Yes, it's our fault. We will go back and reflect on our mistakes!" The supermen also understood and pretended to be terrified, turning into golden lights and disappearing on the spot.
"Ah—Benefactor Zhou, you…" How could Buddha not see through Zhou Ye's little trick? But he really couldn't fall out with Zhou Ye. Again, the prosperity of Buddhism relies on hundreds of millions of devout believers, and coincidentally, Zhou Ye's nuclear bombs are most suitable for densely populated areas. It's truly one thing that counters another, hitting the soft spot of his Buddhism.
"Sorry, Buddha, I only have one problem. I can't stand having enemies. If I have enemies, I can't sleep or eat. I will stare at them all the time, think about them every minute, and keep one eye open when I sleep, until all my enemies are dead…" Zhou Ye said, putting on a troubled look, as if asking for understanding.
This was both Zhou Ye's excuse and his threat: If you become my enemy, are you ready for the complete destruction of Buddhism?
"Forget it… This is also that evil creature's own fault." Buddha heard the implication of Zhou Ye's words, but he couldn't do anything about Zhou Ye, this tough nut to crack. Even if he could beat Zhou Ye, he couldn't catch him. As long as he couldn't catch Zhou Ye, Zhou Ye would become the nightmare of his Western religion, which he saw very clearly… "Then, can I have my sect's magic weapon back?"
"Your magic weapon?" Zhou Ye was puzzled for a moment, then he followed Buddha's gaze and saw the purple-gold bowl, and immediately understood what Buddha meant. He smiled and said, "No problem… I don't need this thing for begging, what else can I do if I don't return it to you?"
"…" Buddha didn't speak, but thought to himself: Who would believe you? You took Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King's pagoda and won't return it to him, making Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King carry a fake pagoda every day to pretend. He's almost become a laughing stock for all the gods in Heaven lately…
Zhou Ye didn't care about Buddha's expression, jumped to the ground, took the purple-gold bowl from Black Rabbit's hand and threw it to Buddha, then pointed to Fahai's corpse and said, "You don't want this thing, right? Then I'll take it to make turtle essence, it can also nourish my body!"
As Zhou Ye spoke, without waiting for Buddha to speak, he raised his hand and collected Fahai's body. Other things were nonsense, but he really didn't want to return Fahai's body to Buddha. After all, there are thousands of Buddhist techniques, who knows if there are any resurrection methods? Zhou Ye doesn't have the habit of leaving loose ends for himself…
"Alas…" Buddha understood Zhou Ye's meaning in seconds, but he could only sigh helplessly, "Then I'll take my leave…"
"Don't bother…" Zhou Ye stood there casually, until Buddha's figure disappeared before his eyes, then he turned around and returned to the women, greeted by Xiaoqing's adoring gaze like a fan girl.
"Ye… Brother Ye… That… that was… was that the Buddha?" Xiaoqing was so excited that she could barely speak clearly. She couldn't believe what her eyes were seeing. It was really a bit too shocking. The Buddha appeared in front of her man, and it seemed that he was quite afraid of her man…
"Yes, this is the second time I've seen him…" Zhou Ye smiled.
"You… you… he… he…" Xiaoqing was a little incoherent… That's the present Buddha… Why does her man look so nonchalant?
"Okay, Little Qing sister, you just entered our family, there are many things about the master you don't know yet!" Seeing Buddha again couldn't make Little White Snake and Black Rabbit, who had experienced fighting in Heaven with Zhou Ye, feel excited anymore. "Today, I will tell you about the master's glorious deeds!"
"Yes…" Xiaoqing finally calmed down, nodded, and obediently followed Little White Snake, listening to her tell her about Zhou Ye's past.
That night, Xiaoqing was really obedient, and even didn't refuse Zhou Ye's request to open up the back door, which made Zhou Ye confused… Actually, it was all caused by his glorious deeds.
Although Xiaoqing sometimes acts recklessly, after hearing about what her man had done, she was immediately amazed, stealing golden pills, stealing peaches, kidnapping fairies, capturing Chang'e, rebelling against Heaven. Just picking out one of these things would be an unimaginable disaster for others, but only after her man did these things could he still visit relatives in Heaven openly… Xiaoqing had to say a word of admiration to her man. Now Zhou Ye has become her object of worship.
Chapter 339
Seven years later…
Wuyi Mountain, in a cave——————
A sweet-looking girl is sitting cross-legged on a futon in the cave, her eyes closed, practicing hard… A cloud of white mist gathers and disperses above her head, faintly showing signs of transforming into three flowers, facing the origin on the top.
At this moment, a girl's voice came, breaking the cultivation of the girl in the cave, Meiniang. "Meiniang, Meiniang… Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, let's go down the mountain to play together!"
"…"
Interference is most taboo in the path of cultivation. As soon as this voice came, Meiniang's breakthrough in the cave had to be abandoned. She slowly opened her eyes and sighed slightly, "Okay, Caiyin, I know…"
"Meiniang, don't you find it boring to practice like this every day?" A simply dressed girl walked in from outside the cave, it was Meiniang's good friend, Caiyin.
"It's been five hundred years, you just meditate and cultivate like this every day… You don't look like a rabbit at all, you don't even eat carrots!"
Caiyin complained as she walked to Meiniang's side and said, "Is it worth it for that joke in Heaven?"
"Of course it's worth it…" Meiniang said, and her whole person unconsciously fell into memories again.
————————————————————I am the dividing line of Meiniang's memories——————
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Meiniang was originally a jade rabbit in Yaochi. She lived a carefree life in Heaven, but one day, her life changed…
One day, she was playing with her companions in the garden of Yaochi, when she suddenly saw a figure who shouldn't have appeared in Yaochi, it was an incomparably handsome young man.
You must know, what kind of place is Yaochi? That is the territory of the Queen Mother of the West, the commander of the female immortals in Heaven. Not to mention male immortals, even a rabbit or a fairy bird must be female…
This was the first time Meiniang saw a man's figure… At first glance, her heart was filled with that handsome figure…
"Hey! Brother Ye, look at that little rabbit, it's so funny… It's staring at you without blinking!" A female immortal accompanying the man spoke, she saw Meiniang staring at Zhou Ye in a daze. "It seems that your demeanor is not divided by race…"
Meiniang knew this female immortal, and also knew her identity. The fourth daughter of the Queen Mother of the West, the fourth of the seven fairies…
Although the Heavenly Court does not allow monsters to transform and cultivate, Meiniang, who has been fed fairy grass all year round, has already opened her spiritual intelligence and understands things. When the female immortal said that sentence, she couldn't help but shrink back in inferiority. She knew that the identities of the two were vastly different, and she was not worthy of such a beautiful young man…
At this moment, the beautiful young man walked up to her, bent down, and picked her up. To this day, Meiniang still remembers the smell of that handsome young man, it was a smell that made people feel very at ease, a smell that allowed people to let go of all defenses.
"What a cute little rabbit… I really want to take it home and keep Black Rabbit company…" The young man said, and a big peach suddenly appeared in his hand. Although it was only the lowest-grade peach that ripens once every five hundred years, it was also an unattainable existence for Meiniang.
