Chapter 606: 607, very cooperative (first update)

The bus driver was also very cooperative, speeding all the way until he stopped at the police station.

It was only afterwards that Chu Jin found out that the incident had made the news.

She was even dubbed "the Heroine of Capital City."

The video of her capturing the thief also went viral on the internet.

As a result, she became an internet sensation once again.

"Miss, thank you." Following their exit from the police station, the girl whose phone had been stolen thanked Chu Jin.

"You’re welcome." Chu Jin replied indifferently.

"Miss, you’re really skilled, have you been trained?" the girl continued, her eyes full of admiration.

To her, this miss was nothing short of a female hero, her goddess! No! A heroine!

"Mm," Chu Jin nodded slightly, "I’ve trained a bit."

The girl went on, "Really! Miss, what did you train in? Taekwondo? Or maybe Sanda?"

"Mm, it’s Sanda," Chu Jin said with a slight smile. If she were to say she trained in ancient martial arts, would she end up being considered a fool, then sent to a mental hospital?

Watching Chu Jin’s retreating figure, the girl made a secret resolve to learn Sanda too! In the future, she wanted to be like Miss, rooting out evil and becoming a female hero!

That evening, Chu Jin had just finished bathing and walked out of the bathroom.

The system’s voice rang in her mind, [Ding! Orange danger mission triggered: Rescue over 120 youngsters from the human body factory! And blow up Tian Luo’s experimental base! Mission completion reward: 80% Faith Value!]

The moment she received this mission, Chu Jin was utterly dumbfounded.

Human body factory?

Rescue youngsters?

Blow up an experimental base?

And who exactly was this Tian Luo?

Why did the system always post such strange missions?

The most important thing was, she actually had to handle bombs! The last time playing with bombs at the amusement park nearly killed her, and Chu Jin now had a deep-seated phobia of them!

Cherish life, stay away from bombs.

"Can I refuse this mission?" Chu Jin asked as she dried her hair and walked forward.

Zi was cracking sunflower seeds and showed a mysterious smile, "Guess."

Chu Jin: "...Are you really happy peeling this one?"

Zi instantly changed to an expression meme, dramatically saying, "Peeling this one, very happy."

Chu Jin rubbed her temples, feeling somewhat of a headache.

Although she was vehemently opposed to the mission, she resigned herself to changing clothes.

Zi began briefing Chu Jin on the background of this Tian Luo.

Tian Luo.

A citizen of F Country.

A biologist, or to be precise, a psychopath.

For his experiments, he did not hesitate to use human bodies.

The number of Hua Nation citizens who died at his hands was countless.

And most of those who died under his hands were underage youths.

Because Tian Luo believed that youths with the bodies of children had cleaner blood, which yielded better experimental results.

Moreover, rumor had it that Tian Luo had already developed an elixir of immortality, allowing him to survive amidst the pursuit of various countries.

Actually, if Tian Luo were to apply his talents to the right path, he could completely benefit all of mankind.

Regrettably...

Tian Luo also established experimental bases everywhere, researching mutant species, polluting the environment, and afflicting local residents. This time, the trouble had even extended to Capital City.

Therefore, Tian Luo was like an executioner.

Even more so, a devil.

If this man were not eliminated, he could threaten an entire nation.

Matters related to the interests of the nation should not be compromised!

Moreover, the dignity of the nation was at stake!

It was also about human lives.

If they didn’t show these foreign barbarians some color, they would really think that the people of Hua Nation could be easily bullied!

Listening to Zi list Tian Luo’s crimes one by one, Chu Jin grew angry.

Tian Luo, huh?

She really wanted to meet him and see how many heads he had to be so audacious!

How dare they bully the people of Hua Nation!

When the nation is in trouble, not only every man must respond, but women have an even greater responsibility!

By the end, Zi stopped eating sunflower seeds, her expression filled with agitation as she spoke.

"For when Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a man, it always first frustrates his spirit and will, exhausts his muscles and bones, starves his body and skin. Chu Jin, keep it up, defeat the foreign barbarians! Anyone who invades our Hua Nation, no matter how far away, will be punished!"

Chu Jin stroked his chin, "Has Tian Luo really developed an immortality serum?"

An immortality serum, it sounded pretty impressive.

"I don’t know if it’s true or false," Zi said while browsing through the screen, "Chu Jin, our mission tonight is not Tian Luo, but rather the group of teenagers used as experimental subjects by Tian Luo. Once you rescue them, trigger the bomb. Then, our mission will be considered complete."

Zi continued, "I have prepared the strategy for you. We’ll first enter the base and plant the explosives, then rescue the people..."

Chu Jin picked up two daggers that gleamed coldly and tucked them at her waist, then proceeded to don the mask Zi had prepared in advance on her face.

A black mask.

Once on her face, only her delicate pale chin and rosy lips remained visible, mysterious yet radiant.

She, dressed in black tonight, was utterly different from her usual self.

