By the time Li Chen stretched his limbs and emerged from the Magic Cube Maze, it was already May eighteenth.
That happened to be the day the Flying Boat departed for home. He personally saw it off, only to receive a sudden alert from Heavenly Pivot: hundreds of Human-Head Centipedes had appeared in the nearby mountain forests.
The intelligences under Li Chen's command had long since locked onto their movements. But since the enemy kept lurking out of sight, apparently acting as scouts, they had not dealt with them immediately, instead waiting until Li Chen emerged from seclusion to notify him.
"The Heavenly Dragon Gate seems awfully concerned about the Flying Boat's movements. Ah, of course. They must have thought this Flying Boat might help me, so they didn't dare act rashly while it was here."
The Flying Boat's arrival had invisibly bought Li Chen several more days to recuperate. Now that it had departed, however, the Heavenly Dragon Gate was stirring again.
An idea struck Li Chen, and he instructed Heavenly Jade, "Send Jingang into battle. Teach those snooping enemies a lesson they won't forget!"
A little prying might do no real harm, but he would not indulge his enemies too much.
When they needed a beating, he would give them one-and test Jingang's enhanced combat strength while he was at it.
"Yes, master!"
The artificial intelligence faithfully carried out Li Chen's command.
It released Jingang and used the Auxiliary Brain Chip implanted in his brain body, along with his special organs, to guide him toward one of the locations where enemy scouts had been discovered.
With a surging aura like a demonic gale, the Mountain Ogre, now grown to over ten feet tall, rose into the air and lunged toward the enemy with savage excitement.
Clearly, he was