After all, no matter how extravagant the people in Heaven are, they would not take a peach to feed a rabbit. Even if they wanted to feed it, it would not be Meiniang's turn. You must know that in Heaven, there are countless fairy birds and beasts, no matter how you rank them, it would not be a jade rabbit's turn to eat peaches.
"Hey, little rabbit, if you transform, transform into her appearance!" The young man said, pointing to a girl behind him. Meiniang couldn't help but look in the direction the young man was pointing.
I saw a white-clothed girl standing pretty on the right side of the young man. The girl's face was like warm jade, her eyebrows were like willow leaves, her eyes were bright and her teeth were white, and her graceful and pleasant face carried a trace of gentleness. What a beautiful woman of national beauty and heavenly fragrance…
"Brother, why let the little rabbit transform into my appearance?" the girl asked strangely.
"Because I think one younger sister is not enough, it's better to have more! Hey, little rabbit, if you transform according to her appearance, I will accept you as a concubine at that time, and let you be a pair of good sisters with her, how about it?" The handsome young man's words made the girl scold him coquettishly.
Although she knew that this might just be a temporary joke from the young man, Meiniang still secretly remembered the girl's appearance…
In the days that followed, Meiniang could always see the young man's figure, but he was never short of the company of young female immortals, until that time—
That day, Meiniang was secretly cultivating in her cave in the garden… But she was awakened by a strange sound.
"Darling… It's not enough for you to spoil me in my palace, you even brought me here… If someone sees me, how can I… command… command the female immortals… in… Heaven… ah, be gentle…"
Hearing the sound, Meiniang quietly retracted her skills and drilled out of her rabbit hole, but she was stunned by the scene in front of her…
The usually dignified Queen Mother of the West was catering to the young man under her, and the one making strange noises was the beautiful and dignified Queen Mother of the West…
Meiniang was so shocked that she couldn't restrain the demon energy in her body, and leaked a trace, which was immediately noticed by the Queen Mother of the West…
"Who is it? Come out…" The Queen Mother of the West endured the feeling in her body and looked at Meiniang, who had exposed her whereabouts, with eyes like electricity…
"Okay, just a little rabbit…"
"This is not an ordinary rabbit…" The Queen Mother of the West ignored the young man's persuasion, and with a flick of her right hand, she grabbed Meiniang in her hand. "Don't you know the heavenly law that all animals in Heaven are not allowed to cultivate? How dare you secretly cultivate? Who gave you the courage?"
Meiniang was so frightened that her whole body trembled into a ball, not knowing what to do. She had no ambition to dominate, she cultivated only for a joke from someone…
And that person did not disappoint Meiniang.
"I gave her the courage, I gave her the peaches to eat, what are you going to do? Are you going to punish me? You've turned the world upside down…" The young man said, using the stunt he hadn't used for a long time [Thousand Strikes in Seconds], and cut the head of all the female immortals in one fell swoop…
A moment later—on the Descending Immortal Platform…
The heavenly soldiers and generals guarding this place had long been dismissed by the young man, and only one person and one rabbit were left on the platform…
"Hey, little rabbit, Heaven is not a place for cultivation, you should go down to the world to cultivate…" The young man said, took out a pagoda-shaped treasure from his arms, and then taught Meiniang the technique of collecting the pagoda from the Burning Lamp Taoist. "When you have achieved cultivation, you can go to Mount Li to find me, I will wait for you to enter my Zhou family one day, remember, Zhou Ye…"
Mei Niang was embarrassed by Zhou Ye's words, but she remembered each word firmly in her heart, not daring to forget... As she jumped down from the Descent Immortal Platform, she faintly heard Zhou Ye's soliloquy.
"Snail girl, ah, snail girl... Although there's no snail girl, it's not bad to raise a jade rabbit girl myself..."
After Mei Niang descended to the mortal realm, she landed directly in Mount Wuyi. Relying on the exquisite pagoda that Zhou Ye had given her, no demons or humans bullied her, and she diligently cultivated in the mountains.
For these five hundred years, she only occasionally left her cave to find food, but since saving Cai Yin a hundred years ago, the task of going out to buy things had been handed over to Cai Yin. She only focused on cultivation, and was finally about to completely transform into human form...
Once the three flowers gathered at the crown and the inner core was formed, Mei Niang could completely shed her beastly body and transform into human form. She just didn't expect that this attempt today would be interrupted by her own sister...
Chapter 340
Although her breakthrough was interrupted by her friend, the kind-hearted Mei Niang did not blame Cai Yin. She knew that Cai Yin was unintentional, perhaps her opportunity had not arrived...
"Ye Lang, when will I be able to see you..." Mei Niang couldn't help but murmur.
"It's Ye Lang again..." Cai Yin rolled her eyes and said helplessly, "Is your Ye Lang really that good?"
Her sister was good in every way, except that she was a cultivation fanatic and a love-struck fool. When she wasn't cultivating, she would start talking about the man who turned her into a cultivation fanatic. She really didn't know what was so good about that man that made Mei Niang so unforgettable? Cai Yin couldn't help but sigh softly.
"Of course..." As a little fan girl of Zhou Ye, Mei Niang would not allow her friend to question her own Ye Lang, "Forget it, it's time to let you see the peerless elegance of my Ye Lang..."
As Mei Niang spoke, she carefully took out a scroll from the sandalwood box next to the pillow in front of the couch, and slowly unfolded it in front of Cai Yin.
That was a portrait of Zhou Ye that Mei Niang had drawn from memory when her cultivation had achieved a little success and she could not hide her longing. She looked at Cai Yin's slightly open mouth and couldn't help but say triumphantly, "How is it? Are you fascinated by my Ye Lang's demeanor..."
"Isn't this something you imagined?" Cai Yin couldn't help but retort, "How could there be such a man in the world..."
"How could Ye Lang be compared to those ordinary mortals?" Mei Niang's small face was full of pride, and her face, which was nine-tenths similar to that of a little white snake, carried a hint of playfulness.
"Okay, okay, your Ye Lang is the most handsome, the most handsome in heaven and earth, okay?" Cai Yin didn't care about Ye Lang or anything. She was just thinking about going down the mountain to play tomorrow.
Looking at her good sister who was still indulging in self-admiration while staring at Zhou Ye's portrait, Cai Yin's eyes rolled slightly, and an idea came to her mind. "Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. It is said that Lin'an Prefecture will be very lively at that time, and travelers and Confucian scholars from all over the world will gather there. Maybe someone's Ye Lang will also go for a stroll. Well, since someone is unwilling to go, then I have no choice but to go myself..."
"I'll go..."
As long as Mei Niang heard anything related to Zhou Ye, her IQ would instantly drop to a negative number. Without caring whether Zhou Ye would really go, she immediately carefully put away the portrait, placed it back in front of the couch, and then rushed into the kitchen to start busying herself.
"What are you doing? Mei Niang?"
