novel-books Chapter 720 [138] Planet Princess
Chapter 720 [138] Planet Princess
Chapter 720 [138] Planet Princess (Hippo Reports Safety)
The Night Dragon Society headquarters is currently relocating.
The entire intelligence department, as well as the young master's office, were moved to the third basement level of the Eco Tower and merged with the server room.
Qin Jiandan left the office and, after only a few steps, could see the iPhone 18 from Earth at the core of the server room.
"Still no news from Earth. Neither that guy who claims to be my biological father, nor that bald scientist..."
The shattered screen was completely black; there were no text messages, no missed calls, and no signal.
Time flows more slowly on Earth—a few days in the Ring of Stone is only a few tens of minutes there.
Knowing is one thing, but waiting always makes me feel anxious.
The coolant in the server room gurgled in the transparent pipes. The cooling fan shaft made a steady noise.
Mu Yue pushed open the fire door and walked in. The heels of her training shoes clicked on the metal floor, each step carrying the unique rhythm of a sheriff.
The prosthetic eye switched to super vision mode, scanning the cables on the top of the server room, the seams between the walls and the floor, and the bends that are easily overlooked.
The server room has only been here for a few days, and we need to check for security vulnerabilities one by one.
Her cat ears tilted slightly forward, sensing any unusual vibrations inside the wall. Suddenly, her cat ears snapped back.
Valerie jumped in from outside the fire door, waving a piece of paper in her hand.
"Sheriff, look! Fried Egg signed my marriage consent form! What a fickle, unfaithful man!"
She shoved the paper in front of Mu Yue, the registration form rustling loudly in front of the catgirl's nose from the fan.
Qin Jiandan glanced at the paper and noticed the printed text. The content was a summary of post-marital requirements that she had seen before.
It's nothing more than things like "walk the dog at least twice a day" and "the dog's high demands must be met."
"Did you write this without permission? Who gave you permission to infiltrate the quantum harvesting team?"
Valerie stuck out her tongue, her blue eyes filled with arrogance.
"Anyway, you didn't say you wouldn't accept it, right? We, your girlfriends, will take care of you, so don't act innocent after getting the benefits!"
She pointed to the last line for Mu Yue to see—"Ensure the person replenishes Mu Yue's energy." Mu Yue's expression changed very subtly, but the catgirl was clearly about to hiss.
Valerie took a half step back and spoke faster, as if she were a defendant making a final statement in court.
"I... I'm still very useful! If Fried Egg ever goes berserk, I'll protect Little Yueyue with all nine orifices of my body!"
Qin Jiandan opened his mouth. As he was searching his mind for exactly which parts the "nine orifices" covered, the alarm bracelet vibrated.
"Young Master, this is—" The roar of a motorcycle engine came through the communicator, accompanied by the rustling sound of sand and dust whipping against the metal casing. "—This is the Rust Knight. A major discovery!"
Qin Jiandan's entire body tensed up. He turned to look at Mu Yue, then at Valei.
Mu Yue's pupils shrank, and Valei's playful smile disappeared.
Since Linlin's disappearance, Qin Jiandan has mobilized all his resources to search for her, and has also entrusted the Rust Knights who travel in and out of Huanshi City with the task. He has been waiting for this communication.
"What was the discovery? Did you find Linlin?"
Mu Yue noticed that Qin Jiandan's lips were trembling. She gently approached and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"We—did not find Miss Linlin—" The voice on the communicator was interrupted by the sandstorm, as if someone had swallowed a mouthful of sand. "But we found the Whale Shadow Beast in a collapsed mine tunnel in the Endless Desert."
Qin Jiandan brought the alarm bracelet to her lips. "Send me the coordinates. I'll be there right away. Don't act rashly, lest you trigger an attack from the whale-like Yin Beast."
His voice was still trembling slightly when he said "Linlin".
“Young Master, the Whale Shadow Beast seems to be hibernating, so we are safe for now. But—” the other person hesitated for a moment, “—the three brothers, Digger and Jibao, are trapped in the mine tunnel, very close to the Whale Shadow Beast.”
"Huh? How did they end up going to such a far place?"
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The digger lay at the end of a narrow mine tunnel.
She wore mining gloves on both hands, her eyes behind thick sunglasses looked down, and her flat nose was covered in dust.
Since Dr. Li began treating her eye condition, her problem of tearing up in light has improved significantly. The enhanced mining gloves that Linlin specially modified for her have amplified her already strong digging talent several times over.
Qin Jiandan jumped into the passageway through which the whale-like beast had escaped several times in an attempt to find Linlin, but he returned empty-handed in the face of the complex forks in the road ahead.
Digging noticed Uncle Jiandan's distress. When no one was watching, she dug down along the forks in the path, one by one.
Her mole-like nature gave her a strange sense of direction. She didn't know how she found this path—she just felt she should dig this way.
She was now lying on the edge of a collapsed mine tunnel, with half a cocoa biscuit in her mouth.
