42: Chapter 42 Under the Moon and Flowers, a Ghost Knocks on the Door; One Shot Takes Down Old Ma's Starlink
Su Che's heart instantly leaped into his throat.
Onikiri?
He's finally here!
Almost instinctively, he prepared to activate the "combo trap" he had buried in the yard.
Just as his finger was about to press down, another line of data refreshed on the screen.
[AI Behavioral Prediction Analysis: The target's movement trajectory matches the mating period characteristics of local felines. Determined to be... a stray cat in heat.]
...
Su Che stared at the small line of text on the screen, his expression freezing.
"What a load of crap."
He cursed in a low voice.
"Scared the crap out of me."
It was a false alarm.
He let out a sigh of relief, put away his phone, and walked over to the "big guy" in the center of the yard, which was shaped like an anti-aircraft gun.
Tonight was its debut.
He checked the wiring, and once he confirmed everything was correct, he flipped the power switch.
*Buzz—*
The device let out a low rumble.
A solid-looking green beam of light shot out from the barrel, piercing straight into the pitch-black night sky.
Su Che pulled out his phone and opened the control app he had programmed himself.
He tapped the screen lightly.
The beam of light in the night sky instantly burst open.
There was no deafening roar, only countless fine laser beams weaving and blooming in the air, forming a magnificent, giant dandelion made of light.
As the light and shadows shifted, the dandelion slowly dissolved, turning into butterflies dancing all over the sky.
The entire Su Family Village was startled by this sudden, wondrous sight.
"Look! What's that in the sky?"
"An immortal has manifested!"
Windows were pushed open one after another, and heads popped out.
Lin Waner, who hadn't gone home for the past two days and planned to spend the New Year at Su Che's house, also ran out of the room. She looked up at the rain of light filling the sky, her mouth slightly agape, her eyes filled with sheer awe.
Su Che smiled.
His fingers slid rapidly across the screen.
In the night sky, the light and shadow shifted once more.
Two giant Chinese characters, made of countless points of light, slowly emerged.
—Waner.
Lin Waner's body trembled slightly.
She turned her head to look at Su Che, who was standing beside the device.
The man was bathed in the pale blue glow emitted by the device, a familiar, confident smile on his face.
The villagers gradually dispersed. Su Pingan muttered, "What a load of nonsense," and went back inside to sleep.
Only the two of them were left in the yard.
Su Che walked up to her and took her hand.
"Is it beautiful?"
"Yes."
Lin Waner's voice was very soft, like the buzz of a mosquito.
Su Che said nothing more. He simply leaned down and kissed her.
This time, there was none of the previous awkwardness and clumsiness.
Their lips met, warm and soft.
Lin Waner closed her eyes, stood on her tiptoes, and awkwardly responded.
A faint, milky scent lingered at the tip of his nose.
Su Che felt the blood in his entire body begin to boil with heat.
He scooped her up in a bridal carry and strode back into his workshop.
He kicked the door shut behind him.
He gently laid her down on the simple camp bed.
The bed frame let out a soft creak.
Su Che leaned over, looking down at the girl whose face was like a peach blossom and whose eyes were filled with spring water. His Adam's apple bobbed.
That thin sweater could not hide her quite sizable breasts at all.
With her nervous breathing, the little mounds rose and fell.
His hand, out of his control, reached for the buttons of her sweater.
"Don't..."
Lin Waner's voice trembled, and she reached out, gently pressing down on his hand.
Just as this romantic atmosphere was about to reach its peak...
*Buzz— Buzz— Buzz—*
The phone in Su Che's pocket vibrated violently once again!
This time, the warning box on the screen was a blood-red color.
[Warning! Human intrusion detected! Threat level: Lethal!]
[Target has breached the outer perimeter. Gait characteristics do not match normal human behavior.]
[AI Behavioral Prediction: Target is executing tactical evasion. Final destination is the workshop!]
Su Che's movements froze.
He looked at Lin Waner and made a shushing gesture.
"Stay here, don't move."
He slipped out of bed. Without turning on the lights, he crept silently to the door like a civet cat.
He looked out into the yard through the crack in the door.
A black shadow, like a specter, crept in silently along the corner of the wall.
Su Che's eyes turned cold.
He picked up the controller on the desk, which had been modified from a gamepad, and pressed the first button.
*Pfft—*
In the corner of the yard, a trap disguised as a sprinkler activated.
What sprayed out was not water, but an extremely slippery liquid mixed with detergent and engine oil.
The black shadow's foot slipped, and he stumbled, almost falling.
Reacting incredibly fast, he exerted force from his waist, executing an unbelievable twist to stabilize his balance.
Su Che pressed the second button.
*Buzz—*
An ear-piercing high-frequency sound wave instantly enveloped the entire yard.
The black shadow's movements visibly stiffened, and he covered his ears.
Now!
Su Che slammed the door open, preparing to coordinate with Captain Li Jun's men to flank the intruder.
But he hadn't expected the black shadow's speed to be far beyond his imagination.
The moment the sound waves rang out, instead of retreating, the black shadow charged forward like an arrow shot from a bow, heading straight for the workshop!
*Bang!*
The wooden door was kicked open by him.
Su Che only felt a blur before his eyes as a fierce gust of wind rushed at his face.
"Su Che!"
Lin Waner's scream echoed inside the room.
"Don't move!"
Captain Li Jun rushed in from outside the yard with four fully armed elite soldiers, their dark gun barrels aiming into the room.
Onikiri, the specter-like man, held a cold, gleaming dagger in his hand.
The tip of the dagger was pressed right against Lin Waner's snow-white, delicate neck.
A trickle of bright red blood slowly seeped out along the blade.
"Hand over the item."
Onikiri's voice was hoarse, cold, and devoid of any emotion.
Looking at the blood on Lin Waner's neck and her face, pale with fear, Su Che's eyes instantly turned bloodshot.
"Fine."
He took out the glass bottle containing the "Kunlun Alloy" powder from the metal cabinet at the very back of the workshop.
"I'll give it to you."
Without hesitation, he tossed the bottle toward Onikiri.
Due to nervousness, he threw it with too much force.
Seeing that the glass bottle was about to fly quickly over his head, Onikiri had no choice but to reach out and intercept it.
The moment Onikiri reached out to intercept the bottle, Captain Li Jun lunged forward like a cheetah.
Onikiri's eyes narrowed. He abandoned the bottle and dodged to the side.
*Smash!*
The glass bottle traced a parabola through the air and, by sheer coincidence, landed right on the laser fireworks show device in the yard.
The bottle shattered.
The grayish-white powder spilled entirely into the device's exposed lens assembly and complex circuit boards.
*Buzz—!*
The device seemed to have been injected with some mysterious energy.
Amidst a harsh, crackling sound of electricity, it suddenly started up on its own!
A thick, bucket-wide white beam of light, a hundred times brighter than any previous test, shot up into the sky in a violent manner without any focusing or guidance!
The beam of light tore through the night, pierced the clouds, and shot straight into the deep universe with unrivaled momentum.
In the night sky, a Starlink satellite belonging to Eagle Country, which was quietly changing its orbit, just happened to pass by.
Then, it crashed head-on into this... light of death from the blue planet.