"I'm preparing dry food for tomorrow. Aren't we going to Lin'an Prefecture tomorrow? Of course, we have to prepare more dry food!"
"But why do I feel like you're making so much, enough for the two of us to eat for several days!?"
"It's okay, in case I run into Ye Lang, I also want him to taste my cooking. Cai Yin, how do you think this little rabbit I made looks? Is it like me before?"
"Oh my god, Mei Niang, are you going crazy? You even steamed a painting on a steamed bun, and why is this painting a comic strip..."
"I'm afraid Ye Lang will forget me... I'll make the process of how we met, and then give it to him to eat. Maybe he'll remember me at a glance? Okay, stop talking, Cai Yin, hurry up and help me take a look!"
The next day————————
Cai Yin, who looked listless, was dragged by the extremely excited Mei Niang straight to Lin'an Prefecture, hundreds of kilometers away. Along the way, Mei Niang kept asking like a machine gun.
"Cai Yin, do you think I'm pretty today? Is my rouge smudged?"
"Cai Yin, what if Ye Lang has forgotten me?"
"Cai Yin, what if Ye Lang doesn't like me?"
"Cai Yin..."
"Stop————!" Cai Yin rolled her eyes and said helplessly, "Mei Niang, can you let me go? Yesterday, I was caught by you to do hard labor and steamed buns until the third watch. I was dragged up by you before five o'clock in the morning... Mei Niang, even demons need to rest..."
"...Then...then I won't ask..." Mei Niang seemed to feel that she was being a bit excessive, and smiled sheepishly, no longer speaking.
Cai Yin finally felt much quieter, but a sense of guilt arose in her heart. Her sister was so eager to meet that Ye Lang... What if they didn't meet at that time? Alas, forget it, at worst, she would accompany her on a trip to Mount Li.
After Cai Yin made up her mind, the guilt in her heart lessened a little.
The two women used their magic all the way and flew towards Lin'an City.
On the other side, outside Qiantang County, in the Qiu Wang Mansion————————————
"Master, hurry up, hurry up..." Black Rabbit kept urging Zhou Ye.
"Okay, I know, I still need to put on my clothes even if I'm fast..." Zhou Ye sighed as he raised his hands, letting Xiaoqing and Bai Suzhen help him put on his clothes, "I hate this kind of clothes the most, it's really troublesome to wear."
"Official, you said that beauty in clothing is called Hua, and greatness in etiquette is called Xia. What? Don't you like such beautiful clothes?" Bai Suzhen covered her mouth and chuckled teasingly.
"I like it..." Zhou Ye said with some embarrassment, suddenly looking at the futou in Xiaoqing's hand, he quickly said, "No, don't, don't wear that... Just give me a cloth turban..."
There was really no way, Zhou Ye thought of the poet Du Fu, who had been ruined in his previous life, when he saw that thing. Various portraits of Du Fu being very busy left a deep impression on him... So he was unwilling to wear that thing no matter what.
"Understood, Master Zhou..." Xiaoqing glared at Zhou Ye charmingly, and smiled as she put the futou back...
Their family was also going to Lin'an to play, after all, the annual Lantern Festival, in terms of liveliness, Qiantang was still not as good as Lin'an Prefecture.
Fortunately, Qiantang was close to Lin'an Prefecture, so they didn't have to get up early like Mei Niang and the others...
After everyone was dressed properly, the girls surrounded Zhou Ye and walked out of the Qiu Wang Mansion... Along the way, Black Rabbit, who liked excitement the most, was simply going crazy, and rushed forward to see everything...
Seeing the sugar figurine seller, Black Rabbit waved her hand and bought them all, and then took them to Zhou Ye, sharing the sugar figurines in her hand with her sisters and Zhou Ye.
Seeing the candied hawthorn seller, she bought a dozen skewers, still sharing them with her sisters...
She wanted several of the dough figurines...
She couldn't even move when she saw the shadow puppet show... Zhou Ye's head was getting big...
Until the sun set in the west, the night darkened, and the first lights came on, the entire Lin'an Prefecture was like a city that never sleeps in later generations, brightly lit, and every household hung lanterns. The streets in the city were even more lively, with dragon dances, acrobatics, lantern riddles, and so on, countless...
On the city's river, painted boats floated in the center of the river, and the sound of silk and bamboo faintly reached the shore...
On the shore, there were also many infatuated men and women who placed their carefully made river lanterns in the river, begging God to give them a good home.
Chapter 341
Black Rabbit was indispensable for such things as releasing river lanterns. At this moment, she was squatting by the river, placing her carefully made river lantern into the river.
It is said that releasing river lanterns is to entrust sorrow and commemorate ancestors, which should be done during the Zhongyuan Festival, but this is the Southern Song Dynasty, which is known for its extravagance, especially in Lin'an City, where the rivers and waterways are crisscrossed. I don't know when, the Lantern Festival also began to have the custom of releasing river lanterns.
Of course, releasing river lanterns on the Lantern Festival is not to entrust sorrow, but to beg for a good match. It is said that a poor scholar in the city fished out a river lantern released by a rich lady downstream, took his poems to the door, and the rich lady, eager for talent, funded the scholar to take the imperial examination. After the scholar became famous, he returned and married the rich lady who funded him, achieving a legend of a talented scholar and a beautiful woman. I don't know if it is true or false.
Anyway, now the people who release lanterns upstream are all official ladies, rich daughters, and daughters of small families, while downstream are those poor scholars who consider themselves romantic and suave. They don't release lanterns, but wait with bamboo poles, fishing nets, and other things... What are they doing? Of course, they are fishing for river lanterns.
Zhou Ye stood in the middle of a group of women releasing river lanterns, feeling super awkward...
The women, one by one, couldn't help but glance at him from time to time. In a short while, he had picked up more than a dozen sachets and returned them. Some of the bolder ones even secretly held his hand and asked him where his home was and whether he was married...
Besides her, there were quite a few women eagerly waiting for their turn to toss a handkerchief…
"Husband, why don't I and Little Qing stay here with Black Rabbit to play, and you can stroll around the Lantern Festival by yourself!" Bai Suzhen, noticing her man's discomfort, said with a smile.
"Well, that sounds good. After Black Rabbit finishes releasing the lantern, come find me…" Zhou Ye said, turning around and fleeing as if escaping, causing Little Qing and the little White Snake to giggle incessantly…
There was no other way, these women were just too ordinary looking, he really couldn't fancy any of them… He couldn't hit or scold them, so he could only hide…
Meanwhile, on the other side—
Facing the beautiful scenery of lights all over the city, Mei Niang was as listless as a defeated quail.
At this moment, she was sitting on the roof of a restaurant, her eyes blankly staring at the crowded street below… tears threatening to fall…
She had been searching for an entire day, but she hadn't seen the person who had always been hidden in her heart… Cai Yin also complained that she was only looking for people and not enjoying the scenery, so she ran off to play by herself…
"There's still the north side of the city left to search. Mei Niang, don't be discouraged. You and Ye Lang must have a predestined relationship. Otherwise, why in Heaven, among so many Jade Rabbits, did he choose you? Keep going…" Mei Niang encouraged herself, standing up again. She believed that if Ye Lang was here, she would definitely meet him.
