Chapter 90: Separate Schemas
Upon opening the door, Mu Si's eyes were met with small prison cells, each locking away naked young girls with listless, hopeless eyes. Seeing Mu Si, who was also naked but held a string of keys, a spark of life finally flickered in their dazed gazes.
"Wait for me, I'll unlock them one by one. The scum guarding them upstairs have all been killed by us," Mu Si said through gritted teeth after seeing the horribly ravaged girls.
She felt that the scoundrels upstairs had died too easy of a death.
"I'll open the safe," Bai Mo said, walking directly towards the safe hidden within his psionic sense, not even turning his head, as if utterly unmoved by the surrounding atrocities.
"How can you be so utterly unmoved?"
"I already saw it half an hour ago."
With a single punch, Bai Mo broke a hole through a hollowed-out wall and pulled out the safe from within.
"Boom!"
Tons of psionic power destroyed the safe's lock from the inside out, the recoil force sending the hundred-pound safe bouncing several meters away.
"One stack, two stacks... one hundred and thirty-two stacks. If each stack is ten thousand US dollars, that's one million three hundred and twenty thousand US dollars. As expected of an underworld stronghold that's been operating for many years; just the liquid assets stored here amount to this much. And three large bags of white powder, along with various documents."
"Mu Si?"
"What is it?"
"Come over for a moment."
"Mm."
A moment later, Mu Si led a group of girls over.
"I'll take six hundred thousand. You deal with the rest of the money, these few bags of white powder, and the documents. I'm giving you three minutes. After three minutes, I'll set everything on fire. There's nothing hidden here anymore."
Bai Mo skillfully completed his operation of killing and seizing treasure, not forgetting to set a fire afterward to erase all traces.
...
With a snap of his fingers, a raging fire began to burn from inside the house. The naked girls watched the blazing den of iniquity, tears streaming down their faces.
As Bai Mo was about to leave, carrying a bag full of cash, Mu Si walked up to him and respectfully bowed. "Thank you!"
He glanced at the naked group of people, suddenly curious how they would leave. Here, only the dead had clothes on them, and those clothes were all stained with blood.
"My home is very close, just a few steps away if we go naked. I'll take them to my house first," Mu Si said generously. "What about you, though? Your clothes are also torn to shreds."
"They won't see me clearly."
No sooner had he spoken than everyone present saw only a white blur drift past, and Bai Mo's figure vanished into the depths of the darkness.
"..." Among those present, only Mu Si, who had awakened her abilities, could barely make out Bai Mo's departing traces.
...
The ghost-like Bai Mo quickly floated back to the hotel, rushing back into his room before the security guards could even react.
He casually tore off the tattered strips of cloth he was wearing, tossing them into the trash can, and recalled the taste of that drop of blood from last night.
Deep beneath the sea.
"Great Prophet, what should our next step be against the enemy?" A giant mutated whale, nearly a hundred meters long, communicated telepathically with a strange brain-shaped creature less than ten meters in diameter.
"Previously, I personally took action and controlled several human nuclear submarines, launching targeted strikes against their economic centers. I believe their productivity and social order have been greatly impacted."
"Respected Great Prophet, this Elder does not fully understand many of the terms you use. What do 'nuclear submarines,' 'economic centers,' 'productivity,' and 'social order' mean? I humbly ask the Great Prophet to enlighten me."
"Elder, you're too polite. 'Economy' means..." The brain-shaped creature slowly explained these concepts to the giant whale.
"The civilization of these Sea Race beings accumulates too slowly. If I hadn't been awakened to guide their development, based on their level of civilizational accumulation, it would take them at least several hundred years to catch up to the humans on land.
But even so, to surpass them in civilization would still take at least a hundred years. Spirit Qi has given them the ability to think, but the accumulation of knowledge is certainly not something that happens overnight." The brain-shaped creature began to ponder the current situation.
"According to what I've learned since waking, the humans on land were originally a technological civilization, but the recent emergence of Spirit Qi has given them a tendency to become a hybrid cultivation civilization. Regardless, their ultimate fate is death!"
"If I hadn't been heavily injured and only a fraction of my strength remained, and if this planet weren't so desperately lacking the minerals I need, how could I have fallen so low as to slowly nurture these primitive beings to protect myself? I would have directly swept everything away with a mental control wave; there aren't many creatures on this planet who could escape that move."
"The so-called multi-layered secrecy of these backward technological races, in my opinion, are nothing more than petty tricks that can be broken in an instant. As long as I can physically touch a nuclear warhead, I can gain detonation authorization. It's a pity they've learned their lesson and unloaded the ammunition from all submarines carrying nuclear warheads."
After completing its thoughts in a very short time, the brain-shaped creature offered another suggestion to the giant whale.
"Elder, next we will concentrate a large portion of our strength to accomplish an important plan..." A wave of mental fluctuation transmitted into the giant whale's brain.
...
Early the next morning, Bai Mo picked up the room's phone and dialed Ye Zi's satellite phone.
"Who is this?"
"I'm Bai Mo."
"Where are you now? We'll be at the airport in two hours, ready to head back home." Seeing that Bai Mo had been out of contact for so long, everyone, anxious to return and check the situation back home, decided not to wait for him any longer.
"I've made a major discovery these past few days."
"Are you really Bai Mo? You haven't had some problem from being hit by a nuclear bomb, have you?" Ye Zi grew suspicious of the nonsense on the other end of the line.
"I am Bai Mo," he replied indifferently.
"If you're fine, why didn't you meet up with us first?"
"I encountered vampires. They tasted quite good."
"So you called me this early just to tell me that?"
"Yes. I injured them last night, and then through some means, I learned the location of their lair. Now I'm looking for help."
"Captain Bai, is there anything that can escape your grasp? Forget about vampires for now, so much has happened these past few days, everyone is eager to return home."
"How many people are around you right now?" Bai Mo, who had no lingering ties in Huaxia, was more concerned with the current matter at hand.
"Everyone is here, except for you."
"That's perfect. Help me gather everyone, including Commissioner Liu."
"Do you know what you're saying? You want to drag them all into madness with you?"
"Sister Ye, what's wrong? Who would be calling you at this hour?" Rong Jingya asked from behind Ye Zi.
"Bai Mo."
"I think I heard something about vampires," Yue Yu chimed in.
"He's probably having some delusions, mistaking ability users for vampires."
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