Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 648 The Disk and the Leech

The old man continued to frolic in his fantasies even when his scanner was already 100% complete, and he could have continued imagining things were if not for this son.

"Father, did you find anyone?" Young Master Han sounded impatient while uttering this question, and he did not hide the rudeness in his voice, as if this was already a normal thing for him. "You’ve been standing there for a minute already. Isn’t that too much time to do a scanning?"

"No, Young Master Han. I did not find anyone. My scanner is indicating... that nobody survived our attack." With this kid’s loud words, the old man was pulled back to reality, although he looked somewhat unhappy with the sudden disturbance. "Our attack was a success, so you don’t need to worry anymore, Young Master."

"Is that true, Father? Hmm... so our bombs are actually this powerful. Hehehe, that’s good to know, Father! With these bombs with us, nobody can defeat us! Hahaha! We will be the best family! Hahaha! Best family!"

"Yes, our bombs are all powerful, Young Master Han." The old man looked somewhat irritated by Young Master Han’s gloating face, but he did his best to hide this irritation through a small smile of his. "The business of our family is related to weaponry after all, so for us to reach this progress is to be expected. In fact, there are even more-"

"Hehehe, Father, I command you to give me more of these bombs! I... I want to use it for recreational experience!"

"Young Master, the bombs are a special weapon that can be only used by our military division. You’re still not at the right age to even touch them, so you cannot use them."

"What? But I am the Clan Master! Shouldn’t I be allowed to touch these bombs?"

"Young Master, no means no. You are still young, so there will be no touching of weapons for you. If you dare break this rule, I will have no choice but to punish you as a parent."

"Aww... is that so..."

"Yes, that’s the case, Young Master. Now, will you still try touching the bombs?"

"...No."

"Good, very good, Young Master."

"...."

"..."

The old man looked very much closer to lashing out in anger at this point, but he was able to still hold on, a feat which can be just praised as miraculous.

The other people flying beside Young Master Han seem to share the same sentiment, as all of them gave the old man both pitying and praising looks from their eyes.

They were clearly awed by the old man’s temperance, and the way that he manages to stop himself from blowing up on Young Master Han.

After all, the very notion of staying calm in face of Young Master Han is extremely hard to achieve.

For the old man to be able to stay his calm everyday and every night was already a testament to his sheer will and great tenacity.

In fact, if it weren’t for the presence of the bratty kid, these people would have started praising the old man already.

"..."

The old man naturally noticed these emotional stares, but he did not show indication of appreciating these gazes.

He just retained his smiling expression while he stood below the floating Young Master Han.

""Young Master Han... There is nothing else that we can do in this place, so why don’t we just go back to the Ancestral Grounds already?" The old man brightly asked to his kid as he pocketed his scanning device.

"Klak!" This action of his was noticed by everyone, and it made them perk up, as they knew that their time to leave was already nigh.

"Young Master Han, there are still some few minutes before lunch, so we better rush back to reach the Ancestral Grounds." The old man uttered as he maintained his modulate voice, and he even added a trace of bragging in it. "Who knows, you might even see Chef Neko inside the kitchen today...."

"What did you say, Father? Chef Neko could be inside the Ancestral Grounds today? Good, good, good! Let’s go back now and chase her!" Young Master Han seem to have forgotten his interests on bombs and corpses already, as his mind was now focused on the topic of food alone.

The kid was even drooling, which made his hunger more obvious. "What are we waiting for, Father? Let’s leave this stinky area and look for Chef Neko!"

"Yes, Yes, yes, Young Master Han. Let’s look for that cat already...."

"Hahaha! Neko neko neko! We will catch that cat today! Hahaha!"

"..."

With the temptation that was uttered out by the old man, Young Master Han did not dare linger on this area anymore.

He quickly flew away on top of his disk, with his disk releasing enough power to accelerate his body to its peak speed.

"Woosh!!!"

Such speed created trails of steam along the kid’s tracks, something that made Young Master Han feel somewhat cocky.

He did not look back on his followers as he left, and he even taunted them to catch up with him.

"Hey, what’s with you slowpokes? Catch me if you can! The last one who reaches the Ancestral Grounds will be punished, so hurry your asses up!"

"!!!"

Once he had left, the others accompanying him began to fly away too, as what he announced had forced them all to move.

"Whoosh woosh woosh!"

The mass exodus of these flying disks created more trails of steam in the sky, which at this point, had produced enough steam to cover the area above the crater.

Such amounts of steam turned the air above the old man foggy, but of course, the old man did not give any s**t about this.

"Sigh, I should be dealing with the issues regarding the Three Religions, but here I am, catering to my only child. Tsk, how could I have gotten myself in this situation?" The old man could only sigh as he saw his son’s flamboyant fashion, and he felt fear for the future, especially with the way that his son acted.

"Sigh, I hope my son really gets mature early..."

