The ultimate blue sea

Chapter 77-Explosion

Hu Bugui followed closely after him as though unwilling to waste a single glance on the dead blue seal. He jumped right down, leaving Lu Qingbai alone, cut off from the mortal world in his protective clothing, planted in the middle of hundreds of brains with a corpse beside him—an extremely hardcore scene.

"Wait for me, you assholes!" Lu Qingbai only caught up after a long time and clumsily crawled over to the hole. He raised his butt and stuck his head in downward. He found that there wasn't a single underground floor underneath. Looking down, it was pitch-black, of unknown depth. The big life chrysalis globe hung in midair, and the transparent covers holding people next to it were all mounted on the walls around it. Su Qing and Hu Bugui were clinging to the wall like geckoes. Dr. Lu felt instant acrophobia, so he yelled, "Hey, how am I going to get down?"

"Jump!" Hu Bugui said concisely.

"Bastard! I'm not a gorilla like you. If I jump from here, I'll end up missing body parts!"

"Oh," Su Qing's slightly smiling voice came up from below, "then we'll trouble you to keep guard up above."

Lu Qingbai, grinding his teeth, looked at the brain nearest to him. All the folds and blood vessels on it were crystal clear, and never mind how sickening it was. He thought, You two had better not get injured in the line of duty after this, or else you'll fall into my hands.

The indicator needle of the energy detector curved at a bigger and bigger angle. Hu Bugui pulled a steel rod out from the items he was carrying along and pressed the on/off switch. It immediately produced a laser chain, catching the edge of the hole with a bang. Lu Qingbai's startled cursing came from above. Hu Bugui said, "Shut up. Dr. Lu, reinforce us from above. We don't have much time left."

Then a long hook extended from the other end of the steel rod. Su Qing understood. He immediately caught the hook and tossed it with extreme accuracy, hooking onto a cover. There was a light click, and the hook automatically locked onto the thing it had hooked on. Hu Bugui pulled, found that it was firmly hooked, then pressed a button on the steel rod. The laser chain automatically hauled up the cover, along with the person inside it.

In no time at all, Lu Qingbai unhooked the cover up above and tossed back the chain. The technological content of this process wasn't high, but time was limited. It had to be done as quickly as possible. While waiting for Lu Qingbai's chain, Su Qing suddenly spoke softly: "Captain Hu, there's something that I haven't had a chance to tell you yet."

Hu Bugui stared, turning his head to look at him.

"Before Xu Ruchong died, he actually said some things to me..." Having said this much, Su Qing's words paused involuntarily. He looked at Hu Bugui, frowning. He didn't know why he suddenly wanted to say this to him, and he didn't know whether he should continue to speak. He began to waver.

Hu Bugui's gaze burned on Su Qing's face as though it could pierce through the thick protective clothing. His scorching expectation was palpable—what was he awaiting? Xu Ruchong's dying words?

When the words came to Su Qing's lips, he evaded practically out of instinct. "He told me that he was actually that Dr. Zheng's adopted son, that he had always been wavering. That was the hand he was dealt. He...had no way out. You shouldn't blame him."

Hu Bugui was bound to have already confirmed this information with Professor Cheng. As dying words went, this sounded right, but Hu Bugui and Su Qing were both well aware that before his death, Xu Ruchong had certainly revealed some other more important information.

Su Qing caught the hook Lu Qingbai had tossed and took the opportunity to avoid Hu Bugui's gaze.

After a long moment, Hu Bugui finally gave a dull "OK." As Su Qing pulled back on the hook after throwing it into position, he couldn't resist glancing at him.