MCL CH124

Chapter 124: This Mr. Lin is precisely our…

[Jie jie jie jie, do you all feel it?]

[Of course, it’s His scent, no doubt. Has He finally returned?]

[No, no, I feel another aura… It’s human.]

[He has, after all, been tainted by that nauseating smell of humans, hehe.]

[Where is Abyss? Where did Abyss go? Didn’t they say He had contact with that human?]

[More than just contact. He even had the territory he painstakingly created destroyed by the other party. What a disgrace…]

[Shh, quiet down. That guy is very narrow-minded. Don’t let Him hear you.]

Deep within the intense contamination radiation, countless pairs of eyes silently watched the long-abandoned human city. Amidst the low murmurs, Abyss’s voice rang out with a sneer.

[I’ve already heard you, hehe… I did indeed come into contact with Calamity and that human. You’ve all seen my current state. As someone who’s been through it, I can only offer you one piece of advice: it’s best not to provoke them.]

These words were clearly not taken seriously.

[Hee hee hee hee, has the stray dog had its courage broken?]

[Calamity’s crystal core has already been destroyed. What kind of waves can he still make? As for that human, hah, didn’t they say he already died once?]

[Living on borrowed time with a shell barely held together by Calamity. We should worry about when he will be replaced by Calamity instead.]

[He should be back, right? After he returns, will we continue to support Him as the King of Contaminants?]

[Don’t be ridiculous. The contaminant world has never had a principle of respecting the weak.]

Abyss snorted coldly. “If you don’t listen to my advice, then—I wish you good luck.”

What responded to him was a chorus of laughter.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, all the contaminants’ ridicule came to an abrupt halt.

[What’s going on? What is that…]

[Do you all feel it?]

[Impossible! How can it have such strong contamination radiation!]

The contaminants in all directions began to stir restlessly. All eyes turned in unison towards one direction.

Ahead, the fierce battle also seemed to have been paused for a moment.

The international ability users, sensing something, turned their heads to look. In their field of vision, they happened to capture the instantaneous collapse of the sky-high illusion of concretization. The falling fragments were like a torrential downpour, exploding with a roar in the instantly expanding airflow.

Even the most battle-hardened ability users couldn’t help but look at each other at this moment.

“Yan Xingzhou’s ‘World of Concretization’ collapsed?”

“What happened? Did he really get his ability under control, or was he taken care of by the person who just went in…”

“A ability user who has lost control, is there a chance to regain control of their ability?”

“Impossible… no reversible method has been discovered yet. And even if Yan Xingzhou really did get it under control, we’ve already received the order. Headquarters would never allow such a huge hidden danger to exist.”

“We must admit, if we don’t die on the battlefield, Yan Xingzhou’s end is very likely our final destination.”

It was unknown who said this, but the atmosphere at the scene became subtle for a moment.

Those present were basically the top X-rank ability users. The fates of the two ability users from Hua Country were still fresh in their minds, so it was inevitable that a feeling of shared vulnerability would arise.

Park Joon-ki glanced at the tide of contaminants that was still continuously attacking the defense line and asked, “Ake, the contaminants here are almost cleared out. Can you handle the rest?”

Ake instantly understood his intention. “You go handle Yan Xingzhou’s matter. Leave this to me.”

“Then I’ll leave it to you.” Park Joon-ki was just thinking about who to take with him when a hand suddenly landed on his shoulder.

Turning his head for a glance, his brow furrowed slightly. “I don’t think you’d be willing to make a move on Yan Xingzhou.”

“Of course I’m not willing!” Samuel looked at him with a pleasant expression, pulling Park Joon-ki even closer, looking like the best of pals. “I just wanted to ask, are you really going to listen to Primo and deal with Yan Xingzhou here?”

Park Joon-ki looked at him without a word, the expression on his face clearly writing three words: “What else?”

“I’m not saying this to be difficult, but sometimes you really can’t be so rigid.” Samuel persuaded patiently, “Look, when we sent the message to headquarters, Yan Xingzhou had just lost control, which is why we received the feedback to deal with him on the spot. But now the time flow between inside and outside is too different. If Yan Xingzhou has already passed the danger phase, doesn’t that mean this order from headquarters has lost its validity? In that case, we can totally consider requesting new instructions!”

