Translator: Lordbluefire
Editor: Lordbluefire
Pak!
A clear-sounding slap rang out in the hut. Miss Shi San rubbed his hand and spoke calmly, “Are you awake yet?”
Lu Junyi rubbed his reddened face. He widened his eyes and stared at Shi Fanglin. “Tranny, what the hell are you doing here? I was still doing the deed with Princess Vanessa… Damn, why are there so many people looking at me? Comrade Xu Nan. Please explain.”
Xu Nan couldn’t help but roll his eyes.
The Lu Junyi now was no different from the giant panda. He had slept for so long and even had a look of indulging in debauchery on his face. Who knew what wet dreams he had had to cause such an expression to appear on his face.
“What princess of the arcanist empire, what fleet of flying warships? Don’t you know that even in the Puluo World, the arcanist empire has been banished for several thousand years? If you can meet the princess of the arcanist empire, she most probably would be a granny of above a thousand years old.”
Xu Nan coldly laughed. “Since you have awakened, you have to explain some things clearly. What’s going on with you being a vet? Girls, you all should hide first. An extremely bloody scene of violence might occur soon. It won’t be suitable for children.”
Qin Lele stuck her tongue out. She didn’t rebut and pulled Gu Xiaomeng out with her.
The two of them ran outside; their eyes then met.
“Return my panties to me!” Gu Xiaomeng weakly protested.
“What type of god is the goddess of love and girls?” Qin Lele stared at her. “Since she is in love, how can she still be a girl?”
Gu Xiaomeng widened her eyes. “Why not? How is being in love and being a girl (not woman) in conflict?”
Qin Lele had a shy look on her face. “There’s naturally a conflict! For example, me and Xu Nan are in love right now. Hence, I’m no longer a girl, I’m already a woman!”
Gu Xiaomeng revealed a look of disbelief.
A giant panda chewing on a bamboo stick slowly walked out. “Don’t listen to her nonsense. She’s just a silly little girl.”
Qin Lele was flustered and exasperated. “Why did you come out?”
Soupy pushed her chest out and spoke.
“I’m also a lady!”
…
“So, the current situation is this. Gu Xiaomeng wants to wind herself around you. The goddess of love and girls? This goddess sounds like a good-for-nothing.”
In the hut, the three best friends were left. They could finally begin to seriously discuss some questions.
Lu Junyi drank a mouthful of water and spoke in a bewildered manner, “The problem is, which aspect of you does the goddess look highly upon? She actually wanted you to be her supporter?”
Xu Nan touched his face. “Maybe, in all aspects?”
Shi Fanglin coldly laughed. “Xu Nan, you’ve changed. You are more shameless than before.”
At the next second, he glanced at Lu Junyi. “I heard that those whom you operated on all became job-holders?”
Lu Junyi thought about it. “That seemed to be the case.”
“In that case, I want to be a mage.”
Lu Junyi spoke in rage, “That’s not something I can control.”
“In that case, do you have enough strength to do a surgery now?” Shi Fanglin looked at him eagerly.
Lu Junyi forcibly raised his hands. “Maybe two days later. I don’t know why, but my body feels very weak now. Anyway, we won’t be doing any major surgeries. I will just remove your appendix for you.”
Xu Nan coldly laughed. “Miss San, are you sure you want a vet to remove your appendix for you?”
Lu Junyi rebutted, “So what if I’m a vet? I have a wealth of experience when it comes to surgeries. Speaking of removing appendixes, my skill is not inferior to anyone. When I was practicing overseas, I’ve even removed the appendixes of a horse and a mule in a pasture!”
Xu Nan and Shi Fanglin’s lips twitched slightly. If it wasn’t for the fact that Lu Junyi looked like he had just recovered from an illness, they most probably would have already sent a few punches over at him!
After considering it for a long time, Shi Fanglin finally decided. “Let’s do a minor surgery then.”
Lu Junyi smiled in satisfaction.
Shi Fanglin continued, “Does cutting nails count as a surgery?”
He stretched out ten long and slender jade fingers. His fingernails were as beautiful as a scene in a painting as he stared at Lu Junyi with sincerity.
…
After some nonsense.
The three of them gathered together and shared their news. Miss San was someone Xu Nan got over to help design the underground city. As he currently wasn’t a job-holder, he listened more and spoke less.
Xu Nan knew the most, but what he could say was limited.
Hence, the only one remaining was Lu Junyi who spoke like an unceasing torrent.
From him, Xu Nan discovered to his shock that Lu Junyi’s job truly had a connection with the arcanist empire.
[Industry Mage]
It was an extremely unfamiliar term in the Puluo World. The classification of mages was only so specific to this extent during the peak of the arcanist empire back then.
Compared to other mages, industry mages were specialized in the manufacturing and maintenance of industrialized merchandise. They were of a much higher level compared to alchemists.
The spells they possessed were specially used in this aspect.
For example, the star annihilation cannon on flying warships. Half of its energy consumption came from the flying warship’s energy source, and the other half came from the support provided by proficient and high-graded industry mages.
However, the amount of resources needed to nurture an industry mage was extremely high. Currently, the number of spells Lu Junyi grasped was pathetically little, not to mention their high energy consumption. Every time he cast a spell, he wouldn’t be able to cast anything for a few days.
