Chapter 1216 - 1215: Did You Blow It Up?

Chapter 1216: Chapter 1215: Did You Blow It Up?

Luo Yirui suddenly felt a flash of understanding. Clearly, all those adult-looking Vertical Pupils from before were defective products, because they couldn’t think. These teenage-looking Vertical Pupils were the ones they’d actually wanted to create!

But then, does that make Black Coal Ball a defective product too? Because its combat ability is seriously lacking, and now that it’s parasitizing a cat, it’s probably even more defective.

Black Coal Ball guessed what he was thinking and couldn’t help but flash its claws, getting quite annoyed just thinking about it.

The Nie Family wanted to create a Vertical Pupil army that combined high intelligence with high combat ability, completely obeyed the Nie Family, would never betray them, and wasn’t afraid of death. Black Coal Ball was the only high-intelligence Vertical Pupil they’d produced, but its combat strength was extremely poor, so they sent it out to see if it could be of any use.

When Hao Meili died, they assumed Black Coal Ball had died along with her. No one went to look for it, they didn’t even bother to confirm it. In their eyes, a Black Coal Ball with no combat ability wasn’t worth anything.

Unfortunately, achieving their expectations wasn’t that easy. The new batch of Vertical Pupils they created did have very strong combat power, but their intelligence fell far short. They could manage basic thinking, but anything more complicated just went over their heads.

After a brief exchange with Black Coal Ball, Luo Yirui learned all this and felt a slight sense of relief. If those Vertical Pupils really could think and respond to them, that would be a huge problem.

"How do you even know all this? Haven’t you been gone for a long time?" Luo Yirui noticed something was off.

Black Coal Ball’s gaze drifted a little.

"Be honest, what exactly did you do?" Luo Yirui narrowed his eyes and asked.

Black Coal Ball tilted its head. "Didn’t do much, just blew up one of their branch bases."

Luo Yirui’s eyes widened at once. "So that mysterious force that attacked this place was you?"

Black Coal Ball grinned. "Is that how the outside world reviews me?"

Luo Yirui hurriedly reached out to put Black Coal Ball’s mouth back in place. "Stop smiling, if someone sees that it’ll be terrifying... Look at how smug you are, quit splitting your mouth open like that!"

Black Coal Ball was practically grinning from ear to ear. No wonder Luo Yirui always wanted praise from his parents—turns out being praised feels this good.

Luo Yirui rubbed his forehead. The phrase "a mysterious force" — which part of that sounds like praise? Does Black Coal Ball have some kind of misunderstanding about what "praise" means?

He didn’t say it out loud, but Luo Yirui could understand. After finally figuring out its own origins, only to discover it was just a defective product manufactured by the other side—what living thing could accept that? Especially a high-intelligence Parasitic Beast like Black Coal Ball.

Black Coal Ball blowing up one of their branch bases had actually helped them a lot. Otherwise, if the other side’s experiments hadn’t been interrupted, the casualties would definitely have continued.

So Black Coal Ball had basically done them a huge favor.

"What are you doing here?" Fu Xuan Ge walked over. "Have you figured out how we’re going to break in?"

He saw Luo Yirui standing there in a daze, holding a cat and muttering to himself. He was obviously trying to think of a plan—just in a very weird way.

"Not yet. They’ve got more Vertical Pupils than we do, and we don’t have any proper weapons. If we rush in blindly, there’ll definitely be casualties," Luo Yirui said.

They didn’t want to see anyone else die, especially these teenagers around them.

Fu Xuan Ge nodded. "But dragging it out like this isn’t a solution either. We still don’t know where those Vertical Pupils over there went. If they start wandering back and we get wrapped up like dumplings, that’ll be even worse."

Hearing that, an idea suddenly flashed into Luo Yirui’s mind.