Chapter 76

"Chief Luosi, are we not going through Luojiao Market today?"

In the early morning street, Chen Yang quickly finished the bun in his hand and asked in a low voice.

"Starting today, we need to take a different route."

Hearing this, Chen Yang felt quite depressed. A week ago, Chen Yang had to spend ten hours every day walking through the city of Donghai according to a specified route.

Ordinary people would naturally not find this boring, and Chen Yang didn't want to either, but since it involved finding the components, he had no choice but to do so.

He would get on at Luojiao Market, get off at the Third Central Hospital, then walk along the sidewalk to the square and wait for half an hour, then walk along the road to the overpass and stay for another half an hour, and finally wander around densely populated areas in hopes of discovering the pheromones the components might inadvertently emit.

However, after a week, there was no progress.

The extraterrestrial being on his right hand showed no signs of impatience, while Chen Yang, the host, was a bit impatient. However, he had to submit due to the authority of the right hand.

Being human is truly a difficult thing.

Today, the route changed. Chen Yang walked down a new road. Perhaps because of the light rain, there were noticeably fewer people on the street. Chen Yang, holding an umbrella, didn't feel the usual crowdedness.

Chen Yang's current appearance was very strange, indeed very strange.

Wearing short sleeves, with a backpack on his back, holding an umbrella in his left hand, and his right hand reaching into the backpack from behind. This strange appearance made every passerby look at him with a strange expression.

But Chen Yang's expressionless face returned every strange look.

In reality, he felt very helpless. Walking along the planned route on the street was a tedious and boring task, while the right hand was hiding in the backpack, playing with a tablet. This was certainly not a pleasant or fair situation.

But Chen Yang had no choice. He could only sigh helplessly and continue his mission.

He walked all day, had a few bowls of instant noodles for lunch, but still found nothing. As usual, Chen Yang went to the market before going home.

Every day, he had to provide a large amount of calories to the right hand, making him a regular at this vegetable market. In particular, the owners of two meat shops had developed a special habit of looking at the market entrance with eager eyes as the sun set, hoping to see that familiar figure.

The appearance of that familiar figure meant a substantial income for them. For the sake of this income, the two meat shop owners tried to maintain a warm and welcoming expression.

Today, that familiar figure appeared again.

"Hey, brother, the meat is all ready for you."

As Chen Yang approached, the owner of the first meat shop handed him twenty pounds of pork and took the money from Chen Yang.

The owner of the second meat shop also handed him twenty pounds of beef eagerly as Chen Yang approached and took the money from Chen Yang.

Thus, two transactions totaling 425 yuan were completed, and Chen Yang returned home with two bags of pork and beef.

Of course, this large amount of beef and pork was not for him to eat. Even if cooked, it wouldn't be possible to cook all of it. This stuff all went into the right hand's mouth.

According to the right hand, the meat wasn't very high in calories, but the taste was good.

Heaven, Chen Yang couldn't imagine how bloody raw meat could be rated as having a good taste.

Perhaps extraterrestrial beings and Earth humans were ultimately different. Chen Yang couldn't understand. However, there was one benefit: the right hand directly absorbed food to obtain calories, so it no longer absorbed calories from Chen Yang's body. This made Chen Yang's appetite return to normal, and he was no longer such a "big eater," though the money spent was still about the same as before.

After eating a total of forty pounds of raw meat, the right hand smacked its sharp mouth and suddenly said, "Host, are you ready?"

"Ready?"

Chen Yang's gaze, which had been fixed on the computer screen, involuntarily shifted to the right hand.

"What kind of preparation?"

"Starting tonight, I will begin a special training for you."

The right hand extended a tentacle and picked a piece of red meat from its sharp teeth.

Chen Yang shivered, his left hand trembled, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Chief Luosi, I feel a bit off today. Can we talk about this another day?"

What a joke, even if he didn't know what kind of training the right hand would give, just thinking about the previous training made him shudder. Especially with the word "special" this time, Chen Yang immediately felt a shameful fear.

"Your heart rate has increased by more than 20%. Are you nervous?"

The right hand "kindly" comforted him, "Don't worry, this training won't kill or cripple you."

"Oh, oh, what's wrong, my stomach hurts a bit, oh, I really can't, I need to go to the bathroom."

Before Chen Yang could get up, several tentacles from the right hand wrapped around his neck, making him unable to breathe.

"Idiot, do you think such a childish trick can fool me?"

Seeing Chen Yang's face turn blue, the right hand finally released the tentacles, "You can't escape or avoid this training. As a human, your combat ability is too weak and must be improved in a short time."

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Chen Yang coughed for a while before he could catch his breath, "Chief Luosi, with you here, do I need this training? Besides, humans overcome various difficulties not by physical strength but by wisdom..."

"Idiot, do I need you to remind me?"

Chen Yang was hit on the back of the head by a tentacle and immediately changed his tone, "After thinking about it, Chief Luosi is indeed wise and brave. A special training is indeed necessary. I've been looking forward to this day. What kind of training? Where? When?"

Chen Yang's tone fully supported all of the right hand's decisions!

"The training place is here, no need to go anywhere."

The right hand's words greatly surprised Chen Yang. He looked around and confirmed that they were still in the basement, not anywhere else.

That was very strange. In such a small basement, what kind of special training could be conducted?

Oh no, not that, right?

Chen Yang felt a chill.

The right hand ignored Chen Yang's doubts and extended out, rummaging through a drawer and taking out an item.

A pitch-black surface, the size of a ping-pong ball, it was the item taken from the component!

Previously, Chen Yang had asked the right hand multiple times what this thing was, but the right hand always ignored his questions, either avoiding the topic or acting as if it hadn't heard him.

No matter how angry he was, it was useless against the right hand. Chen Yang could only guess in his mind.

What could this be? This size, this strange weight, could it be a bomb?

Not a nuclear bomb or a regular bomb, but an antimatter bomb constrained by a magnetic field?

Just thinking about this possibility, Chen Yang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. If this thing really contained antimatter, despite its ping-pong ball size, the energy it could release would not only flatten Donghai but also destroy cities like Suzhou, Wuxi, Jiaxing, and Hangzhou.

Wait, don't always think the worst. Maybe it's something good for humanity?

But...

Even if this small thing, as the right hand said, was a crucial part of a civilization, Chen Yang couldn't imagine what kind of item could be so important.

But it didn't matter, the right hand would soon answer his doubts.