Chapter 526: Chapter 526 Mystery
The majority of the people in the restaurant recognized Yang Xiao. His extraordinary potential demonstrated in the last training session in Magic City commanded respect even from Gu Beifeng and Du Tianxing.
When Yang Xiao declared he would slaughter Li Jiachen, everyone was taken aback.
Still so domineering!
Li Jiachen himself was stunned on the spot.
He truly had not anticipated that Yang Xiao, a mid-level Enhanced Gene individual, would dare utter such arrogant words. Not even the veteran King Level Evolvers like Gu Beifeng and Du Tianxing would dare to speak to him like that now.
A twitch appeared at the corner of Li Jiachen’s mouth as he stared at Yang Xiao and suddenly let out a cold chuckle:
"Heh, what big talk, truly the ignorance of the fearless. Since you’re so arrogant, young man, I’ll indulge you. No fighting is allowed in this building, but if you have the guts, step outside with me now, and we can settle this life and death battle."
Yang Xiao picked up his bowl, drank up the soup in one gulp, stood up, and said:
"Good, let’s go right now."
Du Tianxing, sitting opposite Yang Xiao, watched him in surprise and said in a low voice:
"A wise man does not eat the loss before his eyes, just endure it!"
Yang Xiao gave Du Tianxing a glance but ignored him, rising to walk outside.
The whole place was stunned. No one had expected Yang Xiao to actually stand up and duel with Li Jiachen; wasn’t this courting death? Yet knowing his opponent was a King Level Evolver, Yang Xiao showed no fear. This kid either had a trump card or was crazy. Moreover, based on what everyone knew about Yang Xiao from the past, this kid was definitely holding a trump card.
Originally, Yang Xiao had slain a high-level Enhanced Gene adversary with only his primary-level cultivation at Magic City University—a sight witnessed by everyone.
Now that this kid was at an Intermediate level of Enhanced Gene, had his combat power also increased significantly, enabling him to confront a King Level Evolver?
In that instant, everyone’s impression of Yang Xiao came sharply into focus, as if returning to the time of the Magic City King’s Tournament half a year ago.
Li Jiachen had not expected Yang Xiao to actually stand up and agree to his duel. Initially thinking that Yang Xiao was all talk, he was stunned for a moment before he sneered:
"Fine, since you’re seeking death, I’ll grant it to you today."
Li Jiachen turned and walked outside, and everyone in the restaurant stood up, also preparing to follow.
Just then, a middle-aged man in black clothes walked into the restaurant and said in a deep voice:
"Private duels are prohibited during the conference period, or bear the consequences on your own!"
The voice of the man in black, like thousands of arrows, pierced into everyone’s ears, causing their minds to buzz and their foreheads to sweat coldly.
After speaking, the man in black ignored everyone’s reactions and turned to leave.
Deathly silence filled the entire place.
These King Level Evolvers were originally brimming with self-confidence, each feeling like a superhuman, a hero unrivaled. Yet, they hadn’t expected the pressure from just one sentence of the man in black to leave them all breathless.
Panic rose inside, and everyone sat back down.
Yang Xiao naturally reseated himself as well.
Li Jiachen glared at Yang Xiao hatefully and walked over to an empty spot in the restaurant to sit down.
Moments later, a stunning woman standing at the doorway walked in and said:
"If everyone is finished eating, please follow me to your respective rooms to rest."
The crowd stood up and followed the woman out of the restaurant.
The woman led everyone straight up the stairs to the floor above, the sixth floor.
"Each room has your own name on it. Just enter the room with your name on it. You are free to move around within this floor. There’s just one thing to keep in mind: no private fighting is allowed. Otherwise, you’ll bear the consequences."
Upon reaching the sixth floor, there were four Iron Tower Warriors guarding the stairwell entrance and the elevator. Then, down the corridor, there were four Iron Tower Warriors standing about ten meters apart from each other.
Yang Xiao noticed that this atmosphere was completely different from Magic City half a year ago.
Yang Xiao’s room was the last one on the corridor, while Gu Beifeng, Du Tianxing, Li Jiachen, and others’ rooms were all at the front, far from Yang Xiao’s room.
Yang Xiao disliked the cold attitude of Du Tianxing and others and couldn’t be bothered to catch up with them. The post-apocalyptic world is just too realistic, and relationships between people have also become very cold.
Yang Xiao took out the Jade Pendant, opened the door to his room, and after entering, he shut the door behind him.
He took a quick look around the room; Wentian City International Hotel was a five-star hotel before the apocalypse, often receiving foreign guests, and the room’s decor was very well done.
He turned on the tap in the bathroom, and sure enough, there was hot water.
First, he took a comfortable hot shower to relax.
After changing clothes, he stood next to the window. Though it was only the sixth floor, he could still see the surrounding ruins that had fallen.
Before, Wentian City had a population of twenty million, but now it had almost become a dead city, devoid of life.
He remembered Gu Beifeng once said that less than three hundred thousand people remained in the core area of Wentian City after the apocalypse.
Yang Xiao kept pondering why the mysterious organization behind Gu Bo wanted to eradicate so many humans on Earth, and then why set up the Genetic Store to help the surviving humans with Genetic Evolution.
After more than a year of contemplation, Yang Xiao hazily began to realize the answer within his heart.
Human beings need a massive amount of Evolution resources during the process of Genetic Evolution, and especially after reaching the Enhanced Gene stage, the need for Evolution resources became even greater. If Earth still had a population of six billion, there wouldn’t be enough resources, making it impossible to cultivate a few King Level Evolvers.
Only by drastically reducing Earth’s population, could the remaining humans be provided with relatively sufficient Evolution resources.
At this thought, Yang Xiao had an epiphany in his heart.
"These aliens are truly cruel, treating human life as if it’s as insignificant as ants."
However, upon second thought, Yang Xiao realized that when humans ruled Earth, didn’t they treat other animals and plants in the same way? For the sake of eating shark fins, they could deplete all the sharks in the ocean. For the taste of game, they could hunt all the animals in the forests.
Now, humans have become prey for the aliens and have encountered the same fate.
Yang Xiao then thought about the purpose of the upcoming meeting that Gu Bo mentioned: a combat contest!
With whom? And what’s the purpose of the combat contest?
So far, Yang Xiao still hadn’t found the aliens’ purpose behind helping humans with Genetic Evolution. What exactly do they intend to do by nurturing humans into Genetic Evolvers?
Then he thought of Long Xiang. If what Long Xiang said was true, the aliens hunted the Dragon Clan in the depths of the ocean, even capturing some of the living dragons to extract Dragon Clan genes.
What are their purposes for extracting Dragon Clan genes?
Yang Xiao suddenly felt that the entire Earth was just an experimental field for the aliens, all living creatures including humans inside, were nothing more than lab rats for them to experiment with, including arbitrary experimentation and slaughter.
But then, what about those beautiful women and human men spending the night together, and engaging in pleasure at the Magic City Financial Building? How can that be explained?
The image of woman number 25 came to mind; she seemed to have a soft spot for him. Was this affection real or fake?
Post-apocalypse, the disappearance of a large population, the mystery of Earth, genetic mutations, human Genetic Evolution...
All the events that had happened since the apocalypse began flashing in Yang Xiao’s mind one by one, and everyone still felt that the cause and effect of this apocalyptic catastrophe were a mystery, and no one had yet managed to decipher it.
However, Yang Xiao had a premonition that the day to unlock this mystery was drawing ever closer.