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Shao Heng immediately felt cold sweat run down his spine!
If all the nervousness he’d felt earlier had come from Sa’e Yang, the moment he saw the empty corner, he was really so nervous that he felt as if his heart stopped for a few seconds.
“Nothing’s wrong, nothing’s wrong, nothing’s wrong…” Shao Heng seemed to have no idea what was coming out of his mouth and repeated those words again and again. It was unknown whether they were to comfort Sa’e Yang or to comfort himself. “Maybe he just woke up early…”
But in the end, he couldn’t even finish that sentence. After all, how many people carried their cryocapsule to run around after they awakened?
It was too easy to think that something bad had happened under these circumstances. For instance, that someone had been a step faster than them and taken Old Master Shao away with his cryocapsule.
Who would come to a hospital to transport an old man’s cryocapsule on this dark, silent planetary fragment, in a city where it was hard to find another living being?
The military? This was his best guess. Perhaps, as a top mechanical treatment expert, Old Master Shao was being protected ahead of time.
But Shao Heng wasn’t an ordinary civilian. He had meetings and was in official contact with the highest level of the military almost daily, and he was all too clear of the military’s current situation. They’d only expanded out these last few days, and even if they had the intentions, they wouldn’t have had the ability.
Besides, if this were really done by the military, they would’ve let Shao Heng know about the situation long ago. It was impossible for them to simply remain silent.
And after ruling out the military, the remaining possibilities were each more dangerous than the other…
Fortunately, he’d dealt with various dangers for many years and his nerves had long been honed. Right now, although he was anxious and worried, he didn’t buzz around like a headless fly.
So he quickly noticed some traces in the corner.
“This is…” Shao Heng quickly walked over and squatted down, scraping his finger against the ground—
There was a thin trail over the line where the wall met the floor, like some liquid had been accidentally splashed onto and ran down the wall. Because it was too fine and too thin, the color couldn’t be seen on the wall at first glance.
After Shao Heng scraped some off, contrasted against the palm of his hand, the color became obvious.
“Flesh-colored…” Shao Heng murmured, curling his fingers, “Simulated… skin?”
A flicker of hope was instantly fanned into flame.
“Simulated skin! It has to be a sculptor for simulating skin!” Shao Heng held up his fingers and turned his head to shout at Sa’e Yang. “I understand! This corner has been keeping cryocapsules, how could it be splattered with simulated skin sculptor? Could it be that my old man woke up early and made himself a double in the capsule for some safety reason? You see, the old man specializes in this, and there are so many unfinished products in the mechanical warehouse. To put together a person would only take a matter of minutes, with simulated skin, it could be adjusted…”
There were many gaps and leaps in his hasty connections, too incomplete. Yet the more he spoke, the more excited he became, as much to convince himself as to convince Sa’e Yang, as if by saying a little more, his conjecture would become true.
In the process, he caught a sudden glimpse of the bookshelf out of the corner of his eye, and then his explanation came to a sudden halt.
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He jerked his head around and stared at the bookshelf for a couple of seconds, his heart and his limbs sudden springing into motion, this time with real excitement—
When he was very young, he had been addicted to password games for quite a while. In order to cultivate his interest, or perhaps to make him less annoying, Old Master Shao made the family study into a password den.
Old Master Shao was particularly fond of this, so the study was filled with paper books. He often hid some information in the color arrangement of the spines of the books, encrypting them layer by layer, letting Shao Heng guess slowly so that he remained content for several days without any messing around.
Gradually, this became a unique link between father and son.
“The old man left me a secret code!!” Shao Heng practically shouted out these words.
Perhaps because there was substantial evidence and it was no longer nonsense, Sa’e Yang’s face finally changed a bit, but Shao Heng only glanced at him once and then retracted his gaze.
He’d been so nervous just now that he hadn’t even noticed that Sa’e Yang’s expression was so terrifying.
He pointed to the bookshelf and read the decoded result word by word. “Wen… hua… street…”
33 Wenhua Street.
The moment this address was uttered, Sa’e Yang had already vanished from the doorway.
Shao Heng: “…Fuck!”
In the span of a few minutes, it was as if his heart had jumped ten times from the highest point of the planet. When he stood up to give chase, he realized that his limbs were a little weak, and a layer of cold sweat was on his back.
Fortunately, fortunately, things hadn’t gotten to the worst. His dad hadn’t evaporated out of being, otherwise he couldn’t imagine what he would do, let alone what that Mr. Yang would do.
33 Wenhua Street was a pharmacy. It wasn’t very large, no more than two floors.
They quickly searched through it, but still there was no sign of Old Master Shao. Before Sa’e Yang went berserk, Shao Heng hurriedly found the traces of a code word on a medicine cabinet once again.
This time, instead of being arranged with the spines of books, it was with colors on the patterns on the sides of pillboxes.
Essentially the same.
With a cold sweat, Shao Heng once again reported an address.
This time it was a flower shop, and of course, the flowers had long since rotted and gave off an unspeakable odor that put people in a very bad mood. Even worse, they still came up empty.
Shao Heng reflexively searched for something with color in the store. This time, it was ribbon used for packaging.
Two hours, two whole hours.
They’d made their way to twelve different places. From those coded objects and their placements, several times he could sense his father had been moving in a hurry.
