Chapter 402: I Can Tell You're Not Human at a Glance
Something was definitely following him!
A mischievous smile curled at the corner of Jiangnan's mouth as he made his way to an abandoned furniture store. He plopped down onto a sofa, pulled a barbecue grill out from the alternate dimension, and skillfully lit the charcoal.
Chicken wings, big drumsticks, sausages, marshmallows—everything was laid out.
"Sizzle~"
The charcoal fire roasted the big drumstick, oil dripping and aroma spreading everywhere.
"Slurp~ Haven't eaten all day! So hungry, so hungry!"
Jiangnan looked around but didn't notice anything unusual.
He stretched lazily, then turned around and lay down on the sofa.
"Hmm~ I wonder when it'll be ready. I'll take a little nap first."
With that, he closed his eyes, his breathing gradually evening out.
Jiangnan: (´˃̶⌂◔`)
Lying on his back, Jiangnan began using space wormholes for tactical peeping—the legendary one eye open, one eye closed—activating a God's perspective.
Three minutes passed. Still no movement.
Jiangnan started to get anxious. Could he have been mistaken?
Just then, the big drumstick on the grill gave off a burnt smell, and white smoke began to rise.
Right at that moment—
The drumstick flipped itself over!
Then the sausages, marshmallows, and chicken wings all flipped over too.
Jiangnan: ???
What the hell? Worrying about me that much?
This was definitely a person!
Jiangnan didn't think any spirit beast would know to flip skewers.
What was going on? Invisible? Was this a customer of his Teletubbies invisibility cloak?
While Jiangnan was pondering—
A pearlescent glow emerged from the spot, and the thing that had been following Jiangnan gradually became visible.
Heart, nerves, blood vessels, arteries, bones, organs—all sorts of structures slowly revealed themselves.
Eventually, it took the form of a completely smooth, naked girl.
Her entire body was translucent, emitting a faint pearlescent light.
On her forehead grew two small crystal horns.
Now this translucent girl was crouched on the ground, her big eyes intently fixed on the drumstick on the grill.
She glanced up sneakily at Jiangnan, as if making sure he was really asleep.
Then she picked up the chili powder jar and sprinkled some onto the drumstick.
Jiangnan: (๑ŏ﹏ŏ|||)
Hey, hey, hey!
This definitely wasn't human!
Who's ever heard of a person growing horns?
Translucent? How could it be translucent?
Was this... was this a ghost?
And this ghost just happened to love chili powder?
Jiangnan's heart was pounding nervously.
What kind of thing had he just fished out?
The translucent girl seemed to think it wasn't spicy enough, so she picked up the chili powder jar and shook it again.
Once! Twice!
Jiangnan: !!!
As a ghost, eating this much chili isn't good for you!
Still not enough?
She wasn't planning to eat him too, was she?
The abandoned city was eerie and terrifying, and with a translucent girl added to the mix, even Bold Jiangnan was trembling.
Third shake!
The lid of the chili powder jar flew off!
Half a jar of chili powder spilled all over the drumstick and the charcoal.
The translucent girl froze.
Jiangnan: ...
The next moment, a thick white smoke billowed from the grill, carrying a pungent, spicy smell.
The translucent girl was choked, tears streaming from her eyes as she fanned her nose.
Panicked, she looked at Jiangnan.
[Resentment from ??? +745!]
Jiangnan flipped out!
Even the system couldn't recognize her name?
She definitely wasn't human!
At this point, Jiangnan lay stiff on the sofa, tears streaming from the smoke.
(*꒦ິ△꒦ີ)
In this situation, should he wake up or not?
If he woke up, wouldn't that be awkward?
If he didn't?
Charcoal-grilled chili powder?
Even a dead person would be choked back to life! This was suffocating him!
Could she be any more unprofessional with her sneaky eating?
Seeing that Jiangnan hadn't moved, the translucent girl breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she looked at the charred, black drumstick...
