Chapter 60: Snacks are a good choice
Lao Wu beside him nodded vigorously, took a few deep breaths to calm down his extreme fear, and let go of Qi Huan's arm, "Only the body of an A-level stone beast can emit precious light."
A-level! That's a creature that is enough to destroy the entire No. 3 base!!! No wonder the fifth and second brothers were so scared. All the siblings looked stiffly towards the south, stunned.
If those colorful lights and shadows are the precious lights that Old Five mentioned, there must be more than one A-level stone beast outside the South Gate! Qi Huan's heart was pounding, and he felt numbness in his hands and feet, and a chill on the back of his neck. His mind was like a raging storm, and this terrible news rolled over again and again.
"Hurry, leave quickly. I'll be there soon." Qi Huan was stunned for two seconds before he remembered to give the warning. While urging Wan Laoer, Laowu, Quan Hai and others to run to the starship in the West Square, he opened his personal terminal.
Can the guards who just rushed over withstand the impact of the A-level stone beast? When he sent a message to Jiufang Yu, his fingers were shaking uncontrollably, [The stone beast coming from the south gate is A-level! ]
【A group!!!】
[Don't worry, I'm here.] Jiufang Yu only replied with four short words.
What he meant by that was that he could deal with A-level stone beasts, right? After receiving Jiufang Yu's reply, Qi Huan's flustered mind seemed to be stabilised by a magic needle, and he magically calmed down a lot.
Yes, since Jiufang Yu took over the abandoned planet, the data on the stone beasts he obtained must be much more detailed than that of ordinary base residents. It is impossible for him not to recognize the A-level stone beast and wait for me to remind him.
In the smoke and dust, several airships vaguely appeared in the sky and landed outside the South Gate at a rapid speed like divine soldiers descending from the sky. Their speed was so fast that even the colors of the airships could not be seen clearly in the dust. The only thing to be sure was that their direction of appearance was completely opposite to that of the escort team, and they were obviously coming from outside the city.
Could it be that Jiufang Yu had arranged for Shen Ye and his men to ambush outside? Or were they reinforcements? Qi Huan couldn't help but look up at the platform, only to see Jiufang Yu still standing on the platform, with a straight posture, tall and graceful, calmly overlooking the surrounding conditions of the base, with the demeanor of a commander who was in control of the situation. The morning breeze lifted his silver hair and cloak diagonally, fluttering freely.
Just then, someone poked his shoulder gently, and then a lazy voice said, "What's so good about that guy? His eyes are straight."
Qi Huan turned his head and saw the owner of Vino standing behind him. In the midst of chaos and disorder, he was the only one waving a golden fan with a leisurely look as if he was strolling in the garden.
There were only a few people left in the square. Qi Huan anxiously grabbed the shop owner and tried to push him towards the west square. "There's an A-level stone beast outside. Get on the airship quickly."
"I know, I know." The shop owner closed his fan and gently patted the back of his hand with the fan bone, signaling him to be patient. "Don't worry, we are here for this matter."
Are you here for this? Qi Huan was a little confused for a moment. When he glanced at the taciturn, tall, brown-haired man behind him, he remembered that Shen Ye seemed to have said last time that this senior should be a very powerful sentinel.
Seeing Qi Huan looking at him, the brown-haired man nodded slightly as a greeting.
"You are so proud of yourself. He usually ignores everyone." The shop owner covered his face with the bones of a fan and froze in front of the man.
Brown-haired man: ...
Qi Huan looked at the distance, then looked at them, and asked uncertainly, "Are you here to fight the stone beast?"
The shop owner nodded with a smile, looking like a teachable child, and pointed at the man next to him with his fan to clarify, "Rough things like fighting have nothing to do with me. It's his job."
"But, the group outside the south gate seems to be A-level stone beasts!" Qi Huan emphasized. In the end, he was still not at ease. They were A-level stone beasts that could destroy the base in a few seconds. Moreover, there was more than one, but a group. Could one person resist them? It should be very dangerous, right?
