Chapter 317: Daoist Lu Ya Still Ahead |
Jiang Si rushed straight toward the sealed land.
“Do you even know where the sealed land is? And you just go?!”
“No.”
“Then why are you running?!”
“Going by instinct.”
Sometimes Jialan wondered if there was some kind of reproductive isolation between the two of them when they talked.
Still, Jialan felt that Jiang Si probably really didn’t know how to produce offspring with human women.
Though he said he was looking for the sealed land, in reality, Jiang Si simply stood in the sky and blocked the hundred-thousand-strong army all by himself!
Chongxu’s once-invincible drones, mechas, warships, and aircraft flew out in endless waves.
Endless fireworks and explosions bloomed in the sky for days on end.
Jialan only watched at first, but soon she couldn’t bear to look anymore.
Because just seeing those shattered deposits explode one after another made her feel like Chongxu’s local household registration book was slapping her in the face. Her vision went dark, and she couldn’t breathe.
How much money was that?!
To be honest, Jiang Si’s “by instinct” approach just made him run around and kill like a headless fly.
If he could really find the location by instinct, he wouldn’t have been stuck outside Chongxu for so long back then…
Looking up at Jiang Si, who was single-handedly blocking Chongxu’s steel torrent from above, Shan Lan couldn’t help but sigh.
This really was the case of: if Brother Jiang can’t beat it, it doesn’t exist. If Brother Jiang can’t find it, you’d better be able to hide forever…
Meanwhile, below in Chongxu, the Saints of the Hall spread out rapidly across the entire city. Every Chongxu resident was grabbed and interrogated.
Information about Lu Ya and Chongxu was being frantically collected.
Even she, as a veteran clearly connected to Jiang Si, was caught by the Saint Hall and dragged to the interrogation room.
At the time, she was thinking of going after Jiang Si, but Ruo Yun led a team and personally caught her.
“I’m Jiang Si’s friend! I really am Jiang Si’s friend!”
Despite her insistence, no one in the Saint Hall paid her any attention.
But it didn’t matter. What kind of person was Jialan? Ever since she joined the Witch Association, this kind of situation had become routine.
Especially here in Chongxu.
Not to brag, but Jialan, as a local in Chongxu facing these out-of-towners, felt a bit like she was smurfing.
So when she was interrogated, Jialan just sneered and pulled up her account.
Eighty million Chongxu coins!
The response was a slap on the table.
“I told you to answer the questions seriously. Why are you opening your account here?”
Shan Lan stared in disbelief at Ruo Yun, who had slapped her.
This blockhead isn’t afraid of my savings?!
You’ve been in Chongxu for a while. Don’t you know what that number in my account means?!
I’m the elite among elites in Chongxu…
As if reading her disbelief, Ruo Yun coldly pulled up her own account.
Shan Lan gasped.
Her balance was zero!
But next to it was a combat power system, showing ninety million!
“Where did this hick come from? Coming to Chongxu and not showing combat power first, but showing off your balance. What year is it? Who cares how much money you have?”
The people around burst into laughter, all wearing mocking expressions reserved for clueless outsiders.
Jialan’s face turned red. Then she felt lost.
This isn’t right. This isn’t right?
Isn’t this Chongxu?
I’m the local in Chongxu! Shouldn’t I, as a local big shot, use my massive savings to thoroughly humiliate these beggars from outside?
How did it turn into a Chongxu local beggar being ruthlessly mocked by an outsider big shot?
“Auntie, comparing savings is so out of style now. These days, you compare combat power! Only those with high combat power are worthy of being the elite!”
“And don’t say we’re bullying you because you’re old and weak. Auntie, here combat power is your title, your status! Zero combat power just means you’re a lousy apprentice. First, work hard to raise your combat power to five million and become a disciple!”
“Everyone here is a disciple with over twenty million combat power! And you, an apprentice handyman, dare to speak? You say Jiang Si is your friend? Jiang Si is a peak Silver Alliance Master with over ten billion combat power! A rare and noble existence even among us Saints! A half-step Gold Alliance Perfection high-tier ally!”
In a daze, Jialan felt like she had returned to that afternoon many years ago, when she was relaxing in a luxurious villa after a milk bath, and the Mirror Kingdom Prince proposed promoting the “Witch-Disaster Beast Hundred-Level Six-Step Method.”
Damned Azure Cloud Sect half-step peak Perfection—even in Chongxu, it’s still chasing me!
