120: Chapter 120 Prisoners

"He's here!"

With a sudden roar, Chu Hong's figure instantly dashed in front of his opponent, severing the enemy's neck with a single slash.

It stopped abruptly.

However.

As this AI bot fell, what followed immediately was the sudden emergence of over a hundred armed personnel wielding weapons from all directions around them.

"You are surrounded! Drop your weapons immediately and put your hands on your head!"

Several infrared rays instantly focused on Chu Hong's body.

Looking at the increasing number of enemies, a wave of annoyance welled up in Chu Hong's heart. From start to finish, he had always sneaked around avoiding the AI bots, and from start to finish, he hadn't made the slightest sound.

Suddenly, Chu Hong thought of that figure standing proudly in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the roof of the Parino Base main building.

It was him!

Chu Hong's heart gave a jolt.

They didn't capture him sooner, nor did they capture him later, but instead chose the exact moment when he had just looted the small safe, causing the alarm to suddenly sound!

Such an uncoincidental coincidence inevitably raised an ominous premonition in Chu Hong's heart.

"Flower, come!"

With a low shout, the source energy throughout his body instantly erupted.

Ability Slaughter Overlord activated!

The very instant Chu Hong made his move, Ke Xiaoken, who had been following by his side all along, abruptly extended its tentacles.

Before three or four soldiers aiming their guns could even fire, Ke Xiaoken grabbed their arms along with the weapons in their hands, binding and squeezing them tightly.

"Bang! Bang, bang!"

The brutal, heavy sounds of flesh colliding like swinging a sledgehammer were accompanied by a few screams.

In an instant, these few people all collapsed to the ground.

As for Chu Hong, he cleanly and neatly resolved a few soldiers through a few agile leaps and dodges.

"Fall back!"

Without any hesitation!

With supplies still in his backpack and having brought virtually no consumables inside in the first place, Chu Hong immediately retreated toward the direction of the main gate without hesitation.

In this match, he spawned at Position No. 1 of the Parino Valley Base.

Not only had he scouted out the situation at the outer outpost by the entrance, but he had also figured out the terrain of the eastern district of the Parino Valley Base as well as the location of the small safe.

Retreating, restarting the next match, and then continuing to accumulate intelligence.

There was no need to engage in meaningless fights here!

However.

Just as Chu Hong wanted to retreat, the heavy gates of the Parino Valley Base were slowly closing at this moment.

With a loud "boom", the double doors were slammed shut.

A force originating from who knows where, which actually possessed an armored vehicle mounted with a heavy machine gun, along with nearly a hundred fully armed personnel...

...blocked Chu Hong's path.

"Tsk... Why are they closing the door now?"

Chu Hong sighed in his heart.

Fortunately, this match didn't yield any ultra-rare red items; the golden bust in his backpack was merely a gold-tier item, so losing it meant losing it.

Chu Hong was just preparing to use C4 right on the spot to extract.

Right at this moment, a calm voice suddenly came from very close behind him.

"The ability you just displayed is not an ordinary method... You are very unusual, definitely not an ordinary petty thief."

Chu Hong's pupils constricted.

He whipped his head around and was shocked to see that, a slicked-back man wearing a pitch-black leather coat with a form-fitting combat uniform underneath, and one eye emitting a soul-captivating red light, was standing right behind him who knows when.

A line of information appeared before Chu Hong's eyes.

[Palino Bio-Group Security Minister: Cliff Yang]

Cliff Yang's technological prosthetic eye flashed with red light, as if able to see through everything on Chu Hong's body. A slight expression of emotion crossed his stern, cold face.

"An impressive energy response... You have come for the flower of eternity!"

Without giving Chu Hong any chance to explain, and seeming as if he were unilaterally reading lines that he should have spoken anyway,

Cliff Yang said in a calm voice.

"But you shouldn't come here to be a thief. This is a desecration and insult to your strength, and it also deducts points for humanity in front of God."

Chu Hong didn't speak. Or rather, he couldn't quite figure out the strange situation at hand.

It wasn't like he had never encountered bosses or NPCs before.

But whether it was the boss priest and leader of the Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe, or Dr. Hoffman at the Cliffside Epidemic Hospital, they were mostly more like low-level AIs with communication capabilities.

