Chapter 1745: Isn't This Redundant?
In a vast nothingness, pitch black all around, space and time seemed to not exist!
Everything was in a state of nothingness. Shanmao, covered in blood, floated in the Dimensional Gap!
Her right calf had already disappeared, and the dimensional gale mercilessly howled past her body, scraping off large chunks of flesh!
In the vacuum environment, due to the pressure difference, she had to wrap her entire body with a spiritual energy gauze to prevent herself from fainting due to excessive blood loss!
Shanmao didn't know how long she had been holding her breath!
She didn't know where she was. The lack of oxygen in her brain made her consciousness gradually blur!
Biting the tip of her tongue tightly, the taste of blood spread in her mouth!
Only then did Shanmao regain a bit of clarity!
She wondered how Xiao Nan and the others were doing. Had they managed to escape the Dimensional Gap alive?
She had dragged them down again!
If she just disappeared like this, her sister was still at home and would take care of their parents…
Xiao Nan… would he be sad?
Would he cry? She didn't want him to cry…
All her memories flowed through her mind like a revolving lantern!
Her consciousness grew more and more drowsy!
Shanmao knew she was going to die. People would think of these things before death!
But she didn't want to give up yet. She wanted to live a little longer, to think of him a bit more…
Her body convulsed in struggle due to the severe lack of oxygen!
Subconsciously opening her mouth wide, she couldn't inhale anything!
Even the world before her eyes gradually darkened!
Just then, Shanmao vaguely saw a figure suddenly appear before her!
Ha! Must be a deathbed hallucination, right?
Even the hallucination is the person she wants to see…
However, the next instant, a soft touch suddenly came on her lips, and fresh air instantly rushed in!
Shanmao's eyes snapped wide open. Her survival instinct made her breathe with all her might, like a long drought meeting sweet rain!
She couldn't help but hug him tightly and inhale with all her strength!
Jiangnan's eyes bulged, and his cheeks instantly caved in!
(#･ˇ3ˇ･)(ଵεଵ‹)
No no no! Don't suck anymore!
Was Shanmao-jie this passionate?
This kind of cupping-like kiss wasn't at all what he'd imagined, damn it!
The one who came was none other than Jiangnan!
He had finally found Shanmao. Seeing her about to suffocate to death, he of course didn't hesitate to kiss her and pass on the oxygen!
But this move almost drained Jiangnan dry!
At this moment, Jiangnan felt like a crushed soda can!
But he let Shanmao have her way. The Small Whip extended, sending rich Life Essence to treat her injuries!
Waves of warm energy came, and Shanmao immediately felt her whole body relax. Her consciousness gradually cleared!
Then her eyes widened even more. It wasn't an illusion—it really was Jiangnan?
Was she… Hiss!
Startled, Shanmao quickly let go, making a "pop" sound!
Jiangnan was dizzy, his lips swollen from the sucking!
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Shanmao's face was as red as blood, but she suddenly realized something. Her eyes reddened, and she grabbed Jiangnan's arm tightly, her face full of self-blame:
-`(#ᵒ̴̶̷̥́﹏ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀)´-"I'm sorry! I… I dragged you down. It's all my fault. Now you can't go back either. I'm so useless! I…"
She wasn't stupid. Jiangnan appearing here meant he had given up the chance to get out and instead went deep into the dimensional rift to find her…
Jiangnan's face was gentle, and he gave a bright smile:
(๑❛ั◡❛ั)"Silly cat, don't talk first. Take a few more breaths of oxygen and do your best to survive!"
As he spoke, he turned back, took a big breath from the oxygen tank, pursed his lips, and leaned toward Shanmao.
(ʃƪ˘³˘)
Still caught up in self-blame, Shanmao didn't realize anything was wrong. Lost in her thoughts, how could she notice these details?
Seeing Jiangnan leaning in, she also took the initiative to meet him.
After all, they had already kissed. At a life-or-death moment, who cared about that?
So she personally sucked oxygen a few times, mouthful after mouthful. Jiangnan's smile grew more and more brilliant.
After a few kisses, Shanmao's ears gradually turned red.
-`(⑉ớ₃ờ⑉)´-"Enough… enough. No more for now~"
Jiangnan laughed slyly, pulling Shanmao and landing on the Jue Ling Pillar.
"Finally found you. Didn't lose you!"
Shanmao's face turned even redder. Something seemed to explode in her heart. She lowered her head and fiddled with the corner of her clothes:
-`(⑉ớ﹏ờ)´-"Don't… don't look at me like that. I'm bald, so ugly~"
Jiangnan touched Shanmao's bald head and grinned: "What's wrong with that? If you weren't bald and glowing, I wouldn't have found you in this pitch darkness!"
"Come on, you're almost out of air, right? Let me give you a few more!"
٩(๛˘³˘)۶
Saying that, he pursed his lips and leaned over again. Shanmao's heart was in turmoil, but her hands unconsciously wrapped around Jiangnan's waist, and she kissed and inhaled some fresh air a few more times.
But she gradually became confused. Where was Xiao Nan getting the oxygen?
(๑•̌₃•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣
She saw Jiangnan finish kissing her, then turn back and take a breath from the oxygen tank, then excitedly lean toward her again!
Shanmao: (≖_≖ꐦ)…
Just then, an untimely hoarse voice sounded!
●"Um… you know, you could actually just give the oxygen tank to Captain Cat to use. You don't have to kiss first. Isn't this taking off your pants to fart—completely redundant?"
"If you have time, could you lend me a couple of breaths? I'm about to suffocate!"
Jiangnan jolted violently, instinctively looking beside him!
A face as black as a two-dimensional sheet was exceptionally conspicuous under the light from Shanmao's bald head!
His eyes were bloodshot, looking like he was about to suffocate!
