111: Chapter 111 Pay-to-Win Crack! The Hunters' Lair is Actually in the Sewers?!

"Boss, the encryption level on this chip is extremely high."

Ye Yuqing sat at the stone table, the high-performance laptop she had just bought laid out before her. Her fingers tapped rapidly across the keyboard, her brows furrowing deeper by the second.

"This is a military-grade encryption algorithm, and it's actually mixed with some kind of... metaphysical Talismanic Incantation lock?"

"If I try to force a crack, the data inside the chip will self-destruct."

"A metaphysical Talismanic Incantation lock?"

Su Yang, holding a freshly washed peach, leaned over to glance at the garbled code on the screen.

"Interesting. It seems these God Hunters have truly taken the combination of technology and 'ruthless tricks' to the extreme."

"Can you unlock it?"

"I'll try... No, my skills aren't enough." Ye Yuqing shook her head in frustration, but then her eyes lit up as she pulled out that black gold card.

"However, where skill fails, money prevails!"

"I know a hacker organization ranked third on the Dark Web called Heavenly Eye. As long as the money is right, there's no lock they can't crack!"

"Contact them!" Su Yang waved his hand grandly. "Tell them if they crack it within half an hour, I'll pay double!"

"You got it!"

Ye Yuqing immediately began the operation.

*Ding!*

In less than five minutes, the other party replied.

[Heavenly Eye: This job is a bit hot. The target has an anti-tracking System; we'll need extra. Five million, non-negotiable.]

"Five million?" Ye Yuqing looked toward Su Yang.

"Give it to them."

Su Yang didn't even blink.

"Tell them I want maximum speed, and... while they're at it, hack that anti-tracking System for me too!"

"Understood!"

As the massive sum of five million was transferred, the efficiency on the other side instantly increased by three hundred percent.

The progress bar on the screen began to jump frantically.

Taking advantage of the break, Su Yang walked over to the ancient well in the backyard.

"Xiao Bai, come out to receive a guest... *cough*, I mean, come out to work."

*Splash—*

Water sprayed everywhere.

A giant shell surfaced and slowly opened.

The Clam Spirit girl, Xiao Bai, rubbed her sleepy eyes. Still wrapped in that thin layer of gauze, she looked at Su Yang with a face full of resentment.

"Boss, it's broad daylight. Can't a girl get some beauty sleep?"

"Sleep? No time for sleep, get up and get hype."

Su Yang pointed at the few pink pearls inside her shell that were emitting a soft glow.

"That soul rice from last night wasn't eaten in vain, huh? You've already produced"

"Spirit Pearls?"

"You bet!"

Xiao Bai puffed out her chest proudly.

"This lady is an eight-hundred-year-old Clam Spirit. These Peach Blossom Spirit Pearls can not only whiten and nourish the skin, but they can also attract romance!"

"Forget attracting romance, but whitening and skin-nourishing are good things."

Su Yang reached out unceremoniously and plucked the pearls out.

"I'll have Yuqing grind these into powder later to make face masks. Our Agency can have another revenue-generating business."

"You! That's my bathwater... pfft, I mean, that's my essence!"

Xiao Bai was so angry she wanted to bite someone, but seeing the nearby Rice Bucket watching her like a hawk, she could only shrink back aggrievedly.

"Boss! It's done!"

Just then, Ye Yuqing's excited voice drifted from the front yard.

Su Yang walked back holding the pearls.

"Where is it?"

"Right here!"

Ye Yuqing pointed at a red dot flashing continuously on the screen.

"Jiangzhou City's Old Industrial Zone, the abandoned Seventh Underground Drainage Hub!"

"The sewers?"

Su Yang looked at the location on the map, a cold sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"I knew they were a bunch of rats that couldn't stand the light. They really do live in the gutter."

"Since we've found their lair, let's not keep them waiting."

Su Yang stood up and rolled his neck, letting out a series of crisp 'cracks'.

"Yuqing, Wan'er, Reba, you three stay and watch the house."

"Da Hei, activate Level One Alert Mode. Any creature that comes within a hundred meters of the yard—no matter what it is—bind it first and ask questions later."

"Roar—!"

The Black Demon Flower in the backyard waved its vines, signaling its acknowledgement.

"Boss, I want to go too!" Reba raised her hand. "I want to see you fight monsters!"

"Not this time."

Su Yang shook his head.

"The sewers are filthy and messy, and that bunch of lunatics has high-tech weapons. I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you if a fight breaks out."

"Be a good girl and stay home. I'll bring you back... a souvenir."

