Chapter 60 — Big Boss Bai picked up a stone and ended up hitting his own foot.1
At first glance, those words didn’t seem like much, but when faced with the actual situation, it completely violated ethics.
Bai Ruogu was forced to step back step by step. His lips twitched, and the three men plus a blue ball kept staring at him, giving Bai Ruogu the feeling of being caught cheating.
He pursed his lips and leaned back. His eyes flickered, and after a while, Bai Ruogu finally found an excuse.
He raised his eyes, pretended to be relaxed, and said with a light laugh in a negotiating tone, “Everything has pros and cons. Actually, I don’t lack men that much. Really, whether it’s one, two, three, or five, it doesn’t mean much to me. So you don’t have to think too much about it, one is enough. Besides, if you think about it carefully, what benefits do you get? You know that these are all one person, and running too many personalities at once definitely takes up memory. Although it doesn’t affect you much, there are still drawbacks…”
He spoke eloquently, almost convincing himself. Seeing the blue ball tilt its head as if it was really pondering, Bai Ruogu smiled, thinking he had it under control since everything he said was true.
After a while, a mechanical voice sounded, but its content was somewhat unexpected for Bai Ruogu.
“Thanks to your suggestion, you’ve opened up a new idea for me.”
Bai Ruogu: ?
The blue ball’s eyes, originally round, suddenly curved at the thought of this content.
“Multiple people can indeed bring me benefits.”
Bai Ruogu: ??
The blue ball’s eyes grew brighter and brighter. “Based on current information, it can be inferred that when I have a body and we engage in related activities, I should feel extremely happy. However, my feelings across multiple identities are interconnected. If I could have multiple physical bodies and be with you simultaneously, then my happiness will increase exponentially.”
Bai Ruogu: …
His eyes and mouth opened wide, and he was stunned. He shook his head numbly, unable to recover for a long time.
Bai Ruogu’s mouth twitched. After thinking for a long time, he finally forced out a sentence, “But I…”
“Your happiness will also be doubled.”
Bai Ruogu: …
He couldn’t help but cover his face with his hand.
It’s over, this system was beyond saving. It had been completely turned yellow2.
Later, Bai Ruogu took the private spaceship he had recently bought from the garage and planned to go to planet Ketan to find some information.
Before leaving, he picked up the blue ball and threw it into the cabin. Thinking of this guy’s previous suggestion, he wanted to put a sack over it.
He walked into the spaceship, closed the hatch, and turned to face the blue ball’s watery eyes. Bai Ruogu tightened his collar, his expression solemn and serious.
“I’m a proper and conservative person. This…” He coughed, turned, and walked away, his calm voice drifting from the front.
“I won’t do this kind of indecent thing.”
Indecent…?
The blue ball pondered the truth of this statement.
The spaceship Bai Ruogu bought was expensive. Although it wasn’t as efficient as a shuttle, it only took two days to reach planet Ketan, which was 100,000 light-years away.
The approximately 3x3x2 meter spaceship sailed through the deep and vast universe, with floating asteroids skimming past the sides of the ship. The outside was silent, and only the stars outlined their shapes with the light of the sun.
Bai Ruogu activated the autopilot system, so he didn’t have to stay focused on driving all the time.
Two days weren’t long, but not short either. Due to the limited space, Bai Ruogu only prepared enough food and didn’t bring a bed.
Of course, this was the least of his concerns!
Big Boss Bai made the best use of everything, directly pulling the blue ball over.
The blue ball looked confused. Then, Bai Ruogu pressed it flat with his hands. Once it was large enough, Bai Ruogu lay down on the bouncy blue waterbed.
The waterbed had a faint, fresh fragrance. Bai Ruogu turned and hugged it, burying his head in it.
The body he made himself felt very safe, and soon, Bai Ruogu fell asleep.
The blue ball was stunned for a while. When the hot breath sprayed on it, the blue ball seemed to wake up suddenly. It shrank inward, and pink involuntarily appeared.
Blue with pink, the bundle actually turned a light purple.
The scenery outside kept changing, and the cabin was silent, with only the sound of breathing becoming more and more even.
The blue ball could feel how comfortable the person on it was sleeping. It blinked its big eyes, and the parts of its body not held by Bai Ruogu gradually thinned and covered him…
Before long, the blue ball turned into a sleeping bag, wrapping Bai Ruogu tightly.
The spaceship moved from the peaceful zone to the war zone, where battles raged outside, and the Interstellar Federation fought fiercely against external enemies.
Dazzling fire from the cannons lit up every corner of the nearby planets, and the sound of explosions mixed with the cries of tens of thousands of people.
Countless citizens were displaced, making this the most chaotic place in the interstellar.
When Bai Ruogu quietly landed the spaceship in an uninhabited area, the scene outside seemed like a different world.
He remembered that the last time he came here, it was a developed and advanced planet, but now it was in ruins.
As far as the eye could see, except for the general’s statue in the distance which remained intact, the rest of the area had collapsed, and there was a smell of gunpowder everywhere.
Bai Ruogu had hidden the spaceship in a very concealed location. He quietly disembarked from the spaceship, looking up at the statue with a complex expression in his eyes.
