Chapter 1 I...I'll Talk!

Almost before three seconds had passed, Liu Xialai collapsed. He was already controlled, and the Liu family wouldn't be coming to save him.

Even if the Liu family knew about this, they wouldn't care about him. Instead, they'd find a way to release the mutated gas already planted in all the bases ahead of schedule!

"The mutated gas is placed in the air exchange system! It's in all four valve locations!"

Liu Xialai said,

"But… I only know how to install that stuff, not how to remove it! Don't think that just because I'm the highest-ranking Liu family member in this base, my status in the Liu family is actually very high!

"In fact, I probably know less about the Controller than Qing Cang. And basically, all the Liu family heads in the bases are in the same boat as me!

"The real higher-ups of the Liu family are all busy with that plan. That's why they sent us, people with ordinary status, to manage the bases. Because they know that everyone outside the Liu family will eventually die, so they don't care about the status of the bases.

"Anyway, once the War Behemoth plan succeeds and drives away the Devourers, the Liu family will return to the surface. No one likes living in an underground base, right?"

"What do you mean, you can't remove them?"

Dugu Tianfeng asked.

"According to the elder who gave me the mutated gas, the canisters containing the mutated gas cannot be removed once they're installed. Otherwise, they'll explode directly. So he told us never to touch them after installation until they order us to release the mutated gas!"

Liu Xialai answered, then took out a very small remote control and handed it to Dugu Tianfeng:

"Elder Fang said that after receiving the order, we should press this red button, and then the mutated gas will be released in half an hour. That half hour is for us to find an excuse to leave the base and find a place to hide above!"

Dugu Tianfeng took the remote control and gestured to the soldiers Hu Tao had left behind. They immediately stepped forward and took control of all the Liu family members.

"Interested in coming with me to take a look at this mutated gas?"

Dugu Tianfeng shook the remote control at Li Chenzhou.

"Alright!"

Li Chenzhou nodded and followed Dugu Tianfeng out.

After passing through a corridor, Li Chenzhou finally saw the true form of this underground base. Perhaps this was just one area, but it was enough to shock Li Chenzhou.

The location he was in before was an entrance to the underground base, located on the uppermost level. After leaving the long corridor, the real underground base lay below.

The corridor was very high, offering a panoramic view of this area of the underground base. Li Chenzhou felt as if he was on the rooftop of a skyscraper, overlooking a city.

This underground city was built almost identically to a city on the surface. The street blocks and buildings below looked no different from a city. The entire area was brightly lit, and people were coming and going.

"What do you think? Not bad, right?"

Seeing Li Chenzhou's somewhat shocked expression, Dugu Tianfeng asked.

"Yeah! I didn't expect that an underground city could be built so magnificently!"

Li Chenzhou nodded.

"Alas! We're all forced to do this!"

Dugu Tianfeng led the way, gesturing for Li Chenzhou to follow, and said:

"No matter what, life will find a way. It’s the same for us. If we can't live on the surface, we must adapt to the underground. And what you see is the result of a long period of time and the participation of countless people in slowly building this underground city!

"This is the most valuable wealth our predecessors left us. Some say that previous generations plant trees for later generations to enjoy the shade. But what our predecessors planted for us wasn't a tree, but a seed! A seed that allows our Duoluo people to continue!

"I don't care what others think! But I absolutely cannot allow the city our ancestors left us to be destroyed. So, no matter what the cost, I will not allow those mutated gases to be released!"

Li Chenzhou simply followed along without saying a word, while the few people behind them all looked surprised. They had never seen Dugu Tianfeng so talkative.

Perhaps Dugu Tianfeng hadn't spoken as much in the past year as he had today. Why was that? Was it because of Li Chenzhou?

Especially the young man who had been defeated by Li Chenzhou. The resentment in his eyes as he looked at Li Chenzhou's back grew stronger!

He was a rising star in the Avengers Alliance and was very favored by Dugu Tianfeng, who even allowed him to follow him. But even so, Dugu Tianfeng had never said so much to him!

In his opinion, it was because Li Chenzhou had defeated him that Dugu Tianfeng had started to pay attention to Li Chenzhou. He even felt that Dugu Tianfeng might recruit Li Chenzhou into the Avengers Alliance.

If that happened, his own position would be taken away by Li Chenzhou!!!

As he thought about it, the young man plotted how to make Li Chenzhou get lost, so as not to threaten his position!

When they arrived at the machine room where the air exchange system was located, some people were already waiting there. These were the bomb disposal experts sent by Hu Tao. Everyone in the machine room, regardless of whether they were from the Liu family, had been controlled and were awaiting their fate!

"Reporting, Lord Dugu, we have found the mutated gas, but… according to our observations, we may not be able to remove it at the moment!"

Upon seeing Dugu Tianfeng and the others, an officer stepped forward first, saluted, and said to Dugu Tianfeng.

"What's the reason?"

Dugu Tianfeng asked.

"There is a detonating device inside the canister. Once we trigger it, it will explode immediately. At that time, the mutated gas inside will leak out!"

The officer replied:

"Currently, we don't know how fast this gas spreads, so even if we shut down the air exchange system, we wouldn't dare to take the risk!"

"Is this it?"

Dugu Tianfeng came to a metal wall and looked at several canisters embedded in it.

"Yes! They are very clever. They directly hid the canisters in the wall, restored the outside, and you can't see any traces of repair at all! If we hadn't asked our brothers over there in detail, I'm afraid it would have taken us a long time to find this thing!"

The officer replied:

"And that detonating device has many ways to detonate it: slight vibration, horizontal imbalance, identity verification failure, etc. As long as one of them is triggered, the gas tank will explode!"

Listening to their words, Li Chenzhou curiously came to the front of the canister and looked at it carefully. Because they saw him walking side by side with Dugu Tianfeng, no one stopped him.

But what they didn't expect was that Li Chenzhou, who was looking at the canister of mutated gas with his hands behind his back, suddenly reached out and pressed his hand on the canister, which scared the hell out of those people…