Chapter 123: You Might Not Know Me, but Believe Me for Now
Chapter 123: Chapter 123: You Might Not Know Me, but Believe Me for Now
The pitch-black environment was completely silent. There wasn’t a single sound.
Gu Zhao frowned. ’Did I jump to the wrong place?’
When the viewers heard Gu Zhao’s chattering voice, they’d never thought it sounded so wonderful before!
[She’s alive! Our Monkey King is alive!!]
[WAHHHHH I was so scared I cried! Gu Zhao, you owe me for these tears!]
[She jumped from that high and she’s fine?! Is that even possible?! Newton must be rolling in his grave!]
[I also think it’s ridiculous. This has to be fake, right? It feels too much like a script. Not even Iron Man could jump from that high and still be alive and kicking.]
[This is more outrageous than a novel, but the other guests’ reactions don’t seem fake.]
[Weirder things have happened. I saw a news story once about a guy who blocked several bullets with a shovel.]
Gu Zhao stood up, rubbing her aching legs. She fumbled around on the ground with her hands, finally finding the drone after what felt like an eternity.
"Are you still with us?" Gu Zhao asked, shaking the drone.
The staff member immediately controlled the drone to respond.
"Does the drone have a light?"
The staff member froze for a second. That’s right, this drone was a certain company’s latest model; it was equipped with those features!
’Then why have I been staring at a black screen for so long?!’
The drone switched on its light, shining it directly in Gu Zhao’s face.
"How rude!" Gu Zhao turned the drone around, using it as a flashlight.
Drone: ’Who’s the rude one here!’
Using the light, Gu Zhao surveyed her surroundings. It wasn’t ancient ice all around her, but a layer of rock. And if you were to ask what kind of rock...
...the answer, of course, is: she had no idea.
Gu Zhao took a few steps forward and suddenly fell flat on her face.
[??? Are her internal injuries acting up??!!]
[Monkey King, don’t scare me like that!! My poor heart can’t take this kind of suspense!]
[Monkey King, stop messing around!! It’s the middle of the night, and I’m laughing and crying so much my mom’s calling me a lunatic!]
[It must be nice to be young and just fall over like that. I’m doing great too—I had to pinch my own philtrum raw to keep from fainting from shock.]
Gu Zhao raised a stubborn little hand, and the first thing she did after getting up was to feel her teeth.
Thankfully, all her teeth were intact, even the front tooth that had just started growing in.
She kicked at the snow, and a drone came flying out.
Seeing the drone, Gu Zhao immediately crouched down and started digging through the snow.
Several drones were buried in the snow. If she hadn’t tripped, she never would have found them.
These were the camera drones that had been following Gu Xulin and the others!
’The drones are here, but where are the people?’
’Hey, people without drones, can you come out on your own?’
Gu Zhao rummaged through the surrounding snow. Not seeing any human remains, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
’As long as they’re alive.’
Gu Zhao took her drone and continued walking along the crevasse. After an unknown amount of time, the space began to widen.
Occasionally, a strange cry or two could be heard.
The bullet comments grew tense.
[Don’t tell me there’s some century-old demon down here!]
[That cry sounds so desolate... It’s not haunted, is it...]
[At this moment, a certain scared grandpa is quietly pulling his feet back under the covers.]
「Deeper inside the crevasse.」
A massive research base was built within it.
Inside a room that looked like a prison cell.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!! I’d rather die than sell out my handsome face!!" Gu Xulin desperately clutched his clothes, glaring with rage at the middle-aged man in a white lab coat standing before him.
Zhong Siqi and the others also stood firmly in front of Gu Xulin, desperately protecting his virtue.
The man watched him with a look of playful cruelty. "Once you see the consequences of defying me, you’ll change your mind. Ah, I just love seeing this cluelessly defiant look of yours."
The man left.
Everyone had just breathed a sigh of relief when two people in white coats entered, dragging a little boy with them.
The little boy’s eyes were numb, but what shocked them even more was that a tail—the kind only an animal would have—was growing from behind him!!
One of the men in white glanced at Gu Xulin with disdain. "So you’re the one the boss has taken a fancy to?"
"For a grown man, you really do have the face of a vixen."
His face flushed with rage, Gu Xulin lunged forward to hit them but was held back tightly by Zhong Siqi and the others.
"Brother Lin, calm down! They fight dirty! They have anesthetics!"
"We can’t beat them!"
The man in white laughed mockingly. "Impotent rage? How amusing."
