Chapter 293 - Lair (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Meng Chao left Spirit Creations Creatures, the sun had already set west, and the street lights were lit up.

Dragon City shone in glory.

Meng Chao received a call from Ning Shewo, and he invited him to join the gathering of the various leaders in the biochemical modification technology field.

Many people had learned that he helped Spirit Creation Creatures find the missing Giant Sandworm and also discovered crucial evidence while having outstanding performance during the northern offense, so they were incredibly interested in him.

Once they learned that Superstar Resource Recovery Company was his family business, they treated him as the future star who had recently risen to power in the field.

When Meng Chao wanted to agree to the meeting, Lu Siya called him.

He thought about it before he apologized to Ning Shewo and picked up Lu Siya’s call.

“Did you discover anything?” Both of them asked at the same time.

In the end, Lu Siya was the one who spoke first. “I didn’t discover a lot of problems when it came to the transfer and receiving of money in Jin Yongqiang’s account. Right now, a lot of criminals like using high-grade crystals with high purity as their currency. They trade using ‘cash’ straight away, and it doesn’t leave any traces online.

“As for where he went… He kept to a regular pattern over the past half a month. Aside from taking a few trips to Trash Site 4, he also went to a pet shop opened by Spirit Creation Creatures and bought a Contest Tiger. Aside from this, there’s nothing strange. He never went to the company, but he did go to a monster colosseum—”

“Wait.” Meng Chao thought of something and interrupted Lu Siya. “Why did he go to the monster colosseum?”

“To gamble. Didn’t his file state that he’s a gambling addict?” Lu Siya asked. “His favorite way to gamble was betting on monster fights. Of course, this is also the favorite gambling method for most of the gamblers in Dragon City. It’s shocking, exciting, and bloody.

“Jin Yongqiang went to the monster colosseum whenever he was free since a few years ago. Every month, he would go at least eight times. The frequency at which he went there over the past month hasn’t changed.

“Well, do you think that there’s something suspicious about it?”

“Monster colosseum…” Meng Chao sank into a deep thought.

Animal fights were one of the most ancient entertainment types among humans.

After Dragon City transmigrated, they had to live in a small space because they were surrounded by Monster Mountain Range. The people were tense and felt gloomy. As they faced all sorts of strange and powerful monsters, the ancient entertainment of making monsters fight against each other was naturally revived, and it quickly became popular.

There were dozens of legal monster colosseums of various sizes in Dragon City.

There were also countless illegal underground colosseums.

Even though the broadcasting platforms provided livestreams of powerful fighters hunting monsters in the wild by installing cameras on their helmets and shoulders so that citizens could get first person view of the hunt and feel as if they were right there in the fight, trying to satisfy the urge to see the fight by showing it on the screen was just like trying to scratch an itch through layers of cloth. Compared to being near the fight itself and listening to the deafening roars of the monsters while smelling the scent of death in the air was completely different. It was so much more exciting when the monsters killed one another, and their warm blood flew on their faces.

The experience from being near real fights could not be replaced by watching powerful fighters on livestreams, no matter how strong they were.

The Survival Committee also supported having monsters fight against each other as entertainment. They even called it a sport.

First, they said that it could cultivate the citizens’ nature of practicing martial arts and their love for fighting.

Second, they wanted to let the citizens see that no matter how fierce the monsters were, they were not really that terrifying. In the end, they would be captured by humans and turned into tools for their entertainment.

Besides, there was absolutely no harm in letting the bloody fights become an outlet for the citizens’ ruthlessness. Everyone could mingle with each other harmoniously in this narrow living space.

That was what they said, but if something was overdone, it became bad.

As business for monster colosseums grew, gradually, quite a number of citizens found that the fights to the death between normal monsters became normal and stale. They were not exciting enough, and the attractiveness between Nightmarish Beasts started decreasing. Everyone had seen them too many times.

To ensure attendance rate and safety, the people involved in monster colosseums chose to use biochemical modification to modify the monsters they had at hand.

For example, they modified the monsters’ offensive parts to become larger and sharper or made their appearances even more monstrous and ugly. They even fused the characteristics of several monsters together to create frankenstein-like creatures.

The monster fighting squads also injected all sorts of forbidden drugs into the monsters to ensure that they would become the champion of the season. Those drugs could make normal monsters turn into rampaging beasts.

Stimulants were forbidden drugs in competitive sports.

In the field of monster fights, there were also a constant presence of legal and illegal modifications.

Many of the monster colosseums and famous monster fighting squads had their own biochemical lab so they could make all sorts of gene medicine with secret formulae.

In theory, creating mutated rabies was not difficult for them.

Once Meng Chao thought of this, he asked, “Do you know which monster colosseum Jin Yongqiang frequented?”

Lu Siya was silent for a moment before she mentioned a name. “Golden Tooth Lair.”