Chapter 100

Du Qian felt his brain was not enough to use, dazedly being pulled out of the reception hall by Bao'er, dazedly getting into a car whose brand he couldn't identify, and dazedly driving out of the city.

After driving for dozens of kilometers, Du Qian snapped out of his daze. This was no time to be dazed; if he continued to be dazed, he would end up as a spirit beast's meal. He couldn't afford to be dazed any longer.

"Bao'er, where are we going? Let's go back," Du Qian said, looking at Jun Yan's cute little face. He really couldn't bring himself to say it; a little girl wasn't afraid, so why should he, a grown man, be afraid?

Who wouldn't be afraid? Outside the city, in the wilderness, that was the territory of spirit beasts. Not to mention he was just a beginner martial cultivator, and the little girl with him clearly had very weak strength. Even a Battle Master-level martial artist rarely ventured too far from the city. Spending the night in the wilderness was no joke.

In their current state, weren't they just delivering themselves to the spirit beasts as food?

"Don't be afraid, I'll protect you," Bao'er said. This time, Du Qian saw clearly that Bao'er didn't open her mouth at all. Her little red lips were tightly closed. Du Qian was sure he hadn't seen wrong, but the voice reached his mind as if she were speaking right in front of him.

Du Qian was stunned. Could this be the legendary ventriloquism? As for what Bao'er said, he didn't hear it clearly at all.

The car was moving at high speed, and they were already thirty kilometers away from Pingchuan. This location was very recognizable; thirty kilometers from the city, the road disappeared.

Actually, the road originally existed, but a secondary city could only maintain the road for a limited distance outside the city. Typically, they would choose to maintain it within thirty kilometers, and beyond that, they would directly abandon it.

People usually considered this distance as the safe distance from the city. However, this was just on the surface; spirit beasts didn't follow the thirty-kilometer safety zone. The weaker ones would stay far from the city, while the stronger ones would occasionally come around, taking a few adventurers as snacks. It wasn't a big deal; human flesh wasn't necessarily delicious, just a change of taste.

The truly powerful spirit beasts usually stayed far from the city. They had their own territories and wouldn't easily enter areas where humans were active. They would never allow humans to offend their dignity, or it would be a fight to the death.

Du Qian felt a jolt in his buttocks, and the car seemed to rise slightly. He looked down.

Wow, this car is amazing.

The car he was sitting in looked very fancy, more suitable for a little girl. He hadn't paid much attention to it at first, but thirty kilometers from the city, the car, under Bao'er's control, began to change. This change truly made Du Qian understand what a "white, rich, and beautiful" person was.

Damn, I'm just a poor guy.

Not only was Du Qian a poor guy, but ninety-nine percent of the men in Pingchuan were poor guys in front of Bao'er.

The four wheels of the car flipped inward and disappeared. Sixteen turbine exhaust pipes extended from the bottom of the kinetic car. The car's exterior didn't change much, but the bottom did. It transformed from a regular four-wheel drive to a turbine hover car.

The turbine hover car was still a concept car. Du Qian had heard of it but never seen one. In fact, not many people in Pingchuan had seen one. A secondary city like Pingchuan didn't have a single turbine hover car.

It was said that this type of car couldn't be mass-produced yet. Each turbine hover car was handcrafted, with a very low production rate.

Moreover, the Zhou Shan Empire was still researching it and hadn't entered the production stage. Only the Zhenhai Alliance could produce a small number of them. Du Qian didn't know the exact number, but the annual production wouldn't exceed one hundred.

"Can you do ventriloquism? What about this car?"

"I can't do ventriloquism. This car is pretty good, convenient, but it has a lot of problems and always needs repairs."

Bao'er's face was very delicate but lacked something. Du Qian couldn't quite put his finger on it, but it seemed to lack... vitality?

Not quite, it was more like her facial expressions didn't match her words.

Well, that's not entirely accurate. Bao'er had never spoken, at least her lips had never moved. The only time Du Qian saw her mouth open was when she was eating, revealing a mouthful of crystal-clear teeth.

"If you can't do ventriloquism, how do you speak?" Du Qian shifted his attention. The principle of the turbine hover car wasn't hard to understand, but the energy conversion, manufacturing, and control design were beyond his comprehension.

It made sense that it had problems. If there were no problems, mass production would have started long ago. New skills like this were usually applied to military use.

Du Qian didn't know, but the imperial intelligence department did, especially his "sister" Feng Ya, the head of the Special Agent Department. How could she not pay attention?

