Chapter 320: [147] The White Lotus Society’s Botanical Garden, Half-Human Observation Subject
This peak was incredibly straight, its four sides almost entirely steep, vertical cliffs, and the exposed rocks were extremely smooth and sharp.
One could easily scrape their skin if not careful. If it were an ordinary person, even the most skilled climbers would probably not dare to challenge such terrain.
But for Wang Longhu, it was as if he were walking on flat ground.
He moved swiftly like a spider, using both hands and feet, advancing toward the mountaintop.
Even with the strong winds blowing around him, Wang Longhu remained as steady as Mount Tai, showing no signs of faltering.
Soon enough, the outline of the summit came into view, prompting Wang Longhu to slow down and begin observing the surroundings.
At the summit stood an unbelievably enormous white palace.
The architectural style vaguely resembled that of India and Thailand, with four to five-meter high white walls on all sides, engraved with bas-reliefs of lotus platforms and Buddhas.
Anyone unaware might have thought it was some Buddhist pure land.
Wang Longhu climbed the cliff, cautiously approaching the high walls, while checking ahead for any surveillance cameras or modern equipment installed on the walls.
In ancient times, it was quite easy for an assassin to infiltrate a place; they only needed to evade the patrol guards.
But in modern times, with such advanced electronic devices, it’s almost as if there’s a heavenly eye watching. Even a martial artist attempting to infiltrate secretly would find it as challenging as climbing to the sky.
Fortunately, the White Lotus Sect seemed very confident in their headquarters’ secrecy. After Wang Longhu carefully observed for a while and discovered no hidden cameras, he climbed the white wall and skillfully vaulted over it.
Beyond the white wall was a lush garden, filled with banana trees lining everywhere, and the garden was permeated with a faint, sweet fragrance of fruits.
Wang Longhu heard the sound of water trickling and walked toward the direction from which the sound was coming.
Surprisingly, within the courtyard, there was a rockery. A spring eye was carved into the rock, from which clear, clean water continuously flowed out, forming a small stream that flowed into the distance.
Wang Longhu couldn’t help but marvel inwardly, realizing that the White Lotus Society’s headquarters was located on a solitary peak.
Having a mountain spring flowing here? It’s definitely beyond what nature can achieve.
The origins of spring water are nothing more than two: underground water or melting snow, neither of which applied here.
Then there was only one reason: this was a modern man-made creation, which undoubtedly required a lavish expenditure.
In an instant, Wang Longhu gained a new impression of this mysterious White Lotus Society.
Rich!
"This place is so vast, yet I don’t know where Oda Hongxin is. Finding the target without alarming anyone is indeed challenging," Wang Longhu continued forward, mumbling to himself.
Wang Longhu did not notice that, just a dozen meters behind him in the dense foliage, a pair of eyes suddenly opened.
The eyes had snake-like vertical pupils, a dark green base color, and a gaze as cold as that of a cold-blooded creature.
Swoosh!
In an instant, Wang Longhu’s back tingled, a chill surged up, and without a second thought, he spun around and struck with his palm, landing squarely on something soft and slippery.
Wang Longhu looked and was immediately shocked; it was a person attacking him.
A person covered in green-black snake scales, hairless, with a mouth full of sharp teeth.
"Hiss hiss hiss!" The strange person flew backward instantly, unable to withstand Wang Longhu’s strength, and crashed headlong into the courtyard’s white wall, dying on the spot.
Wang Longhu glanced at his hand, which had struck the strange person’s body. By now, it was covered in black-purple spots, and these spots were expanding.
"Poisoned." Wang Longhu frowned.
It was too bizarre; the situation here had already exceeded his expectations.
A scaly snake-like human carrying an unknown toxin—was this a naturally occurring anomaly or some human modification?
The White Lotus Society, in Wang Longhu’s mind, suddenly became even more mysterious.
Gang Qi surged into the meridians in his arm, forcefully expelling the toxins from his bloodstream through the pores.
As Wang Longhu shook his hand, the black-purple spots turned into droplets of water and scattered into thin air, returning to normal.
At his level of Gang Qi mastery, unless he actively consumed poison and allowed it to spread irreversibly within his body...
Ordinary toxins posed no threat to Wang Longhu. Even if someone injected the toxin into his body...
He could expel it using Gang Qi, leaving not a trace inside his body.
Meanwhile, somewhere within the white palace...
In a hall filled with monitor screens, countless researchers in white robes walked around with pads in hand.
They carefully observed each screen in the room at all times.
These screens constantly updated with various data, such as heart rate, breathing frequency, blood pressure values, and so on.
Suddenly, a researcher standing in front of a screen in the corner curiously remarked, "Hmm? Observation Subject No. 13 in the botanical garden has lost its life signal."
"Did it engage in a fight with other observation subjects?" A white foreigner, sipping coffee, scooted over on a wheeled office chair.
Nonchalantly, he observed the screen, where indeed all values following the data of Observation Subject No. 13 had been reduced to zero.
Everyone working there was well aware that such a situation indicated that the observation subject had died.