"Huh?" Just as Mei Niang was about to use an illusion to find Zhou Ye, she suddenly noticed a suspicious-looking man in the alley below, carrying a six or seven-year-old girl, looking around furtively…
The girl kept crying and struggling, kicking the man. Annoyed and embarrassed, the man covered the child's mouth and nose with a dirty cloth. After a moment, the child stopped struggling, lying limply on the man's shoulder as if asleep.
This is? A child snatcher? Mei Niang immediately understood… These people specialize in taking advantage of crowded and lively times to quietly abduct other people's children. Girls are sold to brothels or given to poor families as child brides, while boys have a more miserable fate. The handsome ones are sold as catamites, while those with ordinary or ugly appearances are sold to beggars, who use secret methods to turn them into disabled and deformed children to beg on the streets and support them…
How could the kind-hearted Mei Niang tolerate such a thing? She had to intervene. Thinking of this, she slightly transformed, turning into a handsome man, and hid in the crowd, chasing after the man.
She knew that such people must be in gangs. She planned to follow this man to find their lair and wipe them out in one fell swoop.
— — — — — — — — Meanwhile — — — — — — — —
Although the Lantern Festival in Lin'an of the Song Dynasty was already a rare carnival for the people of that era… for Zhou Ye, who had experienced various European carnivals, it was far from enough. The only sense of historical weight had already been experienced during his previous visits…
So, for Zhou Ye, there was nothing particularly interesting to see at the Lantern Festival in Lin'an. He only came along to avoid spoiling the mood of the women.
Now alone again, Zhou Ye was walking aimlessly on the street, looking at the enthusiastic people on the street. He felt as if he was being excluded. Just as his sentimental mood was about to kick in, a familiar figure flashed in the corner of his eye.
"Huh? Zhen'er? Why did she run out by herself? And changed into men's clothing? What is she up to?"
Curious, Zhou Ye followed her. After a while, he finally confirmed that the Little White Snake was following a man carrying a child in front of her.
The man's clothes were not exactly tattered, but at best they were clean. They were far from being luxurious. Although the clothes of the child he was carrying also looked a bit old, from the corner of the clothes peeking out from the collar, it could be seen that the clothes inside were definitely from a wealthy family.
Zhou Ye thought for a moment and knew what was going on. Without saying a word, he directly followed Bai Suzhen (fake) to track down the child-snatching man.
The two followed the man into an increasingly remote area. The man seemed to be very alert. When they reached a secluded street, he suddenly turned around and came back, obviously checking to see if anyone was following him…
Mei Niang, after all, had little experience. Seeing the man about to turn around, she became a little flustered. At this moment, she suddenly felt herself being pulled into someone's arms and pushed into a small alley.
This startled Mei Niang. Could it be that the man had accomplices? Had they been following her all along? She quickly made a hand seal, and an exquisite pagoda leaped out from her waist, ready to shatter the man who was violating her into pieces in an instant…
But when Mei Niang saw the face of the person in the moonlight, her body softened, and she couldn't make the hand seal… She stared at Zhou Ye blankly, as if bewitched.
"What's wrong? Zhen'er, your nostalgic look as if you haven't seen me in a long time is making me flattered…" Zhou Ye teased.
"Mm—five hundred years… I haven't seen you for five hundred years…" Mei Niang didn't care that Zhou Ye didn't call her name, and stretched out her jade-like hand, blankly holding Zhou Ye's cheek. "Am I… Am I dreaming? Ye Lang…"
Ye Lang? Zhou Ye immediately felt that something was wrong. The Little White Snake only had two names for him: Brother and Husband. Other women called him Ye Lang more often, but the Little White Snake didn't call him that very much. At this moment, Zhou Ye suddenly noticed the exquisite pagoda floating beside Mei Niang, and suddenly remembered who this was…
"Five hundred years, huh? I only felt like it's been a little over a year in Heaven…" Zhou Ye gently tucked the hair on Mei Niang's temples behind her ear.
He sighed softly, "I didn't expect that little rabbit from back then has grown so big…"
"Yes, your little jade rabbit has grown up, Ye Lang…" Mei Niang said dreamily, "She can be your concubine now…"
As she spoke, Mei Niang tiptoed and clumsily offered her small lips to Zhou Ye's face. She had seen countless scenes like this in the Yao Pool Garden back then. Every time, she fantasized about how wonderful it would be if she were the woman kissing Zhou Ye. And today, she finally got her wish…
At the alley entrance, the man holding the child glanced over and muttered, "Tch, rabbit master…"
But Mei Niang didn't have time to pay attention to him. At this moment, she was almost dizzy from Zhou Ye's kiss… Zhou Ye's kissing skills were honed through countless trials. After being tested by thousands of women from the East and the West, they all gave Zhou Ye five-star praise. It could truly be called soul-stirring and bone-melting.
Chapter 342
Two figures in the small alley, separating and joining, joining and separating. Mei Niang seemed to want to vent all the longing of the past five hundred years, refusing to let go of Zhou Ye's lips.
It was unknown how long passed… The two finally separated completely.
Mei Niang lay in Zhou Ye's arms, panting rapidly. She felt like she had almost ascended to the realm of ultimate bliss and would never return.
After experiencing the joy of a dream come true, Mei Niang remembered what she was originally going to do. "Oh no, those child-snatching villains…"
"It's okay, they can't escape!" Zhou Ye whispered, holding Mei Niang. In the past, he was unwilling, but if something really happened, his super hearing would be activated. Not to mention Lin'an Prefecture, even every sound on the entire Earth could not escape him.
"Mm—!" Mei Niang chose to listen to Zhou Ye. After the kiss that sealed their love, she had already decided that Zhou Ye was her man… Isn't it normal for a woman to follow her husband after marriage?
And Zhou Ye didn't disappoint Mei Niang. He took her into the air and directly arrived at a secluded courtyard located in the southwest corner of Lin'an.
Upon arriving, Zhou Ye casually kicked open the courtyard door. The four or five people who came out upon hearing the sound didn't even see Zhou Ye's face before they were knocked to the ground.
Pushing open the door of the main room, there were seven children tied with ropes, sitting on the ground, with rags or something similar stuffed in their mouths.
After releasing these little girls, Mei Niang patiently asked them one by one for their addresses and names. Most of the children, who were seven or eight years old, already understood a little bit, especially the children from wealthy families. They were enlightened early, and many could say their names and where they lived…
Only one girl was crying and weeping, unable to clearly say where she lived. The more anxious she became, the less she could say, and the more she cried…
In the end, Zhou Ye had to step in to handle her. Finally, he learned that the child was called Li Bilian… She had parents and an uncle at home…
Zhou Ye really didn't expect it to be her? The cousin who grew up with Xu Xian's son. He remembered that the TV series didn't mention that she almost got lost when she was a child?
