Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Xie Ruheng was extremely talented in hiding traces, tracking secretly, and avoiding surveillance. Gu Tunan had received professional military training since he was a child. He also carried military equipment for detecting cameras and could sneak into surveillance blind spots. Both of them followed the miner closely and despised each other’s sneakiness in their hearts.
Qin Wei, who was being tracked by these two top alphas, didn’t notice anything. He turned his head several times to observe his surroundings, but nothing unusual happened. He had no choice but to attribute the inexplicable anxiety in his heart to the pressure of the military coming to investigate.
He had just received internal news that this transaction was revealed on Cheng Wenhui’s end, and the military department had sent people to investigate their matter.
The weak alpha of the Cheng family really succeeded more than failed. He relied on the support of his wife and family to have the right to speak in the Cheng family. If this pretty boy didn’t rely on his wife and his surname Cheng, he would not be qualified to be involved in the Cheng family’s industry in the slums.
If he was not from the Qin family, but from the Cheng family, with Qin Wei’s strength, how could it be Cheng Wenhui’s turn to point fingers at this transaction?
The more Qin Wei thought about it, the more irritated he became.
Although the military only got vague clues from Cheng Wenhui, finding mines in countless suspicious locations was like finding a needle in a haystack, but there was no guarantee that the blind cats in the military would not find the dead mice[1], so they had to move their positions quickly. He was responsible for taking away the high-quality energy crystals traded.
As for the poor people responsible for transporting energy crystal…
Qin Wei’s eyes flashed with cruelty.
Or just silence them all.
Seeing that the mine where they had agreed to trade was in front of him, Qin Wei walked faster. He was about to talk to the person holding the handle at the mine entrance, when he suddenly saw his companion in front of him shouting: “Behind you!”
But this reminder was too late.
Xie Ruheng made a starting impact and pounced on Qin Wei like a cheetah in an instant. The paralyzing current of the star button he wore stunned the alpha.
“Shoot!” An alpha quickly set up an energy gun, and gunshots rang out behind him, but it was Gu Tunan who fired faster than his accomplices.
Gu Tunan’s gray-blue eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was the god of death responsible for harvesting life, and the light that flew like a cold star fell straight into the center of his opponent’s eyebrows.
The alpha who was commanding fell down with a look of astonishment on his face. Taking advantage of the moment when his opponent did not react, Xie Ruheng rolled on the spot, dodged the energy bomb at a speed that could not be caught by the naked eye, and rushed into the mine at high speed.
“There’s an enemy attack!” an alpha shouted while aiming at Xie Ruheng’s back.
Without looking back, Xie Ruheng turned around to dodge the attack. Then he pulled out an energy gun and fired backhand without looking.
The energy bomb accurately hit the alpha’s abdomen, and another person fell down.
Xie Ruheng heard the fierce gunshots behind him and knew that Gu Tunan had held back the enemy at the door. He rushed into the depths of the mine against time. The light became darker as it went deeper into the mine, but Xie Ruheng did not turn on the lighting mode of the optical brain.
He had been accustomed to fighting in various environments in the underground arena, and the lightless environment was no stranger to him. Sometimes darkness was the best cover.
Xie Ruheng walked quietly. He saw a light ahead, and four alphas raised their energy guns vigilantly and pointed them ahead.
Xie Ruheng sprinted towards the nearest opponent like a ghost, like a gentleman attending a dance. He locked his arms around the opponent’s neck, led the opponent to spin gracefully, and used the opponent’s body to block the oncoming attack.
With two gunshots, Xie Ruheng knocked down the two enemies, then gently stretched out his hand to push the person in his arms out, dodging the splashing blood gracefully.
Xie Ruheng looked at the last enemy. The moment they looked at each other, the alpha started to tremble.
He felt the fear causing him to freeze from his bone marrow to his blood. At the last moment of his life, the pair of dark phoenix eyes he saw were cruel but beautiful.
