The villain also has spring 2

Chapter 2029, Section 2.27: Immortal Serum

"My lord, could the golden python of the ancient vampire queen be the same giant snake we saw before, the one that swallowed the airplane whole?" Captain Nine-Tailed had made a new discovery regarding the plot.

“It’s most likely them.” Wu Chen had already pieced together a whole storyline from the many details: “The male and female that ‘opened the can’ last night were also them: the ‘Blood Orchid Queen’ and the ‘Golden Python’.”

"I see." Captain Nine-Tails immediately realized: "So, the clue to the Dragon Balls is in the Mayan temple nightclub."

"Perhaps the clue to the first Dragon Ball is hidden in that 'prehistoric relic' that everyone is searching for." Wu Chen had indeed pieced together the entire storyline. Of course, from the perspective of player competition, there wouldn't be a very complicated storyline. In short, collect the Dragon Balls and summon Shenron. As for the characters from different timelines who were bundled into the game, as long as they acted out of their survival instinct and tried their best to survive to the end, they would naturally become the sole winners.

"My lord, this vampire looks remarkably like a bat spirit," Chen Changzhi remarked, having used optical invisibility to track the vampire.

“There are indeed many similarities.” Wu Chen understood Chen Changzhi’s thoughts: “But fantasy and xuanhuan (a genre of Chinese fantasy) are different spiral zones. For something to appear in the science fiction spiral, besides the circulation of cards, it also needs the support of science fiction attributes. For example, the cyber-modification technique popular in the Traveler’s Camp. In addition, some cards on the ‘dynamic edge’ also have the possibility of crossing boundaries. For example, xuanhuan and science fiction, which converge on the dynamic edge, have roughly the same worldview. When I was still a novice in the Broken Realm, I accepted a commission to cross the pipeline. The spiral zone outside the pipeline was ‘Urban Cultivation.’ There were also skyscrapers, airplanes, and cars there. It was only slightly behind the near-future science fiction storyline. It was more like the original world from the late 20th to the early 21st century. There, flying vehicles were rare, and the skyscrapers were far less advanced than those in the science fiction spiral. So it was also generally called ‘Urban Fantasy.’ At that time, I didn’t understand the profound meaning of ‘dynamic edge.’ Later I realized why the middleman’s Southern Dynasty Interstellar Hotel was located on the Sky Street near the edge of the science fiction spiral.”

"Is it because it can gain the support of 'cross-dimensional attributes'?" Captain Nine-Tailed had already figured it out.

“That’s right. The Southern Dynasty Interstellar Hotel, located near the ‘dynamic edge,’ has gained the attributes of both ‘fantasy’ and ‘science fiction’ in a dynamic way.” Wu Chen revealed the secret in one sentence.

As his adventures deepened, his understanding of the Shattered City grew. Now, thinking back, the Shanghai Street 177 Tanglou Seafood Hotel, also built near the dynamic edge of the mystical spiral belt, must have been engaged in similar business as the Southern Dynasty Interstellar Hotel on the sci-fi spiral belt, which echoed its location. (Yes, sir. Tian Wuyai and Lolita were a loving couple after all!)
The vampires' flight path was the same as the route taken by Team 4 during their first field mission—the one searching for survivors from the plane. Only this time, they were venturing deeper into the jungle. Fortunately, none of the vampires' special abilities could counter the Cybertronian Transformers. For example, their sense of smell for blood, their ability to sense heartbeats, and so on. The Chen sisters, clad in Vortex armor and riding an optically cloaked motorboat, concealed all human vital signs, revealing more of their Cybertronian Transformer characteristics.

Some people say that bats don't have very keen hearing, so why can't they hear the roar of a motorboat engine?

Because stealth is a natural talent of the Cybertronian Vortex Fox. It's like those cheap, readily available noise-canceling headphones. Working on the principle of wave interference, the headphones' built-in microphones monitor ambient noise in real time, analyzing its frequency, intensity, and waveform. They then generate a set of sound waves with the same amplitude but opposite phase to the ambient noise, thus achieving noise reduction. Even without the support of the "Superbrain Area Chain," the Vortex Fox can easily perform active noise cancellation with its powerful onboard Cybertronian superbrain. Therefore, silently approaching its target becomes a natural attribute of the Cybertronian Vortex Fox. This is why the Vortex Fox is the cunning and dangerous Spark Devourer of Cybertron.

"My lord, we've arrived." After rounding a sharp bend, the view suddenly opened up. At the very top of the Mayan temple, towering amidst the jungle, a striking neon sign was flashing: Breast-Jiggling Nightclub.

This nightclub, built on the US-Mexico border, caters only to passing motorcyclists and truck drivers. Inside, from the bartenders to the waitresses, even the rock band, the entire crew is made up of evil vampires. Their leader is none other than Santanico Pandemoni, the ancient vampire queen, "Death's mistress."

The real-world actress who plays the role is Salma Hayek, a famous Hollywood actress.

"Get close and scan carefully, don't disturb the people inside." Wu Chen felt that this nightclub, which looked like it had a cult-like atmosphere, had an inexplicable strangeness about it. Especially compared to the Mayan temple nightclub in the original storyline, where most of the structure was buried underground and only the top tower was exposed, this Mayan pyramid in front of him, which stood completely on the ground, had too many structures inside that could be expanded.

As expected, the Chen sisters' close reconnaissance was gradually confirming Wu Chen's judgment. From bottom to top, the Mayan pyramid consisted of: a survivor camp, a mechanical weapons factory, a medicine laboratory, a cryogenic blood bank, and a breast-jiggling nightclub.

"My lord, the Water Spirit Gang's emblem has been detected in the survivor camp." Chen Changzhi promptly reported the new clues he had discovered.

"It seems that the Nobel Prize-winning bioweapons expert didn't die in a plane crash." Wu Chen immediately updated the known plot clues.

“His original destination was this place.” Captain Nine-Tailed also figured everything out: “He came for the ‘Eternal Life Serum,’ and incidentally to manufacture snake venom bioweapons, eliminate dissidents, and ensure victory.”

"That's most likely the case." Wu Chen agreed, "Strange, the two giant pythons didn't go out to hunt for food tonight."

"Could they be mating?" Captain Nine-Tailed thought of a possibility: "That golden python was so hungry that it wanted to swallow the plane whole, perhaps it was 'using any means necessary' to accumulate energy for mating."

“That’s true.” Wu Chen nodded slightly.

"My lord, this is a golden opportunity for us." The Nine-Tails captain spoke up at the right moment: "As the old saying goes, 'Strike while the iron is hot.' Let's wipe this place out in one fell swoop and eliminate future troubles forever."

"What about the Dragon Balls?" Wu Chen asked with a smile.

"Does the Lord mean that the Dragon Balls are related to the two snakes?" Captain Nine-Tails immediately grasped the key point.

"Hmm." Wu Chen's ingrained intuition shone brightly once again: "The spin-off storyline should unfold soon."

"Is it because of our intervention?" Chen Changzhi only recently realized that only players could advance the frozen plot. Just like the Fulong Temple, which was closed for some reason, and all the 480 temples of the Southern Dynasty, the plot development was interrupted because of the players' departure. With Wu Chen's intervention, the plot line frozen in the seven realms within the Fulong Temple Pagoda began to develop again.

This is also the origin of Wu Chen's judgment that "the derivative plot will unfold soon".

Otherwise, the seven realms within the tower will remain blocked until the day it reopens.