Chapter 2264: They Came Knocking
No wonder Iron Soldier overreacted. Everyone in the Silicon-Based race knew about Miu Ke's embarrassing incidents!
Although the Terminal Database had already developed a defense program against the Watt virus!
But this was like a spear and a shield — the spear was always being upgraded, and only when the spear was upgraded could a shield be made to defend against it!
The shield was always one step behind the spear!
Jiangnan's Watt virus was constantly evolving, mutating, and self-writing!
The firewall program the Silicon-Based race had developed was only from a few months ago, already outdated!
To this day, the Silicon-Based race hadn't obtained the original Watt virus from Jiangnan to destroy it. How could they not be on guard?
If they got hit, every Silicon-Based mechanical race at the Beimian Xingkong Kuangchang would become mentally disabled!
That would throw everything into chaos!
[┘⊚皿⊚└] "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Since the Ming He Death Prison was built, there has never been a successful escape. Based on Jiangnan's physical fitness calculations, his escape success rate is less than 0.0000023%!"
"This is a completely negligible possibility!"
Chong Bishi rolled her eyes:
(꒪ั～꒪ั*) "Am I joking with you guys? I'm not here to discuss how Jiangnan escaped!"
"I'm telling you he's already escaped, and it's probably been a while."
As she spoke, her eyes blinked, and her pupil insect immediately began projecting a hologram!
The image showed Jiangnan and the others standing in a void rift, with the dark-golden, massive dragon body as the background, a huge dragon claw supporting everyone!
Jiangnan had a short crew cut, a wild and unrestrained smile on his face!
"As soon as he got out, he blew up nearly one-fifth of my central insect nest. The number of dead insects is incalculable. You all should be careful too, right?"
Dante's eyes narrowed: (ꐦ°᷄皿°᷅) "Damn it! He really did escape! Damn! Damn it! Jiangnan actually dared to do this!"
Iron Soldier remained silent, his core power furnace ready to detonate at any moment!
Chong Bishi had no reason to lie to them about this matter!
"Where is Jiangnan now?"
Chong Bishi shrugged:
ʅ(･´～･｀)ʃ "How would I know? I just saw him enter the Dimensional Gap."
Hearing this, Dante's head grew twice as big. The Dimensional Gap? If Jiangnan hid in there, who could get in?
Dante squinted: (≖益≖ꐦ) "Damn Netherworld race! Can't they even handle such a small matter? What use are they? We finally got Jiangnan in there, and now he's escaped?"
"And they haven't even sent back any news?"
Iron Soldier squinted: [┘☼皿☼└] "I'll immediately transmit this data back to the Terminal Database and ask the highest intelligence to issue instructions!"
A hint of a smile curled at the corner of Chong Bishi's mouth:
(๑◔ٹ◔ิ) "About the Tiantang Zhijing matter..."
Dante sneered: "Although dealing with Jiangnan is the top priority, the substitute for the dimensional pearl can't be exempted either. This is the general trend!"
"Don't even think about it. I know you still won't give up. Now that Jiangnan is out stirring up trouble, we can give you one last chance to try!"
"If you still can't do it, then don't occupy the latrine without shitting!"
Chong Bishi's face darkened. She said grumpily, "Alright, alright! I get it!"
With that, she turned and left, breathing a long sigh of relief. Regardless, she had at least bought herself one more chance!
As for Jiangnan, she'd leave that to the Sacred Law Council to worry about!
Iron Soldier immediately connected to the highest intelligence to report the news, while Dante didn't dare delay and started making a corner-to-corner communication!
...
The Bose Star Domain was located in the most ancient star region of the starry sky. Now, the entire star domain was rippling with dense Bose particles, like a tide!
Above the galaxy where Di Chou's Saint Star headquarters was located, a tremendously grand dimensional gate had split open in the sky!
It led straight to the four-dimensional world, bizarre and magnificent!
The diameter of this dimensional gate alone covered the entire central region of the galaxy!
An endless waterfall of Bose particles burst forth from Di Chou's body, straight to the dimensional gate!
From afar, it looked as spectacular as a waterfall flowing in reverse!
It was hard to imagine just how massive a quantity of Bose particles Di Chou's body contained!
And Di Chou had been maintaining this output for three days!
Even more terrifying was that there were eight such anomalies across the entire Bose Star Domain!
Di Chou's gate wasn't even the largest...
(ꐦ°᷄口°᷅) "What? Are you sure? Jiangnan escaped? How is this possible!"
Di Chou sat steadily on his throne, but his shocked roar echoed across the starry sky!
The glazed horn on his head flickered with radiance!
Dante: "Confirmed. He's already appeared at the Beimian Xingkong Kuangchang. He just blew up Chong Bishi's insect nest. I'm sending you the footage now..."
Di Chou gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead:
(ꐦ◣益◢ꐦ) "Escaped? He really escaped? A bunch of useless idiots! Useless things! Don't hang up yet. Let me verify this!"
"Someone! Contact Youming for me!"
This meant that in this game of chess, he was the loser! The humans had already used this time to finish laying out their dimensional star navigation!
...
Minghe Star Domain, Hanjiang Star, Youming Imperial Palace!
Youming was currently soaking comfortably in a bathtub filled with Dali, humming a tune. He grabbed another bowl of chicken soup and drank it. Ah, so comfortable!
