Chapter 9 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Zhou Lang’s head had been blasted open. He couldn’t see Gao Xuan, but he could somewhat hear what he was saying.

All he wanted to do was curse each and every one of Gao Xuan’s ancestors before he died, but he wasn’t able to say anything.

Zhou Lang’s body started to convulse from his intense agitation.

“Hey, hey, don’t be in such a hurry to die. Say something.”

Gao Xuan then saw the Lightning Eagle Ring on Zhou Lang’s finger. He forcefully pulled it off his finger. “Since you’re about to die, you should give the Lightning Eagle Ring to someone who needs it.”

Zhou Lang felt his Lightning Eagle Ring get snatched off his finger. In his fury, he expelled his last breath and died.

“You’re so miserly, even in death. Just look at you.”

Gao Xuan whipped out the God Slaying Sword and waved it in the air. The ferocious corpse of Zhou Lang turned into a ball of blood-colored light and was absorbed into the God Slaying Sword.

Zhou Lang was equivalent to one and a half Xu Huis. The wavering currents of blood in the God Slaying Sword became much more intense after it absorbed Zhou Lang.

To the side, Yun Qingshang asked, a little hesitant, “It’s over? Just like that?”

The powerful Zhou Lang had died just like that. It didn’t feel real to her.

“It’s done.”

Gao Xuan put the Lightning Eagle Ring on his left ring finger, then observed it with interest. He then waved it at Yun Qingshang and said, “The Lightning Eagle Ring, an Iron Grade Miracle Item. It can activate bolts of lightning and give the user a burst of speed. Its downside is that it randomly gives off electric currents. It’s mine now.”

“All right.”

Yun Qingshang didn’t care about that. Gao Xuan could have it if he wanted it.

Gao Xuan continued explaining, “It’s not that I don’t want to give it to you, but your Crimson Heart would interfere with the Lightning Eagle Ring.”

Yun Qingshang didn’t speak, nor did she feel the need to say anything.

“I’ll keep this gun for self-defense. I don’t have any long-range attack items. You can understand, right…”

Gao Xuan picked up the gun and observed it for a moment. “The Gungnir is a high-end sniper rifle from Xuanwu. That lad was spouting nonsense. This is the Arbalest range of guns. It has immense penetrative power, but it cannot penetrate your Crimson Heart.”

Yun Qingshang nodded. She believed Gao Xuan. But even if the Crimson Heart couldn’t stop a bullet, it was fine. She was willing to offer everything she had to Gao Xuan, including her life.

Seeing how understanding Yun Qingshang was, Gao Xuan felt a little guilty. He stood up and said, “Zhou Lang must have many good items. We can split those equally.”

Gao Xuan walked to the front of Zhou Lang’s desk and expertly entered a passcode into the screen. The password was a complicated line pattern and a passage of strange characters.

The optical computers in the Beikun Base weren’t set up with artificial intelligence. Zhou Lang had always used primitive patterns and letters as passcodes because he’d believed that biological markers were easy to circumvent.

Gao Xuan had worked for Zhou Lang for several years in his past life and had become his trusted aide. The Beikun Base was no longer an active unit in the future, and thus was managed by him. Thus, he was extremely knowledgeable about all there was to know about the Beikun Base.

That included the complicated passcode verification that Zhou Lang had set up. He knew it like the back of his hand.

After a beep, the optical computer let out a mechanical sound. The passcode had been verified. The vault was about to open.

The alloyed wall behind Zhou Lang’s chair slowly started to open to reveal a giant security vault.

The alloyed wall was 1.5 meters thick and had a complicated array of mechanical locks. Without suitable tools, there was no way someone could open it by force.

Gao Xuan waved toward Yun Qingshang. “Come quickly. Let’s split the loot.”

Yun Qingshang froze a moment, then followed Gao Xuan into the vault.

The vault was over a hundred square meters wide. The neatly arranged gold bars inside it were exceptionally eye-catching.

Just the pile of gold bricks alone was worth two billion or so Credit Points.

Gao Xuan secretly thought that it was a pity that they didn’t have a way to take away such a large pile of gold bricks, nor did they have a suitable way of dealing with them.

The Blood Deity Association was simply too powerful. He, as well as Yun Qingshang, would definitely be found out if they left with such a large number of gold bricks.

It wasn’t worth exposing their identities for such a small sum of money.

Gao Xuan told himself that the gold bars were dung and not to care about them. However, he still felt a little pain in his heart. Those were gold, the greatest currency in the galaxy.

Even transactions with different races could be settled with gold.

“We are people who are going to do big things. There’ll be more than enough opportunities for us to make it big…” Gao Xuan consoled himself. His eyes landed on a glass incubator to the side.

There were over a hundred glass test tubes inside it. Those were the Spirit Beings’ Genetic Medications used in experiments.

The Beikun Base had been built to experiment with genetic medication.

Because of how unique the genes of Spirit Beings were, experiments involving them required large-scale and long-term data collection.

However, the host of the project, Xu Yan, had met with some problems halfway through the project, and the project hadn’t been able to continue.

Thus, there was still a large number of Spirit Beings’ Genetic Medication left in the vault.

Even though humans could traverse galaxies and set up massive human civilizations and organizations, their understanding of Source Power and genes was still rudimentary.