Chapter Forty-Five: Sister Qin Qin

The weather was gradually getting cooler. Qin Luming instructed Fairy Jiang not to leave the tent and went outside to check the situation.

To his surprise, he saw Che Yun early in the morning. She looked haggard and uneasy, like a wronged party. It seemed she hadn't slept well last night either... but not because of Yang Xiaoyan and Brother Paris's tent activities.

Che Yun, as someone who participated in outdoor activities purely for fun, was not qualified to join the search and rescue efforts because she would only be a burden.

"I should have gone with them yesterday," Che Yun said regretfully upon seeing Qin Luming, her tone filled with unspeakable sighs, as if her going with Yang Xiaoyan and the others yesterday could have changed anything.

Qin Luming didn't say anything. Women were like this; emotional expression was more important. What they said at times like these lacked any rationality, no different from farting.

"Maybe if I had gone with them, none of this would have happened. You know the butterfly effect, right? A small change can cause a big reaction. Even if I had woken up and asked them to wait for me, missing the time they had their accident, maybe everything would be different." Che Yun was anxious and blamed herself. Compared to other strangers, Qin Luming, with whom she shared a past experience, was clearly a more suitable person to confide in.

Qin Luming chuckled. He really couldn't stand these women; they always talked too much and thought about all sorts of unnecessary things.

Be rational, do what you can, and if you can't do anything, face it calmly. Solely dwelling on how to soothe your own little emotions, thinking about how to make yourself feel better by confiding in others... this was probably how women thought.

"You can still laugh?" Qin Luming's smile clearly lacked any friendliness, comfort, or positive energy. Instead, it was cold and filled with a mocking, heartless feeling. Che Yun looked at Qin Luming in disbelief. "At a time like this, everyone is praying for them, everyone is doing their best, even strangers... Some students in our group even organized a prayer event last night, lighting heart-shaped candles in front of their dormitories, calling for everyone to forward and like the event to gain more support and blessings. You... you're just standing here sneering?"

"Even funnier..." Qin Luming couldn't help but laugh louder. "I set out with the search and rescue team last night, and you can't even imagine the dangers I encountered. Praying? Lighting candles? Forwarding? Liking? Can it get any funnier? A bunch of hypocritical, pretentious, and sentimental things."

"This... how is this hypocritical, pretentious, and sentimental?" Che Yun felt Qin Luming's laughter was particularly jarring, and her expression changed. "Are you saying I shouldn't take their disappearance seriously like you?"

Communication failed.

As Qin Luming laughed, he gradually felt a sense of sadness. Were all women in reality this foolish? The proud and adorable girls in his novels didn't give him that feeling of overwhelming joy in reality... except for the excitement when he held her just now.

He had gotten excited for nothing.

Was he destined to live like this with Zuozuo and Caicai for the rest of his life? He always felt that the perfect girlfriend he longed for simply didn't exist.

Qin Luming had extremely high expectations for his girlfriend, influenced by his upbringing. Both of his uncle's successive wives and his uncle's confidantes were all unparalleled beauties, charming and alluring in every way.

His mother was also a very traditional and gentle woman, and his sister was also excellent... Apart from the female elders and relatives he knew (excluding An Chacha), Qin Luming had never met any women in the real world who could compare to his mother and sister.

The beautiful and cute Zuozuo and Caicai were also his right-hand women.

Qin Luming glanced at Che Yun. Women in reality were truly hideous.

Che Yun met Qin Luming's gaze and felt an extreme contempt from it, which made her even more displeased. She was a beauty who, when she casually posted a selfie, would receive many likes and comments, and was often called a "goddess." Most men could only manage to get a spot in her social media feed and like her posts.

This Qin Luming, however, seemed to treat her like a commoner, foolish and ugly.

Qin Luming's phone rang. He took it out and saw it was a video call request from his sister, Qin Qin. The photo displayed was very cute. Qin Luming looked at it for a moment before answering. Comparing Che Yun next to him with his sister's photo, Che Yun appeared even more vulgar and unbearable.

"Sis... What's up so early in the morning?" Qin Luming yawned. He hadn't rested since starting the search yesterday and continuing into this morning, and he was feeling a bit sleepy.

"Zuozuo and Caicai's adoption procedures are complete. I was going to mail them to you, but I'm returning to City A today and also want to see you... Make me lunch." Qin Qin looked at her beloved brother. "Where are you? It looks like you're in some park?"

"I'm camping." Qin Luming switched the camera and panned around the surrounding environment.

"I think I see a beauty," Qin Qin said, pointing at Che Yun.

Qin Luming chuckled. "Another group camped here... A whole group of them went missing, and only she is left."

