Chapter 322: [147] The White Lotus Society’s Botanical Garden, Half-Human Observation Subject_3
Thus artificially helping Martial Artists at the peak of Dark Force to step into Huajin.
Although it is only half a step into Huajin, the effect is enough to create a huge shockwave across the entire Martial Arts World.
But compared to the strange people seen in this botanical garden today, the Yellow Emperor Meridian Map seems fairly conventional.
After all, experimenting on the human body is something that is expressly forbidden internationally.
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"Something’s not right, Observation Subject 8 in the botanical garden has also lost signs of life. I feel something must be wrong there."
Looking at the screen, the researcher responsible for the observation this time could no longer remain calm.
Every observation subject listed is a top priority of the project, and it’s no simple task to cultivate a qualified observation subject.
A considerable cost must be expended to ensure that the observation subject’s body does not reject, allowing it to survive long-term and provide more experimental data for the White Lotus Society.
But now, the consecutive deaths of two observation subjects have made the managing researchers feel that something is amiss.
"Number 8 is dead too? How could this happen? Are they having internal strife?"
This time, the white foreigner sipping coffee also became unsettled.
In the botanical garden, each observation subject would have its own territory, and the more powerful one’s territory, the larger it is, located in the center area.
Weaker ones could only live in the fringes, not daring to step into other observation subjects’ territories on normal days.
And those powerful observation subjects generally wouldn’t easily leave their territories.
Because when the White Lotus Society performed transformation surgeries on them, remote-controlled self-destruction and remote electric shock devices were implanted inside these observation subjects.
As long as an observation subject shows signs of losing control or attempting to escape, the White Lotus Society can immediately control the observation subject to prevent accidents.
"Have the Red Lotus Team search the botanical garden to find out exactly what’s going wrong. I’ll go ask Huey to see if any observation subject from the Yellow Stone Garden has sneaked over to the botanical garden." The anxious white foreigner gave instructions, then hastily put down his coffee and rushed off.
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After experiencing attacks from snake people and beast people, Wang Longhu sped up his journey.
Yet even so, a few minutes later, he still hadn’t seen the boundary of this botanical garden.
On the contrary, the further he went ahead, the more open the terrain became, with vegetation gradually thinning out.
Replaced by marshland and lotus ponds.
Trees with half of their roots soaked in murky water, their roots appearing like swimming water snakes beneath the surface.
Pink and white lotuses bloomed on the water’s surface, appearing holy yet not without a hint of eeriness.
Wang Longhu walked step by step on the lotus leaves, his seemingly heavy weight as light as a feather.
With just a light tap of his toes on the lotus leaf, he could leap a dozen steps away, his silhouette vanishing before the water droplets rolling off the lotus leaf hit the water surface.
Soon after, a moss-covered stone Buddha, half its body above the water and the rest submerged in the muddy pond, caught Wang Longhu’s attention.
He stepped onto the Buddha’s head, gazing ahead with a heavy expression.
There lay a small circular island, surrounded by numerous stone Buddhas and stone Bodhisattvas of varying sizes and shapes.
Each weathered by time, covered in moss, with severe signs of weathering like the stone below Wang Longhu’s feet.
"The White Lotus Society dares to send people here, courting death?"
An eerie voice of resentment floated from the island, chilling and enough to make one’s hair stand on end.
The voice was so venomous, no different from a female ghost.
But Wang Longhu breathed a sigh of relief at the fact that the voice could speak, indicating that the inhabitant of the island was different from the snake and beast people.
He was confident that in the entire world, unless someone had a gun, no one was his match.
Even though the surroundings were bizarre and the person on the island didn’t look like a good person, Wang Longhu felt no panic, instead, he stepped on the many Buddha statues and leaped onto the island in mid-air.
"You seek death!"
As Wang Longhu’s foot landed, the voice’s owner was completely enraged.
Suddenly, a white shadow shot out rapidly from the island’s dense forest, heading straight for Wang Longhu.
It was a withered, pale woman’s hand with nails long like blades.
The ten nails were yellow, as if they hadn’t been washed for decades, and Wang Longhu even noticed some dark brown bloodstains on them.
Bang!
The white shadow came quickly and departed just as fast.
Following the method recorded in the Arhat Sitting and Lying Scripture, Wang Longhu instantly spread Gang Qi all over his body, forming an invisible shield.
As soon as the white shadow’s hand touched the Gang Qi, it was violently flung away, let alone killing Wang Longhu.
The opponent couldn’t even touch a single strand of Wang Longhu’s hair.
"Gang Qi! Who are you!"
The white shadow landed, spewing out a mouthful of clotted blood, and Wang Longhu finally saw the person’s appearance clearly.
It was a person skinny as dry wood, with a bulging belly, wrapped in a dirty white bedsheet as clothing.
Her ankles and arms were exposed to the air, showing skin full of dirt and mud.
The person had yellow teeth, dark eye bags, loose skin, and thinning hair.
If an ordinary person met this at night, it really would be no different from a female ghost.
"Shouldn’t I be asking you this? Who are you?" Wang Longhu asked calmly, somewhat surprised that the other spoke Mandarin.