Chapter 123: Mysterious

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

They chatted for a while more.

Snake Lady Mei Sha suddenly stopped, as if she was listening to something.

Soon, she smiled. “Master has finished one round of experiments. She called us over.”

“Okay.” Bai Wushang got up.

After passing through several corridors and verifying their identities several times, Snake Lady Mei Sha brought Bai Wushang to a metal gate.

“Wushang, you can go in by yourself. This is Master’s private laboratory. I’ll guard the door for you.”

As she spoke, she revealed a mysterious smile. “Perhaps it’s time for her to tell you some information.”

Bai Wushang was confused. When he wanted to ask her what she meant by that, the Snake Lady smiled without saying anything and pushed him in.

“You’re here?”

In the laboratory, a 1.75-meter-tall female figure in a white coat stubbed out the cigarette in her hand.

She casually pressed a button on the side, and a milky white holy light swept past, instantly clearing away all the strange smells.

“Aunt Lu.” Bai Wushang took a light breath and greeted her before stopping to look.

After so many years of meeting again, the foster mother in his memory did not change much in appearance.

She had a round oval face, dark blue pupils, and golden hair. Only the corners of her eyes were slightly wrinkled, showing the traces of time.

“The next round of experiments will begin in 90 minutes, so we have limited time to communicate. I’ll make it short.”

Yang Luqi raised her hand to look at her watch and said calmly, “Wushang, I asked you to come to the Mountain and Sea Academy to give you some help. With me here, this place will be more suitable for you than the Red Dragon Royal Academy.”

Bai Wushang listened silently, and his expression changed slightly.

“Also, this Soul Power fluctuation of yours has just broken through to the Soul Servant level, right? I heard that you were attacked by the Purple Lightning Dragon Bird and accidentally became an autonomous awakened. I guess that was true.”

Bai Wushang nodded slightly. “Yes, I used a protection curse and luckily survived…”

Aunt Lu knew everything about him, so there was no need to hide this information.

“Oh?” Yang Luqi raised her eyebrows and pulled Bai Wushang.

“Come, let me do a simple body test for you.”

“As expected…”

Before coming, Bai Wushang had already expected this. This was a part that was destined to be unavoidable.

Looking at the instruments, crystals, and talismans around him, he couldn’t help but recall the fear of being controlled.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Bai Wushang first calmed the Milky Way’s emotions and put him back into the pet space.

There were too many bottles and jars here. Any item would cost thousands of dollars. If the little rabbit were to jump around, even if he were to be sold, he wouldn’t be able to afford all these.

It was better to be safe!

Just as he climbed onto the white, cold experiment table, he heard Yang Luqi shout again, “Is it because you haven’t done these experiments for too long? Don’t you know the steps? Strip! Strip everything!”

Bai Wushang let out a long sigh.

Ten minutes later, Yang Luqi spoke, “The precision of this batch of instruments is still a little lacking. I had to make do with it. However, I’ve roughly observed your sealed state. There’s only one last curse mark left. This means that you have less than three years left in your lifespan. Are you mentally prepared?”

“I know,” Bai Wushang nodded.

“Then, there’s another very obvious anomaly. The quality of your Soul Power is at the early-stage Soul Servant tier, but in terms of quantity, it’s two to three times that of a normal Master at the same time. Your endurance is extremely strong.”

Bai Wushang could not explain this point. He couldn’t say that he had swallowed a soul from another world, right?

Fortunately, Yang Luqi did not delve too deeply into it. She only treated it as a manifestation of his special constitution.

Finally, she drew a tube of blood and ended the physical test.

“Come with me. I have something to tell you.”

Yang Luqi was swift and decisive. Without wasting any time, she turned around and left.

Bai Wushang put on his clothes and saw Aunt Lu open three specially-made protective doors in succession. There was actually a hidden laboratory inside.

The area was larger and the equipment was more sophisticated.

“Wushang, let me ask you a question first. After adopting you for so many years, what do you think of me as your ‘foster mother’? Just tell me the truth.”

Bai Wushang frowned and replied, “If I have to say it, I don’t have deep feelings for you. In the beginning, I was even a little afraid. After all… During those three months, you often drew my blood and experimented on my body. For a six-year-old like me, it was quite a trauma.”

“However, as I grew older, I slowly came to an understanding. Without your help, I wouldn’t have been able to live until now. This is the truth.”

“Therefore, no matter what the motive is, I’m still quite grateful to you.”

Yang Luqi nodded. She sighed softly and said, “Actually… my original plan was to keep you by my side and personally raise you. Unfortunately… Firstly, I was too pressed for time. Secondly, compared to the conditions of the Mu family, I was alone. I would be unable to let you grow up in an all-rounded manner.”

“As for the reason for adopting you, since you’ve become a Master now, I won’t hide it from you anymore. Look over there.”

Yang Luqi pointed ahead.

Bai Wushang looked in the direction that she pointed. There was a glass cover with a ring of gemstones embedded around it. It looked like there was some kind of sealing formation on it.

In the center of the glass cover was a small hollow metal ball. It was completely black and had very beautiful patterns. It looked like a work of art.

“What is this?”

Bai Wushang walked closer and observed it carefully. The pattern was beautiful, but he could not tell what it was.

“This is the goal of my life’s research and the ‘culprit’ who forced me to embark on the path of scientific research.”

Yang Luqi said leisurely, “I’m 58 years old this year. I’ve spent a whole 30 years trying to crack it.”

“Crack it?” Bai Wushang noticed this word.

“That’s right.” Yang Luqi’s lips curled up slightly, revealing a trace of disgust and ridicule as she continued, “This may be some kind of directional teleportation device, or it may be some kind of spatial sealing device. It’s extremely ancient, and I can’t tell exactly what it is. I only know that this damn thing caused me to lose all my family!”

Bai Wushang listened to her story in silence.

His understanding of Aunt Lu had changed from a ‘researcher’ to a ‘workaholic’, and now she had become more corporeal and three-dimensional to him.

More than thirty years ago, Yang Luqi had a family. She had parents, a husband, and a five-or six-year-old boy just like Bai Wushang.

She was originally happy.

However, this kind of life did not last long before it was destroyed.

“I remember clearly that it was an evening. I was out for something and left for half an hour.”

“But when I returned, there was no sound at home. Everyone, including the pet beasts, had disappeared.”

“… Yes, you heard it right. They all disappeared without a sound! There were no signs of fighting, no traces of blood, and no abnormal aura. They had completely disappeared!”

This story sounded bizarre. There were too many similar stories in the wilderness.

Bai Wushang immediately asked, “Aunt Lu, could they have been attacked by a special transcendent creature?”