PART 2

Cong Xia listened in stunned amazement. He hadn’t had much contact with Shan Ming before. His biggest impression of Shan Ming was that he was the adoptive father of fire natural force evolved human Shen Changze. Shan Ming had never mutated, and the main reason he could achieve such a high status in a world full of mutants was actually because Shen Changze obeyed him completely. Although they all said Shan Ming’s combat ability was strong, and he had personally witnessed this man’s ruthlessness and lethality on the battlefield, compared to Shen Changze’s strength, they were worlds apart. Everyone gave Shan Ming respect out of consideration for Shen Changze. It wasn’t until this unexpected incident that he truly began to understand this Shan Ming. This internationally renowned mercenary from before the apocalypse, this iron-blooded, cold man who could laugh about his own life and death and be completely indifferent to his own predicament—he really was quite a formidable man.

Looking at Shan Ming, Cong Xia thought of the countless ordinary people who hadn’t mutated. They had originally all been the same kind of people, but because of a disaster, they were divided into high and low, noble and base, based on whether they had mutated. The largest population base of ordinary people lived the most bottom-tier, most difficult lives. Not only were they unable to help stop this disaster, they were even dragging down the mutants. But Cong Xia had almost forgotten that these people were humanity’s real hope. They could reproduce, they hadn’t received the “curse” of the Cambrian consciousness. If there really came a day when mutants had to die to bring peace to this world, then these ordinary people would be humanity’s future. Seeing ordinary people like Shan Ming who were strong both inside and out, Cong Xia suddenly felt full of hope for the future. Even if they all died in the end, the work of rebuilding human civilization would fall to ordinary people, and there was nothing to worry about. Humans as a species were inherently tenacious beings who shouldn’t be defeated by any hardship.

Shan Ming frowned and looked at Cong Xia. “Why are you looking at me with such a disgusting expression? What are you thinking?”

Cong Xia awkwardly turned his head away. “Nothing, I just think you’re pretty handsome, Brother Shan.”

“No kidding.”

“But we still need to try to get out together. As long as we stop Jiang Ying, you should be able to control the lynx too, right?” Cong Xia looked at Zhuang Yao.

Zhuang Yao said, “I’m afraid we won’t have the extra energy to deal with the lynx then. Moreover, even if we awaken the consciousness of the other two people in Jiang Ying’s body, things may not develop in our favor. We can only gamble. If we fail, then it’s complete failure.”

“By the way, can’t we have Brother Shan directly kill Jiang Ying?”

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The four of them waited quietly in the secret chamber. Shan Ming carelessly lay down to sleep, while Cong Xia used this time to repair all four people’s energy protective gear—this was their last life-saving equipment.

Zhuang Yao and Professor Sun quietly exchanged a bunch of incomprehensible terminology, obviously discussing how to awaken the other two consciousness in Jiang Ying’s body. According to them, the self-consciousness of post-alien transformation beings never truly disappears. It’s just that if the self-consciousness is too weak, it will be permanently suppressed. But as long as it’s stimulated through some kind of deep hypnosis, that consciousness can be found, and if the brain control ability is strong enough, it can be awakened. In terms of brain wave intensity, Zhuang Yao and Professor Sun combined probably weren’t Jiang Ying’s match. Jiang Ying’s brain domain evolution degree might be at the peak of fourth-tier, or possibly already broken through to fifth-tier. Deep hypnosis was originally the most brain wave intensity-demanding ability. Under normal circumstances, they could only be counter-hypnotized by Jiang Ying. However, Jiang Ying had one major weakness: the consciousness of the two brain-domain evolved humans he had alien-transformed weren’t in the depths of his consciousness at all, but had been placed by him into those four transplanted arms. Zhuang Yao guessed that Jiang Ying had created some kind of “pseudo-brain” in those four arms to deceive those two consciousness streams. They only needed to awaken those two consciousness streams within the arms.

Time passed minute by minute. In this stuffy, pitch-black secret chamber, they didn’t know how long they had stayed when suddenly the chamber door rotated, and they once again saw light and that laboratory.

Jiang Ying still sat in that chair, using tools to support his enormous head. “I’ve given you half a day to think. How is it? Have you figured it out?”

Cong Xia pulled out the ancient jade to attract Jiang Ying’s attention. “We’d like to discuss the specific details of cooperation.”

“Good, speak.” Jiang Ying’s eyes greedily stared at the ancient jade.

Shan Ming inconspicuously glanced at the large lynx dozing not far away.

“To show sincerity, you need to give us the puppet jade.”

“Puppet jade? You want the puppet jade just to stop the apocalypse, don’t you? We talked for so long yesterday—haven’t you woken up yet? This disaster cannot be stopped. What do you want so many puppet jades for?”

“At least we need to leave Qinghai, right? The Qinghai barrier needs puppet jade to break through.”

“The Qinghai barrier is a wavelength produced by puppet jade in the special environment of high Cambrian energy concentration. When the wavelengths of five puppet jades echo each other from afar, they happen to form a huge energy field. This energy field can affect people’s perception and judgment of direction. You just need to temporarily isolate the puppet jade’s energy with soft metal. You’ve already obtained four puppet jades now—the Qinghai barrier should have failed long ago. If you don’t believe it, you can find someone to test it when you get out.”

“You’re so obsessed with puppet jade?”

