Chapter 457: Chapter 457: The Troublemaker Has Awakened
Ji You had no idea about the situation outside. At this moment, she was cradling her elbows, watching her Six Spiritual Threads with the same exasperation one might scold unruly children, "You idiots don’t even know the value of firewood and rice when you don’t run a household! All you know is eat, eat, eat, and play, play, play. Why don’t I see you being proactive when it’s time to work?"
Six Strands hung their heads low, silent as chickens.
Ji You huffed, "Knowing your Master is poor, why haven’t I seen you try to save for me?"
Six Strands shrank their necks, not daring to pull out a whisker from a tiger’s head.
Ji You glared at them, becoming angrier as she spoke, "Knowing that we’re so poor we can’t even lift the pot lid, why haven’t I seen you try to earn money?"
Listening on, Six Strands hung their heads so low they almost buried them in the sand, though unfortunately, there was no sand.
Ji You scolded up to this point and finally made a stern conclusion, "In short, raising you lot is like feeding a bunch of good-for-nothings! I might as well raise some char siu instead!"
Six Strands: "..."
Six Strands were on the verge of tears.
Seeing this, Ji You did feel a bit heartbroken and even wanted to comfort them without principle, but she steeled her heart and gestured, "Alright, stop crying. With those big faces of yours, crying would scare someone to death."
Six Strands forcibly held back their tears.
Ji You’s voice unconsciously softened a bit, "Alright, no more lying around, come over here."
As soon as she said that, Six Strands’ faces collapsed, wanting to cry but not daring to: [Master... We can’t get across.]
Ji You: "???"
Somehow, Ji You had a very bad premonition, "Why can’t you come over?"
Six Strands: [We don’t know why.]
Ji You: "..."
During the conversation, Old Five, being stubborn, tried once more and ended up bumping their head against the thin layer of mist, and instantly—
Boom rumble rumble—
Not only did Old Five’s hasty and reckless action cause them to fall to the ground, rolling around in pain, but it also caused a violent shake in Ji You’s Spirit Space.
Ji You opened her mouth, "We’re in big trouble!"
Wasn’t this a big problem? Her own Spirit Space had shut out her very own Spiritual Threads.
How could this be acceptable?
How would Ji You pilot Mecha in the future? How would she fly an airship? How could she operate a Starship?
How could she fight?
Even, how could she make Soul Devices?
...
Ji You, feeling waves of darkness pass before her eyes, tried to remain calm and took deep breaths to avoid fainting on the spot. She asked, "How did you end up on the other side of the mist?"
Upon this question, Six Strands immediately opened their verbal floodgates, unloading on Ji You like pouring out beans from a bamboo tube.
Boss: [Master! It’s like this...]
Second: [Master, we were just last night...]
Following this, Third, Fourth, Old Five, and Sixth were all eager to speak up in turn, giving Ji You a bit of a headache. She raised her hand, pointed at Fourth who was the most articulate, and said, "The rest of you shut up, let Fourth speak."
Fourth stood upright and hurried forward, saying, [Master, we were so tired after finishing our work last night, we didn’t want to move, everyone was dozing off, and suddenly the space started to crack, the sky was breaking apart, and there was a terrifying strength that consumes threads appearing, waah...] Speaking up to this point, Fourth was practically sobbing, [Sisi thought she’d never see Master again! So sad! So distressed...]
Ji You listened and listened, and as she thought it over, she felt a mix of self-blame and pity. Although Fourth was slick, his feelings for her were absolutely sincere, without the slightest bit of falsehood.
Speaking of which, it was all her fault for not controlling herself, acting recklessly, producing 9 Soul Devices overnight without considering the load capacity of her spiritual power and Spiritual World...
Ji You hurriedly soothed, "Okay, stop crying, tell me quickly, how were you rescued?"
Upon hearing her Master’s consolation, Fourth wished nothing more than to snuggle his big head over for his Master to stroke, but just as he moved, he was blocked by the mist barrier. With a pursed mouth and a wronged expression, Fourth said, [It was...]
After saying one word, he suddenly didn’t know what the other party was called, so he immediately swished his tail and pointed at the distant light source above—
[It was that!]