The old man did not say anything else at this point, as he had decided to leave the area already.

"...."

"...."

"...."

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And with that, the whole operation ’Sunrise’ had succeeded.

The ’Sunrise Orb’ that they unleashed here in the Marshy Plains had perfectly detonated, and it easily destroyed the small Abyss Temple that it was dropped on.

Everyone targeted in this area was also killed, and the old man’s scanner has confirmed it too.

Or so what he thought.

"..."

Unbeknownst to the old man, there was a small, leech-like creature currently attached on his back right now.

"Bzzt...."

This leech had countless legs present on its body, which it all used to stick tightly on the old man’s clothes. The crazy amount of these legs is enough to make the leech look terrifying, although there was nobody present that seem to see its appearance...

"Bzzt...."

This creature’s origin was unknown, but it only appeared and attached itself to the old man when he had begun scanning the explosion crater.

"Bzzt...."

The old man seems to have not noticed the presence of this leech at all, even when it was attached to his back already. He also did not hear the leech’s small squeaks as it adjusted itself.

And even when this leech began emitting light signals on its tail, the old man still have not noticed it!

"Pi pi pi!"

The light signals were composed of all the colors of the rainbow, and each signal was made from the combination of 3-4 colors. Red-Orange-Green, Blue-Green-Indigo-Red, and Yellow-Green-Blue are some of the combinations that can be seen on this display.

The combination of these colors has created a beautiful light show on the leech’s tail, something that will make anyone want to see it.

But the way that the light signals appeared made it apparent that these signals were not here as a form of display.

The light signals came out in an orderly manner, as if they were some kind of code.

Yes, a code.

A code, which was seemingly made up from the patterns of the light flashes and the colors present on it.

"Pi pi pi!"

If these series of light flashes were indeed a code, it will still not matter to the old man, as he had no idea that such things were flashing in his back right now.

"Ah, my son was already 10 kilometers way from me! S**t, if I let him go on, I will be really left behind!"

The old man was more worried about his young master’s announcement, as such, he did not care about anything else.

He just left the area quickly without any more precautions, with his flying disk pushing him to his top speed.

"Woosh!"

This action of his allowed the leech to be brought along with him, a scenario that maybe he should not have allowed to happen.

"Pi pi pi!"

But what’s done is done, so the old man will just have to live with the consequences later.

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10 minutes later.

With the departure of the old man and his companions, the whole explosion crater became silent again, with only the roars of the winds and the occasional laps of flames creating the sounds.

This harrowing silence has begun to turn the whole place into a haunted area, which has been a norm already for all the places attacked by the old man.

"..."

But just 10 minutes after the old man left, some ’interesting’ sounds began to fill the whole place.

Sounds, which any normal person can recognize as produced by human voices.

"Hey, are they gone already, Alex?"

"They already left 10 minutes ago, Alina. I just made sure that they won’t come back so that there will be no problem."

"Huh? 10 minutes ago? Tsk, my measurement was off by a minute then."

"Hah? What are you talking about Alina? What’s with this measuring thing? Shouldn’t you be sleeping now? That explosion took a lot out of you, right?"

"Shut up, Alex! I was just surprised by that explosion!"

"You’re surprised, Alina? Well, that’s a proper reaction. After all, even I did not expect the power hidden inside that bomb...."

"...."

Two voices could be heard all throughout the explosion crater, with one belonging to a man and the other belonging to a woman.

Both voices sounded full of strain, as if the speakers were struggling to talk at this point.

"Tsk, shouldn’t all science-related powers be restrained in this world, Alex? Why did that bomb appear then? And it was a powerful bomb to boot! This is just confusing me!"

"Alina, if you’re confused, then I am confused too. So don’t complain like that to me."

"...."

The source where these two voices come from is hard to detect, as it seemed to come from everywhere.

This is of course impossible, but with the speakers not revealing themselves at all, there is no perfect way to pinpoint them.

"Tsk, so what should we do now, Alex? If it were me, I would definitely start investigating already."

"Yeah, investigating. That’s great."

"Alex, please don’t sound that uninterested."

"No, I am not uninterested Alina, I was just-"

"Alex, we need to know everything about this world, as it is clearly dangerous! We were almost injured just because of that bomb, and it’s obviously not worst thing here! So don’t think that we can just hide everytime! So please, let’s go and investi-

"There’s no need for you to ask me that, Alina. I am already investigating."

"You have begun investigating? How-"

"Did you see Professor Frances’ latest creation? The Leech King? I attached one of it on the old man’s back when he was not looking earlier. Pretty neat, right?"

"Eh? That leech? But Alex, isn’t that-"

"Nah uh uh, Alina. I already attached it, so you can’t do anything about it"

"...."

"Hehehe... now all that we have to do is to receive that leech’s message, and our investigation will be quick!"