She wore a black shirt, black skinny jeans, a pair of short black boots, and was clad in a long black trench coat.

Her black hair was impeccably tied behind her head, tidy and unencumbered by any distractions.

Elegant and poised.

Even those familiar with her wouldn’t be able to recognize her were they standing right in front of her.

Outside the window, the night was deepening.

Tonight, was bound to be an extraordinary night.

Chu Jin stood before the window on the third floor, overlooking the night. Her delicate peach-blossom eyes shimmered with a bewitching light, and suddenly, her lips curved into a faint smile. She placed her hands on the windowsill and leaped out, disappearing into the dense night.

Merging with the darkness, like a spirit of the night.

Following the map provided by Zi, Chu Jin successfully located Tian Luo’s experimental base.

Tian Luo was a very cautious person.

Therefore, the base was surrounded by numerous hidden sentries and was rigged with many traps. Getting in was no easy task.

Chu Jin hid in the shadows and quietly observed everything.

"Do you have any more Invisibility Water? I need to exchange for some," Chu Jin reluctantly asked Zi for help.

It was almost dawn and she still hadn’t figured out a way in. At times like these, one couldn’t afford to be stingy with Faith Value.

After all, no pain, no gain.

"Chu Jin, it won’t work," Zi said slowly, "The magnetic field here interferes with the Invisibility Water. It won’t be effective."

"What!?" Chu Jin exclaimed in surprise, eyebrows raised.

No effect from the Invisibility Water? Just who was this Tian Luo?

Zi was somewhat surprised as well. She stroked her chin and added, "Chu Jin, you’ll have to think of another way."

Chu Jin silently looked up at the sky.

What could she come up with?

She was at a loss herself.

Since taking shortcuts was out of the question, she had to resort to outsmarting them.

Chu Jin stretched out her hand to scroll through the map in the air, her eyes narrowing slightly as a spark of inspiration flashed through her mind, and a plan formed.

Packing away the map, Chu Jin moved towards the side door of the base.

Compared to the main entrance, the defenses at the side door were noticeably slacker.

Chu Jin surveyed her surroundings, a myriad of code symbols flashing through her mind. She quickly discerned an excellent route and moved forward with nimble steps, seemingly unhurried.

Yet with each step, she carried a gust of wind, leaving only an afterimage behind.

Coupled with her all-black attire, nobody noticed the anomaly in the air.

Two guards stood at the side door.

Silently appearing in front of them, Chu Jin grabbed one guard’s head with each hand and, before they could react, she slammed their heads together.

With a "bang," the two guards, seeing stars, fainted.

Looking down at the two fallen guards, Chu Jin’s lips curved into a faint smile. She reached into her pocket, pulled out a blue porcelain bottle, removed the stopper deftly, and sprinkled the powder inside evenly over both men.

"Sizzle—"

The moment the powder touched their bodies, a thin wisp of smoke rose, and within about 5 seconds, their bodies completely disappeared without a trace.

This was the legendary corpse decomposition powder.

These people of F Country had the blood of too many from Hua Nation on their hands; their deaths were insignificant.

After dealing with these two minions, Chu Jin removed a black hairpin from her hair and unlocked the door in less than ten seconds, gaining access to the interior of the base.

According to the plan, the first task was to plant the bomb.

The second was to rescue the captives.

Only the third task was to detonate the explosives.

The base was massive, and it was impossible to blow the whole thing up, so Chu Jin’s target was the heart of the base.

Tian Luo’s laboratory.

Chu Jin weaved through the base, dodging various obstacles and cameras.

Her speed was very fast, and her movements extremely cool.

It was like those science fiction blockbusters often shown on TV, the kind that make audiences scream.

At a certain corner, Chu Jin’s gaze fell upon a familiar figure.

Chu Jin narrowed her eyes slightly.

That was—

Zhao Yiling!

How could Zhao Yiling be here, and judging by the way she looked, she seemed very familiar with the place.

Moreover, the guards were very respectful towards her.

It was Zhao Yiling, yet it didn’t seem like Zhao Yiling.

For instance, Zhao Yiling never wore black clothes.

But the person in front of her was wearing a black dress.

To say she wasn’t Zhao Yiling, she was indeed unmistakably Zhao Yiling.

Chu Jin remained hidden in the shadows, observing all of this without a trace of sound.

What was Zhao Yiling’s relationship with Tian Luo? Why was she here?

Chu Jin suddenly found her mind somewhat lacking.

To clarify the situation, Chu Jin quietly followed Zhao Yiling.

She watched as she entered a rest area reserved for Tian Luo.

"Brother Jin," just then, Zi from the Purple Lightning space spoke up faintly, "I have something to tell you."

Although Zi’s expression was serious, Chu Jin still caught a hint of gossip in his words.

"What is it?" Chu Jin raised an eyebrow slightly.

"I just found out," Zi said with a smile, "that Tian Luo is actually Zhao Yiling’s godfather."

"Godfather?" Chu Jin’s lips curled slightly, "Are you sure you haven’t got it wrong?"

