Chapter 9: The Fox Takes Advantage of the Tiger
After saying goodbye to the two brothers Zhang Yi and Zhang Lin, He Qing returned home. He saw Duan Chenhui feeding koi by the lotus pond. He walked over and looked down at the koi that were staring at their mouths open, crying for food.
"These koi are big eaters." He grabbed a handful of feed from Duan Chenhui's hand and scattered it down, and the koi began to scramble for the food again.
"How do you feel today?" Duan Chenhui looked up and asked him.
"It was quite an interesting life." He Qing thought of the two brothers, "Zhang Yi and Zhang Lin were really friendly and respectful to each other."
Duan Chenhui smiled and threw all the food in his hand down: "You went to tease them? Aren't you afraid of being retaliated by them?"
He Qing touched the Buddhist beads and said confidently: "Don't you, General, protect me?"
Duan Chenhui stood up, pinched his chin and looked at his face from left to right: "A fox taking advantage of the tiger's might?"
"General, you hurt me." He Qing begged for mercy softly, "I will never dare to do it again."
Duan Chenhui let him go with a smile. He didn't use any force at all, and He Qing's jaw was fine. He turned around and went back into the house.
"I can still protect you while I'm here."
"...Thank you, General."
He Qing trotted up, had lunch with Duan Chenhui, and was then called to the pavilion to play Go.
Halfway through the game, He Qing couldn't help but exclaim: "General, your chess skills are superb. I admire you very much."
"Thank you for the compliment." Duan Chenhui didn't fall for his sweet talk, he lowered his head and killed him without leaving a single piece of armor.
He Qing put down the chess piece and moved the Buddhist beads: "The general is very murderous, you can try copying the Heart Sutra."
Duan Chenhui threw the chess pieces back onto the chess box and looked at him with a smile: "Listening to the wooden fish and copying the Heart Sutra, what else is there in the future?"
He Qing pointed to the lotus pond and said, "If there is a waterfall, you can sit cross-legged under it and practice."
"Well, it will really give you a chill."
“…I’m serious.”
The two looked at each other and He Qing stared at him.
Duan Chenhui smiled and changed the subject: "Why are you so bad at chess?"
"I don't think you'll let me." He Qing complained, "I've never played chess before, and no one played with me."
Duan Chenhui thought he was talking about the White Tower before: "Then you can practice more in the future."
"Yeah." He Qing felt that it was almost time for him to accompany Duan Chenhui, so he looked at the time and said, "I have to go back to school."
"Go ahead." Duan Chenhui waved his hand.
He Qing dropped the chess piece and ran away happily. Not long after he went out, he turned in the opposite direction of the campus.
He Qing asked the AI of the hovercraft: "Eleven, are you sure you won't tell the general?"
"I will be loyal to my master first."
"Okay." He Qing leaned back in his chair and nodded, then took out a large white egg from the space. He didn't know what kind of egg it was, but there was a strange red array pattern on the egg. He had seen this kind of array pattern in ancient books, and it was called the "Infinite Rebirth Array."
This means that there are cultivators in this world, and they probably traveled here accidentally like him.
I don’t know if the other party is a demon cultivator or a Taoist cultivator. Finding him may help me find a way back to the world of cultivation.
When they arrived at the fourth district of the capital star, He Qing stopped the car on the side of the road and changed his appearance. This time he had a very ordinary face. He sprayed the classic Alpha cedar perfume on his body, got out of the car, parked the vehicle, and went to the fifth district carrying a fruit basket. There was a round object covered on the basket with a towel.
After walking for half an hour, we arrived at Stardust Street in District 5.
He Qing looked around. This was a food street, with people coming and going, and it was very lively. This was what it should be like to be a great secluded person in the city.
He looked at the house numbers in front of the houses and finally found number 28, which was an antique shop with no customers.
He entered the shop and asked the shopkeeper, "What kind of antiques do you have here?"
The shopkeeper glanced at him sideways and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Dinosaur eggs." He Qing smiled, as if hinting at something.