I surrender! Isn’t that enough?!
After being lectured by a random Saint Hall member, Jialan finally accepted reality.
Now she was the one who had stumbled into a grand manor like Granny Liu.
At the same time, she spotted another poor soul.
Su, the Nightwatchman.
The relationship between the Nightwatchmen in Chongxu and the Witch Association was similar to that between the Disaster Control Bureau and the Witch Association in the new world.
This organization, which had tried to change Chongxu from the inside out, had now become a joke under the Saint Hall’s assault.
But if anyone understood the Lu Ya AI, it was probably the Nightwatchmen.
After all, the Nightwatchmen, who wanted to overthrow Chongxu, had always wanted to release the super AI Lu Ya.
But over the years, everyone who tried had been erased by Chongxu.
No one could do it except Jiang Si.
That made the Nightwatchmen look even more ridiculous.
Whether in ideology or achievement, they had been crushed by the Saint Hall and Jiang Si, who had only been in Chongxu for a few days…
Wasn’t it said that a strong dragon doesn’t oppress a local snake? How did all the snakes end up dead?…
No matter how Su was interrogated, she remained silent, almost unresponsive.
Thinking of the Su who used to be so crazy she’d even curse at the Witch Association building, Jialan couldn’t help but sigh.
Su was a madwoman only Chongxu could produce.
But now, whether crazy or sane, everyone in Chongxu was shattered under the Saint Hall’s impact, passively accepting everything they couldn’t understand.
Chongxu, once a place where money was everything and people were turned into capital, had finally changed completely.
Though they said you couldn’t build without breaking, right now it looked like the breaking had gone a bit too far…
The towering skyscrapers were all gone, replaced by ancient courtyards. The environment had changed from the oppressive, sunless gray skies to bright, clear skies and blazing sun.
But it seemed the Chongxu residents’ position hadn’t really changed.
Because what was needed had shifted from financial power to combat power. If your combat power was insufficient, you were still oppressed and made to do menial labor.
The only difference was that instead of going to work, you did chores and leveled up. Both were still manual labor.
At least food wasn’t a worry anymore. No more nationwide intermittent fasting.
One day, she met Su, and the two of them were chopping firewood on the mountain together—that was what the Saint Hall’s handymen did.
Looking up, they could see Jiang Si’s heroic figure.
He was still sweeping through the endless drones and battle suits raining down.
But they had gone from high-end goods like magical puppets and solar-powered magical kings to accumulated old stock.
It seemed they had found another way to make money, turning this battle with Jiang Si into a war. Chongxu’s weapons and equipment factories were running full steam, the production line flowing smoothly. The people up top probably wanted Jiang Si to keep fighting for a few more days.
“I see you’ve been in much better spirits lately. Seems like mental illness really does need mental illness to cure it.”
Hearing Jialan’s joke, Su La just shrugged, carrying her firewood on her back.
“Are you happy now? The Nightwatchmen’s dream, the wish to change Chongxu, has come true.”
Jialan expected her to burst out laughing, but instead, Su just shook her head. “It’s not that simple.”
“The Saint Hall changed Chongxu and freed the Chongxu people from their loans. Maybe that’s a bigger achievement. Perhaps after being oppressed by Chongxu for so long, everyone thinks being oppressed by someone else is better. But isn’t it all just slavery? Because it’s an outsider, it’s easier to accept. As for those who want freedom, even if they die, no one cares… Who gives a damn?”
As she spoke, Su La finally regained some of her madness.
“But I was the one who brought these people here. I can’t help but feel a little resentful.”
Jialan stared, dumbfounded. She reached out and touched Su’s head. “You’re not going crazy at a time like this, and you can actually talk normally? Who are you? You’re not Su…”
“Heh, what nonsense are you talking about? In the entire Nightwatchmen—no, the entire Chongxu—am I not the most mature and calm one? It’s just that everyone else in Chongxu is crazy. I’m the only sane one. That naturally makes me look like a madwoman.”
As she spoke, Su suddenly laughed hysterically and shouted up at Jiang Si in the sky:
“Don’t you agree, Jiang Si!”
In the midst of the fierce battle, Jiang Si seemed to slightly lower his head, glancing down at them.
