Ch98 - At this moment, everything caught up to him (1/2)

7.11 – At this moment, everything caught up to him

translator: xiin

editors: alamerysl & BlueBug

Lou Cen sent Xue Ling home in the evening, and Xue Ling snuck out of the house that night.

The Duke’s Palace was silent in the middle of the night. Xue Ling had the system shield him from the Duke’s Palace’s security and monitoring, and ran out without anyone noticing him.

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For some things, once he made the decision to do it, he did not want to procrastinate in case something else happened that was not within his control.

The underground city was always open, and there were actually more people there at night. Xue Ling had the system hide him from view. He could not let anyone know that he had been here, or leave even the slightest clue of his presence.

The laboratory did not carry out any experiments at night. When Xue Ling stepped into the lab, the scans provided by the system showed that there were not many people inside. Xue Ling ordered the system to invade the research lab’s system and turn on the state of emergency, sending messages to all of the researchers’ nano-computers and request for them to rush to the Research Laboratory immediately.

The ocean – over a thousand miles away from its emperor – suddenly became turbulent at this moment, waves surging restlessly as an unknown force seemed to take control over the water, startling awake quite a few deep-sea merfolk.

This familiar fluctuation brought tears to many merfolk’s eyes. It was a fluctuation that couldn’t possibly be more familiar to them. Over a decade ago, before their king left them, the ocean had also roared like this. That time, the ocean had wanted to protect their emperor, but this time it was their ruler who was controlling the ocean.

The sea water constantly flowed **, and following Xue Ling’s will, it poured into the research laboratory’s underground rooms.

Countless instruments and equipment were all submerged in water. Researchers all received urgent summons, and everyone rushed to the laboratory’s rooms.

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They were all in a panic, because the research laboratory’s central control system was completely paralyzed. They could not control the system to see the situation across the entire laboratory, and there were still patients waiting to be transformed into merfolk, and artificial merfolk who had already been operated on in the facilities. If any problems occurred here, then the link between them and the entire underground city would be broken, and a lot of problems would arise.

Meanwhile, Lou Cen was startled awake from his sleep.

He had gone to bed particularly early today, and slept particularly deeply. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that everything in his dream had seemed so real, real to the point where his entire back was drenched in cold sweat, and his brain was thrown into confusion.

There had been no sound in his dream. Everything was so quiet that he could not see anything but a merperson lying on a cold research table.

That merperson looked exactly like his little merman, but Lou Cen knew deep in his heart that this was not the little merman that he knew.

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Nevertheless, he still could not accept that a person who looked exactly the same as his merman suffering that kind of cruel treatment. His scales had been cut off and torn off over and over again, and his entire fishtail was bloody; his flesh and blood were the psychopathic researchers’ study materials, and they came to collect some every few days. They would use a scalpel and joke around as they cut his flesh from his body.

No one was allowed to treat a merperson like this. Those people were simply crazy.

The little merman laid on the cold research table, and it seemed that he had already become numb to such daily torture. His face was always expressionless, and his eyes seemed to contain no life, but sometimes he would blink, and in those times, Lou Cen could see that there was still hope in his eyes.

Until one day, the researchers whispered something into his ear, and then Lou Cen discovered that the will to survive had thoroughly disappeared from his eyes.

Lou Cen did not know what kind of news that had been, but he felt a lot of pain in his heart.

Although he knew that this merman was not his favorite person, he was still distressed for this little merman. Being able to hold on day after day despite his daily treatment indicated that he was a strong person, but because of that researcher’s words, he had lost the courage to live… Who was it that had the heart to make him let go of the world…

Lou Cen’s thoughts were still churning when he saw the little merman looking in his direction, stunned. He opened his mouth, and made a sound.

His eyes were full of tears as he looked at Lou Cen, grievance and resentment written on his face, and his eyes full of despair. “…”

Lou Cen woke up from his sleep and unconsciously opened his nano-computer’s interface, wanting to get into contact with Xue Ling.

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But the displayed time brought him back to himself, and he stayed his hand. Everything that happened in the dream felt particularly real, and he could still recall the cold touch of those instruments. Lou Cen massaged his forehead, pondering about exactly where the scenario in his dream would appear. If it was really an illegal merfolk research laboratory, then weren’t the merfolk kept inside living lives as miserable as the one that he had seen in his dream?

Even a breeder may not be able to endure that kind of torture, but that little merman forced himself to suffer through it…

Only, he had not been able to hold on until the person he had been waiting for came for him, and had left forever.

His nano-computer flickered, and Lou Cen came back to himself and opened the message.

[ Something happened in the underground city. Do you want to come and see? ]

This person was an informant of his from the underground city. For him to send news to him at this time meant that a major incident had really happened there.

Speaking of the underground city, Lou Cen’s brow wrinkled slightly. If there was really such a laboratory, then the most likely place for it to exist would be there…

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