A vicious female is trapped in a beastly hell.

Chapter 658 The Crystal Core Has Been Found!

Since that incident, Shouhe completely gave up on Shoujin and placed all his hopes on the clone, wanting a more obedient son.

Unfortunately, all the previous clones failed, so Shouhe could only imprison Shoujin in the Abyss of Death and spare his life.

Now that Shouhe has finally obtained a successful experimental subject, there is no longer any need for Shoujin, the original body, to exist.

Shouhe had even planned that as long as the laboratory handed over the clone, he would personally eliminate Shoujin and then secretly have the clone replace him forever.

Unexpectedly, Shoujin escaped from the Abyss of Death first, and progress at the laboratory was also not going smoothly.
Although they successfully obtained the crystal core, it will take time to replicate another body.

While they were waiting, the crystal core was stolen once. Although it was eventually recovered, someone noticed that the crystal core seemed to be missing a small piece and was no longer complete.

The missing small part has not been found to this day, and the experiment has had to be stopped without any progress.

At this moment, Shouhe suddenly remembered something. Not long ago, when he saw Shoujin again after the crystal core was stolen, this kid who should have gone out of control and become a mad beast suddenly had a lot of stable energy.

Is it...

Shouhe's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he questioned Shen Tang about what exactly was going on.

Shen Tang initially stammered and tried to play dumb, but under his threat, she was frightened into telling the truth, "I... I don't really know either... After being chased by the family head last time, he came back and said he encountered a mysterious person... I don't know who that person is, but the mysterious person seemed to have given him something, and after that, his superpowers became much more stable..."

Shouhe fell into deep thought. He had initially suspected that the kid had stolen the crystal core, but then he realized that Shoujin probably didn't have that ability. Moreover, in his out-of-control state, he had no rationality and it was impossible for him to do it.

But who exactly is this mysterious person?

Their ability to bypass the laboratory's multiple security measures and steal a portion of the crystal cores is truly remarkable and should not be underestimated.

Could there be a traitor in the laboratory?
Shouhe's eyes grew increasingly dangerous.

However, the most important thing right now is to find Hunting Ash.

Now that he has already integrated the power of that small portion of the crystal core, it's actually easier. There's no need to go through the trouble of searching for the stolen crystal core anymore; we can just capture him directly.

Jin glared at Shen Tang with hatred and shouted angrily, "I told you something so important, and you dared to betray me and trample on my sincerity! You deserve to die!"

Shouhe chuckled, "Jin'er, the partner you've chosen is much more pragmatic than you. I'm very satisfied with this daughter-in-law."

Jin stared intently at him, his gaze so sharp it seemed he wanted to tear him to pieces.

That look instantly reminded Shouhe of the moment he brushed past death that day, and his face darkened immediately, but he quickly suppressed the murderous intent.

With one hand behind his back, Shouhe let out a low laugh, his sigh filled with deep pity. "Jin'er, you still don't understand your father's good intentions. All these years I have been trying to cure your illness, and I was almost successful, but unfortunately... you hate me too much, and I can no longer keep you."

Jin seemed to want to resist, but his body quickly went limp. He remembered that when he saw Shen Tang earlier, he seemed to smell a peculiar scent on her.

Shen Tang was hiding behind Shou He, looking at him guiltily.

Jin immediately understood, his face turning even more ashen, and he didn't even have the strength to speak, "You...you actually dared to drug me..."

Shouhe must have given her something beforehand that could cause him to lose his superpowers for a short period of time!

Shouhe glanced at Shen Tang with satisfaction; she had done a good job this time. Then, he took out a syringe and walked straight over to inject Jin.

Jin's vision went black, and he instantly collapsed to the ground, losing consciousness.

Shouhe immediately summoned his trusted men and ordered them to carry Shoujin back to the royal city.

A trusted orc asked, "Master, shall we return directly to the royal palace, or go somewhere else?"

Shouhe narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "Take him directly to the laboratory."

The father and son had long since become enemies, and Shouhe could no longer keep him alive.

He must cultivate a replacement as soon as possible. As long as he completely extracts the core of the Hunting Ash and fuses it with the one in the laboratory, he can create a perfect core and produce a replica that is even better than the original!

Shen Tang looked at the unconscious male, a hint of sadness and guilt flashing in her eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

She excitedly asked Shouhe, "Master, will this allow my beast husband to be resurrected?"

Shouhe would naturally not revive her beast husband; experimental subjects with too many emotions and memories would be difficult to control.

What they wanted to create was a completely new experimental subject, whose memories and emotions were entirely under their control, so that it could become a perfect, powerful, and controllable weapon.

Looking at the hopeful female before him, Shouhe chuckled and replied, "Of course, I believe you will soon be reunited with your beast husband."

Seeing her excited and happy expression, he felt even more mocking. He had thought she was some kind of troublesome problem, but she was just a young and foolish female, impulsive in love, and in the end, the easiest to deceive.

