If time could rewind to an hour ago—
After Huo Xianfeng shamelessly declared that he could and would surpass Marshal Huo Chao in a rather delusional manner, although Jiang Ci expressed his skepticism in a timely manner, in the end, he did not outright refuse his attempt.
“Fine, let’s give it a try.”
However, their first difficulty was not how to control Forbidden Abyss to rush out and snatch the core hanging in the sky. Instead, it was how to connect Xiao X as a temporary replacement core to the Forbidden Abyss’ wreckage and awaken the latter.
The gap between the design and implementation of this plan was like someone saying that since there’s no cement, bricks, and stones right now, maybe we can use wood to build a house with tenon-and-mortise joints. The problem was that there was only the most primitive wood available, and they only had one apprentice who vaguely understood how tenon-and-mortise worked.
Compared to Jiang Jingsheng, the top mecha manufacturing master of the Empire, his son Jiang Ci, although he inherited his talent in mecha manufacturing and research, was obviously just a novice apprentice at this moment.
Although it was Jiang Ci who proposed this plan, he hadn’t actually thought it through. Now, when they were about to put it into practice, he suddenly realized that this plan was completely impossible because of the huge difference in the levels between Xiao X and the Forbidden Abyss, as well as the differences in manufacturing. The two would generate an extremely strong repulsive reaction.
Yet, regardless of all, they had to give it a try.
Jiang Ci controlled Xiao X to transform into its mecha core form, embedded it in the broken chest of the Forbidden Abyss, and then reconnected the remaining tens of thousands of energy lines and mental chain filaments with the temporary core.
But what most surprised the silver-haired general was—
The expected repulsive reaction did not occur at all. The reconnection between the temporary core and the wreckage of the Forbidden Abyss proceeded unbelievably smoothly.
Almost in the moment Xiao X transformed and integrated itself in the wreckage, the various broken and withered circuits seemed to suddenly have come to life, immediately entwining and connecting.
“How is this possible…”
In that instant, Jiang Ci suddenly had an unbelievable thought—
It was as if Xiao X was not a simple childcare system made by Jiang Jingsheng for his child but rather a second-generation core tailor-made for the Forbidden Abyss!
Whoosh—
A dazzling blue light radiated from the Forbidden Abyss’ chest. Golden energy liquid accelerated along the photon track, as if countless blood vessels were madly injecting energy into the body of the Forbidden Abyss.
Crack! Crack!
Its skeletal fingers began to tremble.
At this moment, inside the cockpit, the silver-haired major general tightly closed his eyes, his forehead dense with cold sweat. His current physical condition was not very good, and his mental power threshold, due to his injuries and the side effects of the suppressants, could only reach two-thirds of his peak state.
Such rapid reconnection made Jiang Ci’s mental power almost overload in an instant, catching him off guard.
Fortunately, the next second, Huo Xianfeng suddenly raised his hand and squeezed the air.
The neural chain that was originally connected behind Jiang Ci’s neck was immediately detached, swiftly turning into thousands of bright threads in the air and converging toward the youth like a galaxy in movement.
—That was the first time Jiang Ci saw such a terrifying mental power.
If his mental power threshold was compared to a shallow river, then at that moment, the invading mental power from Huo Xianfeng was like a torrential flood in ancient times that was enough to overturn the entire continent and capable of causing extinction of entire species at will.
Terrible…….
Is that really…a mental power that humans can possess?!
Jiang Ci’s knees softened, but he still gritted his teeth and held on. In the silent space, he could clearly hear his own labored breathing.
The reconnection wasn’t complete yet, and although Huo Xianfeng had joined, his own mental power couldn’t withdraw recklessly at the moment. He needed to establish a connection with the Forbidden Abyss and hand over the control to Huo Xianfeng.
So inevitably—
The mental powers of the two people first experienced subtle touches, then friction, and finally, the enormous and fierce mental power of the youth unconsciously enveloped Jiang Ci.
“Uh…”
It’s important to note that, in this era, mental power is the most private and untouchable aspect of every individual and even parents weren’t allowed into it. Moreover, it is thousands of times more sensitive than the nervous system, which is why it can connect the human body to a mecha, allowing the latter to synchronize with the consciousness, movements, five senses, and even pain perception of humans.
