Chapter 514: Good Teeth (2/10, Autumn Subscription)

The only problem now was how to get the "amnesiac" Bai Xiaoya in the game to cooperate with reality and wake up from it.

As for why she was locked here by the Horse Constellation eating those bizarre corpses, and why she'd lost her memory, that would have to be investigated later.

"You usually eat this?"

"Yep! Nutritious and healthy! Lord Horse Constellation said so!"

"... Don't eat it anymore."

"But what do I do when I'm hungry?" Bai Xiaoya widened her innocent eyes.

"I'll take you to eat something good."

"Really?!" Bai Xiaoya looked at Fang Yue excitedly, her eyes seeming to light up, drool gushing out: "What yummy thing? What yummy thing?"

Watching Bai Xiaoya's reaction.

Fang Yue felt like some creepy old man abducting a little girl.

Just as he was thinking this, Jing Yan's voice suddenly rang out from the distance.

"Found him! Ye Ge, we found Lord Han!!"

What?! Lord Han!

His heart jolted.

Fang Yue scooped up Bai Xiaoya and immediately rushed toward the source of the voice.

"Are we going to eat something yummy? Are we going to eat something yummy?"

Bai Xiaoya, carried under his arm, swung her little feet off the ground, her face full of excitement.

Fang Yue didn't reply. By the time he reached the room where the voice had come from, his pupils contracted at once.

In the middle of the room sat an enormous rectangular table.

On the table was a cube of semi-transparent glass, like a giant fish tank.

Suspended in pale green liquid, Lord Han's head soaked quietly inside the giant fish tank.

A black tube, like a nail, drove straight into the back of Lord Han's skull.

"Lord Han?!"

Fang Yue cried out, set Bai Xiaoya down, circled the giant fish tank twice, but had no idea how to make a move.

Bai Xiaoya blinked her big eyes too: "So this is a fish? Lord Horse Constellation told me fish can be eaten!"

The anxious Fang Yue's face darkened at her words: "You can't eat this!"

"Oh..." Bai Xiaoya's expression visibly shifted to disappointment, but soon curiosity returned to her gaze as she sized up Lord Han: "Ye Ge, this fish is so ugly."

... Don't call Lord Han ugly. A white-haired, white-bearded old man with an immortal's bearing had nothing to do with ugly.

No, no, no, that wasn't the point. The point was how to rescue Lord Han.

Fang Yue looked at the other two people present.

Qing Chen and Jing Yan were staring tensely at Bai Xiaoya, not daring to move rashly.

As if sensing Fang Yue's gaze, Jing Yan asked nervously: "Ye Ge, her eyes..."

"Mm, same situation as Lin Ling."

"Then is she... a Bizarre?"

"No... at least not for now."

Fang Yue didn't know the answer to that question either. He asked instead: "In any case, Bai... Daya won't hurt people. You don't need to worry too much."

"Bai Daya?! Isn't that the one Ye Ge has been looking for all along..."

"Right. It's her."

Hearing Fang Yue's words, Jing Yan relaxed.

If this person was indeed Bai Daya, then it was indeed the same situation as Lin Ling.

Lin Ling hadn't turned into a Bizarre, so this one should be the same.

But if Jing Yan knew that Bai Xiaoya had actually been eating Bizarre corpses all along, his reaction would probably be quite different.

"We'll talk about her later. What's Lord Han's situation now? Can we rescue him safely?"

Right. Fang Yue didn't dare smash the tank directly because he was worried that if he made a move and broke the fish tank, it might stimulate Lord Han and cause his death, which would be the real problem.

Facing an unknown situation, it was better to be cautious.

Jing Yan glanced at Bai Xiaoya, who was circling the fish tank, pressing her face against it and making faces, seemingly not quite right in the head, then turned back and said: "I don't know. We'll need our Brother Qing Chen to handle this."

"Big shot, before you arrived, I'd already studied it carefully, but Lord Horse Constellation's research in this area is above mine. I looked at it for a long time and could only barely make out a few things."

After a pause, Qing Chen pointed at the black thing on the back of Lord Han's head that looked like a tube or a wooden peg, and continued: "That thing, if I'm not mistaken, should be for Extraction. Lord Horse Constellation seems to want to extract whatever's inside Lord Han's brain... Oh, is there something in Lord Han's brain?"

The way that question was asked...

Fang Yue and Jing Yan exchanged glances. How would they know about something like that?

But Lord Han had said he wasn't that easy to kill. From the outside alone, nothing could be seen. Perhaps the secret to his not dying easily was inside his brain.

"Forget what they're trying to do. Just tell me—if I smash this, pull Lord Han's head out, is there a problem?"

"You'll have to cut off the power source first."

"Power source?"

"Mm, that kind of Extraction consumes a lot of resources, so there's usually a power supply. To safely get Lord Han out, cut off the power supply and, following normal procedures, stop the operation. That's the safest way."

Saying so, Qing Chen pointed at the table beneath the fish tank.

"Theoretically, the power source would be placed close to the Extraction source, so it should be inside the table. Let's find the key first..."

Bang!!

Wood chips flew everywhere, and Qing Chen's voice cut off abruptly.

The fully enclosed rectangular wooden table beneath the fish tank had a hole punched straight through it by a single fist.

Looking inside, the table was absurdly thick, and only the outer layer was wood; the inside was some kind of stone material. What it was no longer mattered, though, because Fang Yue had already punched straight through it.

Inside the stone material was a relatively smaller space, holding a full hundred Blood Stones. Like batteries wired in series, they were connected to each other by those strange black wooden tubes plugged into the back of Lord Han's head, then gathered into a single thick wooden tube that ran straight up.

Judging by this kind of energy transmission structure, the entire pale green liquid was being transported by this energy.

"That pale green preservation liquid already has very strong conductivity, so doing it this way distributes the energy evenly around Lord Han's head... but from an absorption-efficiency standpoint, it doesn't make sense. That's beyond my understanding. But since Lord Capricorn did it this way, there must be a reason—my learning is simply not enough."

Quit being so damn humble!

He had no interest in listening to early-morning Versailles. With a flash of the Fire Blade, he cut the main supply tube, gave the two of them five Blood Stones each, and pocketed the remaining ninety Blood Stones himself.

After a pause, Fang Yue looked at Bai Xiaoya, whose face was full of longing and curiosity, hesitated, then tossed one over.

"If you want it, then..."

Crunch crunch!

The Blood Stone had barely landed in Bai Xiaoya's hand when her eyes lit up and she opened her mouth and started crunching away wildly.

Three or four bites later, the Blood Stone became gravel, chewed and swallowed into her stomach.

She licked her lips, still unsatisfied, and said: "Ye Ge, this thing doesn't taste as good as that mush, but it's a new flavor, I like it!"

Fang Yue:...

The two of them:...

Those teeth... were way too good...

Mental state: shattered...

The starting point mining area event is a recommendation from the third-place tipper.

I thought I was first place, rushed up only to find I'd wasted my money.

No recommendation, no money either. Crying.

A scrub author just wants a recommendation, it's really so hard...

(End of this chapter)