69novels Chapter 167 Smuggling X Catwoman
Chapter 167 Smuggling X Catwoman
Chapter 167 Smuggling X Catwoman
Batra's airship carrying supplies arrived in Meteor City on the third day, loaded with large cargo boxes, and dropped directly from the sky, just like other airships that dumped garbage.
However, it fell in a slightly different place; it didn't land directly on the garbage heap, but rather on an open space to the side.
Su Wu looked at the large cargo boxes, then at Chou Bao on her body, and fell into deep thought.
The box is a bit too big; Ugly Baby's mouth probably can't fit in, but it's a cursed spirit, so if we try hard enough, it should be able to.
He turned his head slightly and met the eyes of Ugly Baby, whose face was clearly marked with "low intelligence/easy to fool/idiot".
"...Dad...?" The silly, confused cursed spirit gurgled out.
It got beaten up several times and finally changed "Mom" to "Dad".
The rest of the time it was very well-behaved, quietly clinging to Su Wu without moving, just like a decorative object.
"Hmm." Su Wu patted her son's head and casually pointed to the box. "Go, swallow them all."
Ugly Baby stood there for a long time, unable to understand what he meant, and remained motionless.
The extent of their intellectual disability is truly indescribable.
Even if I wanted to get angry, I thought, what's the point of arguing with an idiot?
Su Wu sighed, and with a sense of helplessness, pulled Ugly Baby off and began to manually stuff things into its mouth.
"Gurgle..."
"...Gurgle..."
"If you open your mouth a little wider, it'll be almost full."
"Good son, good son."
While saying this, Su Wu's hands never stopped moving. It took her most of the day to finally stuff all the supplies into Chou Bao's mouth.
Pampas and Sid stood by and watched, seeing things disappear one by one into thin air, or... into something they couldn't see.
"That's all, we can go now." Su Wu stopped what she was doing, looked at the listless Ugly Baby, and picked him up and put him on her own.
Ugly Baby isn't just ugly; he's his entire fortune.
"..." Pampas looked at the empty space that had been filled with supplies, his expression full of regret.
I thought that if this kid couldn't be taken away, he would stay in Meteor City.
Why spend money to buy supplies when you can get them for free? It's such a waste.
"I hope I won't see you on the list of people NGL announces to be dealt with," Sid said indifferently.
It was like a reminder, or perhaps a warning.
Su Wu began to miss that honest man who was practically ready to take off his underwear for her back then.
My hand was itching to draw a card, but after thinking about it, I managed to control my mischievous impulse.
"Bye-bye." He waved to the two of them, leaped up, and boarded the airship that was waiting in the air.
The white tiger swaggered around in mid-air a few times, then looked down at Maro on the ground, a human-like smugness appearing on its face.
"Idiot." Maro controlled the water vapor to freeze into ice, using Nen to support the ice blocks, and forcibly built an upward staircase of ice for himself.
As the airship departed Meteor Street, Pampas withdrew his gaze and looked again at the shadowy corner of the bungalows nearby.
"Now those guys will dare to sleep, right?" he said softly to Sid.
"It's a good thing for you that they die suddenly in fear," Sid replied, arms crossed.
Friends naturally know each other very well.
"How could that be?" Pampas smiled and denied it.
……
The NGL Autonomous Republic is located on the edge of the coast, with border checkpoints for inspection.
"According to NGL regulations, our airship is not allowed to enter," Maro reported in a low voice.
It was a country where you couldn't even bring a phone in. You had to buy locally made clothes on the spot and change into them, and then go through all sorts of inspections. Even people who had their teeth filled weren't allowed in.
If they want to enter openly, they need to abandon the airship.
If you try to cross the border illegally, you will be arrested and executed.
A journalist once tried to sneak in, but was caught and executed.
"NGL... is one of the world's largest drug production and export regions," Maro thought for a moment, then whispered.
This is something that only a very small number of people know.
For example, the biggest mafia and high-ranking officials of the five major countries.
Maro only received the news from his own father after taking over many of Pellis's affairs.
Despite operating under a closed management system, NGL was secretly engaged in drug manufacturing and transporting these drugs to various parts of the world through gangsters and high-ranking officials in some countries.
