Chapter 622: Ending of the Sinful
A’Ji gestured at the second set of papers with his chin. “As for this guy, he’s a serial killer who wreaked havoc in Dragon City for a few years. Thirty-seven identified victims died horribly in his hands, and there are plenty of other innocent souls who died for no reason, but the city was never able to figure out who they were.
“So, this guy is also in the top 200 of the Supernatural Tower’s bounty list.
“Unfortunately, his attacks were very elusive, so no one ever found any clues about him. When his cris were exposed, he imdiately changed his appearance and snuck into the lair, causing the cases that he committed to beco old cases that could never be solved.
“This one, too. Three years ago, he was the mastermind behind the ‘Murders of Door 529’. Due to a conflict in a crystal trade, he killed his long-term business partner and his family of twelve. He even burned the cri scene, and the fire expanded so much that it burned two houses. This killed nearly one hundred innocent people. At that ti, his ranking on the bounty list was 99.”
A’Ji identified all the research subjects in the pictures.
They were either evil robbers or inhuman serial killers. All of them had the blood of at least dozens of innocents staining their hands.
Based on their nurous cris, they were all malicious criminals who would be considered to have gotten away easily even if they were cut to pieces.
Instead, they ended up in Saber Jin Wanhao’s hands and went through brutal experints that were much worse than being cut into pieces. Their deaths were also ten tis more painful than being cut thousands of tis.
A’Ji told ng Chao and Lu Siya that since thirty years ago, the rumor that the lair was a paradise for cri and a safe haven for wanted criminals had begun circulating in Dragon City.
Many infamous wanted criminals had fled into the lair after they were driven into a corner in the outside world once they committed heinous cris. They then disappeared without a trace and lived beyond the law.
Hence, the first thought among many of the superhumans was to flee into the lair after they made major mistakes due to entering spirit energy deviation.
What they did not know was that this was a rumor Saber Jin Wanhao had released intentionally.
His goal was to lure all the wanted criminals into the lair so that he could kill them.
The lair was truly a foul place with all sorts of people inside. The environnt was bad, and when the secret police or bounty hunters entered this complicated maze, they were usually very confused and had to return empty-handed.
But this was the sa for wanted criminals who just arrived.
To avoid being captured by the secret police and the bounty hunters as well as turn all the spoils from their cris into resources universally used in the lair so that they could continue living luxurious and pleasurable lives, they had to get into contact with the gangs. So of them even tried getting Saber Jin Wanhao’s protection.
As the master of the lair, Jin Wanhao naturally had plenty of ways to capture the wanted criminals without anyone noticing.
The information and data ng Chao and Lu Siya found were just the tip of the iceberg.
Over thirty years, Saber Jin Wanhao had captured no fewer than one hundred wanted criminals and sent them all into the “underground grotto”, as ng Chao put it.
He first used various cruel thods to figure out their hideout’s location, then squeezed out the last drop of these evil people’s bone marrow and blood to fill up his treasure trove.
After that, he turned those people into cultivation tools. He used them to conduct tests of new fighting styles, spirit energy magnetic fields, and gene dicine.
In conclusion, he did not even waste those people’s bones. He insisted on squeezing out all of their value and used them until they were reduced to ashes.
ng Chao and Lu Siya’s hearts filled with fear.
They did not expect that over the past thirty years, countless wanted criminals who everyone thought lived free lives in the lair had been killed by Jin Wanhao.
But the wanted criminals deserved it for what they did.
Jin Wanhao’s thods were sinister and brutal, but there was a saying that “A mighty man builds his success on ten thousand corpses”. The Underground Emperor had naturally left behind plenty of corpses and spilled a lot of blood to beco who he was.
“Based on what you said, over the years, Saber Jin Wanhao didn’t kill a single innocent person?” ng Chao asked tentatively.
“He couldn’t avoid killing in fights for control over the lair and his interests in the gray industries,” A’Ji said. “But there has never been a normal person or innocent person who appeared in this secret lab. All those who died here are infamous people from the bounty list.
“If you don’t believe , once you leave this place, you can go to the Supernatural Tower’s database and search for the information about these wanted criminals. I can promise you that you’ll find exactly what I told you.
“You’d know it, too, if you thought about it carefully. There was no need for Jin Wanhao to experint on normal people.
“They’re weak. The martial arts and dicine suitable for them aren’t anything that Jin Wanhao would use.
“Besides, even if Jin Wanhao really wanted to test so sort of martial art or dicine on normal people, as long as he was willing to spend money, many volunteers from Leprosy Village and the lair would fight one another to help him. The testing agency and outsourcing service for research subjects in this area are well-developed as well.
“Since there are proper thods, why would he go about it sneakily and do sothing so inhumane?