Another series of drones exploded. Su La suddenly grabbed Jialan. “Oh, right, Vice President Jialan. There’s something fun I’d like you to experience with me~”
“What do you want to do? Let me be clear, I’m not interested in girls…”
“Oh, don’t be scared. I’m not interested in girls either. Of course, if it were that darling from the garbage dump outside Chongxu, that’s another story… Just kidding. Don’t look at me like that. You didn’t go to the garbage dump when you came back, did you? If you had seen her, you’d be charmed too. She’s not describable as a boy or a girl. She’s an angel!”
Jialan suddenly had a bad feeling.
The angel she was talking about… wasn’t it the Angel of Death? Why did it feel like she was talking about Shion? But Shion should still be in Beihai in the new world.
“Anyway.”
While Jialan was still thinking, Su had already grabbed her hand tightly and pulled up her personal interface.
Data cascaded down like a waterfall. Su’s personal interface looked like it was infected, with red warning boxes popping up everywhere. But Su didn’t care. She frantically operated on her interface.
Soon, the drones and various weapons that Jiang Si had shot down slowly surrounded her.
Su grinned and whistled at Jiang Si. “Come on, darling. Let’s see what true living really looks like. Come on, kill us!”
All the weapons above Su aimed at Jiang Si and fired!
Jialan panicked. “Wait, wait, wait! If you want to die, do it alone!”
“Oh, if we really die, I’ll have someone to keep me company on the road so I won’t be lonely. Don’t be scared, Jialan. I’ll always be with you.”
“Do I need your company? Let go!”
But she didn’t have much chance to break free. Having lost her Miracle Seed, she couldn’t escape Su’s sudden grip. Soon, the blue spear in Jiang Si’s mecha hand came crashing down like a heavenly nail!
“Whoa!”
Before being engulfed by that terrifying electric current, Su let out a foolish exclamation, even reaching out to touch the fearsome heavenly nail. “This is… so beautiful. I promise, in my heart, you’ve already surpassed that angel outside. Jiang Si, you’re my true love…”
“You son of a bitch!”
Amid Jialan’s screams and Su’s exclamation.
The two were completely annihilated by Jiang Si’s spear.
After a long moment, Jialan’s hands were still shielding her face. Her legs flailed for a while before she realized she was still alive.
Then she heard Su’s low laugh, growing into a wild roar!
“I told you! I told you!”
Jialan looked up and was stunned to see an unfamiliar ceiling.
Under a gray-blue ceiling, a massive glass wall took up half her vision. Pale blue light illuminated the space, giving it a bright, spacious feel—a typical Chongxu high-tech decoration style. Jialan immediately understood.
They had somehow arrived inside the Nightwatchmen building!
Two girls in formal attire, accompanied by several Incubators, appeared before them.
“Hello. We are the upper-level directors of the Nightwatchmen.”
Jialan suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck. She instinctively touched it.
There was something stuck in her neck.
One of the girls, wearing glasses, spoke gently, “Since you’ve managed to come up from the lower levels, please cooperate with us to suppress that madman Jiang Si…”
“Hey, hey, hey, pretty miss.”
Su La walked over and patted the glasses-wearing girl on the shoulder. The data port on the back of her neck flickered with sparks. Su’s expression was a bit irritated. “Are you for real? We just risked our lives to get here. Do I need to teach you? When entertaining a guest who’s risked their life, you need a table of good food and fine wine. It’d be even better if you had some pretty girls as company. If not, no big deal. You can dance for us to liven things up. In short…”
As she spoke, Su’s tone suddenly rose.
Her hand, still on the girl’s shoulder, grabbed her head and smashed it hard into the glass wall behind her, then pressed it into the shattered glass!
“Upper-level Nightwatchmen, you have no manners at all! Didn’t your mother teach you to greet strangers first?! Huh?!”
The girl’s head was crushed into the glass fragments. Su casually tossed her aside, then adjusted her collar, relaxed a bit, and looked at the other girl, who had instinctively backed away, and the trembling Incubators.
After wiping her face, Su La, covered in blood, revealed a bright smile:
“Oh, darling, don’t be scared. I’m very gentle. That was just a little loss of control before my period. Girls tend to lose control at times like this. How did the saying go? A willful girl is cuter, right? But don’t worry, the period is under control now. I promise I can keep my emotions in check from now on. Um, could I get some sanitary pads first? I got a little too excited and leaked a bit. You know how hard it is to find pads down there. I’m actually a tampon person…”
Jialan held her forehead and sighed.
Sure enough, this woman only seemed harmless under the pressure of the Saint Hall and Jiang Si.
The moment she was out, she started going crazy.
