translator: loop
Even though they jumped from the third floor, it only took a split second to land.
In the chaos, something was thrown towards them in the air, with a tingling and tearing feeling that couldn’t be explained whether it was static electricity or something else.
When his back touched the ground, Chu Si subconsciously protected his head. But the irreversible violent impact still shocked his mind, and there was a momentary blankness.
“I’ve caught you.” A voice suddenly hit his ears.
“Who?!” Chu Si rolled sideways by inertia, half kneeling on the ground, and quickly glanced around.
They landed in the courtyard, and there was no one else around him but the big and small mops.
“What who! What’s the matter with the explosion just now! I seem to have been hit by something!” The mop almost threw himself to the corner of the courtyard, leaning against the wall with his back, hiding in the shadows while hugging the little mop tightly.
“Someone said something to me just now.” Chu Si also dodged to the wall.
“Me? I’ve only been screaming!” Mop replied smoothly as his eyes swept over everywhere in disbelief.
Chu Si frowned. “Not you.”
The voice seemed indistinct in the chaos, but it should’ve been a young man. He’d never heard it before, but it was still indescribably familiar.
Before he could think about it, the whistling wind came from the sky again.
“My God—” Mop tilted his face up in dumbfounded disbelief.
Three huge silver grappling ropes were flung from above, and every inch of air that the ropes passed made a tiny crackling sound, which made people’s hair stand on end.
But in a blink of an eye, the mop realized that these chills were not simply because of panic and fear, but because of static electricity.
They watched helplessly as the grappling rope crashed to the ground, shaking the entire fragment with it. The magnitude was so great that they couldn’t sit still at all, and almost became like rolling marbles on a disc.
The grapple rolled precisely down the edge of the fragment, wrapping underneath.
The sharp end of the metal grappling hook clasped onto the cliffs, and the sound of impact was sharp and piercing.
The fragment was firmly held by these three grappling ropes.
The mop was thrown against the wall several times amidst the uncontrollable vibrations, and shouted over the noise, “What the hell is this!!!”
There was so much racket that he had to yell in order for Chu Si to hear.
“Is that that terrorist named Yang that can’t stand you finally making a riot?!!!”
“Shut up!” Chu Si said.
As soon as those words fell, a huge silver object slowly emerged from the starry sky. It was composed of several flat circles of different sizes. At first glance, it looked like steel spiders clustered into a group.
And those three ropes were hanging down from that “iron spider”.
The moment it appeared, Chu Si’s face changed, “Space Prison?”
Mop: “What!!!! Why did the Space Prison blow us up?!”
This huge object, which was bigger than the entire black cedar forest, was nothing but the Space Prison used to exile dangerous people, where Sa’e Yang should have stayed.
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Everyone on the planet knew about the Space Prison and what it meant, but no one had ever looked up at it in such a situation and from such an angle.
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Such a thing, wanting to lift this fragment, was as simple as raising a hand.
Moreover, the claw at the top of the grappling rope was hollow, and the complex inner structure inside could create a powerful energy field the moment it successfully grabbed a target.
Hum…
A trembling sound came from the bottom of the planetary fragment, and an energy field with a huge repulsive force had already formed. With an unstoppable momentum, combined with the pulling of the grapple, the fragment was pushed upwards.
At that moment, Chu Si and his companions were extremely uncomfortable.
Under such a huge shock, the courtyard wall that had been abandoned for fifty years finally collapsed. The scattered dust neither dispersed nor landed, but rushed upwards. The ruins of the wall rattled and trembled.
“I feel terrible! It’s like being pulled up by the hair!!” Mop shouted loudly, “Can we still escape!!”
“I’m afraid not—” Chu Si said, but he didn’t mean to sit still.
A cloud of dust passed by and he frowned and coughed, looking around hastily in the chaos.
Right! There was still that corner he gave to Sa’e!
“This way!” Chu Si shouted at the mop, jumped over the collapsed wall and lunged toward the edge.
Their moment was so chaotic that he could hardly figure out how many times he pushed the small and big mops and how many times he was pulled by others. He didn’t even get a good look at who was pulling him before he tumbled and leaped across the chasm and landed on another piece of ground.
