“Since we're going to evacuate and abandon this place anyway, might as well do a destructive experiment." The woman's voice was cold as she remotely watched Song Ran and the others preparing to enter the tomb in the distance.

"Those people are from Fengnan Province, employees of a company called Hongjin Bio. Their boss is named Xindela, a director of an old capital firm in Bai Xing."

"Xindela? That old Bai Xing man who's been investigating his son's whereabouts? I've heard of him. He's long past his prime and doesn't have any good people under him. Should we get rid of him?" the first person asked.

"Take care of him. He's investigated our test site several times already. Eleven has been lenient with him several times because of connections in Bai Xing. But now that the turmoil in Yi Country is about to begin and a major event is about to erupt, no one will care about this little matter," the woman said indifferently.

"I heard that Xindela has a promising newcomer favored by Bai Chong, but things have come to this. I believe Bai Skull will understand us."

*Hiss.*

She pulled out a black long sword from behind her waist.

The blade was slender and slightly curved, thick on one side and sharp on the other, faintly glowing with a dark red light.

"Let's go. Two of you split up and go to the hospital to take care of Xindela. I'll take care of things here."

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Wolf Cave Dead Zone.

Li Cheng Yi stared at the blue book floating on the water.

"Either Mr. Mu has a problem."

"Mr. Mu? The one who looks down on everyone?" Yserine remembered the man she saw at the library before.

She was always by Li Cheng Yi's side, so she knew everything.

"Yes. The key is to determine if the boss really fell into a coma because of the blue book. That's the crucial thing."

The investigation was currently at a standstill. He couldn't get the blue book, so he couldn't be sure about the reason for the boss's condition.

So far, based on their understanding of the blue book, this mysterious ancient book didn't seem to have the ability to put people into a strange coma.

"Could it be the black words on the wall? Someone wants to offer ninety-nine lives to communicate with a god?" Yserine guessed.

"I've heard that there have been cases of death here before. But the boss has been bringing people here for so long and nothing has happened, even the most serious was just a coma. It shouldn't be that..." Li Cheng Yi shook his head.

"The key is, other than you, I don't think anyone else can understand the Black Sea script," he added.

"Brother, you're wrong. The Black Sea script is recorded in classics. If you use a lot of classics to reverse engineer it, it's possible that someone has mastered it," Yserine explained seriously.

"Are you sure?" Li Cheng Yi frowned.

"Sure," Yserine nodded.

"In that case, if that Mr. Mu deliberately caused something to happen to our company's people, sending them to their deaths, then he's very suspicious, but that hasn't happened yet," Li Cheng Yi shook his head.

Just then.

The surrounding scenery of the Wolf Cave began to blur slowly.

His vision began to distort, and white dots appeared.

Li Cheng Yi knew that it was time for the Flash.

Everything was twisting and rotating, just for a few seconds.

He suddenly felt a dizzy spell. When he recovered, he was already back at the entrance of the Wolf Cave.

The light outside was dim, and a large number of dark clouds had gathered in the sky at some point.

Yserine's figure also disappeared.

This little girl seemed to only be able to show herself inside the Dead Zone.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, Li Cheng Yi went inside and wandered around.

He found that the structure inside was similar to that in the Dead Zone.

The only difference was that there were no black words on the cave walls and no blue hole on the ground.

The clues ended here. There was no way to investigate why the boss fell into a coma.

‘What I can do now is, if I can get the blue book, I can verify whether the boss fell into a coma because of it. Then I can verify whether what Mr. Mu said is true or false.’

‘If it's confirmed that the blue book can cause a coma, then Mr. Mu's statement is much more credible.

If it can't be confirmed, then this Mr. Mu is very problematic.’

Amidst the chaos, this was the only way Li Cheng Yi could think of.

He took out his phone and first called Song Ran.

"The number you dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please call again later."

A sweet electronic voice came from the microphone.

Li Cheng Yi frowned. He rarely encountered this situation. The company's modified phones had very strong signal capabilities, unless they went to some places with severe signal isolation and attenuation, it was possible to be unable to connect.

‘I'll call again later.’ He didn't think anything would happen to Song Ran's team. There were dozens of people fully armed together, and there were official people supporting them at any time. The possibility of something happening was too small.

Standing inside the Wolf Cave, Li Cheng Yi simply found a rock to rest on and checked the condition of his Evil Flower Mark.

The previous evolution was still continuing. The third evolution of the Titan Sunflower, the ultimate evolution, seemed to have new changes.

Li Cheng Yi hadn't noticed it before.

Now that the evolution had been going on for some time, he saw that in the Evil Flower Mark, the Titan Sunflower column was constantly releasing a faint golden light that only he could see.

The information on the Flower Language ability also had new additions.

‘The main flower has reached the top layer of evolution. The final form is activated.’

‘Ultimate Flower Language is activated.’

‘First Flower Language – Radiant Force Field.’

‘Second Flower Language – Flash (Due to the different types and proportions of evil thoughts absorbed during evolution, the effect of the Flower Language has undergone unknown changes and will be recorded with reference to the actual situation after use)’

Flash?

Li Cheng Yi saw that the Flower Language had finally finished evolving, but the Flower Language ability, which should have been explained, was now unknown to the Evil Flower.

