Chapter 437: Organ
The tunnel didn’t go deep. At the end of about a dozen steps was a metal door. It was unlocked.
Gao Yang entered the system to make sure that there was no danger or ambush before opening the door.
The four of them came to a stunned halt.
The basement was a cold blue, about a few hundreds square meters in size. At the center was an enclosed translucent growth tank filled with light blue liquid, the tank about ten meters in diameter. The bottom of the growth tank was connected to the experimentation facilities by countless pipes.
Inside the growth tank, a large chunk of dark red flesh floated.
Well, it wasn’t exactly one big chunk, but flesh rotting and dissolving into pieces, barely kept together by skin tissue.
Gao Yang didn’t know what it was, but his first guess was an internal organ of some large creature.
Was it an organ of the white phoenix they talked about?
Everyone’s attention was drawn to the large organ in the giant growth tank. They couldn’t help it. Although it was an ugly lump of dead meat, there was something strangely captivating about it that drew the eyes, even compelling the minds into obeying and submitting to it.
It wasn’t the sort of divine authority that demanded deference, but the call of mother nature, so gentle and merciful that it conjured the image of sunlight, grassland, breeze, and fields of dandelions. It was comfortable, serene, and fulfilling.
Gao Yang wanted nothing but to fall asleep, becoming one with nature and the world at large...
“Don’t look at it!”
Gao Yang broke out of his reverie with a start and immediately shouted to wake the others. They came back to their senses like they were waking up from a dream. nove(l)bi(n.)com
Hyena emerged from behind the giant growth tank then.
He had changed into a long white coat and was wearing specially made safety goggles that obscured the top half of his face. In his hand was a vial, filled with bubbling dark gray liquid.
Gao Yang first smelled the familiar strange fragrance. There was an eerie depth to it. But the fragrance was much less pronounced than what he had smelled before. It must be because it wasn’t yet finished.
So it was the holy water they were talking about, as he had guessed.
Lithe Snake’s eyes blazed with uncontainable rage. “It’s been twenty years, Hyena! I’ve finally found you!”
Hyena started, the vial falling to the ground.
Through the goggles, he stared at Lithe Snake for a few seconds, his shock slowly replaced by a composed fake smile. “It’s you. You’re still alive? Haha, rabid dogs sure live long.”
Gao Yang teleported to Qing Ling, who was still slashing at the slaughterers, and jumped onto Nainai’s left palm with her.
The agile Lithe Snake threw a throwing knife to slow down a slaughterer before jumping onto the same hand.
Nainai quickly closed her left hand while her right hand dropped down with the five fingers curled slightly, covering the three of them without leaving a gap.
Boom, boom, boom!
A second later, Gao Yang heard a series of powerful explosions.
Safely shielded inside Nainai’s hands, Gao Yang, Qing Ling, and Lithe Snake felt as if they were riding an elevator, going through a bumpy and turbulent stretch.
The explosions died down in less than ten seconds, and the shaking subsided.
Nainai’s giant hands unfurled above and below them. Gao Yang, Qing Ling, and Lithe Snake saw light again. They quickly jumped off her hand.
Gao Yang looked up. Nainai was still a giant. She had crashed through the basement and made a hole leading above ground, reaching the garden behind the mansion.
Now, her feet and legs had been blown apart and charred all the way to her thighs, and she was bleeding from her head, too, most likely a result of her knocking through the ceiling of the basement.
Bam.
Nainai could no longer hold on. She dropped to her knees before toppling to the ground, shaking the land and bringing about gusts of wind. Gao Yang felt as if a skyscraper had fallen before him.
Then Nainai started shrinking at observable speed.
It took her less than ten seconds to turn back into the frail girl she was. Her lower body had been all blown up, some of the wounds deep enough to reveal the bones. The sight alone would provoke sympathetic pain.
“Aghhh...” The pain registered in her head belatedly, doubly overwhelming. Nainai cried out, her face pale.
Gao Yang felt a pang of guilt, but also relief. Azure Dragon was telling the truth when he said that Nainai was dependable when it mattered.
“Hyena!” Lithe Snake spotted Hyena fleeing toward a barren hill behind the winery. He gave chase immediately.
“You alright?!” Officer Huang rushed over from not far away. He had avoided the explosion since he was keeping watch outside.
“Treat Nainai!” Gao Yang didn’t have the time to explain before chasing after Lithe Snake. Qing Ling followed with her weapons.
Officer Huang went up to Nainai and saw her terrible condition.
“Son of a bitch!” he cursed.