"Ah! Then come back quickly. Be careful not to get into trouble yourself." Qin Qin said nervously. She was the sole heir of the Qin family. In the third generation of the Qin family, he was the only male descendant. His uncle's family had all daughters! Uncle Tian hadn't even gotten married yet.

"Got it. When will you arrive? I'll pick you up... Never mind, you come over yourself. I have something to do." Qin Luming remembered he still had to settle Fairy Jiang and probably wouldn't have time to pick up Qin Qin.

"You brat, you don't even pick me up anymore. Anyway, hurry back. It's definitely dangerous where people went missing," Qin Qin said sternly, then smiled again. "Hope to hear good news later."

"No." Qin Luming hung up the video call. The good news Qin Qin was referring to was Qin Luming finding a girlfriend.

Although he was only in his early twenties, his family was already urging him to find a girlfriend.

Qin Luming wasn't unable to find one, but he was unwilling to settle. Until his ideal perfect girlfriend appeared, Qin Luming intended to remain single.

Since Qin Qin was coming over, Qin Luming decided not to stay here any longer... The search and rescue team was destined to be futile. Their search area had already expanded far beyond the dam. Ma Shilong, that black pig, was imprisoned in the heavenly prison. Yang Xiaoyan and this group of pigs should also be enjoying their pig reincarnation lives somewhere inside the magic formation. How could they be found?

Perhaps they, like Ma Shilong, didn't even want to be human anymore.

Qin Luming tidied up, packing the trash he had created over the past two days to take down the mountain for disposal. He had given the other equipment and tools to the search and rescue team.

When he opened the tent, he found that Fairy Jiang was no longer inside. Qin Luming couldn't help but look around.

"I'm above your head."

Qin Luming looked up and saw a pair of pure white shoe soles, emitting a faint halo. His slender calf skin was visible, delicate as jade. There was no revealing glimpse from under her skirt.

There was no spring scenery beneath the God King's skirt. Qin Luming only saw magical and fantastical light spots, the shadowy images of the wondrous creatures when Fairy Jiang first descended. Qin Luming had thought those light shadows had vanished, but he didn't expect them to be under her skirt.

There were also pieces of talismans floating along the hem of her skirt, forming layers of magic formations that emitted a dazzling golden light. It was as if if she lifted her skirt, countless talismans would fly out, and the sacred magic formations would be activated, making people involuntarily prostrate themselves in worship.

"Why did you fly to my head?" Qin Luming quickly moved away because Fairy Jiang was floating less than twenty centimeters above his head. He hadn't expected to not notice her at all.

"I found it very interesting watching you talk to that female insect," Fairy Jiang's lips twitched. "That female insect is driven by instinctual desire towards you. When she realized her appearance, or rather, the influence she had on attracting the opposite sex for reproduction, was insufficient, she tried to create a charming personality to impress you. But clearly, she failed. You are a relatively excellent insect, and she is just an ordinary female insect."

"Thank you for the compliment, but we are not insects, King Jiang. I hope you recognize that." Qin Luming deeply regretted not giving the novel's heroine the setting of seeing everyone as an insect. If she had that setting, would the Fairy Jiang who came to him not have this problem?

"Any race that reproduces through low-level reproductive methods and whose racial characteristics are animalistic can be called an insect." Fairy Jiang was dismissive. "Why are you humans so arrogant to think you don't belong to the category of insects?"

"Then aren't you an insect too? You were born from your parents, right? Isn't that also a low-level reproductive method according to you?" Qin Luming was too lazy to bother with Che Yun. The key was that Che Yun's looks and figure didn't interest him enough to pay much attention... Even if Fairy Jiang didn't fit his image of a perfect girlfriend overall, ultimately... sigh, Qin Luming's mindset was a bit different.

"Ignorant insect, to actually think I am the same as you... Aizen King was not defeated in her battle with the King of Dou Dizhu..."

"Wait, last time you clearly said you were defeated by the King of Dou Dizhu."

"Aizen King was defeated inconclusively in her battle with the King of Dou Dizhu. In order to reshape and forge a more powerful Divine Spark, she made herself a life tree of the God King level, drawing from the core of the Divine Kingdom." Fairy Jiang paused. Seeing Qin Luming purse his lips, seemingly not intending to continue the debate about "defeated versus inconclusively defeated," she continued, "This God King-level life tree finally matured and bore a life fruit that could directly give birth to a God King, which is me."

Qin Luming felt there was something wrong with her explanation. So, Aizen King and Aizen Great Ming King were essentially the same person, right?

She gave birth to herself. How interesting.