The shopkeeper's eyes lit up and he looked at him seriously. He found that he was carrying something. "Although we don't have dinosaur egg fossils here, we have other eggs. Please come in."
He Qing took a step back, smiled and shook his head: "That's a pity, goodbye." He turned and left.
The cabinet maker narrowed his eyes and chased out: "Hey brother, we really have something here--" His voice suddenly stopped, and then he ran back.
He Qing looked ahead and saw Duan Chenhui. He continued walking without looking away, getting closer and closer to Duan Chenhui. When the two were about to pass by each other, Duan Chenhui suddenly reached out and grabbed his basket.
He Qing reacted immediately, and the two exchanged more than ten moves in a flash, and Duan Chenhui snatched the basket away.
He Qing took ten steps back: "General, what do you mean by this?"
"How dare you hide Zerg eggs." Duan Chenhui narrowed his eyes and rushed forward. He was so fast that he arrived in front of He Qing in almost the blink of an eye.
"I don't know what Zerg eggs are." He Qing also reacted quickly and retreated quickly. They shuttled through the crowd, chasing and fleeing, and people screamed in panic.
"Zerg?"
"There are terrible Zerg here?!!"
He Qing took the opportunity to run into the alley, but Duan Chenhui's mental power kept pestering him. He Qing frowned. This was not a solution. Duan Chenhui's mental power was like an endless chain that would lock him no matter where he ran.
He Qing stopped and saw a crow above his head. He smiled and had an idea.
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Duan Chenhui frowned and looked at the alley in front of him. He suddenly could not feel the presence of the space pirate. It was as if the other party suddenly entered a wormhole and disappeared.
Duan Chenhui stopped and walked slowly to the place where the man disappeared. He looked up and saw a mango tree full of golden fruits.
He looked down at the ground again and saw a few leaves and feathers on the ground.
Duan Chenhui picked up the feather and observed it. It was a crow's feather.
Duan Chenhui was holding the feather, puzzled. Yang Fan and others caught up with him and asked, "What's wrong with the general?!"
"He ran away." Duan Chenhui threw away the feather. "What about the house?"
"We caught them all in one fell swoop, thanks to that mysterious letter." Yang Fan looked at the basket that Duan Chenhui was carrying, "Is this the Zerg egg?"
"Maybe." Duan Chenhui frowned and reached out to uncover the towel.
Everyone was stunned: "Is it a stone???" They saw a round, crystal clear emerald green pebble on the basket.
Duan Chenhui touched it and said, "I don't know what kind of ore it is, but it's definitely not a Zerg egg." He had a hunch before. Since he received the letter, everything has been so coincidental and smooth.
Yang Fan frowned, "This is difficult." He sorted out his thoughts, "That pirate group got the Zerg egg from an underground auction, but was robbed during the transaction. The pirates chased them to a civilian spacecraft, and then we captured them. I wonder who has the egg now?"
"What should we do, General?" another subordinate asked, "Those pirates said that it was the egg of the insect king."
Duan Chenhui walked back, frowning: "Issue a wanted order for that person? Search nearby for suspicious people. Also investigate the source of the letter."
"Yes." Yang Fan nodded, and looked at the others. But what is a Zerg King? It was the first time they heard that the Zerg actually had a king...
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On the other side, a crow in the sky struggled to shake a ring off its feathers, and the ring tumbled in the air and fell into a pond.
After a while, ripples appeared in the pond and He Qing climbed out of it.
He Qing performed a cleaning gesture and turned around to see that it was a pond in the campus botanical garden.
"I didn't expect that after all these twists and turns, I ended up back at school." He Qing muttered softly and put the space ring back on his finger.
Fortunately, he had made some preparations. First, he used a paper clone to send a letter to notify Duan Chenhui, then he exchanged the egg for a spirit stone, and finally he went to the store to check out the situation, and then Duan Chenhui and his friends arrived.
Now that the spirit stone is in Duan Chenhui's hands, if it is detected to contain energy they should go looking for it, thus killing two birds with one stone.
