Chapter 326 Give me a kiss, and I'll have a plan.
Xiao Qidi led Ning Jinli down from the high platform and onto a street in a cluster of tall buildings.
Ning Jinli walked around, looking around. Everything here felt like a futuristic world from a science fiction movie. But the more she walked, the more she felt something was wrong. Although there were traces of human activity in many places, there was no one in sight.
Xiao Qidi ordered the tomahawk-shaped combat aircraft to release a swarm of small reconnaissance drones.
Hundreds of palm-sized drones flew in and then disappeared in all directions in a flash.
Then, Xiao Qidi opened his right hand, and the cuff of his sleeve flickered slightly, projecting a holographic image in front of him.
As the drones continuously collected and fed back reconnaissance data, the holographic images gradually formed a three-dimensional structural diagram of the mothership's interior.
“Strange… The scanning and reconnaissance progress is already 99.4%, yet we haven’t detected any biological information,” Xiao Qidi frowned slightly. “Could it be that they’ve mobilized the entire population, leaving no one here?”
Ning Jinli said, "What about Ning Hai and his daughter? One is their supreme ruler, the Descending Celestial Venerable, and the other is their Celestial Venerable's daughter. Their status and position are extraordinary. Surely they wouldn't have gone to the battlefield in person... Could it be that they abandoned this place and secretly ran away?"
As the two were discussing, a red dot suddenly lit up on the holographic screen, displaying a very strong biosignal.
“The scan is 100% complete. We’ve only found one living thing,” Xiao Qidi’s face suddenly darkened. “It’s moving extremely fast and is getting closer to us.”
"Ning Jinli, I was just about to go find you, but I didn't expect you to come to me like this!"
A sharp, piercing sound rang out.
A blood-red shadow appeared like lightning in mid-air, more than ten meters in front of Ning Jinli.
"You are... Ning Yao?"
Ning Jinli took a few seconds to recognize it.
At this moment, Ning Yao's eyeballs had turned completely blood red, and her long, thick, dark red hair swayed slowly behind her without any wind.
Her slender body seemed to be wearing a special tight-fitting combat suit with fine, scale-like patterns, and was entirely golden-red with a gradient metallic sheen.
This appearance is both extremely alluring and extremely eerie.
Ning Jinli sensed the powerful aura emanating from her and couldn't help but tense up.
"Hmm? You brought a handsome guy with you? Is he your boyfriend?" Ning Yao's gaze swept over Xiao Qidi. "Handsome guy, you look familiar. Have we met before?"
A hundred years ago, Ning Yao and Lu Xingfeng swept through the Great Xuan Dynasty in her world and did indeed meet the Xuanzu Emperor at that time.
However, too much time had passed, and she still couldn't connect the Xiao Qidi in front of her with the Xuanzu Emperor whose head she had chopped off.
Xiao Qidi's expression was indifferent as he said calmly, "Never seen it before."
“Then let me introduce myself,” Ning Yao said, pointing to Ning Jinli with her long, sharp nails. “I’m her cousin. We grew up together.”
Xiao Qidi said casually, "Oh? And then?"
“Then, I’m going to kill her now,” Ning Yao said with a sinister grin, revealing two pale white fangs at the corner of her mouth. “I see that you have an extraordinary temperament, and your appearance and figure are the best among the countless men I’ve seen in the past hundred years. How about you stay by my side after I kill her?”
Faced with Ning Yao's blatant and deliberate provocation, Ning Jinli angrily said, "Ning Yao! Stop talking nonsense! Your father's delusion of ruling this world has completely failed! You have lost! Call your father out, and you two should admit defeat and surrender!"
Ning Yao suddenly erupted in fury, "You dare mention my father?! If it weren't for your family, my father... how could my father have died! Ning Jinli! I will make you pay for this in blood!"
Before she finished speaking, a strand of Ning Yao's hair transformed into a blood-red tentacle, growing more than ten meters long and stabbing straight towards Ning Jinli.
Xiao Qidi quickly pulled Ning Jinli's hand and took a few steps back.
Bang!
The tentacle pierced the ground where Ning Jinli had just stood, creating a hole in the hard alloy surface.
Ning Jinli looked shocked.
Judging from Ning Yao's appearance and the attack just now, she has become incredibly powerful. Not to mention that I am currently suffering from internal injuries and unable to use my power, even if I were not injured, I probably wouldn't be her match in a head-on confrontation.
"Hehe, surprised, aren't you?" Ning Yao was very satisfied with Ning Jinli's reaction, and said arrogantly and fiercely, "I fought in another world for a hundred years, and I've killed more people than you've eaten salt. Now, I've not only devoured Lu Xingfeng and obtained his profound internal energy of over a hundred years, but I've also devoured millions of people in this mothership and evolved to the top form of genetic mutation. I alone am worth the entire descendant legion! I don't need anyone anymore, I can still fulfill my father's long-cherished wish, I can still avenge him, and I can still kill everyone I want to kill to make my father pay with his life!"
