Worlds’ Apocalypse Online - Chapter 188

Chapter 188: A Secret No One Knows

Zhang Ying Hao agreed: “You got that right, this guy is a really good business partner. I only partnered up with him for a bit and already received shares of an entire casino”

“Ah?” Ye Fei Li and Liao Xing both looked interested.

Zhang Ying Hao said contemplating: “Although right now the world situation isn’t that great, but after the calamity is over, I’ll have the casino open for business once again”

“Speaking of which, if the world can really go back to normal, I’m thinking of opening a stripper bar” Liao Xing also said.

“Save me a business card or two, I’ve never tried going to any of those places” Ye Fei Li said.

“What about you? What do you want to do?” Zhang Ying Hao asked Gu Qing Shan.

Ye Fei Li and Liao Xing also looked over.

Thinking about the beauty of the cultivation world, Gu Qing Shan said: “I’ll probably keep on with my cultivation”

“Cultivation? That wouldn’t take too long”

“Not just for a short time, I’ll keep on cultivating”

“You said ‘keep on’, how long would that be?”

“I’ll cultivate as long as I live”

“What a meaningless life then” all three of them said at the same time.

Gu Qing Shan only smiled and said: “However, right now we can only continue working”

Liao Xing replied: “Relax, the Game of Eternal isn’t going to be able to do anything to overturn us right now”

“That’s right, we’ve won this battle”

For two days in a row, the Game of Eternal’s winner had been killed by the Murder Clown.

No matter how brave a person was, they would definitely hesitate whether or not they wanted to join the next Game of Eternal.

So the situation was in Gu Qing Shan group’s favor.

Gu Qing Shan asked Liao Xing: “How’s the process of miniaturizing the warp devices going?”

Liao Xing turned on the screen and put out the problems he was facing for Gu Qing Shan to see.

Then he shook his head: “It won’t be that quick, quite a few crucial technical problems still requires experimenting and massive amounts of data before we can go on with the next step”

After seriously looking over them, Gu Qing Shan asked: “Very well, then what else do you need from me?”

“I like this place since I can get any kind of cutting edge technology here to use”

Liao Xing turned off the screen then continued: “But I really must say, I can’t order take-out here”

Everyone looked outside at the black void of space at the same time.

“We’ve all been here for almost a day already, I think everyone is probably hungry” Liao Xing rubbed his stomach and said.

“Agreed” Zhang Ying Hao replied.

“Then let’s go” Gu Qing Shan said.

A small-sized Warship left the S.W. Divine Temple and started to descend into the atmosphere.

Not long after, the four of them made it back to Zhang Ying Hao’s mansion.

The chef of this place was someone that Zhang Ying Hao had to make a lot of effort to invite, so their standard of food is always at an extremely high quality.

When the team of 15 kitchen staff members knew about Zhang Ying Hao coming back, they instantly began their work.

While they were waiting for dinner, Liao Xing turned on the TV and started to enjoy a drama series.

Ye Fei Li turned on his Holo-Brain and started to play a game, happily killing people inside.

Zhang Ying Hao took a few profiles in hand, delegating and settling one thing after another.

“Why are you so busy?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“Can’t help it, the apocalypse comes and apparently everyone’s deepest hidden desires suddenly become crystal clear to themselves” Zhang Ying Hao answered.

He held his Holo-Brain and mumbled: “7 spongers want to kill their wife off for their money, two wives want their husbands dead, three sons want to kill their father for an inheritance, I’m not accepting any of these shitty selfish orders”

“Then how’s your business going to survive?”

“This one, the order is to assassinate a Cardinal, the pay is 120 million Credits”

“So you’re the type that doesn’t open shop for 3 years but opening shop once lets you eat for 3 years”

“The one who ordered this hit was discovered by this Cardinal to have an exceptional supreme-ruler’s Chosen Skill when they were young and was worth his attention”

“And then?”

“The Cardinal was smitten by her beauty, so instead of letting her join the Holy Church, he locked her up for 3 years and used her as a plaything”

“Luckily she managed to escape and made it big, but didn’t dare to take revenge. Now that the apocalypse has come, thinking that she would die either way, she put a bounty on that Cardinal’s head”

“According to my customer here, the Cardinal didn’t just do that to her, but to many other beautiful women, after he’s tired of them, he uses them as a blood sacrifice for the Holy Church, to show his loyalty”

“And my customer is the only person who escaped with her life after all these years”

“Listening to this Cardinal’s personal history, I’m a bit itchy to kill him myself” Gu Qing Shan said, thinking about it.

