Chapter 14

Team China headed to a forest beyond the suburban area. It was night time and the Sky Sticks didn’t made much noise so there weren’t any jets intercepting them. Xuan clearly knew the terrain of this area and had already planned their escape route.

After everyone came off the Sky Sticks, Zheng felt a little feeble, or perhaps exhausted. Fortunately, he drained the last 40% of Qi and blood energy from the mithril rings which supported his empty body.

On the other hand, YinKong immediately jumped out from his arms then turned her body. It was a rather rare sight to see. She was as apathetic as Xuan usually. This reaction reminded everyone she was still just a fifteen year old.

Zheng was surprised to see her reaction but he didn’t pay much attention. He turned to Xuan and said. “Are we stopping here? Is there going to be any problems?” He was asking if Umbrella Corporation would send people to chase after them and Xuan’s next plan. He fell into Xuan’s traps too many times that he was scared Xuan was planning something imaginable again. He would set him up again for interest.

Xuan walked off the Sky Stick. He didn’t care much about Zheng’s words and replied. “We will enter this forest. It is 11:20 at night. There’s a creek 3km in. We will light a bonfire and rest there. Then we will continue moving at 5 in the morning. In about thirty minutes, we will reach an abandoned mining cave. From there we will then return to the board of the city and wait for the twenty days to be over.”

Zheng pondered over this plan. There didn’t seem to be any loopholes. Just then, he noticed Kampa carrying Zero on his back and was shocked. He immediately ran over to Kampa.

ChengXiao said in a serious tone. “His wound isn’t fatal but it’s not optimistic either. The blood vessels in his brain have minor rupture. He hasn’t gone into paralysis but the accumulating blood will eventually put enough pressure on his cerebral nerves and put him into a unconscious state. After forty eight hours…”

Zheng interrupted him. “I don’t understand the blood vessels and cerebral nerves. Just tell me if his life is in danger and can you treat him?”

ChengXiao thought for a moment. “No life threatening danger. I can also treat him but I need a spacious and clean area. The underground mining cave is impossible. Then I need five hours and an assistant!”

That was when Zheng connected the resting time and place Xuan decided on, which also had a creek. So that meant Xuan chose that place to save Zero.

“Save Zero? No. I chose that place to avoid the satellite searches.” Xuan refuted. “The movie showed that Umbrella Corporation has a satellite system. We were definitely locked on by the satellites when we escaped from the facility. However, satellites aren’t effective at all situations. The dense forest will reduce its detection effect greatly. If they lose track of us, they will send parachutes and bombers. Gando’s Valkyrie only has 20% of its ammunition left. Zero is unconscious. Heng’s arrows are powerful but he’s not suited for sustained battles. As for everyone else, you can’t battle over ten jets even with the Sky Stick. We are better off letting the satellites track us. They will not want a battle at night to avoid unnecessary casualties because they don’t know we are almost out of ammunition and has no sniper rifle. Our strength at the facility shocked them.”

Zheng was stunned as he looked at Xuan. He thought Xuan started to gain human emotion and became considerate for his comrades. Who would have known he was still so apathetic. Zheng asked. “Then? What are we going to do at five?”

Xuan sat by the bonfire. “Now the bonfire and the light from the Valkyrie showed our location. A large ground army will surround us in the morning with jets as support fire. So we have to leave at five. Head into the mining cave and destroy the path as we go. After we enter the water tunnel of the city, we will be safe.”

Zheng nodded. He was confident with Xuan’s decisions and plans. It was trust that Xuan had built up. He looked to the side with worry. ChengXiao was performing craniotomy on Zero and YinKong was his assistant. The tools he exchanged before this movie came into use for the first time.

It was also the first time the team witnessed his true medical skills. He disinfected Zero’s head with alcohol then pierced needles into several acupoints. Then he brought out a glass bottle containing colorful mini centipedes. The centipedes made them shivered but ChengXiao put his hand into the bottle and squashed the centipedes. He applied the centipedes paste on Zero’s acupoints.

“This stops bleeding, anesthetize and has strong antibacterial attribute.” He muttered. Then he took out a scalpel from his medical tools and began shaving Zero’s head. Zero finally lived up to his name with nothing on his head.

