Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

Chapter 604 Skin

Not only was he proficient in ancient languages, he was also proficient in using encryption methods that were not made public at that time... He deliberately left blanks for interpretation to attract attention, and also leaked some key words, indicating that he already knew the truth...

Chad's hand holding the paper unconsciously exerted force, and his knuckles turned white.

This means that although he had obtained the clues himself, he ended up knowing less than part of the information. It was the Red King who had seen the full picture in advance through his notes.

No, he suspected that the other party knew about it before this...

With such an obvious hint, how could I not come and look for him?

The man in black robes did not interrupt. He only breathed out when he saw that the tech hunter had rarely spoken so much and then stopped talking. There was a hint of smile in his tone:
"So you sneaked into the Beakbill Tower and even poisoned my pet... Although it was tied up, its long neck was still free to move, so you were able to find the right moment to stuff the gas canister into its mouth... Chad, your skills are really... pretty good."

Even though he is dressed in light cloth, martial artists strive to be flexible. After all, if they cannot withstand sword attacks with their bodies, they can only dodge them with agility.

Dodge and move.

Although he had the help of props, Chad's ability to subdue an elder-stage beaked beastman was not something that an ordinary technological hunter could do. It was normal that the guards outside the door could not notice it.

If anything, he was no less capable than Griffin and the others, who had to be fully armed to fight him—the two sides were taking different routes.

"Thank you, Red King," the Tech Hunter did not let down his guard, "but in the end, your reaction was much faster than I expected."

He only had time to sneak into this ordinary beaked beast tower to practice, and before he could go to the next one, he sensed someone coming. He hurriedly jumped onto the rock wall and didn't even have time to deal with the remaining gas tanks.

"But why bother?" The man in black robe said, "You are the distinguished guests of Shandi. If you just want to see me, just let someone inform me..."

"Because I don't trust you." Chad interrupted him directly, "...or rather, I'm afraid of you."

The tech hunter gripped the oil paper with increasing force, and unknowingly had already squeezed it into a ball.

And his strong legs were already in a fighting stance from the moment he landed, with his toes slightly raised so that he could burst out with strength at any time.

In contrast, the man in black robe just stood there quietly, as if he had no martial arts skills at all, with flaws all over his body.

But people dare not step forward.

"Why do you say that?" he asked.

It can be seen that Chad's fear is true...but it is not the fear of facing a strong person.

As a technology hunter, he went deep into various ancient ruins and even crossed the Grey Shelf to get close to the legendary Land of Ashes… He encountered various powerful enemies along the way and turned danger into safety. He had already put life and death aside, so how could he be afraid?
But, his eyes couldn't be faked.

He was extremely worried about something.

Moreover, everything he witnessed since entering the Land of Flash confirmed his guess, and his worries gradually became a reality. "'Pet'... that giant white wolf, is it also your pet?" Chad said slowly, "But you and I both know that such a creature cannot exist in nature, not even in the Elder Stage. Everyone says that the bodies of Elder Stage can grow infinitely, which may be true, but as time goes by, the marginal utility decreases. Even if they grow, the final process will be very slow."

There was only one way to speed up this process... something he had witnessed before.

--genetic modification.

And it was not just some minor experiment by the mechanics, but a technology that truly came from the lost ruins of ancient times—the legendary miracle of creation that could control its own evolution and define success.

"And you have this technology."

In a sense, the research and development of the targeted poison gas bombs that he exchanged for with the points he earned from countless arduous missions also belonged to this field...but compared to the living giant wolf, the value of this product was like mud to sweet spring water; they were completely incomparable.

The other party can even digest orangutan flesh...the "alien creature" mentioned in the secret text!
There is more.

"Lius is a fan of ancient characters. He marvels at your talent for language. This may indeed be amazing, but that's not the point. Other scholars in the world should be able to do it..." Chad's words came out like a string of cannonballs. "The point is: why were you able to crack the encryption method I used so quickly? It has never been made public before. Even if you are the world's top cryptography master, it is impossible for you to decipher it at a glance in such a short time..."

Unless the other party already knows this encryption method.

But Chad would never reveal it - even if he wanted to share it, he would only give it to the few people who had once been loyal to him as a code for communication between them.

Then, there is only one possibility.

This encryption method was not original to Chad, it came from a lost relic... What if someone had been to that place before him, or... what if he had lived there?

Chad's speech speed became faster and faster, as if he wanted to pour out everything, but it was not for the purpose of speaking, but to cover up his last fear -

"Take off your mask, Red King." His voice trembled slightly. "At this point, there is no need to hide anything from me anymore, right? Just consider it a form of mercy... although I don't know if 'you' have such a thing as mercy."

The man in black robe was wearing an iron mask at the moment, and the air was filled with a yellow, foul-smelling poisonous fog, but he was not affected at all. The air swirled on both sides of his cheeks like a vortex - you have to know that even Chad relied on the ancient breathing method to lower his heart rate and metabolism, lurking like a cold-blooded animal, so that he could endure it.

To his surprise, after hearing his words that seemed like he was venting his anger, the other party actually slowly took off his mask, revealing the familiar face that he had recognized the first time they met in the Beakbeast Tower...

"...Ji Hai." Chad's voice suddenly stopped trembling, and instantly became cold and hard, with a chilling chill: "No... This is his skin."

"Am I right, the...human skin gang from the dark sky?"

Mastering secret ancient technology, proficient in ancient languages, and even proficient in the cryptography of ancient civilizations...

Who else but those steel-bodied, immortal skeletons?
Chad had no hostility towards the Skeleton Man.

But what he saw and heard on the Gray Shelf was shocking.

(End of this chapter)