Chapter 946 - 614: Return to the Void (Part 2)

Chapter 946: Chapter 614: Return to the Void (Part 2)

"You really shouldn’t underestimate the gods."

Li Fan just shook his head at that.

"Those three gods have never descended in history, true, but let me tell you the Blue Star card players’ overall win rate against gods."

"Seven percent."

"And remember, everyone who fought before was association-selected, the publicly recognized Blue Star representative card players."

"So with the current format, you might as well see it as the gods giving us a chance."

"At the very least, the number of challenge attempts has gone up."

That was how he saw it.

Anyway, whenever a god loses any match, the card player will gain the right to ask a question.

So there’s no need to obsess over why the gods aren’t saved for last; the way it is now is actually better.

After getting the full picture from Li Fan, Li Pu went back to school.

He put card battles on hold for now; time to start executing his relevant-items collection plan.

The current first step was to loot every dungeon in Imperial University.

"Huh?"

But just as he was about to call his summons together, he froze.

Because one sweep with Telepathy, and he realized all his summoned beasts were missing!

No, wait, how did Ah Hui die??

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Rewind time to just after Li Pu left the training field.

The Strawman took his place, carrying the sleeping Fufu, and went to the Mechanical Department.

[Grass! Grassy grass grass!]

There, it easily found No. 2.

No. 2: [Oh oh! Boss, you’re back!]

Strawman: [Grass! Grass!]

No. 2: [What? Go where?]

Strawman: [Grassy grassy grass!]

No. 2: [A secret operation? That’s not romantic at all! I absolutely refuse to join!]

After a few exchanges, No. 2 joined the party.

Riding No. 2 to the trading post, the Strawman didn’t choose to go inside.

Instead it just stood quietly at the entrance.

After a few minutes, a figure flew out.

[Chu chu chu chu!]

Bu Bu: Sweethead, you’re finally back~

Its bag also contained Ah Hui, half an egg-head poking out.

[Grass!]

The Strawman’s head tightened and sank, and its hat automatically settled into place.

Bu Bu + Ah Hui joined the party.

Then they moved on, and under a certain utility pole they found a voice full of swagger.

[Ho bo ho!]

Ugly Little Wolf: Boss, long time no see!

This pitch-black guy literally cut off his pee mid-stream and dashed over to the Strawman.

Ugly Little Wolf joined the party.

After assembling everyone, the Strawman led the team to a remote teaching building that was still under renovation.

This place used to be territory of the Rainbow Fox Fourth-Turn Gang, but after the underground gangs were unified it had requisitioned it.

Along the way, all the summoned beasts kept asking the Strawman questions.

But the Strawman brushed them off with lines like "it’s a secret" and "I’m taking you to play something fun."

They didn’t suspect a thing—in fact, they just got more and more hyped.

Because they’d long gotten used to the Strawman leading them into trouble—uh no, leading them out to play.

As long as they followed the Strawman, there was always trouble to stir up—uh no, always something interesting to run into.

[Grassy grass, grass!]

Standing on the rooftop, the Strawman bathed in the sunset and gazed into the distance.

It knew that once night fell, it would be time for the rendezvous.

Sure enough, when the last streak of orange-red vanished, a ghostly figure quietly approached.

After a short while, the Void Cyborg appeared in front of them, carrying Purple Mirror.

[Grass?]

Strawman: Pervert-man, where’d that octopus go?

[Shh!]

The Void Cyborg set Purple Mirror down and raised a finger to its lips.

That left almost everyone on the Strawman’s side stunned.

Because they suddenly realized that no one here could understand this guy’s language.

The only one who could have basic communication with the Void Cyborg, Fufu, was still asleep and couldn’t be woken at all.

And No. 2’s language pack also didn’t include "shh"-type languages.

[It says the Void Giant’s curse has been lifted.]

Thankfully Purple Mirror stepped in as translator.

Honestly, it had zero desire to be involved in any of this gang’s activities.

But the Void Giant had promised it that later it would go to the Void Convenience Store and buy it a Void Rag.

For a mirror, that’s just too tempting.

[Shh! Shh!]

[It says it can’t break free of the seal here, so it can’t show up.]

[Shh!]

[But it’ll be waiting for you on the other side.]

