As it turned out, the Magician should never have told Andrei anything!
With that big mouth hidden under his padded trousers, he blabbed everything the Magician had done in Yulong Town!
In the end, the Lord of the Radiant Society still found out about it!
That was why this mission existed!
Originally, the Magician was supposed to come!
But the fellow refused to set foot in China again even if it killed him, so the task fell to Victoria!
Andrei naturally tagged along!
After Suka Town, he had fled to America lugging more than two hundred pounds of diamonds!
While there, he even put a bounty on Jiangnan on the dark web using diamonds!
Only to be scared stiff by the Dark Night Army’s Operation Bright Sword!
So he exchanged the remaining diamonds for cultivation resources, pushed himself all the way to Platinum, and successfully joined the Radiant Society!
And during that whole time!
Andrei drank water infused with his diamond necklace for over half a year!
People laughed at him every single day!
It was completely bloody useless!
His ability was earth-type! He even ended up nicknamed “King of the Sand Sculptures”!
Andrei wanted to murder Jiangnan!
He had definitely conned him back then! How on earth had he fallen for it!
After learning the truth, Andrei kept wearing the diamond necklace anyway, just to remind himself!
Never forget this humiliation!
Victoria smiled. “Stop pretending you don’t understand!”
“We’re nothing like rubbish like Dracula! We’re not particularly interested in Mira!”
“We’re far more interested in you!”
Jiangnan frowned. Not here for Mira? Here for me?
“What do you mean?”
Victoria smiled faintly. “The Lord watched the video of the Dragon Abyss Army fighting Dracula’s people!”
“He’s extremely interested in your ginseng and your Dali 2.0!”
“By comparison, the Undead Serum seems a bit rubbish!”
“So? Want to do a deal?”
Jiangnan sneered inwardly!
So they were still after his treasures in the end?
The reason they weren’t using force was probably because Dracula’s example came first!
The might of Dragon Abyss still lingered; they didn’t want trouble!
Jiangnan grinned. “What can you give me?”
Victoria laughed. “You really are direct! I like men like you!”
“A Diamond-level space-type spirit bead! Want it?”
The moment Jiangnan heard that, terrifying light burst from his eyes!
He was already at the peak of Silver!
Gold was just around the corner!
Yet he still had no spirit skill to absorb for the Gold stage!
The country’s stockpile had already been emptied by him!
Someone was delivering a pillow the moment he felt sleepy?
“Of course I want it! How many pounds have you brought?”
Victoria’s smile froze!
Pounds?
Pounds again?
What kind of measurement is that?
You couldn’t scrape together a single pound if you scoured the entire world!
[Resentment from Victoria Sasha +1000!]
“Just one! You know how valuable this thing is!”
“I give you what you want! You give me what I want. Simple as that!”
Jiangnan’s eyes lit up, his gaze roaming all over Victoria.
“Great, great! Are you carrying that spirit bead on you?”
Victoria blanked for a second!
He agreed just like that?
Without even thinking about it?
“Of course I have it on me. Don’t you even want to hear how much I’m asking for?”
Jiangnan curled his lip!
How much you want has bugger all to do with me!
“Go on then!”
“100,000 ginseng roots!”
“Great, great!”
“10 tonnes of Dali 2.0!”
“Great, great!”
Victoria was dumbfounded. He was agreeing to such outrageous demands?
Wow!
This mission the Lord gave her was way too easy!
Was Jiangnan really this generous?
“Um~ then I also want…”
“Great, great!”
“…”
I haven’t even said it yet and you’re already saying great?
Victoria probed cautiously. “You can haggle with me a bit! Won’t you lose money agreeing like this?”
Jiangnan: “Yeah, I’ll lose loads!”
“Then what are you after?”
“Just to be happy!”
[Resentment from Victoria Sasha +666!]
I can’t even argue with that!
“Well… someone annoying is coming, so… add me as a friend? We can chat later!”
With that, she pulled out her phone and brought up her QR code!
Jiangnan added her without a second thought!
Victoria gave a charming smile, turned, and walked away!
Andrei shot Jiangnan a vicious glare, his face full of cold mockery, then followed her off!
Sure enough!
Fifteen seconds later, a black shadow trailing rolling snow dust charged straight at Jiangnan!
From far away came a furious, corrupted voice!
“Jiangnan! I’ll chop you to death!”
Mid-sentence she had already drawn the waist knife, smoke pouring from her feet as she sped in!
In the blink of an eye she was right in front of him!
Jiangnan waved a hand, utterly calm!
A space wormhole was already open. Nightingale, unable to brake, plunged head-first into wormhole A!
Wormhole B, meanwhile, had been opened by Jiangnan right in front of wormhole A!
As shown in the diagram:
Wormhole B → OጿጿጿO ← Wormhole A
The two wormholes were in a straight line! Only three metres apart!
Nightingale shot out of wormhole B, had no time to turn in three metres, and plunged straight back into wormhole A!
Thus, our Wind-Chasing Girl began an infinite loop from A to B!
She was running so fast she left after-images, passing through the wormholes countless times per second!
It even whipped up a gale right where she was!
Jiangnan’s eyes sparkled!
Mum, look!
A perpetual motion machine!
I’ve made one!
What?
It violates the law of conservation of energy?
No, no, no!
The only thing standing between you and conservation of energy is a pair of high-speed slippers!
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics should have my name on it!
Nightingale: (ಥٹಥ)
Believe me when I say I’ll kill you!
Your whole family are the perpetual motion machines!
All I did was eat one pot of your rice porridge?
How much longer do you want me to run!
Stinky Jiangnan!
[Resentment from Nightingale…]
[From…]
At this moment everyone was utterly baffled!
“Holy crap! Why is she running so fast?”
“My god! The Flash in the flesh?”
“Wow! Look! Flames trailing from her feet! So cool!”
Jiangnan stepped onto his little stool with one foot, pointed dramatically, and roared with passion!
“See that, everyone? See that?”
“Want speed like his?”
“Want to beat an F1 car from 0 to 100?”
“Want cool flame trails?”
“High-Speed Slippers! You deserve them!”
“Can’t catch your goddess? No worries! Put these on and you’ll leave her three streets behind!”
“Afraid of coming last in the 1500 m at sports day? No worries! Wear these and you’ll get permanent starting-gun rights for three years!”
“Failed your exams? No worries! Wear these! Even if your dad chases till he foams at the mouth he won’t catch you!”
“High-Speed Slippers on your feet!”
“Tonight we race on Autumn Mountain!”
A barrage of advertising lines exploded forth!
The customers were shell-shocked, and with Nightingale providing a live demonstration right there!
Who could still hesitate?
“How much?”
“Thirty thousand a pair! Pay first, shoes later! I’m afraid once you put them on you’ll run and I won’t catch you!”
The crowd heard thirty thousand?
Not too bad, and the effect was just too tempting!
“Haha! Nan Shen! Give me a pair! This sports day I’m going to be the coolest kid in school!”
Jiangnan gave a thumbs-up. “Don’t worry! You’ll definitely be cool!”
(As in cold… on the bench.)
“Me too, me too! Let’s see if my dad can still catch me!”
Jiangnan: “Relax! Your dad definitely won’t catch you!”
…He’ll wait at home and beat you when you get back!
“Give me a pair! I want to chase my goddess!”
Jiangnan paused. “Good lad! You really mean ‘chase’!”
High-Speed Slippers instantly became a bestseller!
Not even the cold night could dampen the customers’ enthusiasm!
Nightingale panicked: !!!
Don’t listen to him!
This guy is super bad, super bad!
His heart is pitch black!
You’ll regret it if you wear them!