But soon, Jialan heard something she didn’t expect.
The Nightwatchmen girl who had been receiving them lowered her voice and asked the Incubator beside her.
“Are you sure this one can become a Magical Girl?”
Huh?
…
When Jialan and Su disappeared, the endless drones and mechas finally stopped descending.
Jiang Si looked at the spot where Jialan and Su had vanished.
They hadn’t been sent to the upper level by his attack. They had been transferred by something else.
To move someone right under his nose, Jiang Si wanted to praise whoever did it.
But it seemed the marks he had left on Jialan and Su couldn’t be erased.
Jiang Si didn’t rush to find the one who had transferred them. Instead, he turned his head.
A small bat with red, teary eyes had been sent in and was staring at him.
“Jiang Si!”
She shouted and rushed over.
“Jiang Si! Give me back my Core Blood! Why did you make it public to so many people?! You’re too mean! Too mean! Boohoo…”
Crying, she tried to charge at him, but Jiang Si pressed a finger to her forehead. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn’t touch him.
“Give me back my Core Blood…”
The Chongxu residents and Saint Hall members below watched with great interest.
Hyacinth even called White Fox and Keke out, telling the two girls to watch the spectacle above.
The two girls watched the little bat, who had cried her eyes red and looked pitiful, and felt a bit numb.
After a long time, White Fox quietly asked Keke, “Sir… just how many girls is he involved with…”
“I… how would I know?” Keke watched another girl who had been bullied to tears by her big brother, bit her lip, thought of the Prince, and couldn’t help complaining, “Big brother, what are you even doing?!”
Even if you’re unfaithful, at least take care of their feelings!
Otherwise, when Yiyi asked, “Keke, Keke, how many girlfriends does our big brother have?” what would she do?
If Yiyi got hurt, she’d definitely cry to death…
Worrying for a moment about Yiyi’s love life, but looking at the bat girl before her transformation, she didn’t recognize her at all.
Suddenly, she felt she didn’t know her big brother well at all. She didn’t even know how many girls he knew outside.
She couldn’t handle her relationship with her big brother, so how could she help Yiyi…
With that thought, her mood sank, and she lost interest in the scene before her.
White Fox, however, watched seriously, straining her ears to catch what was being said above.
“The ticket was just a ticket.”
“That was my precious life, my everything. You don’t cherish it at all. Now I’ll become the biggest joke of the vampire clan. I’ll never be able to face anyone again. Is this what you wanted to see, Jiang Si? You’ve trampled my life and dignity into the ground, ground them to dust. Don’t think you’ve won. I’ll die before you!”
“It’s just a ticket.”
Jiang Si said calmly, “Just tell me where your so-called vampire clansmen are, and make all their Core Blood public.”
Sonora froze. “Huh? How is that any different from a public naked parade?”
“If everyone is embarrassed, your face is saved.”
The crying bat girl stared blankly for a long time.
“Or do you think only you should be embarrassed?”
Sonora didn’t hesitate. “Then let everyone be embarrassed together.”
She silently apologized to her entire clan in her heart, then cleared her throat, sniffled, and stabilized her emotions. “Anyway, let me take you to the upper level first.”
“No need.”
Jiang Si threw a punch, shattering Chongxu’s space!
Cracks spread across the sky, and a pitch-black hole appeared in the middle of the crack, leading straight to the next level!
“I’ve already found it.”
Sonora’s jaw dropped. “How did you find it?”
“Just send someone over. The rest is positioning. Then.” Jiang Si grabbed the cracked space and tore it open!
“Just chase after them.”
Sonora fell silent. Following behind Jiang Si, entering the upper level in this manner for the first time, a thought arose in her heart.
“Maybe giving him my Core Blood wasn’t such a loss?”
Still, if Jiang Si couldn’t find a way, she wouldn’t have many days left to live.
“How much do you know about Lu Ya?”
As they traveled through the space passage, Jiang Si suddenly asked this. Sonora was stunned for a moment, then thought about it and said, “A lot. The vampire clan has been in Chongxu for a long time…”
“Was Lu Ya sealed?”
“Hmm… Lu Ya is someone from a very, very long time ago.”
Sonora looked troubled.
“What’s sealed now is her super AI, which could destroy all of Chongxu. She herself passed away long ago.”
“…After all, she was just an ordinary girl.”
Sonora heard Jiang Si stay silent for a long time before he replied calmly.
“Oh.”
Not surprising.
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