It seems I overestimated her.

Not enough to be afraid of.

Shen Tang suddenly remembered something, and a shy blush rose on her face. She pleaded, "Patriarch, I have another request."

"Speak." Having successfully caught the person, Shouhe was in a good mood and appeared very amiable.

Shen Tang blushed even more and said with her head down, "I want to be the first person to see Beast Husband when he is resurrected and wakes up... so that the first person he sees when he wakes up is me."

She looked like a female deeply in love with her beast husband, a sentiment that moved the other beastmen.

Shouhe also looked Shen Tang up and down. Her appearance and figure were indeed stunning, enough to fascinate young men.

No wonder both the original and the clone fell in love with her.

With such beauty, it would be a real shame to simply kill her.

He smiled kindly and said, "Of course, then you can come with us to the laboratory."

The female was stunned for a moment, then her face lit up with joy and surprise. She seemed overwhelmed with gratitude, and her voice trembled slightly as she said, "Thank you, Master!"

"You're welcome. You're my daughter-in-law, and you helped me catch this kid, so of course I won't treat you unfairly."

Shouhe scoffed inwardly. He couldn't possibly keep a foreign female around, even if she was truly harmless, he wouldn't feel at ease.

However, her genes can be preserved and used to create clones, making her a good tool for carrying out a "honey trap".

Soon, they returned to the laboratory in the royal city.

The laboratory has been restored to its original state, and everything is in good order, with no trace of the chaos that occurred recently.

Shouhe had Shen Tang wait on the first floor of the laboratory, and arranged for several trusted subordinates to "protect" her, but in reality, it was to monitor her.

He'll arrange for this female after he's finished dealing with Hunting Ash.

Shouhe personally led Shoujin to the thirteenth floor of the laboratory, which was a dedicated dissection area.

They strapped the unconscious man to the experimental table, bound his limbs, and prepared to cut open his chest, remove the complete crystal core, and that would be considered a great success.

Shouhe stood to the side, nervously watching the experimental table.

Hunting Ash was injected with an extremely high concentration of anesthetic, specially made in the laboratory, enough to incapacitate a monstrous mutant!
If a beastman below the Yuan Beast rank is injected with this dose, there is an 80% chance he will be paralyzed or even die!

Even a powerful beastman at the Yuan Beast level would be unconscious for half a day.

Hunting Ash remained asleep, and from the outside, it seemed as if he was no longer breathing.

The dissection was proceeding smoothly and methodically.

Everything went too smoothly, to the point that Shouhe felt it was a bit too easy, and he felt somewhat uncertain.

But now that they've been captured, it's impossible for them to cause any trouble.

So he relaxed and waited for good news.

Seeing his own son's chest ripped open, a bloody mess, Shouhe felt no pity, only extreme fanaticism and excitement.

Halfway through the autopsy, a staff member suddenly said, "Strange, the heart is still beating..."

They had severed the orc's aorta, so his heart should have calmed down quickly, but the heartbeat seemed unaffected and instead grew louder.

The staff had never encountered this situation before.

After cutting open the heart according to procedure, they discovered that what was inside was not a transparent crystal core, but... a miniature bomb!
"not good!"

"We were lied to!"

"Run—"

The orcs' expressions changed drastically, but before they could escape, the sound of their heartbeats, or more accurately, the ticking of a time bomb, exploded suddenly after a soft bang!
Boom! The entire first floor of the laboratory was blown up and collapsed.

Shouhe was very close by; the blast sent him flying several meters, crashing heavily into the rubble and spitting out a mouthful of blood.

The once intact half of his face was now a bloody mess.

Now, his entire face is completely ruined, grotesque like a demon.

"It's that bitch!"

He was furious to the extreme, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a demon crawling out of hell.

They've been tricked by her again.

"Catch her!"

"Death by a thousand cuts!"

……

On the other side, Shen Tang had already taken down the orc guarding her, affixed invisibility and teleportation talismans, and headed straight down from the first floor to the depths of the underground, where she had already reached the ninety-somethingth floor.

Suddenly, the entire space shook violently. She looked up and a slight, mocking smile appeared on her lips.

The old man thought he had tricked her, but little did he know that he was the one who had been tricked.

How could Shen Tang betray Shou Jin? The two of them acted out this play together; what she gave Shou He was just a puppet controlled by mental power.

I must say, the high-end dolls produced by the system are really useful. Not only do they look exactly like real people, but they can even replicate the skin texture and flesh 1:1.

She also had Shoujin take out a drop of his blood essence and place it inside the doll, so that the doll would be imbued with his aura.

She deliberately agreed to Shouhe's method to knock out Jin, and the energy fluctuations would weaken after he was unconscious... It would be no problem to bewitch Shouhe for a short period of time.

She also gave him a special gift: a high-level bomb from the system store placed on the doll's chest. Even if it didn't kill the old man, it would be enough to give him a hard time!

