Chapter 2164: In the Ming He There Is a Fish! Its Name Is Carp
The alloy gate opened, and the crystal treasury was fully revealed before Jiangnan's eyes!
Rows upon rows of densely packed shelves stood in neat order, all of them filled with glittering, translucent Ming He crystals!
Chests were packed to the brim, each one containing tens of thousands of Ming He crystals!
Looking out, there were countless treasure chests in the warehouse!
The strategic reserves gathered from over a dozen life planets around here were absolutely astonishing!
The moment the door opened, an endless wave of spiritual energy rushed at him—this was the taste of happiness, right?
By comparison, the little bit the Nan Shen Small Shop earned was just a drop in the bucket, okay?
Jiang Huazi couldn't help but curl his lips upward!
Kuguan: (๑◔﹏◔ิ) "Hua... Brother Hua? Could you kindly tell me how many crystals this batch is to be stored, so I can record the count?"
Jiangnan raised his hand and drove a fist hammer right into Kuguan's face!
[From Shi Cuike's resentment value +1008!]
"Shi Cuike!"
This sudden strike left Kuguan completely dazed; he covered his nose as tears streamed down.
(⋟ლ⋞) "What’s wrong? Why did you hit me—"
The moment he responded, Jiangnan immediately bagged his head, and in a flash, Kuguan was also stuffed into a sack!
No matter how wildly he struggled, there was no escape!
Casually tossing the two sacks aside, the door slammed shut, leaving the vast crystal warehouse with only Jiangnan and Chong Youshou!
٩(º﹃º٩) "Hehe~ Rich! Rich! Chong Youshou? Together, together! Leaving even half a crystal behind would be an irresponsibility to my criminal identity!"
Saying this, he stuffed a bunch of dull sacks into Chong Youshou's hands, grabbed his own sacks, and charged out, his movements so fast they left afterimages!
Box after box, he poured them into the sacks!
Chong Youshou curled his lip: "Look at you, all excited over such a small treasure. You went through all this trouble just for this little bit?"
"You really went to great lengths!"
As an insect race queen mother, a Star Devourer big shot, someone who owned mines, what treasures hadn't Chong Feiyu seen before?
Even this entire warehouse of Ming He crystals didn't stir the slightest ripple in his heart!
Still, he picked up a sack and started loading too.
(*ﾟﾛﾟ) "Oh ho~ Such a big lump?"
Deep in the warehouse, there were also over a dozen giant pieces of Ming He crystals stored!
The smallest ones were the size of buildings, whole pieces!
The largest one was like a mountain, completely translucent, emitting extremely pure spiritual energy!
Jiangnan naturally didn't stand on ceremony; he took everything.
If he absorbed all this, how strong would his spirit become?
When one sack couldn't hold it all, he put sacks inside sacks!
In less than three minutes, the entire crystal warehouse had been cleared!
Not a single hair left!
Jiang Huazi and Chong Youshou met again at the entrance.
Each held a dull sack bulging so much that the opening could barely be tied shut!
The bulging look made it seem like the sack might burst at any moment.
Jiangnan slung four sacks over his shoulder, changed his appearance again to look like Kuguan, and returned all the way to the storage room.
Then he reverted to Jiang Huazi, pulled Kuguan out of the sack.
Kuguan's eyes widened:
☚(유益유|||) "You're not—"
"Slap slap..."
What greeted him was a series of big slaps, forcibly deleting Kuguan's memory back to before the storage.
Then Jiangnan tossed him onto the office chair.
Kuguan rubbed his face in confusion.
(ﾉ)꒪口꒪) "Hiss~ Brother Hua? Your injury... Did something really happen at the Ming He Death Prison?"
Jiang Huazi spat blood and slammed the treasure chest onto the desk.
"Nonsense! I risked my life to save these crystals from the Ming He Death Prison; they're all here!"
"You help me store them. I'm in a hurry to go back and support; count them yourself, just don't take too much."
With that, he rushed out in a flurry, carrying three dull sacks on his back.
Kuguan was stunned. Damn, so urgent?
Looking at the treasure chest before him, Kuguan swallowed hard, his eyes gleaming. This time, he could really benefit!
Opening it, it was full of Ming He crystals!
He was so excited his face turned red. With this much, taking a few hundred wouldn't be noticed, right?
So he carried the chest back toward the crystal treasury.
The guards were baffled. What was Brother Shi doing, going back and forth like this?
Just taking a stroll?
But when Kuguan opened the warehouse door, he froze like stone.
Σ(っ°Д°;)っ
The chest in his hand clattered to the ground, scattering Ming He crystals everywhere.
There was nothing left in the treasury! Even the biggest crystals were gone.
He never expected that the chest in his hand was the last crystal inventory in the whole Yanshan warehouse, damn it!
(°△°|||) "It's over... This is the end..."
