Chapter 39 Everything is possible. We are one.
Being caught doing something bad, even if Nan Qi was thick-skinned, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
Bai retracted his wings and set Nan Qi down. He patted Nan Qi's head soothingly and looked at Mellon: "You know what to do. We can't let the Porter Star Police and Guards find out."
Mellon pointed at the couple, his face turning from red to black, and finally to livid. "Good job, you two. Bai, I've never known you to be so impulsive! Haven't we already arranged everything? Are you in such a hurry?"
Bai Buyu calmly looked at the furious Mellon with his dark eyes. Mellon's anger immediately disappeared without a trace as if it was poured into a basin of ice water.
"Alright, alright, I won't say any more. I know you have your reasons, and I'll take care of the aftermath. But could you please give me a heads-up next time?"
Mellon's tone was earnest: "You always act alone. Are we just decorations? What if we encounter danger? Aren't you afraid of getting hurt? Aren't you afraid of Nan Qi getting hurt?"
"I don't need Bai Bao--"
"I understand. I'll tell you next time."
Bai interrupted Nan Qi, patted his hand, signaling him to be quiet, and looked at Mellon again: "I was negligent this time."
After getting Bai's assurance, Mellon turned around and went out to clean up the mess for the couple. When I walked out the door, I looked back at Bai's figure, feeling a little disappointed.
His good brother was really taken away by a wild cat, but fortunately, this wild cat seemed to have a good character.
With a slight sigh, Mellon went straight to clean up the aftermath.
Lenk stayed behind, wanting to know what had happened that led Bai to blow up the mountain in advance.
Bai pulled Nan Qi to sit down and only said that when they were taking a walk, they found that Siphis was beginning to approach the high-grade black crystal mine. He was afraid that the large-scale mining of high-grade black crystal would be discovered, so he destroyed the mountain in advance.
As long as the mine collapses completely, they can cover up the fact that they have mined high-grade black crystal stones. This is what they planned before.
Lunke said, "That's right, we have to blow up the mountain in advance, but Boss, don't blame Mellon for being angry. You should have notified us to handle it instead of taking the risk yourself. Besides, Nan Qi is in danger because of you, so aren't you the one who's suffering?"
"I understand. I will pay attention to this aspect in the future." Bai's voice was light, and there was no resistance in his voice.
Nan Qi frowned. It was clearly his negligence that caused such a big commotion this time, but Bai had to take the blame for him. Nan Qi felt a little uncomfortable.
Although he knew that Mellon was just concerned about Bai and had no intention of blaming Bai, he mentioned him repeatedly just to make Bai take care of himself and not take risks.
But even so, he didn't want Bai's subordinates to have any misunderstandings about Bai.
"That's not the case." Nan Qi spoke, his voice no longer smiling as usual, but serious and low. "Bai accompanied me, and I was the one who collapsed the mountain."
"Nan Qi——"
"Bai, you have to let them know." Nan Qi patted Bai's hand, "You can't let them misunderstand you because of me."
"But--"
"It's nothing. I don't want to establish a high image. It's okay if I get into trouble."
"They didn't misunderstand me, they were just worried about me."
"I know, but you're not wrong. I just don't want them to misunderstand you."
"You...Okay, I'll listen to you."
Lunk watched the couple talking as if nothing happened, and suddenly he felt overwhelmed. He blinked his eyes and felt that he should not be here, and should go with Mellon to clean up the mess.
"Um, can I ask Nan Qi why you want to blow up the mountain? It can't be the same reason as us." Lunke couldn't stand the weird atmosphere between the couple and interrupted them.
Nan Qi didn't hide anything and looked at Bai. Bai understood and took out the crystal stone that emitted a soft colorful light and placed it on the table.
Nan Qi said: "It was because of this colorful stone that I accidentally blew up the mountain."
"What is this? I've never seen it before." Lunk was curious.
The colorful stone is so beautiful, crystal clear, and contains a colorful halo, like a rainbow after the rain. A very wonderful breath emanates from it. Even if Lunk doesn't know what it is, he knows that it is a good thing.
He looked at Nan Qi expectantly, hoping that Nan Qi could help him solve his doubts.
The same went for Bai. His slender white fingers gently brushed across the colorful stones. The halo in the colorful stones flickered gently, as if greeting Bai's fingers.
