Grey Wolf: This Is the Green Energy Invented by Yours Truly

"Ah!!!"

Salas let out a roar that sounded inhuman, his soul power spiraling out of control once again!

He wanted to destroy that screen, destroy this city, destroy everything here!

However, that strange infrasound wave intensified once more.

"Pfft—"

Salas spat out another mouthful of blood, his entire body collapsing like a pile of mud, twitching violently on the ground.

Xie Yue and Yan were scared out of their wits; they wanted to step forward to help him up, but they didn't dare move.

Just then.

"Zzz..."

A faint sound of mechanical operation rang out.

From the corner of the street, a disc-shaped cleaning robot with several mechanical arms slid over slowly.

It stopped in front of the mess Salas had spat out, extended a mechanical arm, and sprayed white disinfectant foam.

Another mechanical arm extended a small shovel, scooped up the filth, and dumped it into the waste collection bin on its back.

After finishing all this, it turned toward the collapsed Salas, the red indicator light on its head flashing twice.

A cold, synthesized mechanical voice rang out: "Large humanoid trash detected, model: Platinum. Contamination level: High."

"According to the Urban Cleaning Emergency Plan, you will be subject to mandatory recycling and harmless disposal."

As it spoke, the treads at the bottom of the robot began to rotate, and two massive mechanical claws opened toward Salas.

Holy shit!

It's actually treating a person like trash?!

Xie Yue and Yan felt their scalps go numb; if he were to be collected, the Bishop would likely be dismantled on the spot!

"Stop!" Xie Yue roared, bracing himself.

The robot stopped, its red light flashing as if receiving new instructions.

A few seconds later, the lazy voice of Qin Feng echoed once again from the city-wide loudspeakers.

"Forget it, since you're already here."

"Bishop Salas, stop lying on the ground; it's so dirty."

"Let me show you around and see exactly what kind of 'sanitation enterprise' my 'Umbrella Corporation' is."

As the voice faded, the alloy gate of a building not far away slowly opened, revealing a bottomless passage.

The cleaning robot also retracted its mechanical claws and gestured for Salas to proceed.

Salas struggled to climb up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and cast a venomous look at the passage.

He knew this was a trap.

But he had no choice.

The Pope's order was to enter, to investigate.

He straightened his filthy robe and walked inside with heavy steps.

Xie Yue and Yan exchanged glances and had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow.

Entering the passage, they found a high-speed elevator.

The elevator doors closed, and it began to descend rapidly.

On both sides were transparent reinforced glass, through which they could see the underground structures flashing by.

The second underground level was a dense barracks where countless guards wearing Power Armor were conducting combat training, their movements uniform and filled with a murderous aura.

Salas's pupils constricted.

The third underground level was that massive central control room, where countless screens and data streams he couldn't understand were flickering.

Salas's breath hitched.

The fourth underground level was the Biological Laboratory of Orochimaru; he could even see a bound figure soaking in a massive cultivation tank.

That outfit... it was Hu Liena's!

"Nana!" Xie Yue and Yan exclaimed in unison.

Salas's heart hammered wildly, and just as he was about to lash out, the elevator didn't stop at all, continuing downward.

Finally, the elevator stopped at the fifth underground level.

"Ding."

The elevator doors opened.

A strange scent, a mixture of ozone, high-concentration nutrient solution, and the odor of some biological organism, rushed toward them.

The scene before him caused the brain of Salas, this powerful Platinum Bishop, to instantly shut down.

This was an incredibly vast underground space, with a dome reaching a hundred meters in height.

In the center of the space, that thousand-year spirit beast which should have appeared in the core area of the Star Dou Forest—the Thunder Tyrannosaurus—was being tightly secured to a massive life-support device by countless thick metal brackets and energy conduits!

It was not dead!

Its chest was still rising and falling rhythmically, but its limbs and head were firmly locked down by heavy alloys.

Countless wires, thicker than an arm, connected to its body from all directions like parasitic vines; in particular, its thunder sac, where it stored lightning power, was densely packed with energy-extraction probes!

Blue-violet electric arcs jumped continuously between its scales and those wires, emitting a "zizzing" sound.

These currents flowed along the wires and were collected into rows of giant battery banks that stood like mountain ranges all around.

This was no mere cage for a spirit beast.

This was a... power plant!

A biological nuclear power plant that used a living thousand-year spirit beast as its core!

Salas's mouth hung open unconsciously, his eyes widened like copper bells, and a "ho-ho" sound escaped his throat, but he couldn't utter a single word.

He had always assumed that Qin Feng captured this spirit beast for its spirit ring and spirit bone.

Yet, he never dreamed that Qin Feng would actually... keep it alive!

And treat it as a... battery?!

"Yo, you're here!"

Grey Wolf jumped out from behind a massive battery bank with a wrench in his mouth. Seeing the look of sheer horror on Salas's face, he proudly put his hands on his hips.

"How about it? Old man, were you scared silly by this great king's genius invention?"

He hopped over to Salas and tapped his knee with the wrench.

"Welcome to the tour of this great king's latest masterpiece—the spirit beast brand infinite-range power bank, model 'Thunder No. 1'!"

A power bank?!

Salas felt as if his skull was about to be blown off by those three words.

"See that?" Grey Wolf pointed at the Thunder Tyrannosaurus that was still "generating electricity," introducing it like a salesman.

"Built-in biological circulation system, external automatic nutrient drip irrigation, neuron activity monitoring, energy output stabilized at one hundred thousand kilowatt-hours, with an error margin of no more than 0.1 percent!"

"Do you know how much coal you have to burn for one kilowatt-hour of electricity? Now, as long as you feed it some nutrient solution, it's even less trouble than raising a pig!"

"Most importantly, it's green, eco-friendly, and pollution-free!"

"Once the technology is upgraded in a few days and we install an 'automatic waste cleaning and recycling system,' it can even produce some biogas on the side. It's simply perfect!"

Every word from Grey Wolf was like a heavy hammer, smashing down on Salas's already fragile worldview.

A thousand-year spirit beast...

A powerful existence that countless spirit masters dreamed of and had to risk their lives to hunt...

Here, it was actually just a... generator that was less trouble than a pig?

And it even produced fucking biogas?!

"This... this... you... you are blaspheming! This is blasphemy against spirit beasts! It is blasphemy against the power bestowed by the gods!" Salas finally found his voice, pointing at the giant beast and screaming at the top of his lungs.

"Blasphemy?"

Qin Feng's voice drifted over from behind him.

He walked to Salas's side, patted his shoulder, and looked at the Thunder Tyrannosaurus that was outputting a steady stream of electricity, his eyes filled with disdain for primitive civilization.

"One spirit ring, in exchange for decades of stable energy."

"Bishop Salas, tell me, doesn't the spirit hunting operation of your Martial Soul Hall look like a bunch of monkeys guarding a mountain of gold, only knowing how to use stones to knock off a few crumbs to crack walnuts?"

"Your so-called hunting, your so-called absorption, in my eyes, is the most primitive, wasteful, and stupid way to use energy!"

Salas stared blankly at Qin Feng, then looked back at that "power bank." He felt his faith being completely crushed at this moment.

Qin Feng leaned into his ear and whispered a sentence that made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, audible only to the two of them.

"By the way, Bishop Salas."

"This is only the phase one project of the 'Spirit Beast Nuclear Power Plant'."

"My phase two project is already being planned."

"Take a guess: if I use a level 98 Title Douluo as a generator, would the power generation efficiency... be a bit higher?"