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Chapter 638 The Heavenly Serpent Clan and Jun

The old village chief of the survivor group, a hunched-over, weathered old man, had a last glimmer of hope in his cloudy eyes after confirming that Gu was not an enemy.

He led all the refugees to kneel down in front of Gu, their cracked lips trembling as they recounted the whole story.

They came from a settlement called "Green Wood" and had always lived in the shadow of the Sky Serpent Clan.

The monster that Gu Yiquan wiped out was once the strongest hunter in their village, but it was captured by the Heavenly Serpent Clan a few days ago.

They thought he was dead, but when they saw him again, he was now chasing after his own people.

"My lord... that day, the snake clan only released it to test the power of the 'Flesh Plague' and drive us away..."

The old village chief wept uncontrollably.
“They say… this is to collect the most perfect ‘despair data.’ They’re holding even more of our people imprisoned in their fortress… Please, save them!”

The refugees behind him kowtowed repeatedly, their cries of agony blending together.

Gu listened quietly, his eyes expressionless, but his fists clenched unconsciously at his sides.

To obtain experimental data, living people are turned into monsters and then driven to slaughter their fellow human beings.

This behavior goes beyond mere cruelty...

He did not make a promise immediately.

Behind him were not only his own remnant force of a hundred men, but now also thousands of these frightened refugees.

As a leader, he must be responsible for the lives of every single person.

"I will go."

Gu's voice was calm yet firm.
"But you need to find a place to hide first. Don't make any noise or reveal any trace until I come back."

With the help of several experienced veterans, they quickly found a large, well-hidden cave in the nearby mountains.

After settling everyone in, Gu, alone, followed the direction indicated by the old village chief and disappeared like an arrow released from a bow on the desolate horizon.

The Celestial Serpent Clan's fortress sits in the center of a barren basin, appearing from a distance as nothing more than an unremarkable black hill.

However, when Gu got closer, he could clearly sense that the space in front of him was covered by an invisible film, and the flow of air and the refraction of light were subtly distorted.

A layer of barrier.

What would be an insurmountable barrier for ordinary creatures was as clear as a reflection in water in Gu's eyes.

The teacher once said that he possessed a "childlike heart," pure and clear, untainted by external things, and thus able to see through all illusions.

At that moment, he understood the meaning of those words.

He did not choose to destroy it by force.

With a slight thought, the power of the microcosm within the body begins to resonate with the most basic magnetic field around it.

The light, electromagnetic waves, and even all observable physical signals around him began to bend and deflect in an illogical way, eventually bypassing his body perfectly.

He thus became an "invisible person" in the absolute sense, silently passing through that barrier.

The entrance to the fortress is a deep cavern, inside which are cold alloy passageways that stretch endlessly downwards.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant mixed with the stench of blood, and a low, rumbling sound, like the heartbeat of some giant beast, emanated from the walls.

Gu followed the only passage and crept downwards.

Soon, laboratories made of transparent crystal walls began to appear on both sides. The scene inside the laboratories froze even his heart, which had been hardened by power.

In the first laboratory on the left, a man is strapped to a metal table, his chest completely cut open, his beating heart and writhing organs exposed to the air, connected by countless wires that shimmer with an eerie light, seemingly recording some kind of life data.

His eyes were still open, his pupils filled with silent despair.

In the second chamber, within a massive petri dish, several ferocious demonic beasts were frantically tearing at a human body, attempting to complete some kind of interracial mating. In the third chamber, inside a transparent cylindrical container, a faint human soul was writhing and shrieking in agony, as several energy probes pierced its depths, seemingly trying to drain its last drop of spiritual energy…

Each scene, each incident, is a living hell.

Gu fell silent. A chilling rage slowly rose from the depths of his soul, threatening to burn away his reason.

The scene here is even more brutal than a battlefield strewn with corpses.

Death on the battlefield may have its own kind of heroism, but life here is merely a kind of "material" that is arbitrarily dismantled, reassembled, and discarded.

He forcibly suppressed the murderous intent surging within him.

If we act now, we'll only alert the enemy.

He had to figure out the whole situation here and find the prisoners being held.

According to the old village chief, the Celestial Serpent Clan needs to consume a large number of humans as experimental subjects, so there must be a warehouse here to store the "materials".

He continued to burrow deeper into the fortress, his footsteps making no sound.

However, just as he turned a corner, a strange wave swept over his body without warning.

It was neither an energy surge nor a divine sense probe, but a purer, more fundamental fluctuation of spiritual power, spreading outwards regularly at a fixed frequency, like a heartbeat.

Has someone spotted me?

Gu Xin felt a chill and stopped in his tracks instantly.

He had absolute confidence in the optical and electromagnetic camouflage he had created using magnetic field power, which should be able to physically isolate all means of detection.

How did the other party notice me?
He focused his attention to sense it, but found that the fluctuation of spiritual power did not contain any hostility. Instead, it carried a hint of...guidance.

Moreover, the surrounding Celestial Serpent Clan guards did not react at all, and no alarms were sounded.

This confused him even more.

After a moment of contemplation, Gu made a bold decision.

He suppressed all outward aura, immersing his mind in the guidance of that spiritual energy fluctuation, and changed his direction of progress following its pull.

The fluctuations led him through increasingly deep and complex passages, past several heavily guarded sentries, and finally to a cell marked "Abandoned Zone".

In the deepest cell, he saw the source of that mental energy fluctuation.

He was a young man.

He looked to be in his twenties, wearing a fairly clean prison uniform, with black-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, giving him a refined appearance.

He sat quietly in the corner of the cell, as if everything outside was irrelevant to him.

When Gu's figure appeared outside the prison door, he raised his head and his gaze locked onto Gu's location precisely, as if the barrier of distorted light did not exist at all.

For some reason, the moment Gu saw the young man, a strong and inexplicable sense of familiarity welled up in his heart.

It was as if they had known each other for a very, very long time.

The young man adjusted his glasses, a gentle smile playing on his lips. Behind the lenses, his eyes gleamed with an all-knowing wisdom.

"Hello, Gu."

His voice, penetrating the cell door, reached Gu's ears clearly.

"My name is Jun..."

(End of this chapter)