The Counterattack Plan of A Villain With Ten Thousand Fans - Chapter 196

Chapter 196

"What's wrong?" Yu Zhihang asked.

Li Suiyun spoke softly earlier, so the people behind him didn't hear what he was saying. He quickly composed himself, shook his head, and said, "Alan might have left the base. He's not a power user, so he shouldn't have gone far. I'll take some people out to look for him."

An Ningning looked worried, "But..."

"Alan will be fine." Li Suiyun interrupted An Ningning's speculation, "You all have worked hard on the experiment, go back and rest. You should all know the formula and method for making the potion, right? There are still many parasites in the base, and they rely on you for rescue."

Hearing Li Suiyun say this, Yu Zhihang and An Ningning, who originally wanted to search with him, stopped and returned to the laboratory.

Li Suiyun led a group of people out of the base, searching everywhere, but they did not see Ling Chunann. In the end, they had to return without success. By this time, it had been three days since Ling Chunann disappeared.

"Li Suiyun." Before entering the base, Ye Feixiao called out to Li Suiyun.

"What?" Li Suiyun turned his head and asked.

"Do you know what happened to Alan?" Ye Feixiao's voice was very confident. Seeing Li Suiyun about to rebut, he continued, "Although I'm not very smart, you and I understand each other. You must be hiding something from us."

Li Suiyun fell silent for a while, then suddenly sighed, "Shu Yiheng sought me out a few days ago."

"You said he had something to do out of town, didn't you?" Ye Feixiao asked.

"No, Shu Yiheng... disappeared," Li Suiyun organized his words, "Just like he vanished suddenly." Thinking back to that moment, Li Suiyun still found it somewhat unbelievable.

"Disappeared?" In this era filled with power users, anything could happen. Ye Feixiao did not doubt that Li Suiyun was lying. He asked, "How did you know?"

"That day, Shu Yiheng called me over to arrange some things, then said he was going out of town. I also had a mission outside, so we went to the city gate together. Then, in the blink of an eye, he was gone."

"What's so surprising about that? Isn't he from the Ming sect? Being able to become invisible is quite normal, isn't it? Don't overthink it." Ye Feixiao breathed a sigh of relief, "Alright, our main focus now is still to find Alan."

Li Suiyun fell silent for a while, then showed a smile to Ye Feixiao, "Maybe I'm overthinking."

What Li Suiyun didn't tell Ye Feixiao was that before leaving, Shu Yiheng had handed over the base to him and also asked him to deliver a letter to Feng Cheng. He didn't think much of it at the time, just thought that Shu Yiheng was too worried about Ling Chunann, afraid that he couldn't take good care of himself alone. But upon further thought, it did seem like Shu Yiheng was leaving a last will.

And Ling Chunann must have known about it.

Thinking about after seeing Tan Linfeng, Ling Chunann's words about waiting for Feng Cheng to handle it, Li Suiyun couldn't help feeling annoyed. It was obvious, as Ling Chunann always let Shu Yiheng handle things before.

However, what puzzled Li Suiyun was how Ling Chunann knew. He could assure he hadn't shown any flaws.

Just as the base was in turmoil over his disappearance, Ling Chunann leisurely hummed a tune, passing through countless devil vines, and arrived at the mountain top 300 kilometers away from the base.

The devil vines seemed not to sense Ling Chunann's presence at all, swaying with the wind, proudly displaying their dominance over this new world.

"Host, won't you reconsider?" 098 asked, "And... are you not waiting for the adult to come back?"

From here, one could see the lights rising from the direction of the base. Ling Chunann sat down on a surviving tree branch, resting his chin in his hands for a while, "He won't come back."

098 was stunned, "Ah?" Wasn't he supposed to return in a few days? The adult never breaks his word, especially to the host.

Ling Chunann smiled, suddenly producing two curved blades in his hands. He skillfully twirled the blades a few times, smiling, "Look."

098: "...Isn't this the adult's ability?"

"He left it to me, hmm, an inheritance." Ling Chunann put away the blades, "But he probably thought I wouldn't discover it until it was dangerous... he's underestimating me."

At this moment, 098 couldn't tell whether its host was angry or sad, and dared not to speak. It had not sensed anything unusual about Shu Yiheng either.

After a few days of integration, the seed and Tan Linfeng's energy core had completely merged. If not for Ling Chunann's energy suppression, it probably would have grown uncontrollably by now.

Ling Chunann fiddled with the now vibrant green sprout on the seed, the small leaves affectionately brushed against his fingertips, appearing exceptionally well-behaved.

Ling Chunann squinted his eyes, then bit his wrist.