‘The types and proportions of evil thoughts absorbed during the evolution can actually affect the actual effect of the final Flower Language?’

He suddenly thought that this was: determining the taste of the fruit based on the nutrients watered on it?

‘Looks like I have to find a chance to use it and see.’

He hadn't expected that the Titan Sunflower could only evolve up to three times.

But being able to obtain a second Flower Language was not bad. In addition to the physical enhancements brought about by the three evolutions, he could clearly feel that he was getting stronger every minute and every second.

His body became lighter, his five senses became sharper, and his control over his entire body became more delicate and precise. Even his mind was clearer than before, and his memory had been strengthened.

He was also somewhat looking forward to what the ultimate Flower Scale Armor of the Titan Sunflower would look like.

But now, during the Dead Zone investigation, he didn't have time to try it out.

After resting for a while, he took out his phone again and called Song Ran.

But he still couldn't get through.

When the same result appeared again, Li Cheng Yi frowned slightly.

He thought for a while and directly called the company's contact, Pencil Eyebrows.

"Hey, Pencil, I want to ask where Song Ran and the others' last mobile phone location was? I can't contact them suddenly."

"They entered the underground tomb. The signal may be too attenuated and we can't locate them. But...we can locate the others," Pencil Eyebrows quickly replied.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. Isn't that what we do?" Pencil Eyebrows laughed. "Wait a moment."

A few seconds later.

"Hmm? Wait, something's not right. It seems we can't locate any of the others?" Pencil Eyebrows' tone was a little doubtful.

"There should be twenty or thirty people over there, right? You can't locate that many people?" Li Cheng Yi frowned.

"They may have entered some areas with strong signal interference. This situation is very common," Pencil Eyebrows replied. "You may need to wait a little while. I'll have the county send a drone signal base station over to transfer and strengthen the signal."

"Has there been such a situation near Wolf Cave before?" Li Cheng Yi asked.

"I'm not sure," Pencil Eyebrows was stunned for a moment.

The two were silent for a moment.

Li Cheng Yi suddenly stood up.

"Something's wrong! Where were they last!?"

He quickly asked.

"The last location was in an attached cave called Jackal Cave!" Pencil Eyebrows quickly replied.

Remembering the black words written on the cave walls inside the Wolf Cave Dead Zone, Li Cheng Yi suddenly had a strange premonition.

If Mr. Mu's purpose was really to find people as sacrifices in exchange for Black Sea sacrificial texts.

Then using the boss's coma as an excuse to mobilize a large number of company personnel to come to this remote place, and then finding a place to concentrate everyone in one pot...

Wait!?

Why didn't he find people from tourist groups as sacrifices? It should be easier to get tourists.

But soon, he found out on his phone that tourist groups had really had accidents and disappeared here before. After that, no one dared to come again.

"..." Li Cheng Yi noted down the coordinates of Jackal Cave that Pencil Eyebrows sent, and put away his phone.

‘I hope nothing happens.’

He judged his location, exerted force on his feet, and quickly rushed towards Jackal Cave.

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Not long after Song Ran led people down into the tomb.

Between the ground woodlands, a faint radiation spread silently, instantly enveloping the area hundreds of meters around Jackal Cave.

"Huh? Why is the signal gone? Is the internet down?"

An expert who was still monitoring the situation in the tomb and contacting those inside, patted the projection computer on his wrist in confusion.

*Whirr.*

In the surrounding woodlands, a flock of birds flew up into the air in fright and flew away into the distance.

Si Ma Gui stood up straight and looked around. As a Dead Zone person, struggling between life and death all year round had given him a kind of inexplicable instinctive warning of danger.

"Be careful, something's wrong," he instinctively approached Colin Wells, the strongest security team leader of Vulture Company.

"I feel it. Electronic equipment has been shielded in advance. It's a very strong interference device." Colin's horse face tightened. He drew his gun and looked around alertly.

At his signal, all the Vulture Company security personnel began to raise their guns and remained vigilant around them.

Suddenly, a faint noise, as if someone was whispering in their ears, rang in everyone's ears.

The noise was very weak at first.

But as time went by, in just a few seconds, it became stronger and more piercing.

Even more strangely, even if they covered their ears, they could still hear this whisper, and there was no way to completely isolate the sound.

"It's a Whisperer!! A Whisperer from Red Temple!! Everyone be careful!!" As the security captain of Vulture Company, Colin immediately identified this biological sonic weapon.

Hearing Whisperer, Dead Zone people like Si Ma Gui had no concept of it, but the two experts who came with the team immediately reacted.

Whisperer is a special modified human model unique to the self-circulating city of Red Temple in Utopia!

It is a self-circulating modified human suit that is a whole tier stronger than the ordinary civilian modified models circulating on the market!

While everyone was struggling to cover their ears, Mr. Mu quietly retreated as if he had expected it, hid in the woodland, and left into the distance.

However, he hadn't walked a few steps.

He suddenly stopped and slowly turned around.

A tall figure wearing purple-black full body armor was quickly walking out of the depths of the dense forest, blocking his way.

"You were trying to run just now, right?"

Li Cheng Yi stared at Mr. Mu, his voice low.

(End of chapter)