novelbin Chapter 717 [135] The Cartoonist Has Gone Mad
Chapter 717 [135] The Cartoonist Has Gone Mad
Chapter 717 [135] The Cartoonist Has Gone Mad
The young master's office was originally his "wedding room," and it includes a double bathtub.
After dinner, Qin Jiandan soaked in the bathtub and closed her eyes for three seconds in the steam.
The image of taking a bath with Mu Yue, whispering sweet nothings, her cat ears glistening with water droplets, flashed through my mind.
"I wonder what it feels like to have a cat's tail in the water..."
The alarm bracelet suddenly vibrated. Purple-black particles burst open on the tiled floor, and Han Tiancheng tumbled out of the subspace rift, his trench coat hem sweeping over the shampoo shelf.
"I want Mu Yue, not Mu Yue's father!"
Han Tiancheng ignored the sarcastic remark. The smiling face on the comical ghost mask was completely mismatched with the urgency of the person's voice.
"Now there's a big problem, my things have been stolen."
Qin Jiandan reached for the towel and began drying himself off. Instead of turning his back to Han Tiancheng, he made the other man turn around first.
Ever since she met her senior brother, Qin Jiandan has found it difficult to turn her back to a man without wearing clothes.
What was stolen from you?
Han Tiancheng sighed: "When I first became the comical ghost, my mind was filled with crazy thoughts of revenge."
"How...crazy?" Qin Jiandan slung a towel over his shoulder and began to put on a short-sleeved bodysuit.
"Because Mu Yue turned into a catgirl. I thought to myself, if everyone in the city were like Fu Rui, no one would discriminate against her. All the women would turn into cats, and all the men would turn into dogs."
Qin Jiandan grabbed his trousers. "That's really crazy."
“I not only thought that way, I also prepared for it.” Han Tiancheng’s voice came out muffled from under his mask. “I stole some contaminated pluripotent cells from the police department’s lab and made a ‘Furi bomb,’ which I planned to release through the Bright Sky Canopy Generator at the top of the central tower.”
Qin Jiandan fastened his belt.
"Why wasn't it implemented later? Probably because the central tower wasn't easy to get close to."
"Part of the reason. Another part is that I sobered up." Han Tiancheng finally turned around. "I hid this bomb in my private subspace. It just got stolen—"
Qin Jiandan's hand froze in mid-air. "Isn't it that no one else can enter the comical ghost's private subspace?"
"Unless I invite him in."
Han Tiancheng's tone was full of regret.
“Recently, Zhou Tiannao asked me to drink, and I had no reason to refuse. Yesterday I drank too much, and then I found out that the Furui bomb was missing.”
Zhou Tiannao hadn't been a member of the Night Dragon Society for very long.
An H-manga artist who drew "My Girlfriend Jesus" and "My Girlfriend Shakya" has average combat power.
Qin Jiandan said, "On the night of the company attack, he killed several mechanical ninjas, and then disappeared after Remier appeared. Although the comical ghost couldn't possibly have defected to the company, why would he steal your bomb? Did he even know what the bomb was for?"
Han Tiancheng rubbed his temples through his mask. "I drank too much that day. I can't remember what we talked about. It seems... it seems we talked about how to turn everyone in the city into Fu Rui."
The bathroom door opened. There was no knocking.
The maid, Wangyou, stood at the doorway, her deep gray eyes quickly scanning between the two men.
Qin Jiandan was still pulling up his pants, while Han Tiancheng was soaking wet from the steam, and hadn't even picked up the shampoo bottle from the ground.
Wangyou slowly pursed her lips, as if she had just stumbled upon an affair, as if Qin Jiandan and her father-in-law had done something shameful.
"Sorry to bother you. Eco Tower called and said that Zhou Tian is causing trouble. He ran up to the Mingguang Sky Canopy Generator, which is under repair, and said that he was going to do a great thing and turn everyone in the entire Border City Special Zone into Furui."
"Damn! They were pretty fast!"
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The hovering police car was lifted vertically from the headquarters helipad, its anti-gravity engine running at overload, the hum causing the windows to vibrate slightly.