The shop owner poked the arm of the person next to him with the fan in his hand and said, "Did you hear that? The kids don't believe you. Remember to behave well later."
The brown-haired man raised his eyebrows slightly, crossed his arms confidently, and said nothing.
So, the brown-haired senior is going to fight the stone beast? Seeing that the two were calm and didn't seem to take the A-level beast seriously at all, Qi Huan couldn't help but hesitate whether to continue persuading the shop owner to take refuge on the starship with him.
At this moment, the shrill alarm at the South Gate sounded, and several red pillars shot up into the sky, indicating that the A-level stone beasts were less than two hundred meters away from the South Gate.
"Those stone beasts seem to be approaching the South Gate!" Qi Huan was a little anxious, but he was embarrassed to urge an elder who was already over a hundred years old to rush over to "fight the enemy", so he had to remind him secretly.
"That annoying guy on the tower said that we don't have to take care of what's outside the South Gate," the shop owner turned around again and used his fan to point to the location from South Street to the command hall to explain to Qi Huan, "We are only responsible for the area inside the gate."
The annoying guy on the tower? "Are you talking about Jiufang Yu?"
"That's him." The shop owner clicked his tongue, looking disdainful.
Instead, the brown-haired man pointed to the platform on top of the tower where Jiufang Yudao stood and said, "It's not safe here when a fight breaks out. You two should either stay on the starship or go to his side."
"I don't want to go to the starship." The shopkeeper immediately refused reflexively. He frowned and looked at the top of the tower. After hesitating for a few seconds, he sighed and said to Qi Huan, "Little friend, why don't you accompany me to the top of the tower to find that annoying guy."
Although he spoke in a questioning tone, his hand had already grasped Qi Huan's wrist.
"But I have to rush to the starship for refuge." Qi Huan hesitated. He couldn't fight the stone beast, and staying would probably only add to Jiufang Yu's burden.
"Why are you hiding? I have an airship, and no stone beast can touch you." The owner put more strength on the hand that was holding Qi Huan's wrist, not allowing him to refuse.
"...Okay." Qi Huan couldn't leave, so he had to agree. He sent a message to Quan Hai on the terminal, saying that he would take a friend's airship and not go to the starship.
Half a minute later, the owner's airship landed on the platform where Jiufang Yu was.
Jiufang Yu had a stern look on his face, as he was listening intently to the conversation on the channel with one hand on his headphones. When he saw Qi Huan and the store owner coming up on the airship, he nodded his chin slightly as a greeting to the two of them.
At this moment, two starships at the intersection of West Square and South Street took off one after another. The huge ship bodies brought up a high-speed cyclone, and sand and rocks flew all around.
“A-choo!”
The protruding platform was completely exposed. Qi Huan had just gotten off the airship and was hit on the head by the cold wind and sand and gravel, causing him to sneeze.
Jiufang Yu used his free right hand to take off his cloak and handed it to Qi Huan, who took it silently. Both of them moved naturally and skillfully.
The shop owner who had put away the airship turned around and saw this scene, and couldn't help but let out another "tsk". Qi Huan was about to shake off his cloak when he paused and quickly handed it over, "Senior, are you cold?"
"No~it's cold~" the shop owner spoke each word slowly and pushed his hand holding the cloak aside with his fan in disgust. The heavy epaulettes and tassels on the cloak collided with each other, making a crackling sound.
Qi Huan had no choice but to unfold and put on his cloak. When he looked back, he saw that the owner had already sat down in a corner near the tower. He followed him and sat on the ground with him.
The view from the platform is excellent, and you can clearly see what is happening outside the gate.
At the east gate, several teams of guards wearing conspicuous red uniforms and the hunting teams that had arrived had created a double front, keeping the group of stone beasts out.
There are also two layers of defense lines outside the south gate. Next to the base gate are the escort airships lined up in a row. Further ahead are a few lazy and thin figures. Their number is pitifully small compared to the escort team members, and their clothes are a bit strange. They are neither the uniforms of the escort team nor the overalls usually worn by the hunting team members. The details are not very clear, but from a distance they look a bit like blue-green long-sleeved and long-trousers pajamas. No one knows where they came from.