Meteor Street is one of the largest transit stations, as is Yokexin.
That's why those infiltrated reporters were executed on the spot, because they were afraid they saw something they shouldn't have.
"...I don't want to go through immigration checks." Su Wu glanced at the two huge trees below.
A space had been carved out inside the tree trunk to house a computer, which belonged to NGL's immigration inspectors.
The immigration check here not only involves machine scanning, but also requires you to take off your clothes for them to inspect, and they might even touch you.
"Born of darkness, from darkness to darkness, cleansing away all filth and defilement." As he spoke, he released a tent large enough to envelop the airship.
"Let's smuggle ourselves in, that's it." He made the decision simply.
Even if they are discovered to be illegally crossing the border, it's uncertain whether the country of NGL will even exist in the future.
No, maybe they won't even be discovered smuggling themselves...
Because NGL lacks communication facilities, its information is outdated and closed off. Thinking about it this way, it's even more puzzling how they discovered that someone was smuggling themselves in.
After finding a corner to park the airship, Su Wu didn't remove the tent she had set up.
Otherwise, if an airship with an incongruous art style suddenly appeared in a backward place, even a fool would see that something was wrong, right?
They abandoned the airship and set off lightly.
Square fields and ditches are everywhere, and most of the houses are built with hay or wooden planks.
There were no skyscrapers; it looked like an ordinary village, even less impressive than the villages Su Wu had ever seen.
At least in the countryside he visited, there were still quite a few luxurious self-built houses, and people were living much more comfortably than in the city.
"I think I know why people who try to smuggle themselves here get caught," Su Wu said thoughtfully, stroking her chin.
Although the styles of the rural and urban residents he visited didn't seem too different, the level of art here couldn't compare to the rural areas he had visited.
If I had to put it in words, it would be like the difference between a few well-dressed city dwellers suddenly appearing in a remote mountain environment.
The difference is huge; you might even attract a crowd of onlookers.
However, Su Wu and the others no longer need to worry about this.
Because along the way, we didn't see a single person.
The tools for working were scattered in different places, as if all the residents living here had suddenly migrated, or as if... they had suddenly disappeared.
"How many people do you think are still alive in NGL?" Su Wu asked Maro, stroking her chin.
Given the feeding and reproduction rate of chimera ants, it would be reasonable for them to devour everyone in NGL within one or two months.
"...I don't know." Maro shook his head, not making any wild guesses.
"There probably aren't many left, so the ants are preparing to expand their territory," Su Wu analyzed.
Once the humans have finished eating here, they can move to another place and always find more people.
It's quite similar to some interstellar Zerg lore, where the planet is destroyed after consuming all resources.
"They look very hungry," Su Wu suddenly looked up at the sky.
A swarm of figures resembling giant locusts appeared on the horizon, their wings fluttering.
They have green skin like goblins, and each one is ugly; they are typical cannon fodder with no role.
"Extremely rare!"
"We actually ran into each other—"
As they spoke, they swooped down from the sky.
His bulging eyes were filled with excited cruelty and greedy hunger.
"That's what idiots are like; they completely fail to understand their own place in the world," Su Wu couldn't help but sigh.
"Miscellaneous fish." He stretched out his hand and swiped it diagonally downwards.
The black shadows on the horizon fell to the ground in droves, like the corpses of dead insects.
Now that you know I'm an extremely rare item, you should know I'm not someone you lowly mortals can even dream of, you idiots.
"Beep—beep—"
A communication notification came through the phone.
Maro took out his phone, glanced down at it, but didn't answer. Instead, he looked at the white-haired boy and said, "Sir, it's G. Freecss."
He always addressed Killua and Gon by their full names in a distant manner.
"They've finished their game too." Su Wu nodded. "No need to answer."
Anyway, there wasn't much to talk about after they answered. The reason they had Maro call them in the first place was just to see if they had finished the game.
Now that we have the results, there's even less need to say anything more.
So Marlow nodded and turned off the phone notification sound.
"Based on the colony habits of ants, what we just saw should be a kind of worker ant..." Su Wu analyzed the habits of the chimera ant.
They are quite similar to ordinary ants, but they are more harmful.
