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american comcis _ tales of caltiveter _chapter_0501_part_02
Chapter 1191
chapter 0501 part 2
"Dongqing! Maybe I really will be unemployed. From now on, I'll rely on you to support me!"
"Rely on me to support you? Don't joke around. My salary for a month isn't even enough to refuel your car twice. If you want me to support you, raise my salary first!" Xia Dongqing gulped down the soup from the instant noodle bucket, and while walking towards the trash can, he gave Zhao Li a look of contempt.
"Raise salary? It's impossible to raise salary in this life. If I raise your salary, what about my Xiao Qi, and my Xiao Ba, Xiao Jiu, Xiao Shi—" Just as the two in the Convenience Store were bickering, the wind chime at the Convenience Store's entrance suddenly rang.
"Ding-a-ling-ling—"
"Dongqing, we have Guests!"
Zhao Li frowned and looked towards the entrance. Amidst the sound of the wind chime, two people dressed in extremely peculiar attire walked into Convenience Store 444.
"Foreigners!"
Zhao Li sized up the two uninvited guests who walked into the store. One was a scruffy, middle-aged white person wearing a brown trench coat. His dark circles were even heavier than his own, clearly a sign of excessive indulgence.
He was holding a black wooden luopan in his hand. Could he be a Feng Shui Master? But in the hundreds of years he had lived, or rather, the thousand years he had been dead, he had never seen a foreign Taoist! When Zhao Li looked at the other fair-skinned, beautiful woman with long legs, he finally confirmed the identity of the two.
"Whoa!" Zhao Li whistled at the pretty girl with twintails carrying a rocket launcher, "Beauty, are you cosplaying Harley Quinn? Gotta say, your outfit is really cool!"
"But your partner's cosplay isn't that great, it doesn't match you at all! Harley Quinn's partner should be the Joker! Or at least Batman! What's with bringing a Constantine? And holding a luopan in his hand, anyone who doesn't know would think you're a Feng Shui Master?"
"Beauty, look at my getup. I was a core member of the Cosplay Community back in the day. Want me to be your partner?"
Zhao Li was flirting with Harley Quinn.
"Spirits of the dead?" Constantine looked at Zhao Li with doubt. As soon as he spoke, Zhao Li's complexion instantly changed drastically.
"Your grandpa is a ghost messenger, a proper soul ferryman! You're the spirits of the dead! Who exactly are you two foreigners, what is your purpose here? Name, age, cup size, home address, spill it all, or don't blame my bullets for having no eyes!"
Zhao Li pulled out his soul-annihilating gun directly from his chest and aimed it at Constantine! Facing the dark muzzle, Constantine merely spread his hands, signaling Zhao Li to look beside him.
"A trick your grandpa hasn't played in years, where is there anyone?" Zhao Li quickly turned his head, and then he saw the dark rocket launcher aimed right at him.
"Hey, sis! That's not real, is it!" Zhao Li looked at Harley Quinn holding the rocket launcher and couldn't help but gulp.
Harley Quinn's face showed her signature smile: "Why don't you try it and see!" With that, Harley Quinn directly pulled the trigger of the rocket launcher.
"Splash!"
Inside a silver-gray egg-shaped nutrient pod, a graceful figure emerged from the viscous nutrient fluid. The woman pushed open the translucent cover plate above her head.
Her naked and agile body leaped out of the nutrient pod. Looking at the silver-white Compartment around her, Diana's eyes flashed with a hint of confusion.
"Where is this?"
Diana looked at the empty Room, walked to the coat rack, picked up the black long dress hanging there, examined it, and put it on. The clothes fit perfectly, as if tailor-made for her.
Just as Diana finished dressing, a holographic projection of a little girl in a red dress was projected in front of her.
"Hello! Ms. Diana! After a data scan, your physical condition is good! The Boss is waiting for you in the Tea Room—"
The smooth silver wall automatically split open to the sides, revealing a long silver-gray Tunnel behind the wall! After the little girl finished speaking, her body flickered and was about to disappear.
"Wait, who are you? Why am I here?"
Diana reached out as if to grab the little girl, but the little girl's holographic projection actually stopped flickering.
"Have you lost your memory? It seems you need a brain scan, or a soul examination—"
The little girl seriously examined Diana. As her gaze swept over, Diana felt a weak electric current pass through her body.
"I am Red Queen. You were severely injured in the combat with Thanos. Our Boss ordered people to rescue you! Do you have any impression?"
