novelraw Chapter 244: Dad, You're Not Dead!
Chapter 244: Dad, You're Not Dead!
When they emerged from the Mirror World, that transparent, ethereal girl followed them out.
Jiang Si glanced at her sideways. The other party was as wooden as a machine.
World Ghost.
According to that Incubator Xiao Qi, this creature should be the so-called World Ghost.
Like pure Dregs without any emotion.
For Jiang Si, he actually had little interest in such empty shells.
"On one hand, this child has potential in transforming into a Disaster Beast. On the other hand, she is currently responsible for tracking down an old world member who stole technology from the Mirror Kingdom and needs some support. At the moment, only you have the capability. It's up to you whether you're willing, but I think her joining the New Witch Association is quite appropriate. Perhaps she could inherit your mantle..."
Although he didn't understand why the Mirror Kingdom's security was as porous as a public restroom, allowing such theft, Jiang Si was already used to it.
This world was just one giant Disaster Control Bureau.
As for the reason Jiang Si was willing to take in this White Fox, it was naturally because of her ability."Help me scout the surrounding personnel."
After he spoke, White Fox nodded and stretched out her hand.
Her fingers were also transparent, but when she used her ability, they rapidly began to turn green.
Then they transformed into pale blue grass, drifting in the air.
After landing on the ground, it grew extremely fast. The river surface was quickly covered with a large amount of pale blue grass, and it began parasitizing other plants and animals.
That's right, the legendary most trash martial soul, Blue Silver Grass.
Although they say there are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters.
He originally thought Tang San would fight his way through the Douluo Continent with the most trash Blue Silver Grass martial soul, but it was later proven to actually be Blue Silver Emperor.
Blue Silver Grass truly is the most useless martial soul.
It's a case of 'seeing the mountain as the mountain' again.
The initial assessment wasn't wrong, just too ahead of its time. Tang San spent countless effort and time only to prove once again the fact that didn't need proving—that Blue Silver Grass is a useless martial soul...
However, Jiang Si still believed this might be related to Master's teaching.
If I were him, I'd be stronger.
So when Jiang Si saw the Blue Silver Grass on White Fox, he immediately became interested and competitive.
Since Douluo Continent couldn't prove it, then he, the true master Jiang Xiao Si, would prove that there are no useless martial souls!
"Nothing around here."
Yet Jiang Si looked at the driver still waving in the distance and sighed.
What exactly did you scout?
Truly a trash martial soul...
"You have a twin martial soul, right?"
White Fox stared blankly at him. "What is a twin martial soul?"
"I've researched the Blue Silver Grass martial soul. While there are those with soul power among Blue Silver Grass martial souls in this world, this is the first time I've seen one with innate full soul power. So I suspect you have another martial soul, a very top-tier one..."
"Sorry, sir, I don't understand."
Jiang Si fell silent for a moment, suddenly feeling the task ahead was long and arduous.
"I mean, your abilities can't possibly be just this one type, right? You have a lot of mana, and you can transform into a Magical Girl... or rather, a Dregs Magical Girl, correct?"
White Fox lowered her head. "Sorry, sir, can't do it."
Damn, pure trash!
For a moment, Jiang Si wanted to send her back.
The reason he accepted this White Fox was precisely because her mana was exceptionally dense. As a World Ghost, the mana on her body was the most Jiang Si had ever seen, with great potential.
Although Blue Silver Grass is trash, as long as she can transform into a Magical Girl, she'd still be somewhat useful.
As everyone knows, Tang San's real killer move was the Clear Sky Hammer. He usually used Blue Silver Grass to play around and tease you, but at critical moments, one hammer strike could knock the shit out of the opponent.
And now you're telling me you don't have a hammer? Then what's there to play with?
As for the potential to transform into a Disaster Beast, not to mention that in the current version of the vast world with extraterrestrial enemies, native Disaster Beasts have long been crushed into roadside trash by power inflation.
Not to mention Tang San's hidden weapon potential was realized from level ten to level one hundred. You can't even get a loan on your potential, so what potential are you talking about?
He's a Tang Sect master, you're just truly sweet...
But since he had already boasted that he would definitely train her to become the next Sea God.
