TRCP 226 PART 1

Chapter 226 part 1

After bolting out of the stone door, he ran like a headless fly down the corridor he had come from. He had only taken a few steps when a map of the underground palace inexplicably appeared in his mind. The structure of this palace was not as complicated as he had imagined. In his own mind, he “saw” the way out.

Just as he was wondering, Mr. Sun’s weak voice suddenly sounded in his mind, “Little Cong, don’t speak. Your words will only add to my burden. Listen to me. You’ve seen the map. I’ve opened all the passages. If you follow this route, you can return to the place we entered. After you are safe, you can treat Zhuang Yao’s intracranial hemorrhage, but do not touch his brain. Take him back to Beijing. Jiang Ying damaged his cerebral nerves. You will need the help of a brain-domain evolved person to have any chance of repairing his brain. After you leave the underground palace, go out of the cave immediately. Don’t take the path you came on, it’s too slow. Take the path Jiang Ying and the others took when they came down. I’ve also sent the route to your brain. This underground city is booby-trapped to collapse on itself. After you all get out, I will activate it. Otherwise, there are too many mutated animals outside, you will definitely not be able to hold them off. Don’t worry about me, and don’t come back to find me. I can’t get out anymore. Bring the Puppet Jade back to Beijing. We must believe in the wisdom of humanity. All the sacrifices will not be in vain. We will definitely get through this…”

Mr. Sun’s voice disappeared. Cong Xia’s vision blurred. He had no hands to wipe his tears. He held Zhuang Yao tightly, as if this could retain the fading warmth of the thin body in his arms. Zhuang Yao’s blood dripped along the way. He continuously injected energy into Zhuang Yao’s body while running at full speed along the path Mr. Sun had transmitted to his brain.

The underground palace was too large. He ran in the darkness for more than ten minutes and had only covered half the distance. He felt a slight movement behind him and didn’t know if he was hallucinating. The feeling of being chased by something made his hair stand on end.

Suddenly, he saw a faint light at the corner. He didn’t care what was emitting the light and instinctively ran towards it. As soon as he turned the corner, he saw a blazing fire at the end of the dark corridor. There was a faint sound of wind rustling around the flames. In this sealed passage, the presence of wind meant something Cong Xia knew all too well. His legs gave way and he knelt on the ground, crying out hoarsely, “Tianbi!”

A gust of wind and a burst of fire swept over at lightning speed.

“Cong Xia!” Cheng Tianbi appeared in front of him in the blink of an eye, supporting his crumbling body. Seeing that he was unharmed, Cheng Tianbi’s eyes welled up with tears and he hugged him fiercely, with a force that seemed to want to embed him into his own body.

Shen Changze ran behind him, looked around for a long time, and said anxiously, “Where’s my dad?”

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Ubldt Mkydck pbswvle, “Fbld Ubydtgl, nyzx esod! Mbkp kp vbl wdelataswde ryzynl. Rq usw nywpl y pnldl, lhlausdl okzz cl cwakle yzkhl!”

Shen Changze tilted his head slightly, his eyes devoid of human emotion. He said softly, “So what? Even if everyone in the world dies, it has nothing to do with me.”

Cheng Tianbi’s expression changed. He pushed Cong Xia aside, ready to defend against Shen Changze’s attack at any moment.

Shen Changze looked at Cong Xia as if he were looking at a dead person. “Tell me, how did my dad die?”

Cong Xia trembled and said, “He… was killed by a… lynx…”

“Where.”

“Turn left, then right, then right again.”

Shen Changze turned his face away, his voice so empty it was as if he had no soul. “I’m going to destroy this place, and then stay here to accompany him. You have only one minute to leave.” As he spoke, his body turned into a ball of fire and rushed towards the corner.

Cheng Tianbi swept up Cong Xia and Zhuang Yao and rushed in the opposite direction.

Cong Xia’s eyes widened and he shouted, “Wait! Everyone wait!”

Cheng Tianbi said anxiously, “He’s not joking. We have to get out of here now.”

“That lynx, I can feel it. It’s coming, it…” Cong Xia pushed Cheng Tianbi away and stumbled towards the corner.

After turning the corner, he saw Shen Changze still standing there. A large golden lynx was limping towards them. The lynx was in a sorry state, with one ear missing, its four paws bleeding, and a large hole in its stomach, with its intestines dragging on the ground. But it still walked towards them step by step.

After a few seconds of僵立, Shen Changze suddenly roared and turned into a ball of fire, flying crazily towards the lynx.

Cong Xia shouted, “Major Shen, don’t—”

“Stay where you are.” A weak voice echoed faintly in the empty corridor, so low it seemed as if it could cut out at any moment. But this faint voice struck everyone’s hearts with force.

That was Shan Ming’s voice! That weak but still domineering tone, that purely masculine, low, smoky voice, was one hundred percent Shan Ming’s voice. Shan Ming’s voice was coming from the lynx!

Cong Xia’s voice changed pitch as he cried, “Brother Dan…”

Shen Changze fell to his knees with a thud, as if he had been frozen by a spell, unable to move.

The lynx collapsed to the ground, panting heavily. “Still not coming to help your old man, damn it… my guts are about to spill out.”

