# 671
Chapter 672: Cao Yuan and An Qingyu
"Since you're here, Jiang Er should be around too." Cao Yuan thought of this and relaxed. "She doesn't have life fluctuations, so even if she uses Forbidden Ruins, she won't be detected. In this place, it's her paradise..."
An Qingyu's eyes swept over Cao Yuan, pausing on those chains that glowed with a faint ghostly light, her brow furrowing slightly.
"These chains..."
The chains had pierced through Cao Yuan's body, lodging into his very bones, completely immobilizing him. Not only that, the ghostly light on the chain surfaces, upon contact with his bones, corroded the surrounding areas like sulfuric acid.
In An Qingyu's view, this ghostly light was slowly devouring Cao Yuan's body, but at the same time, wisps of tiny black flames were igniting from within Cao Yuan's body, fighting against the ghostly light and preventing their spread.
"They're eating away at my bones, but the Black King Malice flowing in my body can resist them. I won't die." Cao Yuan smiled weakly, his face pale.
"Doesn't it hurt?" An Qingyu frowned, looking into Cao Yuan's eyes.
The process sounded simple, but the pain it contained was far beyond what an ordinary person could bear. It was as if someone was using a chisel to slowly chisel away at your bones, staying in the same spot, and the key point was—this pain was continuous...
Cao Yuan had been gritting his teeth and enduring it for nearly two years.
"It hurts." Cao Yuan grinned. "But I don't have any other优点, I can just endure... And besides enduring, I have no other choice."
An Qingyu's brow furrowed tightly. She swept her gaze over the chains, took several black surgical knives from her pocket, and said:
"I'll cut these chains for you..."
"No."
Cao Yuan果断 shook his head. "Those Oracles are still here. Once you free me from the chains, they will definitely notice. Then none of us will be able to leave. You worked so hard to infiltrate the 【Pure Land】—you should have more important things to do."
"But you..."
"Don't worry about me. It's just a bit of pain. I've endured it for two years. What's a little longer?" Cao Yuan smiled faintly. "Moreover, these chains are constantly eroding my bones while being tempered by the Malice flames. I can feel my body becoming increasingly stronger, and my control over 【Black King's Annihilation Slash】 has improved as well. This is also a form of cultivation for me."
An Qingyu沉默片刻,苦涩地开口："Your cultivation is really too hardships."
"I don't have a brain as clever as yours, don't have talent as powerful as Qiye's, and don't have luck as good as Pangpang's... If I want to keep up with all of you, how can I not suffer?" Cao Yuan笑着摇了摇头，"You should go. Don't worry about me. Go do what you need to do. Save me when the time is ripe."
An Qingyu stood before Cao Yuan,沉思了许久，finally nodded heavily.
"Alright, three days. Give me three days!" A fierce determination flashed in An Qingyu's eyes. "Within three days, I will definitely eliminate those Oracles and come back to save you!"
Solve the Oracles within three days?
If anyone else had said this, Cao Yuan would definitely not believe them. But if the person was An Qingyu... then the matter was different.
If An Qingyu said she could do it in three days, she definitely could.
"Alright." Cao Yuan nodded. "I'll wait for you."
An Qingyu glanced at him one last time, turned around decisively, and strode toward the door.
Once the prison door closed and the cell fell into darkness once more, the excruciating pain made Cao Yuan clench his teeth involuntarily, but now, that bone-deep pain seemed not entirely unbearable...
After a long while, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Cao Yuan's mouth:
"Having companions, it's truly reassuring..."
...
"Qingyu, I've already covered the surveillance footage of you entering the cell and talking to Cao Yuan. I've also deleted all visitor records. They won't discover you were here."
Jiang Er's voice came through the Bluetooth earphone. An Qingyu nodded slightly.
"Well done."
"Do you really have confidence in handling the Oracles in the 【Pure Land】 within three days?" Jiang Er's voice was full of worry. "Each of them is a peak 'Klein' realm expert, and they all have powerful abilities. You're still half a step away from entering 'Measureless'..."
"Who said I would kill them head-on?" An Qingyu pushed up her glasses. The lenses reflected the pallid fluorescent lights as she spoke calmly. "This final move, I'm going to gamble big."
"I trust you."
"How's the information retrieval on Specimen Number 0 going?"
"All done." Jiang Er's voice paused, then began to recite the data from within the 【Pure Land】 regarding Specimen Number 0:
"Specimen Number 0, real name Yuzuri Takishiro, age thirteen, son of Yuzuri Kurotetsu, a wanted criminal of 'Fierce Ghost' level. Second-generation 'King's Blood' Awakener. Observation experiment duration: thirteen years, two months, and six days...
New Calendar Year 101, September 16th: Conducted the 138th 'King's Blood' purity test. Test result showed a 0.13% increase in purity compared to the 137th test. Analysis results show...
New Calendar Year 101, October 3rd: Administered β-level sixth-generation artificial hormone intravenous injection. Spiritual power intensity increased by 2.82%. Analysis results show...
New Calendar Year 101, October 4th: Adverse reaction to β-level artificial hormone injection occurred. Vomiting blood, sallow complexion, loss of consciousness. Administered γ-level artificial hormone to forcibly stimulate body potential. Subject regained consciousness at 8:14:07 PM on the same day...
New Calendar Year 101, October 19th: Conducted β-level sixth-generation auxiliary artificial hormone intravenous injection..."
As she listened to Jiang Er recite the experiment reports from the past two months, An Qingyu's brow furrowed more and more tightly.
"What are these Oracles trying to do to this child... Jiang Er, print me a complete thirteen-year experiment report. I want to study this experiment from the beginning. I want to see what scheme these Oracles with their advanced technology are plotting..."
"Understood."
When An Qingyu returned to the central control room, a report of over eight hundred pages was already stacked on his desk, forming a small mountain.
During An Qingyu's journey through the prison area, Jiang Er had been covering for him the entire time, invading the surveillance system and deleting all records of his appearances. Therefore, the other Oracles hadn't been alerted at all. They never would have imagined that there was actually an intruder in the 【Pure Land】, living alongside them in secret...
An Qingyu sat beside the low table, picked up the experiment reports on the desk, and carefully flipped through them one by one.
As time passed, the astonishment in An Qingyu's eyes grew increasingly intense. By the end, his eyes were filled with complete shock!
"This experiment... Have these Oracles gone insane?!"