Chapter 32: Escaped Criminal (1/2)

Zhang Dingtian paused before saying, ”He is Zhou Shan’s friend, and a Realm of Sky powerhouse.”

“Realm of Sky? And you’re from Earth?” The President grew even more astonished when Lu Yin nodded, “I didn’t expect anyone outside of you seven and the Tianzhu Monk to accomplish it. Unbelievable, boy, how did you manage such a feat?”

“Talent,” Lu Yin answered calmly.

President Lian simply nodded, accepting that explanation at face value.

“President, what happened?” Bai Xue asked.

The President sighed, “The Research and Development Center was attacked; the alien stole all the information.”

“What information? There should be nothing in the Center that he’s interested in.”

President Lian shook his head and frowned, “I don’t know, he connected that thing on his wrist to the center’s terminal and suddenly grew happy.”

“That’s his gadget,” Bai Xue said, “This is foreign technology that far exceeds our networks, it might have been able to decipher something we couldn’t. No wonder he wanted to destroy the Center, he likely doesn’t want us to find out.

“No, I’m the one who destroyed the Center,” President Lian exclaimed, smiling bitterly at everyone’s surprise, “That man killed all the researchers when he came in, and went directly to the terminal. He would have found the basement if I didn’t destroy the building, and it was the only way to draw all of you here as well.”

Lu Yin felt a renewed respect for the old man; few people had the courage to put their lives at stake for the cause.

Zhang Dingtian frowned, “The Center has been destroyed and all the information is gone, we can’t even find them for our vengeance.”

“Who said that the information is gone? What’s the point of my presidency if that were the case?” President Lian shook his head again, opening the door to the underground, “There’s a backup of everything underground; any of you who has the foreign technology can try it out. Maybe you can obtain some information too.”

Zhang Dingtian, Bai Xue and Lu Yin went down immediately, and a few minutes later they were looking at the projection from the watch in shock. The screen was displaying the explosion that occurred half a year ago; on the screen of the Research and Development Center, there was nothing special about the explosion. However, the gadget enhanced the video to show a black shadow rushing west in the aftermath of the explosion; that shadow moved so fast that Earth’s technology simply couldn’t capture it.

All three cultivators had grim expressions on their faces, while President Lian was stunned, “What is this black shadow? A human?”

Lu Yin answered, “Half a year ago, the Seven Sages weren’t in the Realm of Sky yet. This speed is comparable to someone in that realm; if I’m not wrong, it should be that corpse.”

“That thing was alive?!”

Everyone fell silent and stared at the screen, while Lu Yin looked at President Lian, “May I ask why you decided to transfer the corpse? Zhou Shan mentioned that there was some uncontrollable substance on it.”

President Lian glanced at Zhang Dingtian and Bai Xue, “It was a highly explosive compound; given the amount of it on the body, we knew that there would be grave effects if something set it off. We couldn’t find a way to neutralize that substance, so we decided to move the threat away.”

“Primary was worried that the corpse would blow up during the move, so he separated the seven of us. We’d never expected his fears to come true and cause the Apocalypse. At least we managed to protect the survivors,” Bai Xue continued softly.

Lu Tin nodded, “He truly was selfless; given the strength of the explosion, he wouldn’t have died if you had been protecting him.”

President Lian sighed, “No one expected things to turn out like this, but now it looks like the corpse was the one who triggered everything. He must have been the one to cause the explosion.”

Lu Yin frowned, feeling like something was off; why would the criminal want to cause the Apocalypse? That had triggered Earth’s evolution, wasn’t he afraid such an event would catch the attention of the Great Yu Empire?

“We placed a tracker under the corpse’s skin when we first started studying it; let me see if it still works,” the President said while tinkering with his terminal. Moments later, there was a blip on the world map and he said excitedly, “I found it! This is where the signal was last detected.”

Everyone looked over; the mark was in Europe, within the Mediterranean Sea.

“That student from before headed west to search for it,” Zhang Dingtian concluded.