The turbine hover technology was still in the research phase. The empire had already obtained the technical data, but it couldn't be applied to the military within a hundred years. It could only be a luxury toy for the wealthy.

"Just say it directly, it's simpler."

I don't understand, what do you mean by "say it directly"? Try saying something without opening your mouth.

Right... she always spoke without opening her mouth.

"Use your mind to say it, just say it directly to me, it's very simple."

Simple? Where is it simple? I don't see it.

Du Qian was still puzzled when everything went dark before his eyes. Three nebulae appeared. The nebula that had never moved before floated over, and strange energy directly invaded his mind. Du Qian seemed to understand something, but he also seemed to understand nothing.

The starry sky disappeared, and his eyes returned to normal. The whole process might have taken less than a second, and Du Qian was just stunned for a moment.

He was still thinking about how it could be so simple.

"See, you just said it directly, it's really simple, I knew you could do it."

What can I do? Du Qian was about to faint.

"You can speak now."

I can speak? I've always been able to speak, it's you who can't.

"I can speak."

"Ah..." Du Qian was terrified, his scream was even out of tune.

A spirit beast darted out from the grass, stiffening in the air.

It fell to the ground with a "thud," twitching its limbs twice before dying.

"Ah..." Du Qian screamed again.

Damn, this is too intense. Bao'er can read minds, and my scream can kill a spirit beast?

"Hehe... you're so funny."

Funny? Am I a toy?

"Just funny." Bao'er blushed and said firmly.

"Tell me, what exactly happened?" Du Qian turned to face Bao'er, feeling like he was going crazy.

The turbine hover car continued to speed through the wilderness at over 300 kilometers per hour. Du Qian no longer cared about being in the wilderness; he was completely out of it.

"Nothing much, you learned to speak, that's all."

How to speak? Du Qian was still dazed. I've always been able to speak.

"Like this, the words you want to say appear directly in my mind, and the same for me. If you don't want to say something to someone, just think it to yourself. I don't have any mind-reading ability, and neither does anyone else."

"Just think it, and you know?" This time, Du Qian restrained himself from opening his mouth and just thought it.

"Yes, that's it. This is speaking, not thinking. Thinking is just thinking, not speaking to others."

Not thinking to others, not thinking to others... I'm the coolest.

"Something like that, I don't know what you're thinking unless you say it to me."

Du Qian felt the world was too crazy. Just thinking, and others know? This isn't scientific.

"I knew you would think that."

"Okay, I don't know how I can do it either. What about that spirit beast earlier? Did my scream kill it?"

"No, it was just a mindless thing trying to attack us. I knocked it out, it's not dead."

"You knocked it out? You didn't move at all."

"I did, with my mind, just like we're chatting now." Bao'er said with a smile.

Mind... moving...

Mind moving can knock out a spirit beast, and it's knocked out in one go? It sounds unrealistic. Du Qian felt like he had traveled to a completely unfamiliar world, and his eighteen years of understanding of the world had completely collapsed.

Du Qian waited and waited, but the starry sky and nebulae didn't appear. He knew it was no use.

Until now, Du Qian still didn't know what the starry sky and nebulae were, but they had helped him immensely. Absorbing spirit horns, accelerating cultivation, disassembling and combining spirit components, viewing talisman books, and even speaking with his mind, all were thanks to those three nebulae.

Du Qian knew that his recent good luck wasn't due to his own good fortune but was brought about by the starry sky and the three nebulae.

"Can't figure it out? No problem, think about it slowly. I thought about it for years, and I only learned to knock people out when I was six," Bao'er kindly comforted Du Qian.

Damn, you, a porcelain doll-like beauty, could knock people out with your mind at six. I'm eighteen, and I can barely do anything but get beaten up.

"We're going to find that fox to settle the score." Bao'er looked excited.

"Find a fox to settle the score? What fox?" Du Qian found that being with Bao'er made him seem particularly stupid.

Du Qian didn't think he was particularly smart, but he definitely didn't admit to being stupid. Whether in the war orphan school or in society, he felt he was above average, at least in terms of intelligence. But in front of Bao'er, forget it, it was all tears.

"That fox, with a few spirit beasts, destroyed the houses near the city wall. I told it that if it didn't give me something, I would knock it out."

Damn, don't do that, it's scary.

Du Qian's hair stood on end again. If it were any other fox, he wouldn't know, but the fox Bao'er was talking about was the Master-level spirit beast that attacked Pingchuan.

My great-grandmother, please don't scare me. That's a Master-level spirit beast, on the same level as your unpredictable father.

Let's not play anymore, okay!