But Zhou Ye thought about it… That's right, Xu Xian has been single until now because of him. The Wenqu star who should have been reincarnated as his son doesn't know where he was reincarnated. It's not surprising that things have changed.
In the end, Zhou Ye asked Mei Niang to use magic to send those children who could tell where their homes were back, and then took Little Bilian and Mei Niang to find Xiaoqing and the others, and return to Qiantang…
As for those three human traffickers… Zhou Ye avoided Little Bilian and turned them to ashes. For a lolicon, the most intolerable thing is the abduction of lolis. This must not be tolerated…
When the group met, Bai Suzhen was also stunned when she saw Mei Niang. When Zhou Ye mentioned the past events in the Heavenly Court, she immediately remembered and couldn't help but marvel. She didn't expect that the little rabbit she met by the Yao Pool back then had now cultivated into human form…
Perhaps because kindred spirits love kindred spirits, Bai Suzhen truly treated Mei Niang like her own sister, which made Zhou Ye a little jealous…
After the group returned to Qiantang, they sent Bilian back to Li Gongfu's house. Li Gongfu, who was so anxious that he almost hanged himself, naturally thanked Zhou Ye a thousand times… Later, after hearing that Zhou Ye also lived in Qiantang County, he insisted on getting Zhou Ye to leave his address so that he could prepare a generous gift and visit to express his gratitude another day.
Zhou Ye couldn't refuse him and told him his address…
As a result, Li Gongfu indeed brought his wife and daughter to thank him the next day. Perhaps because Zhou Ye saved Little Bilian, Little Bilian especially liked to pester Zhou Ye.
Qiantang County was not big, and the two families were not too far apart. Li Gongfu didn't mind his daughter's fondness for running to Zhou's house… In his opinion, Zhou Ye was a benevolent gentleman… What would he do to a little girl? Besides, he saved his daughter's life, so how could he harm his daughter?
However, he obviously didn't know that there was a term called [Lolicon] in later generations. So, in the year Little Bilian turned thirteen… she was finally eaten clean by a certain wolf…
Chou Wang Mansion — — — — — — — —
In the backyard, in the frighteningly large bedroom. Zhou Ye was lying on his oversized couch, smoking a cigar listlessly…
Two strikingly similar women, Bai Suzhen and Hu Meiniang, lay beside him. Little Qing was next to the white snake, and a black rabbit lay beside Hu Meiniang. It was a duo of colors and a pair of rabbits...
Of course, that wasn't all. Zhou Ye also held a slightly chubby, lolita-like girl in his arms, none other than the newly blossoming Li Bilian.
"It's about time... I should go back..." Zhou Ye muttered, feeling homesick...
Acting on his thoughts was Zhou Ye's good habit. He woke the women one by one, telling them about the impending departure, asking them to settle everything here before returning with him.
Bai Suzhen, Xiao Qing, and the Black Rabbit had no ties. Only Meiniang needed to say goodbye to her friend Caiyin, while the lolita Bilian was utterly infatuated with Zhou Ye, not caring whether he returned or not; she was determined to follow him...
Three days later, Zhou Ye left thousands of pounds of gold bars for Bilian's parents before taking the women to the Heavenly Court, where he found Lishan Laomu visiting friends and bid her farewell...
That night—
Inside Yaochi Palace—
"Darling... Isn't it good to stay in this world? Why must you leave?" Yaoji wrapped her arms around Zhou Ye like snakes, unwilling to let go.
"Are you unwilling to leave with me? Is there anything in this desolate Immortal Palace worth your lingering?" Zhou Ye said, displeased.
"...I fear that once we arrive there, you'll have too many women, and there won't be room for me... Besides, if my daughters knew..." Yaoji trailed off, seeing her daughters had appeared beside her at some point. "You... you..."
"Mother, your daughters want you to leave with us..."
"Yes, Mother, wouldn't it be better for our family to be together harmoniously than to be a solitary female immortal in this desolate Heavenly Palace?"
"Mother..."
Yaoji was speechless, as someone had already started acting mischievously... Zhou Ye finally tasted the joy of seven women and one mother...
Pack up, pack up, take it all away...
Peach Orchard? Take it.
The female immortals of Yaochi Palace? Pack them up and take them away...
In short, when Zhou Ye left this world, the entire Heavenly Court echoed with the Jade Emperor's shrill screams: "Zhou Ye... At least leave me something..."
Chapter 343
1942—Winter—Stalingrad—
This was the battlefield where the Soviet Union and Germany fought fiercely. To seize the oil and mineral resources of the Caucasus region, Germany brazenly launched the Battle of Stalingrad. The Soviet Union, in order to protect its mineral resources and industrial production base in the Caucasus region, also vowed to defend this city named after its supreme leader.
Here, war was no longer a noun but a verb.
The whistling shells in the sky, the rumbling armored vehicles on the ground, and the screams of soldiers from both sides formed the eternal night's requiem on this so-called meat grinder of the Eastern Front.
Night gradually fell—
The warring parties tacitly ceased fire temporarily. After all, fighting in the dark was confusing, and the soldiers had been tense all day, needing a rest, or they would collapse even before the enemy attacked.
In the city, which had been reduced to ruins, Soviet soldiers silently searched for survivors and collected the bodies of their fallen comrades.
However, it was not easy. Many soldiers had been blown to pieces by shells... their bodies torn apart, making it impossible to identify them...
In such cases, the soldiers still persevered, carefully picking up every piece of the body and placing them in a body bag specifically for unidentified remains.
This was an unspoken rule on the battlefield. Every veteran silently taught the new recruits from the rear to abide by this rule, fearing that one day they would be blown to pieces and no one would collect their bodies...
This rule, which wasn't an order, was passed down from veteran to new recruit...
The ruined Stalingrad was silent, like a bottomless black hole, with only the chaotic footsteps of the corpse collectors and the suppressed cries of those who found their relatives or friends sacrificed, and the painful groans of the wounded...
"This is hell..." Zhou Ye stood on top of a ruined wall, looking at the scene below, and couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder they say World War II was the most tragic war!"
The Eastern Orthodox church had been reduced to a single wall, but ironically, there was still a large crucifix on the ruins. Did war fear Jesus?
Zhou Ye stood at the top of the crucifix, while two girls stood on the crossbar, one on each side. One was a silver-haired girl in black and white Lolita attire, and the other was a blonde girl in a red OL suit... Pandora and the shapeshifting Mystique.
"Alright, darling, if you don't want to lose to Ophelia, you need to start acting now..." Pandora didn't care how many people died. As far as she was concerned, as long as her man was safe, sound, and happy, the number of others who died was just a number.
"Come on, little Pandora, it's rare for darling to have some feelings. It's quite rare, and I have to say, darling is also very handsome like this!"
Raven said with a smile.
"Are you still the decisive Mystique, Raven? Did Vanessa transform and come to spy on our military intelligence?" Pandora looked at Raven with a look of surprise.
In fact, she was mocking Raven, who had been brought by Zhou Ye into another world for the first time, and obeyed Zhou Ye in everything, completely forgetting her responsibilities as a secretary.
