After a brief chat, Zeng Jingrong advised, "Jingchu, your ten-year plan can wait. Let's address the issues you're facing first."
Zeng Jingrong opened the cell door, jumped down, and picked up the limp Zeng Jingchu. He then called out to the door, "Tiantian, pull us up."
Tian Jing's expression was a mixture of exasperation and concern as she leaped onto the cell roof. "If you couldn't bring him up with you, why did you jump down?"
Despite her words, she threw down a vine, carefully wrapping it only around Zeng Jingchu. She planned to pull them up one by one.
The first to be pulled up was Zeng Jingchu. Tian Jing laid him on the cell roof and then proceeded to pull up Zeng Jingrong.
While busy with Zeng Jingrong, Tian Jing didn't notice Zeng Jingchu's pupils suddenly constrict to a pinpoint on the roof, his round black eyeballs shrinking dramatically with them.
In an instant, Zeng Jingchu's black eyeballs shrunk to smaller dots than his pupils, then immediately expanded back to normal. Zeng Jingchu's body also regained its strength.
He sat up and saw Zeng Jingrong being pulled up by Tian Jing. "Cousin? How did you get up here? Didn't you throw me down..."
As he spoke, he suddenly clutched his head. A moment later, he stood up abruptly, ignoring Zeng Jingchu and Tian Jing completely, and jumped off the cell roof. "I have something to do, I'm leaving now."
Because of his strange behavior of clutching his head, Tian Jing, who had been ready, threw out a vine.
However, Zeng Jingchu dodged it as if he had eyes in the back of his head.
Immediately, dozens of vines appeared in Tian Jing's hands, flying towards Zeng Jingchu from different directions.
As Zeng Jingchu attempted to dodge these vines again, Tian Jing flicked her hand, and Zeng Jingchu was encased in an invisible energy shield. His forward momentum was halted, and ripples emanated around him, alerting the other three people present to the shield's existence.
Trapped and unable to escape, Zeng Jingchu let out a beast-like roar: "Roar! Roar! Let me go!"
Yulia, who was inside the cell, heard the roar and was greatly alarmed.
Tian Jing pulled the energy shield closer. Zeng Jingrong shouted at Zeng Jingchu, who was clenching his eyes shut and roaring inside the shield, "Jingchu, wake up!"
Zeng Jingchu continued to roar, "Roar! Roar! Let me go! Let me go!"
Zeng Jingrong looked at Tian Jing. "Tiantian? What's wrong with Jingchu?"
How would Tian Jing know? She grabbed the energy shield and leaped back onto the cell roof.
"I'm going to throw him down again to see his changes."
Yulia, seeing Zeng Jingchu in Tian Jing's grasp, had tears in her eyes. "Captain Tian."
Tian Jing waved at her. "Move aside, I'm going to throw him down."
Instead of moving, Yulia stepped into the middle and extended her arms. "Jingchu has already fallen once. We don't know if he's injured. I'll catch him."
Tian Jing hadn't intended to injure Zeng Jingchu. His symptoms clearly indicated a problem with his brain. She still wanted to find out some things; she wouldn't truly throw him.
However, if Yulia wanted to catch him, then so be it.
Tian Jing loosened her grip at the doorway. Yulia, tensing her arms, prepared to shield Zeng Jingchu, but found herself embracing a flexible substance. Zeng Jingchu seemed to be motionless in the middle of this substance.
But the next second, the energy shield dissipated. Zeng Jingchu collapsed into Yulia's arms, and they both fell to the ground.
Tian Jing's eyes flickered. The energy shield, which was made of energy, only existed in this room for a few seconds.
Yulia carefully laid Zeng Jingchu down beside her before looking at Tian Jing. "Energy skill?"
Tian Jing's eyes flashed. "You know?"
"I know a little," Yulia nodded. "I heard that level five and above ability users can cultivate their own skills. I yearned for it."
Tian Jing's lips curved into a cold smile. "You said you didn't understand anything above level four? How do you know now?"
Yulia paused for a moment, then said, "Everything above level four is classified. It's a secret none of us can speak, because as soon as we do, we feel a sense of crisis."
"When you asked me before, I didn't realize I could speak of it. Captain Zeng and you didn't ask me again. Later, when I was bored in this room, I recalled it. It should be related to this room."
Tian Jing said nothing more, quietly waiting for Zeng Jingchu to wake up.
