Chapter 185 Request for Rescue
The light on the coal ball flickered. It looked up at Shen Yu and hesitated several times to say something: "Actually, I..."
"What's his name?" Shen Yu asked suddenly, staring straight ahead as if he was looking at a cloud of black mist that was about to dissipate.
Coal Ball turned over and closed the data panel. After a long while, he said, "I have cleared all the previous information. I can't remember it clearly."
Shen Yu sneered with an ambiguous meaning. He ignored Meiqiu and turned away from the corner.
It followed Shen Yu in a sneaky way, drew back its energy, thought for a moment and turned back to the coal ball: "All the yang energy you gave me before has been consumed, I will return this remaining energy to you, in the future..."
It sighed, looked at the cracks on the coal ball, shook its body and left decisively.
The golden book fell beside Coal Ball, who shuddered at the sound and then stopped moving.
It looked up at the sky, and somehow felt a sense of loss and confusion that was not part of the system. And mixed in with it, there was more unknown pain.
The body of the coal ball continued to crack. It reluctantly grabbed a corner of the golden book next to it and used all its strength to absorb a little bit of energy from it.
"Danger! Danger! Request support from headquarters!"
"Data connection in progress, page restarting... Beep - warning! Requesting assistance from headquarters - Beep - Data connection successful."
The coal ball lay motionless on the ground. After a few mixed mechanical sounds, another mechanical sound came from the golden book.
"No. 357618, Status: Extremely Dangerous, Meets rescue conditions. Escape procedure has been set, will leave the current world within thirty seconds."
Coal Ball looked at the data panel that appeared in front of it. The countdown on it was getting faster and faster. It stared at it in a daze for more than ten seconds, and suddenly raised the ball and pressed the negative button.
"No. 357618 refuses to leave the current world. Do you choose to obtain rescue energy?"
Meiqiu lifted the ball again and pressed the affirmative button.
The page on the panel changed, and after the data changed, a large amount of pure black energy poured into Coal Ball's body.
The cracks on the coal ball healed quickly, the alarm sounds on it finally stopped, and all the values gradually stabilized.
"Rescue completed. Abnormal energy fluctuations detected around you. Do you need help from headquarters..."
The coal ball flew into the sky, cutting off contact with the headquarters and detecting the activities of all people at the current location in the air.
Before Shen Yu had gone far, Meiqiu glanced at the direction he was leaving from a distance, and then flew away in the completely opposite direction.
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After Wen Yu left, the palace gates were all locked. Except for the generals and soldiers who occasionally had to enter the palace to report military intelligence, Xuan Lin did not allow anyone else to enter or leave.
Shen Yu was still hiding in the palace. Xuan Lin had no intention of opening the palace gates until he caught him.
Shen Yu saw all of this, and he hid in the cold palace, occasionally flipping through the red book to check Wen Yu's mental state. Wen Yu raised more and more crabs, and Shen Yu did not dare to act rashly.
He simply stayed in the palace with Xuan Lin, hiding for nearly half a month.
[…No news today. I met with the king at the lonely pavilion. The king was hesitant at first, but later his attitude changed…]
[I don't know what the situation is. Some people say that he is dead and his body is thrown in a mass grave. I went there to look for him, but I couldn't find him for the time being. Maybe he has already rotted. ...Who knows.]
[Today is the tenth day of the lunar month. There will be thunder and lightning. There will be heavy rain. It is suitable for water battles.]
[I don't have much change on me, enough to buy a coffin. But it's still a little ugly, I can't explain it, and I don't know how to say it. I often look in the mirror recently, and if I see the left side of my face smiling, I see him smiling, and if I see the left side crying, I see him crying.]
【Day 17.】
Shen Yu looked at the papers one by one. He stroked the tiny, bright black characters on the papers with his fingertips, lowered his eyelashes and said nothing.
This was not a peaceful time.
The Sheng State raided the border of Yue State and has now entered the territory of Yue State. Xuan Lin turned a blind eye to this. He was busy healing his cheek and ceding land and paying compensation as usual.
Sheng State showed no sign of retreating this time. It had been eyeing the fat piece of meat of Yue State for several years, and this time it seized the opportunity to attack in one fell swoop, constantly approaching the center of the palace.
Shen Yu knew why Xuan Lin was so fearless. With Coal Ball by his side, what did he have to fear? Even if Coal Ball was half dead, the remaining energy was enough for Xuan Lin to squeeze.
Shen Yu closed the red book in his hand, looked up at Goujuetousheng floating in the air, and asked, "What's the situation now?"
"I have already drawn a map of the secret passages and dense forests inside the palace, and I have also marked the guards on duty." Gouqie Tousheng said seriously, "Where are we going now?"
Shen Yu was not in a hurry. He said, "Wait a little longer."
There are constant small frictions between the two countries, but there has been no formal war. Shen Yu understands the trajectory of the world, and he is waiting for the day when the Sheng army will come to press.
It lay on Shen Yu's head, put away the data card, and looked up at the sky.
The clear blue sky was cloudless, and the sun was shining brightly, burning their bodies so much that they felt a dull pain. The mission progress bar on the data board slowly rose and reached the top.
Name: Shen Yu.
Current rebirth completion: 90%
He took a quick glance and then moved the ball away.
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A month later, the wound on the right side of Xuan Lin's face finally healed completely. The ugly scar seemed to have never appeared, leaving only a slight scratch on his cheek, which was almost invisible if you didn't look closely.
Xuan Lin threw the bronze mirror in his hand aside. He glanced at the coal ball that was frozen in the air, then waved his hand and knocked it aside.
The coal briquette had already been tortured to pieces by him, and the cracks in its system were still expanding, with mechanical fragments and particles falling from time to time.
Xuan Lin was annoyed when he saw it. He sneered, "I am your host. I asked you to capture the hero. Did you capture him? Look at you. You are such a waste."
The coal briquettes just floated in the air without making any mechanical sound.
Xuan Lin continued: "You have done a pretty good job in the resistance over there. Go out again tomorrow and use your power to kill all those people. And raze Sheng to the ground. Those people will be annoyed by it."
The coal ball did not move. It looked down at Xuan Lin, almost as if it was looking at a complete stranger: "...No."
"What did you say?" Xuan Lin paused in shaking the wine glass, his face suddenly darkened, "Are you looking for death?"
The black light on the coal ball gradually became darker. It stared at Xuan Lin and repeated, "No."
"You!" Xuan Lin threw down the wine glass in his hand, stood up suddenly, and stretched out his hand to pull the coal ball down from the air.