098, having not seen its host bite himself for a long time, suddenly felt a sense of time passing. However, it immediately had no time to linger on this feeling, as the seed followed Ling Chunann's bite into his body.

098: "!!!"

098 suddenly remembered the formula Ling Chunann had calculated before. He must have known then that Shu Yiheng wouldn't come back. Indeed, after experiencing so many worlds together, there naturally should be a sense of connection between them.

098 didn't know how painful it would be to become a parasite, but maintaining consciousness after being parasitized must be incredibly difficult. Yet, it couldn't see any sign of discomfort on Ling Chunann's face, nor could it tell if he was in pain.

As soon as the seed entered Ling Chunann's body, the surrounding devil vines seemed to receive some signal, beginning to tremble as if wanting to flee. However, since they were rooted in the soil, there was nowhere to run. Under Ling Chunann's gaze, seeds began to emerge from the vines and flew towards him, only to be scattered and vanished by him, and their vine bodies instantly turned to ash.

Then, just as they had when they first arrived in this world, countless seeds emerged from the vines like specks of light from every corner of the world, flying towards Ling Chunann and then disappearing one by one.

Dawn gradually broke, and almost every city had people noticing this anomaly, then countless people rushed out of their homes to look up at the sky.

"Li Suiyun, come out!" Ye Feixiao shouted into the house.

"What's happened?" A few seconds later, Li Suiyun rushed out.

"Look at the sky," Ye Feixiao pointed upwards, "What is that?"

The sky was still somewhat dim, and the density of the seeds had decreased significantly, but since Qingcheng was not too far from Ling Chunann, the spectacle still appeared quite alarming. Li Suiyun went back inside to grab a telescope, and after a few seconds, he gasped, "It's... devil vine seeds."

"The devil vines are dead!!" At this moment, a power user ran back from the city gate, panting, "Yun Ge, we just discovered, the devil vines that had been encircling the city gate for miles, are all dead, only their ashes remain on the ground, and all the seeds have vanished!"

"Really?!" Ye Feixiao was both shocked and delighted, "That's great! If all the devil vines are dead, we're liberated!" He missed the days when there were games to play.

"They're all dead." At this moment, a voice appeared behind the group, belonging to the weary Feng Cheng.

Besides An Ningning and Yu Zhihang, who were still busy making potions, almost all the nearby residents had gathered in the square. Feng Cheng took a quick look around, then asked Li Suiyun and the others, "Where's Lan?"

"He..." Ye Feixiao looked at Li Suiyun, unsure of what to say.

"He's missing," Li Suiyun stated truthfully, "It's been almost five days."

"What?" For the first time, a crack appeared in Feng Cheng's usually impassive expression, "Then what about Shu Yiheng?"

"He... also disappeared," Li Suiyun said.

"Did they leave together?" Feng Cheng asked.

Li Suiyun looked at the man's expression across from him but didn't answer the question, "Shu Yiheng left you a letter; I'll go get it for you."

After handing the letter to Feng Cheng, Li Suiyun and Ye Feixiao watched him with a bit of trepidation, afraid he would suddenly blame them for not taking good care of the two.

Feng Cheng read the letter word for word, then calmly put it away, saying nothing.

As the day grew brighter, the seeds flying from all directions finally ceased.

"Counterattack value +20%, current counterattack value is 100%, congratulations host for completing the mission. Would you like to return to the mission space immediately?"

"Wait a moment," Ling Chunann leaned against a tree trunk and sat down, his voice slightly low but showing no sign of the ordeal.

"Ah? Why? Aren't you uncomfortable now?" It could barely stand the thought of the pain its host must be in.

"What's the rush?" Ling Chunann raised an eyebrow, and began rummaging through his space, eventually pulling out a letter, "I forgot to look at this earlier. If I die and go back without seeing it, how can I settle accounts with him?"

"…" Remembering its host's vengeful nature, 098 decided it was best to remain silent.

The letter was something Ling Chunann had swiped from Li Suiyun, while also leaving a replacement behind. Naturally, the content suggested that he and Shu Yiheng had gone off to roam the world, otherwise how could Feng Cheng remain so calm?

The handwriting on the letter was familiar, but unlike the brief note he had been given before, this letter was much longer, detailing many of Ling Chunann's bad habits and even some quirks he wasn't aware of himself, resembling a will leaving tasks to a trusted friend. Ling Chunann slowly crumpled the letter, "Well played."

"…" 098 felt an impending doom for someone, not daring to speak.

After a while, Ling Chunann smoothed out the letter again and stored it in his space. He looked towards the distant city, "Let's go back."

As soon as Ling Chunann finished speaking, his body finally gave in, vanishing like all parasites do. However, uniquely, where he disappeared, a seed was left behind. It moved slightly, then burrowed into the ground.

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