“Lend me your rocket launcher—” a low voice rang out in his ears.
However, before the other party finished speaking, Chu Si had already set up his R-72 reflexively. “Shut up!”
Only after he finished cursing did he realize that the person who said he wanted to borrow the rocket launcher was Sa’e Yang.
But at that moment, his hands were faster than his brain, and the moment he reacted, the launcher had swept in one direction.
The latest model of the R-72 rocket launcher had amazing bombardment effects and a material separation effect. The most expensive one could fire ten rockets in a row.
Boom, boom, boom—
The explosions were earth-shattering, one after the other, and all nine shots came out in the blink of an eye.
The mop who fell to the ground had not yet returned to his senses and was shocked by the ground-shaking blast.
He doubted Chu Si had even bothered to aim in that extremely short period of time. Yet the rockets exploded into a standard dotted line, and the fragments of the planet collapsed again, shedding a piece along that line.
On that side of the dotted line was a whole chunk of ground hooked by the Space Prison’s grappling ropes, with a large forest of black cedar, and the villa they had just stayed in. On this side of the imaginary line was the dragon pillar that still radiated blue light.
The fragment of land with the dragon pillar broke away from the grasp and fell back down. In the process, they hit the corner they were standing on, and barely joined together into a slightly larger fragment.
But only in the relative sense of “big”.
Rounding up the front and back, from a visual estimate there were no more than forty square meters.
And those few standing or paralyzed figures silently clung to this fragment, stunned into a pod of big-headed whales on an isolated island…
Chu Si carried the empty rocket launcher, tilted his head to look at the piece of earth captured by the Space Prison, and said expressionlessly: “My house, and my men.”
After saying that, he dropped his gaze and swept a circle…
How great, on this slightly larger fragment, there was an executive of the Security Building, the terrorist Sa’e Yang, a pair of buy-one-get-one-free mops, happy and harmonious…
Executive Chu, who lost his real estate and people, was not in a happy mood at all. He turned his eyes, fixed his gaze on Sa’e Yang, pointed to the Space Prison that had suddenly attacked above, and said, “Shouldn’t you start explaining?”
Sa’e raised his head, pressed the tip of his tongue against his cheek, and squinted at the underside of the huge structure. After a while, he looked across at Chu Si, raised his hand lazily to touch his brow, and saluted as roguishly as he could.
He dragged his words and said: “Reporting, sir, the Space Prison seems to be under your jurisdiction, are you perhaps feeling dazed?”
Chu Si: “…” Fuck you.
Of course he wasn’t dazed!
It was because the Space Prison was supposed to be under his jurisdiction that he was able to perceive the problem in an instant—
Sa’e Yang had escaped, and the Prison should’ve been hunting for him all over the universe. The controller on his arm had not yet been destroyed, and the Space Prison could accurately locate his position down to a centimeter. Within the radiation range of the controller, it could even send him straight into physical shock.
But now, the Space Prison came over, and the grapple it dropped wasn’t even heading for Sa’e. Under normal circumstances, such an error would be enough for the prison management to resign collectively.
What’s more problematic was that Chu Si’s communicator had not been turned off, and his channel was still at the top of the prison’s authorisation list.
At the time of the attack, his position would have been conspicuously marked in red on the prison’s star map screen. No matter how blind management was, it was impossible for them to let the grappling rope fall towards their immediate superior.
That would be a proper way of running toward rebellion.
The combination of these several oddities made Chu Si suspect Sa’e was up to no good.
“Don’t stare at me with such beautiful eyes, my dear.” Sa’e raised his hands. “I really can’t explain anything.”
“If I get shot in the head someday, I might choose to believe you for once,” Chu Si replied, not at all polite.
Sa’e let out a laugh, “You’re so heartless when we’ve known each other long enough to raise a short-legged cub into adulthood, I’m really quite sad.”
You’re sad, my ass.
Chu Si opened his mouth and replied: “Even if I raise the cub to ashes, I will still be like this.”
Mop: “…” What the hell kind of metaphor was this?
“A friendly reminder, if you have time to be mean to me, why don’t you take a good look at your house and subordinates?” Sa’e still kept his hands raised, and his surrender was full of provocation, “After all, the next time you see them again will likely be in fifty years.”
