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Chapter 100: My intuition tells me you're the villain!

The continuous bursts of bullet muzzle flashes were like a giant fabric-tearing machine installed in a laboratory.

The gun, several centimeters long, spewed flames, and amidst the crisp sound of shattering glass, two missiles emerged from Icarus's curled-up wings.

Without any hesitation, she launched the anti-aircraft missile directly!

"Fuck!"

The officer swore and quickly hid behind the incubation chamber, covering his ears.

Launching a missile in such a confined environment is practically asking for trouble!

He squatted on the ground for a while, only hearing the continuous tearing sound of rags, but the expected explosion did not occur.

The officer boldly poked half his head out.

Between them, Icarus used his wings to protect Amanosaki, his face grim as he stood in front of the broken French window, bullet casings scattered at his feet.

Incredibly, all the thousands of bullets and two anti-aircraft missiles fired by Icarus failed to harm the emaciated man.

Moreover, there were no traces of Gatling guns left in the pit-like area outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Take a break, young lady. Your man just finished a battle and is almost exhausted. This place is not like the surface; you can't absorb the sun's power to maintain your fighting strength here."

The man's mouth drooped, and his lips creased into five or six wrinkles as he spoke.

Icarus stopped immediately upon hearing this.

Amanosaki, leaning on his gun, said in a low voice, "I'm fine, you can continue."

Icarus shook his head and pointed slightly. Only then did Amanosaki realize that a goat had appeared next to the tall, thin man.

The goat looked old and frail, as thin and bony as a man, with dull pupils and much of its fur missing, revealing bare, soft flesh.

Its goatee was quite thick, and its chin swayed from side to side, as if it were chewing something.

Amanosaki took a closer look and saw the goat's tongue smear across its teeth, revealing the shape of the food.

He could see clearly that what the goat was chewing was a brass bullet.

"How about that? Pretty amazing, right?" The man stroked the goat's head with his hand after removing the fish's eye, staining the goat's head with blood and some unknown fluid. "It took me a lot of effort to transfer superpowers to an animal without turning it into a demon."

Amanosaki's eyelids twitched.

He pretended not to hear the man's words and went straight to the point:

"Whoever you are, you'd better not stop us from sealing off this place. This area belongs to the Fengdu branch. I was entrusted by the previous duty officer to seal off this place. This laboratory and workshop are suspected of illegally cloning humans and conducting illegal human experiments..."

"Let me help you finish it."

The man's hands were bloodstained. He carried a heavy, spindle-shaped object on his shoulder, looking dejected. "Illegal human cloning refers to the mass cloning of humans followed by slaughter."

"Illegal human experimentation refers to the comprehensive testing of the physical fitness of clones before the massacre, and then having them kill each other in this deep pit with various weapons."

"The most outrageous of these is the attempt to use such extreme methods to stimulate clones, trying to explore the patterns of superpowers and cultivate brainwashed fanatic knights."

Amanosaki pursed his lips and remained silent. The officer hiding behind him grew increasingly dark-faced as he listened, and all that remained in his earphones was the static of white noise. For a moment, silence fell over the officers.

Only then did the officer realize the real reason why Liu Nu had urged Amanosaki to burn down the place, and also why Amanosaki dared not presume to do so and insisted that he be present as a witness.

Cloning humans is already a dangerous act that has already sparked heated public debate, but human experimentation is an utterly heinous crime.

Amanosaki alone cannot bear the burden of destroying the laboratory and covering up the secrecy to the public; someone else needs to take the blame.

So he went to the Fengdu government.

"Judging from your tone, you seem to be quite familiar with these matters."

Amanosaki finally uttered these words after a long pause. He gripped the Spear of Longchinus and gently adjusted his posture.

The man coughed a few times, covering his mouth, not minding the dirt on his hands covered in fish blood. "Of course, I taught him all of this."

Amanosaki kept his teeth clenched and remained silent.

The only information Liu Nusheng secretly told me before his death was that there was a complete set of human experimentation sites and data underground, and he begged me to destroy the sites and hand over the experimental data.

He didn't say anything else.

Judging from his calm demeanor before his death, Amanosaki had reason to believe that the operation of this laboratory did not require many people.

The laboratory has indeed verified his hypothesis; it is filled with highly automated equipment, and artificial intelligence can perform the vast majority of data collection projects.

Therefore, the man's appearance is quite suspicious.

What's more, he also brought a goat with him, which ate thousands of bullets and missiles and left a mess of goat droppings.

But the laboratory was spotless.

"So, he came here either for experimental data or to take something away." Amanosaki's eyes shifted to the man's back.

