Chapter 1678: This Era! Is It Good or Bad
That night! The blue moon shone down on the earth, and the chirping of cicadas sounded somewhat piercing!
Inside Jiangnan's room, Blood Platelet stuffed a file into Jiangnan's hands!
Marked on it were the locations of the treasuries of the three overlords of Mountain City. Jiangnan, Mila, and Lan crowded their little heads together, eyes gleaming!
(๑¥﹃¥) "You managed to find the treasury locations this fast?"
Blood Platelet grinned slyly: "You think the Dark Night Army is just here for show? Black Crow is pretty reliable when it comes to gathering intel!"
"But the treasuries are heavily guarded. Are you sure you want to..."
Jiangnan: (๑◔◡◔ิ๑) "So you're doubting a Spatial System's ability to rob a bank?"
Blood Platelet's mouth twitched: "Forget I said anything!"
Good thing Jiangnan was an upright guy, or else he could rob any vault he wanted!
Huh? Actually, wasn't that pretty much the same anyway?
Jiangnan cackled evilly: (՞ٹ՞) "Mila, Lan, you two change into Teletubbies outfits later and go rob the thugs' treasury. That one's easier to hit! Same routine as stealing the spacesuit!"
"Remember to bring Xingcheng. If you run into any obstacles, just have her eat them!"
"I'll go rob the Barren River Society. After all that grievance, I've gotta teach them a good lesson!"
Lan nodded repeatedly: (ง｡$₃$)ง "Exactly, exactly!"
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out from behind!
"So who's going to rob the Wanxiang Alliance? How about you give me two kisses, and I'll do it?"
Everyone shuddered!
Σ(°Д°) "Holy crap! Who's talking?"
Jiangnan turned around, but behind him was pitch black. Liu Mang smirked, flashing a mouthful of pearly white teeth!
☻ "Me! Liu Mang!"
Jiangnan's mouth twitched: "I know you're a scoundrel, but can you not come out and scare people in the middle of the night? When did you get here?"
Liu Mang's face darkened: (≖_≖●) "I've been here since the night... began..."
"Let me do the heist. I've melded with the darkness. Robbing treasuries is perfect for me!"
Jiangnan rolled his eyes and said slyly:
(՞ټ՞) "Rob your ass! I'm not touching the Wanxiang Alliance!"
Liu Mang was stunned: "You're robbing the other two but not the Wanxiang Alliance? Isn't that unfair to them?"
Blood Platelet snickered: "Only the Wanxiang Alliance stays untouched among the three. If you were Huopu or Solomon, and you combined that with the fake Jiangnan cheating scandal, what would you think?"
Jiangnan: (ಡωಡ) "Oh my～ You've grasped the essence, haven't you?"
Liu Mang suddenly understood, then clicked his tongue repeatedly: "Godfather Nan is really something else..."
But just then, a slipper smashed through the wall with a loud crash!
It directly hit Liu Mang in the face, producing a sharp "slap"!
Everyone looked stunned. What was going on?
From the next room, Xia Yao stood in her pajamas, her face full of irritable expression!
Her left eyelid was swollen into a huge red bump, and the back of her hand was swollen like a pig's trotter!
She kept scratching, even carving a cross into the skin with her nails!
(≖皿●ꐦ) "Damn mosquitoes! Die! Buzzing around, driving me crazy!"
Xia Yao was furious, her fur standing on end!
Liu Mang struggled hard to pull the slipper off his face.
(◕థϠథ) "If you're hitting mosquitoes, why the hell are you hitting me?"
Jiangnan couldn't help it:
ꉂꉂ◟(˃᷄ꇴ˂᷅๑) "Pfft hahaha! That's a huge bump! Da Lang Mie, are you allergic? Do the swellings have to be that exaggerated?"
Xia Yao pouted angrily: (◦`~´◦) "The mosquitoes in the rainforest are way too big, okay? As big as eggs, would you believe it?"
Jiangnan waved dismissively: (ˇ◡ˇ๑)ﾉ "Nonsense! How could mosquitoes be—"
"Buzz buzz buzz～"
Before he could finish, a mosquito the size of an egg buzzed past right in front of Jiangnan!
Jiangnan's expression froze!
∑(°口°๑) Whoa!
They really are that big?
But before anyone could get a clear look, a cold flash cut through the air, and Jiangnan had already sheathed his blade!
The mosquito had its wings and legs sliced off, writhing on the ground!
"What—what kind of mosquito is this? A spirit beast? Is it supposed to be this exaggerated?"
Just then, Mountain Cat walked into the room, her skin shimmering with a dark metallic luster!
A few mosquitoes buzzed around her, making "clang clang clang" sounds as they tried to bite her. Laughable—they couldn't even get through!
(⁄⁄⁄･ˇ～ˇ･⁄⁄⁄⁄) "They're not spirit beasts. These are just ordinary mosquitoes. Maybe you didn't notice, but now that the lunar fire is lit and the blue moon hangs high—"
"Blue Star has entered the Blue Moon Era! It's not just humans evolving. All creatures on Blue Star—animals, plants—are evolving quietly!"
"And in these conditions of abundant spiritual energy, creatures evolve in directions that help them survive!"
At that, Jiangnan was startled!
He'd forgotten about that. The blue moon didn't just shine on humans—it shone on every living thing on Blue Star!
The entire world was changing subtly!
Blood Platelet added: "A lot of Dark Night soldiers out on missions have noticed changes in flora and fauna across regions. Giant insects, moving trees..."
"Maybe in a few years, or a decade, Blue Star won't be the world we once knew anymore!"
"With the blue moon hanging in the sky, who knows if it's a good thing or a bad thing?"
Jiangnan felt a bit emotional too.
When you gain something, you also lose something, don't you?
