Chapter 164
Chapter 164: Blood Colored ‘h.e.l.l’ [Part 1]
Right now young master Lung was very happy. This was something both Cillin and the gray cat knew with their eyes closed. In short, young master Lung hadn’t stopped laughing ever since he started conning Pillar.
The drinks served by the robots were plenty, but there were none of young master Lung’s wine collection and mostly plain water. It was probably because he thought that it would just be a waste to serve them the good stuff.
While Cillin was flipping through some of the information of Sector S, the gray cat was licking its mouth more and more frequently. The light in its eyes was too obvious, so to prevent suspicion Cillin had it close its eyes and pretend to be asleep. On the surface, it looked just as harmless as a normal cat pet.
The more he talked with Lung, the more Big Beard Pillar was certain that he had run into a foolish rich young master who had came out for an adventure. Pillar’s thought right now was more or less the same as his subordinates’. They looked at Cillin and Lung and felt that they were not a threat. On one hand there was a foolish rich young master with a simple mind, and on the other there was an honest-looking simpleton who didn’t know how to socialise. Adding to that a cat of boring gray color, they seriously did not appear as a threat at all.
While Big Beard Pillar continued to listen to Lung’s brags while wearing a smile on his face, he made a seemingly careless hand gesture behind his back. The people who were sitting at the table and drinking their served drinks also gave each other meaningful looks.
Big Beard Pillar’s smile grew more and more sinister, but as if he had noticed nothing Lung continued to talk to himself without being affected at all. It was only until Pillar took out his gun and pointed it at Lung’s skull that he finally came to a stop. He blinked at Pillar, seemingly asking what exactly did he mean by the gesture.
When Big Beard Pillar took out his gun, the rest of the people also took out theirs and pointed them at Cillin and the surroundings robots. They had thought that the robots would react to them, but against expectations the robots never brandished any weapons and never shedded the sweet smiles on their faces. The robots holding trays did not put down their trays as well.
"What should I say, young master?" Pillar clicked his tongue and sneered as he kept his muzzle trained towards Lung, "It’s just too wasteful to leave such a nice stars.h.i.+p in the hands of two naughty kids."
"Er&h.e.l.lip; Mister, what are you doing? We did save your life you know." Lung said with an innocent expression on his face.
On Cillin’s shoulders, the gray cat rolled its eyes at Lung. Let’s see how long you can keep this act up.
"Yeah, we thank you for saving our lives. So in order to show you our thanks, why don’t you relinquish your lives."
"This stars.h.i.+p only listens to my order." Lung declared his own value.
But Big Beard Pillar obviously did not plan to leave behind any survivors. Just as he was about to shoot, an isolating cover rose from the bottom of the ground and trapped him inside. The people around Pillar were also trapped in isolating covers one by one.
Cillin never moved. This was a game Lung had thought up to pa.s.s the time in boredom, so he wasn’t going to stop him from having his fun. However, after the isolating cover had risen the gray cat abruptly jumped down from Cillin’s shoulders. It stretched its limbs and began to run towards the pa.s.sage. There was one remaining prey that had hidden himself there and hadn’t shown up. This amount of trapped people should be enough for Lung to enjoy himself, so he had no need to s.n.a.t.c.h the remaining prey from it.
While watching the gray cat running out of the room, Lung waved a hand for the robots do their own things. They did not look like a threat at all.
Standing up from the chair, Lung stretched his body and looked at the people trapped inside the isolating covers while standing on his slippers. Someone opened fire at the isolating covers, but the energy had rebounded back to their own bodies instead. Three people were killed by the rebounding energies of their own guns. Pillar had obviously seen something similar before and thus had not opened fire carelessly. Seeing the death of his three pioneering subordinates, he gave up on shooting and pondered on another way to break out of the situation. At the same time, he called out to Lung to contend with him.
When Pillar and the rest had walked down from their s.p.a.ceplane and fighters and pa.s.sed through the pa.s.sageway, the scanner had ordered them to put down the weapons with high offensive power such as grenades etc. They were only allowed to bring their guns and some other small tools. Judging from the current situation, it would appear that this young master was prepared.
Lung was obviously not as friendly as they had first imagined. With a harmless smile, he walked before one of Pillar’s subordinates, took out a controller and pressed a b.u.t.ton. Water began to pour into the isolating cover until it reached the person’s neck. There were also a few thin strips of tiny insects that had flowed into the cover along with the water. It was a kind of blood sucking insect.
