With one hand shoved in his pocket, Bat led the way. The surrounding researchers seemed terrified of him, hastily parting to make way.
The two stopped in front of a room. Bat punched in a passcode to unlock the door, and Yu Xian followed him inside. The door suddenly slid shut behind them on its own, giving Yu Xian a start.
Just then, the overhead lights flickered on, revealing a room packed with corpses preserved in formalin.
Holy crap!
It was the first time Yu Xian had ever seen so many varied corpses, and his hair nearly stood on end from fright. Right at that moment, Bat turned around. Even though Yu Xian could easily obliterate Bat with a single punch, Bat seemed utterly terrifying in his eyes right now.
What kind of twisted freak was this guy?
Bat raised a hand. Yu Xian stepped back warily. "What do you want?"
"Zhong Wuliang's corpse," Bat reminded him with a helpless sigh.
Yu Xian came to his senses and hastily retrieved the storage ring, handing it over. Bat took the ring, walked over to an examination table, slipped it onto his finger, and pulled Zhong Wuliang's corpse from the space inside.
Seeing Zhong Wuliang's charred, mangled remains, Bat let out a faint sigh. He picked up a syringe from the workbench behind him, prepared a dose, and injected the solution into the corpse.
Next, he produced a yellow talisman, slapped it onto Zhong Wuliang's forehead, and pressed a button on the side of the table. A transparent film instantly sealed over the body.
"What's that for?" Yu Xian leaned in and asked curiously.
Bat answered calmly, "I injected a tiny amount of corpse qi concoction. Over the next twenty-four hours, his corpse will undergo zombification. During that process, his cells will automatically repair damaged tissue, especially the meridians saturated with corpse qi. By analyzing the concentration of corpse qi, we can determine their strength, allowing us to reconstruct his meridian cultivation pathway."
"Isn't that too dangerous?" Yu Xian asked with a frown.
Bat replied placidly, "No experiment is ever a hundred percent safe. Besides, this is headquarters!"
True enough!
When Yu Xian thought about it, headquarters was packed with top experts; a little zombie couldn't make any waves here.
Actually, if he just took a sip of Zhong Wuliang's blood, he could easily obtain the Eight Treasures Elephant-Suppressing Art from his memories. But Zhong Wuliang had been blown to bits, and the corpse was far too disgusting for him to stomach putting his mouth on it.
Besides, the Eight Treasures Elephant-Suppressing Art wasn't even that important to him.
Most important of all, he truly had zero desire to look through the memories of a burly old man who lived alone in the wilderness. The Slashing Mantis's memories had been gross enough; he felt Zhong Wuliang's would undoubtedly be even worse.
For all those reasons, Yu Xian chose not to drink Zhong Wuliang's blood, sparing his mind from contamination.
Bat slipped off the ring and returned it to Yu Xian. "You came to Yanjing to visit Jin Sheng, right?"
"Yeah, but it's too late tonight. I plan to visit the captain tomorrow morning," Yu Xian nodded.
Bat walked over to a sink, washed his hands, and asked neutrally, "Should I walk you out?"
"No need, I'll look around headquarters first," Yu Xian declined.
He still planned to leave some spatial bubbles around headquarters before departing.
"Then... suit yourself?"
Bat hesitated for a second before nodding.
"Okay, see you."
Yu Xian nodded and turned to the door. As it slid open automatically, he bolted out like a streak of smoke. This room was way too creepy and suffocating; staying even one second longer was mental torture.
Afterward, he wandered around the first floor, tucking spatial bubbles into discreet corners.
"Holy crap, Salty Fish!"
Suddenly, a familiar voice called out.
Yu Xian looked up and saw Ether turning to run. A grin spread across his face, and he immediately tried to use the Spatial Jump Art to catch up, but this time, the Spatial Jump Art failed.
Belatedly, he realized that Qilin Headquarters probably had some sort of formation or barrier that forbade spatial teleportation.
Wait, didn't that mean planting his spatial bubbles was completely pointless?
Yu Xian promptly commanded a spatial bubble to expand, stepped inside, and in an instant found himself behind the double bench on the 36th Ring Road. He glanced up at the pitch-black sky, then teleported right back into Qilin Headquarters.
It seemed this space-blocking capability couldn't prevent his spatial bubbles from working!
The moment he teleported back into Qilin Headquarters, he saw Ether's broad face pressed right against the bubble, staring at him as if he were an immortal descended to earth.
"Salty Fish, how did you do that?" Ether asked gravely.
Seeing how dead serious he was, Yu Xian put on an innocent look. "How did I do what?"
"That was spatial teleportation just now, wasn't it?" Ether asked with an exaggerated expression.
Yu Xian nodded. Ether instantly leaped into the air, yelling in agitation, "Do you have any idea how many layers of formations and barriers lock down the space at headquarters? Forget you—even if a Dragon-rank big shot came, they couldn't dream of using spatial abilities here! Not even divine artifacts could teleport in or out! You... you... you... Holy hell, this is huge news!"
Then Ether let out a booming shout, and soon enough, Qilin security personnel swarmed around from all sides.
Half an hour later.
Yu Xian and Ether sat in the director's office. Yu Lie and the others stood in a circle staring at Yu Xian, while Xiao Cheng took the opportunity to vigorously ruffle Yu Xian's hair into a messy mop.
"Xiao Yu, try teleporting once more," Yu Lie said, looking at him.
Looking innocent, Yu Xian gave a meek "Oh," conjured a spatial bubble, and vanished through it in a flash, teleporting back to his home in Silver City.
He patted his chest. That had scared him half to death.
The last time he had felt under so much pressure was... well, the last time.
A moment later, his phone buzzed. Yu Lie had sent him a message telling him to get back immediately.
"Sigh, what must come will come; if it's a disaster, there's no dodging it."
Yu Xian sighed, wearing a bitter grimace as he teleported back into Yu Lie's office.
"Good kid! This ability... I honestly don't even know what to say," Yu Lie said with a laugh, clapping Yu Xian on the shoulder in sheer admiration.
Xiao Cheng analyzed, "Xiao Yu's spatial bubbles likely contain an interior space unaffected by external space. It's essentially an extraordinarily high-grade, self-contained space of its own, which is why he can teleport freely within it."
"Then could we use this principle to develop more stable teleportation formations?" a bald powerhouse chimed in.
The room immediately erupted into a lively debate. At the same time, they discussed how to handle Yu Xian's situation. After all, his ability was an absolute cheat code—it effectively allowed him to come and go from headquarters completely undetected and unhindered.
In the end, Yu Lie brought down the gavel and made the final call.
Yu Lie chuckled. "Xiao Yu, I'll allow you to place bubbles in headquarters, but the locations must be decided by me. No planting them secretly."
"Yes, sir!" Yu Xian puffed out his chest and agreed immediately.
Xiao Cheng swatted the back of Yu Xian's head with a grin. "Don't even think about pulling any sneaky tricks. I'll have security do a daily sweep from now on; your bubbles won't escape their notice."
"I promise I won't secretly place any bubbles," Yu Xian said, beads of sweat popping on his cheek as he gave his word.
Even though, for a split second just now, he had genuinely contemplated sneaking in a few extra...
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