Below was a huge underground cavity, in which the whale-like Yin Beast floated. All of its hundreds of eyes were closed, and its dark skin undulated slightly with low-frequency vibrations, each undulation causing grains of sand to fall from the cavity walls.
Maybe he's snoring, Juju thought.
The three brothers, Jibao, stood at the bottom of the cavity, forming an equilateral triangle with the three of them, Digger, and the whale-like creature.
They carried power miners' pickaxes on their shoulders, and the slogans printed on the back of their work clothes were obscured by dust. Sweat beaded on their three dark faces.
Big Lucky Bao looked up and shouted, but not too loudly: "You damn mole! Get down here right now! Cocoa cakes are our lunch, something we're going to eat when we're tired from mining! How dare you steal our food!"
Erjibao pointed at the digger and then gestured towards the whale-like beast.
"Stealing our food is one thing, but leading us all the way to the Whale-like Shadow Beast! Are you an accomplice of the Whale-like Shadow Beast?!"
Sanjibao threw the miner's pickaxe in his hand to the ground, and the pickaxe hit the rock, sending up a small shower of sparks.
"Rumor has it that there are rainbow diamonds in this old mining area, so we came here specifically to dig, but we found nothing! Now we can't even find our way back! The three of us brothers are so handsome, we'll be captured by the planet's will and made into planetary slaves sooner or later..."
There is a 10-foot square hole at the top of the mine, from which yellow sand pours down.
Not far from the hole, in the endless desert, a figure descended from the sky. Before the dust he kicked up had even settled, he had already looked up and waved at the floating police car in the sky.
In the driver's seat, Valei turned the steering wheel, and the police car entered cruise control mode. In the passenger seat, Muyue held a sniper rifle, the muzzle pointed downwards, ready to provide auxiliary fire at any moment.
The Rust Riders set up a portable glare generator. The pale silver light shield unfolded, enveloping more than ten riders and their modified motorcycles.
Approaching Qin Jiandan were the "Girl Scouts" of the Rust Knights. Heavy, scrap metal armor completely concealed her figure, and freshly smeared engine oil hadn't been wiped off her helmet and goggles.
Qin Jiandan had some dealings with her before. Since Linlin often rubbed her face with engine oil, Qin Jiandan thought it was a good omen.
“Young Master,” she said quickly, clearly having prepared her speech, “we were searching for clues about the Whale Beast and Miss Linlin in the old mining area when we heard the sound of a collapse and rushed over, only to find that Digger and the Jibao brothers were trapped down there.”
"The Whale Shadow Beast is currently in a state where it could wake up at any moment. When Digger was digging, it caused a partial collapse of the mine roof, and now it's stuck in a suspended position where it can neither go up nor down. The three Jippo brothers are at the bottom, and they seem to be unable to find their way out. They've been wandering around down there for half an hour."
Qin Jiandan glanced through the sandstorm at the collapsed area. The whale-like Yin Beast hovered in the center of the cavity, its hundreds of eyes still closed, but the low-frequency vibrations on its body surface seemed to have accelerated slightly.
"You all stay put. I'm going down to rescue the people and then deal with this whale-like demon beast."
He leaped down. As he passed the precipitous rock layer where the digger was stuck, he wrapped his right arm around her waist, pulling her out of the rubble and drawing her into his arms. "Uncle Jiandan!"
Qin Jiandan landed steadily at the bottom of the cavity. The little boy in her arms let out a joyful cry.
Before she could utter a second word, Qin Jiandan had already forcefully thrown her toward the three Jibao brothers.
"Catch her and get her out of here! If anything happens to her, I'll hold you all responsible! Tiger Fool won't let you off the hook either!"
Dajibao dropped his pickaxe and caught the digging tool with both hands.
Mole Girl had been digging for a long time, and her body was covered in dust and gravel. This bump made Big Lucky Bao cough, his mouth full of dirt.
Erjibao pulled everyone back several steps. Sanjibao approached Juejuezi and asked, "You know the way back, right?"
Digger nodded, then shook his head.
She freed herself from Big Jibao's embrace.
"The geological structure on the way back is unsafe. Let's try to stay as far away as possible, and then follow the young master up through the hole at the top."
On the other side of the cavity, the whale-like beast had already opened half of its eyes.
Qin Jiandan walked forward alone. The black light of the Steel Armor Breathing Technique flowed naturally around his body, like a thin layer of black mist armor.
The dark light was reflected in the pupils of the whale-like beast.
Another name for the Steel Armor Breathing Technique is the Shadow Beast Armor. It shares the same origin as the black armor on the surface of the Shadow Beast.
The whale-like Yin Beast displayed an unfathomable, overwhelming pressure. Perhaps it really wasn't a "creational species" Yin Beast born a hundred years ago, but rather an even more ancient "primordial species."
"Where is Linlin?" Qin Jiandan clenched his fists, advancing against the piercing pressure. "What did you do to her?"
Qin Jiandan clung to a sliver of hope, yet dared not delve any deeper into it. He didn't know what he would do if he received news that Linlin had met with misfortune.
Time Overwrite!