"If it weren’t for the boss, we wouldn’t be wasting our research time showing you the consequences of disobedience."
The two of them had an air of superiority, looking down on everyone else as if they were gods.
One of the men in white pulled a scalpel from his pocket and sliced directly into the little boy’s tail.
With a bloodcurdling scream, the tail fell to the floor.
The little boy writhed on the ground in agony.
"You bastards! You animals!" Gu Zhen’s eyes turned red.
The man in white was completely unfazed. "He’s just a failed experiment. It’s merciful of us that we haven’t disposed of them directly."
"As for you, the boss said he’ll give you one day to consider. Either you submit to him, or..."
The other man in white finished, "...you’ll become a new test subject."
They left with smug grins.
As soon as they were gone, the group immediately surrounded the little boy, their eyes filled with worry.
Gu Xulin was about to tear his shirt to use as a bandage, but a small pair of hands stopped him.
Zhong Mingrui looked at him seriously. "Brother Gu, as Big King’s brother, you have your virtue! You can’t bring shame to Big King!"
Song Yi agreed. "Big King said that a man’s best dowry is his virtue!"
Even in his towering rage, Gu Xulin had to take a moment to be speechless at Gu Zhao. That little brat! ’What on earth is she learning all day!’
In the end, Zhong Mingrui just stripped off his own brother’s shirt.
Zhong Siqi: ???
Meanwhile, after walking for an unknown amount of time, Gu Zhao finally saw a building.
Gu Zhao was instantly envious. "What genius thought of building a house here! You probably don’t have to pay for it, right?!"
Envy was one thing, but finding her brother was still the priority.
Gu Zhao let go of the drone and instructed it, "Hide yourself and follow me secretly. Don’t get discovered."
"I suspect this is a villain’s lair. I’m going to go raid their base."
With that, Gu Zhao dashed off.
The drone followed covertly.
However, after flying for less than a minute, the drone crashed, and the live stream went black.
[??? What’s going on!! Why is the screen black again?]
[Production team, get out here and take a beating!! Did you cheap out and buy a crappy drone?!]
[Fix it, quickly! Our Monkey King hasn’t been discovered, has she!!]
[Drone, if you’re going to die, die off to the side!! What if she gets seen because of you!]
[Rescue team, I’m begging you, hurry up and save our Monkey King!]
The director was panicking too. The drone had suddenly lost its signal, and he was more frantic than anyone!
The control room was in chaos, while a trending topic, #GuZhaoDroneBlackScreen#
quietly shot to the top of the charts, only to vanish again a minute later.
Soon, viewers discovered that they could no longer post any news related to the snow mountain at all!
But Gu Zhao had no idea that her drone had already peacefully passed away a while ago.
She slipped past one patrol after another, and Gu Zhao successfully got herself lost.
She wandered through identical corridors, going around in circles.
Until she saw a middle-aged man in a white coat.
Gu Zhao thought for a second. Realizing her streak of good luck only had fifteen minutes left, she decided to take a gamble.
She forced out a couple of tears, then ran toward the man, sobbing loudly, and hugged his leg, bursting into a torrent of wails.
"Brother! I finally found you, brother!!"
The man in the white coat frowned deeply, trying to shake her off with a kick of utter disgust, but the child clung to him like a stubborn plaster.
"An escaped test subject?"
"Brother, it’s me! Jia Hua! Little Flower! Your dear sister! Your own flesh and blood sister... from a different father and mother!" Gu Zhao’s cries were heart-wrenching.
If Gu Xulin were here, he would have been speechless all over again.
’How can Gu Zhao be such a little brat?!’
’Jia Hua? The name itself is a pun on "lie"! Only an idiot would believe her!’
"You might not know me, but just believe me first!" Gu Zhao cried for a long time without shedding a single tear.
The middle-aged man frowned, and a person actually came to mind. "You’re that old man’s mistress’s daughter?"
Gu Zhao immediately nodded.
"Don’t call me brother! I don’t have a sister like you!"
Jia Xu’s face was full of disgust.
So?
’Son of a... his surname is actually Jia?’
’And he really has a sister?’
Gu Zhao couldn’t help but marvel at her good luck. ’It’s really, really useful.’
’But it’s also a real killer.’
’Good luck! Aren’t you jealous? I traded an hour of my future life for it.’
"Brother, WAHHH, to find you, I’ve climbed mountains and crossed rivers! I’ve eaten so much spicy and savory food that I’ve become constipated!"