"Thanos? Your Boss?" Diana stared blankly at Red Queen before her. The confused memories in her mind instantly surfaced one by one. The last scene she remembered was a large area of purple light striking, and the huge firelight of the spaceship explosion.
She vaguely remembered using her Bracelets of Submission to raise a barrier, but she was still blown away by the powerful purple light.
"Your Boss is Tang Song?" Diana looked suspiciously at the little girl before her.
"Our Boss's surname is indeed Tang. Fortunately, although a large area of your body was exposed to the cosmic vacuum and directly irradiated by numerous rays, your brain did not suffer too much damage?"
The little girl politely answered Diana's questions.
"What was the result of that war? Did we win? How are Wayne and Steve Rogers?" Diana asked anxiously.
"Ms. Diana, since you are here, that explains everything! Thanos and his army have been eliminated by the Boss! As for your friends, they are fine, but you suffered some injuries from the shockwave of the explosion. It's not a big problem! It's just that your body was burned by cosmic rays, plus cryogenic freezing, making you a bit weak, which is why we sent you into the nutrient pod!"
Red Queen casually snapped her fingers, and a virtual projection appeared before Diana. The image clearly showed an ice sculpture suspended in the cosmic vacuum.
"Your body is indeed very strong. An ordinary creature's body exposed directly to cosmic vacuum rays for so long would have its body functions become necrotic long ago, but when we found you, we noticed that your cells still had vitality—"
"Looking at you now, your body has recovered quite well!"
Diana looked at the pale and swollen lump in the ice sculpture, finding it hard to believe that this lump was her.
However, the Bracelets of Submission and the golden armor on the ice lump all reminded her of its identity.
"Thank you for saving me. Oh, right, where are my Bracelets of Submission and weapons?"
"Your things are in the box on your left. Please hurry, the Boss is still waiting for you!" Red Queen bowed slightly and said, "As for the treatment fee, I will send a detailed list to your email!"
"Treatment fee? List?" Diana blinked, looking at Red Queen.
"Yes, madam, our treatment fee is not free. This is something you need to know!"
After re-equipping her Bracelets of Submission and putting away the Sword of Hephaestus, Diana walked straight towards the opened Gate. Passing through the long silver-gray Tunnel, Diana arrived in front of a room door. As soon as she reached it, the silver-gray door opened directly.
"Not bad, you're the one with the best quality among the people who came this time!"
(end of chapter)
"Dongqing! Maybe I really will be unemployed. From now on, I'll rely on you to support me!"
"Rely on me to support you? Don't joke around. My salary for a month isn't even enough to refuel your car twice. If you want me to support you, raise my salary first!" Xia Dongqing gulped down the soup from the instant noodle bucket, and while walking towards the trash can, he gave Zhao Li a look of contempt.
"Raise salary? It's impossible to raise salary in this life. If I raise your salary, what about my Xiao Qi, and my Xiao Ba, Xiao Jiu, Xiao Shi—" Just as the two in the Convenience Store were bickering, the wind chime at the Convenience Store's entrance suddenly rang.
"Ding-a-ling-ling—"
"Dongqing, we have Guests!"
Zhao Li frowned and looked towards the entrance. Amidst the sound of the wind chime, two people dressed in extremely peculiar attire walked into Convenience Store 444.
"Foreigners!"
Zhao Li sized up the two uninvited guests who walked into the store. One was a scruffy, middle-aged white person wearing a brown trench coat. His dark circles were even heavier than his own, clearly a sign of excessive indulgence.
He was holding a black wooden luopan in his hand. Could he be a Feng Shui Master? But in the hundreds of years he had lived, or rather, the thousand years he had been dead, he had never seen a foreign Taoist! When Zhao Li looked at the other fair-skinned, beautiful woman with long legs, he finally confirmed the identity of the two.
"Whoa!" Zhao Li whistled at the pretty girl with twintails carrying a rocket launcher, "Beauty, are you cosplaying Harley Quinn? Gotta say, your outfit is really cool!"
"But your partner's cosplay isn't that great, it doesn't match you at all! Harley Quinn's partner should be the Joker! Or at least Batman! What's with bringing a Constantine? And holding a luopan in his hand, anyone who doesn't know would think you're a Feng Shui Master?"
"Beauty, look at my getup. I was a core member of the Cosplay Community back in the day. Want me to be your partner?"
Zhao Li was flirting with Harley Quinn.
"Spirits of the dead?" Constantine looked at Zhao Li with doubt. As soon as he spoke, Zhao Li's complexion instantly changed drastically.