So, in these few seconds of extremely intimate mental power touch and entanglement, Jiang Ci even had the illusion that he was being stripped naked, and every inch of his body was being touched by Huo Xianfeng.
Or perhaps, something even more intimate than that.
Humm—
At this moment, the Forbidden Abyss’ head slightly paused, and its eyes suddenly lit up with a crimson glow in the darkness.
The heroic soul that should have been dormant in hell was awakened and it slowly opened its eyes, descending to the mortal world once again.
Reconnection complete.
Boom!
Almost the moment the reconnection was confirmed, Jiang Ci fell into the co-pilot’s seat. He laboriously withdrew his own mental power, and his lower body was so soft that it was almost impossible to stand upright. It was as if he had just experienced a fine electric current passing through, and at this moment, every nerve ending in his body was filled with an unbearable numbness.
Huo Xianfeng opened his eyes and immediately turned his head to look at Jiang Ci, but the latter deliberately turned his body to the side. From this angle, he couldn’t see the expression on the other’s face, only a silhouette.
The omega’s slightly slender back bowed slightly, and countless silver threads of hair poured down on his shoulders and back. With the slight trembling of his shoulders, a subtle shudder could be noticed.
However, the young man only fixedly looked at him for a few seconds. Although his Adam’s apple moved slightly, in the end, he didn’t say anything.
Huo Xianfeng turned his head, manipulating the Forbidden Abyss to quickly absorb the remaining energy in the reactor, and then rapidly transformed it into its fighter jet shape, following the direction indicated by the larvae and leaving the underground.
The control system of Forbidden Abyss was completely different from ordinary mechas, but for some reason, Huo Xianfeng seemed to instinctively know what to do without the need to learn.
Ten minutes later, Jiang Ci finally recovered a bit. He identified the direction of travel and frowned.
“This… isn’t the direction to the Sunrise District.”
“Yes, not for now. We need to make a detour to the Bearing District near the Sunrise District.”
“Qts?”
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The first half of his sentence did not specify the night, but Jiang Ci immediately recognized what he was talking about. However, before the embarrassment in his heart spread, he heard Huo Xianfeng laugh and ask,
“Guess why he appeared here that night?”
“… ”
An omega appearing in the underground city, causing an alpha riot, was indeed a serious matter. In other places, it would be normal for the city manager to come and assess the situation. However, Ye Shu was different. Over the years, he had deliberately let the entire underground city fall into a chaotic and corrupt state.
“That day, Ye Shu’s appearance was too timely, or rather, he didn’t appear there at all, he was already there. And I heard that when the City Lord goes out, he usually has many guards with him.”
“But that day… when I saw Ye Shu, he was alone.”
Huo Xianfeng was very concerned.
“So, the next night after calming you down, I went to the underground city again.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Ci instantly stiffened. A certain deeply buried memory that he had just suppressed was unearthed once again. However, when the youth spoke the phrase “calming you down,” his tone was very natural.
As if it was just an ordinary and common thing.
“…”
But in the end, the silver-haired major general still wore the same calm and indifferent face. After a brief contemplation, he followed his train of thought and said,
“And then, you discovered an issue with that artificial sun.”
Huo Xianfeng raised an eyebrow, a pleased expression appearing on his face. He seemed to really enjoy communicating with Jiang Ci, this clever and beautiful omega.
“Yes, the time it lit up was three minutes later than usual.”
Although it didn’t sound like a big difference, considering that the artificial sun had never malfunctioned since the establishment of the underground city, coupled with the fact that on the night Huo Xianfeng returned from the underground city, he found that the First Legion suddenly surrounded the Winter Day Planet, he speculated that Ye Shu’s appearance that night was likely related to the First Legion’s appearance in the planet today.
At that time, Huo Xianfeng didn’t know that the core inside the artificial sun was the core of the Forbidden Abyss. But now that he knew this information, connecting all the events made it easy to come up with a possible speculation—
“So that night, Ye Shu probably went to replace the core.”
Jiang Ci remained silent for a moment and then asked him,
“Huo Xianfeng, what if your guess is wrong?”
