Chapter 230: New Discoveries
“Dr. Li, you can just call me A Chu. I’m safe here for now. You and Sister Hua Xi should rest. If you don’t want to leave with me, I can help you find a safe place and then break our contract.”
Sang Chu said this, but deep down she still hoped to take Dr. Li with her. With her around, things like hovercars and house building machines wouldn’t be unfixable.
Even more so, Li Yue could research how to replace the materials needed for the house building machines with things found in the Apocalypse. This way, she wouldn’t have to keep finding ways to gather money for the Monster Transformation World.
Every time they came, the price doubled. It was too expensive!
Hua Xi didn’t speak, she just kept looking at Sang Chu, a person completely different from her impression.
But she knew this was Sang Chu. In her mind, there was now a mandatory rule that Sang Chu was her Master, making it impossible for her to resist this consciousness.
Seeing that neither of them spoke, Sang Chu led them to a room: “Zuo Xue Feng, Big Brother Zuo is inside. I found him on the road and brought him back because he was covered in wounds. I originally thought Big Brother Zuo was the only one left in City A. I thought it wasn’t safe for him here, so I wanted to take him to my world.”
“I didn’t expect Dr. Li and Sister Hua Xi to be here too. In that case, perhaps you can keep each other company if you stay here. These rooms are all empty. Feel free to open any room if you want to rest. I’ll leave now. You can consider it. If you want to leave, I’ll break the contract for you. If you want to leave with me, wait a while. Once I finish what I’m doing, we’ll leave.”
After speaking, Sang Chu turned and left. Dr. Li and Hua Xi’s expressions were not good. Sang Chu’s methods were strange and frightening to them. To recognize someone as a Master and completely obey them physically and mentally, to the point of not even daring to have the thought of resisting, was a terrifying feeling.
So they dared not speak, for as soon as they did, they would agree to leave with her.
Dr. Li and Hua Xi looked at each other: “What do you think?”
Hua Xi shook her head and looked at Zuo Xue Feng’s door: “Why don’t we ask him?”
“Let’s ask him then.”
Li Yue knocked on the door. Zuo Xue Feng thought it was Sang Chu, but when he opened the door and saw Li Yue and Hua Xi, he was stunned.
“Dr. Li? Hua Xi? You, you’re alright!”
Zuo Xue Feng’s voice cracked with emotion. Dr. Li patted his shoulder and said as she walked in, “Sang Chu’s people saved us by chance.”
“Where were you before? Why haven’t I seen you?”
Hua Xi sat on the stool and let out a deep breath, saying, “We were locked up in the research institute in City B. The garrison in City B was from the Imperial Capital Star. They brought Thunderstones to torture us and interrogate us about the whereabouts of the Gold Ore. I thought we wouldn’t survive the Thunderstone torture, but I didn’t expect to meet Sang Chu.”
To be honest, her feelings towards Sang Chu were a bit complicated. She also knew that Sang Chu wasn’t entirely to blame for this. It was the Royalty of the Imperial Capital Star who wanted to claim this rare ore for themselves, but the trigger was also because Sang Chu brought out the Gold Ore, which led to a series of tragedies.
In City A, some died, some were captured, and some were exiled.
Those exiled into the wilderness were perhaps worse off than those captured for torture and interrogation.
Zuo Xue Feng fell silent. He wanted to comfort them, but his own situation wasn’t good either. His protective suit was torn, his helmet was broken with nowhere to repair it, his medical pod had no light source and couldn’t be recharged, and even his hovercar was broken.
His situation was no better than theirs.
Dr. Li: “Alright, the difficult times are over. Let’s think about what to do next.”
Zuo Xue Feng: “Sang Chu said she can take us away from Guang Star. It’s just that this is where I was born and raised. I, I don’t know if I want to leave. If I don’t leave, even surviving is a luxury. But leaving…”
Leaving meant leaving home.
He had once given everything for his homeland. He joined a mercenary group from a young age and originally wanted to join the army, but the army didn’t participate in hunting monsters. So he stayed in the mercenary group, wanting to do his part to protect his country.
But he never expected things to turn out this way.
Dr. Li thought for a long time before saying, “I think leaving with Sang Chu might be a good option. Even if we escape City B now, as long as we live on Guang Star, we can’t escape the surveillance of the Imperial Capital Star. If we can’t enter cities, we won’t live long. So, it’s better to take a gamble. Even if we’re deceived in Sang Chu’s world, so be it.”
Zuo Xue Feng: “You’re gambling.”
“Do you have any other options?”
For a moment, everyone fell silent. Hua Xi: “I’ve never seen Sang Chu’s methods before, they’re very strange. Although I’m very afraid of her now, I can’t bring myself to do anything to harm her, or even think of escaping. I feel like she can decide my life or death with a single thought. But even so, she still chose to ask us if we wanted to leave with her. I don’t think we have any special talents worth her bothering with.”
She was just a receptionist, doing a job that many people could do. She didn’t think she was special.
If Sang Chu needed Dr. Li’s research talent or Zuo Xue Feng’s combat power, she could understand. But if she was going to go to such lengths for these, it wasn’t necessary, as these weren’t irreplaceable.
Zuo Xue Feng remained silent.
Li Yue looked at Hua Xi and said, “Do you think she wants to save us?”
“I don’t know, but I know I’m very ordinary, with no special talents that she needs to bother with me for.”
The atmosphere in the room became silent.
Tu You wandered around the city and made a fortune. No one noticed him. He went directly into people’s shops, taking one thing here and another there. Finally, as the research institute personnel came out looking for people, he slipped into the research institute.
Entering the secret laboratory, he found all sorts of battle armors and machines inside.
【A Chu, should we take all these things? 】
Tu You wasn’t sure if they should take everything. After all, they hadn’t seen these things in City A before, and no one knew how to use them!
Upon seeing the image transmitted by Tu You, Sang Chu quickly knocked on Zuo Xue Feng’s room door: “Big Brother Zuo, Dr. Li, Sister Hua Xi, are you busy? Can I speak with you for a moment?”
Zuo Xue Feng opened the door. Sang Chu quickly tapped on her optical computer and connected to Tu You. As soon as his screen transmitted, Dr. Li exclaimed in shock: “This, this is battle armor from the Imperial Capital Star!”
“Dr. Li, can you use it?”
She shook her head helplessly: “I’ve only seen these things at the Star Convention. I wasn’t involved in their research, so I don’t quite understand.”