Sending her back now would be too embarrassing.
As everyone knows, even foreigners know that our web novels value face the most. If you don't give face, we'll kill your whole family.
He couldn't afford to lose face here.
Moreover, Jiang Si needed to follow White Fox to find her Black Mountain Realm.
If the people over there all wanted to seek revenge on him.
Jiang Si would have to let them know what 'when you cut weeds, you must pull out the roots' truly means.
Thinking this way, Jiang Si ultimately just sighed and told her to put away the useless Blue Silver Grass.
He walked towards Old Driver.
"The most important thing for you now is to build a solid foundation and increase your potential in the immortal path."
The perpetually wooden girl just nodded. "May I ask, sir, how should I do that?"
"Take out your phone and download the Zhongdian app."
"Yes, sir."
"Then search for Bai Family's Third Sister. Read all the books under her name thoroughly, until you can recite them backwards."
White Fox's consistently bland expression finally showed a slight fluctuation.
She raised her phone, showing rows and rows of books by Bai Family's Third Sister.
Over a hundred books in total.
Although most were abandoned works, each had several hundred thousand words, some even over ten million.
Bai Family's Third Sister was famously fond of burning the midnight oil. Over the years, over a hundred books under this account wasn't considered many.
After being stunned for a long moment, she said, "Do I need to read all of them?"
"Yes. But finish the Battle Demon Continent series first, then supplement with other basics."
White Fox flipped through them, then quickened her pace slightly to keep up with Jiang Si. "Sir."
"What is it?"
"Battle Demon Continent has five parts in total. The first part has 2.5 million words, the second part 5 million, the third part 4 million, the fourth part 4 million, the fifth part 2 million..." White Fox said blankly. "Over ten million words in total. I don't know when I'll be able to finish."
"Useless thing." Jiang Si sneered. "I can reread one book in a single night."
White Fox remained silent, just opened the first page of the first part and began reading slowly.
Seeing she still had the heart to seek the Dao, Jiang Si nodded and didn't drive her away.
For Jiang Si, so what if she was a bit useless? As long as she was willing to work hard and put in the effort, she could always pursue some Great Dao.
When they reached the driver, the driver tossed his long hair and patted the car door heroically.
"Get in, Simo Tu-sama! I just switched to a Maybach. One stomp on the gas, 180 mph, much more satisfying to drive than that broken bus!"
After getting in, Jiang Si looked at Old Driver. "You should revert back. I'm not used to this."
"Hey, bro, I also think talking like this feels more natural. Been undercover too long." Old Driver's voice immediately coarsened, his hair retracted, and his features subtly adjusted to another middle-aged face.
Jiang Si examined him. "You're really a woman?"
"Pure natural female since birth." Old Driver patted her own face. "Disguised as male for undercover work."
"Then why were you jealous of Magical Girl girlfriends before?"
"Firstly, to maintain the undercover identity. Secondly, to be jealous on behalf of others."
"Then why did you suddenly expose yourself?"
"The Prince said you, bro, are softer on women, making it easier to survive. After all, if you really wanted to save the Prince in that moment and got anxious, killing me by accident... what then?"
Jiang Si couldn't quite remember when he had been particularly soft on women.
Sitting in the back seat, before he could even settle in, the driver stomped on the gas, indeed hitting 180 mph.
The destination was naturally simple: the New Witch Association's lair in North China.
Back when they caused a ruckus at the Witch Association, even directly charging into the Disaster Control Bureau for the Dream Core, becoming major fugitives in South China.
So Yun Ke simply moved the factory to North China.
Jiang Si didn't know whether to praise her for being clever.
South China indeed had fierce folk customs. The Magical Girls there were all berserkers, truly hard to survive among.
But North China, this was the territory of the Disaster Control Bureau Central Bureau.
But ultimately, the Central Bureau was holed up behind closed doors. As long as Yun Ke was careful, it shouldn't be a problem.
Yet, just a few days after this person's underground factory relocated, it got caught red-handed because of occupational health permits and pollution discharge permits.
He couldn't understand why she couldn't even handle such simple things.
If it were Bingtang, she wouldn't need him to worry at all. She would handle everything properly, then make money continuously, and he'd just wait to collect the money and goods.