The one who cast the spell was not Qin Jiandan, but the whale-like Yin Beast opposite them, which had opened half of its eyes.
Qin Jiandan was greatly shocked. However, this time overwriting did not contain any malicious intent, but rather a piece of information, something akin to telepathy.
This information is not composed of language, but rather an ancient image.
The Endless Desert. Not the Endless Desert of today, but a more ancient and wild version.
The scorching sun burns every inch of exposed rock, and no life can survive even a day and night in the wind and sand.
The whale-like Yin Beast has existed without beginning or end. Its tentacles reach out to the creatures struggling in the sandstorm, and with each touch, a layer of black armor condenses on their bodies.
The armor altered the way those creatures breathed and circulated. They survived.
The next imagery seems to come from Linlin's memory.
Linlin was the first baby born naturally in Huanshi City. She was born surrounded by people; though conditions were difficult, they were inspiring. Everyone's faces were blurred into warm-colored spots of light at the edges of the image.
"What do you mean?" Qin Jiandan approached, looking directly into the deep eyes of the whale-like Yin Beast.
"Empty—empty—empty—"
The whale-like beast roared, the sound waves causing rubble to fall from the walls of the cavity. All its eyes opened simultaneously, their pupils vibrating rapidly in sync with the roar.
The three Jippo brothers covered their ears and huddled together.
The Rust Knights' Radiant Canopy Generators were interfered with by the sound waves, causing the light shields to flicker erratically, and some of them started covering their helmets and talking nonsense.
Inside the floating police car, Valei gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, while Mu Yue's sniper rifle muzzle shifted slightly by a fraction of a degree in the sound waves.
The whale-like beast began to flip inside and out.
Its skin turned inward, and its internal organs turned outward. The hundreds of eyes that were originally covering its body sank into the body as it turned, becoming new internal organs. Meanwhile, the fluorescent core material that was originally hidden inside the body was brought to the surface, generating new eyes.
Thousands of new eyes, each facing a different direction. It's like a crumpled and unfolded piece of paper; the physical laws of the lower-dimensional world completely fail upon it.
As it flipped inside out, a black humanoid figure was pushed out from the depths of the core!
Several tentacles of whale-like demons were attached to its back, like a puppet, but the puppet contained a huge life force inside.
"Who are you……!?"
The puppet revealed its killing intent, and Qin Jiandan retreated hastily. The black humanoid's attack missed, smashing the ground and creating spiderweb-like cracks.
"Are you—Linlin!?"
There was no reply. She was completely covered in a black battle suit, from head to toe, with even her eyes not showing.
The battle suit is made of the same material as the Yin Beast Armor, but it fits better, revealing the figure of a 15-year-old girl.
But the hairstyle wasn't a bun; instead, it was waist-length twin ponytails—the suit covered the hair as well, leaving only two ribbon-like black outlines that trailed afterimages during rapid movements.
Qin Jiandan noticed that with each step she took, the force exerted by her left leg was completely symmetrical with that of her right leg, and even stronger in her left leg than her right.
There were no signs of any old injuries.
Qin Jiandan continued to retreat. He didn't want to make a move before confirming the other party's identity.
The black warrior showed no mercy. Using the tentacles of the shadow beast on her back as a fulcrum, her attacks defied logic. Her punches and kicks were powerful, raining down relentlessly.
Qin Jiandan used the Steel Armor Breathing Technique to parry, and each collision produced a metallic clang.
The three Jippelins huddled together, their teeth chattering. Digger, squeezed between them, was nearly suffocating.
"You guys don't have to be so spineless..."
With great difficulty, Digger managed to peek half his face out from between Big Lucky and Second Lucky's ribs.
"Who was that black-clad warrior who attacked the young master? Could it be Miss Linlin? But Linlin's left leg was injured..."
Dajibao stretched out his big hand and covered the mouth of the digger.
"I told you not to attract the planetary will's attention! The planetary will loves capturing planetary slaves. No matter who that woman is, she'll definitely be captured and turned into a 'planetary princess'! I don't want to become a 'planetary prince' eating fruit platters in a planetary karaoke bar!"
The news from the other day that "the author is about to finish writing" turned out to be a false alarm.
The hippopotamus had swollen lymph nodes in its neck. A renowned expert from Peking University Cancer Hospital said it was nothing to worry about; it was a benign cyst and a follow-up examination in six months would suffice.
On Qidian, I originally wanted to let everyone know at the end of the chapter, but I didn't expect the new chapter to be delayed for so long. Many readers have already found out from other social media platforms.
As everyone's good wishes have been true, the hippo is alright and will be able to continue accompanying Totoro and continuing his novel writing.
Although the tumor has been ruled out, it is a fact that the hippo lost a tooth due to low blood pressure. In addition to getting his teeth fixed, he also needs treatment for the shingles on his scalp (the swollen lymph nodes were caused by shingles).
"Young Master" will be completed within 20 chapters, and a new book is also in preparation.
In short, I will work hard together with Totoro and our readers who care about us! Thank you everyone!