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Chapter 348: Expansion: Part 1
After bringing Taozi back to the mansion, Lin Sheng taught her some basic knowledge of the supernatural world . He also found a stealth skill suitable for women to learn and step-by-step guided her .
Taozi studied martial arts from Lin Sheng every day and spent her free time praying to the holy light under Lin Sheng’s guidance . She cultivated her faith and strengthened her willpower . She was determined to find out the cause of her parent’s disappearance .
These trivial matters aside, Lin Sheng thought he might have found a way to get his hands on the high-power dark-energy weapons .
Baine University had a huge stockpile of high-power weapons because it was the entrance to the Ashen World .
A professor and two teachers were the only persons guarding the armory . The professor’s name was Cavendian, who was the key to Lin Sheng’s access to these dark energy weaponry . In his mid-eighty, the professor was only considered a middle-aged man in the world of the transcendent . He was also a Six Winger . Drinking was his hobby but never excessive . Apart from that, he touched neither cigarette nor gambling . Not even women . He was obsessed with keeping the weapons in tiptop condition and dark energy cultivation . Cavendian was an incorruptible man .
Lin Sheng got this intel from Professor Madillan Byrnbaer, whom he recruited as logistics support . Madillan’s body improved after learning how to cultivate holy power . As the holy power stimulated his dark energy, his injuries began to cure . This made him even more grateful to the sanctum and his insistence and pursuit of the holy power reached a peak . Especially that the sanctum was born to suppress the Black Tide . The holy power had a powerful suppressive effect on the mist emitted by the Black Tide . Madillan had tested it . So when Lin Sheng asked him to collect intel for him, it was just a piece of cake .
Lin Sheng spent half a day studying Cavendian, the armory manager . He then got an idea .
Cavendian was flawless . He had a son, Basbo, an ordinary human who had a successful career as a senior executive of a record company . But not long ago, he was dragged into a massive corruption and bribery case, suspected of secretly hiring transcendent and forcing women to sleep with VIPs .
As Basbo was under investigation, Cavendian rummaged through his network of influence to save his son’s ass .
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“It’s a breakthrough . ”
Lin Sheng stood in front of the Chowchow Record Company building with a weird smile on his face . But he was in the body of a red armor warrior .
He had information that Basbo’s office was in the building . He looked up at the 19th floor, where the target was . Before this, the red armor warrior had trailed Basbo to this place .
“There aren’t much weaknesses I can exploit in this guy . But I can make one . ”
Lin Sheng did not enter the building . Instead, with the snap of his fingers, an office guy in suit and leather shoes emerged from the underground parking .
The man’s face was pale, his head lowered . No one saw him, as if he did not exist . A security guard at the parking entrance was chatting with his colleague while smoking as the office guy walked past . But they ignored the office guy as if they had not seen him .
Lin Sheng went to a cafe across the street, sat down by the window and ordered a cup of hot black coffee . He flipped a free magazine in his hands but kept an eye on the office guy .
After the office guy came out from the underground parking, he headed straight to the entrance of Chowchow Record Company building . His steps were wobbling at first, then stable and heavy . His body bulged gradually, tumors the size of a fist grew out of his skin .
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In just ten seconds, his upper body had swollen, doubling his original size . He now looked deformed .
As the office guy got closer to the building, his deformation got worse, the tumors burgeoning to the size of a human head . It looked as if a dozen heads squeezed into and competing for the body .
The office guy roared and strode through the entrance . Yet no one seemed to see him or hear his yell .
Lin Sheng looked calm, still browsing the magazine . “This is the first synthetic shade I’ve made . If I’m not wrong, it should have the invisibility of the natural shades, and the steel skeleton of the Two Winger . ”
Armed with the Institute’s shades transformation technology and a full range of equipment, it was easy to reproduce the shades . What was more, Lin Sheng had technical knowledge in his memories . He could study and improve the special properties of the shade race .
The shades were modified beings, the remnant of the souls . Their weak and incomplete state and the lack of a physical carrier meant that they were invisible to humans .
But the shades were unique . When they attacked, they could bite off the soul power from living people . The shades might have low physical attack ability—in fact only as strong as an ordinary adult—but their non-physical ability was top notch . And they had short-range teleporting ability . This was what Lin Sheng liked about them .
Lin Sheng sat in the cafe, took a sip of the black coffee and occasionally cast his eyes at the building on the outside .
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Sitting opposite him on the next table was a beautiful brunette . Wearing a bright yellow sweater and a white skirt, she was chatting with another bestie about the latest fashion in town .
Just when Lin Sheng picked up the coffee and was about to take a sip, a brown-haired young boy only half the height of an adult emerged behind the brunette . The young boy wore a gray shirt and white track pants with dirt and mud all over his body . His face was pale, his smile creepy as he raised his hands and wrapped his arms around the brunette .
The waiters, the brunette’s bestie sitting across the table, and other patrons in the café did not see the young boy .
“Not a shade . ” Lin Sheng cocked an eyebrow, staring at the young boy . He was curious what the boy was doing . Similar thing had happened before in the noodle restaurant . Now the same thing was happening in this café . The world had become more chaotic than before .
What intrigued Lin Sheng was that no one had ever remembered the existence of the noodle restaurant . Everyone just went on with their lives .
Lin Sheng did nothing but watch as the young boy hugged the beautiful brunette from behind . The young boy melted and entered the body of the beauty .
While the brunette still talking, she put down her coffee cup, hitting the glass tabletop so hard that it made a loud clink . The brunette lowered her head and started sobbing .
Seeing this, her bestie began to console her as if she knew what happened . Then the sob turned into cry . The brunette looked really sad .
Suddenly the brunette grabbed a fork and stabbed herself in her eye . Half of the fork had penetrated her eye with blood and fluid sputtering into the coffee and on the table .
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