And what is that golden man?
The golden gatekeeper made by the Gongzaosi?
How could I, a dignified hunting envoy and General Shen Ce of the Xianzhou Alliance, not be able to withstand a blow from such a mechanical creature?
Or are there some magical aspects to these golden gatekeepers, created using ancient ingenuity, that the Alliance doesn't know about?
Is it possible that not only myself but even the God could be subdued by those golden men?
If this is true, then the potential threat posed by these Jin people is huge.
After returning to Luofu, go to the Ministry of Industry and Construction to investigate the Jin people guarding there.
Absolutely! It wasn't because he suddenly heard that he was stabbed by the golden man and died, and he was embarrassed after being disliked by Xing and the store manager at the same time because of this! Jing Yuan said in a sonorous voice deep in his heart.
"Hmph, anyway, whether it's Jing Yuan and Jing Liu from Xianzhou Luofu, or Bronya and Seele from Beloberg, if you want a character, go find them yourself. I'm only responsible for giving you a few weapons occasionally when I'm in a good mood, and don't even think about plotting anything against me." The manager snorted coldly, reluctantly loosened his hand that was grabbing Xing's earlobe, and then spread out his five fingers.
In an instant, an invisible wave suddenly spread out from the palm of the store manager's hand, and debris-like light spots were attracted to his palm. Everyone's forehead flashed an uncontrollable slight pain like an electric shock. The light spots wrapped in mysterious energy quickly condensed into the shape of a flower bud in the palm of the store manager. After a moment, the flower bud suddenly expanded and bloomed in the terrifying torrent of consciousness into a holy lotus as ancient and majestic as a living Buddha.
"..."
The moment he saw the lotus, Xing almost drooled. Everyone couldn't help but look at the manager's palm. Kiana, with tearful eyes, suddenly trembled. Fu Hua's translucent body rushed out with a swish, and her gaze towards the black lotus was full of disbelief.
Jing Yuan was silent.
He glanced at the ancient lotus in the store manager's palm, which even he felt was a deadly threat, and then glanced at the pitiful feather in his own palm. He couldn't help but ask, "Um, store manager...what is this?"
"Yu Duchen." The store manager answered casually.
"..." The corners of Fu Hua's eyes twitched slightly, and her expression was horrified.
Is this Yu Duchen? Is this thing Yu Duchen?
Could it be that the Yu Duchen that she had been using before was fake?
"So..." Jing Yuan carefully considered his words, "This lotus and the feather you gave me are the same thing?"
"Yes, what else do you think?" the store manager said, "Why do you ask such a strange question?"
"..."
Because I'm not blind nor stupid!!
Jing Yuan roared silently deep in his heart.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind, and showed a stiff smile on his face: "Since it is the same thing, then is it..."
"You can ask Xing yourself." The store manager casually threw the blooming lotus to Xing, "From this moment on, this thing belongs to her. If she is willing to exchange it with you, I can't do anything about it."
Xing hurriedly reached out her hand towards the blooming lotus that was flying towards her in a parabola, but she never expected that the moment her fingertips touched the lotus, the lotus lost its substance in the blink of an eye and sank into her mind along Xing's fingertips.
"..."
The moment Qian Ling Yan Chen merged into his consciousness, Xing's body suddenly froze in place like a robot with the switch turned off, and his eyes suddenly became lifeless.
But soon, her eyes revealed a sense of confusion as if she had just woken up from a dream, as if she had experienced a lot in that moment.
Xing raised his wrist, thought for a moment, and waved his arm tentatively.
In an instant, the bodies of everyone in the cafe fell into a strange state of stagnation.
“Ooooh! This, this power is——!”
Xing's eyes suddenly lit up, with an irrepressible excitement and joy in her eyes. She looked around, wandering in the hall as if time had stopped, touching here and there, and then turned her malicious gaze in the direction of the store manager.
She strode back to the store manager, stretched out her hand and waved it in front of his eyes. The store manager's golden eyes did not move, as if even he, who had given her this power, had been temporarily deprived of the ability to think and perceive under this terrifying power of consciousness.
"Well! Let's do it!"
After a hesitation of less than a tenth of a second, Xing suddenly picked up the store manager like a princess and ran towards the hall entrance without thinking.
What a joke, if she doesn't forcefully marry this supermodel character who gives herself a six-star exclusive weapon in every version and combines shield, healing, control, crutches, and damage, can she still be called a qualified pioneer? !
The store manager is not crooked, play until the server is shut down!
Just as Xing was about to hug the store manager and run back to the Starry Sky Train, a hand suddenly reached out to her face.
The joints of his index finger and thumb sunk deeply into the flesh of her fair and smooth face.
Xing's body suddenly stiffened, sweat broke out on his forehead, and his eyes were filled with fear.
"I say..." The store manager glared at Xing who picked him up and ran away, "What are you going to do to me?"
"..."