(•̥́﹏•̀ू)
Obviously, that was inedible now.
So she picked up the sausages and chicken wings, ate them all with a blissful expression.
Then she grabbed the marshmallow skewer and came up to Jiangnan.
Her little face leaned in.
"Sniff~ Sniff~"
Jiangnan: !!!
Sure enough!
Since she couldn't eat the drumstick, she was going to eat him!
He couldn't keep pretending to sleep anymore!
At this rate, she'd start sprinkling chili powder on him next!
He'd fished out this ghost, so he had to deal with it himself!
With a leap, Jiangnan sprang up from the sofa like a carp.
"Hey! I can tell you're not human at a glance!"
"Great and mighty dragon! World-honored Earth-Store!"
"Buddhas of all directions! Great Luo mantra!"
"Wo yao ma ma hong!"
"Slap!"
He snapped his fingers, and a Void Black Hole appeared!
The translucent girl's big eyes were full of terror as she quickly stuffed the marshmallow into her mouth.
Her entire body blazed with pearlescent light as she rapidly went from translucent to completely transparent. She turned and ran.
Jiangnan was shocked!
Because the suction of the Void Black Hole didn't affect her at all!
"You ate my skewers and still want to run?"
"Spirit Art: Spatial Barrier!"
In an instant, space solidified.
It formed a transparent space wall, 10m x 10m.
"Boom!"
A loud crash, and cold air scattered everywhere.
[Resentment from ??? +1000!]
The girl was knocked visible for a split second, then vanished again.
Jiangnan waved his hand!
Six Spatial Barriers formed instantly!
They created a square space ten meters in length, width, and height—something like a barrier结界.
The walls were all made of transparent barriers of space.
"Boom!"
Another muffled sound. The girl slammed hard into the barrier.
The barrier even cracked, with wisps of white frost forming on the surface.
But the cracks quickly repaired themselves.
Jiangnan put his hands on his hips, looking smug.
"Haha! Pretty awesome, right?"
This was precisely the diamond-grade spatial spirit art he had just acquired:
Spatial Barrier!
Within a range of 1,000 meters, it could instantly release six transparent walls, each 10m x 10m, entirely condensed from space.
Its defensive power was astonishing. The six walls could be combined arbitrarily, even forming something like a prison cell.
Now he had conveniently used the Spatial Barrier to trap the translucent girl inside.
Jiangnan grinned, rubbing his hands together. "Sell it! Sell it! Trade it for cash!"
Inside, the translucent girl glanced timidly at Jiangnan, biting her lower lip.
Then she instantly vanished from Jiangnan's sight.
"Heh heh! There's only so much space in here—where do you think you're going?"
Saying this, he snapped his fingers. Under his control, the two opposite spatial barriers slowly began to push inward.
The space was shrinking bit by bit.
Jiangnan was dying to see what he had caught.
But at that moment, the giant egg-shaped hall suddenly blared with red alarms!
All the researchers' expressions grew serious. Even Han Menglu opened her usually half-closed eyes.
"Report to the group leader! Detected a fifth state of matter—Bose–Einstein condensate particles! Strong reaction!"
"What? It's appeared? Where?"
"Above the ruins of An City center!"
"Quick! Bring up the footage! We can't miss this again no matter what!"
Sweat drenched Han Menglu's palms, her expression tense.
Even Zhao Dezhu couldn't sit still anymore, his face full of excitement.
Xiao Chuihuo swallowed hard. "Can we catch it?"
Han Menglu gritted her teeth. "At any cost! Everyone, prepare for capture!"
Then the footage of the An City ruins was pulled up onto the big screen.
Vaguely, dust and smoke could be seen still lingering in the area, as if a battle had just taken place.
In the picture, Jiangnan stood at the entrance of a shopping mall, hands on his hips, looking utterly smug: "Goose-hahahahaha! Call me the Barrier Master!"
Everyone in the hall was dumbfounded.
What was going on?
Jiangnan?