When they smelled the scent of blood, the thin insects appeared to be incredibly excited. It swiftly clung onto that person’s skin, and they could not be removed no matter how hard he tried to wipe them off his body. The only choice of removal was to shed a layer of skin. As the thin insects continued to suck in blood, the person’s resistance gradually began to weaken. His face turned pale white and bloodless, and he even looked like he would shrivel up like a prune. The thin insects now looked several times thicker and completely red.
The rest of the people trapped inside the isolating covers panicked. But no matter what they said, no matter how loud they begged, and no matter how high the price they offered for mercy, Lung showed no signs of changing his mind at all.
Once the first person was sucked dry, the second person followed, the third&h.e.l.lip; The fifth person began to tremble when he saw Lung standing in front of him, and when the isolating cover became filled with water he shot himself right away. If he was going to die regardless, then he might as well die quicker. At least he wouldn’t need to experience the fear of having his life being slowly sucked dry.
The insects did not give up even though he killed himself though. They stopped only when the body had been sucked dry.
Lung did not immediately press the b.u.t.ton when he stood in front of the sixth person. Instead he said, "I’m giving you a chance. If you can make me happy, then I will let you go. This young master never goes back on his words."
"What&h.e.l.lip; what do you want to know?" the person said with a trembling voice.
"Some unofficial news of Sector S, for example. This is the first time we arrive at Sector S after all, and we heard that Sector S is going to be pretty lively this time."
That person told him a lot of things, but there was not even one truly valuable information.
"Sigh, I’m so sorry." Lung pressed the b.u.t.ton.
The interrogation continued over ten or so people, but he discovered that the useful information he obtained was just too little. He only learned that they had turned against ‘Heaven’s Jail’ due to a certain box. Someone had offered a high price for that box, going as far as to pay half the rewards in advance. This was also why Pillar was able to convince so many people to rebel with him. However, Pillar was the only one who knew who the buyer was. The rest of them simply followed according to his plans.
As for the box, Pillar was the one who had been holding it all the time. The rest of them did not know where it was.
"Where is the box?" Lung stood in front of Pillar’s isolating cover and
"It’s on the s.p.a.ceplane." Pillar said with a heavy voice. Seeing Lung’s disbelief, Pillar tore his own jacket and revealed some tentacle-like things looped round and round his torso. When the long tentacles were extended, his obese figure suddenly pulled thin to reveal his original size. There was nothing there. It would seem that the box really wasn’t on his person.
Cillin stared at Big Beard Pillar. Here’s another non-average human being that he had never seen before. However, Pillar might not specifically belong to a particular race either, since there were all kinds of bizarre people in the entire galaxy. What puzzled Cillin however, was that he kept feeling that there was something on Big Beard’s body.
Lung glanced at Pillar’s open tentacles and said disdainfully, "I can’t believe you have the galls to show off such low grade tentacles. You better be telling the truth, or your death will not be pretty."
"It’s your choice whether to believe me." Big Beard’s eyes were dark and gloomy.
Lung walked towards outside as he juggled with the controller for fun. He was probably going to where Pillar and his crew had parked their s.p.a.ceplane.
While Lung was walking towards outside, Pillar glanced at Cillin who was still sitting on his chair and paying them no attention. He hesitated for a moment, but determination quickly reentered his eyes and filled them with ruthlessness.
Each of the two tentacles hidden deep inside his pants were holding a tube-shaped object. When the objects touched the isolating cover, the head of the two small tubes suddenly sprayed out red light. It was the light of high intensity cutting energy.
Peng!
The isolating cover was broken, and Pillar swiftly pounced towards Lung’s direction. But before he could open fire, he had already taken a shot to his head. The beautiful robot girl holding a tray continued to smile as a gun barrel at her elbow slowly withdrew back into its compartment. Soon, she looked just like before.
Lung’s footsteps never stopped. He never turned around to look at Pillar.
Translator’s Notes: Busy this week, the next and the next so my meme brain is about as dead as it gets.
Chapter 164: Blood Colored ‘h.e.l.l’ [Part 2]
Cillin frowned as he looked at Pillar lying on the ground.
Speaking of the one subordinate Pillar left behind on the s.p.a.ceplane, he was one unlucky fellow. Like a mouse, he was toyed with by the gray cat until he was half dead. Lung only saw a hole on the s.p.a.ceplane when he reached it. Its door was obviously locked behind multiple encryptions. Instead of wasting his energy decrypting them, he ordered his robot to cut it open directly by force. An ear-piercing alarm resounded on the s.p.a.ceplane.
When Lung saw the gray cat and the last remaining person, said person was about to go insane. He shrank back into a corner and muttered gibberish non-stop.