Shen Tang arrived at the 103rd underground floor and released the Hunting Ash from his spatial dimension.

They saw the monster again.

Even before they got close, just looking at it from afar, the terrifying and powerful aura instilled a deep sense of fear in their bodies.

Shen Tang said in a deep voice, "Let's finish this quickly and make it a gamble. If we fail, we'll run! Shou He and his men are probably catching up soon!"

Hunting Ash stared intently at the colossal creature not far away, his muscles tense and bulging, wisps of lightning crackling around him, as if he were about to shoot out like an arrow at any moment. "I'll distract it, you go straight inside and find the crystal core."

“…Okay, take care.” Shen Tang opened her mouth, but that was all she could say for now.

Jin smiled at her, his smile filled with complex emotions. Without saying anything more, he rushed forward and engaged the monster in battle.

boom!
Rumbling--

The entire space was teetering on the brink of collapse!

As Jin approached and enraged the monster, he quickly became covered in wounds.

The monster had little intelligence, only biological instincts to retaliate, so it didn't realize that the man was intentionally leading it further and further away from the gate, creating an opportunity for Shen Tang.

Shen Tang seized the opportunity, affixing several concealment and teleportation talismans to his body and using his spatial abilities to quickly approach the gate and successfully enter.

Jin breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: Once she finds the crystal core, she will have a chance to revive her beast husband.

By then, she will have left.

The two will never see each other again, and there will be no future for them.

Just then, a jumble of sounds of attack and footsteps came from above. Jin's dejected expression suddenly turned sharp; it was Shouhe and the others who had arrived.

He's alone; one man can't fight four opponents. He's probably no match for them...

We absolutely cannot let them break through, otherwise Shen Tang will be caught and it will all be over.

Now, the only solution is probably...

Jin glanced at the monster he was fighting, a resolute glint flashing in his deep, lifeless golden eyes, before leading the monster toward the stairs.

As soon as Shouhe and his group reached the last level, they felt the ground beneath their feet shake violently, as if the earth was about to crack open.

Immediately afterward, a familiar, slender figure rushed towards them.

"It's Hunting Ash!"

"Catch him now!"

Before they could even feel happy, they suddenly saw the hideous, twisted, and inhuman-looking behemoth behind the man, and their expressions immediately changed.

Holy crap, what is this thing?

Everyone turned pale with fright.

Shouhe's expression changed drastically. Although he had cooperated with the laboratory, both sides had their own selfish motives, and it was merely a connection of interests. He didn't fully understand the laboratory's true nature, and he certainly didn't expect that such a monster would be hidden on the last floor!

Anyone with eyes could feel the terrifying power emanating from the monster; none of those present were its match!

Shouhe gritted his teeth and roared, "Close the defensive gate! Retreat!"

They hurriedly tried to retreat upwards, but each stairwell had a defensive door, which was originally set up to prevent the experimental subjects from escaping or other emergencies.

They ran while frantically trying to close the door, but it was already too late.

Before the defense gate was fully closed, a thunderous punch slammed down, instantly paralyzing the defense system.

Immediately afterwards, a sticky tentacle pierced through the crack in the door and ripped the defensive door open with a loud bang.

"Ah!" Several orcs who couldn't escape were swept away on the spot, only managing to let out a scream before being swallowed by the monster and leaving no trace of their bodies.

There were also many laboratory staff on site. They hurriedly took out the controllers used to control the experimental subjects, but they seemed to be completely ineffective against this behemoth.

Several more staff members were swallowed by the monster.

This monster was originally developed in a laboratory as a terrifying weapon of war, but it's clear that the laboratory hasn't fully controlled it yet. It's both a last resort and an indiscriminate killing machine; once activated, everyone could die at its hands.

The orcs present were no match for the monster and were quickly devoured, almost all of them perished.

Within minutes, the elite troops that Shouhe brought were reduced to just him, all alone.

His condition was also terrible; not only was his entire face ruined, but half of his body had been bitten off by the monster, and he was emitting a shrill scream.

But under the cover of those human shields, he still found a chance to escape and slipped away in an instant.

Jin wanted to chase after him and finish him off, but then he saw the monster suddenly turn back the way it came, wanting to go back!
Shen Tang is still there!

His expression changed drastically. Ignoring everything else, he continued to hold off the monster, leading it to another open space, away from the stairwell.

After the monster devoured so many high-ranking orcs and absorbed their power, it became even stronger than before.

Jin is almost at his limit.

His power began to spiral out of control, his consciousness gradually became chaotic, and his last thought was: I wonder if she got the crystal core and if she managed to escape.

……

On the other side, after entering the gate, Shen Tang saw a glass container in the center of the laboratory, inside which was the transparent crystal core, radiating a long-lost and familiar power.

Her body trembled slightly, her eyes filled with tears, and large tears rolled down her cheeks.

Xiao Jin's crystal core.

She finally found it!

Two parts combined, 4,000 words.

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