Chapter 646: That Is All

“Cheers!”

“Long live the lair!”

“Long live the Lair Reconstruction Committee!”

As Meng Chao and Xiong Wei hugged each other passionately, thunderous cheers rose in the hall.

Of course, most of the cheers were from Golden Tooth members.

They knew deeply that after Saber Jin Wanhao passed away, they had to do everything they could to advocate for the Lair Reconstruction Committee’s birth if they still wanted to retain their interests and their position as the strongest gang. They also needed to have the dominant position in it, hence they were doing their best to support it.

Somehow, they managed to give off the feeling that they were united as one, giving them a completely new and brilliant look.

As for Meng Chao, he went to the back of the hall, and after he drew the curtains, his legs became weak. He fell forward, straight into the arms of Lu Siya, who had quickly stepped forward to support him.

“No way, you’re already drained?” Lu Siya could not help but ask. “Aren’t you too weak?”

Meng Chao could only smile wryly in the face of his friend’s teasing.

Celestial Tyrant’s Star Shattering Slash was a close-kept secret of the Underground Emperor. There was no way A’Ji could teach him properly within such a short time.

Even if Meng Chao continued to pour contribution points into his brain and threw all of it into increasing the Skillfulness of Celestial Tyrant’s Star Shattering Slash, he could only manage to imitate a bit of it.

Besides, to ensure that he could bring out the most dazzling electricity effect from the bit that he had learned, Meng Chao had to use Divine Nine Dragon Seals to activate Hell’s Blood once more. His vitality magnetic field was forced to go into overdrive, and though his body had been repaired moments ago, the treatment was basically the same as someone simply patching up his body. He was driven to his limits again.

He managed to suppress the entire crowd, but his body was drained once more!

Fortunately, Meng Chao was already used to the feeling of his body being drained.

Additionally, aside from Lu Siya waiting for him backstage, there was also Su Mulian, the amazing doctor who could even bring someone back from the dead.

“Ms. Mulian.” When he saw her, Meng Chao exhaled long and hard. Then, he smiled from the bottom of his heart. “You’ve come, just like I asked!”

It would be too exaggerated to say that all the gangs in the lair, including Leprosy Village’s Wild Wolves, were bad people. At the end of the day, they had their own goals and interests.

When Meng Chao talked with the gang leaders, he had to use all his brain cells to the maximum to repeatedly deduce and fuss over everything. He had to predict dozens and even hundreds of steps ahead as if he was playing chess, so it was very tiring.

However, Su Mulian had pure goals. Just like him, she wanted to save more lair citizens.

If it were not for Su Mulian’s complete trust and how she promised Wild Wolf that Meng Chao would not do them harm, Wild Wolf would not have believed in Meng Chao so easily.

Without her, no matter how much of a glib tongue or an iron fist he had, he could not stop Leprosy Village from getting into a conflict with the gangs. It would also be impossible for him to crack the Vortex’s scheme or get Jin Wanhao’s legacy.

Even now, Meng Chao still could not understand why Su Mulian looked so uncontrollably terrified back when she first met him but still believed that he could save the lair.

Nevertheless, that did not stop Meng Chao from showing the most sincere and defenseless smile to Su Mulian.

The smile caused Su Mulian’s pupils to contract a little as if she was a rabbit that had seen the grin of a big, bad wolf.

The abnormal reaction caused even Lu Siya to be slightly dazed. With narrowed eyes, she observed the strange-looking girl who looked like a Ford’s manglietia in the mountains.

Fortunately, Su Mulian soon snapped out of her daze. She quickly walked forward and helped Lu Siya support Meng Chao.

“Are you injured?” she asked with a complicated expression.

“They’re just minor injuries. I’m feeling a little drained. I also took dozens of gene medicine in one go.” Meng Chao smiled and said, “Since you’re here, could you nurse me a little? It should be fine for you, right?”

Draining his spirit energy down to the last drop, sending his vitality magnetic field into overdrive, and executing Divine Nine Dragon Seals, as well as Celestial Tyrant’s Star Shattering Slash, were small problems.

If Meng Chao asked Lu Siya for help in getting the spirit energy from the Red Radiance Jades and Blue Origin Crystals to resonate, he could recover slowly.

The high-density Hell’s Blood was the major problem.

A’Ji had told Meng Chao that he originally intended to spend an entire year to digest the raging spirit energy contained in the seven Hell’s Blood. During that period of time, he would have to use hundreds of ingredients to help him completely dissolve the medicine. Then, it could be safely and stably absorbed by his cells.

Meng Chao had taken in more than half of A’Ji’s stock of Hell’s Blood in one go, and the Vortex had also drunk one-third of A’Ji’s Hell’s Blood. It, in turn, had also injected that terrifying spirit energy into Meng Chao.

To A’Ji, Meng Chao should have combusted on the spot or even exploded. He was an unsolved mystery in life sciences for still being able to run and jump around right then.

Meng Chao knew very well that it was due to Kindling and his contribution points.

However, no matter how strong Kindling was, there was a limit to his strength. At most, he could only turn his contribution points into golden energy and temporarily encase 90% of the Hell’s Blood so that it could be stored in Meng Chao’s limbs and organs.