Xie Ruheng eliminated all the enemies in the mine, and his eyes wandered over the more than 20 poor people who were trapped. He soon saw Father Lu lying in the corner and dying. At this time, Father Lu looked more seriously ill than Mother Lu before and still very haggard.
Xie Ruheng strode forward, trying to untie Father Lu’s body. Father Lu, who was lifted up by him, struggled to open his eyes. After seeing Xie Ruheng’s face clearly, he opened his mouth to say something.
Xie Ruheng got closer and heard Lu’s father say in a weak voice: “Quickly, run quickly.”
“Bang——!!!”
The collapse of the mine happened in an instant. When the ten blasters installed in this abandoned mine were detonated together, Xie Ruheng only had time to hug Lu Xiaoshan’s father. Then he was hit by rapidly falling rocks and fell into a coma in the first wave of explosions.
Before coma, Xie Ruheng heard a shaking sound like the earth was shaking, the wail of ghosts and wolf howls after his life was torn apart, and a crisp cracking sound – the mecha egg in Xie Ruheng’s pocket suddenly cracked a small hole and an emerald green mechanical vine came out, looking slender and soft.
During this time, the mecha egg was about to hatch successfully. Xie Ruheng was afraid that if he put the mecha egg in the dormitory and missed it, if the mecha pet he had hatched for so long ran away, he may have to look all over the campus to find it. Not wanting this to happen, Xie Ruheng brought the egg with him.
Another slender vine broke through the egg wall, then the third, and the fourth… They felt the presence of a large number of energy crystals. These mechanical vines that wanted to eat just after they hatched were like baby pythons, quickly wrapping around the food.
The first one to be entangled was Father Lu who was closest.
Despite Xie Ruheng’s protection, Father Lu, who had been imprisoned for such a long time, was extremely weak and fell into a coma due to the impact of the explosion. Fortunately, he was in a coma, so Father Lu would not be frightened by this strange scene and fall ill.
He saw those mechanical vines wrapping around Father Lu’s abdomen. This location was where the energy crystal existed.
The Cheng family let the poor serve as carriers for transporting energy crystals. They would feed these poor people special food in advance and inject some medicine to transform their bodies into carriers suitable for transportation.
At this moment, these vines were absorbing the energy of energy crystals through the air. The food of mecha pets was energy crystals. The batch of energy crystals transported by the Cheng family were all rare and top-grade energy crystals on the market. They were the same as those that Xie Ruheng usually fed mecha eggs. Compared with mid-level energy crystals, it was the difference between eating delicacies from mountains and seas and eating glutinous vegetables.
The mechanical vine was so excited that its little leaves curled up. Its root eyelashes quickly became thicker. The mechanical vine grew rapidly under the nourishment of the best energy crystals. Not only did it entangle Father Lu, it also greedily took away more than 20 poor people present and wrapped them all up.
Countless mechanical vines were woven into a large net, which looked weak but was actually extremely strong. It firmly protected everyone present and did not allow any falling rocks to crush its precious food and owner.
….
Tang Bai received a notification that the attack function of the star button was being used.
Did Xiao Cheng encounter any danger?
Tang Bai sent a message to Xiao Cheng, but he did not receive a reply, which made Tang Bai feel a little uneasy.
Tang Bai sent another message to Xie Ruheng asking about Xiao Cheng. He remembered that Xie Ruheng said that he and Xiao Cheng had met. Maybe Xie Ruheng knew what Xiao Cheng had done.
But Xie Ruheng didn’t reply to his message.
Xie Ruheng would never leave his message unanswered unless something happened.
Just when Tang Bai was in a state of confusion, he suddenly discovered that Gu Tunan had sent him a message twenty minutes ago. Because Tang Bai had found Gu Tunan annoying before, he had set the Do Not Disturb mode for Gu Tunan’s message prompts, so that he didn’t even notice when Gu Tunan sent him a message.