The scenery below rushed past. The toxins in the acidic snow were isolated above the special zone by the bright celestial canopy, evaporating into white vapor as they brushed past the light shield.
Mu Yue gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, gazing into the distance.
“I thought my dad had become reliable.”
She didn't turn her head; her voice traveled through the backrest between the driver's seat and the rear passenger seat.
Han Tiancheng sat in the back row with his knees together, like a primary school student being kept after school by his homeroom teacher.
"I'm sorry, Mu Yue. How was I supposed to know that kid who draws erotic comics would steal my things..."
With the speed of the airship, the distance from headquarters to the eco-tower is just a stone's throw.
Protruding from the reinforced steel frame on the third floor of the ecological tower is the base of the bright light canopy generator.
Zhou Tiannao stood at the very top of the steel frame, the hem of his trench coat, emblazoned with the Doraemon logo, fluttering in the wind.
He held aloft a cylindrical metal can with cartoon cat and dog designs painted on it.
The cat is a simple sketch of a smiling face, and the dog is a simple sketch of a sticking-out tongue; the art style is exactly the same as his H-manga covers.
To be honest, both the cat and the dog have a slightly lewd expression...
"Fellow countrymen! Fellow countrymen of the border special zone!"
He was clearly drunk, and his voice was sometimes loud and sometimes soft, but loud enough for the hundreds of people watching below to hear clearly.
Some were immigrants who hadn't made it into the hexagonal unit cluster, some were construction workers taking a break from work, and some were simply there to watch the spectacle.
"Do you know what the benefits are of becoming a Fure person?!"
He held the metal can even higher.
"My stamina has increased! I can use the regeneration pod at will... No need to worry about becoming Furei! And it's fluffy and super cute! Super—cute!"
Some people in the crowd laughed out loud, while others raised their recording devices to take pictures.
A dog-headed Frei construction worker looked up and shouted, asking him if the bomb was any good.
The floating police car hovered at the same height as Zhou Tiannao, about 15 meters away horizontally, close enough to see the fresh beer stains on Doraemon's trench coat.
"Zhou Tian is making trouble!"
Qin Jiandan pushed open the car door and placed one foot on the door frame of the police car.
"That bomb you're holding belongs to my father-in-law! How old are you to still be stealing?"
"Young Master, what did you say? I can't quite hear you—" Zhou Tiannao hiccuped and hugged the metal can to his chest.
Mu Yue leaned out of the driver's seat, her voice calm but stern. "Put down the bomb! Your actions constitute a crime endangering public safety!"
"No way! Sheriff, you don't understand. This Fury bomb is a blessing for all mankind!"
Zhou Tiannao pointed to his comical mask with his other finger.
"Humans are bad, but the Furei people are good! Humans are all strange and bizarre. No matter how good-looking someone is, they become ugly as soon as they get fat!"
“The Fury people are different! They're furry and soft... It's only natural that manga artists want all the girls in the world to become catgirls!”
Han Tiancheng squeezed from the back of the police car to the door, trying to persuade him with the tone of someone who had been through it all.
"Brother, I wasn't in a good mental state when I made this bomb, so its effects are uncertain. What if it doesn't turn everyone into cats and dogs, but into lizards and crocodiles instead?"
"Hahaha... That's fine too! I'm not picky. For comic artists like us, it doesn't matter if it's a catgirl, a dragongirl, or a non-human, it's all okay!"
"You fucking pervert, give me back the bomb!"
After cursing loudly, Han Tiancheng turned around and lowered his voice to Qin Jiandan and Mu Yue.
"As long as you smash the Bright Sky Canopy Generator with all your might, this bomb will detonate. The degraded pluripotent cells will mix into the Bright Sky Canopy's light shield, causing all humans within the special zone to become Fury!"
Qin Jiandan visually estimated the distance between the steel frame and the crowd.
"Could you temporarily turn off the Bright Sky Canopy so I can jump over and take the bomb?"
Mu Yue shook her head.
"The large-scale bright light canopy generator needs a warm-up period to restart, and the acid snow will fall directly into the special zone. The wind speed has just increased again."
Zhou Tiannao suddenly summoned the purplish-black particles and pulled out a lump of clay-like substance from his subspace window.