From the battle reports, he had learned that the area around the statue was the main base of the Interstellar Federation, which was why the buildings there were intact.
“Sigh…” Bai Ruogu sighed, opening his smart brain to input the coordinates of the laboratory sent by Zhuri.
The transparent smart brain screen lit up, showing a red dot and a green dot. The distance between the two was considerable, with a scale bar marked nearby.
Bai Ruogu’s tense eyebrows finally relaxed a bit. He hadn’t come to the wrong place. As one of the prominent figures on planet Ketan, the laboratory should indeed be near the royal city.
He estimated that he was about ten to twenty kilometers away from the laboratory. It wasn’t very far, and if he moved quickly, he should be able to arrive before nightfall.
However, the area was fraught with dangers, with enemies and allies mixed together, making it inevitable that unexpected situations could occur.
Bai Ruogu used the ruins to conceal himself while the blue ball followed beside him with a “thump, thump, thump” sound. Whenever he hid, the blue ball would mimic his actions.
Everything here was gray, filled with sorrow and despair. Every few steps Bai Ruogu took, he could see bloodstains and corpses beneath his feet.
In reality, to all the politicians, planet Ketan was just a pawn, or even less than a pawn. After all, planet Ketan was beyond saving, and abandoning it would solve many burdens.
However, to everyone’s surprise, when the Emperor of planet Ketan pleaded for help, the high-ranking Chief of Staff of the Interstellar Federation, who was usually seen as unreachable, agreed to help.
Even Bai Ruogu was somewhat surprised at the time.
Although their titles sounded similar, planet Ketan was just a small remote planet, while the Interstellar Federation controlled countless star systems and tens of thousands of planets.
If the Emperor of planet Ketan was like a small village chief in Africa, the Chief of Staff’s status was equivalent to that of the UN Secretary-General.
However, war was not that simple. Otherwise, so many people wouldn’t have avoided confronting it, choosing to abandon the mess that was planet Ketan.
Now the war was escalating, with both sides’ forces almost concentrated around planet Ketan. They were at a stalemate, with minor skirmishes occurring among the soldiers, but neither side dared to make a major move.
Bai Ruogu walked while observing the terrain, ready to respond to any unexpected incidents.
A piece of rubble rolled down from a high place, landing near Bai Ruogu’s feet. The blue ball’s outer layer was about to explode, but fortunately, nothing happened.
Today’s luck was good. The journey was smooth, and before he knew it, he had entered the no-man’s land.
The air was filled with the smell of sulfur, and nearby, the residual heat from a recent bomb explosion lingered.
Because there was no network in the no-man’s land, the blue ball had cached itself in advance, following Bai Ruogu steadily as they ventured in.
While searching for the laboratory entrance, they accidentally encountered enemy patrols on the perimeter.
Although most of planet Ketan was under the control of the Interstellar Federation, the enemy, out of fear of that person, was determined to take over this area.
The area was large, and the magnetic field was chaotic, making it impossible for the enemy to use technology to search here. They could only send multiple teams to search day and night.
Just as Bai Ruogu was deducing the location of the laboratory based on available conditions, the enemy suddenly arrived.
The team consisted of about thirty people, each wearing S-class protective suits, making them resistant to ordinary physical attacks.
Bai Ruogu’s nerves tightened. In this situation, he had no way to fight back. He quickly started looking for a place to hide.
However, there were few ruins around, and the conspicuous blue ball beside him made it even more noticeable.
At this moment, the blue ball blinked its big round eyes, looking completely innocent.
Bai Ruogu: …
Are you trying to charm the enemy to death?
At the critical moment, the blue ball suddenly opened its big mouth and leaped up, swallowing Bai Ruogu in one gulp.
Bai Ruogu: …
The blue ball found it delicious, squinting its eyes comfortably, burping contentedly, and rubbing its belly.
When the enemy finally arrived, they found nothing but ruins and a thin layer of dead grass. Puzzled, they muttered and moved on.
Little did they know that after they had walked away, the “dead grass” on the ground began to move.
The flat scene transformed into a three-dimensional ball as the “dead grass” wiggled.
The ball stood up, its color matching the dead grass perfectly. It looked like a large ball covered in camouflage.
Yes, this was the blue ball’s new ability—to change its color entirely or partially at will.
Seeing that the enemy had gone far, the blue ball didn’t want to spit Bai Ruogu out. It squinted its eyes, finding the sensation of having swallowed its partner quite enjoyable.
As a result, it became rebellious, ignoring Bai Ruogu’s commands inside it and bouncing around at will.
Bai Ruogu: …
Should he be grateful that he hadn’t equipped the ball with a digestive system?
He tried to command the ball, “Let me out!”
The words transmitted by the smart brain were reasonable and well-founded: “You previously said that my enjoyment should come first. I can satisfy myself before considering anything else.”
Bai Ruogu: …
Did he shoot himself in the foot?
- 搬起石头砸了自己的脚 (bān qǐ shítou zále zìjǐ de jiǎo) This idiom is often used to describe situations where someone tries to be clever or cunning but ends up making a mistake that hurts them in the end. ↩︎
- indecent, obscene, or inappropriate, often referring to content that has become sexual in nature. ↩︎