Gulp, Xing swallowed his saliva and a smile uglier than crying appeared on his face.
"You...you're not unconscious?"
"Put me down." The manager said expressionlessly.
"Uh..." Xing's eyes wandered, "Let me explain first..."
"Put me down first." The manager repeated expressionlessly.
"..." Xing was silent for a moment, then asked tentatively, "Can you change the conditions?"
The store manager couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his forehead, probably to see if he had a fever or was hallucinating or something like that... He suddenly flew into a rage: "You've really grown up, little raccoon! You even dared to kidnap your godfather, didn't you! I gave you Yu Duchen and you used it on me, didn't you?!"
"Shouldn't the adoptive father follow his daughter..." Xing muttered in a low voice.
"..." The store manager was speechless for a moment. He realized that he had unknowingly accepted the identity of "godfather" that Xing had forced upon him. He could not help but hold his forehead and then laughed out loud in anger.
He had a feeling deep in his heart that he was completely defeated by the other party, and he didn't know why, but at this moment, he suddenly felt an extremely strong sense of empathy for the stargazers when they first saw him. Although this guy was not a time traveler like him, as the core of a story, this guy's attainments in the level of despise were so great that even the store manager who had a harem in the Quantum Sea felt ashamed of himself.
After realizing that he couldn't use common sense to guess Xing's thinking, the store manager's eyes suddenly became dangerous. He narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Xing's pupils with a very predatory gaze: "Are you sure you want to use my abacus on me?"
"..."Xing lowered his head and glanced at his arms that were holding the store manager in a princess hug. Then he turned his gaze back to the store manager's direction. The look in his golden eyes that were 90% similar to the store manager's was as if he was an air-conditioning technician being asked about his work.
"..." The manager was speechless again. Only in front of Xing did he always feel as if his brain was not enough.
He glared at Xing fiercely: "Are you a little confused about your position? Let me tell you first! I am undoubtedly a carnivore. Now that I have become a good person, it doesn't mean that I am a childless and unmanly protagonist of a light novel!"
"I'll give you one last chance! Put me down now and I can pretend that nothing happened. But when I smack you until you cry, don't regret it and beg for mercy!"
at this time.
"Then why don't you struggle?"
Xing, who suddenly realized something strange, asked in a somewhat strange tone.
"Can't or don't want to?"
"..."
The store manager was silent for a moment.
A vein popped out on his forehead. He exerted force on his legs and arms, turned around and pinned the unsuspecting Xing under him.
"You reminded me of this."
He held Xing's wrist and said in a grim tone: "I really haven't recovered for a moment. Why should I waste my words with you here? Wouldn't it be better to just use actual actions to scare and make you regret it..."
Before the store manager could finish his powerful words, his tone suddenly turned into one of fear:
"Fuck! What the f**k do you want to do! Where are you touching?!"
"...Didn't you push me down?" Xing couldn't wait to unbutton the store manager's shirt, his eyes showing an extremely strong eagerness to try, "Come on! Ship the goods!"
"You..." The store manager's eyes went dark. He was furious and crouched down in anger. "I don't care what happens to you!"
----
I don’t know how long it took.
The moment the stagnation of consciousness was lifted, Jing Yuan's body trembled slightly.
What happened just now?
The general's eyes suddenly became sharp. Although the surrounding scene did not change, at the moment Xing swung his arm, he still instinctively realized that an irresistible force suddenly filled every space in the hall.
But when he looked carefully, everything nearby seemed to be normal. Even Xing, who had swung out his arm, slowly lowered the arm that caught the lotus. The invisible wave disappeared without a trace as if it had never appeared. Except for Fu Hua who was floating in the air, everyone in the hall just felt a sharp pain on their forehead and then no longer noticed anything unusual.
"..."
Is it my illusion? Jing Yuan had a slightly hesitant thought in his heart. He swept his eyes over Xing and the store manager in turn, but did not notice any abnormality in their expressions. In the end, he could only treat the dangerous feeling as something that had never happened and refocused his attention on Xing.
"Miss Pioneer, I don't know..."
"No! No way! Don't even think about it!"
Xing hugged her chest and said firmly.
"..."
So the thing the store manager gave to Xing is really different from the feather he gave to me!? Jing Yuan had a blank expression on his face.
Chapter 4: Jing Yuan Wants to Get Back at His Place (k)
Kafka, who was far away in Liuyundu, had no idea that in just less than a few hours, the cabbages she raised would push up her "godfather" from another world.
"Okay, A Ren, 'Listen to me'——"
Amidst the wildly blooming red spider lilies, a beautiful woman in a coat walked calmly behind a man who exuded a murderous aura, and her tone of voice was filled with a bewildering charm.
"... Stop it, that kid is General Luofu's disciple. The Star Core Hunter cannot become an enemy of the Alliance right now."
"..."
A stream of black smoke mixed with hot air oozed out of Ren's mouth and nose.
