Chapter 502 - 391 My Money! My Money!

"You’re setting me up! Who exactly are you?" Although Abbas was frightened of death and greedy, he wasn’t a fool. If he didn’t understand it by now, he might as well be dead.

"Who am I? Look, didn’t you just report me?" Long Yi smirked.

Abbas froze, then turned to look at the grinning Little Zi.

"A gaudily dressed maid... Heavens, you’re Long Yi!" Abbas was thoroughly flabbergasted. However, Long Yi had no time for him now as Ai Lin had opened a passage leading to the adjacent treasury. The treasures here were so abundant that Ai Lin’s personal space was filled to the brim after storing a small warehouse’s worth and ran out of room.

When Long Yi jumped out from the passageway, despite imagining what the place would look like multiple times, he was still taken aback.

"Tsk, tsk, probably around the level of He Shen’s confiscated wealth, I reckon." Long Yi thought to himself, overwhelmed.

"You’re here?" Ai Lin quickly came over.

"Yes, everything is going according to plan." Long Yi nodded.

"Good, I’ll prepare for the next scene." Ai Lin said.

"Okay, leave this place to me." Long Yi replied.

Long Yi’s personal space was incredibly vast, hence all the treasures were cleared out in a blink of an eye.

When Long Yi returned, the look of detachment in Abbas’s eyes gradually focused again.

"No! You can’t take my money! All that is mine! Mine!"

Abbas lunged at Long Yi, screaming at the top of his lungs.

The door to the underground treasury was slightly opened, and the people outside heard Abbas’s roar.

"No! This is my money! I made it for you!"

Long Yi suddenly reverted back to his drunken state and yelled at Abbas.

"No! It’s my money, you are..."

Abbas wanted to say Long Yi’s name, but his mouth was quickly clamped shut by Long Yi. Abbas’s eyes widened in horror as he felt an enormous force, his jaw was about to be crushed!

"No! It’s my money! I’m taking it all!" Long Yi roared, while winking at Little Zi.

Little Zi immediately started laughing, and a Female Demon Avatar entered Abbas’s body, controlling all his movements!

"This is my money! No one can take it! Even if I can’t have it! You can’t either!" The Female Demon-controlled Abbas shouted.

"What the hell are you doing! Why is there dynamite here!" Long Yi suddenly roared.

"Hahaha! You rat, you spy of the White Dragon Empire! I’ll blow you up!"

"No! I don’t want the money anymore! Put down the dynamite! It will blow us to heaven!"

Abbas looked horrified at his uncontrollable self, walking towards a huge pile of packages in the corner and lying on top of them. Originally, these packages didn’t exist here. The labels revealed that these were dynamite specifically used by the City Defense Army’s Dragon-hunting Cannons, extremely powerful.

"Give the money back to me!" The uncontrollable Abbas shouted.

"Here you go! I’m giving it back to you!" Long Yi placed several bags of gold coins on the dynamite packages.

"Not enough! Give me all!"

"I have no more! Truly, none left!"

"You have space equipment!"

"I do not!"

"I’ll blow you up!"

"Damn it, you fat pig, I’ll fight you to the death!"

"Die! Just Die!"

"Ah! The fuse! The fuse!!!"

When the people outside heard this, almost everyone could imagine what happened.

"Retreat! Quickly retreat!"

The leading warrior yelled. Almost at the same time, Ai Lin rushed in: "Darling! Are you alright?"

"Darling! Run!" Long Yi’s voice could be heard.

"What?" Ai Lin ran to the secret door.

Boom!

An enormous explosion sent debris flying everywhere, with dirt and fire engulfing the scene. Then, a rain of glistening gold coins fell from the sky.

"Damn it, these lunatics!"

The city defense soldier cursed and kicked a warrior who was still squatting on the ground collecting coins.

Such a farce ended in this way, leaving the steward completely dumbfounded. Whether it was Abbas who held sway over the Imperial City, or the ephemeral Luo Yi, they met their ends in such a place - a conclusion no one could have predicted. Strangely enough, Abbas had set up explosives in his own treasury. Although it was somewhat incomprehensible, upon reflection, it did seem like something Abbas would do. Perhaps Abbas was worried he couldn’t take his gold coins with him after death, so he wanted to blow them up directly with explosives?

What I cannot obtain, no one else shall have.

The explosion alarmed the entire Imperial City, and all city defense soldiers rushed to the scene. The Dragon Knights arrived quickly. Because there were many witnesses at the scene, it was easy to explain what had happened. The spectacle of Abbas’s heirs fighting over his property was likely about to ensue.

However, Long Yi didn’t have time to watch the drama unfold at this point. Before the explosion, they had already entered underground and were heading towards the Imperial City through the extensive underground passages.

Long Yi planned to visit the Black Dragon Empire’s research lab once more, taking a risk to see what he could pilfer.

The path through which they had previously rescued the Blood Raven still existed. They entered the storage area from there, and new Yakshas hadn’t been added. Little Zi released all her Female Demon avatars for patrol, while Suolin, who was invisible, scouted ahead.