[It suddenly appeared and rescued Sisi.]
Ji You looked up and saw the Iron Plate, but——compared to when it first appeared, the glow of the Iron Plate seemed much dimmer...
Ji You’s heart sank: Darn! Could it be that Iron after rescuing the Spiritual Silk is about to fail?
This time, who knows how long it will take, how much stuff to feed to the Iron Plate before it can recover.
Back on the Garbage Planet 101, Ji You was reckless and lacking in common sense, resulting in bleeding from every orifice and nearly meeting her end; it was Iron Plate that came to her rescue. After that, except for coming out to snatch food, it did no good deeds.
Ji You really wondered if this time the energy expenditure of the Iron Plate was so great that it might be even worse than the last time.
And also——
What about Xiao You?
Would Xiao You inside the Iron Plate be affected by this?
Ji You really couldn’t help but worry.
Fourth swung its tail, chattering away nonstop, then spilled all the beans about what had happened after being taken away by the Iron Plate without missing a single detail.
Only then did Ji You understand everything; although the Iron Plate had taken her Spiritual Silk away, it did not let them enter inside the Iron Plate; it just let these threads hover around it, so none had seen Xiao You.
However, the Spiritual Threads had communicated with Xiao You through the Iron Plate, though they had never met her in person.
Once Ji You was certain of Xiao You’s safety, she finally felt completely relieved.
Fourth wagged its tail, declaring: [Xiao You sister is very cute, but my favorite is still the Master!]
While saying this, it showed an expression of ’Master, you don’t have to worry about me being unfaithful.’
Ji You: "..."
Ji You replied irritably, "Eating my food, using my stuff, and you dare to have an affair? I’ll break your legs!"
At hearing this, Fourth immediately shook its head: [No affairs! Sisi will never have an affair! Master will always be Sisi’s master! Sisi will always like Master!]
The other Silks couldn’t let Fourth take all the glory and rushed in one after another to declare: [We are the Master’s Sisi, of course we like the Master the most! Please Master don’t abandon us...]
Ji You: "..."
Inwardly, Ji You muttered: These six stupid Silks are dead set on staying with me; if I could abandon them, I would have done it a hundred times by now. However, outwardly she smiled and said, "As long as you behave a little, I will never abandon you! I super like the Sisi too!"
The Six Spiritual Threads, upon hearing this, cheered and jumped for joy.
Boss suddenly said: [Master! There are so many Candy Beans outside! So much Cloud Mist Tea! So much Butterfly Honey! And so many others... Are we eating them or not?]
Ji You: "Huh???"
With significance, Boss said: [If Sisi eats, we will have the strength to work! We can break through the misty barriers!]
After saying this, Boss still had a bit of a mean streak: [But you have to eat them all!]
Ji You: "!!!"
How could so many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures suddenly appear? Was this a windfall? Then, in the next second, Ji You guessed the possibility—it must be Teacher Mu Jianling, Dr. Luo who knew she was in a crisis, helping her from the outside.
Ji You’s heart felt warm, and she determinedly said, "Eat!"
Forget the rest for now, just deal with the current biggest difficulty first; otherwise, without the use of her Spiritual Silk, what future or prospects could she even talk about?
The Spiritual Silk cheered in an instant!
Then Ji You watched in disbelief as the six gluttons, similar to cows chewing peonies, devoured the Butterfly Honey, Candy Beans, Cloud Mist Tea...
The joy was short-lived. The Silks had just started to gobble up for less than a second when the distant Iron Plate, like a cat smelling fish, darted over and seized the vast majority of the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures!
The Spiritual Silks had to settle for the leftovers.
After a while——
Only when no more ’food’ supply was left, sated and content, did the Iron Plate disappear with a blink; the Spiritual Silks then joined forces and collided violently with the misty barriers, and then——
Boom——
They finally shattered the barriers!
Ji You relaxed her furrowed brows, opened her eyes——
What she saw was Principal Hong shaking his leg, saying indignantly, "Oh——the meddler finally woke up, huh?"
Ji You: "..."