"Hmph, that little kitten Vanessa wouldn't dare to attack her master... otherwise, I'll teach her how to be a good disciple who respects her teacher!" Raven retorted with a look of disdain: "On the contrary, it's you, are you that little kitten transformed? Come on, let sister check your body..."
"Dare you come..."
"Come on..."
"Pa—Pa—!"
As the two girls were arguing more and more vigorously, Zhou Ye slapped each of their upturned butts, making them become well-behaved kittens again.
"What's going on? You're already starting infighting? Did you come to help me or deliberately hold me back?" Zhou Ye said, glancing at the two girls. "Or did you make some deal with Ophelia? Want to make me lose this game? Hmm?"
"Darling, you're wronging me..."
"How could I make a deal with Sister Ophelia? That's absolutely impossible!"
The two girls acted coquettishly and explained...
"Okay... whatever you want..." Zhou Ye couldn't tell whether the two girls were telling the truth or not after watching for a long time... and had to threaten helplessly: "If I lose this time, hmph, I won't take you to other worlds to play in the future..."
"We promise to help you win, darling..." x2
This time, the two girls answered in unison. After they finished speaking, they looked at each other and understood each other's meaning. It seemed that they couldn't release water to Ophelia this time...
In fact, the cause of this bet was very normal. It all stemmed from Zhou Ye packing up all the female immortals from Yaochi Palace when he returned...
There were at least three hundred female immortals in Yaochi Palace.
Ophelia expressed great dissatisfaction with this... but as smart as she was, she didn't object openly, but instead played a gambling game with Zhou Ye.
The two of them bet on who would collect more Infinity Stones in the Marvel world this time, and whoever collected more Infinity Stones would be the winner.
If Ophelia won, then Zhou Ye would follow her request and not bring back more than ten women from one world in the future.
If Zhou Ye won, then naturally there would be no restrictions.
After a unanimous vote by the girls in Zhou Ye's family, the bet was established—
This time, Zhou Ye's Umbrella Corporation would play the role of an arbitrator and logistics supporter, and everyone could apply for logistics support three times.
Of course, logistics support did not include directly driving the Umbrella forces to seize the Infinity Stones. Each military support could not exceed 100,000 Umbrella special forces.
Zhou Ye's harem girls participated in the forces of both sides according to the principle of voluntariness—
This one is the most troublesome…
Zhou Ye discovered that, besides his group of female slaves and the maid corps, only Pandora and Raven were on his side… This made him feel utterly dejected…
Even the most obedient little white snake and Little Yamayuri stood on neutral ground… indicating they wouldn't help either side…
On Ophelia's side were White Queen Emma, Phoenix Jean Grey, Copycat Vanessa, Alice, Ada Wong, Wonder Woman Diana, and so on…
There were also many women on that side. Zhou Ye dismissed them, saying they weren't combat professionals, and left them in the base watching the live broadcast…
Of course, Zhou Ye, in his embarrassment and anger, let these women know that night how severe the consequences would be when he was angry… After pacifying them, Zhou Ye leisurely left this world's Umbrella base.
His first order was for the maid corps and female slaves to go to the United States ahead of him to lay the groundwork, while he took Raven and Pandora to the battlefield of the Soviet-German war.
Zhou Ye came to Stalingrad, which was still in the midst of war, not for some Infinity Stone… but for a certain little Black Widow who was still a loli… After all, for Zhou Ye, the allure of the Stone couldn't compare to Black Widow… and especially one who was uncorrupted and whose personality could be shaped at will.
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"Pandora, my dear, it's time to start working…"
"Okay, just wait a moment, darling!" Pandora said, touching her forehead and beginning to search for the girl named Natalia Alianovna Romanova.
After that accidental injection of Superman energy, Pandora's abilities had greatly improved, with significant enhancements in all aspects.
For example, her mental abilities now allowed her to search the entire globe without the aid of a satellite brainwave amplifier…
"Found her, darling!"
In just an instant, Pandora had searched the entire Stalingrad. Zhou Ye had to admit that his little darling was really capable, in every sense of the word. "Well done… darling!"
"Darling, I'll teleport you over…" Pandora's face was full of pride at being praised. She grabbed Zhou Ye with one hand and Raven with the other, and with a flash, they disappeared from the spot.
A soldier who had just passed by the church heard the voices and couldn't help but look up. He happened to see the scene of the three people disappearing and immediately began to make the sign of the cross on his chest, praying sincerely. "mo л nt в a Г oc п o д hr . ot ч eha ш … …"
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — I am the dividing line of Natasha in the ruins — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Ten-year-old Natasha felt very weak…
She used to be just like an ordinary Soviet child, with a home and loving parents. But this happy life ended on the day the war broke out.
The food at home became less and less, and her parents were always frowning, always discussing which street the Germans had captured today, who next door had their head blown off by a stray bullet when they went out, and things like that.
Despite this, little Natasha still naively believed her mother's words that the war would be over soon and life would slowly get better.
But today, all of this was destroyed…
Her home was hit by a shell, and the fire caused by the shell turned the entire house into a sea of flames. Her parents died in the fire trying to save her.
Little Natasha, who had been stuffed into the underground storage room by her mother, had never felt that the air she had never cared about before was so important. She followed her mother's last instructions, covering her mouth and nose with a wet towel, but the thick smoke kept pouring in, causing her to cough incessantly.
"Is anyone there? Can someone save me?" The desire to survive made little Natasha cry for help in a voice that was barely louder than a kitten's meow. She was really too weak. The war had been going on for several months, and the food ration for each household was getting smaller and smaller. To be honest, she hadn't eaten anything for three days.
Just as little Natasha was feeling more and more lost, a ray of light shone into the storage room. The iron door of the storage room was opened from the outside…
"Please… save me…" Little Natasha used her last strength to make a weak cry to the three figures who walked in…
"What a pitiful child…" The dark storage room was not an obstacle to Zhou Ye at all. He saw the weak, red-haired loli at a glance.
He flashed in, gently picked up little Natasha, walked out of the ruined house, came to the open space in front of the door, then took out a small bottle of pan peach juice from his bracelet, gently placed it on little Natasha's pure lips, and slowly fed her to drink.
Little Natasha only felt a sweet liquid flowing into her mouth. Little Natasha, who had long been hungry, greedily swallowed the liquid. She felt that the liquid seemed to have a peach flavor, but it was sweeter than any peach she had ever eaten.
As the peach juice slowly flowed down her throat and into her esophagus, and then into her stomach, little Natasha felt her strength slowly returning, and the speed of this recovery surprised her…
"Is there any more? Can you give me some more?" Little Natasha's originally cloudy eyes became clear at this time, and she looked at Zhou Ye and asked through the faint light.
"…" Zhou Ye was a little speechless. He was feeding little Natasha not ordinary peach juice, but peach juice squeezed from pan peaches that ripened once every five thousand years in the pan peach garden. If little Natasha wasn't the woman he had already booked, Zhou Ye wouldn't be willing to give it to her. "There's no more peach juice, but there's a lot of chocolate. Do you want to eat it?"
