Chapter 346 - 344: She Cares About a Lot More Now

Chapter 346: Chapter 344: She Cares About a Lot More Now

Song Yiguo had never forgotten his hatred, not even for a moment.

Although he was dedicated to building up the National Capital Safety Zone, he had never stopped investigating the Research Institute and Xu Anguo.

He was also diligently absorbing Crystal Cores to increase his power, lest Xu Anguo eliminate him before the fight even began.

He knew all too well the sight of those "lab rats" being suicidally annihilated.

His life was precious until he got his revenge; he absolutely could not let anything happen to him.

Chen Xing decided to head to the United States immediately and start her search there.

In exchange for Chen Xing’s supplies, Song Yiguo naturally provided a round-trip flight free of charge.

He also offered to provide her with backup, but she refused.

’In times of great danger, it’s easier and safer to be alone.’

After entrusting Uncle Zhong to Song Yiguo’s care, Chen Xing flew to the United States that very day.

After landing, she was only a little over two hundred kilometers from Jiyuan Island, so she decided to head there first.

Jiyuan Island was located in a southern corner of the United States and was only accessible by boat.

The shore was lined with rows of two-story wooden houses. Faint traces of white and blue paint were still visible on the weathered wood.

There were no boats in sight.

Chen Xing considered taking a small yacht out of her dimensional space.

Before she could act, she sensed danger.

A gunshot rang out.

Chen Xing merely sidestepped to dodge the bullet, then sent a throwing knife flying, striking her ambusher.

The attacker was on the roof of a house in the back row.

The man, struck squarely between the eyes, toppled from the roof.

"Oh, god... SOB..." A woman’s wail pierced the silence of the shore.

The moment the woman cried out, a group of people surged from behind the houses.

They were all burly, menacing-looking men brandishing various weapons, and they charged forward, intent on killing Chen Xing.

Chen Xing never showed mercy. As they lunged at her, she unleashed a current of electricity, felling more than twenty of them.

Realizing Chen Xing was no ordinary person, the others began to gather their superpowers to attack.

Unwilling to waste time, Chen Xing sent a shower of Golden Needles flying, piercing their bodies as if it were rain.

In the blink of an eye, over a hundred people lay on the ground.

With a flick of her hand, Chen Xing forcefully pulled the Crystal Cores from their bodies and into her grasp.

She never left a Crystal Core behind.

After collecting the Crystal Cores, she walked toward the houses.

She had originally planned to use the speedboat stored in her dimensional space, but... with other people still alive nearby, she dismissed the idea.

Since there were no boats on the shore, they must have been stored away somewhere.

Soon enough, Chen Xing found a small speedboat inside one of the houses.

She easily lifted the small vessel with both hands and carried it away.

Jiyuan Island was visible from the shore, not far away.

After setting off in the speedboat, she arrived in just ten minutes.

From the mainland, Jiyuan Island hadn’t seemed very large, but once she set foot on it, Chen Xing realized it was quite big.

It was more than twice the size of the island in the North Sea.

Song Yiguo knew the precise location of the main Research Institute entrance in the United States, but Jiyuan Island was so remote that he had never managed to find the exact entrance to the facility here.

So... Chen Xing had to find it on her own.

The fact that she commanded Little Black Cats was no longer a secret.

So, she released all her Little Black Cats to scout the area.

Soon, the little creatures sent feedback.

Chen Xing immediately headed toward the location they indicated, recalling most of the Little Black Cats as she went.

She left two Little Black Cats outside to keep watch.

The Little Black Cats had found a massive tree, so thick it would take ten people holding hands to encircle it.

Upon closer inspection of the deep, coarse bark, a neat seam was visible.

With a single kick, Chen Xing knocked the section loose. It was, as she’d suspected, a door.

The inside of the door was iron, and her kick had left a deep dent.

Her past experiences with the Research Institute told her that once inside, she would face unknown horrors and unimaginable monsters.

But... she was not afraid.

’Before, when I had no family and no one to care for, I might have been content to just avoid the Research Institute and stay hidden.’

’But now... I have too much to lose.’

She wouldn’t know a moment’s peace until the Research Institute was destroyed.

Forming fine needles with her superpower to hover above her head, Chen Xing descended a few steps of a staircase that led directly into a long, straight corridor.

Thousands of fine needles moved with her in a neat formation.

At the end of the corridor was the signature decor of the Research Institute.

White walls and a large, white door.

The tightly shut white door trembled faintly from time to time.

Judging by the frequency and intensity of the tremors, she guessed it wasn’t a large monster inside.

The impacts from a large monster wouldn’t be this subtle and difficult to detect.

Chen Xing yanked a power cable running alongside the door.

The area was instantly plunged into darkness.

She seized the opportunity to fully replenish her own electrical reserves.

Just then, the white door in front of her slid open on its own.

In the pitch-black darkness, she could see that the room beyond was filled to the brim.

Writhing plants began to slowly stretch out from the open doorway toward Chen Xing.

Chen Xing laid a hand on them, and a gentle stream of her Wood Element Ability flowed from her palm.

The plants, which had been poised to attack, gradually grew calm under her touch. Their outstretched tendrils slowly retracted, transforming them into a few small hibiscus shrubs.

With no surveillance cameras in sight, Chen Xing didn’t hesitate to store the mutated hibiscus shrubs in her dimensional space.

’Mutated plants like these would provide better security than normal ones if planted outside a home.’

Ahead lay another identical white door.

Before she even got close, she could hear a tremendous racket from within.

The noise from her side seemed to agitate whatever was inside, as furious, incessant ramming sounds began to echo from behind the door.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Chen Xing reached out and opened the door.

The moment it opened, Chen Xing instinctively recoiled, retreating more than ten meters.

Inside was like a supersized version of the animal kingdom.

No fewer than a hundred different species of mutated animals were roaring in the enormous chamber.

These mutated animals were massive, many times their pre-apocalypse size.

The strangest part was that carnivores and herbivores occupied the same space, and not only were they not fighting, they actually seemed to be coexisting harmoniously.

When they saw the door open and a person appear, they turned as one and advanced on Chen Xing.

A leopard, in particular, led the charge, streaking to the front of the pack.

Its coat gleamed, and the powerful muscles of its legs were clearly defined. It ran so fast its paws barely seemed to touch the ground.

But against Chen Xing, the faster it ran, the faster it died.

Her rain of fine needles fell upon the pack without a moment’s delay.

With a series of heavy THUDS, the mutated animals at the forefront of the charge all dropped to the floor.

A second wave of needles followed, wiping out more than half of the remaining animals.

Not a single creature managed to get within five meters of her.

After two more consecutive showers of needles, Chen Xing began to advance, stepping over the corpses of the mutated beasts.

Just as she was about to step through the white doorway, she heard an incredibly heavy THUMP... THUMP...

Following the sound, she saw a mutated animal so enormous its back scraped the ceiling. It was so large she couldn’t even make out its features as it lumbered toward her, one step at a time.

The most baffling part was that it was walking toward her backward, its rear end facing her.