Chapter 12.7 - Reward
âWhat do we do now?â
OâBrien stood up. He gave Alanâs body that was full of injuries a look and then said, âLetâs rest for a while until youâve recovered, and then letâs head north. That woman Eileen isnât going to be as easy to deal with as these two.â
Alan didnât seem to mind his injuries much at all. He had a rare seventh level ability, high-speed recovery. The speed of his his injuriesâ recovery was ten times that of a normal personâs. He fiddled with a medical kit while asking, âAfter completing this, what else will we do? What if your older sister isnât willing to return to the family with you?â
OâBrien gave the surrounding uninhabited mountainous region a look, and then said with a smile, âThen Iâll just wander about for a bit in the wilderness. Donât you feel that this boundless place is quite suitable as our home field? Haha, a home field of several thousand kilometers, this is definitely not just a normal type of spectacular sight. However, this type of life will be quite difficult.â
âDifficult?â Alan also began to laugh. âI donât think any place will be more difficult than that blasted world!â
âI wonder how the newest members of Poseidonâs Tridentâs training is going. The more intelligent fellas among them should have found the secrets at the center of the world, right? I hope the last of the Hebilu wonât act too excessively.â
Alan laughed coldly and said, âIf too many of our people die, then weâll give them a warning. If they violate it again, then weâll dig out the pile of Hebiluâs bodies from the tree and burn them all, forever trapping their souls in that spiritual world, let them be their own gods.
OâBrien laughed. This might be the cruelest punishment. To never die, yet be forever alone.
When OâBrien and Alan left, Helen managed to calm down with great difficulty, restraining her urge to head north as well. She knew that her heading north would most likely be useless. Moreover, OâBrien could resolutely use 30% defeat as a reason, but Helen couldnât. She needed at least 70% success before even considering doing something. If she acted like OâBrien, then it might very well mean that Persephone, Su, and a few others would lose their final opportunity of retreat. That was why cool-headedness and rationality, at times, signified even greater courage.
She picked up a large glass of water, drinking from it as she walked towards the laboratory. A healthy body needed enough nutrients, ample rest, as well as enough water and trace elements. Helen had never refuted the fact that she was a genius, and when she was in her teens, she already made the parliamentâs head biochemist Dr. Connor look bad. However, she knew that on the road to success, what one had to rely on was persistence, and persistence was dependent on their stamina; this was no exception for any genius. That was why she was constantly watching her body.
Helen made her way through the central laboratory region, and then she passed through two doors with tight security before entering the top secret biochemistry region. Upon walking into this region, the ice-cold and machine like expression on her face was immediately replaced with shock. With a loud and clear sound, the glass of water dropped onto the ground.
Rows of transparent containers were arranged in this biochemistry region, these cubic meter sized containers filled with faint green nutrient fluid. The extensive biochemistry cultivating region had close to a hundred of these containers, growing within them specimen at different maturation stages. The light screens at the entrance to this region were displaying these containersâ current conditions. Right now, there were at least a dozen containers whose conditions were a striking red on the light screen.
The containersâ lids had input, monitoring, and other devices integrated into them, making them the most frail components. On the lids of those containers that were experiencing abnormal situations were holes of varying sizes, the small ones as small as a fist, the large ones the diameter of a bowl. Even though the lids werenât made of sturdy composite materials like the walls, they were still made of a light alloy, not something easily broken through. There was even less of a chance of it being broken through by the incomplete specimens being cultivated.
As soon as Helenâs eyes passed through those broken holes, a strange water made its way out from the top of the container and rested on the lid. It had a long and smooth body, its black skin covered in the culture fluid. Four limbs extended from each side of its body, their ends sharp like blades and flickering with metallic luster. A long tail grew from the end of its body, and eight sharp metal stingers extended outwards from it. Even though its body wasnât large, its trunk only around twenty centimeters in size, its power was clearly not proportional to its size. With a light stab of its eight claws, the light alloy of the cover was penetrated. It laid there steadily, its long tail still soaked within the nutrient fluid.
It didnât have eyes, yet it had a large mouth that made others shudder. Within its mouth was a piece of flesh from who knows what creature. This should have been a sample that was originally growing within a container, but it now only had a small half of its body left.
The strange creatureâs mouth suddenly became abnormally large, directly devouring the remaining piece of flesh. Then, it released a short and sharp cry, its body curling up into a ball. Soon after, it abruptly sprung outwards, shooting towards Helen at lightning speed!
Helen didnât have time to react at all. It had already crossed the several meters of space, and with a ba sound, it sprung onto her stomach. Its body then unfolded, brandishing its eight sharp claws. Like a streak of black lightning, it immediately reached Helenâs throat. It mouth became so large it was a bit inconceivable, biting fiercely towards her throat!
Its movements were extremely fast. Helen didnât have any time to react! Her line of sight was still resting on the container it was originally resting on!
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