"Yes, I want to eat it!"
Little Natasha was not polite. For her, it was important to fill her stomach first. "Here you are…" Zhou Ye took out a large piece of chocolate from his bracelet and handed it to little Natasha.
"Thank you…" Little Natasha took the chocolate, peeled it open, and ate it little by little, holding it in both hands like a little hamster. She knew that in times of war, all supplies were scarce. This was the result of her eating potatoes for three months and starving for three days.
Zhou Ye couldn't help but want to laugh as he looked at the cute eating habits of the little red-haired girl with soot on her face, but he couldn't laugh no matter what… "I saw two charred corpses inside…"
"That's… that's my mom and dad…" Little Natasha's voice was calm, and she didn't seem to feel any sadness.
But Zhou Ye saw two white marks on her black face, which was stained with smoke. Those were the traces of her tears. She was crying silently.
"Cry out loud if you want to cry…" Zhou Ye didn't mind that little Natasha was dirty and hugged her in his arms, comforting her in a low voice, "It's better to cry out!"
"Woo woo…" It was just a suppressed sob just now, but the sob became louder and louder. Little Natasha finally couldn't help but cry out loud. "You're a bad guy… why do you have to make me cry… Waaah… Mom and Dad are dead… I'll be alone from now on…"
The fear and worry of the past few months, the grief of the death of both parents, and the confusion and fear about the future life finally made little Natasha cry. Although she was a strong child, she was still just a child under the age of ten…
"It's good to cry out… I'll take care of you from now on…" Zhou Ye said, patting her back.
I don't know how long it took, but little Natasha finally cried tired and fell asleep in Zhou Ye's arms…
"Darling… the head maid said they have prepared our foothold in the United States. Are we going over now?" Raven, who had been standing aside, came to Zhou Ye with a small satellite phone in her hand and asked in a low voice.
"Yeah, let's go then!" Zhou Ye said, looking at Pandora, who had been on guard. "Has anyone come just now? Darling!"
"Just now, the little guy's cries alarmed three Soviet soldiers and a team of German soldiers…" Pandora said nonchalantly, "But I guided them and let them go to the side to love each other…"
"Okay… I hope it's not the kind of love each other I'm thinking of…" Zhou Ye felt a chill, and he found that his little darling had recently become a bit fond of pranks… He always felt that the ending of those soldiers was not optimistic… "I've had enough of this place. Let's go find Yin Yin and the others…"
"Okay, it's just a pity that I can't see the interesting expressions of those soldiers. It's really a pity…" Pandora walked between Zhou Ye and Raven with a regretful expression, grabbing one with each hand, while Zhou Ye hugged the little loli Natasha, and the figures of the few people disappeared in a flash.
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On the other side—Ophelia, with a lazy expression, sat in the main control room of the base, looking at the heavily guarded military base displayed on the huge screen in front of her, and couldn't help but reveal a slight contemptuous smile.
"Sister Ophelia, I think this… is it…" White Queen Emma sat beside her and said a little uncomfortably, "If we really let darling lose… then…"
"Haha, you're really a cutie, Emma…" Stretching lazily, Ophelia, who showed her alluring curves undoubtedly, turned around with a smile and looked at Emma, who had an unwilling expression.
Ophelia herself sent this little cutie to her father's bed, so in Zhou Ye's harem, Emma and she were the closest.
"You really think I'm here to restrict Father?" Ophelia said, standing up and walking over to Emma. She reached out and gently lifted Emma's chin, asking with a teasing expression.
"If not... then... why attack Red Skull now?" Emma tilted her head, shaking off Ophelia's hand and asking a little bashfully.
"So, Emma, you're almost completely tamed by Daddy!" Ophelia didn't mind Emma's actions, straightening her back and saying, "I just want to play a little game with Daddy... just like those battle games we played with Daddy when we were little..."
"If it's a game..." Emma asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why make such a bet? What if you win? Wouldn't Darling be very angry... You know, Darling is usually very easygoing, but he's a chauvinist..."
"This is a game that Daddy can't possibly lose!" Ophelia blinked and smiled playfully, "I'm definitely going to lose, but there are many ways to lose... A big loss is a loss, and a small loss is also a loss. But obviously, I don't want to lose too badly, so I have to strike first and seize the Infinity Stones!"
But…" Emma was still a little hesitant…
"Don't worry, I care about Dad's feelings more than any of you…" Ophelia smiled and said, "I promise this will be a wonderful game. Now, let's prepare ourselves and start this game!"
"Alright, I hope you're right!" Emma said, turning to leave the control room. "I'll go call Qin and the others…"
"Okay!" Ophelia smiled, watching Emma leave.
In fact, she still had some selfish motives… She wanted to make it look like she was just one move away from beating her father in this game, so she could use a woman's special skill: acting cute and demanding another match with her father…
Not for anything else, Ophelia just wanted to be with her father often. Moreover, she also wanted to show her father her abilities in this world, just like a girl who got good grades wants to show off to her father. She didn't voice these little thoughts.
However, Emma, who walked out of the room, knew all of this…
As a member of Zhou Ye's hidden slave, Emma had also been affected by Zhou Ye's Spring Breeze Heart-Snatching Skill… Her joining Ophelia was also at Zhou Ye's suggestion.
Yes, that's right. Zhou Ye loves using cheat codes when playing games. All kinds of hacks are used to the max. People in the Jianghu call him the [Cheat Prince]…
Emma had actually known Ophelia's plan for a long time. Don't forget that Emma is a level four mind power user, especially after being strengthened by Umbrella's Apocalypse ability, she has already reached level five.
When the game was first proposed, she peeked into Ophelia's heart out of curiosity, and then told Zhou Ye about Ophelia's thoughts, which led to this scene of going to Ophelia as an undercover agent…
I have to say, Zhou Ye is cheating even when playing a game with his daughter, which is simply cruel (doing) heart (of) disease (pretty) crazy (bright)…
Actually, to put it bluntly, Zhou Ye is just buying himself insurance. After all, if he loses, it's a small matter that he can only bring ten girls back to each world in the future, but losing face is a big deal… When it comes to face (girls), he has to resort to such tricks.
Let's not mention Zhou Ye for now.
Underground hangar of the base on Umbrella Island — — — —
Ophelia crossed her arms, looking helplessly at Psylocke, Copycat, Storm, Phoenix and others in front of her, all looking lazy, with rosy cheeks, and walking a little weakly.
"…I really doubt whether taking you to Hydra's base was a mistake!"
"Oh, I can't do it anymore. I won't get off the plane when the time comes. I'll just cheer you on from the plane!" Storm, Ororo, supported Qin's hand and said with a smile: "These small fries are not enough for Qin to fight alone…"
"Yeah, leave it to me, Ororo can rest…" Jean Grey didn't care. The two can be said to be sisters who have played together since childhood, in every sense of the word.
"It's all because of darling…" Copycat, Vanessa, complained with a blushing face.
