Chapter 1406: Experiment, and the Red King

This sudden voice gave Xiao Tao a fright. She finally managed to vaguely see Xiao Bai's outline in the darkness and couldn't help but punch him:

"What are you doing! You scared me to death!"

Xiao Bai winced in the darkness, but still asked anxiously:

"Xiao Tao, what did you find out? Are the Calamities really breaking in? Is there any news about Lord Chen Ling?"

Upon learning that the Calamities were attacking the Nanhai Realm, Xiao Bai had been terrified and kept urging Xiao Tao to go back, but Xiao Tao wanted to gather more intelligence. In the end, they decided to split up: Xiao Bai would return in time to pass on the news, while Xiao Tao would continue to scout outside.

"I found out quite a bit," Xiao Tao nodded. "The Nanhai Realm's defense seems to be doing very well; it's hard for those Forbidden Sea Calamities to break in. However, news about Lord Chen Ling... there's still none."

"It must be chaotic outside, right? Could Lord Chen Ling be in danger?" Xiao Bai's eyes were full of worry.

"If he goes back to the Ghost Abyss, he should be fine, right..."

Xiao Tao wasn't sure herself.

Now that all the Calamity territories had poured out in full force, yet there was still no news of Chen Ling, which was worrying.

The two returned to the factory. The Fusion Faction children were still chattering and arguing, but in the end, they didn't go to find the people at the checkpoints, deciding instead to wait for Teacher Ye to return before making a decision.

"Teacher Ye is back!"

Someone shouted, and the children swarmed over in an instant.

"Teacher Ye! We've discussed it, we want to go to the front lines too!"

"We can't let the people of the Nanhai Realm keep looking down on us. Our Fusion Faction is very powerful too!"

"Yeah, Teacher Ye, let us go..."

"Those Forbidden Sea Calamities killed Niannian, we want to avenge them!"

“……”

One eager voice after another rang out from the crowd. Teacher Ye lowered his head, his gaze sweeping over the children, his expression complex.

"Nonsense!" Teacher Ye scolded in a low voice. "You're just children, what are you doing going to the battlefield? Go back and take a nap! Old Wolf, Zhao Yi... you guys come with me."

Teacher Ye's scolding extinguished the children's enthusiasm and desire for battle. Although they were somewhat unwilling and aggrieved, they still listened to what Teacher Ye said, and while exchanging helpless whispers, they walked toward their respective dormitory rooms.

The factory's worker dormitories were eight-person rooms, cramped and dirty, not comparable to the two-person rooms at the Mother Tree at all. But the children had no complaints, climbing up the creaking metal ladders to the upper bunks and lying down quietly.

By the time the children had returned to their rooms one after another, only Teacher Ye, Zhao Yi, Old Wolf, and the others remained at the factory entrance.

"The Nanhai Realm won't let us participate in the war?" Old Wolf had roughly guessed the situation.

"Mm..."

Teacher Ye briefly explained what had happened at the meeting, and after hearing it, everyone fell into silence.

"What are these people thinking? Leaving so many of our high-order combatants unused, isn't that a pure waste?" Zhao Yi couldn't help but complain.

There were quite a few experts in the Fusion Faction who had reached the "Slaying Evil" level, and Old Wolf and the others were Seventh-Order peak combatants who were even more adept at dealing with Calamities... In any other realm, they would have been treated like treasures, but the Nanhai Realm refused to use them, which was truly incomprehensible.

"I can understand their concerns; after all, Fusion users are also fused with Calamities," Teacher Ye paused for a moment. "But the results of the gene simulation domestication experiment will be out soon... When that time comes, I will prove it to them."

"Being locked up here all the time is indeed quite boring," Zhao Yi stretched. "I really want to go out and fight..."

"There will be a chance."

After chatting briefly, Teacher Ye walked straight toward the factory's underground warehouse.

Just then, as if thinking of something, he suddenly said to Zhao Yi:

"Zhao Yi, since you're bored, come and help me."

"Huh?" Zhao Yi was stunned, not knowing why Teacher Ye suddenly made this request, but he didn't hesitate much and nodded. "No problem."

Zhao Yi followed Teacher Ye down the dusty stairs, and a laboratory filled with equipment came into view. At this moment, on the central test bench, several small, unconscious Calamities were soaking in mysterious liquid. Bubbles rose from the liquid, and through plastic tubes, strands of blood were being continuously extracted.

This was the first time Zhao Yi had come to Teacher Ye's new laboratory, and his eyes were full of curiosity.

Teacher Ye put on a lab coat, picked up one of the test tubes, carefully observed the precipitation effect, and then reset the timer on the side.

"Teacher Ye, what do you need me to do?" Zhao Yi scratched his head. "I don't know anything about chemistry or experiments."

"Just help me clean some of the used test tube containers."

Teacher Ye said without looking back, while slowly pouring the test tube in his hand into the solvent on the other side.

"I can do that!" Zhao Yi's eyes lit up, and he began to wash the experimental equipment.

The two figures were busy beneath the factory,

While in the dormitories above, the children lay on their beds, fast asleep.

……

Ancient Treasury of Drama.

Ning Ruyu stood in front of the ancestral hall, looking at the figure in the theatrical robe standing before the dim spirit tablets, hesitating to speak...

The dim sunset gradually sank into the land of the Ancient Treasury of Drama. The setting sun leaped over the old hall door, illuminating the young man's back. The hem of the theatrical robe fluttered in the breeze, and the young man's sigh drifted over:

"So, he still doesn't intend to come back to see me..."

"Master, if you want to see the junior brother, you just need to say so," Ning Ruyu said, weighing his words. "I can feel that the junior brother actually wants to see you too... it's just that he's waiting for you to speak first."

"That's true... after all, I am the one who failed him," the Red King nodded slightly.

Ning Ruyu's eyes lit up:

"Then you..."

"Things have come to this; whether we meet or not is no longer important," the Red King flicked his sleeves. "He is very clever, and I can guess what he would want to ask... Since that's the case, it's better not to meet than to meet."

Ning Ruyu's voice cut off abruptly.

He looked at the back of the young man in the theatrical robe and shook his head bitterly and helplessly.

The Red King's thoughts were not something they, as disciples, could easily change. Although Ning Ruyu really wanted the junior brother to return to the Ancient Treasury of Drama, it seemed now that the Red King's focus was not on this matter at all.

"Ruyu, what time is it now?" the Red King suddenly asked.

Ning Ruyu was stunned, not understanding why the Red King suddenly asked this. After conjuring a clock out of thin air, he replied:

"Six-twenty."

"Oh."

The Red King waved his hand. "Go about your business."

"Yes." Ning Ruyu bowed and saluted, his figure flickering and disappearing without a trace.

After Ning Ruyu left, the ancestral hall returned to deathly silence.

The young man in the theatrical robe tilted his head slightly, looking at a shadow inside the ancestral hall:

"Have the subsequent matters been arranged?"

……

……

There is one more chapter, I will post it later.