Ji Yuan said to Tingyun, "A group of Buli Ren is hiding not far from here. Wait a moment. I'll lure them over to destroy this place, making it look like they planned to attack the factory from this side. I'll prepare in advance and have the Cloud Knights spot them. Once the two sides start fighting, this place will be blown to pieces. Even if Phantylia comes looking, all she'll find will be a few fragments of you."
"Lure the Buli Ren here? How will you do that? And if they're lured over like this, won't Phantylia become suspicious?"
Listening to Ji Yuan, Tingyun felt there were far too many holes in this plan.
"Exactly, so we need it to take the blame." Ji Yuan pointed at the Suiyang.
"Though Phantylia is already an Emanator of Destruction, she still used the Suiyang's usual methods when setting this place up. Under those circumstances, wouldn't it be perfectly normal for another Suiyang to find it and cause some damage?"
"Mm..."
Tingyun pondered it for a moment. Having the Suiyang take the blame was at least somewhat explainable.
"Though there are still uncertainties, this is the best option." Ji Yuan spoke quickly to Tingyun. "I'll use the Suiyang to possess a Buli Ren and bring them over. Once they arrive, I'll immediately use the spatial transfer device to move you and the Star Skiff out. At its maximum range, it can transfer you to the satellite we were on before, and you can leave from there. Oh, right. You know how to pilot a Star Skiff, don't you?"
Ji Yuan recalled a crucial question and asked Tingyun.
The freely navigable Star Skiffs of the Luofu Starfaring Vessel were one thing, but this sort of lightspeed Star Skiff required someone to operate it.
The moment Ji Yuan asked, Tingyun immediately assured him, "Of course. Every Fox Folk is a born Star Skiff pilot. Though my physical condition prevented me from becoming a pilot, I still know all the necessary Star Skiff piloting techniques."
"Then that's settled. Come on, let's begin. We need to move quickly. The instant this place explodes, you need to start flying out."
As he spoke, Ji Yuan took out the spatial transfer device again.
Seeing it, Tingyun's expression already showed that she had grown accustomed to such things.
No matter how many more items Ji Yuan pulled out, she would not be too surprised.
As an excellent lover, she would never concern herself with how many little secrets Ji Yuan still had.
Remembering something, Tingyun asked Ji Yuan, "By the way, after I fly out, should I return directly to the Luofu Starfaring Vessel and report this to the General?"
Destruction Lord Phantylia had transformed into her likeness and infiltrated the Celestial Ark. No matter how one looked at it, this was an extremely serious matter. Tingyun felt it was necessary to report it to General Jing Yuan.
"For now, don't go back to the Celestial Ark. To be honest, it's obvious this time that people from the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus on the Celestial Ark are colluding with Phantylia. If you go straight back, they may intercept you halfway. As for Phantylia's identity, I'll quietly tell General Jing Yuan when I return to the Celestial Ark."
For the next few days, he would make the most of Phantylia and try to get more things from her. Then, once he returned to the Celestial Ark, he would immediately report the situation to General Jing Yuan. With the General handling things, he would be much safer.
Ji Yuan had no grand ambitions. Dealing with an Emanator of Destruction was the duty of a Cloud Knight general. He only needed to honestly take a few things, acquire a few skills, and do his best to keep himself alive.
"Alright."
Tingyun nodded in agreement.
After thinking for a moment, Ji Yuan said to her, "I remember you said the Herta Space Station isn't far from here, right? Do you want to take a look there? Find a way to hide there for a while, and be careful not to expose your identity."
He had seen in the news that some protagonist group would soon arrive at the Herta Space Station. He did not trust anyone else, but those around the protagonist were at least somewhat reliable.
Having Tingyun stay near them was the greatest guarantee of safety Ji Yuan could think of.
"Alright. Then I'll head directly to the Herta Space Station."
Tingyun was very obedient about this as well.
Ji Yuan would never harm her. Right now, Tingyun trusted him beyond measure.
Even if he told her to face an Aeon directly, Tingyun would go.
After some thought, time was tight, and Ji Yuan had nothing more to say.
The rest could only depend on Tingyun adapting to the situation.
This was already the limit of what he could think of.
He had no other options beyond this.
He activated the transfer device and gestured for Tingyun and the Star Skiff to enter first.
"The rest will depend on you."
Ji Yuan bid Tingyun farewell.
"Mm. I believe we'll meet again very soon."
Tingyun wrapped her arms around Ji Yuan and kissed him on the lips.
It did not last long, but Ji Yuan could feel the love contained in Tingyun's heart.
At the same time, she reached out and removed the glasses Ji Yuan was wearing.
While Ji Yuan stood there in astonishment, she put them on herself.
"Judging from your expression just now, these don't seem like anything good. Come on, let me see."
After putting them on, her expression froze.
Especially when she looked at Ji Yuan, her face instantly turned red.
Now she understood why Ji Yuan had refused to let her see them earlier.
They were far too stimulating!
Tingyun gave Ji Yuan a few more looks.
Ji Yuan hurriedly reached out to take the glasses back.
"Shameless~"
Tingyun softly spat the words at him.
She returned the glasses to Ji Yuan.
Then, without the slightest hesitation, Tingyun prepared to enter the transfer device.
But before she stepped inside, Ji Yuan pulled yet another device resembling a phone from his pocket and tossed it to Tingyun.
"What is this?"
Tingyun caught it and asked Ji Yuan.
