Bardock told me to go to Earth with Kakarot, I've latched onto the protagonist's thigh this time

Cold sweat ran down Gou Kong's temples and dripped onto the rough alloy tabletop, instantly spreading into a small dark stain.

A moment ago, he had still been cursing King Vegeta for discarding him once he was useful no longer. Only now did he understand what true despair meant.

That bastard Frieza had Planet Vegeta sealed up like an iron barrel. Outer space was full of Frieza Force patrol ships, and if any spacecraft dared take off without permission, a volley from their ship cannons would leave not even scraps behind.

The modified space pod he had hidden for so long was now nothing but an iron coffin for show. Forget breaking through the atmosphere—it could not even reach takeoff altitude.

Every escape route he had calculated before had been blocked off. Gou Kong only felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end as goose bumps rose all over him.

He could not help cursing inwardly: My luck is really something else. I take one nap and wake up on the day of a planet-destruction countdown. What, did I become sworn brothers with the Grim Reaper or something?

If God was really on my side, would the God of Destruction Beerus just happen to come strolling around Planet Vegeta for no damn reason?

What absolute rotten luck!

Now the only road left was a forced breakthrough, but that was even more absurdly difficult than tossing ten coins and guessing heads on every single one.

If he really tried to barge through, nine times out of ten he would become drifting dust in the universe, and all the planning he had done over the past four years would go down the drain.

Gou Kong let out a long sigh and had just been about to open his mouth to complain when Gine's voice rang out.

"So we plan to evacuate Kakarot to that planet called Earth today."

Gou Kong froze, then raised his head to look at Gine.

The woman's brows were knitted tightly, and displeasure was written plainly all over her face.

No one would feel good about sending their newborn child to a strange planet tens of thousands of light-years away.

She paused before continuing, "Before you woke up, I already told Bardock about this idea. He's too stubborn. Since nothing has clearly gone wrong yet, I couldn't force him, so I could only nod and agree... but I still don't feel at ease."

Bardock leaned back in his chair with his arms crossed. Hearing this, he only answered in a muffled voice, "It's better than staying here and waiting to die. The opponent is Frieza. Who knows what that purple-skinned onion-head will do? It never hurts to have an extra plan ready."

Gou Kong listened in a daze, and his mind instinctively began to calculate.

Send Kakarot to Earth?

The idea itself was an absolutely brilliant move.

Earth was so remote that even dust was too lazy to drift there. Its native creatures had pitifully low combat strength, and even Frieza looked down on what little resources it had. It was definitely the safest harbor.

But the problem was sending him now, at a time like this?

Frieza had just cranked surveillance over the entire planet to the maximum. Sending a ship into the sky now was basically ramming straight into the cannon muzzles, wasn't it?

No, wait.

Gou Kong suddenly remembered the plot from the movie version: back then, Cooler had discovered the space pod carrying Kakarot. He clearly had ten thousand ways to blast it into scraps, yet he had happened to think it was bait planted by Frieza and let it go without even touching it.

This was hard protection from the protagonist's halo. As long as Kakarot was there, the relevant threads of cause and effect would automatically correct themselves.

Even if Frieza's scouts discovered him, they would think this little brat posed no threat and let him pass directly.

But as soon as he thought about it again, Gou Kong felt another burst of panic.

This corrective force only worked on the protagonist. An outsider like him was not within its protection!

If he followed onto the ship, would the will of the world treat him as a bug and erase him directly?

Just as his thoughts ran wild, Bardock's voice suddenly rang out and interrupted him. "Gine, Earth really is the best choice right now. That place is rich in resources, and the combat strength of its native life-forms ranks near the bottom of the universe. Even if Kakarot is young, he can live there safely. Most importantly, that planet is too poor. Frieza can't be bothered with it at all and won't send anyone to watch it. Right, what did Raditz say? He went to a distant star system with Prince Vegeta. Once the recall order comes down, when will he be back?"

Gine counted on her fingers for a bit before saying, "The journey from the distant star system is long. Even if he starts back immediately after receiving the recall order, it'll take at least one or two weeks. The Saiyans who went even farther than them will only take longer to return. Based on that, we have at least a month of buffer time. We'll send Kakarot to Earth first, then send Raditz a message afterward and discuss what to do next once he comes back."

Bardock nodded and had just been about to say something more when he suddenly turned his head to look at Gou Kong, who had been silent all this time, and asked in a deep voice, "Gou Kong, what do you plan to do next?"

Gou Kong was startled back to his senses by the sudden question. He opened his mouth and stammered for a long while without managing to form a complete sentence. "Oh? I secretly hid a backup space pod before, but with things like this now... I don't know where I should go next either..."

His words were half true and half false. It was true that he had hidden a space pod, but his escape plan had long since gone up in smoke. Saying it now actually made it sound like he was telling the truth.

Hearing this, a rare trace of looseness appeared on Bardock's hard, cold face. He leaned forward slightly, stared into Gou Kong's eyes, and said, "I noticed that technique of yours for hiding your combat strength before. Being able to restrain your energy so thoroughly that even a scouter can't pick it up—methods like that are rare in the whole universe. Now Frieza has the surveillance net at full strength, but as long as you're there, Kakarot's tiny bit of combat strength won't be discovered by the scouts at all, and you can use that technique to avoid every set of eyes too. If you want to find a place to hide until the situation stabilizes, sending Kakarot to Earth is the best choice. And while you're at it, you can go with him."

"What the fuck?"

Gou Kong's eyes went round in an instant, and he nearly jumped out of his chair.

There was something this good?

He had just been wondering how he was going to turn into cosmic fireworks, and now someone was handing him a ladder?

Not only could Kakarot be sent away, but he himself could hide on Earth with him?

This was a pie falling from the sky and smacking him right in the face!

He had been worrying before that he had nowhere to run, and now Bardock had directly given him a perfect solution.

With the protagonist's halo protecting them, Frieza's surveillance net was nothing but a decoration. If he left with Kakarot, he would absolutely be safe!

This luck was ridiculously good, even more exciting than when he had pulled an SSR back then!

"Seriously?" Gou Kong's voice cracked, and he was so excited his hands were trembling. The despair from just now was instantly thrown beyond the highest heavens. "There's really a place that can avoid Frieza's eyes? You're not lying to me, are you? Where is it? I'll go right now!"

Bardock was stunned by his excessive reaction, then shook his head helplessly and pointed toward the backyard. "Calm down first. The disposable space pod I secretly got my hands on earlier is hidden in the rock crevice behind the house. Gine and I will go to the nursery center now to carry Kakarot out. You go drag that space pod out and get it ready for launch. I already planned the route to Earth in advance. The coordinates are written on this energy plate. Take it. Whatever you do, don't mix up the coordinates, or if you fly into a star, no one's going to fish you out."