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Chapter 206: Daybreak (Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 206: Chapter 206: Daybreak (Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets)

He Ao did not make a move, but instead let out a soft cough, as fresh blood seeped from his wound.

Thud—thud—thud—

Enormous sounds came from beyond the metal door, indicating that some irritable creature with many tentacles was ’knocking’.

The person behind him did not speak but stopped at a certain distance from He Ao. That intense rigidity, tinged with a hint of fatigue, began to assault He Ao’s consciousness.

He Ao felt himself gradually losing control over his body.

He struggled to turn around and look behind him. What came into view was a man dressed in pure black, with a face as sharp as if it had been carved by a knife.

Naturally, He Ao recognized this man—it was the ’Tomb Guardian’ who had encountered the Speech Master on the ship.

The Tomb Guardian looked at He Ao with an icy gaze, clenching in his hand a crystal ball about ten centimeters in diameter, swirling with deep purple mist inside.

Two giant wolves with brown fur, each about two meters long, stood quietly behind the Tomb Guardian.

He Ao had crossed paths with these wolves on the way here; they were D-level pack animals, and He Ao had detoured around their habitat under the guidance of ’Liu Nan’.

At that moment, the two wolves following the Tomb Guardian seemed to have lost their vitality and appeared like corpses reanimated under someone else’s control.

This ’Tomb Guardian’ might, like those Great Octopuses, possess some ability to control the dead.

Judging from the previous encounter with the Giant Lizard, these already dead ’giant wolves’ might not be weaker than when they were alive, and because they did not fear pain, they could be even more difficult to fight.

Being able to easily control two D-level giant wolves, the ’Tomb Guardian’ before him was naturally not just an ordinary ’E-level’ Special Appointed Researcher.

He Ao felt his body growing stiffer and stiffer. With difficulty, he turned around, his back against the wall, and relied on the cold metal to prop himself up.

He looked at the man in front of him, "Let me guess who you work for,"

He paused, then with a smile looked at the man’s face, "Daybreak?"

As he uttered these two words, the man’s expression subtly changed.

It seemed he had guessed correctly.

He Ao felt a sense of relief in his heart.

This wasn’t a difficult guess, as Daybreak had previously tried to kidnap Liu Nan.

While the kidnapping of Liu Nan might seem like a simple ransom case, if one considers that Liu Nan’s father, Liu Zhengyun, happened to be the discoverer of this ruin and held an entry slot, the situation becomes clear.

Daybreak intended to use Liu Nan as leverage to compel Liu Zhengyun to provide them with access to the ruin.

However, the plan ultimately failed due to He Ao’s intervention, and Daybreak completely offended Liu Zhengyun, thus they could no longer obtain an entry slot from him.

Therefore, they had to find another way.

Infiltrating the tightly organized ranks of official researchers was not easy, but slipping into the more loosely managed Special Appointed Researchers wasn’t as hard. Moreover, the Tomb Guardian had likely not recently become one among them; he was probably a ’Dark Seed’ of Daybreak.

However, going through the Research Institute’s channels was much more troublesome than going through Liu Zhengyun. Anything taken out of the ruin had to undergo the Research Institute’s inspection.

Hence, Daybreak was probably prepared for both eventualities: if the kidnapping of Liu Nan succeeded, they would go through Liu Zhengyun; if it failed, they would proceed via the Special Appointed Researcher at the Research Institute.

In conclusion, Daybreak was logically the most likely entity behind the scenes,

But all these clues were limited to He Ao’s own knowledge, so he could only speculate.

Clearly, based on the ’Tomb Guardian’s’ behavior, He Ao’s speculation was not far off.

At this moment, He Ao and the ’Tomb Guardian’ were in a delicate balance. He Ao, with his serious injuries, found it difficult to move, while the Tomb Guardian, wary of He Ao’s combat prowess against those tentacled adversaries, maintained his distance, attempting to use some ability to gain control over He Ao.

After He Ao pierced through his identity, the Tomb Guardian’s expression changed subtly, but he did not speak; instead, he quickened his movements to control He Ao.

He Ao felt the stiffness intensifying as his legs started to lose sensation, and the purple smoke within the Crystal Ball that the ’Tomb Guardian’ was holding began to flicker rapidly.

So it’s the external force of the Crystal Ball.

From the guarded expression of the ’Tomb Guardian’ and his hand movements, He Ao had a rough estimate of the Tomb Guardian’s strength.

"Your plan was perfect," he said looking at the Tomb Guardian, with a slight chuckle, "but guess why I’m here?"

The Tomb Guardian’s hand movements paused, and he looked at He Ao with a mixture of shock and suspicion.

Their plan was top secret; only a few within the Daybreak organization knew, and there was no record of this tower in the Research Institute’s files, let alone the Central Control Room. In this era where information about relics was scarce, the mere existence of the tower was a secret.

He Ao’s words threw all his thoughts into disarray.

Had the Research Institute discovered this tower? Or was there a traitor within the organization?

If Daybreak could plant a mole in the Research Institute, then the Research Institute could plant one in Daybreak as well.

Is it possible that I’m the only one who isn’t a traitor within the organization?

The probability was extremely low, but it wasn’t impossible.

His emotional turmoil was only momentary, and he quickly regained his composure. He was at an advantage, while He Ao was at a disadvantage. As long as he remained stable and took full control over He Ao, killing the fellow, it wouldn’t matter how he had come here.

Even if there was a mole, it would naturally be investigated by someone within the organization.

However, as he made sense of this, he suddenly felt a piercing pain coming from his chest.

A pure white bone sword had impaled his heart, and blood with a faint purple glow splashed out, spraying across the bloodstained and grimy cheeks of the young man opposite him.

"You got distracted."

He Ao slowly withdrew the sword from the ’Tomb Guardian’s’ chest.

Bright red blood surged like a fountain.

On such a battlefield, even the slightest distraction could be the difference between life and death.

He Ao deactivated his Super Memory; at this moment his Dantian was empty, the last trace of Qi completely depleted. That one strike had used all his strength, breaking through the paralyzing control in a flash, and he had made a sudden, explosive attack.

This is Martial Arts—life and death hang on a single sword stroke.

After the ’Tomb Guardian’ fell, the two ferocious Giant Wolves also slowly collapsed. They hadn’t even made a move, and the battle was over.

The Tomb Guardian’s strength was likely at the peak of D-level, not quite C-level.

After making sure the Tomb Guardian was dead, He Ao staggered to his knees, gasping for air.

This battle really was never-ending.

He gasped for quite a while and then sat there weakly on his knees, maintaining this posture for a long time.

No one took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on him.

He had just fought intensely, demonstrating extreme weakness, which was typically the best chance for a sneak attack. Since no one attacked him, there probably wasn’t anyone else around.

He Ao reactivated his Super Memory, scanning the area to confirm there were no others, and then reached out slowly to pry the Crystal Ball from the Tomb Guardian’s hand.

The Tomb Guardian might have been D-level, but this Crystal Ball was likely a C-level Transcendent item.