"A special communication device. We can use it to contact each other, and not even an Emanator can detect it."
Ji Yuan answered Tingyun.
When Tingyun had used the glasses to look at him, the system had come online again.
You and the beautiful widow were completely honest with each other. Reward: Stamina +1. May you travel ever farther down the path of Cao Cao. You and the Helmsman of the Ten Ships Bureau were completely honest with each other. Reward: a pair of private lovers' phones, rigorously encrypted to ensure they would not be discovered.
Seeing that only two achievements had appeared this time, Ji Yuan was overjoyed.
Tingyun's fated death had finally been lifted by him.
Tingyun's Escape in Progress (Part 2), Second Update
Ji Yuan immediately transferred Tingyun and the Star Skiff to that satellite in outer space.
Her safety now depended on her own actions.
He could handle matters here, but he had few ways to help with anything in outer space.
Still, the Star Skiff she was piloting was fast enough. There should not be much danger.
At the same time as the transfer, Ji Yuan began using the Suiyang Subjugation Art, sending the Suiyang charging toward the Buli Ren's hidden nest.
The Buli Ren were cautiously hiding underground.
They badly wanted to fight the Celestial Ark Natives to the death, as the two sides bore deep hatred for each other.
But they were also an intelligent race. The Buli Ren were merely cruel by nature and fond of slaughter and plunder; they were not beasts with nothing in their heads but the urge to loot. They knew that fighting the Cloud Knights now would be nothing more than throwing away their lives. So they could only hide here and wait for the day the Cloud Knights left.
Unfortunately, they had still overestimated their own patience. With the Cloud Knights refusing to leave for so long, their agitation grew by the day.
At that moment, Ji Yuan's Suiyang entered one of the Buli Ren's minds.
For a Suiyang to possess another person, the most important thing was aligning with their emotions. These Buli Ren were currently consumed by the urge to destroy, which perfectly matched Ji Yuan's intentions.
In an instant,
this Buli Ren's mind was filled with the thought of fighting the Cloud Knights to the death.
Kill, kill, kill! We Buli Ren have always fought the Celestial Ark Alliance to the bitter end. Why should we hide?
"Awoo~!"
He let out a wolfish howl, immediately gripped his biological weapon, and began digging and attacking toward Ji Yuan's location.
When the other Buli Ren saw their comrade suddenly launching a reckless attack, they gave it a little thought before simply deciding to throw caution to the wind.
Staying here meant death. Launching an attack meant death. Waiting here to starve to death was no better than fighting the Cloud Knights until they died. Besides, what if they could break through?
Wouldn't that mean carving out a path to survival?
Watching the Buli Ren begin their assault, Ji Yuan made the final preparations on his side.
He glanced at Tingyun's corpse, picked it up, and placed it by the wall the Buli Ren were attacking.
He did not touch Tingyun's corpse with his own hands, because Ji Yuan believed that even if only a trace remained, Phantylia might be able to notice something.
He could not take that risk.
Boom!
A deafening explosion erupted, and the tiny room shook violently. Tingyun's corpse against the wall was instantly blown into pieces, leaving the entire space a bloody mess.
At the same time, Ji Yuan had already recalled the Suiyang into his storage space and used the transfer device to return himself to headquarters.
After retrieving the dummy, Ji Yuan listened to Huohuo's snoring in the room. Knowing she had noticed nothing throughout the process, he felt slightly relieved.
He looked down at himself, then immediately headed for the shower.
He needed to wash up first.
Turning on the shower, Ji Yuan began rinsing his body. Halfway through, his system suddenly issued a notification.
Your body was scanned by the Lord of Destruction, who greatly admired your physical condition. The system has specially rewarded you with two collector's editions of 18x books.
The achievement itself was nothing, so the reward was nothing special either.
But the information contained within it made cold sweat break out across Ji Yuan's body.
Fortunately, he had the transfer device. Fortunately, he had returned in time. And fortunately, the system's storage space was reliable enough that it had not allowed the Suiyang's aura to leak out.
Otherwise...
Ji Yuan could not help shuddering.
He hurriedly turned the shower knob and muttered, "This headquarters is so rich, yet it still can't fix the problem of the water temperature never adjusting properly."
As he spoke, he carefully cleaned himself.
"Something happened over there?"
When the Buli Ren attacked, Phantylia sensed it almost immediately.
However, because she was disguised as Tingyun and pretending to sleep, she received the news a few seconds late.
She transferred there at once.
Seeing the Buli Ren fighting the Cloud Knights, she frowned and instead went to inspect the place where Tingyun had been kept. There were fragments of a corpse in the basement. After carefully examining them, Phantylia found that they were indeed Tingyun's bodily tissues. If nothing unexpected had happened, Tingyun had indeed died here.
"But why would the Buli Ren attack this place?"
She muttered to herself.
She had discovered the Buli Ren earlier but had not dealt with them, because she truly could not imagine any reason they would attack here. Even if they could no longer endure hiding over there, they would only attack the Cloud Knights, not this underground space of hers.
Just as Phantylia was about to suspect something else, she immediately sensed traces of Suiyang activity here.
The security measures she had arranged had also been set up according to the Suiyang's customary methods.
It was not impossible that a passing Suiyang had come through and caused some destruction.
But,
how could the Suiyang race possibly appear here?
Even the Firebringer had been sealed by the Celestial Ark Alliance. There were only a handful of wandering Suiyang left in the universe.
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