Gu Tunan: [Tang Bai, I want to participate in Cheng Wenhui’s investigation this time. Don’t worry, I will help you vent your anger.]
Participate in Cheng Wenhui’s investigation?
Tang Bai was stunned for a moment. Didn’t Cheng Wenhui already enter the police station?
The character Cheng Wenhui was not mentioned in the book. Could it be that Cheng Wenhui was involved in other plots?
Tang Bai simply asked Grandpa Tang directly. Grandpa Tang heard this and said: “We found some clues on Cheng Wenhui’s light brain that the Cheng family had been secretly trading energy crystals. The military sent people to investigate this matter. Gu Tunan and Xie Ruheng, both those boys participated in the investigation. They happened to form a team together and were lucky enough to find the Cheng family’s trading base, but…”
“I heard that there was an explosion in the mine and Xie Ruheng was buried inside.”
“Hello? Tangtang, are you listening to me?”
Tang Bai heard himself saying: “Where is that mining area? I want to go.”
The explosion in the mine did not happen in the book, because in the book Cheng Wenhui’s true identity was not revealed, so there was no military department to find those clues in Cheng Wenhui’s optical brain, and there was no Xie Ruheng and Gu Tunan who needed to follow the clues to find the Cheng family’s temporary base in the mining area.
The cooperation between Xie Ruheng and Gu Tunan in the book was after they discovered that the Cheng family secretly smuggling energy crystals to the star thieves, then the two men joined forces and returned safely.
Would something happen to Xie Ruheng?
The danger of a mine explosion was not only the impact of the explosion, but also the pressure of falling rocks after the collapse…
This was his fault.
It was he who changed the plot.
Why did this happen?
Tang Bai sat blankly on the hovercar, watching the scenery around him change. Soon he and a group of people arrived at Area B of the mining area.
“Oh my god! What is that?!”
“How come there are such big vines in the mining area?!”
“This vine can move!!!”
Continuous exclamations came from all around, and Tang Bai stared. With round eyes, he saw several huge green vines dancing among the ruins. These vines lifted up the heavy stones, and the crashing gravel raised a cloud of dust on the ground.
In the dust, more vines suddenly appeared, like some kind of terrifying man-eating monster. Then something even more terrifying happened – the next part of the vines actually tied up a bunch of humans!
All those humans were in a coma. The situation looked very bad. There were bloodstains all over their bodies. It was unknown whether they were injured in the collapse or were tied up by this vine monster.
Among them was Xie Ruheng.
The roots of this giant vine seemed to be rooted in Xie Ruheng’s body and seemed to be using Xie Ruheng as nourishment.
When Tang Bai saw Xie Ruheng’s figure, he couldn’t sit still at all. He stood up instantly, wishing he could rush forward and let himself suffer on Xie Ruheng’s behalf.
Was this vine an alien creature found by the Cheng family? Did it use Xie Ruheng’s body as nourishment? Wait…why did it look strangely familiar?
The amber eyes were slightly confused.
Everyone aimed their energy cannons at this unheard-of monster. As long as they were given the order, they would shoot without hesitation!
Tang Bai looked at the vines that were so huge that they seemed to be able to block out the sky and the sun, especially the metallic luster faintly flashing on the vines, and he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Suddenly, a mecha pet design that he had made appeared in Tang Bai’s mind.
Mechanical vines were a product that combined machinery and alien life. During the incubation period, the inside of the mecha egg simulated an alien environment to allow the seedlings to grow and develop. The seedlings were selected to not destroy the ecology. They could be made smaller or larger and could be recovered. The largest size was related to the number of energy crystals swallowed. Under normal feeding, it would not exceed two meters long…
So how many energy crystals did this vine eat to grow to such a big size?!!
“Everyone get ready, I’ll count to three, let’s all shoot at the base of this monster -“
“Wait!” Tang Bai said loudly in front of everyone’s surprised eyes: “It’s not a monster!”
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[1] Choose the right option coincidentally.