He pursed his lips.
“After all, what you just said is neither a decisive nor a substantive evidence.”
“Hmm?”
The youth raised an eyebrow in surprise and turned to look at him, a slightly mischievous smile appearing on his lips,
“What, do you want to make a third bet again?”
Jiang Ci turned his head angrily, “…I refuse.”
Of course not.
He already owed Huo Xianfeng two wishes.
Once bitten twice shy, this time the Major General wouldn’t make another bet with him.
“Tsk…”
Huo Xianfeng clicked his tongue in regret.
Sure enough, this clumsy omega who had been tricked twice finally became a bit guarded.
It seemed that there would be no more bets this time, but he could still tease him a bit more.
“Who said I don’t have a decisive evidence?”
Jiang Ci turned back, “?”
Huo Xianfeng gave him a series of coordinate numbers,
“The remains of the Forbidden Abyss have revived and it’s able to sense the location of its core.”
Jiang Ci’s pupils shook, “……!!!”
He originally thought that there would be some subtle connection and attraction between the Forbidden Abyss’ wreckage and its core. But he didn’t expect that the former could accurately find the specific coordinates of the latter!
But in the next moment, the major general suddenly realized something, and immediately became furious,
“So your analysis just now was just playing with me?!!!”
After all, this person already knew the coordinates of the Forbidden Abyss’s core, yet he came to bet with him, clearly setting him up.
Jiang Ci finally woke up.
The first two bets were definitely the same as this one. This guy only raised a bet when he was 100% sure that he would win!
“Oh…”
Huo Xianfeng waved his hand, and smiled with crooked eyes,
“—Not entirely.”
Jiang Ci: “……….”
If it weren’t for the fact that only this guy could control Forbidden Abyss at the present moment, he would definitely kick him off right away!!!
So the truth of the matter is—
While the Church and the Empire were in a life-and-death struggle over a tiny nuclear bomb disguised as an artificial sun in the high sky, with heavy casualties on both sides, Huo Xianfeng leisurely flew in his small broken fighter jet, accompanied by a beautiful omega, and effortlessly stole the City Lord’s crystal.
Of course, this is also the main reason why despite Huo Xianfeng departing earlier and at a faster speed than the warring factions in the desert, he only appeared after Zhou Jiuya had fought two rounds.
This move was truly hitting where it hurt!
Even if Jiang Ci hated this guy to the bone, after personally witnessing the entire process, he had to admit how scary Huo Xianfeng was.
Whether it was strategic thinking, personal strength, or even meticulous observation and decisive judgment…
It seemed that in every standard measuring a person’s excellence and strength, this guy had already reached the pinnacle.
Of course, except for his extremely bad temper, everything else about him was nearly perfect. So, after the whole process, it led to the current scene—
Huo Xianfeng revealing the core, shocking everyone on the spot.
“You…!!”
At this moment, the City Lord almost vomited blood. But the familiar voice made him suddenly recall the night he went to replace the core—
“It is you?!!”
After Ye Shu successfully replaced the core, he suddenly received news of chaos in the Sunrise District. Coincidentally, he encountered Huo Xianfeng, who could control four C-level mechas simultaneously.
—Ye Shu had only seen such a powerful mental power in one person.
So at this moment, he had no doubt at all and directly concluded that the person currently piloting Forbidden Abyss was the same one he let go by mistake that night!
“The City Lord has a good memory.”
Huo Xianfeng casually played with the core in his hand, appearing calm and relaxed, as if it wasn’t a precious item fought over to the death between the Church and the Empire, but an ordinary metal sphere.
This action even caused Zhou Jiuya to feel suffocated.
Clack!
The youth suddenly grabbed the core in mid-air, smiling as he spoke, echoing the words Ye Shu had said to him back then:
“If the City Lord is willing to answer my three questions, I’ll return the Forbidden Abyss core to you. How about that?”
—These were the same words Ye Shu said to him in the beginning.
[“As long as you answer my three questions, I’ll let you go.”]
At this moment, the City Lord felt an intense sense of humiliation. Not the kind of humiliation of one’s dignity, but a sudden reversal of power dynamics, being directly under someone else’s control.
