Chapter 17: Scarlet Research Institute

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The historical information about Mu Qing in the database was unbelievable to Feng Qi.

However, the truth was right in front of him. He had no choice but to believe it.

The future in the dream was closely related to reality. This had long been confirmed.

The rebel army, the Rune Transformers, the innocent deceased… Countless information intertwined in Feng Qi’s mind. It took him a long time to recover.

At this moment, a thought emerged in his mind. He wanted to kill Mu Qing before she became a scourge.

As long as she died, there would be no rebel army, nor would there be a dark period of more than 30 years recorded in history.

However, many doubts appeared in Feng Qi’s heart immediately.

As a human, why did Mu Qing betray humanity? Why did she make this decision?

At that moment, the narrator’s voice appeared in his mind.

[There must be a reason for this. You believe that the truth is not as simple as you think, so you decided to investigate this matter in depth!]

“What do you mean? Narrator, are you hinting me that there’s something more to Mu Qing’s betrayal of the entire human race?” Feng Qi hurriedly asked.

[Tongue out. gif!]

…

Although the narration was very annoying, many of the hints given seemed to be guiding him. Therefore, Feng Qi felt that his guess might not be wrong. There might be many undiscovered secrets behind Mu Qing’s betrayal of humanity.

At this thought, he began to look through the historical information in the database, trying to find the specific reason why Mu Qing betrayed humanity.

As he used visitor’s authorization, he only had three chances to search for historical information, so he directly skipped over the information with unreliable titles.

As he flipped through it, he discovered that the information about Mu Qing recorded in Star City’s database was generally about her experiences and actions after betraying humanity.

However, there were very few records before the betrayal. Most of them recorded Mu Qing’s experiences in Star City Academy.

The information stated that Mu Qing had always been ostracized by her classmates when she was studying at Star City Academy. No one was willing to be friends with her.

When the domain combat team was formed before graduation, no intern team was willing to accept her as a partner.

He could not help but suspect that it might be because of her experience in the academy that Mu Qing hated humans and sprouted the idea of becoming enemies with them.

There was no way to know the exact answer. He began to look through the relevant information about Mu Qing after graduation.

According to the subsequent records, although Mu Qing did not have any friends, she was very powerful. The rune crystal that had fused with her body had given her a special ability to absorb strength from food.

Her stomach had also undergone a special change under the transformation of the rune crystal. Her digestive ability was 30 times that of an ordinary person. When ordinary food entered her stomach, it would be quickly digested and absorbed. Nutrition would turn into a meager amount of Qi and blood power that surged into Mu Qing’s limbs and bones, strengthening her body.

Relying on her special physique and extremely outstanding field internship performance, Mu Qing was recruited into an Grade A domain Battle team, Black Lagoon after graduation. After her internship ended, she even became the main combatant of Black Lagoon Group A.

After that, Mu Qing’s performance was extremely eye-catching. She participated in several operations to disperse the domain fields and obtained numerous battle achievements.

From these experiences, Feng Qi could not associate her with the destructive demon.

This was because she had once fought on the front line against domain creatures. During this period, she had faced life and death danger several times, but she did not retreat. She had also taken the lead to protect the retreat of her team members such that she was seriously injured and almost lose her life.

Skipping these information, Feng Qi found the last mission that changed Mu Qing.

[Mission Number: 321529]

Mission issuer: Scarlet Research Institute Headquarters

Accepted by: Black Lagoon (Grade A domain combat team)

Mission details:

On April 23, 2031, at 3 p.m., an underground laboratory on the outskirts of Twilight City suddenly lost contact with the headquarters. It might be attacked by a domain transcendent. I am seeking the help of various combat teams to investigate the details.

Danger Level: Unknown

Mission Reward: Special Spiritual Stones x 3,000, Grade B Special Alloy Armor (3 sets), Grade 3 Spiritual Plants (10), 50 million in cash, Grade C Rune Creatures: Death Disaster (3 remains)

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It was during the execution of this mission that Mu Qing’s temperament changed drastically. She personally killed the captain who selected and recruited her into Black Lagoon. After she left, she even recruited a large number of scavengers and established the Dawn Rebel Army. She began to become enemies with all of humanity.

This made Feng Qi curious about the underground laboratory of the Scarlet Research Institute branch.

Had Mu Qing been hiding all this while, or had the laboratory influenced her?

In order to find the answer, Feng Qi began to search for information about the Scarlet Research Institute.

However, he was disappointed that he was not authorized to view the information about the Scarlet Research Institute and could not obtain the relevant information from the database.

After closing the search page, Feng Qi fell into deep thought.

Since he knew that Mu Qing would betray humanity in the future, he naturally would not sit back and do nothing. Now, there were two choices in front of him.

Kill Mu Qing!

Change Mu Qing!

After thinking about it again and again, he decided to try to get in touch with Mu Qing after returning to reality before making a decision.

Next, Feng Qi opened the cultivation techniques list and continued to learn the general outline of the Ferocious Tiger Fist.

Last time, he had only grasped the basics of the Ferocious Tiger Fist and had only learned more than a third of the content. There were still many things that he had not learned completely because of Little Black’s arrival.

Making use of the time, Feng Qi decided to finish learning the advanced content of the Tiger Fist.

After clicking on the teaching video, a man in military uniform appeared on the screen. Feng Qi followed his movements and began to perform the fist techniques, listening carefully.

Learning the Ferocious Tiger Fist did not mean much to him. His growth mainly depended on killing monsters in his dreams and obtaining bloodline evolution points. Therefore, mastering the teaching method of the Ferocious Tiger Fist was the core.

Time passed bit by bit. After watching it a few times, Feng Qi memorized the contents of the Ferocious Tiger Fist.

Looking at the time on the top right corner of the screen, he knew that he didn’t have time to watch the video again.

In about 2 minutes and 30 seconds, Little Black would appear in the underground laboratory.

In fact, he had thought of closing the door to the metal passageway, but he could not find the switch at all. There was no relevant information stored in the database.

As he waited, just as he had expected, a shadow came down the metal tunnel and entered the underground shelter.

The surging black fog enveloped its entire body, so Feng Qi could not see the exact appearance of this domain creature. However, he could clearly see the dark red rune crystal embedded on the forehead of the creature covered in black shadows.

[I ask you will return? When you come, don’t linger around. At the ends of the earth, half of your friends are gone. Happy gatherings are rare in life and full of partings.]

The narrator jumped out at the right time to bid farewell to Feng Qi.

…

Looking at the black shadow approaching him, he was very curious about what prefix title he would obtain after killing it and what special ability it would give him.

However, he only thought about it and knew that his current strength was no match for Little Black.

The black shadow got closer and closer. Feng Qi grabbed the “leg bone” on the control panel and took the initiative to walk towards the black shadow, looking like a warrior who would never return.

This time, the miracle still did not happen. The moment Feng Qi came into contact, it was enveloped by the black fog. Then, a familiar chewing sound sounded in his ears.

As his vision was shrouded in darkness, he thought that he would return to reality, but a sentence popped up in his mind.

[Initial energy depleted. Requires energy replenishment. Current energy: 0%]

[Energy depleted. Automatically activating reality feedback panel.]