It had been several days. No matter how useless she was, she should have gotten the witch reagent formula by now and achieved independent production.
For Jiang Si, this was Yun Ke's only useful function...
"How long until we arrive?"
"Are you in a hurry?"
"Better to be faster."
"It's been a long time since anyone told me I could drive fast! Hold on tight!"
Old Driver confidently and excitedly floored the accelerator, as if a dog that cut in line and flipped the bird had darted out ahead. The speed skyrocketed all the way!
Jiang Si nodded, thinking it was quite good. He opened the window to enjoy the breeze and look at the scenery outside, but with a "whoosh" everything passed by, and the scenery wasn't that great anyway.
Beside him, White Fox's hair whipped wildly in the wind as she struggled to read Battle Demon Continent.
Only Old Driver was utterly relaxed. At such high speed on this narrow mountain road, she seemed completely at ease, even humming a song: "I once crossed mountains and seas, I once had everything, in the blink of an eye, it all drifted away like smoke..."
Whether intentional or not, the vehicle often drifted halfway off the road at curves, as if suspended on the edge of a cliff, but she always managed to pull the car back with extreme peril.
The madly late-braking Old Driver, carried away by the thrill, excitedly shouted as if reciting move names:
"Come on, my Masterpiece Number Nine: Scandinavian Flick!"
Another massive drift.
Jiang Si flew straight out of the car window!
The scenery he had only glanced at before finally gained some artistic conception—frozen for an instant.
He realized the mountainous wilderness was quite majestic. Combined with the dust kicked up behind, it gave a solemn, killing aura that Jiang Si felt suited his Mental Landscape very well.
Then he realized he had been thrown out. Soaring through the air in the wind, he looked up for a split second, saw the receding vehicle, then inertia yanked his body away.
Even White Fox, who had been seriously reading Battle Demon Continent, was stunned. She put down her phone, leaned against the window, and stared blankly behind the car. "Sir..."
But before she could look properly, she felt a gust of wind.
Then, she saw the youth who had just been flung out, sprinting back at a speed faster than the Maybach!
The dust storm churning behind him was even more tumultuous than the vehicle's!
White Fox watched in astonishment. As a World Ghost fused with a Disaster Beast from the old world, she could naturally sense it.
That youth actually had very little mana...
Purely relying on his unbelievable muscles and physique, he ran faster than the Maybach that had already accelerated to its limit!
White Fox stared dumbfounded, for a moment not even noticing her phone had slipped from her hand.
Jiang Si, chasing from behind, casually picked up the phone flying through the air, ran to the car window, and tossed it in. "Focus on your cultivation!"
"Yes, sir."
Chastised, White Fox immediately obediently sat back down. Although her pale white pupils were occasionally uncontrollably drawn to the youth running fiercely alongside the vehicle, not falling behind at all—not even panting heavily after such a long time.
But she still tried her best to absorb the knowledge from Battle Demon Continent.
Old Driver, who had been immersed in her own world, caught sight of Jiang Si actually sprinting beside her car from the corner of her eye.
She was directly startled!
At high speed, this caused the steering wheel to jerk wildly, sending the car crashing towards Jiang Si.
In that instant, Old Driver's mind went blank.
Mainly because it was too fast. The whole car was almost flying. This swerve and crash was no different from murder.
Me, kill the New Witch Association President?
Even with hundreds of mouths, she couldn't explain this clearly...
However, Jiang Si just reached out and gave a light push.
Effortlessly pressing the swerving Maybach back into place...
The important part wasn't pressing it back. The important part was he also maintained the Maybach's stability at high speed. With this one push, not to mention Old Driver, even White Fox reading in the back didn't feel any bump.
And Jiang Si himself still maintained the same speed as the Maybach!
Old Driver's throat bobbed. "Holy shit, bro, you're even more exaggerated than the legends say. Not even using mana..."
Jiang Si didn't pay her any mind, casually opened the car door, and directly sat in the passenger seat.
Old Driver watched him sprinting on the mountain road at a speed matching the Maybach, casually open the door, and sit in the passenger seat as if entering his own living room. Her throat couldn't help but bob again.
