Looking down at the brightly lit underground research institute below, Su Lihua turned to the others and asked, “So, are we going to charge in next and subdue all the enemies?”
“Of course not.”
Ling Xiaoyou shook her little head.
“We don’t know if there are any security forces protecting the place down there, so we still need to infiltrate it.”
“Then should we use the same method as before, making disguise suits?”
Su Lihua looked at Bai Shuanglian, wanting to replicate their previous approach at the pier.
“No. There isn’t enough blood to make suits for all of us.”
Bai Shuanglian shook her head.
“Leave that to me!”
Ling Xiaoyou confidently patted her small chest, looking completely sure of herself.
Guang Hua was taken aback and asked, puzzled, “Since when did you learn such disguise techniques?”
“Hmph, I told you, don’t judge a person by their past!”
Ling Xiaoyou chuckled proudly a few times.
Water emerged from her hands, suspended in mid-air, slowly coiling and spreading around her body. Then, the water enveloped her figure, increasing her height, covering her small head, and altering her appearance. Finally, Ling Xiaoyou took out a white lab coat left behind by one of the researchers from her Space Ring and put it on.
She turned to the others and said, “Well? Isn’t it seamless?”
Su Lihua stared in shock at Ling Xiaoyou, who now looked completely identical to the previous researcher, and said, “It’s unbelievable. If I hadn’t been right here watching you transform, I would never have believed you could disguise yourself like this!”
“Just a little trick, nothing worth mentioning.”
Ling Xiaoyou waved her hand dismissively, still looking pleased.
Next, Ling Xiaoyou successively used the “Disguise Art” she had obtained from the previous replica’s memories to change the appearance and attire of all her companions present, making them look exactly like the researchers who had taken the elevator up earlier.
Su Lihua touched her own head and exclaimed, “Wow, I never knew what it felt like to be tall!”
She then glanced at the others from her new perspective, nearly two meters tall, before covering her mouth to stifle a laugh.
“You all look so short now, none of you are taller than me.”
“Your height in this disguise is still fake.”
Ling Xiaoyou gave the silly girl a sidelong glance and said flatly.
“What should we do next? Should we still follow the original plan to obtain the research materials?”
Su Taosheng glanced at her slightly taller self, looking at her current disguise in the elevator’s mirror—a pale, sinister-looking researcher with an ordinary build, face obscured by long hair, and a neutral voice that made it impossible to tell if they were male or female.
“Mhm, the main goal is still to obtain the research data. Then we’ll try to see if we can destroy the data and samples in the institute, as well as rescue the imprisoned spirits.”
Ling Xiaoyou nodded.
Naturally, no one had any objections to this.
Suddenly, as if sensing something, Bai Shuanglian’s dark, bright eyes looked down toward the bottom of the elevator shaft and said, “However, we’ll first have to escape from the blockade of these guards.”
Hearing this, the others also followed her gaze and saw that at the bottom of the elevator shaft, hundreds of demons of various forms—all burly and fierce—were blocking the way, seemingly intending to surround them the moment they descended.
“They’re even blocking the elevator!”
Ling Xiaoyou couldn’t help but click her tongue, somewhat surprised that these demons had such intelligence.
“Shouldn’t you all just stupidly ignore us and only start chasing after us belatedly once we’ve completed our entire plan?!”
Complaining aside, Ling Xiaoyou quickly thought of a countermeasure and looked at Bai Shuanglian.
“I have an idea. Next…”
***
The feeling of a whole group crammed together wasn’t pleasant, especially when that group consisted of burly, round-waisted demons.
At that moment, the demons, following the Guard Captain’s orders, forcibly suppressed their destructive urges and waited quietly for the elevator to arrive.
At the front of the group, the Guard Captain, who had received the notification from the Red Demon above, took a deep breath and watched the screen displaying the elevator’s continuous descent. Even though two of those four were strong, his side had numbers on their side. No matter how strong the enemy was, they would fall beneath this sea of bodies.
The Guard Captain thought this to himself. He glanced at his somewhat restless subordinates and said coldly, “Everyone, get ready! Attack the moment they come down! Even if we can’t kill them, we must hold them here!”
“Yes!”
the demons responded loudly.
Even from far away, researchers could hear the commotion.
“What’s happening now? Did someone else attack? Are the guard forces being redeployed again?”
a researcher muttered, quickening his pace. He was just an ordinary researcher and didn’t want to get involved in these matters.
Suddenly, a tremendous roar interrupted his steps, nearly making him fall.
But he couldn’t care about that. He stared blankly at the exploding elevator shaft and murmured, “No way… Did the demon guards crush the elevator?”
No one answered him.
And the elevator had indeed “exploded.”
Of course, it wasn’t crushed by the demons.
At that moment, the demon guards looked at the suddenly exploding and shattering elevator shaft, equally bewildered.
The elevator shaft was originally a transparent tubular structure connecting the ground to the sky. The explosion sent countless shards of glass flying, raining down on the demons like a small glass storm.
“What are they doing? Did they give up on coming down?”
the Guard Captain wondered, looking at the scene.
But before he could think further, his pupils suddenly contracted.
From the center of the explosion, four slender figures suddenly shot out—clearly, they were the shapes of young women.
Watching them dive toward the distant parts of the underground city, the Guard Captain instantly understood their intention and roared, “After them! Don’t let them escape!”
With that, he was the first to charge out, pursuing the four figures at top speed.
A thunderous, chaotic sound of footsteps followed as his subordinates gave chase. Soon, the area in front of the elevator was empty, with all the demons chasing the figures in the air.
Then, with a boom, the already destroyed elevator fell from above, crashing heavily to the ground.
Afterward, four “researchers” walked out from within, everything looking perfectly normal—
If one ignored the wreckage of the crashed elevator behind them.