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Chapter 313: Chapter 313: Discovery Chapter 313: Chapter 313: Discovery Lilina found a larch growing nearby and then placed her palm on the trunk. She closed her eyes and started sensing the life fluctuations within the entire campus; this process didn’t take much time. After ten seconds, she suddenly opened her eyes, “She’s no longer within the search range. It seems that besides that space transmitter, God knows what, she had prepared quite a few escape methods for herself.”

I could only sigh slightly at this outcome.

I had been far too careless.

If I had taken it seriously, an opponent even several times stronger wouldn’t have been able to easily escape from me.

Speaking of which, letting Medusa escape right before my eyes was due to my negligence. I had rashly assumed that she had no power to resist left, and I also hadn’t regarded ordinary Earth superpower users as real opponents. Surprisingly, I was even caught off guard by Frost Nova. What a fail.

It seems in the end, Lin Xue’s foreboding crow’s mouth did come true. I actually suffered a setback at the hands of an ordinary superpower user. If the Prophet, who claims to “know everything and can do anything,” knew about this, it would probably become his pastime to stave off boredom for the next half a month. And considering Lin Xue’s nasty character, that estimation even included a conservative measure after considering humanitarian and humanistic care…

While I was feeling depressed about it, Lilina suddenly started yelling excitedly, “Wait… Boss, there’s more hey!”

“More discoveries?”

My eyes lit up, and I immediately chose to ignore that misfit title of “Boss” from a certain Fake Loli.

“Underground!” Lilina’s eyes shone with a crystalline magic glow under the night sky. Though I knew that was a normal phenomenon after using a spell, I still decided to quietly snark about those night-vision functioning eyes, “There’s something underground, completely hollow at a depth of over two hundred meters!”

Over two hundred meters deep? That certainly ruled out any school-related underground structures, because from all perspectives, a school would definitely not be crazy enough to dig a basement two hundred meters deep, right?

That depth already belonged to something more absurd than a war refuge.

“Can you find an entrance?” I asked, looking at the Fake Loli who was still standing with her palm on the tree trunk, her eyes glowing.

“Most of the small animals down there are already hibernating,” Lilina withdrew her palm and shook her head at me, “Getting them to report on their surrounding habitats was already not easy. Do you expect those lazy bones to run up a few kilometers to find an entrance for you? You know, any creature that can live at a depth of two hundred meters underground is basically at a certain level of laziness…”

I suddenly became curious about whom exactly Lilina had been asking for directions from two hundred meters underground.

“I definitely can’t return without giving it another shot, and since that woman has stayed at this school for a week, it wouldn’t be surprising if she had discovered something. Delaying might mean losing something crucial, but calling a team of Xyrin Engineers to demolish this school doesn’t seem quite appropriate either…”

Lilina walked up to me, nibbling at her fingernails while muttering to herself, then she suddenly raised a hand, pointing at a recently completely ignored Passerby A and called out imperiously like a spoiled princess, “Loser! Come here!”

And then, Liu Fan obediently came over.

Would you put up some resistance, please! Don’t just smile helplessly with an older brother’s indulgence for an ignorant younger sister because she’s a Loli and then come running over grinning! Do you even realize that this seemingly innocent and willful little girl is actually an obnoxious old woman inside, huh!!!

Lilina immediately shot me a dangerous look, her mouth making crunching noises.

What are you looking at! At least I was careful not to broadcast this to everyone!

Lilina: “I can guess what you’re thinking just by your expression.”

“Me?” Liu Fan jogged over, flashing his trademark silly smile, while scratching the back of his head, his face still somewhat radiant.

I guess after the initial horror, this guy must be feeling somewhat thrilled by experiencing such surreal events? Despite being a mere background character, maybe he still possesses a normal youthful spirit?

“Yes, calling you,” Lilina tried hard to look up, maintaining eye contact with him. At that moment, I involuntarily thought of a certain Loli with a longstanding grievance about her height; if it was Pandora, that ordinary boy named Liu Fan would probably be ordered to kneel while responding, “Do you know if this school has any mysterious, never-before-opened underground warehouses or something like that?”