“In other words, it’s a hard-labor job.” Miss San gave a precise evaluation of Lu Junyi’s job.
“If we have a flying warship, you could display some of your skills. Now, it’s still better to think about what job I would inherit!” Shi Fanglin stood at the side with a look of coldness as though he had facial-nerve paralysis. Only before Lu Junyi would his expressions be so ‘wealthy’.
Xu Nan had suspected that these two best friends of his might have some strange relationship. It was only in the end did he discover… that they might really have that kind of relationship!
“Flying warship…flying warship…” Upon mentioning this term, Lu Junyi’s entire person was as though he was enchanted. He clutched his head and spoke in pain, “There seemed to be an extremely important thing that I forgot.”
Fang Shilin furrowed his brows. He pressed down on Lu Junyi’s hand. “Calm down first…”
Lu Junyi suddenly leaped up and roared, “That’s right! I remembered that in my dream, Princess Vanessa told me she would give me a flying warship as a betrothal gift!”
Xu Nan felt his scalp turning numb upon hearing Lu Junyi’s words. He couldn’t help but rub his temples.
“That was in a dream!”
All of a sudden, the ground began to tremble!
From the outside, Qin Lele’s shouts could be heard, as well as the terrified wails of the imps.
“What’s going on?”
Xu Nan immediately rushed out.
He saw the imps hiding in their own self-built houses. Now, something seemed to be drilling out slowly from below! A strange-looking, gigantic metallic object was rising from the ground.
Its speed wasn’t fast, but what was wondrous was that although the ground was trembling, it didn’t really cause much destruction.
At the start, the reason it triggered the commotion of the imps was because of its sudden emergence from below the ground.
Xu Nan commanded the imps to withdraw from here.
Now, they just stared at the metallic object slowly drilling out of the ground. A somewhat familiar emblem appeared on it.
[Light of the Setting Sun].
This was the emblem of the arcanist empire!
As the metallic object continued to rise from the ground, everyone had their mouths wide open as they watched.
A strange-looking warship appeared at Xu Nan’s underground city just like that!
From the looks of things, there was still half of it buried under the ground!
“Wow, it’s really a flying warship!”
Qin Lele clapped as she cheered.
Lu Junyi, who had just been helped out from the hut by Shi Fanglin, immediately rolled up his trousers and rushed forward. Sadly, he simply ran a few steps before falling onto the ground weakly.
At this moment, with a bang, the side wing of the warship opened, and a bleak, ancient aura gushed forth from within.
“Ding, ding, ding!”
“Detecting…reached the location, turning the automatic navigation off.”
“System testing…testing failed…”
“[Fireflow] has already lost contact with the empire for 4,982 years…”
A dry mechanical sound echoed out from within the flying warship. Although the door had opened, Xu Nan didn’t see anyone coming out from within.
He gutsily moved nearer.
“An ally’s bloodline detected. Do you want to obtain the temporary authority of the flying warship [Fireflow]?”
A faint reddish glow was concentrated on Xu Nan. Xu Nan’s heart stirred. “An ally’s bloodline? My bloodline originator is an ally of the arcanist empire?”
The mechanical voice replied, “We have signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement with the Lost Paradise ever since the arcanist empire was founded.”
Xu Nan had a look of joy on his face.
At the next second, the mechanical voice continued in a flat voice, “However, in the past several thousand years, the Lost Paradise unceasingly copied the arcanist empire’s products. The upper echelons of the empire were extremely unhappy with this. During the final battle, the Lost Paradise, who was originally supposed to send troops to aid the empire, chose to sit on the fence instead. This caused the arcanist empire to be eternally banished by the gods…”
“Stop, stop, stop!” Xu Nan didn’t come here to listen to the black history of Ron Warlocks!
But then, he personally felt that this piece of black history truly was in accordance with the style of the Ron Warlocks.
“What’s the arcanist empire’s situation currently? Why would you appear here?”
Xu Nan asked.
“No idea. Fireflow has already reached its destination. The relevant personnel here, please take over the flying warship,” the mechanical voice replied.
“So there’s no one in it.” Lu Junyi was overjoyed at the unexpected good news. “Didn’t I say that Princess Vanessa promised me a flying warship? This should be it! Let me take over!”
He hurriedly ran into it, but in the end, he was blasted out by a surge of electrical current!
“You don’t meet the requirements to take over the flying warship!” The mechanical voice was as cold as ice.
Xu Nan tried it and discovered that he could enter the warship!
He then gained temporary control over this flying warship.
The people of the arcanist empire were truly loyal. Despite having been conned by the people from Lost Paradise so badly, the flying warship they designed still permitted this ally of theirs to board the warship.
Xu Nan felt rueful in his heart.
Qin Lele ran over. “Xu Nan, Xu Nan. I want to see the legendary star annihilation cannon! I heard that during the peak of the arcanist empire, they once used the star annihilation cannons to blast apart a few divine kingdoms of the gods!”
The mechanical voice automatically replied, “The star annihilation cannon is already destroyed, the weapon systems are completely crippled. The mechanical system is crippled, the navigation system is crippled, the flying system is crippled…”
Xu Nan shouted, “Stop!”
“Just tell us if there’s still a system that can be of use.”
The mechanical voice fell silent for a very long time before it replied.
“…Central air-conditioning system.”
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