Chapter 1781: Little Bald Dragon

Chapter 1781: Chapter 1781: Little Bald Dragon

Old Niu was running up ahead, its speed extremely fast.

Ji You sat on Old Niu’s back, bracing herself with several mechanical arms looped around its Dragon Horns just to stabilize her body, so she wouldn’t be thrown off by the speed.

Rumble—

The deafening roars kept echoing by her ears.

Staring at the hellish scene in the distance, the fear in Ji You’s eyes lingered and refused to disperse.

Rumble—

Ji You didn’t move.

Right then, she felt something squirming in her arms. She lowered her head and saw that it was the Mecha Space Button. Thinking of Little Golden Dragon, Ji You’s heart clenched tight, all her messy thoughts swept clean. She lowered her head and released Little Golden Dragon.

Little Golden Dragon reappeared before Ji You, and in that instant her heart spasmed as if someone had taken a sledgehammer and smashed it hard right in front of her. That pain was the worst Ji You had ever felt in her life.

The palm-sized Little Golden Dragon, its originally bright golden scales, one by one, piece by piece... had almost all fallen off. There was barely a single intact patch of scales left. Its whole body was gouged and pitted, and even the two Dragon Horns it was so proud of had been burned down to just short stubs.

Little Golden Dragon’s sharp claws had been roasted pitch-black.

...

It was no longer Little Golden Dragon, but a little black dragon—no, a Little Bald Dragon.

As if sensing that Ji You’s gaze was wrong, Little Golden Dragon tried to jump up forcefully, but its Physical Strength failed it and it toppled back down.

It felt utterly humiliated, immediately scrunching its brows and snapping irritably, "Woman! What kind of damned expression is that? Listen up, the Universe’s Number One Biological Mecha, Lord Heavenly Dog, is not dead yet, so quit mourning in front of me, you’re bad luck."

Ji You clenched her teeth hard and said nothing.

Little Golden Dragon tried again to stand up on its own, but still couldn’t get its footing and went down again.

Immediately—

Little Golden Dragon grew even more displeased. It muttered in annoyance, "Stupid woman! What a moron! I’m this strong, I don’t need you wailing over me."

"Hmph."

Also—

If only the repairman were here. With its shell damaged, it only needed to swap in a new one, but this damned woman Ji You, aside from fighting and boasting, she can’t do anything. She can’t even do something as simple as changing a Mecha’s outer shell!

Sigh!

I must have owed her in my past life and now I’m here to pay off the debt.

Just as Little Golden Dragon was feeling a bit helpless, a pair of hands suddenly appeared in front of it—a pair of hands covered in wounds. Little Golden Dragon stiffened.

Ji You gently cupped it, set it down to lie on her shoulder, and said, "You’re injured and still chirping nonstop, no pause at all. Absolutely noisy."

Little Golden Dragon: "..."

Ji You asked, "Specifically where are you hurt? What kind of repair do you need?"

Little Golden Dragon snorted, "It’s just superficial damage. A new layer of skin will do."

Ji You asked, "Can I replace it for you right now?"

"No." Little Golden Dragon shook its head and said, "We don’t have enough Material. There’s no backup in my own Mecha library either. We’ll have to wait until we get back to Lanyue Star and let Teacher Mu replace it for me."

Ji You thought for a bit and asked, "Specifically, which Materials?"

Little Golden Dragon tilted its head, pondered, then shook its head and said, "I don’t know. There’s no related information in my program."

Hearing that, Ji You frowned.

Why doesn’t Little Golden Dragon know itself? In theory, it can control its own body, so it should also be able to query its internal data.

It said there’s nothing in the program, which means either there really isn’t, or that the relevant data is classified and not accessible to Little Golden Dragon itself.

Ji You didn’t dig deeper into this problem. She said softly, "Then for now, don’t act on your own. Even if I’m in danger, you’re not allowed to move. Focus on recovering your body first."

As soon as Little Golden Dragon heard that, it got unhappy. She was talking about it like it was some frail Lin who needed convalescing. Absolutely not. As the world’s Number One Biological Mecha, it was definitely not Lin!

And then—

The puffed?up Little Golden Dragon was gently picked up by Ji You and stuffed back into her arms. "Stay put and don’t move. Danger can come back at any moment. Old Green won’t let us go."

She was holding Qing·Lv·Shi’s Life Line, which was equivalent to grasping its lifeblood. As someone ambitious and bent on dominating the entire Plane, Qing·Lv·Shi obviously wouldn’t sit around waiting to die. It had to have some backup plan.

So—

After Ji You finished speaking, she immediately hid herself back inside Sixth’s ear.

"100 meters."

"Faster."

"Old Niu, turn again. See that mountain over there? Go through that mountain, don’t stop." Ji You pulled herself together and tried her best to direct it.

Little Golden Dragon tilted its head and weakly asked, "How do you know where its lair is? What if you get it wrong?"

Originally, it could have used bloodline-linked information to probe, but Little Golden Dragon’s body was damaged much worse than it had told Ji You. It simply couldn’t expand its detection range beyond 1000 meters. At that distance, it was worse than Ji You’s own Spiritual Net scan.

So, Little Golden Dragon simply gave up on that idea and focused only on following Ji You’s arrangements.

Ji You narrowed her eyes and said, "I don’t know the exact location either, but we just need to go in the opposite direction from where Old Huang, Old Blue, and Old Red are fleeing. Because from my initial assessment of them, since these Aliens divide their spheres of influence by tribe territory, then after running into danger at this level, retreating back to their lairs is unquestionably the correct move. In that case—"

Ji You paused slightly and said, "The direction none of them took has to be Old Green’s lair. Look—what I can vaguely sense is that the closest to us is the Red Clan. Old Red and Old Green are neighbors, so their spheres of influence are adjacent."

Thinking about it that way made sense, but...

Little Golden Dragon frowned and said, "What if you’re wrong?"

If she was wrong, wouldn’t that mean there’s nowhere left to run?

Ji You narrowed her eyes and said, "An attack of that magnitude absolutely can’t be a conventional method, so it’ll only be used once, and only once. It should have been Old Green’s trump card, reserved for a killing blow, but it got forced into using it by us."

A trump card?

When is it suitable to use a trump card?

Of course it’s when the entire Plane is in total war, corpses everywhere, blood all over the place. That’s the best timing to unleash a trump card.

So in fact, Qing·Lv·Shi had already been secretly preparing to launch a war that would sweep across all the tribes on this Plane.

Ji You and Little Golden Dragon both arrived at the same realization.

"However..." Ji You curled her lips, smiling as she said, "With it suddenly pulling out this move, as long as it fails to kill the leaders of the Red, Yellow, and Blue tribes, the effectiveness of that move will be greatly reduced. And from now on, the other tribes will be on guard as well. If it wants to use this big finishing move again, it’ll have to find a moment when all the tribes’ vigilance is at its lowest."

Little Golden Dragon said, "And that is extremely difficult."

Ji You laughed and said, "Even though we got viciously screwed over by Old Green, we screwed it right back. Call it even."

"Next time we meet—" Ji You stared straight ahead and said, "it’s you die or I die."