“Don’t butt in, this is my livelihood” Zhang Ying Hao cautiously said.

“How many subordinates do you have?” Ye Fei Li asked from afar.

“No less than 300, can’t tell you the specific number though” Zhang Ying Hao puffed out his chest in pride.

“How impressive” Liao Xing praised him while still watching his TV show.

“With your abilities, why do you still murder for money?” Gu Qing Shan suddenly asked, “it’s probably not hard for you to become one of the 9 Lords if you really want to, right?”

“No way, no way” Zhang Ying Hao’s expression deflated, saying: “The title of Lord can only be inherited by the mainline, and the thing they’re protecting isn’t something I can shoulder”

Gu Qing Shan didn’t expect to hear that.

In the past life, he had to leave the Confederate very early and had to struggle for his life every day while in the game, so he didn’t know that the 9 Lords of the Confederate actually had a secret.

Were the 9 Lords protecting something?

If you’re saying they’re protecting the Confederate, that’s the sorriest excuse of a joke he’s ever heard.

“What is the thing that the 9 Lords are protecting then?” Gu Qing Shan directly asked.

“I’m not sure, only the Lords of each generation know for sure, and they have to keep it a secret for their entire lives. Anyone in history that has ever tried to peek at their secret had all died” Zhang Ying Hao answered.

Suddenly, Liao Xing said: “I know”

He turned off the TV and walked to face the two of them with a frightened expression on his face.

“You?” Zhang Ying Hao scoffed, “I don’t even dare to check it…”

“What do you know? It’s because I found out that I had to fake my death and hide on a distant planet for over 30 years” Liao Xing spoke in a low voice.

The two of them looked at Liao Xing, intrigued, while Ye Fei Li was still busy with his game.

“Wasn’t it because you wanted to become the 10th Lord, prepared the bombs for teleportation and threatened them that they were after your life?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

Liao Xing answered: “I only said that so that they wouldn’t dare to kill me carelessly”

“Then what is it then?” Zhang Ying Hao asked.

As a part of one of the 9 Lords’ that ran away from home, he was more interested in this than anyone else.

“Every Lord, at the moment before their deaths, would choose a successor under the supervision of the other 8 Lords”

“This is the tradition of the 9 Lords that everyone knows about, just get to the point already”

“The successor will then come with the other 8 Lords to a mysterious place”

“So you even know about that? You’re probably the first person who’s not part of the main line of the 9 Lords that knows about it? What else do you know?” hearing that, Zhang Ying Hao finally became serious.

“On the satellite’s map, that place is shown as personal property, a mountain range with strict security and powers set up everywhere, anyone unauthorized who dares to get close will die without any doubt”

“Then how did you get it?”

“I didn’t, I used a small-sized warp device to teleport a camera drone inside”

“Then what’s in there?”

“It’s hard to say, I can’t exactly describe it, but it’s probably not a mountain”

Liao Xing had a strange look on his face.

“Probably not a mountain? You mean you don’t know for sure, despite having seen it yourself?”

“That place had a very strong magnetic field jamming the signal, as well as other things, so my drone’s radar couldn’t quite see clearly”

“I had put an ultrasonic detector on the drone, this is a device I invented for military usage, capable of detecting and measuring the sense of danger around its immediate vicinity”

“As soon as the drone was teleported inside, the detector began to glow red, warning me to abandon the mission and retreat”

“But despite using other machines to gather environmental data, I found nothing”

Liao Xing continued: “I was very confused at the time and also felt a bit uneasy. But I held back the thought to have the drone retreat and controlled it to keep moving forward”

“When the drone reached the supposed side of the mountain, I suddenly couldn’t control it anymore”

“Then a face showed up on my control screen”

“A face?”

“Yep, only a face and nothing else”

“It was the face of someone who has been through countless years, I couldn’t tell if the owner of that face was dead or still alive”

“What happened next?”

“The face came closer and closer to the screen, then all transmissions stopped”

“I knew that the jig was up, so I began to make plans to escape right away”

“You all know what happened after”

“I kept being chased and chased, nearly died a few times, and finally couldn’t help but use a dummy to fake my death and escape into space to save my life”

Everyone went silent, slowly digesting the secret they all just heard.

“For a single secret, they couldn’t risk it and pursued you to the very end of the earth, and you were the best scientist in the world at the time as well…” Gu Qing Shan said while thinking.