"G-Great One, y-you, Your Excellency... you riding in the car is just for the novelty, right..."
"No, running still requires some effort." Jiang Si glanced sideways at White Fox in the back.
The girl was still seriously reading the novel on her phone, only looking up occasionally. Noticing Jiang Si's gaze, she said:
"Sir, there really are too many words."
"If novels don't have many words, what are you reading them for?"
"Oh."
"You need to treat it as entertainment, relaxation. Immerse yourself, empathize with the characters, and before you know it, you'll finish."
"This is very difficult, sir. Web novels are too profound. More difficult to read than advanced mathematics..."
Looking at White Fox who treated reading Battle Demon Continent like doing exam papers, he felt a momentary frustration.
Seems he could only get Xingxuan to tutor her.
Xingxuan's ability as a Battle Demon Continent specialist teacher was beyond doubt.
"Bro."
Just as Jiang Si was thinking about how to drag Xingxuan over, Old Driver suddenly spoke again, seeming quite emotional.
"I see the car I drove five years ago."
Jiang Si looked up. Dust was flying ahead, road conditions were terrible, but he could vaguely make out a vehicle.
"You drove here five years ago?"
Old Driver wore a deep, melancholic expression.
"Yeah. I used to be the best racer. Eight-time champion. Everyone knew I was the eternal king of Bayinbuluke..."
"Alright." Jiang Si nodded. "Eight-time champion, not short on money, right?"
"Later, one misstep led to eternal regret. Gambled it all away, so could only go drive a bus for the Witch Association..."
Damn dog, serves you right.
Old Driver just gazed sorrowfully and wistfully at the car silhouette ahead, murmuring, "I used to drive so fast..."
Even after being away from the racetrack for so long, the racer's instinct made her blood boil!
"I want to catch up! I want to catch up with time, catch up with my past self!"
Then Old Driver floored the gas again. The vehicle accelerated once more, chasing directly after that white Wuling Hongguang ahead amidst the flying dust!
As the front of her car was about to overlap with the tail of her past vehicle, Old Driver's face still held a relieved smile, as if seeing her past self even inviting her present self: "Come along..."
"That's someone else's car, dammit!"
Jiang Si slapped Old Driver back to reality, yanked the steering wheel hard, and overtook the Wuling Hongguang on the left.
Just as they were about to accelerate again, the car behind crashed into them violently. Several people even jumped onto the Maybach, forcing Old Driver's car to stop!
Then several dozen people instantly got out and surrounded the Maybach!
"Dare to overtake our car? Do you know who we are? Get out!"
White Fox seized the chance to put down her phone—for her, any opportunity to not read web novels must be seized. "If I remember correctly, the Wuling Hongguang has a capacity of seven people."
"That's just the Wuling Hongguang's most understated statement..."
Old Driver rubbed her aching shoulder—Jiang Si's slap nearly broke her undercover disguise—and glanced at the imposing crowd outside. "However, my Maybach is not without its own size!"
Old Driver coldly got out of the car, looking at the crowd with a half-smile. "Do you know who I am?"
"Who the hell cares who you are!"
"I am the captain of the New Witch Association!"
The car-blocking crowd looked at each other and burst into laughter. Then a girl stepped out of the Wuling Hongguang, wearing sunglasses and holding a cigarette in her mouth. Seeing Old Driver, she also couldn't help but laugh:
"Do you know who I am?"
Old Driver's pupils contracted. "Yun Ke! You amateur!"
"You're the damn amateur!" Yun Ke spat. "Beat them up!"
Just as the crowd was about to attack, Old Driver hurriedly raised both hands. "Wait! Do you know who's sitting in this car?"
"Who the hell cares who's sitting in it? Even if it's my own dead biological father, I'll still beat you up today!"
Yun Ke bit the cigarette butt, arrogantly giving the middle finger. "Do it!"
Just as the crowd surged forward in a swarm,
The Maybach's door opened again. One foot heavily stamped on the ground with a boom that seemed to make heaven and earth mourn.
The charging crowd actually couldn't stand steadily, almost falling over!
Then a youth stepped out from inside, slowly raised his head, cracked his neck, and looked at Yun Ke. "Then do you know who I am?"