After ChengXiao opened Zero’s skull, YinKong became busy. It might very well be personal reason that ChengXiao chose her as the assistant but as an assassin, she knew more about the human body’s structure than the rest of the team. She started draining the extravagated blood on the surface of the brain. She seemed so skilled that they couldn’t believe this was her first time performing craniotomy as an assistant.

Time slowly passed. When light creeped up the horizon, the surgery was finally finished. Zero hadn’t woken up due to the anesthetics but the surgery seemed successful judging from ChengXiao’s overconfident talks. His medical skills were truly exquisite from finishing a surgery that would normally require multiple doctors and over twelve hours.

“Why do I feel like Zero’s face looks pale green? Are you sure the crab you fed him was fine?” Zheng still looked worried. Kampa was carrying Zero on his back.

ChengXiao immediately replied. “No worry. That wasn’t a crab. It was a spider, ok? It’s a type of Gu that can reduce the rate of blood circulation. We will remove this Gu using God’s repair after we return. Or I can do it also. However, several of Zero’s major blood vessels have fissures. They were not something I can fix with the tools on hand. We can only have him sleep until we return.”

Zheng sighed. He learned of what happened to Zero. He couldn’t believe it was the newly exchanged ability. The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception was unbelievably powerful but so was the strain it put on the user. It was probably worse than his Explosion. Not at the level of Destruction yet but Zero’s body was fragile in comparison. It seemed like Zero had to test for the limit of his uses in God’s dimension to avoid this happening again and losing a main force in the team.

“No matter what, his life is saved.” Zheng sighed then turned to Xuan. “What about you guys? I didn’t hear any notification about rewards but there was a notification about mission completed. Who received the points and rewards? And did you obtain the prototype T virus?”

Xuan nodded. “Correct, someone received the rewards. Now the question is the data on the prototype T virus shows it not only acts as a stimulant to unlock the first stage of the genetic constraint but it can also create Nemesis’s. We can turn the humans we created into Nemesis’s.”

Zheng hadn’t spoken to Xuan ever since he was told about turning their created beings into Nemesis’s. He didn’t get into an argument with Xuan. He just needed to think through some things.

Obtaining the heart of slayer also changed his decision making. One of the change was how he viewed staying alive. As long as the nature of himself didn’t deviate, and he killed only those who deserved to be killed, then killing was acceptable to him. But everything should have a boundary. How could he decide who deserved to get killed?

“Xuan, it’s fine to turn the created beings into Nemesis’s. I remember when creating them, you can choose everything about them. You can even create a body without a mind, a slave that would only listen to your commands. If that’s the case, 500 points can get us a strong fighter who unlocked his first stage. However, is that really suitable?” He pondered for quite some time before asking.

Xuan was looking through the documents in his hands as he walked. He replied without raising his head. “Can’t get over your consciousness? Do you need me to give you some psychotherapy?”

“No, no need.” Zheng hurriedly replied. He knew very well what kind of person Xuan was. If Xuan were to perform any kind of psychotherapy on him, he would either go insane or get brainwashed, in the very least he would develop schizophrenia.

So he replied. “It has nothing to do with consciousness since we can treat them as empty vessels because they don’t have a mind. However, the Nemesis’s are strong but are large numbers of them really suitable?”

That was when Xuan finally turned his head around and looked at Zheng. There was a hint of surprise you would rarely see in his eyes. “You are right. That’s why I didn’t say we are creating a large numbers of Nemesis’s. I just told you of this effect of the prototype T virus. You should know we are not the only team in this realm. The next movie is Lord of the Rings. If we can obtain influence in that world then capture the natives of that world to create Nemesis’s, we won’t have to spend too many points to create them. We don’t even have to spend much to exchange weapons. All we need to give them are some close range weapons. Getting these bodyguards out of nothing is my plan.”

He understood what Zheng was getting to. If they were to create Nemesis’s from God’s realm, they would have to exchange weapons also. Even if enhancements weren’t necessary, each one would cost them at least 3000 points. The teleportation beams were also limited in size. So they couldn’t bring a large number of Nemesis’s into the movie worlds. Which meant they would end up having to spend point to increase the power of each Nemesis they had.