Ning Jinli and Xiao Qidi were both shocked to hear that she had devoured millions of their own people.
No wonder no other life could be detected inside the massive headquarters mothership of the Advent Legion!
She's so ruthless!
“She’s gone mad,” Ning Jinli whispered to Xiao Qidi. “So mad, and so powerful, don’t let your guard down.”
Xiao Qidi's lips curled slightly, a hint of disdain rising in his eyes, and he said softly, "He's just a clown, don't worry about him."
“Handsome, I really like your looks,” Ning Yao sneered. “Once I rule this world, I’m willing to make you my personal servant to relieve my loneliness. Stand back, I don’t want to hurt you. It would be a pity to ruin such a beautiful face.”
Xiao Qidi naturally put his arm around Ning Jinli's waist and chuckled, "Are you that desperate for love? Is there no one left who loves you? So much so that you even want to steal my Jinli's man. How pathetic."
"You die too! You all die together!"
Ning Yao instantly flew into a rage, and all her hair transformed into hundreds of barbed tentacles that spread out and swept towards Ning Jinli and Xiao Qidi.
Xiao Qidi raised his right hand and released an invisible, powerful internal force.
The tips of hundreds of tentacles suddenly stopped when they were about three or four meters in front of the two people, unable to go any further.
Ning Yao was somewhat surprised. Only now did she realize that the man beside Ning Jinli was even more powerful.
"Ha, this is more fun," Ning Yao said excitedly. "I was worried that Ning Jinli was no longer enough to let me unleash my full power and not be able to enjoy myself. Now I finally have a reasonably strong opponent. I'll show you my current abilities before you die."
After saying this, Ning Yao activated her powerful internal energy, injecting an equally powerful aura into her tentacles.
In an instant, even the space around the tentacles showed signs of distortion.
But the next second, Ning Yao's expression changed.
Because she had already mobilized 50% of her internal energy, she still couldn't break through Xiao Qidi's defenses, and the tip of her tentacles still couldn't advance an inch.
"Is this all the power you have?" Xiao Qidi said calmly.
Ning Yao's cheeks twitched, and she suddenly channeled her inner energy to its full potential.
Xiao Qidi remained unfazed, clenching his fingers and channeling powerful internal energy into the tentacle from a distance.
The two forces collided, and with a loud bang, hundreds of tentacles exploded simultaneously, spewing out large amounts of blood mist.
"ah!!!"
Ning Yao screamed and quickly retracted the severed tentacle.
"Over a hundred years of internal energy, and this is all you've got?" After giving his assessment, Xiao Qidi immediately unleashed a palm strike.
Obvious distorted ripples appeared in the air.
Even before the palm strike arrived, Ning Yao already felt a terrifying pressure.
She immediately curled up, her flesh and blood surging, quickly condensing into a thick carapace shield in front of her.
boom!
When the palm strike landed, the armor shield, which could even withstand energy cannons, shattered instantly.
Ning Yao was sent flying hundreds of meters away, crashing into a tall building behind her, where she remained motionless for a while.
Ning Jinli looked up at Xiao Qidi's profile.
Xiao Qidi turned to look at him, his expression seeking praise. "How was that? Aren't I amazing?"
Ning Jinli was somewhat dazed and lost in thought, as if she were seeing that eighteen-year-old boy from back then again.
Boom—
A building in the distance suddenly collapsed.
A massive, blood-red figure slowly rose from the ruins. Roughly estimated, it was probably a hundred meters tall and still retained a human-like outline.
"Has it turned into a monster?" Ning Jinli asked.
Xiao Qidi frowned. "It's really ugly."
He was right. That enormous, humanoid creature, apart from retaining a semblance of human shape, had become a bizarre, unrecognizable mass, resembling a mountain of flesh covered in deformed animal limbs and twisted tentacles.
Whoosh—
Ning Yao, now transformed into a monster, extended two giant claws covered in armor and spikes, and slammed them down towards Xiao Qidi and Ning Jinli.
Boom! The loud noise was like a bomb exploding.
Ning Yao moved her claws away, leaving a large and deep pit on the hard metal ground.
However, there were no smashed corpses in the pit.
Ning Yao looked up and saw that Xiao Qidi and Ning Jinli had already taken off into the air, both of them unharmed.
A dark, cracked seam filled with crooked fangs quickly appeared where Ning Yao's head was, followed by a beam of energy that resembled both a beam of light and a flame.
Xiao Qidi, carrying Ning Jinli, dodged the attack, and the energy beam slammed into the inner wall of the mothership, instantly creating a hole more than ten meters wide.