At that moment, Jiang Huazi had already arrived at the starry sky dock, hopping onto a transport heading to support the Ming He Death Prison.
"Brother Hua? You're so injured, don't go back. We've got it covered over there!"
"Yeah, I know you're anxious, but your health matters!"
Jiang Huazi spat blood again:
(#ᵒ̶̶̷̀ཀ˂̶́)੭₎ "Ptui~ Don't stop me! I must go back, or I won't rest easy!"
"The mission on my shoulders doesn't allow me to stay here! Send me to the battlefield! Hurry!"
The garrison was deeply moved. Unable to dissuade Jiang Huazi, they supported him and swam toward the Ming He Death Star.
"Brother? What are you carrying in those bags? They're so bulging. And why are they moving?"
Jiang Huazi grinned: "A few important prisoners. I was afraid they'd be killed by Yakeli over there, so I keep them with me to be safe."
"Don't worry about it. Focus on hurrying! Every second earlier might mean suppressing the chaos sooner and reducing losses."
The garrison nodded heavily and traveled even faster.
Chong Youshou was speechless. Jiang the Big Liar really talks nonsense nonstop!
Not a single word was true!
He'd have to be careful in the future not to get fooled by him.
While Jiangnan was heading back to the Ming He Death Prison, over at the Pearl Star Harbor, the alarm only just sounded, reporting the theft of the crystal treasury. The entire domain was locked down, searching for the culprit.
With the Ming He Death Prison in trouble and the star harbor crystal treasury stolen, it was like adding fuel to the fire.
But none of that had anything to do with Jiangnan. He just needed to return safely to the Ming He Death Prison and go back to being himself.
On the way back, Jiang Huazi kept laughing giddily.
He hadn't expected it to go so smoothly. Originally, he thought there would be some trouble on the road, that he wouldn't get his hands on it so easily.
But now, the sacks were already on his back!
Just as Jiangnan was revelling in his gains, the garrison, after completing a long-distance crossing, was suddenly scattered by an extremely powerful Ming He current!
This abrupt impact sent Jiangnan spitting blood, his whole body in severe pain!
He barely managed to stabilize himself with great effort.
What the hell?
Even the Ming Clan garrison was stunned by this hit.
A leader immediately shouted: "All hands battle ready! Control Ming He energy, resist the turbulent current impact!"
"Damn it, what the hell is this?"
Even the garrison had never encountered such a situation. They could only try their best to control the Ming He energy around them.
But compared to the powerful current, it was utterly insignificant.
Jiangnan endured the pain, gripping his sacks tightly.
(∗ᵒ̶̶̷̀益˂̶́) "What's going on?"
Yet the next moment, everyone was dumbfounded, their expressions shifting from horror to a daze.
(๑ʘ̅дʘ̅๑)
Before them, a flash of silver-gray light appeared. An incredibly massive creature emerged in the Ming He!
The mere Ming He turbulence caused by its appearance nearly wiped out the entire squad!
Even Jiangnan froze.
He had never seen such a massive creature!
His entire field of vision couldn't contain even a fraction of its full form!
It was a super-giant carp!
Covered in thick, rainbow-colored scales, bathed in a silver-gray glow.
Even the smallest scale had an area beyond description!
Even the Wanxiang Star, the largest life planet in the starry sky, was like a sesame seed compared to its scales!
Jiangnan simply couldn't see the creature's full outline!
If calculated by its normal size, this thing's length would likely reach a terrifying length of over a thousand light-hours!
That is, light would need a thousand hours to travel from this carp's head to its tail!
It only takes eight minutes for sunlight to reach Blue Star, damn it!
Even the terrifyingly massive Dawei Tianlong was nothing but an insignificant little brother compared to this thing, right?
The Ming He riverbed was incredibly wide, often several light-years across.
It made perfect sense that such a giant carp lived in the river.
But damn, could a living being really grow to this size?
A terrifying size over a thousand light-hours? What kind of strength did this thing have?
And what's wrong with this fish? Why did it come here?
Now, the Ming Clan garrison panicked, their voices trembling with fear.
(´థ口థ)σ "F*ck! F*ck! It's a Ming He Koi! The legendary Sacred Beast! T-this... I never thought I'd see one in my lifetime!"
"In the Ming He, there is a fish! Its name is the Carp! The carp is so big—"
Jiangnan swallowed hard.
(°△°|||) "No pot in the world could cook that!"
Even Jiangnan, known as the Spiritual Pet Chef Master, was dumbfounded.
Chong Youshou exclaimed in shock: "Ming He Koi? The legend is real? There really are fish in the Ming He?"
"Hiss~ Such an ultimate life form, with such a massive body, its strength is at least Star Devourer as a baseline!"
No doubt about it, this thing's strength was at the very least, at the lowest, Star Devourer...
The Ming He Koi shifted its massive head, its fish eyes locking onto Jiangnan.
Or rather, locking onto the sack on Jiangnan's back...