They could only carry out ordinary communication or issue quests. It was the first time Chu Hong had ever encountered a boss like the one before him, who actually started analyzing him as a "player".

Chu Hong did not choose to extract right on the spot.

Instead, facing the guards who walked up to tie his hands behind his back, he didn't put up any resistance at all. At worst, he would become lost; anyway, there was less than thirty minutes left until he became lost now.

Ke Xiaoken turned into a streak of red light, merging into Chu Hong's body.

This magical scene did not cause the slightest reaction from the AI bots present, but it made Cliff Yang in front of him smile and nod.

"A very novel ability. It seems to be some kind of summoning or driving power."

Under the personal escort of several Palino Riot Shield Soldiers and hammer soldiers, Chu Hong followed Cliff Yang into the Parino Base main building.

As soon as he entered the main gate, Chu Hong saw the sign on the side of the front desk.

Arrow pointing to the left: [Emergency Security Department] [Research Laboratory No. 1]

Arrow pointing to the right: [Project Public Exhibition Hall] [Research Laboratory No. 2]

Chu Hong's hands were tied behind his back, but they went neither left nor right. Under Chu Hong's gaze, Cliff Yang walked in front and came to a central elevator door.

He pulled a black-and-gold card from his embrace, causing Chu Hong's expression to flicker.

"Beep!"

The elevator door opened.

The elevator continued to ascend. I must say, compared to the scale of the previous Cliffside Epidemic Hospital, the area and building size of the Parino Valley Base simply crushed the Cliffside Epidemic Hospital.

Take the elevator before him for example—it spanned a full 12 floors!

"Ding!"

The elevator door opened, and Chu Hong was roughly pushed out of the elevator by two shield soldiers. Looking at the super-large flat luxury floor-to-ceiling window reception room before him, Chu Hong could see the watchtower where he had killed the sniper earlier at a glance through the floor-to-ceiling window.

In this reception room at this moment, besides him and Cliff Yang, there was unexpectedly another figure.

A slightly bald, big-bellied white nouveau riche.

Chu Hong's gaze looked at the other person's hands, where almost every finger wore a gemstone ring.

[Palino Bio-Group Chairman: Parino Vincent]

Seeing him being dragged in at this moment, he took a deep puff of the precious cigar in his hand.

"Whoa! Yang, even though so many years have passed and you were left to me by my father, your efficiency is still as astonishing as ever."

Chu Hong was pressed into a seat.

At this moment, with several guns pressed against his head, not a trace of fear could be seen on his face.

This point caused both the boss Cliff Yang and Parino Vincent, who looked like an NPC, to inevitably reveal a slightly surprised expression.

Inside Chu Hong's backpack, the large gold [Parino Bust] that he had just looted from the collection safe was searched out from his backpack and placed on the table in front of him.

Along with it, purple collectibles that Chu Hong had looted, such as [Optical Stealth Fabric], were also taken out.

The two-slot small gold [Hidden Self-Destruct Core] was placed by Chu Hong into the source energy space, while the [Palino Riot Shield Soldier TPM Chip] had already been used by him.

Current match entry cost: 9802 (one backpack)

Current match earnings: 100k

Looking at Chu Hong's calm expression, Vincent took another fierce drag of his cigar before exhaling a long puff of smoke.

"Your composure makes me look at you in a new light, but... I dare not agree with your pursuits. You went through all this trouble, and it's actually for just this piece of yellow broken rock?"

Vincent, who controlled the entire Palino Bio-Group, smiled disdainfully.

A pure gold statue weighing a full fifteen kilograms was indeed no different from a broken rock in his eyes.

"You killed my employees, and more than one at that, and you also destroyed several of our expensive armed robots. I should have killed you directly, and I also believe Yang definitely has the ability to do so, but... Yang reported your abilities to me."

"I am willing to give you a chance to work for me, and at the same time, I can offer you impressive treatment."

A beam of light suddenly popped up before Chu Hong's eyes.

[Triggered In-Match Benchmark Quest "Human Supremacy"]

PS: The urging update will be published at ten o'clock! Thank you all for your support! Today's AI is acting a bit finicky, and the author is working hard to teach it how to be a qualified AI, -_-||