Seeing that the gray cat had lost its interest, Lung ordered his robot to drag away that fellow and dispose of him. He then began to perform a search on the s.p.a.ceplane.
"What are you looking for?" the gray cat crouched on the back of a chair, licked its paws and asked.
"I’m looking for some good stuff!"
"Good stuff?" the gray cat probed around once more, but there really wasn’t anything else worth its attention other than the energy blocks. However, even these energy blocks were just your average energy blocks and far incomparable to those special energy blocks the Sixth B Squadron found. Therefore, the gray cat simply let out a yawn and said lazily, "Well, good luck."
When he heard the gray cat’s words, Lung came to a pause and looked at the gray cat walking away with a raised tail. He stopped looking and followed the gray cat’s exit.
"Why have you stopped looking?" the gray cat asked.
"There probably isn’t anything too valuable in there."
When Lung and the gray cat returned to the control room, the men who had their blood sucked dry were shot out into s.p.a.ce along with their isolating covers, followed up by a gorgeous explosion. However, Pillar’s dead body was left behind.
"What is it?" Lung asked. He had instructed his robot to dispose all of the bodies here. But why had they left Pillar behind?
"I told her not to dispose Pillar yet." Cillin put down the object in his hands and walked over.
"What did you find out?"
"I don’t know. I just feel like there should be something to be gained."
Cillin had just finished speaking when the gray cat let out an ‘Eh’ of surprise and went closer to Pillar, sniffing carefully, "There’s something in here!"
While speaking, the gray cat immediately plunged a paw into Pillar’s stomach and fished around. Then it took out a small, round black ball about the size of a dove egg.
"What is this thing?" Cillin asked.
"I don’t know." Lung examined the object left and right and took out a scanner to give it a scan. The display indicated that it was a rock unique to Sector S. However, if it really was just a rock, then Pillar most definitely would not have acted so secretively. Could there be something inside it?
Lung grabbed over a table knife and attempted to cut it. There was not a single trace on the surface of the black round ball at all.
"It’s really tough!" Lung looked at the nick on the table knife and tossed it away. He was just about to get a high energy cutter when the gray cat scooped it over with a paw.
While bending the sole of its feet, the gray cat lifted the round ball to its mouth with its paws. It opened its mouth, and bit.
Crack!
The small round ball shattered following the sound.
A small fragment glowing with deep blue light fell out.
The gray cat’s nose moved. Now the scent had become even thicker than before. However, as long as it had memorised this scent, it would be much easier to find something similar in the future even if they were sealed behind stones are other objects. The reason the gray cat didn’t noticed it earlier was because it hadn’t been paying any attention at all to this scent.
"An Aurelio piece!" Lung exclaimed in surprise.
"Aurelio piece?"
Lung picked up the small fragment and gave it a look. Then he pa.s.sed the object to Cillin, "Here you go. This is good stuff; it will be of great use to you when the time comes."
Cillin looked at the small, blue fragment in his hand, "So this is the fabled Aurelio star map piece." while saying this, he looked back at Lung and asked, "You don’t want it?"
Lung said carelessly, "This Aurelio star map piece is useless to me. Just don’t be stingy if you find a piece that I need in the future. I went through a lot of hards.h.i.+ps looking for it, you know."
"And the one you need is?"
"The ‘G.o.d’s Tear’ of the five Aurelios!" Lung’s eyes shone brightly.
Cillin did not know what the ‘G.o.d’s Tear’ Lung spoke of looked like, but obviously the piece in his hand was not ‘G.o.d’s Tear’. Otherwise, Lung would have paid it a lot more attention. It could not be the ‘White Night’s’ piece either, since ‘White Night’ had already been fully collected. The fragment in his hand must be one of the remaining three.
"Keep it. No matter what it is, it’ll be useful to you Hunters. We of the Andrea Family cared only for ‘G.o.d’s Tear’, and my old man said that we should not pay too much heed to the rest of the pieces. He said that if we could not find ‘G.o.d’s Tear’, then we should not bother with the remaining pieces. Plus, if you haven’t kept this big beard dude around, he would’ve been blasted to dust a long time ago."
"Okay. I’ll keep this piece with me for now. If I find an Aurelio star map piece in the future, I’ll show it to you and see if it’s what you need."
"Heh, my good bro!" Lung patted Cillin’s shoulders before instructing the robot to clean out Pillar on the floor.
He did not think that he would obtain an Aurelio star map piece so soon. With the flip of a hand, Cillin withdrew the piece into his leaf-shaped ring.