'Is this what it is?'

The man silently twisted his waist, hiding the blood-soaked object wrapped in scarlet bandages behind his back, and narrowed his eyes.

Amanosaki felt immense pressure; his knees went weak, and he was about to lose his balance.

The last time I felt this powerless was when I was facing the Sword Saint.

'Icarus needs wide open terrain to fully unleash his power, and fighting here would be disadvantageous for us,' Amanosaki pondered.

Besides, I was already exhausted...

'We can't let him go.' Icarus's thoughts overshadowed Amanosaki's increasingly complex thoughts, like a bucket of ice water being poured over them.

He has already confessed to being the mastermind in front of the military!

Amanosaki suddenly felt a jolt.

Exactly! The Fengdu branch was just worried about not having anyone to step forward and mitigate the negative impact of Liu Nu's actions. Now that someone has stepped forward to admit it, isn't this like finding a pillow when you're sleepy?

Icarus may not have meant it that way, but Amanosaki interpreted the relationship.

He felt much more at ease.

Fengdu Province will not stand idly by and watch this person escape. Now, both the branch headquarters and the government forces should be on their way.

He then asked with a half-smile, "How should I address you, sir?"

"old?"

The man, who looked like dried meat, chuckled and said, "My body is only 30 years old. Is that old?"

"Okay, buddy..."

“Hey! I’ve been cultivating since I can remember, which is 300 years now. I’m older than your grandfather.”

Amanosaki raised his chin and asked, "Who are you sending it to?"

The man paid no heed to Amanosaki's provocation. He stepped on the Queen Fish's corpse, rising higher and higher, shaking the wide sleeves of his long robe and swaying his head.

"Do not ask about the rest of your journey, for you have already searched the south thoroughly. You should understand this yourself, for your heart is not his heart."

"I am the Daoist Master."

Self-liberated Taoist?

Amanosaki frowned, immediately recalling the mass of black water that had been burned to death by the karmic fire nun yesterday.

She also mentioned the name "Zi Liao Dao Ren" at that time.

"Who is Gui Shui Yin to you?"

"Who she is to me is unimportant. Young friend surnamed Tian, ​​you want to stall for time, and I happen to have the same idea. How about we call it a day, have a casual chat, and maybe even bet on who achieves their goal first?"

The man sat cross-legged on the fish carcass, his body covered in blood, his hair and beard dry and split, yet he possessed an inexplicable air of elegance.

Amanosaki was certain; this person was definitely the main villain.

Chapter 101: Today's expenses will all be paid by the branch headquarters.

"Okay."

Amanosaki smiled and nodded, then looked for a seat.

But Daoist Ke extended his hand: "Hey! Our time is precious, let's not just chat. Let's fight and talk at the same time."

As he spoke, he pulled two bamboo tubes from his wide sleeves, poured them out, and two thin, chopstick-like pieces of dried meat came out.

He threw it on the ground and stuck it into the metal plate.

Amanosaki then realized that what the Taoist had thrown out were two pieces of dried meat carved into the shape of humans.

The sculpted figure has its hands tucked behind its head, twisting upwards like a pretzel, and its legs twisted into a spiral shape.

'Nozaki, that's not dried meat, that's a person.'

Icarus frowned and looked at the Taoist with a slightly disgusted expression.

For Icarus, this was a rare expression of dislike.

"Young lady, you have a good eye. No wonder you are the assistant of the Creator God in the Western Universe." The Taoist priest looked flattered. "I wonder if my living puppet can withstand three or five moves from you?"

He clapped his hands lightly, and the two jerky pieces swelled up, expanding with a teeth-grinding creaking sound, transforming into two muscular, powerful men.

"Have fun?"

Amanosaki did not reply.

He looked at the two purple-skinned, black-tattooed figures, who resembled two giant gay men, and examined their groins. He found nothing filth, only a smooth surface.

I couldn't help but feel discouraged.

Don't get me wrong, he's not gay, nor is he deeply closeted; he's just trying to find the other person's weaknesses.

His first thought upon hearing "living terracotta warrior" was "the person is still alive," and he instinctively targeted the physical weaknesses.

The dead feel no pain, and even if a living person is cut off, their body will still react.

He never expected that this guy who called himself the Taoist Master would be so ruthless!

Icarus took a step forward, a thought flashing through his mind: 'These two living puppets are not simple. This terrain is unfavorable to me. You should prepare to evacuate.'

'Why are you being so cowardly?' Amanosaki winked and looked unwilling. 'We just told him to get lost, and now it's our turn to crawl away. This won't do.'