Zeng Jingchu, intending to go up with Sun Quanxiao, was stopped by Tian Jing. "Wait a moment. Let me experiment with Zeng Jingchu's difference inside and outside the room."
Upon hearing Tian Jing's words, Yulia hurriedly asked, "Was that roar just now from Jingchu?"
Seeing Tian Jing nod, Yulia frantically shook her head. "If you can't do anything about Jingchu's condition outside this room, don't take him out again."
Tian Jing looked at her coldly.
Yulia explained, "The roar I heard just now sounded very much like the roar of someone enduring the effects of a potion."
Potion?
Tian Jing looked at the unconscious Zeng Jingchu beside Yulia. Could he have been injected with a potion by Malvit?
Her gaze shifted to Yulia. "Didn't you say the potions were very expensive?"
Yulia shook her head. "I only said it sounded like he took a potion. The distribution of potions requires contribution points. No one would be willing to give a potion to someone else."
Seeing Yulia fall silent again, Tian Jing said impatiently, "Can't you say things all at once? Or tell me your guesses?"
"You're already a prisoner, and Jingchu's current state is also because of you. What else do you want to hide?"
"I have no intention of hiding anything," Yulia shook her head. "I don't usually guess about things I don't know."
Talking to this woman always made Tian Jing feel a surge of annoyance.
"Can't you tell me about your laboratory? Can't you guess that even if he didn't take a potion, he might have somehow ingested something from an ability user who died from a potion explosion?"
Yulia paused, then her face turned pale. "I've only heard about the horrors of the laboratory. I've never been inside. Your guess is also possible."
Tian Jing ignored her. Every time she tried to get something out of this woman, she ended up infuriated.
A stubborn and infuriating woman. She wondered what Zeng Jingchu saw in her back then.
Zeng Jingchu had already woken up. "Yulia? How did you... *hiss*."
Zeng Jingchu clutched his head. "*Hiss*, my head feels like it's going to split. I... Right, I need to call Zeng Lin... Tiantian she..."
It seemed Zeng Jingchu exerted all his might to turn his head slightly. He looked up at Tian Jing by the cell entrance. "Tiantian, what... what's wrong with me?"
Tian Jing looked at Zeng Jingchu's pale face under the light and knew she couldn't experiment on him further today.
"What's wrong with you, I don't know either. Rest here for a few days. Once you're feeling better, I'll pull you out again to see what's going on."
"Ah?" Zeng Jingchu was surprised, then his concern returned. "Hurry and call Zeng Lin."
Tian Jing was not in a hurry. "What is your ten-year plan?"
Zeng Jingchu froze, then guilt washed over his face.
"I plan to invest heavily to turn Zhangshan Village and Zhonghe Village into a large amusement park to intercept tourists from the K Mountain scenic area. I'll also divert the water from Koushan, causing the downstream of Wuligou to dry up and become stagnant water."
Ruthless!
If the water in Wuligou was cut off, the stagnant water would make it unbearably foul, ruining the "most beautiful cave rafting" in the Hot Spring Valley scenic area, which was highly praised by tourists.
Tian Jing stared at Zeng Jingchu for a long time, making him flustered and uneasy. She then jumped off the cell roof and said to Sun Quanxiao,
"Right now, Zeng Jingchu's brain is very fragile. Mr. Sun, would you like to talk to him now, or wait?"
Sun Quanxiao looked at Zeng Jingrong.
Zeng Jingrong shook his head. "Let's wait. Mr. Sun, please help the team members relieve some of their psychological pressure first."
Sun Quanxiao nodded and left the dungeon.
Tian Jing told Zeng Jingrong about Zeng Jingchu's ten-year plan.
"...You make this call. I'll come back in a few days. Don't let him out yet."
Zeng Jingrong nodded. After watching Tian Jing leave, he went up to the cell roof to close the door.
"Jingchu, your condition isn't suitable for coming out again. I'll bring you some clean clothes. You'll stay in the same room as Yulia for now. After a few days of recuperation, Tiantian will come back."
"Cooperate well. Trust me and Tiantian. We will definitely find a way to treat you."
A hint of sadness appeared on Zeng Jingchu's face. "Cousin, if the only place I can be normal is here, then imprison me forever. Yulia and I can keep each other company."
Zeng Jingrong locked the door, jumped off the roof, and wiped the moisture from his eyes. He was determined to find a solution.