It was pale yellow and soft, and he squeezed it into a crooked ball in his palm.
He slapped the lump of clay onto the outside of the metal can, and the clay stuck firmly to the can.
"This is a catalyst I specifically found to increase the power of the Furei bomb!"
"The explosion will not only make people more like Fu Rui, but it will also shorten the duration of their high-grade period—about six times a week! Hahaha, the scene will definitely be hilarious!"
Qin Jiandan was almost laughing out of anger.
"You're so kind of you, letting everyone have a day off on Sunday!"
No wonder he draws H-manga, his mind is full of lewd nonsense!
My father-in-law made the bomb out of twisted paternal love, but you're just doing this purely for pornography!
Seeing that Zhou Tiannao was about to detonate the bomb, Mu Yue slammed on the gas. The floating police car rushed straight towards Zhou Tiannao, the shrill roar of the anti-gravity engine tearing through the night wind.
Zhou Tiannao stared wide-eyed, unable to react in time.
Just before they were about to collide, Qin Jiandan and Han Tiancheng jumped out from both sides of the police car.
Zhou Tian was drunk. He leaned back and his feet slipped on the steel frame. The metal can he was holding slipped from his grasp and tumbled halfway through the air.
It flew towards Han Tiancheng.
Han Tiancheng instinctively caught it with both hands. Perhaps due to psychological reasons, he felt something vibrating inside the metal can.
"Damn it—"
Han Tiancheng instinctively tossed the bomb toward Qin Jiandan, his movement as fast as if he were throwing a grenade with the pin pulled.
At the foot of the ecological tower, the crowd looking up gasped in unison.
The metal can flipped once in the air, and Qin Jiandan caught it with both hands.
It felt soft and sticky to the touch. He looked down at the bomb in his arms—if it exploded, the border town special zone would turn into a fully automated Furi hybrid carnival in seconds.
"Father-in-law, open the subspace! I'll put the bomb inside!"
A purplish-black subspace window quickly took shape.
Just as Qin Jiandan was about to throw it in, Han Tiancheng shouted, "Stop! This window was created by Zhou Tiannao!"
Zhou Tiannao stood at the other end of the steel frame, empty-handed, and approached Qin Jiandan with a silly grin.
Qin Jiandan could easily kick him away. But the bomb in her arms was wrapped in plastic explosives, and it was unknown how sensitive it was to impact.
What if the bomb detonates during the kicking process?
Qin Jiandan's gaze passed over Zhou Tiannao's shoulder and landed on the floating police car.
I had no choice but to pass it on to Mu Yue and ask her to take the bomb away!
Wait a minute... Although Mu Yue is already a Fu Rui person, does this bomb actually have any physical damage?
Mu Yue drove the floating police car in a circle in mid-air, then leaned half of her body out of the window and shouted something to Han Tiancheng.
"Dad! Take Zhou Tiannao into your own subspace!"
Han Tiancheng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly woke up.
The purplish-black particles exploded beneath his feet, and in the next instant, he appeared behind Zhou Tiannao.
With his hands reaching under his armpits and gripping the other's chest, Zhou Tiannao kicked his legs twice in the air before disappearing along with Han Tiancheng.
Qin Jiandan clutched the bomb tightly, ready to freeze it with his Xuanbing True Qi at any moment, and leaped back into the floating police car.
Mu Yue let out a long breath, the night breeze ruffling her long hair. Her tense gaze finally calmed down.
"Dad is such a worry. Luckily, it was all over in the end."
Qin Jiandan raised an eyebrow: "This bomb might not be useless. Let's keep it safe for now. It might come in handy when we attack the central tower later."
Mu Yue looked embarrassed, and Qin Jiandan could probably guess what she was imagining.
The hovercar began its return journey.
The more than 300 people watching below cheered in relief.
Someone shouted, "The young master and the sheriff were so decisive!"
Someone uploaded the video they just filmed to NightDragon.com.
However, a few people were very dissatisfied, saying things like "what a pity" and "bad luck".
"What's wrong with Fu Ruihua? I've already planned out how many catgirl wives I'll marry in the future!"
"Hmph, now that the young master has a catgirl wife, he doesn't care about anyone else!"
(End of this chapter)