He put away his sword, glanced coldly at the ruins in front of him, and then followed Kafka's footsteps and walked towards the Star Raft floating on a pier without hesitation.
The swallow-shaped sword energy emitting a faint cold light was flowing around in different corners of the ruins. After confirming that the two star core hunters had indeed left Liuyun Ferry, Yan Qing's short boy carefully poked his head out from the shadows behind a pile of wreckage.
He covered his right wrist which was shattered by the sword, bit it lightly with his teeth, and a trace of obvious unwillingness flashed in his eyes.
Although he was only a middle-aged man, Yan Qing was indeed a famous sword-wielding genius in Luofu. Although his wrist was broken by the evil blade at the first encounter, he managed to stay in this chaotic unloading dock and the blade that exuded evil spirit for nearly an hour under the large number of flying swords and those flying swallow-shaped sword energy.
But it was obvious that Yan Qing was not satisfied with such a result. Not only did he suffer such an overwhelming defeat to the invading enemy, but he could only watch him drive the Star Raft away... For ordinary Cloud Cavalry, this was probably just a failure of a mission, but for a genius like Yan Qing who aimed to be the Sword Master, this was undoubtedly a huge shame. The huge gap in strength was not a reason for Yan Qing to admit defeat. One day, he would completely wash away his shame when he faced the two Star Core Hunters again.
After a brief moment of reluctance, Yan Qing immediately regained his rationality due to his sense of responsibility as a member of the Yunqi Xiaowei.
He raised his left hand, which was still able to exert force, and waved it. Sword energies in the form of flying swallows flew in all directions in an instant. One of them chased in the direction of the star raft that Blade and Kafka were riding on. Although it looked like sword energy emitting cold light, the flying swallows controlled by Yan Qing were actually a high-tech product similar to a drone, integrating the functions of searching for the enemy, tracking, and image capture. As a military weapon, these flying swallow-shaped sword energies were naturally faster than the star raft.
Although Yan Qing was almost certain that they would be shot down by Ren and Kafka after catching up with each other, even if they knew the specific location where Feiyan was shot down, it would definitely have a more favorable impact on the subsequent pursuit.
After sending out the sword energy to track the wanted criminal, Yan Qing looked around and his expression became a little gloomy. Countless goods from various worlds and the budding star rafts were scattered randomly in various corners of the ruins. In just less than an hour, the evil blade turned the unloading dock used to sort goods from different worlds into a disaster site as if it had just suffered an earthquake.
...I don't know if the person in charge of the logistics company that contracted this cave would vomit three liters of blood on the spot after seeing this scene.
Yan Qing sighed softly in his heart.
Then, he immediately realized something that was like a bolt from the blue, and his face turned pale all of a sudden.
"I……"
Yan Qing opened his mouth slightly, and a strong feeling of powerlessness surged in his heart, making him collapse in the ruins all of a sudden. It was as if something was suddenly empty, and his weeping and plaintive wails sounded as if he was about to cry.
"My...my sword..."
He raised his left hand tremblingly and pointed at the broken swords scattered in the ruins again and again, feeling as if his heart was bleeding.
"One, two, three... Four hundred and seventy-six..."
"My four hundred and seventy-six swords..."
"No more, all gone..."
"Damn... that bastard... Star Core Hunter! Next time we meet, I will make you pay for my sword...!!!!!!"
Yan Qing held his head, howled to the sky, and for the first time in a long time he felt the urge to roll on the ground like a naughty child.
It can be said that he had no hobbies or interests in his life from childhood to adulthood. When other children were playing in the mud, he was playing with wooden swords. When other children were running around, he was dancing with swords. When other children were in school, he joined the Cloud Cavalry and used real swords. After other children developed more hobbies and interests, Yan Qing began to collect all kinds of magical weapons like a madman.
In the few short years since he joined Yunqi, he has bought so many fine swords that his residence is filled with them, to the point where he has no place to stay. In order to afford those swords that far exceed his own salary, Yan Qing has overdrawn nearly twenty years' salary from Jing Yuan. Now, half of those twenty years' salary has gone to the hands of the two Star Core Hunters.
Logically speaking, the Yunqi troops would of course be responsible for reimbursing the Yunqi army's damaged weapons, but the flying swords accumulated by Yan Qing were not included in this list. After all, those weapons were not originally the standard weapons of the Yunqi, but rather the magical weapons that Yan Qing had carefully selected from various arms stores. Although he usually bought two weapons when purchasing weapons, one for collection and one for use, he would not end up with the worst outcome of not even having a weapon to use.
But... when he thought about wasting ten years' salary just for coming out to clash with the Star Core Hunter, Yan Qing had the urge to go back to a while ago and give his extremely inflated self a slap in the face.
"Are you still alive?"
At this moment, a lazy voice suddenly sounded.
Yan Qing was shocked all over. He quickly tidied himself up and stood up. Then he turned around and looked at the person who came, his eyes full of shame.