Shen Changze seemed to have regained his soul and almost crawled to Shan Ming, hugging his furry neck. Shen Changze, who had always been cold and taciturn in front of others, was now crying without any regard for his image, “Dad—”

Shan Ming rubbed his big head against Shen Changze’s face, his voice choked with emotion, “Alright, alright, your old man is tough. I’m not that easy to kill.”

Shen Changze turned a deaf ear, just kept calling “Dad.” If it weren’t for his 1.9-meter height, his dependent look was like that of a small child. The fear in his heart and the ecstasy of having him back flowed out with his tears.

Cheng Tianbi let out a sigh of relief.

Cong Xia was so moved that tears and snot streamed down his face. He wiped his face with his sleeve and ran over. “Major Shen, let go first. You’re squeezing Brother Dan. I’ll treat his wounds.”

Only then did Shen Changze loosen his grip slightly. Shan Ming’s body trembled, and he slowly transformed from a large lynx back into a human. He was seriously injured, but he still managed to reach out and pat Shen Changze’s cheek. “Don’t cry. I’ll be fine after a sleep.” After saying that, he dropped his hand and fainted.

Shen Changze wiped the blood from Shan Ming’s face, his fingertips trembling uncontrollably.

Cong Xia continuously injected energy into Shan Ming’s body, repairing his damaged body.

Cheng Tianbi said, “Where’s Mr. Sun?”

Cong Xia gritted his teeth and repeated what Mr. Sun had said in his mind before he left. He said unwillingly, “Let’s go back and save Mr. Sun. You’re fast. You can get back to that laboratory quickly.”

Cheng Tianbi said, “You guys wait here.” After speaking, he turned into a gust of wind and swept into the depths of the corridor.

Cong Xia’s healing speed was much faster than before. In just a few minutes, he had repaired most of Shan Ming’s major wounds. Shen Changze had also calmed down and said to Cong Xia, “Thank you.”

Cong Xia said, “We should all thank Brother Dan. If he hadn’t blocked that lynx, Zhuang Yao and I wouldn’t have been able to get out.” He looked into the depths of the dark corridor, silently hoping for another miracle.

Shen Changze picked up Shan Ming and Zhuang Yao. “Get on my back. We’ll go out and meet up with the others first.”

“Aren’t we going to wait for Tianbi and Mr. Sun?”

“Waiting won’t help. We need to find the entrance Mr. Sun mentioned as soon as possible. Only you have the map in your head.”

Cong Xia knew he was right. Although he was anxious, he still climbed onto Shen Changze’s back. Shen Changze spread his wings and flew back the way they had come.

Cong Xia said, “Have you been looking for us down here the whole time?”

“Yeah, there are too many traps here. We even got separated once in the middle. We just met up again, and then we ran into you.” Thinking back to the scene just now, Shen Changze probably felt a little embarrassed. He kept his neck stiff and didn’t look back when he spoke.

“It’s a good thing Mr. Sun opened all the traps and passages, otherwise we would all be trapped.” Cong Xia kept looking back, hoping that Cheng Tianbi would catch up with Mr. Sun in the next moment.

After more than ten minutes, they flew into a very open room. They could see a faint light from a distance. When they flew closer, they saw that the light was leaking from the ceiling. Cong Xia looked up and saw a one-meter-square hole in the ceiling. Shen Changze flew towards the hole and pushed him in first.

Someone above soon discovered them. Cong Xia felt his arm being grabbed by a cold hand, and then his body became light and he was pulled up, falling into a broad embrace. Cong Xia looked up and saw Yao Qianjiang looking at him with a worried expression. “Cong Xia, are you okay?”

“Your Highness.” Cong Xia looked around. Most of them were there. He was finally back among them. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and felt his legs go weak.

Shen Changze climbed out of the hole with Shan Ming and Zhuang Yao in his arms. Everyone gathered around. Tang Tingzhi pushed aside the onlookers. “What’s wrong with them? Where are Cheng Tianbi and Mr. Sun?”

Liu Fengyu, Tang Yanqiu, and Deng Xiao also gathered around, looking at Zhuang Yao anxiously.

Shen Changze said, “Cheng Tianbi went to save Mr. Sun. The kid is injured. My dad… was xenomorph-ed.”

Ai Er squeezed in. “Xenomorph-ed? What happened? What was he xenomorph-ed by?”

“By a lynx.”

Ai Er’s eyes widened. “That lynx, it ate Shan?”

Shen Changze and Cong Xia obviously didn’t want to answer this question. Cong Xia said, “In short, it’s a good thing that Brother Dan is still alive.”

Tang Tingzhi picked up Zhuang Yao and looked at him with a frown. After a long while, he said, “How is his brain damage so severe? He won’t be able to wake up for a short period of time.”

Deng Xiao said anxiously, “What’s wrong with little Zhuang Yao? How could his brain be damaged?”

Cong Xia said in a deep voice, “It’s a long story. We encountered a lot of things down there. In short, there was a brain-domain evolved person whose evolution may have broken through the fifth rank. They were injured trying to escape. I don’t have time to explain this now. I have the Puppet Jade. We have to leave this place immediately and go out through another entrance. This place is about to collapse.”

“What? Another entrance?”