However, it is still a bit tricky to deal with this Zerg egg. Judging from the general's appearance, he seems to have an irreconcilable hatred with the Zerg...
But this Zerg egg is still useful to him, and it is quite special.
He Qing frowned and looked a little distressed. He walked and thought, when he suddenly saw someone in front of him. He walked closer and saw that it was Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi was holding a dagger and cutting off a big watermelon fiercely, as if he was cutting off the enemy's head.
"Student Zhang, are you stealing melons?" He Qing turned his head to look at the sign stuck on the ground. On it was written in a roaring font: [No stealing of vegetables!!]
Zhang Yi stood up holding the watermelon and glanced at him: "Stupid, this is the traditional 'vegetable stealing activity', do you understand? If I can steal it, I win." He looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he ran away quickly holding the watermelon.
He Qing lowered his head and counted. There were still three watermelons on the ground. He hesitated for a moment and walked over...
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In the evening, He Qing returned with a basket and saw Duan Chenhui's car in the garden. Duan Chenhui walked out of it, also carrying a basket in his hand.
“……”Duan Chenhui glanced at his basket.
"..." He Qing looked at his basket. The general's basket looked so familiar, and the towel covering it looked so familiar too...
Duan Chenhui's eyebrows jumped, and he was the first to speak: "What are you holding?"
He Qing was calm and composed. He trotted over, lifted the basket and uncovered the towel: "It's watermelon! I picked it from the vegetable garden. It helps to cool down and quench your thirst."
"Vegetable garden?" Duan Chenhui was almost scared by him. He looked carefully and was relieved when he confirmed that it was a watermelon.
"It's the botanical garden on campus." He Qing explained with a smile, "I found there are a lot of delicious food there."
"So that's it." Duan Chenhui touched his forehead and suppressed his heartbeat. It was all because of the egg theft suspect today. He was not sure if the other party was a space pirate, but he was definitely not simple.
"General, did you buy watermelon too?" He Qing pretended not to know and glanced at his basket.
Duan Chenhui smiled and uncovered the towel: "It's a mineral."
"So beautiful." He Qing walked over and touched it. It was a sparkling spiritual stone. He wondered if there was any in the interstellar space.
Duan Chenhui glanced at him. He Qing seemed to particularly like glowing things: "But I can't give this to you. Go back to the house."
The two entered the house, and He Qing placed the watermelon and the stone egg side by side on the coffee table: "It looks like they are both green and look very fresh."
"Then eat it." Duan Chenhui smiled.
"Okay." He Qing ran into the kitchen and came out with a kitchen knife.
Duan Chenhui looked up at the sharp kitchen knife and his eyebrows jumped. He stood up and tried to grab it. He Qing suddenly grabbed his hand and said, "Have mercy on me, General!"
"What's wrong?" Duan Chenhui was confused.
"Just divide it in half." He Qing took out two small spoons from behind his back. "I saw the Zhang Yi brothers eat it this way."
"...Okay." Duan Chenhui suspected that the reason why He Qing stole the watermelon was because of the influence of Zhang Yi, the Alpha. He narrowed his eyes slightly, split the watermelon in half with his backhand, and pushed them both to He Qing, "You eat it."
"General, you don't want to eat?"
Duan Chenhui shook his head, put down the knife, picked up the stone egg and said, "I still have things to do."
He Qing held the watermelon and watched Duan Chenhui walk up the stairs. Judging from his back and the frequency of his walking, Duan Chenhui looked exactly the same as usual.
It was his first time fighting with Duan Chenhui. He was indeed very powerful, but he didn't dare to fight with him for too long.
He Qing thought about it, lowered his head and took a bite of watermelon, and suddenly felt that some of the fun had been lost.
He finished his own meal and put Duan Chenhui's portion in the refrigerator. Then he went back to his room, took out a compass and input spiritual power. The needle on the compass started spinning wildly.
He Qing patted the compass, but there was nothing he could do. The compass couldn't find his body, and he couldn't sense it either. It must be too far away.
He fell onto the bed, holding the compass to comfort himself: "Maybe the time has not come yet."
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