She had lived with the Zhao family for so long and never knew Zhao Yiling actually had a godfather.

And this godfather was quite a big deal.

Tian Luo, no less.

Not only was he from F Country,

But he was also a biological doctor. Zhao Yiling was just an ordinary rich heiress after all—how did she come to know Tian Luo?

This was getting interesting.

Chu Jin’s previously narrowed eyes became filled with myriad thoughts.

"Brother Jin, we’re running out of time, we need to move faster," Zi reminded her.

"I know," Chu Jin pulled her thoughts back.

The external defenses of the base were very strict, and the internal were the same, plus everything was highly technologized. One careless touch of a mechanism or infrared rays could lead to complete annihilation.

Hence, every step Chu Jin took was exceptionally cautious.

She carefully avoided one patrolling guard after another.

While following Zhao Yiling, Chu Jin also got a rough layout of the base.

There were a total of four laboratories inside the base.

Three auxiliary labs and one main lab.

The main laboratory was Tian Luo’s, while the other three auxiliary labs were used by his subordinates.

These four laboratories were the true hells on earth.

The laboratory doors used a facial recognition identity verification system.

Put simply, you had to use face scanning to open the doors.

Moreover, if the facial recognition failed, it would trigger an alarm mode and put the whole base on security alert.

If it had been any other lock, Chu Jin might have been able to find a way to open it, but she was helpless against this kind of high-tech equipment.

"Don’t worry, Brother Jin, you still have me." Zi had the strongest brain in the entire universe. For him, cracking a facial recognition lock was a piece of cake.

Less than a minute later.

Swipe—

The door opened.

"Brother Jin, am I impressive or what?" Zi raised his proud little head.

"Impressive, impressive," Chu Jin said as she slipped into the laboratory.

"Hehe," Zi chuckled awkwardly, "no matter how awesome, you’re still more awesome, Jin."

Chu Jin slightly raised an eyebrow, "...Am I really not hearing things?"

Zi continued, "I’m serious, Jin. You’re super-duper awesome, the most awesome in the whole universe."

"Blind flattery can lead to arrogance," Chu Jin quirked the corner of her mouth and continued, "Just say what you want."

Zi laughed sheepishly, "Actually, it’s nothing big... I just ran out of my spiced sunflower seeds."

Life without sunflower seeds loses the meaning to carry on.

Chu Jin: "..."

Seeing Chu Jin like this, Zi became anxious, "Jin, are you going to buy them for me or not?"

"Buy, buy, buy," Chu Jin said while surveying the environment of the laboratory, "once the mission is over, I’ll move the whole supermarket for you."

The laboratory was huge.

It was filled with experimental equipment.

Not far away, inside a cylindrical container, was a naked boy.

The boy seemed to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, with very white skin.

It was an abnormal kind of white, like a pale sheet of paper, utterly lifeless, even his eyebrows were white.

The most horrifying part was this.

The boy’s upper half and lower half were separate.

They were cut apart at the waist.

In the middle, he was sustained by a machine, with tubes connected to him, maintaining his blood circulation.

The whole scene was shocking and terrifying, enough to put someone with a slightly weaker constitution into a faint.

Even Zi couldn’t help but take a sharp intake of breath.

This wasn’t a laboratory, but a living hell on Earth.

"Jin..." Zi’s voice trembled, "This boy is the test subject."

Seeing someone enter, the boy’s eyes widened as he looked at Chu Jin, his gaze brimming with the hope and desire to survive.

Clearly, he didn’t know that he had been bisected at the waist.

The moment he left the container, he would die.

Chu Jin stood there, silently observing everything in the laboratory. Her usually calm hands were clenched tightly, struggling to keep her emotions under control.

She slowly approached the boy.

"Save me..." Through the glass barrier, the boy’s pale lips moved, silently uttering three words.

He wanted to live.

He no longer wanted to be kept here like an animal.

He longed for sunlight.

Longed for freedom.

He wanted to see his parents.

He wanted to tell his parents, in person, how much he missed them.

He would be well-behaved from now on and never again run away from home.

"Alright, I’ll save you," Chu Jin calmly said to the boy.

Her voice, traveling through the thin air and the glass barrier, clearly reached the boy’s ears.

It was the most beautiful voice he had heard in three months.

He thought.

She must be a fairy descending from heaven, right?

Yes, she must be a fairy.

Though she wore a mask, obscuring her true face,

the boy knew that hidden beneath the mask must be a visage of stunning beauty.

The boy looked at Chu Jin and lifted a weak, pale smile, softly exhaling two words, "Thank... you..."

Chu Jin lightly pursed her lips.

She pulled a pendulum out of her pocket.

A very thin chain.

Attached to the bottom of the chain was a white crystal.

This was the Pendulum.

Ancient and mystical.

Chu Jin delicately pinched the top part of the chain, suspended the pendulum to swing between her thumb and index finger.

Just like how a psychologist would do in hypnosis.

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