69novels Chapter 157 The universe is vast, the earth is small
Chapter 157 The universe is vast, the earth is small
Chapter 157 The universe is vast, the earth is small
The next morning.
Outside Huanhuan Teppanyaki, Russell glanced at the sign in front of him, satisfied, swiped away the navigation, and put his phone in his pocket.
Yes, that's right, this phone also came from a kind-hearted citizen.
This kind man on the street corner tried to steal some red, green, yellow, and blue items from Russell's empty pockets. Russell followed suit, borrowing his cell phone and wallet, and then paid him a government meal, ensuring he would be well-fed and clothed for a while.
It's a fair exchange.
Stepping into the small shop, Russell glanced around. The shop's decorations were quite nice, but business was extremely slow. None of the dozen or so seats were occupied, making it exceptionally quiet.
Unfortunately, although the owner here is a stunning beauty, she has a terrible temper and is quite strong. Many diners have been punished by her for wasting food, ranging from being verbally abused to being grabbed by the back of the collar and thrown out the door.
After a while, the little shop lost its customers. Even when they did, they would only order online and have a delivery rider pick up the food.
Alas, the poor rider.
Russell silently sympathized with them for a second, then sat down at the bar.
"Hello, what would you like to order?"
The wind chimes rang, and a slender man in sportswear noticed Russell's arrival and stepped forward to inquire.
[Host has come into contact with the story character Qing Zizai (Qing). Current causal connection is 0%. Lottery draw *White 1. Draw now?]
Russell flipped through the menu without looking up and said, "Twenty large prawns, two squid, one steak, one shrimp paste, one pork belly, two kidneys, and a super-sized beef and egg fried rice—well, that's all for now, we'll order more later if needed."
Qing Zizai paused in writing down the menu, glanced at Russell's physique, and asked, "How many people are in your party, sir?"
Russell gave him a strange look: "Just me? What's wrong? Can't you eat here alone?"
Qing Zizai gave a stiff smile: "Of course not, it's just that you probably can't finish ordering so much, sir."
Of course, there was something he kept to himself: if you order so much food that you can't finish it, you might get a beating and thrown out.
He had seen too many scenes like this before.
"Don't worry." Russell grinned at Qing Zizai, pulled out the Vajra Armor Summoner from his pocket, and slammed it on the table: "Don't worry, if I can't finish it, I'll use this as payment."
Qing Zizai's eyes widened instantly, and he was completely bewildered. He couldn't understand why the summoner would appear here.
"Ah Qing, what's wrong?"
Welcome and Yuzu, who were in the kitchen, also heard the commotion outside and hurriedly came out to see what was going on.
Like Qing Zizai, their gazes immediately fell on the summoner in Russell's hand.
The two women immediately became like startled birds, pulling Qing Zizai back to the corner of the wall. The welcoming shovel was held horizontally in front of them, and the plate of pomelo was held to their chests. Qing Zizai then slightly turned to the side, shielding the two women behind him.
Clearly, they mistook Russell for a demon from the underworld.
"Who are you?" Welcome asked warily. "What did you do to Xiaogang?"
Russell shrugged, looking completely innocent.
Looking at the three people in front of him, he had been curious about one thing from the very beginning.
In Lu Fa's eyes, this little shop is basically an open secret. The successors of secret cultivators, hidden cultivators, and magic cultivators are all here, as are the summoners of summoning devices. Why doesn't Lu Fa just send people over and shoot all these guys?
Xiao Tian, Xiao Fei, and Xiao Gang all have their own things to do and can't stay here all day. As long as they seize the opportunity, they are 100% guaranteed to succeed.
Don't be fooled by the seemingly formidable appearance of these secret cultivators, hidden cultivators, and magic practitioners; in reality, they have absolutely no chance of winning against the Netherworld Demon.
If he were Lu Fa, even if he didn't kill them because he was worried about not being able to find Geng to make the Vajra Pestle, he would still send someone to capture them and slowly interrogate them with his mental power. But for some reason, Lu Fa, who was so good at using military strategy, never thought of this aspect even once.
"What's going on? Why are you making such a fuss?" Just as the situation reached a stalemate, an old woman came out of the house.
Welcome to Grandma, who was also the previous hermit, is the most stable and normal wise woman in the entire series of Xing Tian.