The silvery-white Space Prison had already lifted the entire fragment into the sky, and the “spider belly” of the frame had opened a mouth, ready to swallow it.
The outer shell of the prison flashed circles of blue light, rippling from end to end— meaning the leap had begun.
This could never be stopped by the power of two or three people.
Chu Si could not figure out the purpose of this trip for the Space Prison, but there was one thing that was barely consoling—
Regardless of who was now controlling the prison and what they were planning, his men would not be in much danger for the time being. After all, to anyone, a cryo-capsule was not a waste, even if it was in use, even if it was difficult to open the capsule from the outside.
But the house…
Chu Si’s face instantly froze: he had left the self-destruct device on when he left the storage room.
The good thing was that he didn’t have to worry about being broken into. The bad thing was that… the villa was not far from blowing up.
Sure enough, when the “spider belly” was closing, there was an earth-shattering bang.
Even Sa’e looked over in some surprise and saw the entire Space Prison tremble with blue waves in preparation for the leap, with black smoke billowing from its belly and a somewhat dishevelled appearance.
Sa’e suddenly curved his eyes with a smile and gloated idly: “Reporting, officer, I like your character of ‘breaking one’s own hand to remove the thighs of others’.”
He didn’t know if the explosion had set off some device, but the Space Prison’s already retracted grappling rope suddenly hung down again.
The powerful energy field was somewhat chaotic.
The outer circle of invisible matter formed by the dragon pillar had an irresistible gravitational force on that thing, and in the blink of an eye, it sucked in the grappling rope, as if there was a big invisible hand tugging that rope all the way to the top of the crowd’s head.
Hum…
Even Chu Si’s scalp tingled, and he immediately backed away.
Even though he reacted quickly, a little bead of blood still seeped out of the corner of his forehead. The energy field was partially offset by the outer circle of invisible matter, but the remaining energy was still enough to hurt people.
But just as Chu Si wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, the dangling grappling rope was suddenly grabbed by a hand.
A bare hand… grabbed it.
The hand that gripped it was long and slim, with protruding tendons and veins that showed an unbreakable strength.
That was Sa’e’s hand.
In the middle of the headache caused by the interference of the energy field, Chu Si looked over in surprise, and his first reaction was not “deserved it”, but “it’s a pity”.
When that good-looking hand came into contact with the metal surface of the grappling rope, there was a crackling sound, like a drop of water into a boiling pot of oil. Just listening to it felt like your skin was being ripped apart, and the pain was shocking.
However, Sa’e only hissed, and even this hiss was very perfunctory.
With a flick of his wrist, he threw the grappling rope he had grabbed at the one-person-high dragon pillar on the ground, then shook his hand, saying, “My dear Executive has given me such a vast piece of land, so I should return a gift.”
This rascal even specially added an emphasis to the word “vast”, in case others wouldn’t hear him being sarcastic.
The flexible metal of the grappling rope was thrown around the dragon pillar several times, and was firmly sucked by the positive energy field instantly released by the dragon pillar, as if it had been tied into a dead knot.
The properties of the entire grappling rope were assimilated by the dragon pillar, from the bottom to the top, and in the blink of an eye, it was conducted to the end that was connected to the Space Prison.
At this time, a large part of the Space Prison had already successfully leapt and disappeared into the sea of stars, and it was impossible to stop right now because of this little change, otherwise it would be instantly cut into two and crushed in space-time, disappearing instantly.
Boom, boom, boom—
A barrage of cannon fire was fired from the disc at the front.
The grappling rope between the front and rear mini-discs were blasted to slag in the blink of an eye, and the moment the connection was broken, the entire Space Prison leapt successfully without a trace. The only thing left was the last disc held by the grappling cable.
Sa’e raised his cracked hand and muttered, “How exciting.”
After that, he smiled at Chu Si, pointing to the grappling rope and the Space Prison disc tethered to it, “My dear, I’ll gift you a kite.”
Chu Si: “…”
Mop: “…” Goddamned kite!
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What I love about this author is that they always have a really compelling mystery alongside the romance and fun character moments 🙂 Tysm for translating this!!
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