…☻…
Jiangnan: !!!
٩(ଵ口ଵ|||)۶"Damn! Liu Mang? When the hell did you get here? I haven't even gone looking for you, how did you…"
Liu Mang: ●|||…
"I've been lying on the Jue Ling Pillar the whole time! I never left! I've been here since I got sucked into the Dimensional Gap, for crying out loud!"
The suffocating Liu Mang snatched the oxygen tank and took a deep breath!
Jiangnan broke out in a cold sweat!
(´-﹏-`٥) Damn!
He'd been there that long? He was so black he'd completely merged with the darkness?
[From Luo Tianhong's resentment points +777!]
Jiangnan looked guilty. Shanmao stared at him with a resentful expression!
-`(≖～≖๑)´-
She thought, "I knew something felt off! How could I have considered these details when my heart was all messed up from those kisses?"
He had an oxygen tank but wouldn't use it directly? He had to take a breath himself and then pass it to me? Making me breathe secondhand air?
Cosplaying as a human respirator, huh? You just wanted to kiss, didn't you!
And Liu Mang saw everything!
Could she kill him to silence him now?
"Was it good to kiss?"
Jiangnan nodded repeatedly: (･᷄ὢ･᷅) "Really good. Sweet and fragrant, great taste. I even want a few more!"
Shanmao: !!!
Don't just blurt out the post-kiss review like that!
She elbowed Jiangnan in the belly and said with a red face:
-`(ﾉ)﹏(ヾ)´-"Then… then when there's no one else, I'll… I'll let you kiss again…"
Jiangnan's eyes bulged, and his heart nearly exploded!
Heavens! When no one else is around, he could kiss her freely?
He immediately turned to Liu Mang:
(͡°ʖ̯͡°)✧"Excuse me, could you please go die right now? I'm in a hurry!"
Liu Mang's face darkened. Was he really that quick to abandon a friend for a woman?
●"No problem, it doesn't bother me. Just pretend I'm part of the scenery!"
Then he closed his eyes, instantly vanishing from Jiangnan's sight, black to the point of invisibility!
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Jiangnan rolled his eyes at Liu Mang. Shanmao puffed out her cheeks and pointed at the oxygen tank!
(◦`~´◦)☛
Obviously, she was almost out of air again!
Jiangnan looked like he understood, puckering up to kiss again. Shanmao shoved his face away and pointed at the oxygen tank again!
Jiangnan looked disappointed. He should have kissed a few more times earlier!
So he took out rabbit pills and gave one each to Shanmao and Liu Mang, then ate one himself.
A white halo appeared above his head. With internal circulation, there would be no more lack of oxygen!
Jiangnan grinned: (•́.̫•̀) "Now there's nothing to fear! Ours are Xuexue-flavored. Liu Mang's is yellow-toothed grandpa flavor!"
Shanmao: (￢～￢)…
So you didn't even need the oxygen tank, huh?
Liu Mang looked indignant. Why was his the grandpa flavor? Don't mention yellow teeth! That immediately put a picture in my head!
Just to steal a few kisses from a girl, you really are devoid of conscience!
"We're in the Dimensional Gap now. Survival is no longer the problem, but how do we get out?"
"Everything outside is in chaos. Staying here is no solution!"
At this moment, the massive Jue Ling Pillar seemed to have become a lifeboat for the three of them!
Floating in this endless darkness!
Jiangnan used his spatial sense to control the Jue Ling Pillar, dodging the sweeping dimensional gales and large pieces of spatial debris time and again!
That was how they had survived so far!
Shanmao gritted her teeth: "We have to get out!"
But it was easier said than done!
Strictly speaking, the Dimensional Gap exists between the three-dimensional and four-dimensional worlds!
First of all, whether they could even open a breach in the Dimensional Gap and return to the three-dimensional world was uncertain!
Even if they did, they had no idea if it would be on Lanxing!
What if they appeared in space several light-years away?
Moreover, this place was different from the three-dimensional world. Everything was in a state of nothingness, with no space to serve as a foundation. It was extremely difficult for Jiangnan to open a breach in the Dimensional Gap!
Jiangnan grinned: (๑¯ิٹ¯ิ)"Don't worry! I have experience. It's not the first time I've been lost here!"
"As long as I can find a coordinate node of any location on Lanxing in the three-dimensional world, I can open a hole and go back. Simple!"
Liu Mang frowned: "Nan Shen! Don't comfort us. How could there possibly be a coordinate node?"
"Even if there were, you wouldn't be able to sense it in the Dimensional Gap, right?"
Jiangnan smiled. Indeed, as Liu Mang said, his spatial marks left outside had long since become undetectable!
Even if he could sense them, they would be far beyond the hundred-thousand-meter range!
"Who says I have no coordinates? I left a star mark! But it should be on the Moon now!"
To guard against the possibility of Baldr defecting, Jiangnan had generously given Baldr an Origin Brick during the Lanxing Round Table Conference!
And that brick had been tampered with by Jiangnan!
Jiangnan had obtained two star marks from Rui Sen. One had been infused with Bose particles by Sister Jiangning and placed in his own Alternate Dimension!
The other he had infused with his own spatial spiritual energy and put into that Origin Brick. It should still be in Baldr's Alternate Dimension!
Jiangnan had thought before that if Baldr ever betrayed them, he would sneak into Baldr's Alternate Dimension, steal all his valuables, and teach him a lesson!
But Baldr had been quite reliable. That contingency hadn't been needed. Now, unexpectedly, it came in handy!
Sister Jiangning was in the Toy House protecting Jiang Jing and couldn't leave easily. Even if she came, getting out was still a problem!
It was better for him to go directly to find the star mark in that brick. As long as he could break into Baldr's Alternate Dimension, it would be like going home!