pertwk Chapter 2538 An Opportunity Slipped Away
Chapter 2538 An Opportunity Slipped Away
Chapter 2538 An Opportunity Slipped Away
He Lingchuan immediately picked up the cloth bag, moved it to the red line, and pushed it inside.
"Miss A-Lian, please have some."
When Ah Lian saw the colorful candies, she was immediately drawn to them and grabbed a handful.
What child doesn't love something sweet and delicious? Once they start eating, they can't stop.
He Lingchuan had taken away Dong Rui's spoils from yesterday afternoon's shopping spree in the city, catering to the young girl's tastes.
He asked the child with a smile, "Is it delicious?"
Ah Lian was so busy chewing nougat that she couldn't open her mouth, even though the candy was so fragrant and sweet but also so sticky. She just kept nodding.
Seeing her happy, Duan Heyun's expression relaxed. Although he usually instructed the palace servants to buy some toys and snacks for A-Lian, how could the rough and uncultured merchants bring back such a variety of things?
Ah Lian swallowed the nougat, then picked up a golden, oily thing: "What is this?"
It looks delicious.
"Fried cakes." He Lingchuan used his true energy to heat them up for her. A-Lian took a bite; the outside was crispy, the inside chewy, and there was a delicate fragrance of red beans. "Delicious, so delicious! Where did you get these?"
He Lingchuan smiled and said, "Bai Song City, there are countless delicious and fun things there. This fried cake is just the most inconspicuous one. There are also rice cakes shaped like little rabbits and frogs, sugar paintings drawn directly on a board with maltose, which crumble into sugar crumbs when you bite into them, and..."
Ah Lian listened with longing, then suddenly interrupted him:
What is a little rabbit?
She grew up in a cage and had never seen a rabbit.
“This…” He Lingchuan looked at Duan Heyun, “There are some in Lotus Valley, I’ll send you one to play with later. Little girls all like little rabbits.”
In the experimental fields of the demon puppeteers, there is no shortage of rats and rabbits.
Duan Heyun nodded: "I'll get it in a bit."
With his words, things became much easier for He Lingchuan.
A-Lian blinked and asked He Lingchuan:
Why are you suddenly being nice to me?
Dong Rui hissed, "This little girl is quite perceptive."
“Because Miss A-Lian is very cute.” Hu Xin’s smile faded slightly, and she sighed softly. “She is also a pitiful child. I went to Baisong City a few days ago to pick up a letter from home, and I heard that my great-great-niece is about the same age as A-Lian. She is very cute, and the whole family loves her.”
He was trying to find an associative rationale for his sudden act of care.
Upon hearing the word "pitiful," Duan Heyun's smile gradually vanished. His mood, which had improved because of A-Lian's cuteness, became heavy again because of her pitifulness.
He Lingchuan seized the opportunity to speak: "By the way, Master Duan, in the No. 3 Jaguar Warehouse of Baiwan Mountain, a trolley with four wine vats escaped and ate several people."
Duan Heyun, still lost in thought, hummed in agreement: "Who's managing warehouse number three?"
"Manager Liu." The Jaguar granaries and terraced fields of Baiwanshan are managed by contracted areas, and besides Manager Wang, there are several other managers. Coincidentally, Jaguar granary number three is not Manager Wang's jurisdiction, but Manager Liu's.
Duan Heyun's gaze sharpened: "How could all four cylinders break at the same time? Someone tampered with them?"
“We’re investigating.” He Lingchuan certainly couldn’t lead the conversation in that direction. “But according to the Magic Eye, a few small jars on the top shelf broke first, and a small starfish crawled out and fell onto the large vat below. Perhaps it corroded the vat lid…”
Such accidents have happened many times in Baiwanshan.
Without the Yangguan Road, Lingyun Palace could only resort to the most rudimentary method to deal with the reborn consciousness of Yin Shenjun.
Why wasn't it used before? Because it wasn't effective. The workload of the cumbersome method was simply staggering. From the dissection, transportation, storage, and cultivation of the Hidden God's body, which step wasn't demanding?
With such a massive workload and so many people working together, it's impossible for things not to go wrong.
This is what they call being impossible to guard against.
Large organizations tend to prioritize easier tasks over more difficult ones. Only when all else fails will they attempt more challenging approaches.
Even though Duan Heyun understood, his eyebrows furrowed: "Did they escape into the terraced fields?"
"No, everyone has been sent out and is searching everywhere."
If they're lucky, Duan Heyun might go with him. After all, the giant marine vehicle in the large vat has escaped, and it's a four-cylinder vehicle at once—that's definitely a serious accident in Baiwanshan.
As the highest leader and main person in charge of the Demon Puppet Project, shouldn't Duan Heyun have a responsibility to make a trip there?
If that's the case, then it's exactly what He Lingchuan wanted.
As long as they leave Lotus Valley and enter Million Mountain, He Lingchuan is confident he can deal with him, even though Duan Heyun's cultivation level is not on the same level as Hu Xin's.
However, a bunch of idle thugs in the cardamom garden are itching for a fight.
However, He Lingchuan's luck was really bad today. Duan Heyun only thought for two breaths before saying, "I'll leave this matter to you. Find them for me."
"Yes." Since the first plan failed, He Lingchuan immediately began a second attempt. "But the experiment at Fenghe Pavilion will require those four tanks of starfish as soon as it gets light tomorrow."
Hu Xin had told them that the fragments cut from the body of the Hidden God needed more than an hour to regenerate before they could grow tentacles.
Only at this point can the properties be considered stable, and only then is it possible to conduct preliminary experiments.
If Lotus Valley doesn't have any ready-made ones, then we'll have to hurry to the Glazed Sea to cut them. He Lingchuan thought that maybe he could hitch a ride with them.
He said this because the miscellaneous tasks of a large research institution are too numerous and complicated, and Duan Heyun cannot possibly remember everything, so he has to remind him.
Duan Heyun clearly thought for a moment before nodding: "Good reminder. It has nothing to do with you anymore. I will have Deng Yanlong handle it."
He Lingchuan immediately reminded him: "Master Duan, Supervisor Deng has gone out to sea."
"Ah, where did he go...?" Duan Heyun paused, then suddenly remembered, "That's right, he's not here. Who's temporarily taking over his duties?"
This also shows that Xiao Ping was indeed mainly responsible for the task allocation and internal and external coordination of Lingyun Palace, while Duan Heyun usually focused his energy on research and did not pay much attention to personnel arrangements.
“It’s me,” Hu Xin replied. “But I don’t have permission to enter the Liuli Sea. This…this is a problem.”
Duan Heyun suddenly realized why Hu Xin had been trying so hard to please A-Lian and get close to him all day.
But remembering how he had just made A-Lian happy, Duan Heyun didn't want to make things difficult for him and casually said, "It's alright, I'm going to Liuli Sea anyway, so you can come with me."
Upon hearing this, everyone in the Cardamom Garden was overjoyed:
"As expected of the Great Emperor!"
They managed to snag a chance to enter the Crystal Sea!
Hu Xin beamed: "Yes, yes! Thank you, Master Duan!"
Duan Heyun was also very decisive, turning around and saying:
"Let's go."
He Lingchuan followed closely behind him and soon left the Lotus Valley Small World.
(End of this chapter)