Feeling his physical fitness improve, he planned to drink the rest after his bath — couldn't let it go to waste!
He hadn't kept much for himself, so of course he had to use it sparingly!
To be fair, he'd been having a pretty comfortable time lately!
Except for that Minghe koi fish that kept ramming into the Minghe Dead Star, which he had to go deal with personally, everything else was going well!
Life had been quite leisurely since Jiangnan left. He just wondered how things were going on Jiangnan's end!
Just then, Di Chou sent a full holographic projection crashing in!
Startled, Youming jumped out of the bathtub and wrapped himself in a bathrobe!
A bad feeling crept into his heart!
Sure enough, as soon as the call connected, Di Chou's hysterical roar came through!
(▼皿▼✡) "Bathing? You're still in the mood to bathe? Let me ask you, where is Jiangnan?"
Youming's heart gave a lurch. Damn, he'd been found out!
He knew he couldn't hide it forever and had rehearsed this moment countless times in his heart. He'd even thought up his lines!
His eyes darted away:
(｡･ˇ益≠｡:) "I... I accidentally let him escape..."
Di Chou was burning with rage: (ꐦ｀益´) "Bullshit! The Minghe Star Domain spans eight million light-years. Even a Star Devourer who goes in can't escape, and you control the Minghe Star Path!"
"As long as you don't let him go, no one can escape from there! Tell me, did you intentionally let Jiangnan go?"
"Is the Netherworld race being disobedient too, huh?"
Youming said urgently, "How could I! What good would that do me?"
"You don't know, but lately, that Minghe koi fish has been constantly giving me trouble. It's gone crazy, endlessly ramming into the Minghe Dead Star!"
"I've risked my life to defend against it multiple times, blocking the Minghe koi fish's attacks. You know what level of creature that is — it's not easy to deal with!"
Di Chou frowned: (✡･ˇ益ˇ･) "The Minghe koi fish? That thing is indeed troublesome. But what does that have to do with you letting Jiangnan go?"
"If you don't give me a satisfactory explanation today, the consequences won't be something you can handle!"
Youming ground his teeth: (งᵒ̌皿*)ง "How is there no connection? That damned Jiangnan, while the Minghe koi fish was attacking the Minghe Death Prison and I was desperately defending against it, he kidnapped my goddaughter!"
"That Jiu Lan! I couldn't free up to catch him while dealing with the Minghe koi fish!"
"Then this bastard threatened me with my beloved goddaughter's life, demanding I open the Minghe Star Path, or he would fry her then eat her!"
"What else could I do? I had to compromise! Jiangnan escaped with a group of prisoners..."
Di Chou: !!!
"Then you actually opened the Star Path for him? Not only did he escape himself, but he also took prisoners with him? Son of a bitch!"
Youming argued, "If I didn't open it, what about my goddaughter? If it were you, and someone threatened you with your beloved daughter, could you bring yourself to refuse?"
"My goddaughter is still in Jiangnan's hands, whereabouts unknown! Every day she probably suffers unimaginable humiliation. I cry every day, you know?"
Di Chou's expression finally softened slightly. Damn Jiangnan! Managed to take a hostage from the Netherworld race inside the Minghe Death Prison? Impressive!
"Then why hide it from me? If I hadn't come looking for you, how long were you planning to keep this from me? Do you know how much this has delayed things?"
Youming's momentum weakened: (๑◔益≠๑) "I... I was thinking of ways to make up for it! I've secretly sent capture squads to search for Jiangnan's whereabouts and try to catch him!"
"I thought if I could bring him back, we could pretend this never happened and salvage the reputation of my Minghe Death Prison!"
"But unfortunately, I haven't found anything yet, and here you are..."
Di Chou was almost furious to the point of insanity: "You catch him? You couldn't catch a fart! Do you know how much I paid to get Jiangnan into prison and extract his secrets?"
"And you let him escape? And hid it from me? Fine! You're really something!"
"Never before in history has anyone escaped from the Minghe Death Prison, and Jiangnan did it! You've betrayed my trust!"
"The resources I promised you? You won't get half of it! Your original resource supply will be reduced by two-thirds!"
Youming's eyes widened: "How can this be? My Netherworld race also needs to eat! Do you want us to starve to death?"
Di Chou said coldly, "What else do you want? Admit your mistake when you've done wrong. Not satisfied? Tough. What, you want to arm-wrestle with the Sacred Law Council?"
Youming was also angry: "Don't forget! I'm also a Star Devourer! Don't talk to me like I'm your subordinate! My Netherworld race doesn't owe you anything!"
"I just accidentally let Jiangnan escape. Aren't I trying to make up for it? Don't push me too far, or else..."
Di Chou sneered: "Or else what? You want to fight? Come out and try. I don't mind cutting you down!"
"Without you, Youming, the Netherworld race is nothing! The Minghe Star Domain is troublesome, sure, but without you, the Sacred Law Council can still swallow it!"
"This thorn, I can choose to keep it in, no big deal, or I can choose to pull it out, nice and clean. You understand?"
Youming said coldly, "Are you threatening me? Then try coming in? I'll say this now: however many Star Devourers the Sacred Law Council sends, I'll cut down that many!"
"Your Bose race has so many Star Devourers, losing one or two wouldn't hurt, right? As long as it's within the Minghe Star Domain, I call the shots!"
"Don't make things too ugly!"
The atmosphere plunged to freezing point!