novelraw #533 - Chapter 531: Covering the Sky and the Sun
#533 - Chapter 531: Covering the Sky and the Sun
“Such a big factory must have drainage pipes. We can sneak in like in the movies,” Qi Jing said, associating the situation with the four green turtles wearing headbands, who loved to crawl through various pipes to get to where they wanted to go.
But Tan Zuoyin shook her head and said:
“Your TV shows are outdated. Nowadays, there are surveillance cameras in the pipes, and there must be other detection methods, like infrared.”
Ordinary factories might not have them, but this is the Dwarves Society's stronghold, how could the defenses be so lax?
The best way is still not to go inside, and let Qi Jing use his Observation Haki to investigate.
“How far can your Observation Haki see now?”
“Right now, maybe 1300 meters? Or 1500, I'm not too sure.”
Qi Jing hadn't measured the limit of his Observation Haki's range for a long time since the winter vacation started.
But over a thousand meters should be enough, but there are also risks.
They should be fine three thousand meters away from that village now, but getting any closer might expose them sooner or later.
They might even already be exposed.
No one knows if the Dwarves Society has any detection-type ability users. Maybe they saw the three of them a long time ago.
“How about we just fight our way in?” Qi Jing suggested his initial idea.
Gou Yigou puffed out his chest and said:
“Let me do it. I can temporarily conceal our figures and sneak in, but this move 'Covering the Sky' doesn't last long, so we need to act quickly.”
Gou Yigou's ability "Sun-Devouring Divine Lord"'s main skill is, of course, devouring the sun, and olfactory tracking is just a minor skill.
He can transform into a celestial dog, briefly devour the secrets of heaven, and also cover up the auras of several people, preventing them from being detected by any detection methods.
This is the main reason why Xiao Fifteen wanted him to come.
“Old Gou, you've got something there. After you finish casting the spell, I'll put you two in the space, and then dash in, find a quiet place, and then take a look. By the way, how many seconds can this move 'Covering the Sky' last?”
“About three seconds.”
Gou Yigou said in a proud tone:
“Once I release this move, no one can detect you by any means!”
“What? Three seconds?”
The skill is strong, but three seconds is too short!
He has to cross three thousand meters in three seconds, and also find a safe place to stop, how is that possible?
“Let me calculate. My regular qinggong can probably run five hundred meters per second now, three seconds is definitely not enough.
Adding the speed boost from the Golden Skyline's Violent Step can greatly increase the speed, but once I use Violent Step, I can't turn, and my brain can't keep up with the movement, so it's impossible to find a safe place to stop.
So, I can only use qinggong, and to use qinggong, I have to use some means to strengthen myself.”
Qi Jing's strongest means of enhancement now is the "Old Knife Sheep's Sealed Flower" that he always has stuck in his head. Once it's pulled out, his physical fitness can be increased tenfold for a considerable amount of time, with no side effects (for others, there are).
But tenfold is too much, he's reluctant to use it. After pulling it out and plugging it back in, it only accumulates onefold per day. Using it to travel now is too wasteful, he has to think of another way.
Tan Zuoyin said to Qi Jing, who was pondering:
“Don't you have a chuunibyou loudspeaker? Shouting out your dream into that can greatly increase all your attributes, it should be enough.”
“It's called the Heart and Voice Amplifier. Although it is a bit chuunibyou, I can only use it.”
As long as he shouts out his true dream into the Heart and Voice Amplifier, he can get a 24-minute buff, and if it's sincere, he'll likely enter a berserk state, greatly increasing all his attributes.
Fortunately, its triggering mechanism is the same as Jack Sparrow's compass.
One can point to what the heart desires, and the other requires shouting out what the heart thinks.
Without Jack Sparrow's compass, Qi Jing really couldn't tell what he wanted most now, so he couldn't trigger the Heart and Voice Amplifier's berserk state.
Now that he has the compass, he can try it.
He took out the compass and placed it in his palm, and found that it was still pointing at himself. He took out his phone again, and found that it decisively turned to the side, just like the situation in the interrogation room just now.
Damn it, is it still reading novels!
What can he do? Shout it out.
Qi Jing raised the small loudspeaker in his hand, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly at it:
“I! Want! To! Read! Novels!”
His voice, amplified by the loudspeaker, was already so loud that it could resound through the sky. In this flat grassland, it could travel very far. Fortunately, Tan Zuoyin activated the Silent Domain in time, so they wouldn't be exposed by a shout.
After Qi Jing finished shouting, he casually threw a punch at the air and said excitedly:
“I feel like I'm super strong now. The red bar and blue bar, attack power, defense power, endurance, mental power, and reaction speed have all increased a lot. Three seconds should be enough to run to the village.”
“Then you guys get ready, I'll go into the space first.”
Tan Zuoyin was taken back into the space by Qi Jing, leaving Gou Yigou preparing to start casting the spell.
He stretched out his right hand towards the sky, and his head also raised, gradually turning into the shape of a silver-haired divine dog.
Suddenly, he opened his mouth wide, and then quickly closed it, and his right hand also bent down instantly.
Seeing this, Qi Jing knew that he had finished releasing it, and immediately took him back into the space, put on the invisible cloak he had already taken out, and rushed towards the village.
In just one second, he reached the farthest point that Observation Haki could sense just now.
In two seconds, he reached the edge of the village.
In the last second, he sensed a place with no one and no surveillance within a kilometer radius, and without much thought, he rushed straight in.
Whoa!
Exciting!
Quickly closing the door, Qi Jing stood still, held his breath, and looked around.
He had rushed into a two-story villa just now, and this was a quaint office on the second floor.
The room was not big, a heavy solid wood desk occupied the center of the room. The surface had traces of time, with some ancient documents and a pen that looked very old but had a shiny nib neatly placed on it.
The chair behind the desk was an old-fashioned leather chair. The black leather had turned white due to the long years. It was estimated that sitting on it would make a creaking sound.
A tall bookshelf stood against the wall, made of dark sandalwood, filled with all kinds of books, mostly thread-bound, and the writing on the spines was a bit blurred.
Very classical, not like a BOSS's room at all.
But the place without surveillance should be accessible to very high-level people, right?
Whatever, it's fine as long as there's no one. Let's sense the other rooms.
Next door is a relatively large conference room, and further on are various small offices.
Because he couldn't understand the small languages on the doorplates, he couldn't tell what kind of people's rooms these were.
It's the same downstairs, there's almost nothing strange.
Thinking carefully, when he sensed with Observation Haki just now, he found several underground floors, and the huts in the nearby village were also a bit strange.
Investigate again!