“This… I don’t think so…”

“The strictly prohibited old basement for students?”

“Nope.”

“The oak panel secured with huge chains on the ground of the underground parking lot?”

“Even less likely…”

“How about the heavy iron door that is layered with locks, with suspicious red traces and rusted rivets, and always emits a sharp noise like fingernails scraping glass at midnight?”

“…There’s no way that exists…”

I feel like the conversation has strayed from the original topic.

“None of that either…” Lilina tilted her head, biting her finger with an innocently deceitful expression, “Then surely your teaching building must have a secret door labeled ‘Umbrella’? A corridor marked ‘NEST’? A wooden door bound with yellowing talisman paper and straw rope? Walls with blood-red text and abstract graffiti? An old chandelier that swings gently on windless nights and an ancient mirror next to it reflecting the chandelier? And…”

“Ow, that hurts!”

I withdrew my hand chop, with a stern voice, “Are you here to make trouble or to make trouble?”

Lilina scoffed disdainfully, “Just found it funny to tease this useless guy a bit…”

Well, as much as I hate to admit it, Lilina, you’re spot on…

As I was pondering whether to call the Twin Sisters now to escort us down, Anwina suddenly spoke up timidly, “Master, maybe I should go take a look?”

…I had completely forgotten that we had a supernatural being whose Race was a ghost among us.

Two hundred meters underground was certainly not a problem for us, but excavating that deep a zone without alarming ordinary people seemed impossible. However, for Anwina who could spiritualize, it was just a dimly lit tunnel.

It took less than ten seconds for the Little Ghost to successfully reach the hollow underground area and then she shared her vision with us.

What came into view was a corridor filled with blue halos.

In fact, this long-abandoned corridor of course wouldn’t have any blue halos; it only appeared so because there was no light underground, thus in Anwina’s ghostly vision, the corridor took on this spooky, suspense-filled appearance.

“It looks like a research base. How cliche.”

Due to the lighting, this half-collapsed corridor appeared somewhat distorted in my eyes. The walls were crisscrossed with cracks, half of the ceiling had fallen to the floor exposing numerous pipes and cables, and on either side of the corridor were many rooms with metallic nameplates. With my poor English vocabulary, I could make out only the words “Sample Room.”

“Sample room, laboratory, observation room, resident’s rest area, toolroom…”

Lilina was translating at the same speed that Anwina was sharing her vision–was she subtly mocking me this way?

“Phew… Looking at those equipment nameplates, this underground base must be at least twenty years old and built by foreigners. It’s probably some organization or something. It’s aggravating to think that after being abandoned for so many years, we stumbled upon it by sheer coincidence, but…” Lilina rubbed her eyes, not quite accustomed to sharing Anwina’s vision, “let’s leave it to the Superpower Team or some other official force to handle. They are surely experienced in dealing with illegal organizations abroad,”

“So, was Medusa looking for this underground base? Thank goodness she hasn’t found the entrance yet–though it’s possible that the entrance has already disappeared in a collapse,” I muttered to myself, gradually growing puzzled, “Strange, why would this place collapse? If they had the capability to build a research base 200 meters underground, it shouldn’t fall apart due to building quality issues, right?”

“There was a small-scale earthquake here once,” Lilina recalled her time at this school, “The above-ground buildings weren’t too severely damaged, but it seems the underground upheavals were greater… It’s also possible that the collapse of this base triggered that small-scale earthquake…”

As Lilina and I discussed, Anwina was still navigating through the maze-like corridors, not an easy task as some sections were completely buried under fallen soil. She had to rely on her ghostly nature to glide through this eerie place freely. The base’s collapse seemed not to have been sudden, allowing ample time for the personnel to evacuate; the Little Ghost entered several research rooms which looked relatively intact, but almost everything had been cleared out. After about ten minutes, we still hadn’t found any substantial clues.

“Master! There’s someone ahead!”

Just when I was about to give up and plan to bring a battalion of “Lost Shadow” tomorrow for a thorough carpet search, Anwina suddenly exclaimed. (To be continued. For more details, please visit www.NovelFire.net, more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!)

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