“As for superhumans, if they didn’t commit cris, they would be protected by the Supernatural Tower. Besides, every superhuman has a family and a complicated network of connections. If he captured such superhumans, he might be able to get away with one or two people, but if he captured a lot of them, there’s no way he wouldn’t leave traces.
“While wanted criminals are hated by everyone. To escape being captured by the secret police and the bounty hunters, they took it to themselves to cut off all their connections with the outside world. They even changed their appearance and threw away their nas. Doesn’t that make them the best pray?
“Even if these people were reduced to ashes in the secret lab and didn’t appear for more than ten years, everyone would just think that they changed their identities and are still living freely in the lair!
“Tell , wouldn’t Jin Wanhao just be wasting their identities of wanted criminals if he didn’t capture them and use them for experints?”
A’Ji cackled.
Even though he was still hung upside down and could not move an arm, his casual deanor and words that treated the fierce wanted criminals as pigs waiting to be eaten made ng Chao and Lu Siya’s skin crawl.
Speaking of which, if Saber Jin Wanhao’s cruel experints only involved evil wanted criminals, ng Chao really did not find anything wrong with it.
Even though he and Lu Siya were public figures and held the image of model superhumans, they were not actually moral prudes.
To ng Chao, as long as he could help Dragon City escape from the apocalypse, plenty of things that were considered problems to the world were not actually problems to him.
“So, Jin Wanhao spent his entire life’s blood, sweat, and tears to build this secret lab and killed more than one hundred wanted criminals here? Just what sort of experints did he conduct that couldn’t be brought to light?” ng Chao asked patiently.
A’Ji’s eyes roved about. In the end, he stared at ng Chao.
“What do you think?” A’Ji asked slowly. “Saber Jin Wanhao was soone who had already reached Deity Realm and had unparalleled power. He ruled over the lair and was so rich that he could rival the governnt. But he was in his twilight years, and all the injuries he gained when he fought and trained madly while young started acting up. His life was about to co to an end. What would the Underground Emperor want the most at such a ti?”
ng Chao pondered this for a while. “Red Brows Su Lun told that Jin Wanhao built this underground lab as his personal cultivation room and dical room. It was to prolong his life and let him retain so fighting strength.
“He recruited Red Brows Su Lun’s mother for the sa reason. After all, she was a talented genius when it ca to creating drugs.
“But all that we see isn’t as simple as prolonging soone’s life and helping them retain their fighting strength.”
A’Ji cackled again. “Of course not. The supre fighters of the older generation, like Saber Jin Wanhao and Battle God Lei Zongchao, are the pioneers of life science and spirit energy martial arts. When they were groping blindly in this area, they did not have anyone providing guidance and giving reminders to them.
“They walked through mountains of corpses. They might have obtained peerless power, but the price was also great. It led to nurous injuries. They not only affected their bones, but were so severe that their cells and souls were affected as well.
“If Saber Jin Wanhao relied on normal dicine and surgery to prolong his life, at most, he would only retain his life. He wouldn’t be able to retain the glory of the Saber and the power of the Underground Emperor. There would even co a day when he would lay paralyzed in bed and struggle to breathe for thirty years before he died. Jin Wanhao would never want that!”
“Then, what did Jin Wanhao want?”
“It’s simple.” A complicated but pleased expression appeared on A’Ji’s face. He said firmly, “Jin Wanhao wanted to regain his youth. He wanted to beco young again!”
ng Chao and Lu Siya were silent for a long ti.
For a period of ti, they could not tell whether this was a ridiculous joke or a really crazy plan on which the Underground Emperor had actually spent decades, unimaginable effort as well as all his resources.
“Is it really possible for soone to regain their youth?” ng Chao mumbled.
“Theoretically speaking, why not?” A’Ji said. “ng Chao, you and the Vortex as well as plenty of other superhumans plus superbeasts have relatively terrifying regeneration abilities.
“When you get wounded, your cells split up, copy each other, and reproduce at a crazy speed so that you will heal swiftly.
“The new skin is as tender as a baby’s. It ans that the cells inside have just been born. They’re filled with life and have endless energy.
“Since the cells in your entire body can be regrown, as long as all the cells in your body were switched out at once, why couldn’t you regain your youth and obtain a new life?”
ng Chao wanted to say that those were two completely different matters, but when he thought about it carefully, in his previous life, he had seen all sorts of strange and amazing creatures in the boundless Other World. Plenty of races had abilities that Earthlings would never dream of possessing while they were on Earth.
The world was large, and all sorts of amazing things existed in it.
And in the Other World, this thing might not be as ridiculous as it sounded.
Besides, Jin Wanhao was the Underground Emperor.
All of the emperors in the past wanted immortality, and it was not strange for Jin Wanhao to have such a desire as well.
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