Complete silence fell.
After a good while, the cigarette dropped from her mouth. Yun Ke slapped to her knees:
"Dad, you really aren't dead!"
....
After seeing off Simo Tu and his group, the Prince immediately began preparing the Full Bloom Plan with other old world members.
The primary task was to analyze the power of the Full Bloom Miracle Seed. This could be left to the system. She was the Prince; technical problems weren't her job scope. As the Prince, her work was only coordination and grasping the overall direction.
While sending messages, she adjusted some Mirror Space data. To prevent being tracked, she would immediately change her Mirror Space coordinates after each meeting.
Even Simo Tu himself was no exception.
Then, she submitted a plan to the system, which heavily detailed the utilization and arrangement regarding Simo Tu.
[Doubt: Could it be that you truly haven't been bewitched? This plan's utilization of Simo Tu is practically perfected to the extreme, the kind of plan only the Prince, who once was a cold political tool, could make. It might even offend Simo Tu...]
"I told you."
The Prince proudly lifted her chin, while taking off her torn stockings and changing into a new pair of white ones, feeling the coolness and smoothness of the white silk against her skin. "I have my own rhythm. Rest assured, I absolutely will not be bewitched by him. My marriage to him is purely political, not mixed with a single trace of emotion..."
[Relieved: It's back, it's all back. My most prideful Prince-sama. Now I believe it. Back then, you weren't being spun around in circles; you just liked spinning circles yourself, for exercise.]
"Correct. Only realizing it now? You might as well rename yourself Artificial Idiot."
The Prince, now wearing her socks and shoes, tapped the ground. "However, for parts of the plan that are too blatant and might anger Simo Tu, you need to do some processing. Make it more tactful, don't let him notice."
[Amazed: My heavens, the great political machine, the icy bad woman Prince-sama, is going to play Simo Tu like a fiddle...]
"Being sarcastic?"
[Sincere: Genuinely meant.]
The Prince sneered. Since birth, as a girl, she was never considered a successor by the Mirror Queen.
That's why she crowned herself Prince, insisting on competing for this inheritance. Along this path, she had heard countless sarcastic remarks.
The artificial intelligence before her naturally couldn't fool her.
But it didn't matter. Once she completely exploited Simo Tu for all his value, then mercilessly discarded him, the world would know her, the Prince's, cold ruthlessness and noble pride!
All you can do is laugh now!
Just as she stood up, a chill suddenly assaulted her from behind.
The Prince instinctively pressed the security button, but in an instant, the button froze. She slapped it repeatedly with no response!
"Hmm, esteemed Prince-sama."
An ice-blue girl just naturally walked in from outside the Mirror Space, holding an umbrella, looking at her elegantly. "Long heard of your great name, very pleased to meet you. I'd like to have a talk with you."
As soon as the words fell, a beam shot from the Mirror Space behind the Prince, hitting the other party.
However, the other party just shattered into a large cloud of ice shards, instantly gathering back together into the ice-blue girl.
"You don't need to react so strongly. I'm here to talk..."
But before she could finish, the Prince waved a hand. A mirror instantly separated the space between them, splitting the entire space in two. Then the mirror shattered, leaving only the space she was in.
Yet she saw the remaining ice shards transform back into the ice-blue girl, who then pointed at the tiny ice crystals within the space. "I suggest you don't try to intimidate me like a startled kitten. It will lower your score."
"Kitten?"
"Did that hurt your pride? My apologies, Lioness?"
The Prince fell silent.
Magical Girl Winter.
This wasn't secret intelligence in Beihai; the Prince naturally knew.
"How did you find..."
"Among your old world partners, there are some traitors."
The Prince raised an eyebrow, maintaining royal dignity as she sat on the table, looking down at the other. "I see. But do you think this is enough to capture me? That's rather naive, Vice-Sect Master of Azure Cloud Sect, Shion's right-hand, Miss Winter."
"No, I didn't come here to capture you."
Bingtang held Si Ye's hand, twirling her umbrella, causing snowflakes to drift within the space.
"I just wanted to talk with you about the matter of your marriage certificate with Mr. Simo Tu."
Bingtang showed a faint smile. "Could you give it to me?"