Xuan obviously considered this already and his plan was much more ruthless. The movie worlds they went into had people inside so they could just turn those people into Nemesis’s. That would give them large numbers of Nemesis’s which could become useful even with simple weapons.

“Since we have obtained a method to increase a person’s strength instantly, we have to maximize the effect of it. Instead of wasting our points and rewards to create fighters, which isn’t beneficial to our own growth, we might as well create these fighters in the world of Lord of the Rings. Judging from the method of manufacturing the prototype T virus on these documents, I think i can create eighty portions before entering the next movie. You wouldn’t disagree using these on the Orcs, right?”

Zheng felt settled. Xuan didn’t usually explain much but he always considered all possibilities. Zheng was worried xuan would create slaves for a temporary increase in the team’s strength, which was actually detrimental to the team. Now that Xuan became clear with him, he would be happy to show off in the next movie.

They went from the forest into the mining cave. The entrance was blocked off but they easily got inside by using Tiger’s Soul. The last one to enter was WangXia. He knew methods to cover up their traces and fake traces to other paths. After Wangxia entered the cave, Zheng blocked off the entrance again.

“The data shows this mining cave has been abandoned for over thirty years. However, the bedrock is stable so there haven’t been any earthquakes and the cave remained. By the end of the mining operation, they dug into a crevice. 100 meters beyond the crevice was the underground water tunnels to the city.”

Xuan didn’t slack off after he sent Zheng out as a bait. He conceived the details of the attack and their escape plan. After he found out about this cave, he immediately came over with Lan to inspect the crevice underground. He finally confirmed this escape route. Umbrella Corporation wouldn’t be able to track the water tunnels with their satellites. Once their time was up, they could return to the alley they entered and go back.

The air was muddy since the cave had been closed off for so many years. Their bodies were stronger than normal people but they still couldn’t breathe air like this for a long period of time. The soil was wet and the air was more humid than they had imagined.

Luckily they had over a dozen oxygen bottles in the dimensional bag. It seemed like Xuan had prepared for this situation. The team had no risk of suffocating for now but Zero just had a craniotomy so he was at risk of getting infected by the dripping water even though the hemostasis spray and bandage had antibacterial effect. If bacteria got into his brain, things were difficult to say.

They continued moving. Zheng took over Zero from Kampa. He didn’t know if it was useful but he still channeled his Qi into Zero’s body and hoped to raise his body’s immunization. This didn’t last long.

A few hours after they entered the cave, they came to the end of the mining cave. Zheng had to open the way with Tiger’s Soul which forced him to stop giving Zero Qi. The road became difficult to walk and narrow. Lan also had to keep her scan on to avoid Zheng causing too much damage and collapsing the place.

Zheng finally dug through the hundred meter wall and the team entered the city’s water tunnels. Everyone was covered in soil and rocks. Xuan’s plans were always so complete. He actually found an abandoned break room in the tunnels. Otherwise they would have to spend the rest of their time here with the foul smell in their soil soaked bodies.

Another hour passed. Everyone cleaned themselves and had some simple foods. They were finally able to sleep. They had been fighting since attacking the two buildings then had to escape and went underground. The road was difficult to walk on. Everyone was exhausted at this point. They found an empty area and just lay on the ground. Snores came on in just a few minutes.

By the time the team woke up, the time was already night of the twentieth day. There were only a few hours left before they had to return. They had some more food then moved along the water tunnels. Lan assisted their navigation with psyche scan. Two hours later, they came out from a manhole on the street. Only ten minutes left before time was up.

“Keep going along the street. The second turn ahead is the alley we came in.” Lan said to the team.

The others nodded. Zheng walked in front with Zero on his back. It was only a two minute walk. Everyone calmly walked and didn’t show any panicking expressions. As they went into the alley, Zheng noticed a black sedan driving by. There were two beautiful women and two men in the sedan. Oh and there was a little girl leaning on the window. However, she looked at the other side of the street and didn’t see Zheng.

Zheng gave a smile as the sedan drove away then turned back to the alley.

“We will be back. We will!”