readytorunbook Chapter 292 How to Open the Shield
Chapter 292 How to Open the Shield
Now that we've decided to go back to Tasha, we can't delay any longer, since that unlucky guy seemed to have said that the shield wouldn't last much longer either.
Xu Ning turned to Beidou, "Take the brothers and get out of the Bayun Island area by boat as quickly as possible. After all, I don't know how big the area affected by the explosion of the Yuying Furnace Core will be..."
Beidou shook his head. "Xu Ning, why don't you just come with me? You don't need to go to such lengths for Daoqi."
Xu Ning knew she was worried about her safety, so he smiled reassuringly and held up the gourd in his hand for Beidou to see.
"It's alright. If it really explodes, I'll just hide inside. This thing is very reliable. Besides, there are three demon gods lying in there. How could it not protect me?"
Beidou smiled as he looked at the Dust Concealment Gourd.
Ever since she first met Xu Ning and saw this Dust Concealing Gourd, she had often seen Xu Ning use it as a hammer more than once.
In battle, he was adept at smashing stones, hitting heads, and parrying and striking various weapons. When practicing martial arts with Xu Ning, his greatsword struck him many times, but not even a mark was left.
However, Xu Ning's words puzzled her slightly.
It seems that when Xu Ning came ashore, there were only two guys, Qingyi and Wendy, lying in his Dust Concealment Gourd. When did another one appear?
“In that case… Wan Ye, you take the brothers to the outskirts of the Coral Palace on Haizhi Island to rest. If you have the chance, find out which force is so generous in funding the resistance.”
Beidou gave Wanye a word of advice, then looked at Xu Ning, "As for stepping on the sand, I'll go with you. There's no danger, is there?"
Xu Ning shook his head helplessly and cupped his hands in greeting to Feng Yuan Wan Ye, saying, "Then I'll have to trouble Brother Wan Ye to take care of everyone in the fleet."
Kaedehara Manyo nodded and chuckled softly before walking away as leisurely as a gentle breeze.
Xu Ning craned his neck to roughly determine the direction, then pointed to a ridge and said, "I met that engineer from Fontaine over there. I guess he's still there. Let's hurry over and find him first."
Beidou nodded in response, then laughed as if he had just thought of something.
Seeing Xu Ning looking at her, Beidou smiled and said, "I'm used to giving orders on the Death Star, but now that I'm suddenly being led by you, it feels like I'm back in the days when I came to Liyue with you."
Xu Ning couldn't help but smile when he recalled the time when Beidou followed him around like a little tail.
As the two traveled through the mountains, recalling their initial feelings, they both felt a long-lost intimacy, a closeness that went beyond physical intimacy.
When Xu Ning found Xavier again on the hillside, the unfortunate guy had already started packing his bags.
Upon seeing Xu Ning return, he practically scrambled over and grabbed Xu Ning's clothes, pleading, "Help me, or take me away."
"I'd rather go back to Fontaine and face the court's reprimand for my incompetence than become a dazzling firework that can be seen in Petrique!"
Seeing Xavier's devastated expression, Xu Ning chuckled and pulled his hand away from his clothes.
"Alright, we're here to help you this time, and we've even found the crux of the problem with Mikage's furnace core."
Xavier sighed and shook his head. "It's no use. I've been using remote sensing instruments to measure the relevant data of the Mikage's core for the past few days, and I've found that almost all the parameters are running incorrectly, and I have no way of judging whether this error is benign or malignant."
Xu Ning asked with interest about this situation, which was neither good nor bad.
Xavier explained, "Take this Shadow Furnace, for example. Its parameters are incorrect, it's slowed down, and its production capacity has plummeted. But we no longer need to worry about the potential overheating and runaway at its core. Oh, and that protective shield, which was originally designed to slightly block the leakage of the evil spirit's aura, has now become incredibly tough. Even the detection beacon I made can't be deployed inside it, and the data on the protective shield keeps fluctuating outside the normal range..."
Beidou stood aside with a look of "I don't understand but I'm impressed," and then when she looked at Xu Ning, she saw a similar expression on Xu Ning's face to her own.
"Cough cough..."
Xu Ning quickly interrupted Xavier's incessant chatter, "Let's put the technical stuff aside for now and look at the background first."
He handed Xavier the Teyvat Travel Guide he had been tucking into his arms, and pointed out the chapter on the sands of the third book.
Upon seeing those words, Xavier's face immediately showed a look of realization, followed by a slow spread of anger across his face.
"Just mutter a few complaints in your heart, but please don't curse out loud. This is a very interesting senior colleague that I really like!"
Xu Ning's words immediately silenced Xavier's characteristic Fontaine greeting.
Xavier muttered a few words, flipping through the book, and asked curiously, "The only thing that doesn't make sense is that this emergency barrier shield for the Mikage furnace core is clearly stable, static, and disposable, so why are its data still changing?"
"Perhaps it's because someone keeps tampering with it?"
Xu Ning stood on the edge of the cliff and glanced into the distance. At the foot of a certain cliff, several people dressed as the vanguard of the Fools were doing something furtively.
Beidou naturally saw them too, and his fingers cracked as he clenched them. "These guys are causing trouble everywhere. Why don't they get struck down by heavenly lightning? Xu Ning, let's go and get rid of them!"
Xavier looked speechlessly at the industrious and reckless Fools, who were like ants digging holes in a stove. "You guys go ahead. I'll stay here and assemble the purification devices needed for the next group. We'll meet up here again in a bit."
Xu Ning and Beidou directly raised their Wind Wings and glided in that direction.
The two left quickly and returned quickly as well.
After the two flew to the top of the cliff at the same time, Xu Ning reached out and dispersed the summoned wind, and walked with Beidou to Xavier's side, who was assembling a wonder machine.
"So fast! As expected, it possesses the power of the Eye of God..."
Before Xavier could finish praising him, Xu Ning shrugged and helplessly recounted the results of their earlier battle.
"We barely made contact before they all disappeared into the protective shield of the Shadow Furnace. We couldn't get in, so we had to come back and see if you had any ideas."
Speaking of Xu Ning and Bei Dou, both of them have images and figures on the Fools' Sect. Anyone with a bit of sense would know to give way when they encounter either one, let alone the two of them together.
Before any battle could begin, a lady from the Hidden Mirror Palace unfolded an ice mirror and led everyone inside, leaving Xu Ning and Bei Dou staring at each other in bewilderment.
"They really are all fearless guys. But in that case, opening up the protective barrier here is the first step we need to take."
Xavier turned to the two men and said, "Have you ever heard of a weapon developed by the Shogunate army?"