Chapter 492 - Midnight runs (1/2)
Chapter 485
/*unedited*/
Alchemy City, in one of the inns in the city
The sun has already set in the horizon and the moon slowly rose high up in the sky giving off a silvery light. The Alchema city is still bustling as if the people didn't care about the darkness brought by the night.
Not long later everything inside the city became bright as each house, store, commercial buildings, and even the streets were illuminated a light source.
This technology which uses spirit stones as energy is very familiar to Shin Jiao.
Meanwhile, inside the inn's room, Shin Jiao slowly opens his eyes after a few hours of cultivating and knew that his body has already the energy he had used from using the portal and fighting his enemies.
He then turns his attention towards the illusion of fish skin inside his ring.
He has already removed the skin from the huge body of the fish. He wanted to research it and how it works, so he took a few samples, and with the use of both his absolute and spiritual sense, he prodded the fish skin carefully.
He didn't want to miss anything and wanted to thoroughly understand how the fish was able to perfectly blend with its environment.
And with that prodding, it took him two hours before a satisfied look appear on Shin Jiao's face.
”So that's how it works… it actually works as a camouflage rune, but this skin can be controlled using the signal from the fish's brain. Hmm… this is going to be a bit tricky. But I think I can find a way to make this work.” Shin Jiao muttered as he took out a paper and a pen and began drawing a blueprint.
It didn't take long before Shin Jiao was able to draw a full body armor. It has the design that would make the wearer look like a ninja wearing a silver metallic suit.
But of course, he is not going to use a metal ore, but the fish scale as its external texture, and a strong metal alloy inside.
He is also thinking of adapting the technology that Park Jiyong had created, the nano alloy.
As Shin Jiao busied himself in drawing and slowly crafting his new armor, he didn't notice the time, and soon it was already midnight.
His attention was suddenly disrupted when he found a weird smell entering his system. When this happens Shin Jiao's poison essence immediately kicks in and purifies his system. He immediately recognized that the poison is a combination of hallucinogenic and sleeping drugs.
”Who might be targeting me?... Or… is it us?” he said as he scanned the corridor outside.
Shin Jiao didn't see anyone, but he sensed that there is an array that can block spiritual senses.
”These people are experts… But who are they?” he thought as he scanned the whole inn.
Shin Jiao felt a bit distressed when his absolute sense enters the other rooms. As he suddenly found out that most of the rooms are being used as a love motel. Men and women are busy banging each other in some of the rooms, while others are cultivating.
Soon, he discovers the culprits as he noticed a group of people walking towards his room. Their leader is a tall man with a scar on his face. His cultivation level is the peak of the gold core realm. The 5 others following behind him are also in the gold core realm. He saw them talking to the woman behind the inn counter as she told them the number of his room.
”I guess this must be a normal occurrence in this big city… This inn's proprietress seems to be a shameful person… I think their target are the girls…” he muttered as he took out his cloak and donned it on him.
”If I get rid of these people, will it cause some problems? Hmm…” Shin Jiao thought but still decided to get rid of his enemies.
He has already learned his lesson from before. If he let those people who try to harm him, then his troubles will never end. Hence getting rid of them is the final solution.
And so, he waited in silence as his figure meld with the darkness.
Soon, his door was suddenly flung open and six people immediately rushed in with their faces covered. Upon rushing inside, they immediately checked the room but were dumbfounded upon discovering that no one is inside.
They began to flip the room upside-down but still found no one. One of the men angrily rushed outside and went to the inn's counter.
”What is the meaning of this?!” the man said in an angry tone which made the other customers baffled.
”Hey, don't raise that tone with me… come here and we'll talk.” The woman said as she let the man enter through the side.
When the two of them enters the room at the back, the man immediately complained.
”You said that they enter the room and never left, why is it empty?”
”Hey, it was your men's responsibility to watch that place. Do you think I have time to check it? Plus I have installed arrays in both the windows and the door, so I am sure that the people in there didn't leave.”