"Your grandpa is a ghost messenger, a proper soul ferryman! You're the spirits of the dead! Who exactly are you two foreigners, what is your purpose here? Name, age, cup size, home address, spill it all, or don't blame my bullets for having no eyes!"
Zhao Li pulled out his soul-annihilating gun directly from his chest and aimed it at Constantine! Facing the dark muzzle, Constantine merely spread his hands, signaling Zhao Li to look beside him.
"A trick your grandpa hasn't played in years, where is there anyone?" Zhao Li quickly turned his head, and then he saw the dark rocket launcher aimed right at him.
"Hey, sis! That's not real, is it!" Zhao Li looked at Harley Quinn holding the rocket launcher and couldn't help but gulp.
Harley Quinn's face showed her signature smile: "Why don't you try it and see!" With that, Harley Quinn directly pulled the trigger of the rocket launcher.
"Splash!"
Inside a silver-gray egg-shaped nutrient pod, a graceful figure emerged from the viscous nutrient fluid. The woman pushed open the translucent cover plate above her head.
Her naked and agile body leaped out of the nutrient pod. Looking at the silver-white Compartment around her, Diana's eyes flashed with a hint of confusion.
"Where is this?"
Diana looked at the empty Room, walked to the coat rack, picked up the black long dress hanging there, examined it, and put it on. The clothes fit perfectly, as if tailor-made for her.
Just as Diana finished dressing, a holographic projection of a little girl in a red dress was projected in front of her.
"Hello! Ms. Diana! After a data scan, your physical condition is good! The Boss is waiting for you in the Tea Room—"
The smooth silver wall automatically split open to the sides, revealing a long silver-gray Tunnel behind the wall! After the little girl finished speaking, her body flickered and was about to disappear.
"Wait, who are you? Why am I here?"
Diana reached out as if to grab the little girl, but the little girl's holographic projection actually stopped flickering.
"Have you lost your memory? It seems you need a brain scan, or a soul examination—"
The little girl seriously examined Diana. As her gaze swept over, Diana felt a weak electric current pass through her body.
"I am Red Queen. You were severely injured in the combat with Thanos. Our Boss ordered people to rescue you! Do you have any impression?"
"Thanos? Your Boss?" Diana stared blankly at Red Queen before her. The confused memories in her mind instantly surfaced one by one. The last scene she remembered was a large area of purple light striking, and the huge firelight of the spaceship explosion.
She vaguely remembered using her Bracelets of Submission to raise a barrier, but she was still blown away by the powerful purple light.
"Your Boss is Tang Song?" Diana looked suspiciously at the little girl before her.
"Our Boss's surname is indeed Tang. Fortunately, although a large area of your body was exposed to the cosmic vacuum and directly irradiated by numerous rays, your brain did not suffer too much damage?"
The little girl politely answered Diana's questions.
"What was the result of that war? Did we win? How are Wayne and Steve Rogers?" Diana asked anxiously.
"Ms. Diana, since you are here, that explains everything! Thanos and his army have been eliminated by the Boss! As for your friends, they are fine, but you suffered some injuries from the shockwave of the explosion. It's not a big problem! It's just that your body was burned by cosmic rays, plus cryogenic freezing, making you a bit weak, which is why we sent you into the nutrient pod!"
Red Queen casually snapped her fingers, and a virtual projection appeared before Diana. The image clearly showed an ice sculpture suspended in the cosmic vacuum.
"Your body is indeed very strong. An ordinary creature's body exposed directly to cosmic vacuum rays for so long would have its body functions become necrotic long ago, but when we found you, we noticed that your cells still had vitality—"
"Looking at you now, your body has recovered quite well!"
Diana looked at the pale and swollen lump in the ice sculpture, finding it hard to believe that this lump was her.
However, the Bracelets of Submission and the golden armor on the ice lump all reminded her of its identity.
"Thank you for saving me. Oh, right, where are my Bracelets of Submission and weapons?"
"Your things are in the box on your left. Please hurry, the Boss is still waiting for you!" Red Queen bowed slightly and said, "As for the treatment fee, I will send a detailed list to your email!"
"Treatment fee? List?" Diana blinked, looking at Red Queen.
"Yes, madam, our treatment fee is not free. This is something you need to know!"
After re-equipping her Bracelets of Submission and putting away the Sword of Hephaestus, Diana walked straight towards the opened Gate. Passing through the long silver-gray Tunnel, Diana arrived in front of a room door. As soon as she reached it, the silver-gray door opened directly.
"Not bad, you're the one with the best quality among the people who came this time!"
(end of chapter)