The reason behind it was unclear, but it was obvious that Old Master Shao did not intend to make it so complicated.
He wanted to explain this to Mr. Yang, but he didn’t dare open his mouth. He was afraid that the moment he did, the other party wouldn’t be able to suppress his anger and would really explode.
Yang Zha, this name was truly fitting!
As he ran around, he could feel Mr. Yang’s gaze burn a hole into his back. Under such a gaze, he felt as if he had died several times, but the other party never really exploded, seemingly trying his best to suppress his temper because of something.
Two hours and forty minutes.
The process was so torturous that Shao Heng was practically counting the seconds. When he finally saw his own old man in a garage next to a convenience store, he, a 180 centimeter macho man, had tears in his eyes.
The old man sat leaning against the corner of the, his head hanging without a single movement.
Trembling, Shao Heng searched for a breath with his fingers, felt for a pulse, then let out a long breath. “Alive… still alive…”
Then, Mr. Yang finally said his first words in over two hours. “Let’s go.”
Just these two words made one quiver in fear. Shao Heng almost fell to his knees and thanked Sa’e Yang for not killing him.
But the old man’s state was a bit strange. It was unknown whether it was because he was sleeping too soundly or because his health was too poor, but he wouldn’t wake up even after being called several times.
Shao Heng made an instant decision, pulling the old man onto his back, and left.
Then he hesitated, wondering if it would be better to head straight back to the White Wolf Ship, where the conditions, facilities, and security were so much better.
His heart had only just fallen back into his chest, but just as he remembered something, it leapt right back up his throat again. “Oh no, I forgot, that mechanical treatment device can’t be moved…”
The moment the words were out of his mouth, he thought that if Mr. Yang had a weapon in hand, then his head probably would’ve been blown off.
“That device looks like it’s the size of a bed, but its structure is complicated. All the wires are buried in the walls of the building to lead straight underground, where there’s a much larger adjustment room.”
That was why Chu Si had to return to that villa every time in order to make adjustments. His villa has a complete set of replicas above and underground, and those installations couldn’t be moved around at will.
After explaining, Shao Heng felt as if his head was positioned on the chopping block.
There was no fucking way to solve this kind of problem. The only solution was—
“Why don’t we head back and bring Executive over…” Shao Heng said.
From the previous communication call, he could sense that time seemed to be very, very tight for Executive. A back-and-forth would double the amount of time wasted on the road…
But was there any alternative?
No.
Half an hour later, when Shao Heng sat in the pilot’s seat of a large-sized rescue aircraft, looking at the information of 30 synchronized aircraft displayed on the screen above the pilot’s seat, he no longer knew what to say…
He felt he had underestimated the extent of Mr. Yang’s madness.
After determining that the mechanical treatment couldn’t be moved, this Mr. Yang blasted open the door of an underground shelter in a very frightening way and used synchronized piloting to bring 31 aircraft out all by himself.
He used 30 of them to encircle the entire planetary fragment, maintaining a connected state, and then synchronized their piloting systems with Shao Heng’s side.
He himself hovered outside the planetary fragment in a large combat aircraft.
“Drive.” Mr. Yang’s deep voice was transmitted to the cockpit through local communication on the aircraft.
Shao Heng slapped the leap activation button. All of the aircraft surrounding the entire planetary fragment simultaneously activated a large-scale leap protection shield, and dozens of blue protective rings instantly lit up, completing and overlapping each other, caging the entire planetary fragment within them.
And then…
This massive planetary fragment leapt eight times in this way.
Eight times!!!
For leaping through and between star regions, seamlessly connecting distances both long and short, a step less was a step less, and a second saved was a second saved.
But in the end, there were still problems.
“Mr. Yang, we can’t leap to the White Wolf Ship from the distance we’re at now. To help leap a planetary fragment, these types of aircraft… are just barely managing,” Shao Heng said with a numb expression on his face. “But it’s impossible to drag such a large fragment and navigate seriously. Our driving force just isn’t enough. I’ve informed the White Wolf Ship to move towards us at full speed. If we wait here, it won’t take long, probably only half an hour…”
But he didn’t expect Mr. Yang to be unwilling to wait even half an hour.
Very quickly, he onced again deeply understood the meaning of the name Yang Zha—
You aren’t strong enough? You’re missing a little push?
Alright, I’ll give you a hand.
Two minutes later, a “brilliant” scene appeared in the vast sea of stars——
Sa’e Yang piloted a large combat craft, followed by thirty synchronized aircraft previously used for leaping, while simultaneously unleashing the maximum explosive yield of artillery fire at the tail of the planetary fragment.
The massive thrust generated from the explosion just made up for “that little bit” of difference.
Shao Heng: “Fuck……………………”
agh this is so stressful, im feeling shao heng’s nervousness just reading it.. thank you for the chapter~
(also, there appears to be an issue on the novel page for this, it’s showing two ch 65 with this chapter as the “first” one)
oh that’s bc this chapter is supposed to be ch66! ive fixed it, thanks for letting me know~ ❤️
Hooray for Sa’e Yang!
Oh. My. God. After this chapter, I love this novel even more.
Thank you for the update!
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guh, i’m stressing out
thanks for the chapter!