"However, the Chimera Ant's threat level is actually B..." Su Wu thought of the information about Chimera Ants that she had obtained from the Hunter website.
Is it because the chimera ants of the past had never eaten humans?
Otherwise, a creature that is an omnivore whose staple food is humans, but also eats other things, has an enormous appetite, reproduces extremely quickly, and can grow stronger and evolve through eating, and could even destroy the world if it develops seriously, shouldn't only be at the B level.
But if we put it in the Dark Continent, B-rank seems quite reasonable.
There should be quite a few creatures stronger than Chimera Ants on the Dark Continent.
But surely they can't all be cannon fodder of this level? There should be stronger ones among the ants.
Su Wu carefully used her six eyes to sense things and discovered a group of people gathered together, whose life energy was exceptionally strong, far exceeding that of ordinary people.
In addition, there were two familiar life forms.
"There seems to be something fun happening over there..." The white-haired, blue-eyed boy looked into the distance.
Maro and Sora also tried to look over, attempting to see the same scenery he was seeing.
"You two, get away from each other." Su Wu waved her hand, urging them to leave.
"I've found something interesting. Let's see if we can lure that guy over here."
Maro and Sora are too weak. If we play around with them, they might die accidentally.
"I understand. Please have fun and don't worry about us." Maro nodded respectfully, grabbed the empty ear, and dragged it away.
Su Wu then slowly walked in one direction, releasing her thoughts at a leisurely pace.
The circle, spanning a hundred meters, makes no attempt to conceal its aura, brazenly revealing its existence.
The fisherman cast his fishing line, and those who were willing took the bait.
A figure with short, white, wavy hair, triangular ears, and a fluffy tail suddenly looked over, as if seeing an extremely attractive presence in the forest through the dense trees in between.
This feeling is—that of a human being…the strong.
"He'll definitely show me just how strong I am," Neferpitou said with a delighted smile.
Her own kind prevented her from seeing her own strength, because they were all too weak.
She was far stronger than her kind, to the point that she always wondered just how strong she really was.
At this moment, the process of her weaker companions striving to train and master their abilities no longer held any appeal for her.
Her mind and eyes were completely focused on that target, who exuded a strong aura and whose presence was so obvious, yet her kind of people couldn't sense it at all.
She walked outside.
"What are you going to do?" someone asked curiously.
"Let's see just how strong I really am," Neferpitou said, stepping out of the cave and clinging to the outer wall of the nest, his red eyes excitedly searching for a target.
"Found you." She exerted force with her legs, her muscles bulging, even exceeding the speed of sound, and leaped out in an instant.
"Here I am." The boy, who had been waiting for a long time, curled the corners of his mouth, and his originally indifferent face immediately turned into a strong aggressive expression.
The toy he had been waiting for to pass the time finally arrived on its own.
"Bang—" The swift and powerful attack landed, but it did not hit the target as Neferpitou had expected. Instead, it was blocked by an invisible membrane.
The attack created a powerful turbulence as it struck the unseen defense. Neferpitou used the impact to propel himself backward, spinning three times in the air before landing in a half-crouch position.
"Strange... how did you block me?" Her face was full of pure curiosity, as if she didn't consider the human opposite her as an enemy at all.
All I wanted to know was what techniques the other person used.
She looked at the first powerful human she had ever met who gave her an indescribable feeling.
With white hair and blue eyes, and strange black markings on its body, it doesn't look like a human, but rather like a fellow villager from the same place as the Chimera Ants.
"Is it hard to guess? Because you—" The white-haired boy raised his eyebrows, his arrogant eyes full of contempt.
"Too weak," he said casually.
Neferpitou looked at the white-haired boy opposite him, and a strange, intense desire suddenly welled up inside him.
His crimson eyes grew even brighter, as red as blood that had just been sprayed from his body.
Her smile widened uncontrollably as she stared intently at the boy, as if he were a toy she loved and desperately wanted to possess.
Angry? No, she wasn't angry.
But at this moment, the desire to kill the boy opposite him was more intense than ever before.
That's amazing! ...
Her bright smile betrayed an unwitting illness. She squatted on the ground, her hands hanging naturally at her sides, but suddenly sprang up and disappeared from the spot, launching another attack.
(End of this chapter)