Chapter 1043: Leg-Counting Calculator

Right after Zhao Rong, together with three beauties and his assistant, took out that Broad-winged Deep-sea Scorpion in front of them,

they immediately bolted toward the high ground not far away.

And behind them, the sea level was madly rising…

Once Zhao Rong arrived at the high ground with the three beauties and his assistant,

they looked into the distance and saw it had already turned into a vast ocean.

Zhao Rong let out a long sigh, then spoke with lingering fear:

“Good thing that right after we wiped out that Broad-winged Deep-sea Scorpion, we left that low-lying area at top speed and made it to this high ground… Otherwise, we’d definitely have been drowned by now…”

Miss Lili stared at those monstrous bugs swimming in the seawater,

feeling incredibly amazed as she said:

“I really didn’t expect that in the Carboniferous ocean 300 million years ago, there aren’t any large fish at all—everything’s just giant insects…”

Yu Lan went on recalling the huge dragonflies, huge spiders, huge centipedes, and huge scorpions they’d just encountered,

she sighed and said:

“Who would’ve thought the Carboniferous 300 million years ago really was an age of giant insects… Here, all the tiny bugs we know of can grow this huge—it’s seriously eye-opening…”

Xuelian, meanwhile, was thinking back to the mission the Chairman had given them,

she said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, we came to the Carboniferous this time specifically to complete the mission the Chairman assigned us—to search for the Myriapod monster… But now we’ve already wasted a whole day, and we still haven’t found even the slightest trace of the Myriapod monster…”

Hearing “Myriapod monster,” the assistant’s eyeballs rolled in his sockets as he said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, do you think that giant centipede we killed just now could actually have been the Myriapod monster?”

Zhao Rong shook his head and flatly denied it, saying:

“Even though that Ancient Centipede we killed just now had a lot of legs… its legs didn’t add up to a thousand… So it absolutely wasn’t the Myriapod monster…”

Listening to Zhao Rong, Miss Lili couldn’t help laughing as she said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, are you saying the Myriapod monster really has a thousand legs?”

Zhao Rong told Lili:

“Miss Lili, you’re right—Myriapod monsters have exactly one thousand legs, not one more, not one less…”

Yu Lan thought for a long time, then said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, so you mean as long as we find an insect with not one leg more, not one leg less, but exactly one thousand legs, then that’s the Myriapod monster the Chairman wants us to find?”

Zhao Rong gave Yu Lan a thumbs up and said:

“Yu Lan, you got it right, yep, that’s exactly the kind of insect we’re looking for…”

When Xuelian heard that an insect could actually have a thousand legs,

she suddenly felt like she’d developed trypophobia and said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, if an insect really has a thousand legs, I seriously won’t be able to count them…”

Zhao Rong then pulled a foot-counting device out of his pocket,

and, smiling at Xuelian, said:

“Xuelian, as long as you’ve got this foot-counting device, then no matter how many legs an insect has, this device can count them perfectly clear within one second…”

When Xuelian saw the foot-counting device Zhao Rong was holding—something that looked almost exactly like an ordinary pocket calculator—

she asked with great interest:

“Brother Zhao Rong, are you saying this calculator-looking thing in your hand can really count all the legs on an insect clearly within just one second?”

Zhao Rong demonstrated for everyone, saying:

“If you don’t believe me, I can give you a live demo…”

As soon as Zhao Rong said that, the assistant hurriedly found a centipede on the ground and picked it up,

then he had Zhao Rong use the foot-counting device in his hand to tally the legs on this centipede,

and said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, didn’t you say you were going to show us? Now use your foot-counting device to count exactly how many legs this centipede has on its body.”

Before the assistant could even finish speaking,

Zhao Rong glanced at the number displayed on the foot-counting device and said:

“Assistant, if the foot-counting device isn’t wrong, this insect has 556 legs on its body…”

Hearing that, the assistant was utterly stunned.

He felt it was both believable and unbelievable as he said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, you’re saying this foot-counting device in your hand can really, in such a short time, clearly count all those densely packed legs on an insect—legs you can’t even see properly?”

With that, the assistant took out a super magnifying glass, magnified the centipede in front of them a thousand times, and then started counting its legs one by one…

After a little while, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, the assistant said to Zhao Rong:

“Brother Zhao Rong, you’re insanely awesome—and that foot-counting device in your hand is ridiculously accurate…”

When Miss Lili saw that the foot-counting device Zhao Rong held was really that powerful,

she immediately felt relieved and said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, as long as you’ve got this counting gadget in hand, then finding the Myriapod monster is just a matter of time…”

Yu Lan took the counting gadget from Zhao Rong’s hand,

aimed it at her own legs, then pressed a button and said:

“Foot-counting device, count how many legs I, Yu Lan, have…”

Before Yu Lan had even finished speaking,

the screen of the foot-counting device lit up with the Arabic numeral 3.

And when everyone saw that the device actually showed Yu Lan as having three legs,

the whole crowd burst into laughter.

Miss Lili roared with laughter and said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, that foot-counting device you’re holding is obviously a fake, because Yu Lan clearly only has two legs, so why does the device say she has three?”

Xuelian’s eyes went wide; she challenged Zhao Rong, saying:

“Brother Zhao Rong, does that foot-counting device you’re holding have some kind of margin of error? If not, how could it mess up counting Yu Lan’s legs?”

The assistant laughed even harder, mocking Zhao Rong as he said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, you’d better toss that foot-counting device you’re holding, because it’s obviously a piece of junk…”

But before Lili, Xuelian, and the assistant could finish talking,

Yu Lan suddenly nodded, gave Zhao Rong a thumbs up, and said:

“Brother Zhao Rong, that foot-counting device of yours is seriously badass… The secret I, Yu Lan, keep hidden in my heart has actually been exposed by your device…”

Hearing Yu Lan’s words, Xuelian’s eyes grew even wider,

she sized Yu Lan up and down, then asked:

“Yu Lan, what’s your secret? Do you really have three legs?”

Xuelian swallowed hard, looked at Yu Lan’s two legs, and asked in utter shock:

“Yu Lan, where’s your other leg? Why can’t I see it?”

The assistant laughed like crazy and said:

“Are you kidding me? Dear heavens, you’re not messing with me, right? The Yu Lan I’ve been secretly in love with actually has three legs?”