Chapter 1 A Conspiracy Under the Sea

As the wreckage of the cargo ship slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, and as the battle between Greer and the mech warriors came to an end, this area of the sea returned to silence once more.

On the surface, it seemed like a crushing defeat for human civilization.

Because over seventy of the hundred-plus followers that Li Tianran had gone to great lengths to capture had escaped during this accident, and they had also lost a ship.

But in reality, there were far too many suspicious points about this incident.

For example, why did Li Tianran gather all the followers he had captured from around the world onto this cargo ship? Why was Greer still neglected under strict surveillance? Why were there only mechanical products like Adult Warriors and Mech Warriors on this cargo ship, and no human soldiers?

Why did Greer go out of control in this sea area with so many undercurrents?

Why did the mech warrior's first attack directly use a giant spear to cut through the cabin where the followers were located, allowing them and the ship's wreckage to sink to the bottom of the sea?

With so many suspicious points added together, the final conclusion could only be one thing.

This incident was not an accident, but a carefully planned event!

In other words, these followers were deliberately released by Li Tianran!

But why would he do that?

No one answered this question.

In the seabed silt, the remnant of Greer's head, charred to the size of a palm by the laser cannon, suddenly moved. The charred shell slowly crumbled, revealing new skin underneath.

The sea was calm on the surface, but beneath, there were hidden currents surging...

...

A dim underground river.

A figure rapidly swept past. The powerful aura emanating from it caused the surrounding sea beasts to scatter in terror. Some of the slower behemoths were grazed by this figure, and their limbs immediately disintegrated, as if they were tree branches torn apart by strong gales!

Boom!

Finally, this figure broke out of the water, flapping its wings and slowly landing on a patch of land.

An organized shout immediately came from ahead.

"We praise you, great Lord of the Gale!"

"We worship you, great King of the Clan!"

This was the undersea volcanic cave where the Gale Apostle had initially stockpiled supplies. The figure that had just traveled through the underground river was naturally the Gale Apostle.

In just one day, the entire cave had undergone tremendous changes. Many places had been reinforced, and some equipment plundered from the human world had been installed.

Radar detection systems, sonar detection systems, lighting, smelting, and forging equipment… they had everything!

At the very center of the cave, there was even a small nuclear reactor!

This was the terrifying ability of a second-stage evolved creature that had survived for countless years. In just twenty-four hours, it had transformed the entire cave upside down. Although everything before them was far from matching the miraculous architecture of the past, it was already comparable to the top laboratories in the human world.

At this time, nearly three hundred followers in the cave were kneeling before the Gale Apostle, their voices fervent and devout.

But at this moment, the Gale Apostle's attention did not seem to be on these technologies. Its gaze swept over the followers kneeling before it, and then locked onto a certain area, its voice low as it asked:

"You… you actually escaped from Li Tianran's hands?"

Yes, the followers whose gazes were being locked onto by the Gale Apostle at this time were precisely those who had escaped from the ship. After they awakened, they did not dare to stay, nor did they dare to return to the location of the three miraculous structures. Instead, they came directly to the cave.

And the Gale Apostle immediately rushed over after receiving the news. It found it hard to believe this fact. It originally did not have much hope for the lives of these captured subordinates, but now…

Most of them had actually escaped?

"How did you do it?" The Gale Apostle asked with a frown.

"We're not quite sure either. Our consciousness was in a state of incomplete recovery at the time. We could only vaguely sense that a great battle seemed to have occurred… After we fully recovered, we found ourselves in either an underground river or a cave," one of the followers replied.

The other followers' answers were similar to its own. They all found that they had escaped from control after awakening.

"A great battle? I didn't send out any troops to rescue you…" The Gale Apostle fell into deep thought. "Could it be that the other three apostles took action? But why didn't I receive any news?"

"No, it definitely wouldn't be them! If it were them, they would definitely want to exaggerate their achievements countless times in front of me, making me feel grateful to them…"

A sneer appeared on the corner of the Gale Apostle's mouth. It knew these "companions" quite well, and was very clear that the other party would never take a huge risk to do something that would not benefit them!

But if that was the case, then…

Who exactly rescued these followers?

And how did they escape from Li Tianran's grasp?

Just as the Gale Apostle was racking its brains, another energy body was approaching from the underground river behind it.

A fragmented figure broke out of the water from the underground river. It only had its head and upper body, as well as the wings on its back. It looked extremely miserable, and there were even charred burn marks on its head!

Greer!

It was actually Greer!

