Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 515 - 514 Study hard and make progress every day

Yan Shan looked around curiously at the experimental equipment surrounding him.

"Is this the 'Xuantai Pingyu Tian'? So many devices, all of which I've never seen outside."

"I'm going to be a researcher at the Plague Department in the future, I want to resolve the issues caused by the distortion of Heavenly Dao!"

As he walked around a corner, a sudden loud bang startled him; he thought someone had entered.

But when he turned around, he realized it was just a box that had fallen to the ground.

Yan Shan focused his gaze, and he faintly glimpsed a hand stretching out from the box.

Confused, he walked over to the front of the box and saw a pale face appear before him.

Ah!!

In the midst of his scream, Yan Shan, frightened, turned and ran, sprinting aimlessly into another room.

What he saw next was a massive transparent crystal filling his entire field of vision.

Behind the transparent crystal was an expansive pool filled with pale blue liquid.

Within the pool water, countless densely packed figures floated up and down. As Yan Shan stared at their faces, his own face turned pale, and he collapsed to the ground in fright.

"Yan He, brother..."

"Yan Shang..."

"And sister Yan Lu..."

Each lively person was now carelessly thrown into the pool, their faces marked with blood-red numbers, treated as casually as animals in a lab.

...

Yan Shan said to Zhou Bai in front of him, "Later... I started observing and gathering data, gradually realizing that many of the immortals with exceptional talents were secluded under the guise of cultivation, and then declared to have gone mad from improper practice, perishing as a result."

"But in fact, most of them were probably taken by the Plague Department for experiments."

"This isn't just an issue with the Plague Department alone; it's all the celestial departments, the righteous gods, who are experimenting on their own children."

"Hehe, so since then, I've been secretly collecting data while deliberately hiding my abilities. I roamed around engaging in pleasure, pretending to be naive and ignorant, all the while trying my best to ingratiate myself with Lord Yan Zhen, hoping I'd be taken for experimentation later."

"Indeed, there are some ancient immortals who haven't been sacrificed due to age; they've probably joined the experiments voluntarily, cooperating with the righteous gods."

"But I dare not delve deeper; many immortals inadvertently come to know some secrets and then get 'mutated.'"

"Hehe, being an immortal in Central City, only the ignorant are blessed."

Listening to Yan Shan's account, both Zhou Bai and Christina were shocked.

Zhou Bai sighed, "To experiment on their own descendants... Why would they do such a thing..."

Christina said, "Perhaps because they are their own kin, they can perform certain special experiments. Is this indulgence of the immortals also meant to facilitate the experiments?"

Yan Shan murmured, "From what I've observed, it's probably to prevent us from developing too strong a disposition. Their experiments might be related to this."

In the ensuing conversation, Zhou Bai learned even more secrets about the heavenly realm, but sadly, nothing more scandalous than the righteous gods experimenting on the immortals came up, as Yan Shan had always kept himself deliberately away from deeper secrets.

"Too bad, you don't know the purpose of these instruments and devices." Zhou Bai sighed, looking at the book in his hand: "I'll have to research it myself then."

Thinking this, Zhou Bai turned to leave, also saying, "Yan Shan, read the sentence on the ground in front of you."

Hearing this, Yan Shan looked down and saw a phrase inscribed on the ground.

"I am Gu Letian, the Master of the Void."

"Breathe in and out for 10 minutes, then you may read the next sentence."

"If you need to go to the bathroom, go ahead, if not, read the next sentence."

"If you're hungry, grab some dry food from the corridor, otherwise, read the next sentence."

"My name is Gu Letian, the Master of the Void."

"Practice your boxing techniques for ten minutes, then read the next sentence."

Zhou Bai saw Yan Shan staying in the morgue, reading the words on the floor like a robot, mechanically training, reading, eating, and going to the bathroom with disturbing regularity—more ascetic than any ascetic monk.

...

Christina, lying in Zhou Bai's mind sea, nervously said, "Zhou Bai! Are you really leaving him there alone? What if something goes wrong?"

"What could possibly go wrong? His days are now more regular than those of an 80-year-old man, and I think his training efficiency might even be higher than before."

"Leaving it on autopilot for a year or so might actually get him into the habit of studying diligently every day."

Christina said, "But what if someone else discovers this?"

Zhou Bai replied, "I've written the words outside. Anyone entering and reading a few lines will have their intelligence lowered and then leave the hospital as instructed. And I can always see who has come in, so I can intervene if there's a problem."

Christina nodded and sighed in relief, "That's good… That's good…"

Zhou Bai smiled, "If you were this worried, you should have let me kill him earlier. Why beg me so earnestly not to?"

A cat's paw stretched out from Zhou Bai's mind sea and smacked him on the head.

"Humph! You're under my protection, so of course I care about your mental health. Who's going to give me a back rub in the future?" Christina twisted her body playfully, "Ah, the massage parlors in East City are no good, none are as soothing as your massages."

"How dare you mention massage parlors?!" Zhou Bai retorted angrily, "Next time I hear you've taken over my body to go to a massage parlor, I'm shaving you bald!"

"Massage parlor!" Elsa chimed in excitedly next to them, "Massage parlors are so relaxing! Can we go again?"

Zhou Bai retorted, "… You took Elsa too?"

Christina replied, "The technicians even offered to massage dogs for free!"

Amid their noisy banter, Zhou Bai, Christina, and Elsa headed towards their bedroom.

Suddenly Zhou Bai exclaimed, "Damn! Trouble!"

Seeing him turn and run back towards the hospital, Christina panicked, "What's wrong? Did something happen to Yan Shan? Oh no, I knew there was something off with your plan!"

Zhou Bai frowned and said, "There's nothing wrong with the words I set. I just remembered the hospital has been cut off from water and electricity supply. If Yan Shan continues to use the morgue bathroom..."

Just thinking about it made Zhou Bai shudder.

"We'll just have to seal off the bathroom and switch to using large bins of cat litter."

Christina breathed a sigh of relief, "Phew… caring for people really is troublesome."

Elsa, maintaining the appearance of a little girl, happily wagged her tongue as she ran after Zhou Bai, much like the times she was taken out for walks.

...

Meanwhile, in Central City, on Wanxian Island.

Ming Yue, the Immortal, said to the young man before him, "Shi Fa, this time you and three others are the main force for discussing the Dao in Daluo Heaven. Since you've mastered the Tathagata Heart Seal, I will not be stingy."

"This kasaya of the Dragon Elephant belongs to the first Buddha Emperor of Leiyin Temple, and I give it to you today, hoping you will not disgrace it."