On the opposite side, there was a large group of animal shadows like a dark cloud looming over the place, accompanied by flying dust, with almost no end in sight. Leading the way were a few domineering stone beasts with gem-like brilliance on their bodies.
In the blink of an eye, the two sides were fighting. During the fight, the men in pajamas were agile and swift, and faced with the legendary A-level stone beast, they were not at all inferior.
The escort's airships flew to the South Gate for reinforcements one after another, leaving only four or five airship teams to continue the final carpet search in various directions of the base, ready to rescue residents who had not yet come out for refuge.
Some hunting teams that came out later took off in their airships. After circling a few times, some rushed to the South Gate, while others simply joined the search and rescue team for the indigenous people nearby.
At this moment, the two starships have carried all the natives of the base high above the base's protective shield. Now, no matter what level of stone beasts come down below, they can't hurt them at all.
This way everyone is safe. Qi Huan breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the huge black shadow cast by the starship.
Suddenly, the protective shield between the South Gate and the East Gate appeared as if it was cut by a knife, and several narrow cracks appeared. Several stone beasts squeezed in from the cracks one after another.
Leading the group was a two-headed python. Qi Huan had dismantled several of these stone beasts before, but the one before him was completely different from any he had seen before.
Every scale on the two-headed python seemed to be carved from green crystal, deep and transparent, flashing brilliant light as it moved, as if its entire body was turned into a gem, eerie and strange, with its two heads held high with cold eyes, not at all like a living creature.
A fire claw squeezed in from the other side. Its entire body looked like it was inlaid with rubies, crystal clear and emitting blazing flames.
Qi Huan's throat trembled slightly, and he realized that this was probably an A-level stone beast.
The brown-haired man had already drawn out a long knife and rushed towards the two-headed python.
"Did you bring any snacks?" The shop owner poked Qi Huan's arm with his golden fan. "The melon seeds or something I ate in your shop last time."
Huh? Qi Huan was stunned by his question. Now? Eating snacks???
"Such an exciting fight can't be seen in the online arena. Of course, it needs some snacks to be enjoyable." The owner understood his expression.
Qi Huan sighed. How should I put it? He really did have some. After returning from the ruins of South City last time, he developed the habit of putting some snacks in his storage bag from time to time.
Qi Huan casually picked out a few items, such as butter lace cookies, animal jerky, salt-baked nuts, and yogurt chocolate. He also grabbed a bottle of water. Before he could put the bottle down, the shop owner suddenly raised his arm and shouted, "Okay!"
When Qi Huan heard the sound and looked up, he saw a blade flashing in the air. The body of the two-headed python froze in mid-air for half a second, then shattered and broke into several pieces that fell to the ground with a crackling sound.
The owner took a piece of butter lace cookie first, took a bite and his eyes lit up immediately. He said vaguely, "Why don't you put such delicious food on the takeaway menu?"
"I'll let him go when I get home today." When facing his seniors, Qi Huan acted like a good and obedient person.
"Do those look like braised eels?" the shopkeeper picked up another nut.
They were sitting high and far away, and from a distance, the pieces of python meat scattered on the ground seemed to be as evenly distributed as eel fillets.
"Eels are sold in food stores. If you want to eat some, I'll put two eel dishes on the takeout menu later."
"Yeah." The shop owner was satisfied with Qi Huan's approach. A yellow-feathered bird flew out at some point and took the nut from the shop owner's hand and put it into its mouth.
"Boom!" "Boom!" Several houses on the streets of East City collapsed one after another, and the platform under Qi Huan and the others also shook a few times.
The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw seven or eight stone beasts emerging from the ruins one after another.
These stone beasts actually cooperated by making a feint to the east and attacking in the west! Over there, they attacked the gate and destroyed the protective shield, and over here, a group of them secretly dug holes in the ground and came over.
What’s even more terrifying is that two A-level stone beasts covered in gems suddenly emerged from behind the seven or eight stone beasts.