“This is good stuff. The power supply for my underground facility all relies on puppet jade. What do you want this one piece for? Haven’t you given up yet?”

“What if we insist on having it?” Cong Xia stepped forward.

Jiang Ying narrowed his eyes. “Fine, exchange it for the ancient genes of ten natural force evolved humans.”

“Go to hell!” Cong Xia shouted loudly while swinging the ancient jade in his hand toward Jiang Ying’s head.

Jiang Ying had already seen Cong Xia’s ill intentions before he moved. He smiled coldly. Before Cong Xia could throw the ancient jade, he felt a drilling pain in his brain. That kind of pain was like something tearing at his soul—his brain felt like it would explode the next second. He couldn’t control himself and began screaming while holding his head. Although this was his own proposed decoy plan, he hadn’t expected it to be this brutal. When he saw Shan Ming being attacked without making a sound, he thought he could endure it. He never imagined this would be the most painful and evil of all the traumas he had experienced.

At the same time, Zhuang Yao and Professor Sun simultaneously launched their brain waves, entering Jiang Ying’s body, while Shan Ming had already quickly raised his gun and fired fiercely at the lynx that had just opened its eyes.

The situation was completely out of control.

The lynx dodged, and that shot took off its ear. Furious, its body became a golden shadow as it pounced toward Shan Ming!

Zhuang Yao and Professor Sun were sweating profusely, completely unable to resist Jiang Ying. Jiang Ying didn’t look comfortable either, but he persisted. Cong Xia was in so much pain he was rolling on the ground. Just when he thought he would either die from the pain or become mentally disabled, the ancient jade that had fallen to the ground suddenly emitted a dim green light. Then that green light suddenly expanded like a shockwave toward Jiang Ying, and with a loud bang, it directly threw Jiang Ying from his original position, slamming him hard against the wall!

This sudden change completely reversed the situation. Jiang Ying fell to the ground, his head bleeding continuously. He looked somewhat semi-conscious and couldn’t get up for a long time. Zhuang Yao and Professor Sun seized the opportunity and successfully invaded Jiang Ying’s brain, following his nervous system to search for those two consciousness streams.

Cong Xia struggled to get up from the ground, picked up the ancient jade and ran toward Jiang Ying. With one hand he pulled out the ancient jade from around Jiang Ying’s neck, and with the other hand he threw out an ice jade talisman, tossing it onto Jiang Ying and kicking him hard several times.

Jiang Ying couldn’t get up from the ground at all, nor did he have time to deal with Cong Xia. He was still desperately resisting the invasion by Zhuang Yao and Professor Sun. He knew his battlefield was here—if he lost, it would all be over.

“Ah—” Suddenly a muffled cry came from behind them.

Cong Xia looked back and felt his scalp tingle. Shan Ming had already been pinned down by the lynx, which had bitten his shoulder and was frantically tearing at it. Due to the energy protective gear, it couldn’t tear it off at first, but before Cong Xia could run to Shan Ming’s side, the large lynx had already torn apart Shan Ming’s shoulder bone with one bite. That slender arm was brutally separated from his body. At the same time, Shan Ming’s other hand gripped a dagger tightly, stabbing fiercely toward the lynx’s face—one stab, another stab. Blood splattered everywhere, and Cong Xia couldn’t even tell whose blood it was!

Cong Xia threw the remaining two burning talismans and one explosive talisman from his arms at the lynx. He was afraid of accidentally injuring Shan Ming, so he could only throw them at the lynx. But the lynx was so large that these injuries didn’t even faze it—it just continued viciously biting toward Shan Ming’s neck.

Shan Ming raised his only remaining hand to block his neck. The intense pain made him scream, and he desperately kicked the lynx’s belly with his legs—the area where Cong Xia’s burning talisman had blown a hole, with blood and intestines flowing down in clumps.

Cong Xia’s tears were flowing. He had seen brutal scenes before, but was shocked beyond measure by what was before his eyes. He tremblingly picked up a gun from the corner, only to discover there were no bullets inside. He frantically poured energy into Shan Ming’s body, but his healing speed couldn’t match the lynx’s attacks.

At this time, Professor Sun’s voice came from behind him: “Little Cong, take Zhuang Yao and go! Quickly!”

Cong Xia wiped his tears and turned to look. Zhuang Yao had already fainted, and the blood he had vomited stained his front.

Professor Sun shouted, “His brain is severely damaged. Quickly take him out. I’ve stolen Jiang Ying’s memories—I’ll open the passage. Take him and go!”

“What about you, what about you all!”

“Shan Ming is beyond help. I’ll stay behind to hold off Jiang Ying. Go quickly!” Professor Sun was vomiting blood while running to the control panel, frantically pulling the operating levers.

Cong Xia stumbled as he picked up Zhuang Yao’s thin body, then looked back at Shan Ming. The lynx had already bitten Shan Ming’s neck, and his main artery was gushing blood, the bright red blood spraying everywhere. He couldn’t make a sound, only using his eyes to signal Cong Xia to leave quickly. Those bright eyes were gradually losing their luster.

Tears streamed down Cong Xia’s face. He roared and rushed out through the opened stone door.

Author’s Note: Sigh, the others will appear in the next chapter.

Am I going to get beaten up… But you should know how deep my love for Papa Shan is, right →_→