Long Yi and Ai Lin followed behind.

Up to this point, Ai Lin’s heart was still pounding. Not because of tension, but because during the previous performance, those two "my dears" had completely hit home and her face was still flushed!

"This is the specimen room, and that furnace is where I executed Kaniel last time," Suolin’s voice came, breaking Ai Lin out of her reverie.

"Nice!" Long Yi complimented.

The specimen room was quite large due to the large number of experiments conducted by the Black Dragon Empire. Successful, failed, and those that were completely incomprehensible were all on display in this specimen room.

Long Yi and Arin separately took a quick look around from two directions, searching for any useful information. Suddenly, a Crystal Core that had been casually placed caught the attention of Long Yi.

Not for anything else, but because this Crystal Core gave Long Yi a feeling that wasn’t of a Crazy Demon, but more of a Crystal Demon.

"Lingling."

With a light call from Long Yi, the crystal girl leaped out of his personal space.

"Yes, master," Lingling faced Long Yi.

"Is there anything special about that Crystal Core?" Long Yi asked, pointing at the Crystal Core.

Lingling reached out and picked up the Crystal Core. After a strange resonance frequency, the Crystal Core fused into Lingling’s wrist.

"According to the information in the Crystal Core, this is a polymorphic weapon system of the Crystal Demon tribe. The records inside indicate that the original master was devoured by a Demon, who then ended up here and was killed by the Dragon Knights of the Black Dragon Empire. This Crystal Core was placed here because it could not be activated," Lingling explained.

"So, can you activate it?" asked Long Yi.

"Yes, this polymorphic weapon system uses a standard protocol interface," Lingling said. With that, her wrist turned into a light cannon. Compared to the light cannon on the wrists of the Crystal Demons that Long Yi had seen previously, this one was larger, and it felt more powerful.

"How powerful is it?"

"The power can vary widely depending on the energy input, but it cannot exceed the energy level limit of this world because of specific energy rules."

"That’s enough already!" Nodding approvingly, Long Yi was clearly very satisfied.

Just then, Lingling suddenly paused, then said, "I have received a cross-plane message from Princess Belle."

Immediately after, Lingling’s expression became lively: "Is this Lord Long Yi? Wonderful! Ever since we parted last time I couldn’t contact you. It seems that you have obtained a standard protocol device from a Crystal Demon, so I was able to locate you. As cross-plane transmissions cannot deliver too much information, I’ll cut to the chase. The Catalyst Crystal Stones you gave me have helped us win consecutive victories in the Crazy Demon Plane. We are very grateful for your aid. If possible, we also hope to be able to do something for you. Our scientists have found some ways, please let Lingling contact me when it’s convenient!"

Then, Lingling’s expression returned to its usual impassivity.

"What is this called?"

Long Yi looked at Ai Lin and Suolin beside him.

"Good things come in pairs," Little Zi, passing by a table in front of them, said with a smile.

Long Yi has always wanted to borrow the power of the Crystal Demons, but it was just wishful thinking. He was too embarrassed to ask, plus he couldn’t even get in touch with them!

Now that they have offered assistance themselves, Long Yi naturally couldn’t miss this opportunity.

They put this matter at the top of the priority list after they return to the White Dragon Empire, and everyone left the specimen room. If they wanted to hit the Black Dragon Empire where it hurts, they needed to look elsewhere.

The Black Dragon Empire was furiously developing biological science and necromancy, and the products of the combination of these two were already being exhibited in the specimen room. Monsters that looked difficult to deal with were everywhere, and it was even more so in the laboratory.

What surprised Long Yi the most was that the workers in the laboratory completely ignored them. Even though Long Yi still wore their disguises and had also put on a white lab coat, after all, it was a stranger’s face, right?

In fact, Long Yi didn’t know that unlike the large-team collaborative research style of the White Dragon Empire, the Black Dragon Empire was working in small groups. The constant pressure from the emperor meant they had no time to interact with others. In the laboratory, most people were strangers to any particular group.

Long Yi took a quick look around the lab. These scientists were completely different from the ones in the White Dragon Empire. They were highly pragmatic. They prioritized the results of their experiments and gave no thought to any consequences. They always considered the purpose of the experiment first, then the consequences. The advantage of this was that experiments could progress quickly, but the drawback was that if something went wrong, the whole process had to start over. The first generation of resurrected Dragon Knights that Long Yi had seen were a product of this approach. Powerful but stupid, which makes these mutated Dragon Knights obtain no advantage at all in battles that required fine operation. They had to rethink the issue of maintaining intelligence. This outcome has both pros and cons, and it’s worth testing in large-scale long-term battles. As for the short-term effect, the fact that they once beat up the White Dragon Empire at least proves their strength.

Then what?

What to do?

Blow it up! (To be continued. If you like this novel, please visit (qidian.com) to vote and support us. Your support is our greatest motivation. Mobile users, please access m.qidian.com to read.)