“Request again?” Park Joon-ki looked at him amusedly. “You also know the time flow is different. By the time we send another application, do you think more unexpected situations will arise here while we wait for a reply?”

Samuel blurted out, “Then just keep requesting!”

“…”

Park Joon-ki didn’t spare him another glance and turned to leave.

“Hey, wait for me! I’ll go back with you guys to take a look!” Samuel clearly had no intention of being shaken off just like that and stuck to Park Joon-ki like a piece of sticky candy. “But Mr. Park, I really suggest you listen to my advice. Absolutely, absolutely do not really make a move on Yan Xingzhou. Lin just went in earlier. With him there, if a fight really breaks out… Hiss!”

Just briefly imagining the possible world war that could occur, Samuel subconsciously sucked in a breath of cold air and rubbed his temples with a headache. “Although we X-rank ability users are basically not normal people, when placed next to a real madman, we’re really what you’d call harmless. We’ll be pinned to the ground and crushed! Dear Mr. Park Joon-ki, this time you really have to listen to me…”

Under the continuous chatter, Park Joon-ki felt his ears were practically growing calluses. Seeing that they were about to reach their destination, he finally couldn’t help but stop and look fixedly at Samuel. “You just said… Lin?”

Samuel realized he had misspoken. He blinked his slightly widened eyes. “Ah, right, that’s the handsome guy with red hair from just now. He’s the new Director of the Third Administration of the Hua Country United Administration, Lin Ni. He’s super powerful!”

Park Joon-ki slowly repeated, “The new Director of the Third Administration, a young ability user whose name I’ve never heard of, can actually be praised by you as powerful?”

He smiled with a hidden meaning. “No, rather than a ability user, judging by his appearance—he seems more like a contaminant, doesn’t he?”

Under his gaze, Samuel felt a cold sweat break out on his back.

Park Joon-ki was usually quiet, but among all the X-rank ability users, he was the one Samuel least wanted to deal with. If it weren’t for Lin Xi and Yan Xingzhou this time, he really wouldn’t want to get involved with him.

Samuel cleared his throat lowly. Just as he was about to say something, he heard someone beside him suddenly remind, “Someone’s coming out!”

Samuel looked over at the words.

The collapsed fragments of concretization piled up into a ruin. Lin Xi had one of Yan Xingzhou’s arms over his neck and was leading him step by step out of the mottled light and shadow at the end.

A halo of light brewed around the two tall figures, blurry and somewhat unreal.

Clearly, Lin Xi had long since seen the ability users waiting here from afar, but he didn’t seem to care.

It wasn’t until he walked right up to Samuel under everyone’s watchful eyes that he shot him an annoyed look. “What are you staring at? Aren’t you going to help get him to the car?”

Only then did Samuel reach out to take the person from Lin Xi’s hands. He glanced at Yan Xingzhou’s tightly closed eyes and asked, “He’s, he should be fine now?”

“Probably. Hard to say.” Lin Xi’s face was also filled with fatigue. The sunglasses he had worn when he arrived were long gone, and the scarlet hue revealed at the corner of his eye made his different-colored vertical pupils even more eerie. He spoke very bluntly, “I don’t trust the people from the Global Ability General Administration, so this time, I can only have you go against Primo for once. With Yan Xingzhou’s condition… I need you to take him to Shen Nanyang. Can you do it?”

Doesn’t trust the Global Ability General Administration, but trusts Shen Nanyang.

If this had been said in the past, Samuel’s jaw would have definitely dropped. But at this moment, he didn’t ask much and nodded. “No problem, leave it to me.”

As he spoke, Samuel was about to leave with Yan Xingzhou, but was stopped as soon as he turned.

“He can’t leave.”

The short conversation clearly made Park Joon-ki even more curious about Lin Xi’s identity. Not only was Samuel’s attitude almost one of complete obedience, but also the naturalness with which Lin Xi mentioned Primo and others by name. Although he was stopping Samuel, his gaze was always on Lin Xi as he slowly emphasized, “Samuel, I hope you know what you’re doing. The world has given X-rank ability users enough privileges, and in return, we are required to follow more rules and regulations. The order from the General Bureau has been issued. You know very well what the price of defiance is. What’s more, even if you send him to Hua Country, can you ensure his safety? There can only be one end for a ability user who has lost control. Neither the Hua Country United Administration nor the Central Research Institute would openly defy the General Bureau for this huge hidden danger…”

His following words were cut short. Although his reaction was extremely fast, a sudden flash of fire still grazed his cheek, leaving a deep wound.

