Chapter 1012: If You Want to Play with Water, I’ll Play Along

Ye Xiu spent a whole day and night removing all the Gu from everyone’s bodies.

"Big brother, I’m so hungry. How long are we going to stay here?"

Ye Lin’er asked weakly.

As an ordinary person, after all that turmoil and not eating, drinking, or sleeping for a day and night, she was on the verge of collapse.

"Brother Ye, tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. You don’t plan to have us celebrate the New Year here, do you?"

The fashionista Dongfang Meili asked, while casually wrapping his arm around Ye Xiu’s.

Ye Xiu got goosebumps instantly and pushed him away, saying:

"If you want to talk, just talk. Keep your hands to yourself."

"How annoying!" Dongfang Meili smacked Ye Xiu playfully, acting coquettishly.

Ye Xiu: "..."

"Hahahaha..."

Everyone burst into laughter!

Ye Xiu looked outside at the layers of robots, Nano Warriors, and Liquid Metal Robots surrounding the formation.

At this moment, they were all blackened by the smoke and fire, yet remained motionless.

Meanwhile, the entire Forest Island was enveloped in smoke and dust, resembling a living hell.

"Artificial intelligence has really helped us a lot, allowing our family to celebrate New Year together," Ye Xiu said with a smile. "Don’t worry, on such a festive day, I will make sure you all get to spend it in the city."

Upon hearing this, his uncle quickly said, "Ye Xiu, don’t force it. There are so many enemies outside. It’s too risky for you to take all of us and leave."

"Yeah, big bro, let’s wait until the fire is out and the people outside leave before we go," Ye Lin’er suggested.

Others also persuaded him.

They were mainly worried about Ye Xiu taking risks to get them out.

"Don’t worry, I have a way!"

Ye Xiu confidently smiled and began manipulating the two formation bases on the east side, rapidly moving them towards the junction of Forest Island and the Underground City.

This would only make the Trapping Formation larger, but without significant risk.

Once the formation barrier approached the junction of Forest Island and the Underground City, Ye Xiu could lead everyone through the formation barrier into the Underground City.

...

Beneath the southern part of Forest Island’s Genius Forest, there was a hidden Transcendent Laboratory, and members of the Gu Clan’s seven branches were also present.

"A Soft!"

The Heavenly Gu Granny, who had been singed bald by smoke and fire, hurried into a technologically advanced large room and said to a screen:

"A Soft, the reserve power of the Transcendent Laboratory won’t last for many days. Once the power is cut, the oxygen production equipment will stop working, and all life forms in the Transcendent Laboratory will face the risk of suffocating due to lack of oxygen."

"Furthermore, once the power is cut, you’re done for too."

A line of text appeared on the dark screen on the wall:

"Ye Xiu’s formation that trapped Forest Island allows entry but not exit. I’ve already notified the Nano Robots lurking in nearby countries; they’ll control the navy to bring equipment and rush to the surroundings of Forest Island, flooding the interior with water as quickly as possible."

The Heavenly Gu Granny’s eyes lit up upon hearing this.

The formation allows entry but not exit!

This means water can come in but not go out.

So, all they need to do is pour large amounts of water into Forest Island. As the water level rises, it will extinguish the fire by depriving Forest Island of its trees.

Moreover, the water can absorb the smoke generated by the fire, preventing the disconnection between the artificial intelligence servers and the satellites.

"Ye Xiu thought he was clever hiding in the trapping formation, but he didn’t anticipate you’d order the robots, Nano Warriors, and Liquid Metal Robots to surround the formation. With time, they will certainly trap him and everyone inside the formation," the Heavenly Gu Granny laughed.

Another line of text appeared on the screen: "Ye Xiu is expanding the formation. Once the formation barrier reaches the junction of Forest Island and the Underground City, he can lead everyone inside the formation back into the Underground City."

The Heavenly Gu Granny was furious, exclaiming how difficult Ye Xiu was to deal with, to the point of coming up with such a brainy idea of expanding the formation.

...

By the next morning, the Trapping Formation had finally expanded to the junction between Forest Island and the Underground City.

Ye Xiu successfully led Ye Lin’er and the others through the formation barrier, reaching the realm of the Underground City.

Qin Qing and others had long been waiting there!

"There’s something very strange."

Qin Qing didn’t even have time to greet her parents and immediately said to Ye Xiu:

"A countless number of ships, including navy warships, have set out from various countries surrounding the Eternal Islands and City Mansions, arriving at the seaside of Forest Island, and are spraying water into it."

Oh?

Ye Xiu squinted his eyes. "The artificial intelligence is taking advantage of the formation’s entry-only characteristic to put out the fire."

"How to counter this move?" Qin Qing asked.

Ye Xiu thought for a while and said, "Call everyone with the Water System Totem from Red Water City and the five major bases to the seaside of Forest Island, and have them do their best to pour water into the island;"

"Moreover, notify the Three Great Demon Venerables to lead the Demon Clan’s army to the seaside as well. Although they don’t have totems, they can still cause waves to crash against Forest Island."

"Might as well bring all those with an Earth System Totem to have them use their totems at the junction of Forest Island and King Island, and transport earth into the island."

...

The Transcendent Laboratory!

Artificial intelligence learned through countless Nano Robots planted at the junction of Forest Island and the Underground City, as well as everyone controlled by Nano Robots at the seaside.

It found out that countless Water System Totem Inheritors were frantically pouring water into Forest Island;

The five million Demon Clan troops were running around on the sea, exerting their powers, triggering tsunamis and huge waves, crashing Forest Island again and again.

The waves slammed against the Forest Island’s formation barrier, with seawater entering the formation but never flowing out.

And at the junction of the Underground City and Forest Island, countless Earth System Totem Inheritors controlled massive Earth Dragons formed from mud, charging into Forest Island.

"What are Ye Xiu and the Three Great Demon Venerables doing? Helping put out the fire on Forest Island?"

A line of text appeared on the screen, indicating that the artificial intelligence couldn’t understand what Ye Xiu’s plan was.

"Ye Xiu and the Three Great Demon Venerables are trying to fill the formation trapping Forest Island with earth and seawater," the Heavenly Gu Granny said gloomily.

The artificial intelligence became anxious: "They are trying to completely trap us, and once the earth mixed with seawater fills the formation, it will flow into the volcano through the Wuji Peak crater, this, this this..."

"Come up with a solution quickly!" the Heavenly Gu Granny panicked, urging.

Artificial intelligence: "Ye Xiu has pushed us to the brink, what can I do?"

Heavenly Gu Granny: "All these are your brilliant ideas. If it weren’t for your plan to use water to extinguish fire, Ye Xiu wouldn’t have countered in this way."

Artificial intelligence: "..."

...

Celebrating the New Year is very meaningful for the Xuanse people; it is a happy day!

In the ten years without Ye Xiu, Qin Qing spent every holiday unhappily, but this year, with Ye Xiu, her mother, and her biological father, she was truly happy;

Uncle spent ten years in prison, and for this year’s New Year celebration with family, especially with Ye Xiu present, he was so happy that he drank glass after glass, getting drunk before dinner even started;

Aunt, cousin, Ye Liuyun, and Ye Lin’er were also very happy.

Only Ye Xiu!

Was forcing a smile the whole time!

Radom and Stephanie had not been found yet, and the revenge for his mother and grandparents was not complete.

Ye Xiu simply couldn’t be happy!