Lunk also noticed this and carefully stretched out his fingers to touch it. The colorful stone did not change at all. Lunk felt that he was overthinking it.
It was not until Nan Qi's fingers brushed past it and the colorful stone burst into dazzling light that he realized that he was not overthinking, but that the colorful stone just didn't want to pay attention to him.
Lunke was shocked: "Hey! This little stone is really a food for insects, and it's not even alive."
Nan Qi shook his head: "It's not alive, there is no breath of life, it should just be reacting to insects with high mental power."
"Then what is this?" Bai's fingers fiddled with the colorful stone, rolling it back and forth on the table. The halo of the colorful stone flickered under his hands.
"Right, since you blew up the mountain because of this rock, you must know what it is and what it does," Lunk said excitedly. "Come on, tell me about it."
Nan Qi: "Uh... To be honest, I don't know either."
"Oh, you don't, no, no..." Lunke was shocked, "What!? You said you don't know?!"
Bai was also stunned. Nan Qi confidently told him to take him treasure hunting. He had always thought Nan Qi knew, but Nan Qi said he didn't know. This...
When Nan Qi saw that even Bai, an insect that rarely showed its emotions, showed an expression of surprise, his sense of satisfaction multiplied, and he took the colorful stone.
"Although I don't know what the seven-colored stone is used for, I am sure that the unusual occurrence of high-grade black crystal veins in the mountain is related to this seven-colored stone."
"What do you mean?" Bai Minrui felt that there was more to Nan Qi's words than meets the eye.
Nan Qi didn't answer, but asked Lunke: "Do you have any low-grade black crystals? The best kind, the kind that's only a hair's breadth away from the mid-grade black crystals."
"Yes, I'll get it." Lunke was not stupid. As soon as Nan Qi said that, he understood and became even more excited.
"Is it really possible?" Bai Ye understood Nan Qi's idea. He looked at Lunk who was happily going to get the black crystal stone, and felt a little excited.
If, if Nan Qi's guess is correct, then they will no longer lack energy spirit stones.
"Let's give it a try. Whether it works or not, we won't lose anything." Nan Qi said gently.
"Well, let's try it." Bai suppressed his excitement. "No matter what the result is, I want to thank you."
"Thank you, we are one now."
"One body?" Bai Erduo felt a little hot, and looked at Nan Qi with shining eyes.
"Well, we are allies." Nan Qi said heartlessly, "If you are good, I can do better. I am still counting on you to bully others."
Bai: "...Okay, I'll give you the advantage of using the tiger's power."
"I knew you were the best!" Nan Qi was happy.
Although Bai is a female insect, she is also the empire's god of war and the empire's general, with infinite combat power.
The Insect King looked down on Bai because of her identity as a female insect, and was afraid of Bai because of her deterrent power in the army, but he had to rely on Bai.
Therefore, the Insect King's feelings towards Bai are particularly complicated, which makes the attitude of the Central Star's forces towards Bai ambiguous. There is hatred and fear, but there may also be a desire to cling and sincerity.
Therefore, as long as the Star Beast Clan is not destroyed, it will be more beneficial than harmful for me to take shelter under this big tree.
Since the benefits of forming an alliance with Bai outweigh the disadvantages, Nan Qi will naturally try his best to help Bai. Only when Bai is more stable can he be safer.
Moreover, Bai is quite friendly to Nan Qi. Whether as a friend or out of respect for Bai, an admiral who worked hard for the safety of the empire but was betrayed and did not turn evil and vent his anger on the outside world, he will help Bai.
At this time, Lunk came back, followed by Melon and Pu Bo who was still half asleep.
The three female insects entered together. Melon, who entered last, closed the door carefully and pulled the blackout curtains to ensure that outsiders could not see what was happening inside before returning to sit down.
"I sent all the guards away and called in our trusted bugs to guard the area. Lunke mysteriously said Nanqi had found a treasure. Is it this colorful crystal?"
The light emitted by the colorful crystal is very soft. Looking at the room from the outside, you will just think that it is a small lamp emitting colorful light, which is nothing special.
But when you actually see the real thing, you will find that it is so beautiful, so beautiful that you can't ignore it. Mellon was attracted as soon as he entered the room.
