bookpower Chapter 775: A2
Chapter 775: A2
Chapter 775: A2
The clean white door opened, and an average-sized studio apartment was revealed before Charles. Deya walked into the apartment and tapped something on the wall.
"Alright, the house is set to offline mode. You can come out now."
Charles jumped out of Deya's eye socket. "Where is A2 being held? Do you have any way to contact them?"
Deya pressed on his wounds with his hand.
"Give me a moment," he said before heading toward the bathroom on the side. The bathtub was swiftly filled with a transparent liquid that resembled fresh water, and a blue holographic light pervaded the water.
[Healing mode activated.]
Deya removed his shirt and lay down in the bathtub, submerging his wounds in the transparent liquid. Moments later, his injuries healed at a rate visible to the naked eye.
This wasn't the power of a healing-type relic but the power of science. The sight before Charles was so incongruous that he fell into a daze. He found it hard to imagine that Deya was actually living in the same place as the denizens of the Subterranean Sea.
Deya scooped up water from the bathtub with his hands and washed his face vigorously. Then, he looked at Charles standing outside and said, "Dr. A2 is most likely being held in Restricted Zone 19. Unfortunately, there's no reason for me to go there, given my clearance level."
"First of all, tell me where Restricted Zone 19 is."
Deya wasted no words and simply lifted his finger. He swiped gently in the air, and a holographic projection of the upside-down city appeared before them.
A certain area was marked with a flashing red light.
Deya poked the virtual map and drew a winding line inside of it. "The closest I can get to Restricted Zone 19 is Second Street. The remaining two kilometers until Restricted Zone 19 will all be up to you."
"Can't A2 receive information from the outside? Wouldn't it be more convenient for them to come out and meet us?" Charles asked.
Deya was taken aback. "That should be possible. I heard A2 isn't being detained."
Charles stared at the winding line in the air, seemingly engrossed in his own thoughts.
All of a sudden, a violent shaking pulled Charles' attention back to Hope Island.
Sparkle had grabbed his shoulders and was shaking him vigorously.
"What? Is something wrong?" Charles asked.
Sparkle stepped aside, revealing the sand figures of the Subterranean Sea Council members. Their expressions were solemn as they stared at Charles.
"Charles, I learned from your daughter that you seem to have discovered something about the Foundation. Can you share it with us?" asked Jax while adjusting his monocle.
Charles swept his gaze across the others and saw their fiery gazes. Clearly, they were also interested in the news that Charles had with him.
As soon as the portrait was complete, a golden short staff wrapped with golden tentacles appeared before him. The instant it touched the ground, an imperceptible dark wave that humans couldn't perceive burst out of it.
Everyone nearby trembled involuntarily upon getting hit by the dark wave.
The next second, a sizzling noise echoed, and an extremely bright white light streaked across the air, hitting the eyeball spider.
Charles instantly lost connection to the spider.
However, Charles had a contingency plan, and it was finally coming into play. When the countdown of the bomb inside the eyeball spider's stomach reached zero, the eyeball spider exploded into a cloud of mist.
At the same time, a sharp pain radiated from Charles' eye socket. It felt as if someone had stabbed his eye with a needle. Ignoring the pain, Charles stood up with a hand over his eye socket before turning to Octett in front of him.
"How is it?" Charles asked.
The grotesque octopus-headed monster nodded.
Charles sighed in relief at the sight. "So it wasn't in vain..."
Just then, Anna extended her hand and handed over another black and red spider to Charles.
"Don't move. I need another fragment of your soul to bind to this new spider."
"Where did you even get this?"
"Where else can I even get this? Of course, I stole it from that giantess of yours. In fact, I have her entire inventory of this kind of spider now," Anna said. She then quickly bound the new spider to Charles.
Having obtained another eye, Charles asked Sparkle to teleport the spider to Deya's apartment.
Charles knew that there was a high chance that the spider wouldn't be able to come back to him, so he decided to prepare a contingency plan.
As soon as he appeared in Deya's apartment, the loud noises outside attracted his attention. Of course, he was the perpetrator behind the commotion. Charles presumed that SITE 2 had to be under high alert for a moment.
Fortunately, his mission was already complete, and all he had to do was wait until night.
Soon, night fell, but Charles was a bit too excited to sleep and had to rely on Linda's medicine to sleep.
Amidst a sea of chaos, Charles saw A2. She seemed to be a woman in her thirties, and she was sporting round-frame glasses that made her look like an ordinary schoolteacher.
"Hello, I'm A2. The fact that you're here to meet me at a time like this means that you must be on the side of the Subterranean Sea's humans, isn't that right?" A2 smiled and extended her right hand to Charles.
Charles shook hands with her using his steel prosthetic hand. "I must admit—I'm quite surprised by your appearance. I thought the GK Council no longer has anyone who looks just like an ordinary person. Anyway, name's Charles."