If he did not think of a way to digest the raging power soon, that ticking time bomb, which was made of more than one hundred Hell Beasts’ essence and blood, would still blow Meng Chao apart.

Su Mulian might not be able to solve Meng Chao’s problem once and for all, but she possessed amazing healing powers. Hence, she should be able to appease the great and complex power in Meng Chao’s body to buy him more time.

There was no reason for Su Mulian to reject Meng Chao’s request.

As Golden Tooth’s new gang leader, he definitely had access to treatment rooms within the headquarters that were decorated lavishly. They had all the necessary facilities, all sorts of valuable items, gene medicines, and everything else.

Lu Siya only left after Meng Chao was immersed in milky white medicine.

Before she left, she cast a deep glance at Su Mulian.

It seemed like she had sensed that something was off, and she did not want to leave Meng Chao to be treated by the mysterious girl from Leprosy Village.

After all, the mysterious boy, A’Ji was from Leprosy Village.

Despite that, she had no choice. Even though the gangs had already come to a tentative agreement in the hall, it was because Meng Chao and the others had used the discordant information they possessed to their advantage and hit them with an ambush.

Once the gang leaders registered what happened, would ulterior motives not form in their minds?

Even if everyone had really agreed to form the Lair Reconstruction Committee, how were they going to make the pie big, how were they going to distribute the slices, and who was going to distribute them?

Everything was a problem.

Plus, that was not something Meng Chao was good with.

Lu Siya, the Queen Bee, on the other hand, was skilled in that area, and she enjoyed handling such stuff.

With her taking care of the rest, Meng Chao could relax completely and enjoy Su Mulian’s treatment in a relaxed manner as well as listen to her talk about Leprosy Village’s situation.

Leprosy Village had been badly damaged during the Vortex’s ambush, and rough estimations showed that there were more than one thousand casualties, and there were even more missing people.

However, there was a blessing in disguise. Due to Meng Chao’s all-out advocacy, the gangs had finally decided to open a path for them and clear out a safety zone at Leprosy Village’s borders so that the villagers could come out and seek refuge. They had also given them the necessary food, medicine, and relief resources.

To prevent Leprosy Village’s fire from affecting the lair, the gangs had to allocate manpower to help Leprosy Village get rid of the fire no matter how reluctant they were.

It was just as the ancient saying went, “No man is an island.”

Humans would always be connected to each other through unexpected ways.

Su Mulian told Meng Chao that the fire on the surface of Leprosy Village had been extinguished, and the dangerous zones that might have hidden flames spreading around had been isolated with firebreaks. All of the old, sick, disabled, and lightly injured had also been sent to the safety zones and had received timely treatment.

As such, while the villagers were still worried, they were no longer fearful. Everyone was willing to believe in Meng Chao’s promise that the outside world would definitely not ignore them.

In other words, while the losses were great, things turned out a lot better than they had expected. Most of the villagers had managed to keep their lives, and all of it was because of Meng Chao.

“Mr. Meng, the villagers asked me to deliver their most sincere thanks to you.” As Su Mulian spoke, she bowed deeply to Meng Chao. At the same time, she used her long hair to mask her expression and said, “No… matter what happens, the village and I will remember your kindness to us this time, and we will do whatever it takes to repay you!”

“Y-You don’t have to be so polite, you know?”

Since she was so polite, she made Meng Chao feel a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and said, “I’m just doing what I should do. Besides, I can’t do anything alone. Everyone worked together, that’s why we managed to save Leprosy Village and the lair.

“Ms. Mulian, if you hadn’t chosen to trust me wholeheartedly and help me convince Wild Wolf, if A’Ji hadn’t led the way, if the gang leaders, including Phantom Bear Xiong Wei, hadn’t been calm enough, and of course, if it hadn’t been for Lu Siya’s great capabilities, forget saving Leprosy Village, my ashes might have been gone in the wind too!

“So, you really don’t have to go so far as to say that all of you will repay me to the best of your abilities. If you must, please help me build the Lair Reconstruction Committee, and we’ll make the future lair is ten times better than it is now. That’ll be enough for me!”

“Leprosy Village will definitely support the Lair Reconstruction Committee fully, and it will also support you as well as Ms. Lu Siya.”

Su Mulian stared at Meng Chao for a long time. When she noticed that his expression did not seem to be fake, she appeared to come to a decision and made that promise earnestly.

Then, she heaved a long sigh and relaxed.

After pausing for a moment, she seemed to remember something. “Oh no, just now, I should have thanked Ms. Lu. During the battle of the lair, aside from you, Ms. Lu contributed the most. If both of you didn’t have such firm, great love for each other and understand each other so well, the lair might already be destroyed!”

Those words caused Meng Chao to choke on the medicine.

“Cough cough cough cough cough cough—Ms. Mulian, you’ve misunderstood.”

Meng Chao’s face turned red from choking, and he said, “Big Sis Ya and I don’t have a ‘firm, great love for each other.'”

“Huh?” Su Mulian widened her eyes and blurted out, “You’re not yet… I mean, aren’t you lovers?”

“No.” Meng Chao shrugged. “We’re business partners, friends walking down the same path of cultivation, and comrades who fight together in battle. That’s all.”