However, as soon as these words came out, even Jiang Ci who was in the cockpit was stunned, unable to fathom what Huo Xianfeng was thinking. He initially thought the young man’s goal was also the Forbidden Abyss.
At this moment, Ye Shu, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, saying,
“You ask—”
Huo Xianfeng didn’t beat around the bush and went straight to the point,
“First question: Why is there a Zerg nest near the Forbidden Abyss’ wreckage?”
At these words, Zhou Jiuya was surprised, immediately turning to look at Ye Shu. He was also waiting for this answer.
The appearance of a Zerg nest was something that surprised Huo Xianfeng. Logically, Ye Shu, as a fanatic fan of Huo Chao, should harbor deep hatred for the Zerg race. Why would he allow a Zerg nest to be established near the remains of the Forbidden Abyss?
“It’s a blockade,”
Ye Shu closed his eyes, speaking with a serious tone,
“I want anyone daring to covet the Forbidden Abyss to taste the pain of being gnawed and devoured to death by the Zerg race.”
—Indeed, it was a reasonable explanation.
But it wasn’t the whole story.
Huo Xianfeng narrowed his eyes slightly, not pressing further,
“Second question: Why is the City Lord selling Gardenia Rose blossoms in the underground city?”
“No!”
Ye Shu quickly responded to this question, his tone sounding quite angry,
“I am also investigating this matter. Although the underground city is not under the jurisdiction of the Empire, there are certain fundamental regulations that apply to it!”
“So, are you implying…”
Huo Xianfeng replied to Ye Shu while turning his head to give a meaningful look at Jiang Ci’s current ugly face,
“An unknown party smuggled Gardenia Rose blossoms into the underground city?”
“Exactly!”
Zhou Jiuya believed that Ye Shu wouldn’t lie on such matters. After all, it was due to the Gardenia Roses that Ye Shu almost killed the current Emperor.
At the same time, Ye Shu’s affirmative answer also made Jiang Ci look away in a slightly embarrassed manner, avoiding Huo Xianfeng’s sight.
This question… maybe he was being presumptuous, but there might be a 5% chance that Huo Xianfeng asked it for him. If Gardenia Roses were forbidden even in the underground city and despised by the City Lord to such an extent, they shouldn’t openly appear in the Sunrise District’s auction house. Yet, they did.
Moreover, the news of the Gardenia Roses appearing in the Winter Day Planet came from He Zhun. Even before that, He Zhun had somehow obtained Gardenia Roses and could extract some components from them.
“…”
Huo Xianfeng withdrew his gaze from Jiang Ci.
Indeed, it wasn’t Jiang Ci being presumptuous, but it is not just 5%, it can probably account for 40%.
From the first time Huo Xianfeng saw Jiang Ci communicating with that doctor, he had sensed something strange.
Now, seeing Forbidden Abyss in a prolonged silence, Ye Shu couldn’t help but urge,
“—What about the last question?”
Huo Xianfeng pondered for a moment, and it was obvious that the third question was very important.
“The third question…”
The young man raised his head and the tone of his voice was light, yet it could not disguise its sharpness,
“Ye Shu, when you chose the Winter Day Planet back then, established the underground city, separated the Forbidden Abyss’ remains and core to then hide them…”
“—Was it all an order from Huo Chao?”
If there was anyone in the world who could make Ye Shu give up his deep-seated hatred for the Zerg race, to even endure having a Zerg nest around the Forbidden Abyss, it would only be Huo Chao.
“……”
Ye Shu shook violently. At this moment, his pupils dilated to the extreme due to excessive shock and his throat seemed to have been tightly squeezed, making it difficult for him to utter a single word.
—This was Ye Shu’s final secret.
After a long while, Ye Shu spoke with difficulty,
“No… not…”
To be precise, it was not Huo Chao’s order, but Forbidden Abyss’ request.
Because they had never seen each other since the day Ye Shu had his arm amputated by Huo Chao. And when the Earth fell, Huo Chao detonated millions of nuclear bombs and perished with the Zerg.
Ye Shu tried his best to snatch out the almost torn Forbidden Abyss.
But there was no Huo Chao inside.
Not even his remains.