"Hmph, hmph, hmph… This has nothing to do with darling…" Psylocke ruthlessly exposed Vanessa, saying: "I remember someone who was being punished was so obedient, like a little kitten, in order to satisfy someone's perverted taste, transforming into whoever they wanted… Hmph, hmph, hmph, hmph…"
Psylocke, Elizabeth, was naturally unhappy, because Vanessa had also transformed into her appearance during that kind of thing, leaving her lying aside, with a super weird feeling, especially when two identical faces were facing each other, and when someone was too fast and seemed to be invading at the same time, that taste… well, I won't say it, think about it yourself.
"…Stop arguing, it's not like you haven't been played like this by darling before, one by one… I think you want to be punished by darling again, don't you?" The White Queen, Emma, still has some authority, after all, in the X-Men, she and Ophelia can be said to have watched the girls grow up.
"Okay, I hope it won't be too much trouble when the time comes… Everyone, get on board!" Ophelia was also speechless towards the quartet. In terms of combat power, after being strengthened, each of the quartet can be called capable of standing alone, but after all, Zhou Ye protected them too closely, and they didn't have any sense of tension on the battlefield…
But on second thought, Ophelia felt that maybe she was too harsh on them. After all, one Qin can sweep the current Hydra, but Ophelia's goal is not just to seize the Infinity Stones so simply. What she wants is all of Red Skull's… everything!!!
Chapter 346
Austria, Klausberg — Hydra Secret Base…
Austria is a mountainous country. Mountains account for 70 percent of the country's territory. The Alps run through the west and south of the country.
And many mountains mean many valleys, and valleys happen to be the best place to hide bases. Ophelia sat in the space shuttle, looking at the terrain surrounded by mountains under her feet through holographic imaging, and couldn't help but admire that Red Skull, Schmidt, really knew how to find a good place.
"Okay, let's get ready to go down!" Ophelia said to the shuttle pilot, "Hover at an altitude of 500 meters for a while, we will go down by ourselves!"
"Yes, Mother!" The Umbrella pilot respectfully said, turned on the shuttle's optical stealth device, lowered the altitude to 500 meters, and then reported: "Current altitude is 500!"
"Okay, sisters, let's go!" With that said, Ophelia pressed the emergency door opening button, and when the hatch opened, she jumped down first.
"Miss is still so decisive!" Ophelia's personal maids, Vicki and Monica, sighed, and jumped down with their master. They knew that their master had no flying ability…
Vicki and Monica, who jumped out of the shuttle, flickered in the air and appeared on both sides of Ophelia, then one grabbed one of Ophelia's arms and disappeared into the air again.
Three figures suddenly appeared above the factory, a few dozen meters from the Hydra base. Vicky and Monica complained softly, "Miss, please notify us next time you jump, okay? If we accidentally hurt you, how are we going to explain it to Master…?"
"Although I'm not a little girl anymore…" Ophelia replied irrelevantly, "Sometimes I want to be willful too!"
The two female attendants rolled their eyes helplessly. They could be said to have watched Ophelia grow up. Although most of the time, Ophelia was like a queen, not requiring them to worry too much, sometimes she would be emotional like a little girl…
While the three were talking, Emma (the White Queen) and the Four also appeared one by one beside them. Besides Ororo and Jean, who flew down on their own, Vanessa and Elizabeth were also brought down by their female attendants…
Ophelia glanced at the women and said, "Alright, everyone's here. It's time to meet that Hydra's Mr. Schmidt… I'm really looking forward to having the title of Hydra Madam…"
"Let's go this way!" Emma (the White Queen) had already scanned the brains of everyone in the entire base in the blink of an eye. Now, the entire base held no secrets from her.
Led by Emma, the women swaggered towards Schmidt's office. Along the way, the Hydra soldiers in black uniforms turned a blind eye to these women who had suddenly appeared in the base.
Of course, all of this was thanks to Jean's ability… [True・Akarin Technique], just kidding, it's just a simple mental ability.
Meanwhile, in Schmidt's office—
"Dr. Zola, when exactly can you produce a prototype of the machine?" Schmidt looked expressionlessly at the short, fat Dr. Zola in front of him. He felt very dissatisfied with Dr. Zola's research progress.
"This crystal has never been discovered in the world before…" Dr. Zola explained while wiping his sweat, "Therefore, I need to do a few more experiments to determine its performance and how to guide the huge energy inside it out."
"I hope you understand that we don't have much time left…" Schmidt crossed his hands and placed them on the table, leaning forward slightly. "What we lack most now is time, so… please complete your experiment faster, okay? Dr. Zola?"
"Yes… I understand!" Zola felt that Schmidt in front of him was like a beast, as if he was about to devour him. He said stiffly, "If there is nothing else… then I…"
"You may leave…" Schmidt waved his hand, signaling that he could leave.
"Then I'll go do the experiment…" Just as Zola was about to turn around and leave, with a bang, the door of Schmidt's office was violently kicked open. "Hi, gentlemen, I think you can't go anywhere now!"
"How did you get in here? Soldiers, capture them!" Schmidt didn't show any contempt when he saw the women. He knew that the entire base was heavily guarded. Without triggering any alarms, these dozen or so women broke into his office. How could Schmidt dare to take such a strange thing lightly?
But an even stranger thing happened. The two Hydra soldiers on duty in the room didn't seem to hear Schmidt's words at all. They still stood there, heads held high and chests out, as if they didn't see the women at all, nor did they hear the order.
"Mr. Schmidt, is it?" Emma, wearing a white formal dress, walked to Schmidt's desk with a smile and said calmly, "If I were you, I would put my hands on the table, instead of pressing the cute little red button below, and even less would I reach for the Sauer M38H pistol placed at the foot of the table!"
"Who exactly are you people?" Seeing that his plans had been seen through, Schmidt simply placed his hands on the table and asked, "Maybe there's some misunderstanding between us. I think we can sit down and resolve everything through negotiation!"
"No, no, there is no misunderstanding between us…" Ophelia walked to him with a smile, sat elegantly on the chair brought by the female attendant, and said to Schmidt, "As a villain, I think you are too unqualified, and the rabble under your command are too weak. On the contrary, as a logistics commander, I think you are very suitable. In just a few years, you have built Hydra's base everywhere…"
"…" Schmidt's pupils shrank. The powerful woman in front of him seemed to know him very well. "Then what exactly are you looking for me for?"
"Vanessa—it's up to you!" Ophelia ignored Schmidt. In her opinion, this guy was destined to die, so there was no need to pay too much attention to him.
"Okay, leave it to me!" Vanessa said, walking to Schmidt's side and circling around him, sizing him up non-stop. Her gaze didn't seem to be looking at a living person, but at a corpse.
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"…" Schmidt felt cold sweat all over his body from Vanessa's gaze, but he didn't dare to act rashly. Although the women in the room looked delicate and powerless, he had a feeling that if he dared to resist, what awaited him would definitely be a thunderous blow.
Time passed by minute by minute, and Schmidt felt like a year had passed.