129: Is it the 12th second?

"Wuwuwu..."

Parino Vincent was electrocuted by the Thunder Horned Dragon's lightning to the point of losing his mind.

Even though the latter had already stopped outputting lightning magic.

After waiting for more than a full minute, that guy Vincent finally recovered from the electrocuted state. When he saw Chu Hong standing before him, he instantly crawled backward in terrified panic.

"No! What kind of person are you? You can't kill me. If you kill me, the entire board of directors of the Palino Group won't let you off! Yang won't let you off either..."

He screamed in panic, but Chu Hong grabbed the latter and hauled him up.

Grabbing the other's collar.

His immense strength made it so that lifting someone like Vincent, who was practically like a fat pig, didn't require the slightest bit of effort.

Arriving in front of a wall.

Chu Hong punched it heavily.

"Open it for me!"

Under the scan of the cobweb brain-computer interface display cabinet.

Right behind this wall at this moment, there was unexpectedly another secret chamber.

Vincent wore a look of shock, not knowing why Chu Hong could precisely know all this, but upon seeing Chu Hong's pair of eyes glowing with golden light, he immediately swallowed hard.

He didn't dare to offer any sophistry or resistance at all.

He hurriedly took a book from a bookshelf on the side, opened the pages, and revealed a separately built-in fingerprint recognition device inside.

"Beep!"

As an electronic sound rang out, a line of information instantly popped up before Chu Hong.

[Vincent's private safe house, unlocked]

A safe house?

Chu Hong frowned. The benchmark quest had mentioned that completing it would unlock "Vincent's private collection room".

This turned out to be an unexpected harvest...

The Kraken coiled around Vincent's body like a thick python, its massive cyan-blue head almost pressing against Vincent's face.

Frightening the latter until his face turned completely pale.

Right now, he followed behind Chu Hong while trembling, continuously begging for mercy and trying to persuade him.

Although to Chu Hong, these words felt more like an NPC reciting lines...

"Sir, although I don't know who you work for, please believe me, you've been fooled by them! They are deceiving you. The Palino Bio-Group has indeed destroyed some environments and captured many creatures from Primitive Valley No. 1 for research, but these are all necessary..."

The safe house was not large.

The surrounding walls had a heavy metallic feel, as if stepping into a bank vault.

On a huge tea-gray table sat a few pouches.

Retrieving [Handbag filled with money]: ...

Chu Hong was stunned. The retrieval black box was unexpectedly filled with item boxes!

All of them were one-by-one slots!

His expression turned joyful, and then...

[Brand new banknotes (green)] [Brand new banknotes (green)] [Brand new banknotes (green)]...

"That bitch Smith Molly was never a good person. She worked for Dick for money... Can you imagine, Sir, she and that group of monkeys researched reproductive genetics..."

Chu Hong's eye twitched fiercely. Compared to the "true handbag filled with money" in front of him, Chu Hong felt like he had heard something even more explosive.

Seeming to think that Chu Hong's current expression meant disbelief, Vincent hurriedly defended himself.

"Sir, if you don't believe me, I have evidence! That woman is an absolute pervert. Not only does she do those disgusting things, but even after learning by chance that our researched [flower of eternity] can alter human genes and give humans god-like power, she attempted to steal our experimental data."

"She wants to turn humans back into monkeys!"

Vincent wept tears of grief, pointing his finger at a laptop on the table at this moment.

"There is evidence in that computer!"

Chu Hong gave him a skeptical look and walked over to the computer.

Then, the moment his hand touched the computer, a dialog box indicating retrieval popped up in front of him.

Retrieving [Confidential computer (high-value container)]

It wasn't the black box that directly started retrieval as in past impressions, but rather... a video.

"Oh! Oh! Oh!"

Chu Hong: "！！！"

My eyes! Ah!

My eyes, ahhhhhhh!

Watching Chu Hong, whose face turned ashen and who immediately retreated like an electric shock the moment he touched the computer, Vincent wore an anxious expression.

"Sir, I really didn't lie to you, I wuwu—"

When Ke Xiaoken covered his mouth with its tentacles, Chu Hong's world did not quiet down because of this.

That bizarre-to-the-extreme video from just now was like a virus, unable to be driven out from his brain.

"Blech..."

Finally, Chu Hong vomited!

What made it even more unbearable for Chu Hong was... this computer actually had mandatory protection!

Is this a setting a human could come up with?!

It said that retrieval couldn't be started without finishing the video.

"What the motherfucking hell, did I actually take such a retard quest from this retard's hands? Heh, heh heh..."

Chu Hong's laughter carried a bone-chilling coldness.

Since things that transcended species boundaries could be done in that video, then as for what Vincent said about Smith Molly attempting to use the [flower of eternity] to turn humans into monkeys—

Whether it was true or false no longer mattered.

Because Chu Hong felt... there was nothing that CS couldn't do.

"Great, just great, I fucking became a traitor to humanity."

Chu Hong squeezed out these words almost from between his teeth. After taking a deep breath and forcing himself to calm down, he then, with the help of Ke Xiaoken, covered his eyes and plugged his ears.

Afterwards.

"Ohohoo..."

Vincent: "No! No! Don't let me look at this! Turn it off! Turn it off quickly... Wuwuwu, I beg you, at least plug my ears too, okay?"

The video couldn't be fast-forwarded, but fortunately, it was less than two short minutes.

Vincent was covered in tears, his whole person's expression ashen and desolate, collapsing limply to the ground as if the world had collapsed.

In front of Chu Hong, a retrieval black box finally appeared.

Retrieving [Confidential computer (high-value container)]: ...

A one-by-one slot.

As the retrieval icon spun longer and longer, this time, upon seeing that blooming golden light, Chu Hong's expression was terrifyingly calm.

Only a mere little gold?

Is this all it takes to compensate for my emotional distress?

[Item Name]: Locator

[Item Grade]: Gold

[Value]: 79,221

[Type]: Electronic device

[Weight]: 0.8 kg

[Backpack Slot Capacity]: 1 × 1

[Item Description]: Can transmit and locate the target's current position in real-time. It is an indispensable electronic equipment in tracking, surveillance, or covert operations.

Chu Hong expressionlessly put the item away, and his gaze began to search for other searchable containers here at the moment.

Searching [Item cabinet]...

[Bottled fresh water (White)]

Searching [Handbag]...

[7 ammo * 30 (Gold)]

Chu Hong's expression looked slightly better.

When his gaze swept to a hidden corner under a table in the corner of the wall, his eyes suddenly twitched slightly.

A container shaped like a firearm box appeared before his eyes.

Stepping forward, he pressed one hand onto it.

Retrieving [Weapon case (high-value container)]: ...

Looking at that glittering gold sign of the mandatory protection, Chu Hong's pupils violently constricted at this moment!

A weapon case of high-value container grade?!

This was the first time encountering one.

The retrieval black box appeared, a 1 × 5 item appeared before Chu Hong's eyes, and the retrieval icon began to spin.

Suddenly, Chu Hong's breathing trembled fiercely!

Red light bloomed!

PS: Hehehe, I designed a gun skin myself, posting it tomorrow noon~