Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!
Chapter 66 - 66 66 The Harsh Reality

66: Chapter 66 The Harsh Reality 66: Chapter 66 The Harsh Reality “Finally, I’ve broken through the level cap, and I can happily level up.”

Heaving a sigh of relief, Yang Yu opened the device’s glass panel and reached into the lukewarm stream.

The moment he touched the Plant Clan’s Racial Essence, a robust power of life surged into Yang Yu’s body, and his lost HP started to visibly recover at a noticeable speed.

As he took the Racial Essence out of the tank, suddenly the entire room rang out with a deafening alarm, and the wall above the entrance began to close slowly downward.

As expected, they weren’t going to let us get away with it that easily.

But…

With the rate that you’re falling, who do you think you’re underestimating!

Yang Yu didn’t mean to criticize, but the descending speed of that wall was as slow as a toddling baby, almost as if they were just toying with him.

If it were Yang Yu’s design, the moment someone picked up the Racial Essence, a giant stone would fall from the sky, sealing the entrance shut, leaving the thieves to starve and wail within.

Yang Yu could tell that this place truly had never been burglarized before.

“Bai Jin, use ‘Ice Cone Skill’ and ‘Frost Ice Arrow’ on the door crack, freeze it!”

The sudden alarm startled Bai Jin, but upon hearing Yang Yu’s command, she quickly adjusted her mindset and started chanting magic, freezing the door crack.

Although ice crystals are fragile, they are more than enough to temporarily jam a door.

“Bai Jin, step back.”

Yang Yu carelessly tossed the Racial Essence into the system and then took out a large hammer.

He smashed it down on the container with force.

Glass shattered instantly, and the golden liquid sprayed out, clattering to the ground with the broken glass, creating a golden river.

After securing the hammer, he took out a coarse sack.

Yang Yu stuffed the elf into it, slung it over his shoulder, and turned to run.

At that moment, a hidden passageway appeared in another wall, and a balding man in white clothes stood trembling at the forefront, followed by several young people also dressed in white.

These people were researchers from the Secret Weapon Research Department.

When they heard the highest-level alarm, they hurriedly sent the completed drugs into the secret storage area for safekeeping.

But afterward, they faced a disagreement on whether they should seek shelter.

Some believed that the intruders were after data and would not invade this area, advocating a calm observation of the situation; others thought that although the intruders might be after the data, they could very likely come here after the heist seeking an extra bounty, considering it extremely dangerous to remain and risking interrogation, thus they must evacuate.

There were also several direct descendants of the Lianzi family in the Secret Weapon Research Department, and they were firm in the evacuation group.

They were well aware of Bu Yao’s strength, and if that esteemed person couldn’t handle it, then their intervention would be useless.

While the researchers were arguing endlessly, a dull explosion sound resonated through the entire room.

The explosion was so close it felt as if someone had blasted the doors of the drug research department.

Several researchers didn’t care to wait anymore, thinking, “Since the drugs have already been placed in the secret facility and even if the intruders are very skilled, they can’t possibly find the mechanism to enter the secret storage room on completely smooth walls,” they simply opened the hidden door and took refuge inside.

Seeing others taking shelter, the remaining researchers stopped arguing and immediately followed the few researchers’ lead, hiding in the shelter together.

They were just researchers, mere weaklings with a combat power of only five, wanting only to conduct their research in peace, not to be involved in conflicts.

The neighboring research department once had a mishap; the doors of this department weren’t properly closed, and as a result, a Steel Dragon Wolf took advantage of the gap.

A full hundred researchers were helpless, forced to watch as half of the staff met their untimely demise.

No one wanted to see history repeat itself, and due to the special nature of the pharmaceutical research facility, they couldn’t hire black workers for protection.

They were only able to add an extra door for security.

But that security door was only effective against Steel Dragon Wolves, which couldn’t solve puzzles.

Even a nine-year-old child could complete a puzzle, so naturally, it couldn’t stop a grown adult.

“Everything’s fine, all the items have been put in the secret storage room.

Even if they try to find it, there’s no way they can,” with this stroke of luck in mind, all the researchers huddled together in the secret passageway, praying silently for the ordeal to quickly pass and for someone to joyfully inform them that the matter had been resolved, and that the intruder wasn’t so terrible after all.

However, while the imagination is beautiful, reality is harsh.

One alarm was followed by another, a distinctly different alarm.

It was the alarm for the theft of the Plant Clan’s Racial Essence, the most crucial material within the research facility.

Somebody had breached the secret location and even taken the Plant Essence!

No one could accept this; it was one of the Lianzi family’s most precious treasures, and the most valuable research material- how could they allow it to fall into someone else’s hands?

Several members of the Lianzi family immediately stood up, grabbed a nearly bald uncle as a human shield, and opened the secret passageway.

It wasn’t because they were truly worried about the family’s interests being damaged, but because they feared being punished by the family if the item was lost.

At this moment, they had no choice but to act, willing or not.

First, go out and scout the situation.

If the opponent isn’t strong, overpower them and snatch back the item; if strong, sacrifice one or two people to tell their family that it wasn’t for a lack of effort, but because the opponent was too strong.

They had truly tried their best, and a direct confrontation would only increase the family’s losses.

Unfortunately, the moment they emerged, they saw Yang Yu carrying a large sack.

This young man didn’t seem any different from other youths to the researchers- they simply couldn’t believe he could crack the mechanisms of the secret storage room.

But the reality stood before their eyes, and they had to believe it.

Yang Yu smiled at them, kindly reminding, “Next time, make sure the mechanisms are designed better.

Otherwise, it’s easy to attract thieves.”

With that, Yang Yu, accompanied by Bai Jin, swiftly moved past the workbench, climbed up the ladder, and vanished like smoke.

What the #@%@&@*!&#@!

The researchers spat out profanities, caught between chasing after him and staying put, utterly at a loss.

Back on the first floor, He Meng had already been waiting for a long time, with several damp pages around him.

Initially, He Meng had no intention of heeding Yang Yu’s command.

He only followed it because he was too well-fed and idle.

He had already eaten supper but could not resist the temptation and ate a big Clover Tree, making himself overly full.

With no other choice, he had to move around.

He reached the Secret Weapon Research Department through the ventilation shaft.

Now that all the research department’s staff had evacuated, the facility was empty, with only jars containing Steel Dragon Wolf embryos around.

Looking at these jars, a sense of unexplained anger welled up in He Meng’s heart.

He had watched Yang Yu’s entire battle with the Steel Dragon Wolves.

Those Steel Dragon Wolves didn’t deserve to be called creatures; there was no desire for survival in their eyes, only slaughter and hatred, longing to tear apart any lifeform before them.

In the end, He Meng created a cacophony, shattering all the incubation containers and taking away the research materials stored in the cabinets.

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