Nan Qi nodded and took over several low-level black crystal stones from Lenk's hand. The energy was close to the intermediate level but not yet at the intermediate quality. He placed these black crystal stones around the colorful stones.
A miracle happened.
The colorful stone suddenly glowed inward and slowly floated up. All the black crystal stones placed around it were instantly sucked into the air and scattered around the colorful stone.
Afterwards, light began to flow inside the colorful stone, and the color changed rapidly.
Suddenly, rays of light that looked like gold but not gold burst out from the inside of the colorful stone and landed accurately on the black crystal stone floating around it, dyeing the black crystal stone golden from the inside out, and the entire crystal started to vibrate wildly.
If you look closely, you can see that tiny impurities are shaken out by the light that looks like gold but is not gold, and gather on the surface of the black crystal stone, forming crystals similar to the associated stones of black crystal stone.
“This…” Bai was shocked, his eyes lit up.
Lenk and Mellon even covered each other's mouths, fearing that the other would scream out in excitement.
Even Pu Bo, who had come to watch the fun while still half asleep, was now completely awake.
They are not fools, nor are they blind. On the contrary, their mental power above level A makes them sharper and more perceptive than anyone else.
They could clearly see that the low-grade black crystal stones that had been illuminated by the colorful stone light had fewer impurities and the black crystal stones became more transparent.
They couldn't feel the energy fluctuations clearly, but they knew that the energy contained in the black crystal stone was much purer than before it was irradiated by the colorful stone.
The most important thing is that the volume of the black crystal does not decrease due to the precipitation of impurities, which means that the effect of the colorful stone is not just to purify the purity of the crystal energy.
Instead, on the basis of purification, the black crystal stone was given the energy to evolve on its own, allowing the black crystal stone to accumulate energy and eventually evolve to a higher level.
"This is too magical," Pu Bo murmured. "What's the principle behind this? Is it only in the black crystal mine, or are there also colorful stones deep in the mines of other colored crystals? It's like the heart of the mine."
"It's probably not found in every mine." Bai Lizhi analyzed, "The black crystal mines that have been discovered so far have not been mined out yet, so we don't know if there are any inside. But crystal mines of other colors are mined out every year, and no seven-colored stones have been found. Or maybe—"
Bai paused, then continued, "Or perhaps it was discovered, but covered up by the Empire."
This possibility is not impossible. They have placed spies in various mines, but when they are unable to do so, it is possible that they did not discover that the empire was secretly transferring the colorful stones.
He didn't know about other mines, but this mine had colorful stones. However, only Nan Qi discovered it, and they had no idea.
They were so close that they couldn't even feel it, so it was normal that the eyes didn't notice it.
"Let's not talk about that for now," Bai said, changing the subject. "Do you have any other guesses about the function of the seven-colored stones?"
"Is it possible that the black crystal is different from other colored crystals because of the existence of the seven-colored stones? Then do the seven-colored stones have any effect on other colored crystals? Will they improve the quality, or can they allow colored crystals to evolve into black crystals?" Lunk joined the discussion.
"It's not impossible," Mellon frowned. "We can give it a try. Lunke, go get a few more colored crystals and we'll test them. If our guess is true, this thing will be priceless."
Lunk did not hesitate and stood up to get the colored crystal.
Mellon continued to look at the colorful stone surrounded by the black crystal stone. "Even if it's useless against the colored crystal stone, we still made a profit. It's a pity that there's only one piece."
Pu Bo was speechless after hearing this. He slapped Mellon on the back of the head, making a crisp sound, and then said condescendingly: "It's a great fortune to find a treasure like this. You still want a second piece. How greedy!"
Mellon's head was buzzing from the beating, and it took him several seconds to recover. He said in a muffled voice, "I'm not allowed to think about it."
"Don't even think about it," Pu Bo grabbed Mellon's neck and shook him back and forth. "Be more practical! Stop daydreaming all the time."
"I know, I know."
"I see you don't know, I have to teach you a lesson."
As soon as he finished speaking, the two insects started to quarrel. Bai looked at his friend who was laughing and relaxing, and the stern look in his eyes softened a lot.
At this moment, Nan Qi said slowly: "The second piece... is not impossible. If you take me to another black crystal mine, there might be a second piece."
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