboratory appeared in front of him.
This laboratory is full of all kinds of mutated monsters that are roaring and howling. They look like bugs, but their appearance is even weirder than bugs.
These monsters were all tightly bound and unable to move.
Next to one of the monsters, Su Xia actually saw a familiar figure.
"Yuta?"
Su Xia was puzzled. Where was the laboratory he saw through the red crystal? Under the base of the mechanical tribe?
What does this have to do with chaos?
Is it because of those mutated monsters?
Next to Yu Tuo was a robot wearing an elegant black tuxedo.
The two seemed to be communicating something, but their voices were extremely vague and could not be heard clearly.
At this time, the picture began to slowly become clear.
Su Xia noticed that next to each bound monster, there was a number and the monster's name.
At first glance, those are clearly people's names!
"Li Xiao, Lu Wei, Feng Xiuxiu, Gu An... Um, Gu An?"
Su Xia was stunned. He had heard this name not long ago.
My father’s first disciple, the senior brother Gu An, who had an excellent talent for alchemy but a very bad temper!
Before Su Xia could take a closer look, he heard Zhao Si's screams.
"Stop! Stop! This warehouse is going to collapse!"
Hearing this voice, Su Xia immediately took off the red crystal between her eyebrows, and the world in front of her eyes suddenly returned to normal.
But, it doesn’t seem so normal…
There was a mess all around him, as if some special energy had swept through the entire warehouse. All the old machinery around was deformed, and even a steel beam supporting the warehouse was broken.
The iron chair that Zhao Si was tied to flew backwards more than ten meters and hit the wall behind the warehouse heavily.
Zhao Si was covered in blood and screaming in agony.
"come over!"
Su Xia waved his hand and the iron chair flew back to him with Zhao Si.
He asked calmly, "What happened just now?"
"You...you just put that crystal..."
Zhao Si had a horrified look on his face and told what had happened before in a halting manner.
At the moment when Su Xia's pupils changed color, a powerful energy suddenly burst out from his body.
That energy was undoubtedly spiritual energy, but it seemed to be mixed with a lot of violent impurities. It looked not dark blue, but a heart-pounding dark red.
If it continued a little longer, the entire warehouse might collapse, burying the two of them underground.
Of course Su Xia would not die.
But it’s hard to say about Zhao Si.
"Well, it looks like I need a room that's sturdy enough and soundproof enough."
Su Xia thought about it and realized that in the entire Coral City, only the Zero Point Tavern could provide such a room.
The Mechanical Clan base might be strong enough, but going there would be courting death.
The scene just now must involve the core secrets of the mechanical race.
Su Xia didn't hesitate, turned around and walked towards the warehouse exit.
Behind him, Zhao Si shouted in panic: "Wait a minute..."
"No need to keep me." Su Xia waved her hand with her back to Zhao Si, "I'll come back and try again after I learn a few new interrogation techniques."
After saying that, he walked out of the warehouse without looking back, waved his hand and closed the door.
The entire warehouse fell into silence again.
In the energy riot just now, the only light on the top of the warehouse went out.
"No……"
Zhao Si howled in despair alone in the cold darkness.
…
Coral City, Zero Point Tavern.
Underground world, in front of the bar.
Yi Mo stared at the red wine glass in his hand boredly, looking at his distorted reflection in the glass.
Behind the bar, there were two middle-aged men talking and laughing. One of them was her master Yi Yi, and the other was her uncle Xue Lie. Both were level 4.0 creatures.
Middle-aged people always like to talk about boring topics, and as a junior, she is too embarrassed to leave directly, so she can only chat with them awkwardly.
"bite--"
The elevator door opened.
Su Xia did not wear a mask, but still used red crystal to shape the face of a handsome young man in his twenties.
He walked to the bar, sat next to Yi Mo, and asked casually, " Why do you look so unhappy?"
"If you listen to two middle-aged elders bragging for more than an hour, you will also be unhappy."
Yi Mo curled his lips and gestured to the two middle-aged men behind the bar.
Now she just wants to find an empty room to play with her phone.
Su Xia suddenly realized that when he came yesterday, there was an ordinary bartender behind the bar. At that time, Yi Mo said that her master Yi Yi went to drink with his uncle.
The strange middle-aged man behind the bar must be Yi Mo's uncle Xue Lie.
Xue Lie also noticed Su Xia and asked with a smile: "Amo, is this your friend?"
"Yes, uncle, this is my friend Li... Li Yu."
Yi Mo made up a name for Su Xia, and then said to Su Xia: "Li Yu, this is my uncle Xue Lie. He came to Coral City to hunt down the masked man with a bounty of nearly 10 million, and to drink with my master."
As she spoke, she winked at Su Xia.
Su Xia didn't understand what this wink meant. Was it asking him to be more low-key?
"Li Yu..."
On the side, Yi Yi stared at Su Xia's appearance, holding a wine glass, thinking about something.
Judging from his height, temperament, and Yi Mo's attitude, Yi Yi was more than 90% sure that the young man in front of him was the masked stranger!
The hunter and the prey are separated by a bar.
Moreover, Su Xia raised a glass of wine with a smile on his face and greeted Xue Lie: "That masked stranger is very cunning and has escaped from Yu Tuo's hands many times. Senior, please be careful."
Xue Lie laughed heartily: "Don't worry, senior, I am very powerful!"
Yi Yi: “…”
For some reason, he felt that this fellow apprentice was about to fall.
Su Xia and Xue Lie drank a few glasses of liquor and felt that the middle-aged man's heroic temperament was very compatible with him.
If they meet again in the future, he plans to be gentler and just give Xue Lie a black eye.
After chatting for a few more sentences, Su Xia looked at Yi Yi and got down to business: "Mr. Yi, is there any information about the secret experiments of the Mechanical Clan in the tavern?"
"Um?"
Yi Yi frowned, put down his wine glass, and glanced at the other killers around him.
He opened the small door of the bar, walked out of the bar, waved to Su Xia, and said, "Come with me, let's talk in the back."
"good."
Su Xia drank the liquor in the glass in one gulp, and then followed Yi Yi away.
Seeing this scene, Xue Lie was a little confused.
Information about the Mechanical Clan is confidential. Only the manager and deputy manager of each city tavern branch have the authority to see it. How can they show it to an ordinary killer?
He subconsciously asked Yi Mo: "Amo, is that Li Yu your master's illegitimate son?"
Yi Mo turned his head away speechlessly.
"Uncle Master, do you think my master, with his dignity, can give birth to a son with such a good appearance?"
"That's right, we can't underestimate genetic mutations!"
“…”
Su Xia and Yi Yi also heard this strange conversation and felt inexplicably complicated.
But Yi Yi said nothing, and took Su Xia deep underground, and even took the elevator again, going all the way down to a deeper place.
The underground of Coral City is really amazing. The secret room of the Zero Point Tavern, the mechanical clan laboratory, the rich manor of pleasure, Dad’s storage room, etc. are all underground.
Even if a few more alien spaceships were dug out from underground in the future, Su Xia would not find it strange.