"Still, it would not be easy to collect the pieces of the star map you have, Cillin. Depending on the situation, there will probably be at least three pieces and may even reach up to five in total. It is definitely troublesome." Lung said. Then he smiled and stretched out a fist, "I won’t release this news, but if I find other pieces in the future you’ll have to trade with me!"
"Alright!" Cillin raised his hand and matched fists with Lung.
Although Lung’s temper might appear very strange and unstable to outsiders, he treated those that he acknowledged and was willing to know very well such as Cillin, Knight and Ci Jincheng. Quoting a phrase from his old man, ‘The Andrea Family has its own brainless manner of conduct."
Lung ran a check on the genetic information he collected from these people.
Pillar was a convict in the Sector S’s grade two prison, whereas his subordinates were all convicts in grade one prison.
"This truly is Sector S. Even convicts could become Hunters." Lung joked.
Sector S’s prisons were divided into five grades. Grade one was where the most minor criminals were imprisoned, whereas grade five was almost completely filled up with influential and important figures. That level was the objective of many forces this time.
The large majority of places at Sector S forbad the public entry of Hunter regiments. However, it was in this small, free territories where a large group of valiant and ruthless Hunter regiments had appeared. Many of these Hunter regiments were tied to Sector S’ defense army and prison guards, and many of their members had served a sentence in the prisons of Sector S. There were even some low grade convicts who had not yet fully served their sentences among them.
In reality, no foreign Hunter regiments were allowed in this place. If you were to lodge an accusation towards a local Hunter regiment, they would simply say that they were on a prison reform exercise. This was a covert form of ignorance by the officials.
In order to fully utilise their resources, Cillin had modified Pillar’s s.p.a.ceplane and fighters for a bit. This way, the s.p.a.cecrafts would not look the same as when Pillar and his subordinates had piloted them earlier, and it made Cillin and Lung’s latter operations more convenient. Afterall, they could not possibly pilot their own stars.h.i.+p and roam everywhere they wanted brazenly. Moreover, taking into consideration certain matters that required them to descent onto a planet, these local s.p.a.ceplane and fighters were still the better choice. In comparison to Pillar and his subordinates’ s.p.a.ceplanes and fighters, the s.p.a.cecrafts equipped in this Andrea Family stars.h.i.+p were pretty unconventional. It was best to be low-key.
Of course, they used some of the Andrea Family’s stealth equipment. They were top grade stuff after all, so it’d just be a waste not to use them.
After he was done with the modification, Cillin returned to the control room and laid down. Not long after, the system indicated a planet with a detailed label on its coordinates.
"It’s ‘h.e.l.l’!" Lung said excitedly.
The outer fringes of planet ‘h.e.l.l’ was surrounded by some gray, misty stuff and was obscured from view.
‘h.e.l.l’ was an abandoned planet. This planet wasn’t called ‘h.e.l.l’ at first, but a certain number of factors ultimately triggered a calamity and caused the planet’s crust to move actively. Extended stay on this planet was impossible.
"Legend says that ‘h.e.l.l’ is red in color; blood red!" Lung said in a strange voice.
"‘Poison Fang’s’ planet was also red in color." the gray cat said with an unconvinced tone. Red colored planets did not seem like much to it.
"But Wheeze, this planet wasn’t red in color in the first place. It was dyed red in blood!" Lung continued to speak in a tone that suggested he was telling a ghost story.
The gray cat’s eyes slanted, "Do you seriously believe such a r.e.t.a.r.ded saying?"
"I can’t help but believe it, for I heard that this planet had undergone an ‘apocalypse’. Since then the planet lost its former vitality once and for all and gradually turned into its current accursed appearance. You should know that this planet once boasted a Rank A planetary habitability! But now? It is looking to decline from Rank B to Rank C, and it may ultimately reach Rank D in the end."
"How did it turn out like this?" the gray cat asked. Just how much did it take to plunge a planet from Rank A to Rank B, C and D?
"The reason this planet had turned out this way was all thanks to its inhabitants. Originally, there was a huge research inst.i.tute on this planet; a research inst.i.tute that specifically used convicts to conduct researches on the human body. Later on, the situation slowly went out of control, and the very planet itself seemed to have gotten ‘angry’. Earthquakes would happen frequently later on, and the mountain peak you see today may turn into a flat plain tomorrow."
"It was that savage?!"
"Yeah, it was." Lung wore an enigmatic smile, "Let me tell you a secret. According to my knowledge, there were h.e.l.lhound guards inside ‘h.e.l.l’. I wonder if these h.e.l.lhounds still exist to these day&h.e.l.lip; are you interested to go take a look?"
"Of course!"
T/N: And now we know the collapse of planet Earth&h.e.l.lip; JK.