Seeing that her attack had missed, Ning Yao's body was covered in hundreds of similar cracks.
She is very fast.
But Xiao Qidi was faster.
Before she could release her energy beam again, Xiao Qidi struck down with his palm from above.
The overwhelming power even condensed into a visible, solidified giant hand, which slammed heavily onto Ning Yao with unstoppable force.
BOOM!!!
The hundred-meter-high mountain of flesh was torn apart, and it seemed as if blood was raining down from the sky.
The blood rain was also highly corrosive; wherever it fell, whether on buildings or the ground, thick smoke billowed out and countless pits and cracks appeared.
Fortunately, Xiao Qidi released his internal energy in time, shaking off the blood rain around him and Ning Jinli.
“She’s there!” Ning Jinli pointed to the corner of the ruins of the building ahead.
At this moment, Ning Yao had revealed her true form due to the severe injuries she had suffered. Most of the crimson color on her body had faded, revealing pale skin.
"Capture him alive, or kill him?" Xiao Qidi asked.
Ning Jinli said, "Kill them."
Xiao Qidi drew a sword aura with his fingertip, heading straight for Ning Yao.
The sword energy pierced the air with lightning speed and unstoppable force.
Ning Yao was cut in half at the waist, letting out a miserable scream of resentment, her eyes filled with hatred as she stared intently in the direction where Ning Jinli was.
That hatred even sent chills down Ning Jinli's spine.
In an instant, Ning Jinli recalled all the past events. Who could have imagined that a family would break apart to such an extent?
"What's wrong? Can't bear to kill her?" Xiao Qidi asked.
Ning Jinli shook her head. "I don't want family members to kill each other, but she's no longer my family. Besides, her sins are too numerous to count. I just feel... life is unpredictable. Give her a quick death."
"Hahahaha!" Ning Yao suddenly burst into maniacal laughter. "Ning Jinli! I've already initiated the mothership's self-destruct sequence! If I don't survive, none of you will either! The whole world will die together!"
Woohoo—
Suddenly, alarms sounded throughout the mothership, and red lights flashed everywhere.
Xiao Qidi swiftly unleashed several even more ferocious sword energies, slicing Ning Yao into countless pieces. Then, he grabbed Ning Jinli's waist and, together with her, flew out through the gap they had entered through earlier.
Once outside, they saw that the entire mothership, including its exterior, was exhibiting strange energy fluctuations, with countless electric currents surging about and tearing small black cracks in the surrounding space from time to time.
Xiao Qidi flew a little further away with Ning Jinli to avoid touching the black rift and being affected by the spatial turbulence.
"Oh no, we have to notify the base immediately!" Ning Jinli said hastily.
Xiao Qidi shook his head.
"It's too late. I've used drones to detect and analyze it. There's a spacetime travel device in the core area of this mothership. All of the mothership's energy is being injected into this device, and it will soon trigger spacetime turbulence through an explosion. Even the power generated by the explosion of all the energy is enough to destroy everything within a radius of tens of kilometers directly below. Your underground city can't possibly escape it. In addition, the energy from the spacetime turbulence will create a chain reaction, and the energy will increase exponentially, eventually causing half of the Earth to collapse. When she said the whole world would die together, she wasn't exaggerating."
Ning Jinli's expression changed, but she still calmly asked, "Do you have a solution?"
Xiao Qidi smiled slightly, "Give me a kiss and I'll have a plan."
"What time is it and you're still..." Ning Jinli glared at him, then bit his cheek hard, both anxious and annoyed.
"Hiss... that's a bit too heavy." Xiao Qidi grimaced.
"Hurry up!" Ning Jinli raised her hand and pinched his ear.
"Alright, alright," Xiao Qidi said, touching the teeth marks on his cheek. "There is a way, but we can't leave this mothership for you to study. But that's okay, my technology is much more advanced than this. I'll teach you slowly later."
Ning Jinli narrowed her eyes, as if she could devour Xiao Qidi if he said another word.
Xiao Qidi coughed lightly, recalled the drone swarm inside the mothership, and then issued an order through the drones.
Soon, tens of thousands of identical mining ships flew out of the spacetime tunnel, circled around the mothership, released energy fields that enveloped the entire mothership, and then dragged the mothership into the spacetime tunnel, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
The whole process took less than half a minute.
Ning Jinli stared blankly at the suddenly empty sky for several seconds.
"That's... all done?"
“That’s right,” Xiao Qidi smiled. “We can tow this mothership back to my scrap yard and dispose of it. We can also collect and utilize the energy inside. Not wasting anything is a traditional Chinese virtue.”
"Hiss..." Ning Jinli gasped, looking Xiao Qidi up and down. "Tell me, what's going on over there? How did your technology become so advanced? And your martial arts..."
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