Park Joon-ki frowned slightly.

He clearly hadn’t expected that even with all his attention on Lin Xi, he still couldn’t avoid the other’s attack.

This speed was a bit too fast.

Lin Xi couldn’t even be bothered to put on that polite smile anymore, his face was cold and emotionless. “You don’t need to worry about what happens after he’s sent out.”

“Mr. Lin, right?” Park Joon-ki turned a deaf ear to Lin Xi’s threat. “Not just Yan Xingzhou. You too. You must both stay here.”

During their conversation, the other ability users had already silently surrounded Lin Xi.

The contamination radiation emanating from Lin Xi’s body had long since surpassed what it was when they first met, and was even far higher than on the battlefield where so many S-rank contaminants were present.

With such a high contamination value that was almost beyond comprehension, no one could regard him as an ordinary human anymore.

“When I came here, I had no intention of going back to the outside world.”

Lin Xi said slowly, a cold, silent smile tugging at his lips. With a slight movement of his fingertips, raging flames rose from the ground on the periphery, in turn trapping the ability users who were surrounding him. “But Yan Xingzhou must get out.”

His inhuman, different-colored pupils lifted lazily. His gaze swept over the crowd and landed on Samuel in the distance. “Still not going?”

Samuel: “…Don’t rush me.”

As the world’s top spatial ability user, as long as Samuel wanted to, no one could stop him from taking Yan Xingzhou away from here.

The reason he was hesitating now was because he had no doubt that as soon as he left, Lin Xi, this madman, would absolutely start a fight with these X-rank ability users!

Lin Xi narrowed his eyes. “You’re not choosing to stand with them, are you?”

Samuel could feel that with those words, the surrounding contamination radiation instantly intensified by several degrees. Even he felt a huge, overwhelming deterrence rushing towards him. “Of course not! Darling, I’ll always stand with you, but…”

After holding it in for a long time, he could only squeeze out one sentence: “Why don’t you two sides find a place to sit down and have a good talk first?”

What responded to him was Lin Xi’s sneer. “As long as they don’t make a move on Yan Xingzhou, I have no objection.”

Park Joon-ki: “Impossible.”

Samuel: “…”

This was truly a dilemma!

Samuel felt like crying but had no tears.

He knew very well that he needed to get Yan Xingzhou out of here as soon as possible. But on the other hand, he couldn’t just let Lin Xi really fight those international ability users and completely stand on the opposite side of humanity.

Just as he was struggling, he heard the sound of car engines from afar.

Soon, a convoy of cars sped over and came to a stop amidst a screech of brakes.

Seeing the logo on the vehicles, Samuel felt as if he had finally seen his savior and almost cried with joy.

After the car doors opened, a figure in a white lab coat got out of the car and came straight to the crowd. “Everyone, stand down.”

Park Joon-ki clearly didn’t expect Shen Nanyang to come here. “Professor Shen, your ability doesn’t seem suitable for the battlefield. Or is it that Hua Country has decided to openly defy the General Bureau’s order for its only remaining dual X-rank ability user?”

“We have always complied with all of the Global Ability General Administration’s arrangements.” Shen Nanyang’s gaze swept over Lin Xi, his expression unreadable. “Given the different time flow between the inside and outside, I came here also to avoid deviations in communication that could lead to some trouble.”

He handed a digital key to Park Joon-ki. “This is the latest order issued by Primo himself. If you confirm there are no problems, I’ll take the person back first.”

Park Joon-ki quickly reviewed it through his holographic projection device, his brow slightly furrowed. “Are you sure the General Bureau knows about the true situation of this Mr. Lin of yours?”

“I’m sure. I have already explained it in detail to Primo.”

Shen Nanyang slowly raised his head, his gaze fixed on the figure shrouded in layers of contamination radiation. “The General Bureau has always known about the experiments our Central Research Institute is conducting. And this Mr. Lin is precisely our most important test subject.”

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