Lighting the moon was humanity's desperate choice—they had no other option.
"Every time we step into a new era, it's a gamble. The Spirit Energy Revival Era was one, and now the Blue Moon Era is another."
"No matter what, we only have this one path. Whether it's good or bad, right or wrong—let future generations judge."
Xia Yao pouted: (•̆₃•̆) "But the mosquitoes are way too many, aren't they? How is Snow Snow sleeping so peacefully?"
So she opened the door to Zhong Yingxue's room to check!
Inside, Zhong Yingxue sat cross-legged on the floor, bathed in flames, eyes closed in cultivation, with seven or eight roasted mosquitoes lying around her!
"Hmm? What's up?"
Xia Yao's forehead broke out in cold sweat: =͟͟͞͞(꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇) "N-nothing..."
Snow Snow is cultivating, and I chose to sleep? I'm too decadent!
Jiangnan was speechless: "I said we were going to rob, so why are we studying mosquitoes now? Mila, Lan, Xingcheng! Let's go! You guys stay home!"
With that, he set off under cover of night!
Meanwhile, in Qi Yu's room, there was a series of booming sounds!
Qi Yu was shirtless, his muscles bulging, darting around the room at speeds rivaling teleportation!
His forehead was covered in bulging veins!
(ꐦ°᷄⌒°᷅) "Mosquitoes! Die! Just die!"
...
Jiangnan split up with Mila and the others. They went to rob the mountain cave outside Mountain City!
Jiangnan, on the other hand, arrived at the Great Barren River!
The river surged endlessly!
"Heh～Pretty good at hiding. The Barren River Society actually has a base under the Great Barren River?"
With that, he teleported and vanished!
Inside the Barren River Society's riverbed base!
Huopu sat hopelessly in his wheelchair, staring at the riverbed scenery outside the window, his eyes full of melancholy!
(◞‸◟) "Sigh～Stop messing around. It doesn't work anymore. I can't even feel it!"
Next to him, a voluptuous woman with fiery red lips sighed, pulled back her hand with regret!
(︶᷄︸᷅๑) "It wasn't working great before, and now it's completely useless. Makes an already joyless life even worse!"
Huopu: !!!
"Nazha! Can you shut your mouth? Stop talking!"
Nazha giggled: (•́.̫•̀) "But big brother, don't be too upset. Even though we can't do anything to Jiangnan and his crew openly—"
"I sent a bunch of mosquitoes over there. It'll annoy them to death. Consider it payback!"
Huopu's expression finally eased a bit!
"C-can't be found out, right? What if—"
"Oh, relax～They're just ordinary mosquitoes. No way to trace them. Just a nuisance!"
"But your strength..."
Huopu gritted his steel teeth: (ꐦ°᷄益°᷅) "Damn it! I don't even dare go all out anymore. I feel like my rank could collapse any minute!"
"This is an unhealable Dao wound. How the hell did that bastard Jiangnan do this to me?"
"If this keeps up, the rest of my life is ruined!"
He'll probably never leave the wheelchair!
No way! Absolutely not!
"The last resort! Cut off what doesn't work!"
"Nazha! Cut it off!"
Nazha gasped sharply:
(*ﾟﾛﾟ) "D-don't you think that's too extreme? Even if it's not working, you can't just give up like that?"
"What if it recovers later and you have nothing to use..."
Huopu's expression turned fierce: "I can grow it back! Cut! Treat the root cause!"
Nazha hesitated: "Well... fine. But you told me to do it!"
So she pulled out a dagger and stabbed Huopu. Blood sprayed everywhere!
Huopu: ∑(ଵ口ଵ๑) ???
"Ahhh!!!"
"Where the hell are you cutting?! Cut the legs! Cut the lower half of my body! Not that—ahhh, you—!"
Huopu wanted to kill Nazha. Was she that decisive? Going straight for the root?
Nazha's forehead beaded with sweat:
(￢ㅂ￢‧̣̥̇) "Ah-ha～Ahaha～Why didn't you say so earlier!"
As she spoke, she drove the dagger into Huopu's lower abdomen and started sawing wildly!
Blood splattered, even hitting Nazha's face!
Huopu's eyes bulged as he looked down at the dagger cutting into his stomach!
The pain made him roll his eyes!
Nazha frowned: (•́益•̀٥) "Tsk～Blocked by bone. It's really hard. Hang on, boss. I'll saw through it soon!"
Huopu: !!!
(´థ益థ)σ "Nazha! You damn—!!!"
"Ahhh! Saw my ass! Don't use a dagger! How long will that take? Are you trying to torture me to death?"
"Go get a bigger tool!"
Why did he have to pick you as his personal secretary? What bad luck!
But Nazha thought going to get a bigger tool would take more time and prolong the boss's suffering!
So she just kept using the dagger, eventually sawing Huopu in half!
Everything below the hip joint was cut off!
The scene was extremely bloody. Huopu gasped in pain!
Just as he was about to use limb regeneration, a piercing red alert suddenly sounded throughout the underground base!
Gu Gua, wrapped in bandages from head to toe, burst into the office!
"Boss! Someone's robbing the treasury!"
Huopu's eyes widened: (#꒪ͦ3꒪ͦ) "What? Ugh—"
He spat out a mouthful of old blood, nearly passing out on the spot!
Gu Gua was stunned. He saw Huopu cut in half, barely hanging on, while Nazha stood beside him covered in blood and holding a knife!
He immediately panicked: (❍ฺ口❍ฺlll) "Holy crap! Nazha, have you lost your mind?! Even though the boss is half-crippled and basically a waste now, you can't kill him!"
"Are you trying to usurp the throne or what?!"
Nazha's face darkened: (̿▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿̿)̄ "I... I didn't! The boss told me to cut!"
Gu Gua glared: "You're full of crap!"