Qi Huan couldn't help but take a breath nervously. Isn't it said that A-level stone beasts are hard to come by? What are they doing today? Are they rushing to hold the annual meeting?
The group of stone beasts rampaged towards the houses in the base and wreaked havoc, destroying two or three streets in an instant. Red rays rained down densely, and several teams of guards rushed over and suppressed the first few with guns, but they were no match for the two A-level stone beasts.
The brown-haired man had to guard the cracks in the shield and couldn't make it in time. Jiufang Yu whispered a few words into the channel and looked back at Qi Huan and the shop owner.
"Go early and come back early." The owner, who was in a good mood while eating snacks, waved to him, indicating that he didn't need to worry about Qi Huan.
Jiufang Yu nodded his chin and jumped off the platform without hesitation. Qi Huan was startled and leaned over to look down, only to see him landing lightly on the roof of the house at the corner of the street. After a few neat parabolic rises and falls, he had already arrived in front of one of the A-level stone beasts on East Street.
At the same time, the residents of Base No. 3 who were taking refuge on the starship were holding their breath, watching the current situation of the base through the display screen on the starship.
The vast majority of them were born and raised on waste planets, and from the moment they were born, they felt that they were abandoned by the alliance.
In the past, when they encountered stone beasts, they had to rush forward immediately and use their flesh and blood to build a second protective shield for the base. As for whether they would be injured or die, they could only leave it to fate.
But now, they were sitting safely and comfortably on the starship, watching a group of senior Sentinels fighting for them below, even including their new star master.
Is this the treatment of ordinary residents of the Alliance? Everyone felt mixed emotions, both bitter and warm. In the huge starship, there were crowds of people, but no one spoke. It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Ever since Jiufang Yu jumped down, Qi Huan couldn't help but look at him, fearing that something unexpected might happen.
"Don't be nervous. Even if there are more of those things, they won't be a match for him." The owner looked like he had seen a lot of things. He put the last piece of butter cookie into his mouth and shook the empty box at him. "Anything else?"
"But..." He still had old wounds on his body that had not healed yet. Qi Huan wanted to say something but stopped himself. He felt that if he said this now, it would be like a feldspar beast trying to destroy the prestige of its own people. He swallowed his words back and obediently took out the second box of butter cookies and placed it next to the owner.
"Don't worry," the shopkeeper hummed a tune and happily opened the lid of the box, "Do you know what the most powerful form of the Sentinel is?"
Form? This word confused Qi Huan, and he asked tentatively, "Mecha?"
"That's right," the shopkeeper said, biting the cookie into pieces and feeding the remaining half to the yellow-feathered bird. "They haven't even taken out their mechas yet. How intense do you think this battle will be?"
Qi Huan choked, "I heard that thing requires a lot of mental strength, and the better the material, the more expensive it is."
After saying that, he subconsciously looked at the bird standing on the shopkeeper's wrist and concentrating on eating cookies. Shen also said that the gold expelled by this little guy is a material that everyone dreams of. It is priceless in the mecha world, but how much gold expelled is needed to make such a large mecha? Wouldn't this little guy be exhausted to death?
"Of course," the shop owner smiled and narrowed his eyes, then touched the top of his soul beast's head proudly and lovingly. Speaking of materials for making mechas, what could be better than gold?
"So, the requirements for mechas are high and they are expensive. Not every sentinel should have one." Qi Huan thought about it and he really didn't know whether Jiufang Yu had a mecha. He had never heard him mention it before, and he didn't seem to have seen him use it when the star beast attacked last time.
"I don't know about others, but Ah Luan has it," the shopkeeper pointed at the brown-haired man, paused for a moment, and then used his finger to outline the people wearing 'pajamas' outside the south gate, then pointed at Jiufang Yu, "Those people, and this one, they must have it too."
"Do you know those people outside the South Gate?" Qi Huan looked at the owner in surprise.
"Don't you know him too?" the shopkeeper looked back at him.
Qi Huan: ???
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