Jiang Nan is in the An City ruins?
And he’s fighting an “unknown”?
Yet right now the Sky Eye system can only see Jiang Nan standing in the street laughing maniacally!
It cannot see inside the mall at all!
At this moment, the spatial-barrier cage has shrunk to just 3 metres on each side!
The semi-transparent girl is still frantically slamming into the void barriers!
Bursts of pearlescent light flash with every impact!
Her body seems to exist somewhere between solid and illusory!
Several times she cracks the spatial barriers!
Each collision brings a wave of freezing air. Her big eyes are filled with terror and urgency!
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This has completely exceeded Jiang Nan’s understanding!
“What on earth is this thing?”
Suddenly his wristband crackled to life!
“Jiang Nan, Jiang Nan! Can you hear me? This is Han Menglu!”
“Do NOT approach the ‘unknown’! Extremely dangerous!”
Jiang Nan was stunned. Unknown? She’s the unknown?
Her? Dangerous?
A little scatterbrain who accidentally dumped a whole jar of chilli powder on a drumstick, how dangerous can she be?
“What’s an unknown?”
Han Menglu said anxiously, “A life form higher than humans! Its body is in a Bose–Einstein condensate state!”
Jiang Nan: (･᷄ὢ･᷅) Huh?
“Bose… what vegetable?”
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“Bose your head!”
“There are six states of matter! Gas! Liquid! Solid! Plasma! Bose state! Fermionic condensate!”
“The unknown’s Bose state requires temperatures below –273.5 °C, close to absolute zero. Some aspects we simply cannot understand with current science!”
“Anyway, it’s very dangerous! Argh! I’ll explain later, just get away first!”
Jiang Nan scratched his head. He hadn’t understood a word of Han Menglu’s vegetable rant,
but he now grasped that the horned, semi-transparent girl in front of him was definitely not human!
“Where’s the danger? I’ve caught her!”
“I think she’s pretty cute. Just a bit flat-chested, that’s all!”
“Mmm, still better than Nightingale!”
At that moment the entire hall fell silent, followed by a collective gasp of disbelief!
All the researchers’ minds were buzzing!
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Caught one?
Jiang Nan caught an “unknown”?
Zhao Dezhu’s eyes nearly popped out, his face full of disbelief. “How… how did that brat manage it?”
Xiao Chuohuo’s old face flushed with excitement. “Jiang Nan is space-type! You know how special they are! It’s not impossible!”
Han Menglu’s chest heaved with excitement. “You… you really caught an unknown? What… what does it look like?”
“Don’t move! Absolutely do not move! We’re sending people over right now for capture!”
At this point the spatial cage had shrunk to only 2 metres square!
The semi-transparent girl stopped trying to break out. Instead she pressed both hands against the barrier!
She stuck her whole body to the wall, staring fixedly at Jiang Nan.
She bit her lip hard, her pretty face filled with pleading and fear, shaking her head over and over!
Her eyes brimmed with helplessness, tears sliding down her cheeks…
Jiang Nan’s heart suddenly clenched!
It reminded him of that morning at the orphanage years ago, when Zhong Yingxue was taken away by the Zhong family!
He had cried just as heartbreakingly…
He rubbed his nose and muttered, “Capture, huh?”
Then he opened his alternate dimension, shoved his wrist inside, and completely blocked the wristband signal!
Inside the giant egg hall!
“Why can’t we reach Jiang Nan anymore?”
“He walked inside! Sky Eye can’t see him!”
“What’s happening? This is killing me!”
Jiang Nan walked right up to the cage and looked the semi-transparent girl in the eye!
Only now did he clearly see her face!
Slightly chubby baby-fat cheeks, a dainty little nose, eyes as clear as a mountain lake, almost no different from a human!
Seeing that Jiang Nan hadn’t reported her, the semi-transparent girl looked a little grateful!
She made a little walking gesture with her fingers, took two tiny steps,
then pressed her palms together in a thank-you gesture, her face full of pleading!
Jiang Nan sniggered inwardly. She wants me to let her go?
“No chance! You ate my skewers and now you want to leave?”
“You owe me money!”
The semi-transparent girl pouted, looking deeply wronged!
She glanced down at herself, then unclasped a pendant from around her neck!
It was a crystal conch shell, sparkling and exquisite. She held it in her small hands, eyes filled with reluctance as she offered it to Jiang Nan!
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Jiang Nan’s eyes lit up!
A treasure from an “unknown”? Definitely worth loads of money!
He snatched it and hung it around his own neck, tucking it safely against his skin!
“Right, I’ll let you go. Don’t hit me, okay!”
With that he released the spatial barriers!
The semi-transparent girl stepped out, wiped the tears from her face, and gave Jiang Nan a faintly resentful glance, as if sulking!
In an instant pearlescent light flared, an extreme chill spread outwards, making Jiang Nan shiver violently!
When he opened his eyes again, she had vanished completely, as if she had never existed!
Jiang Nan hurriedly felt his chest. The crystal conch was still there!
A smile crept across his lips!
“Not a bad deal!”
Immediately afterwards Han Menglu’s anxious voice came through the wristband!
“Jiang Nan! Are you alright? The unknown, is it still there? I just saw some ripples…”
Jiang Nan scratched his head. “Er, it got away. The unknown was too strong, I couldn’t beat it!”
Han Menglu paused, then sighed in relief. “Phew, as long as you’re safe!”
“If it escaped, it escaped. We’ll talk properly once you’re out!”
In the giant egg hall, many researchers looked disappointed!
“Sigh… such a pity!”
“Unknowns aren’t that easy to catch anyway. Recording some data is already pretty good!”
“Can we still track the Bose particles?”
“No, the signal is gone!”
Jiang Nan ended the call, rubbed his chin, and grinned!
He pulled a huge pile of crisps, bread, chicken drumsticks, sausages, and snacks from his alternate dimension and left them on the floor!
Then he placed a whole case of Lao Gan Ma chilli sauce down too!
One teleport later, he was gone!
A full half hour after Jiang Nan left,
a tiny figure peeked out from behind a pillar in the mall. Seeing the mountain of snacks, her face lit up with pure joy!
All… all this food is for me?
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She seemed to have completely forgotten about the crystal conch!
By now more than two hours had passed since the game began!
The orange cats had already hunted down most of the three hundred-odd glowing bald heads, leaving only a few dozen!
Yet they weren’t happy at all!
Because they had barely caught any of the other little mice!
“Damn that Jiang Nan! What is this stench? You can smell it kilometres away!”
“The little mice bolt the moment they catch a whiff from miles off. How are we supposed to play?”
“Hanging a bell on the cat? Clever trick!”
“This won’t do! Water ability users, get over here! Hurry and wash this stink off everyone!”
“We’re switching maps right now! Quick!”