——He didn’t even get to see Huo Chao for the last time.
Not to mention getting that person’s last order.
However, at the moment when the shattered Forbidden Abyss was about to fall into eternal slumber, it conveyed a request to Ye Shu.
[Ye Shu, take apart my core and wreckage, hide them in different places.]
[Hide them… in a place called Winter Day Planet.]
“……”
Just as the two sides reached a deadlock and were in silence, Zhou Jiuya was staring at the Forbidden Abyss’s chest.
From the moment the Forbidden Abyss appeared just now, he has been paying attention to the temporary replacement core. After all, the real core of the Forbidden Abyss has not yet been repaired. If the other party can restart the wreckage, they must have found a temporary replacement core.
But where in the world can it be so easy to find a substitute for the Forbidden Abyss’ core?
So even though he was very familiar with this temporary replacement core, Zhou Jiuya always believed that it was either an S-level mecha core, or more likely to be a double-S core.
It couldn’t be an A-level core, right?
But he never expected——
During such a close observation, Zhou Jiuya finally discovered that in the lower left corner of the cockpit, in the least noticeable place, there was a pattern similar to a child’s artwork.
…It was a drawing that Jiang Ci made when he was three years old with some kind of paint that couldn’t be washed away.
“……!!!”
Wan Jiang suddenly transformed its five fingers into claws, launching a sudden attack towards the core of the Forbidden Abyss.
Huo Xianfeng didn’t quite understand why the other party would suddenly launch an attack, but that didn’t stop him from quickly blocking.
Bang—!!!
The collision produced a earth-shattering roar, and before Huo Xianfeng could question why, he heard a sudden shout from the other!
“Jiang Ci—!!!”
Huh? The young man was slightly puzzled and turned his head to look at the omega in the co-pilot seat. The latter’s face was stiff, subtly revealing a trace of guilt.
Oh, right, Huo Xianfeng suddenly remembered. Jiang Ci was a subordinate of Zhou Jiuya. Wouldn’t the leader be angry if he found out his subordinate had secretly been against him?
But the situation was much more complicated than what Huo Xianfeng had imagined. Since the two mechas were now very close, unlike when Wan Jiang raised the defensive shield and focused all his efforts on resisting the attack, at this moment, Zhou Jiuya had all his attention on the cockpit of the Forbidden Abyss.
In addition, since Xiao X failed to close the ventilation holes, the omega’s pheromones leaked out. In normal circumstances, this slight low-concentration pheromone wouldn’t attract any attention. However, that wasn’t the main point—
The main point was that it was mixed with Huo Xianfeng’s strong alpha pheromones and it immediately launched an exceptionally fierce rejection and attack towards Zhou Jiuya, who was also an alpha.
Moreover, there was also a scent unique to a pregnant omega.
Zhou Jiuya was dumbfounded.
“????”
“!!!!!!!!”
At this moment, the Legion Commander’s mind first went blank, then his entire person was filled with erupting rage.
Fuck! The little cabbage he had been raising for eight years was actually uprooted by someone?!!!
No, no, no, no, hahahaha!
thank u for the chapter ✨💃🏽
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This is so hilarious 🤣
Now now Mr. Zhou, you were the one that barely maintained contact with that cabbage 🤷♀️
If we are honest. The little cabbage uprooted himself and stuffed himself into the pigs mouth at their ‘second’ meeting
Took the word right out my mouth🤣🤣
Huo Huo being misunderstood again. The cabbage was more proactive in his uprooting!! 😘
Thanks for the chapter 💞
Hahhahahahhaa!!!! Lmao!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When from superior mad at betrayal to garden mad at cabbage being throughly stolen by a criminal alpha lolololololol oh my gosh this hilarious!XD
Thx for this chp, also I thought the uncle didn’t care about JC or like did something ?🤔 hm
Slandering the pig when the cabbage should take responsibility! Pregnant cabbage…omg! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🐷🥬
Oh no HAHAHHAHAHAHA
hahahahahaha this is such a funny misunderstanding!
thanks for the chapter!
With all due respect, Commander, the little cabbage put a gun on the pig’s forehead and demanded the pig to dug them 🤣🤣🤣