The laser cannon of the mech warrior had not completely annihilated it. Its vital defect was a certain cortex in the brain. However, under the high temperature of the laser cannon, the skull and flesh had protected its vital defect. Although it had been severely injured and on the verge of death by the mech warrior, and even its body had been almost completely destroyed, it had regrown a new body and reawakened with its formidable self-healing ability.

"Lord!" Greer had exhausted too much energy to repair this body. Even the self-healing ability of a second-stage evolved creature was not inexhaustible. In addition, it had been rushing at top speed all the way, and had even activated the [Swift] divine descent several times. At this time, Greer's remnant body had reached the point of exhaustion.

As soon as it entered the cave, it crashed heavily from the air.

Smack!

The Gale Apostle flapped its wings, and a gentle gust of wind slowly lifted Greer up. At the same time, it asked with a solemn expression, "What happened?"

Greer took a deep breath, its face weary, and told the Gale Apostle everything it had experienced on the ship, without any concealment.

Only then did the followers realize that the opportunity for their survival had actually been won by Greer.

But unexpectedly, after hearing this, the Gale Apostle did not show a joyful expression. Instead, its expression was unusually solemn and serious. It looked at the followers who had luckily escaped from the human world and said in a deep voice:

"From now on, you cannot leave this place. You cannot return to the Miracle Building of the Dark Night Apostle!"

"You are absolutely not allowed to reveal any information about this matter to other races!"

After hearing Greer's words, the Gale Apostle immediately realized that this was not a good thing. On the contrary, it would be a very troublesome thing!

Because the way these followers had escaped was simply too outrageous, so outrageous that it was hard to believe that this was the truth!

But just as the Gale Apostle uttered these words, it immediately seemed to realize something. Its gaze suddenly turned towards the underground river behind it. At the same time, the sonar equipment in the cave also issued a warning that a huge energy reaction body was rapidly approaching!

"Retreat!" The Gale Apostle shouted sternly, and at the same time, it waved its hand and erected a wall of wind in the cave.

A bright spot suddenly lit up in the dark underground river. This spot of light was initially as faint and inconspicuous as a star in the night sky, but then, the spot of light became more and more dazzling, more and more blazing, and finally turned into an object similar to the sun, bursting out of the underground river!

Boom!

The surface of the water exploded, and countless tiny spots of light flickered in the air. The figure of the Star Apostle emerged from the light!

"Oh, there's actually such a beautiful world in the depths of the sea…"

The Star Apostle's delicate, child-like face was full of curiosity. It looked around at the things in this cave, and finally fixed its gaze on the Gale Apostle in front of it: "Gale, what kind of expression is that you're wearing?"

"You seem to be treating me like an enemy. Are you nervous?"

Faced with the Star Apostle's sudden visit, the Gale Apostle's attitude was extremely gloomy: "How did you find this place?"

"The concealment of this place isn't particularly strong. It's not difficult to find." The Star Apostle said with a grin, not directly answering the Gale Apostle's question. Instead, it glanced again at the followers behind it, and suddenly its expression became extremely exaggerated and astonished: Da Feng Novel Network

"Isn't that Greer? And Terry, Worga… weren't they captured by Li Tianran before? How did they come back?"

As companions who had lived together for countless years, although they did not belong to the same race, the apostles were also very familiar with the followers of other races and could accurately identify them.

"The ship transporting them back to Kuangxi Island malfunctioned, and they found an opportunity to escape." The Gale Apostle was silent for a moment before replying, repeating the story that Greer had just told it.

"…" The Star Apostle looked at the Gale Apostle with interest, and then slowly asked: "Li Tianran would actually make such a mistake?"

"Star! What exactly are you trying to say?" The Gale Apostle suddenly shouted sternly.

"I just think that the circumstances of your followers' escape are very abnormal. From what I know of Li Tianran, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would make such a low-level mistake. I think… he seems to have deliberately let your followers return," the Star Apostle said with a smile.

"Ridiculous." The Gale Apostle sneered.

"It is quite ridiculous… You create chaos in the human world, and Li Tianran not only doesn't kill your followers, but instead creates such a… uh, malfunction! To let your followers escape, don't you think this is very abnormal?" The Star Apostle asked again.

"…" The Gale Apostle's gaze sank, and it asked again: "What exactly are you trying to say?"

"I want to say… since Li Tianran isn't a fool, and there's no reason for him to let the tiger return to the mountain, then the reason for the emergence of this so-called 'malfunction' is very suspicious." The Star Apostle looked at the Gale Apostle with a smile, as if joking:

"Gale, did you secretly reach some kind of agreement with Li Tianran, but Li Tianran didn't dare to openly let your followers leave, so he deliberately used this clumsy method to… deceive us?"