While all the other characters acted impulsively, recklessly, and foolishly, only she maintained a clear mind and calm judgment.
"Grandma, go back quickly! He's a Netherworld Demon!" Welcome tried anxiously to push Grandma into the house, but Grandma just patted Welcome's hand, signaling her not to be nervous. Then, she went to Russell's side and smiled, saying, "This young man shouldn't be a member of the Netherworld Legion, right?"
Russell pointed to the menu in Qing Zizai's hand and smiled, "How about we talk while we eat?"
"Of course," Grandma nodded in agreement.
Then the two of them turned their gazes toward the welcoming figure.
"Huh?" Welcome was stunned for a moment, and before she could figure out what was going on, Yuzu pulled her into the kitchen.
Soon, the sizzling sound of frying oil filled the kitchen.
Grandma sat down in front of Russell, and Qing Zizai consciously took on the role of bodyguard, standing behind Grandma with his arms crossed, back straight, and eyes fixed on Russell without ever looking away.
Although he knew that he wouldn't last more than a few rounds against an inhuman enemy.
But as a man, a real man, he would never let his grandmother face danger alone.
Russell had no interest in A-Qing's inner thoughts; he was completely absorbed in the game console in his hands.
Unfortunately, he didn't sign a contract or have the corresponding genetic code, so the summoner was only of this use in his hands.
Of the three armor summoners, Russell still prefers Xingtian's summoner the most. Feiying's Walkman and King Kong's game console both look like cheap toys, far less stylish than Xingtian's camera.
Half an hour later, Huanying and Youzi brought out more than a dozen plates of various sizes and placed them in front of Russell Noodles.
"The food service is a bit slow, isn't it?" Russell casually picked up a peeled shrimp with his chopsticks, popped it into his mouth, and enjoyed the springy texture, rich garlic flavor, and the buttery taste melting on his tongue. He gave a satisfied "hmm" and nodded, "But the taste is still pretty good, worthy of praise."
Welcome rolled her eyes, thinking to herself, "Who wants your praise?"
The crowd watched as Russell devoured his food, their initial reaction shifting to scrutiny, then shock, and finally awe.
Later, their mindset turned to curiosity, wanting to see just how much Russell could eat. Qing Zizai even took a moment to grab a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator and handed it to Russell.
Once Russell had finished eating, Welcome asked as she cleared the plates, "Now you can speak, right?"
Russell wiped his mouth and pushed the summoner off the table to Qing Zizai: "My name is Russell."
"It's obvious that I'm not an ordinary Earthling."
No one present disagreed on this point; just the amount of food they could eat was beyond what an ordinary person should have.
Moreover, given their special status, they also know that besides Earthlings, there are other life forms from other planets living on Earth, such as the fairies of the Fairy Castle.
The universe is vast, and Earth is small, but Earth has never lacked visitors from all over the universe.
"I'm a space mercenary. Last night, I came to Earth on Ares's bounty and saw a guy named Xiao Gang holding this thing, betting with a soldier from the Netherworld Legion. He said he'd give this to the other guy if he lost, and then he lost, and then—"
Russell shrugged and didn't continue, but the facts had already told them that it was Russell who helped them retrieve the summoner from the Netherworld Demon.
Don't ask them if they doubted the veracity of Russell's statement; it's simply something Xiao Gang would do.
When it comes to being unreliable, there's no one in the world more unreliable than Xiaogang.
Sure enough, as soon as Russell finished speaking, Huanying covered her forehead and made a desperate phone call to Xiaogang.
On the other end of the phone, Xiao Gang's voice was intermittent. When asked why, he said the signal was bad, or that he couldn't hear anything, and then he hung up the phone.
This blatant attempt to cover up his mistake only confirms that he lost the summoner.
Welcome to holding your phone, listening to the busy tone on the other end, your expression changing from despair to anger, and then from anger to helplessness.
Having no other option, she called Xiaotian again, telling him that she already knew about Xiaogang and asking him to bring Xiaogang over.
Xiao Tian was clearly much more reliable than Xiao Gang. Although he caused a major disaster due to his own actions, which led to the failure of the Demon Sealing Operation, which had already achieved a great victory, from an outsider's perspective, it cannot be entirely blamed on him.