[Shh shh shh!]

[This time, you absolutely have to kill that bastard!]

[Huh?! Weren’t you going shopping, who are you killing?]

[Caocao!]

But the straw man had no intention of explaining anything to Purple Mirror, and motioned for it to hurry up and open the door.

[Alright, alright, be careful on the way]

[And don’t forget the promise you made to me]

Purple Mirror didn’t dare provoke this boss, so the surface of the mirror began to distort.

Vrrrm!

Very soon, a door leading into the void appeared on the mirror’s surface.

[Cao!]

Straw Man: Let’s go, we’re heading in!

The straw man swung its arm and was the first to dive into the passage.

It was bringing the crew to take revenge.

From the outside, the void world looked like a vague, hazy emptiness.

Once you came in, that was basically true.

This was a kind of space that Blue Star’s current science and technology still couldn’t explain, where anything could change at any moment.

Right now the straw man landed, stepping onto a bumpy, uneven meteorite platform.

On all sides, in every direction, was an endless, abyss-like starry sky.

There was more than one meteorite platform; there were many, many of them in sight.

Each one floated in suspension, drifting slowly.

These meteorite platforms were the relatively safe spots within the void world.

At least standing on them could prevent you from falling.

Back when it first came here, the straw man had accidentally fallen off.

Then it had dropped into a secondary spatial hole and been transported to another meteorite platform belt.

According to the Void Giant’s original explanation, there was no end down below.

If you didn’t have the ability to fly, you’d just keep falling downward at a constant speed.

You’d either starve to death on the way, or, if you were lucky, run into a secondary spatial hole and get sent back onto a meteorite platform.

The straw man remembered this explanation, but didn’t understand it.

All it knew was that it sounded fun.

After that, the other summoned beasts came in as well.

[Eat eat!]

[Ho-bo-ho!]

[Whoa~ what is this place?]

[Quiet...]

Crack!

As soon as Ah Hui came in, it was torn into pieces of eggshell by the power of spatial distortion, dissolving into blue light that drifted away.

The coordinates the Void Giant had given Purple Mirror belonged to the deeper void here, where the twisting force was extremely strong.

Without the ability of Void Walking, with Ah Hui’s eggshell toughness it couldn’t even hold out for one second.

[Eat eat eat!]

Booboo: Ah, Egghead got smashed!

[Ho-bo-ho!]

Ugly Little Wolf: This is a world only the strong are worthy to enter! Mark it! Mark it!

[Phew, good thing I’ve got a force field!]

[Quiet!]

Fufu: You’re all too noisy, quiet!

Everyone gave their own reactions.

[..., cao!]

This was actually something the straw man hadn’t considered.

But someone doing big things doesn’t fuss over the little guys.

The Summoner would definitely revive it later, so no problem.

[Shh!]

Once the last void cyborg stepped through, the Purple Mirror passage behind them slowly closed.

The cyborg looked around to the left and right, then put its hand to its mouth and blew a loud whistle.

[Ooh~ here we go]

[I’ve been waiting for you all for ages]

A massive black hole appeared out of nowhere, and the Void Giant stuck its head out from within.

By now it had already returned to the form it had during the Huazhong Cup.

The void world was its home turf, so even without Liu Jisheng’s command to lift the restraints, the Void Giant still had a certain degree of autonomous movement.

If it were back in its former free state, it could easily pound the Master of Sacred Void to death all by itself.

[Mm, haven’t seen you little guys for a while and you’ve all grown fast]

After sizing up Booboo and the others, the Void Giant showed a satisfied look.

It just felt that their auras were a bit hollow—probably because they’d only just finished reincarnating and their levels hadn’t risen yet.

But with this many helpers, it should be enough.

[Let’s go, time to get our pride back]

Only able to show its upper body, it used eight hands as supports and took the lead at the front.

[Cao!]

Straw Man: Time for an adventure!

[Eaaat~]

Booboo: Off on an adventure~

The straw man, face full of excitement, carried Booboo and followed close behind.

[Ho-bo-ho-ho!]

Ugly Little Wolf was so hyped that it had to take a leak on every meteorite platform they passed.

[Zzz...]

Fufu was lying on No. 2’s head and soon drifted back into sleep.

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