After soothing the women who wanted to follow along for the excitement, Su Yang began to pick his team.

"Chu Ling, Mary."

"Present!"

Chu Ling, who was eating ice cream, and Mary, who was touching up her makeup, immediately stood up.

"The two of you are coming with me."

"Chu Ling has thick skin, so you're responsible for tanking damage. Mary is fast, so you're responsible for cutting down the backline."

"As for me..."

Su Yang touched the ten thousand souls banner at his waist and the seven star dragon abyss sword on his back.

"I'll be responsible for fire support!"

...

Jiangzhou Old Industrial Zone.

This place was once the city's economic lifeline, but with the implementation of environmental policies, the factories had moved away one after another, leaving behind only a rusty jungle of steel and desolate workshops.

Weeds grew rampant, and wild dogs roamed.

Before a massive, wire-fenced abandoned sewage outlet.

Three figures appeared out of thin air.

"Ugh... what is that smell!"

The moment Mary landed, she couldn't help but pinch her nose, her exquisite little face scrunched up into a ball.

"This is the God Hunters' base? This is so classless. It's even more disgusting than that Ghost Granny's broken ship!"

"It really does stink."

Chu Ling also waved her hand dismissively. "Smells like dead rats mixed with engine oil."

Su Yang looked at the dark, massive pipe opening before them, which was still leaking sewage. A golden light flashed in his eyes.

Under the Heavenly Eye, he could clearly see that deep within that seemingly ordinary sewage pipe, dense infrared sensors and psionic traps were hidden.

"Don't underestimate these rats."

Su Yang said indifferently.

"They've transformed this place into an underground fortress."

"And..."

Su Yang tapped the ground with his toe.

"Buried beneath this ground are no fewer than a thousand modified corpses."

"It seems they don't just want to hunt gods; they want to create them too."

"Create gods?" Mary was puzzled.

"Strengthening the flesh with technology and imprisoning the Soul with evil arts."

Su Yang pointed at an inconspicuous camera above the pipe opening.

"Look at that."

*Sizzle—*

Following Su Yang's gesture, the camera disguised as a stone suddenly rotated, and a red light flashed.

Immediately after.

*Rumble—*

The ground began to vibrate.

The soil on both sides of the sewage pipe suddenly flipped open, and four 'monsters'—two meters tall, wrapped in exoskeleton armor and holding Gatling guns—crawled out.

The reason they were called monsters was that although they had human limbs, their heads were metal skulls, and eerie blue ghost fires burned in their eye sockets!

"Intruders! Kill without mercy!"

A cold, electronically synthesized voice rang out.

*Da-da-da-da-da—!!!*

Four Gatling guns fired simultaneously, and blue psionic bullets poured out like a rainstorm!

"Watch out!"

Mary cried out in alarm, wanting to teleport away.

"Why hide?"

Chu Ling took a step forward, shielding Su Yang and Mary.

"You think these toy guns can hurt this Princess?"

"Indestructible Diamond Body!"

Boom!

Purple corpse Qi condensed into a thick suit of armor on her body's surface.

*Clang, clang, clang!*

Those psionic bullets, powerful enough to punch through steel plates, hit Chu Ling only to set off a series of sparks. They couldn't even tear her clothes.

"This is the technology and 'ruthless tricks'?"

Chu Ling walked forward step by step against the hail of bullets, a mocking smile curling on her lips.

"Too weak!"

She suddenly accelerated, instantly rushing in front of a Mechanical Corpse Puppet and grabbing the barrels of its Gatling gun with her small hands.

"For me... bend!"

*Crack!*

That thick gun barrel was actually twisted into a pretzel by her brute force!

"What?!"

The corpse puppet, which only had a simple AI, clearly hadn't processed this situation, and its movements stuttered.

"Goodbye!"

Chu Ling threw a punch, directly blowing its metal head apart.

*Bang!*

Blue ghost fire splattered everywhere, and the massive corpse puppet crashed to the ground.

"So violent."

Su Yang shook his head from behind, then looked at Mary.

"Don't just watch, get to work."

"Make it quick; I'm in a hurry to get home for dinner."

"You got it!"

Mary's figure flashed, turning into a blood-colored afterimage.

Before the remaining three corpse puppets could even turn their guns, their power lines behind their necks were severed by sharp steak knives, and they slumped to the ground.

"Utterly fragile."

Su Yang walked to the pitch-black pipe opening, looking at the countless red dots lighting up in the depths.

"Warm-up is over."

"Next, it's time to meet the owner of this place."

He strode into the sewer, his figure instantly swallowed by the darkness.