After all, guided by fate, neither the Asura Armor nor Geng's Vajra have yet appeared in the world, and things are far from over.
Not to mention that Xiao Tian did his best to make amends afterward, and whenever he saw someone, he would immediately attack the God of War, Xing Tian.
After hanging up the phone, Welcome turned around and thanked Russell profusely, saying, "Thank you so much this time. Otherwise, if the summoner had fallen into the hands of the Netherworld Demons, we would have been the sinners of Earth."
"These are minor matters, but I also have two things on my end that I would appreciate your help with."
"What is it?"
"First, I need all the information about Ares that Gorfa left you. Second, I need to know the location of the Demon Suppression Tower."
"Ares's information is easy to obtain." Welcome gave him a somewhat strange look: "But what do you need the location of the Demon Suppression Tower for? The Netherworld Demon Capital has already been unsealed, so it's useless there now."
The Demon-Suppressing Tower once sealed away the entire Netherworld Legion except for the Third Captain and Kula, making it one of the most important forbidden areas on Earth. But now the seal has been broken, and the Netherworld Demons have long since escaped. Now it's nothing but an empty tower, ruins, and a pile of broken stones. She didn't understand why Russell wanted to go there.
"Oh, Lufa's Afas spaceship is buried under the Demon Suppression Tower. I need to take the spaceship away first."
"Oh, so that's it—hmm!???" Welcome's eyes widened instantly.
Wow, he seems to have casually said something really amazing!
Qing Zizai hesitated for a moment before asking, "Could you please tell me, Brother Luo, how do you know all this so clearly?"
They were clearly the ones who inherited Gorfa's mission and will, so how come Russell, an outsider, knew more about it than they did?
Russell replied matter-of-factly, "I operate in space; I have my own intelligence network. It's perfectly normal, isn't it?"
Is this normal? Qing Zizai, Huanying, and Youzi looked at each other, a mouthful of complaints stuck in their throats, not knowing where to begin.
This is hardly normal. However, there are so many illogical aspects to Bertrand Russell that it's impossible to know where to begin.
"By the way," Russell said, not giving them time to process what was happening. He turned and looked directly at Yuzu, "as a reward for your help in accomplishing these two things, I will also help this young lady completely eliminate the Ares gene from her body."
"Really!?" Yuzu exclaimed in surprise, her hands gripping the edge of the table. She had lived for over a decade, but had never truly lived.
Their family has been plagued by this curse for generations.
A thousand years ago, Lufa descended to Earth. Her ancestor used a vajra made of metal to stab Lufa, which caused a resurrection gene of Lufa to enter the bloodline of her ancestor. It was passed down from generation to generation and was then possessed by Kula, and has not been completely removed to this day.
"Of course." Seeing that someone had questioned his professional skills, Russell pointed a finger at Yuzu's forehead without saying a word.
His divine sense erupted, and a vast ocean of spiritual power surged from Russell's fingertips into Yuzu's spiritual platform. In the deepest part of the spiritual platform, he found a special energy that was completely different from the spiritual power of Earthlings.
As I said before, technology and cultivation of immortality ultimately lead to the same goal, albeit through different paths.
He can't solve math problems or unravel the secrets of the Lufa gene, but if it's just about extracting and annihilating this gene, then his major is a perfect match.
In front of everyone, Russell slowly raised his index finger, and a faint blue light floated on his fingertip, shimmering softly.
"Done." Russell blew a breath, and the faint light at his fingertips vanished with the wind, dissipating into the air.
Yuzu's body shuddered violently at that moment, as if something had been pulled out of her body.
Gone, really gone —
Under everyone's surprised gaze, Yuzu, who had previously kept her head down and dared not look people in the eye, had her eyes light up for the first time with the light that belonged to her age.
"The payment has already been made in advance, so what I need is this—" Russell looked intently at Huan Ying.
Ten minutes later.
[Group Notice: Group member Russell has uploaded the file "Basic Spells of Ares"]
Russell: "@Han Li. Keep it up, model worker! I believe in you!"
Han Li: "Clenched fists.JPG"
At this very moment, outside the teppanyaki shop.
Xiao Tian and Xiao Gang, who rushed back after receiving the call, looked at each other in bewilderment with Balu, who had finally found Russell's information and tracked him all the way here.