Chapter 341: The Sleeping Baby!
Chapter 341: The Sleeping Baby!
Editor: H2dH2mr At this ti, Little Four who had left Ling Lan to go wipe out the T-virus returned, suddenly appearing within Ling Lan’s mindspace.
Ling Lan saw Little Four’s reappearance and knew that he must have finished clearing out the T-virus.
Still, the potential harm the T-virus could inflict on the Federation’s virtual world was too great, so Ling Lan could not help but ask, “Have you cleared out that T-virus, that Doomsday Flower?” Little Four grinned widely, nodded and said, “Yup yup, all done.” “You’re sure that the T-virus won’t appear again in the virtual world?” Ling Lan asked again, still worried.
“Yup yup, as long as Boss does not want to see it, the T-virus will not appear here.” Little Four blinked his clear black eyes guilelessly and replied with a sure expression.
Only then did Ling Lan relax.
She did not notice when Little Four bowed his head to hide a smile.
Of course Little Four would smile sneakily — he had only said that the T-virus would not appear again if Ling Lan did not want to see it.
If Ling Lan wanted to see it again one day, the T-virus could appear any ti she wanted it to …
That’s right.
He, Little Four, had transferred that T-virus, a.k.a.
the Doomsday Flower, into the learning space for focused cultivation.
Little Four felt that there was no such thing as good or bad when it ca to viruses.
It all depended on who the user was.
Besides, it wasn’t easy for him to see sothing related to the Mandora star system — Little Four could not bear to erase it just like that …
Mind you, the instructors in the learning space were unwilling to talk to him much due to his young age, and Ling Lan had so much to do in her daily life that she did not talk to him very often either.
anwhile, in the virtual world, other than that little optical supercomputer on that spaceship, he still had not encountered another self-aware intelligence entity in this entire virtual world …
yes, Little Four was feeling lonely.
Little Four left Ling Lan’s mindspace excitedly to co to a sealed space within the learning space in the next second.
There, a baby was sleeping deeply suspended in the air.
The baby’s body was connected to countless white and black lines whose ends disappeared into the endless darkness of this space.
There was no visible end point.
Little Four’s figure flashed once more and he was right by the baby’s side in the air.
He curiously reached out a finger to touch the other’s soft cheek.
Disturbed, the little baby’s pretty brow scrunched up, and its bright red, little lips pouted angrily.
It looked like he hated having his sleep disturbed by others.
“Little fellow, sleeping like a dead pig.
Being able to continue living, you need to thank your Elder Brother Little Four, you know?
Yup, I was the one who saved you, so I should be the one to na you.
What should I call you?
Little Doom?
Little World?1 Nope, Little World sounds too much like my na Little Four2.
That na was given to by Boss.
It’s my exclusive title!” said Little Four, riled up.
His eyes spun and then with a trace of cheekiness he said, “I’ve decided.
I’ll call you Little Blossom3 …
Little Blossom, you need to grow up quickly and wake up.
Stick around with later on and I guarantee you’ll be treated well.
Rember that I’m your big brother in the future.
You must call Big Bro Little Four later on!” announced Little Four gleefully.
The sleeping baby did not know then that even before he had woken up, he had already been given an extrely la na by the naughty Little Four.
Only when he grew up did he learn how horrible this na was and lodged a firm protest with Boss Lan.
Only then did he manage to retrieve his dignity and gain a new na.
Little Four looked at the sleeping baby, his mood buoyant.
He nodded happily, knowing that he would have a friend in the future …
Little Four was lost in the wonderful daydreams of his beautiful future when he suddenly raised his head and frowned.
At that instant, he had sensed a spectre that should have been at the trap rapidly approaching his boss’s location.
Little Four’s figure flickered and he instantly returned to Ling Lan’s mindspace to imdiately report his findings to Ling Lan.
After finding out, without even having to think about it, Ling Lan sent Little Four out to kill that person.
After killing more than a dozen people, Li Lanfeng was drained in both ntal energy and spectre power.
Ling Lan did not want to tire him out any further and risk unnecessary complications.
Witt, who was hurrying over, suddenly felt a chill run through his body.
And then, an overwhelming cascade of familiar yet horrifying spectre power rolled over him.
Despite his fast reflexes, allowing him to speedily whip out his own spectre power to defend himself, the power gap between the two was just too wide.
His defence only made that wave of energy pause for a brief mont, and then his consciousness was crushed beneath it.
He seed to feel his soul splitting apart, and then his vision blacked out and he was no longer aware of anything.
He had no chance to see his own body slowly becoming white dots to disappear from this virtual world, just like Hollow Ground.
anwhile, sowhere else, the spectre Reiter who was calmly approaching his target, the investigation team, suddenly found his own spectre power vibrating violently.
This was a warning sign.
He stopped abruptly and after using spectre power to protect himself, he began to test his surroundings.
He found nothing, however.
Puzzled, he shook his head and could only continue to move forwards, but his deanour was obviously much more cautious than before.
When Little Four reported back to Ling Lan that he had already handled that spectre, Ling Lan’s team had already arrived at the exit.
Ling Lan swept a glance over all her team mbers and then took out that confession from her bag, intending to pass it to Li Lanfeng.
“Leopard, safeguard this data.
Rember, you absolutely cannot die this whole trip back.
You must live to hand this over to the city lord of Grandsweep City, or else the mission will fail.” Li Lanfeng was taken aback by these words.
He did not expect Ling Lan to choose him to shoulder this great responsibility.
From the very start of the planning of this strategy, it was clear how important this role was.
Li Lanfeng had always thought that this role was certain to be for Qi Long or Luo Lang, because they were the second and third strongest respectively in the team.
At the sa ti, they were also childhood companions of the rabbit, so in terms of trustworthiness, they should be at the top of the list.
But now, this task had been entrusted to him.
Li Lanfeng could feel the full extent of the rabbit’s trust in him.
This moved him greatly.
He secretly took a deep breath and then very calmly reached out a hand to accept the data file.
Li Lanfeng was now certain that his importance was definitely not much lesser than that of Qi Long, Luo Lang, and the others in the rabbit’s heart.
He must live up to the rabbit’s feelings for him.
Frankly, Li Lanfeng was overthinking things.
Ling Lan had chosen Li Lanfeng because she felt that he was a crafty person with a scheming mind and a bellyful of murky water.
Furthermore, his cha control skills were as good as Qi Long’s.
No matter how you looked at it, he was from the stock of scourges whose misdeeds lasted for thousands of years1.
She believed that even when it was ‘ga over’ for the rest of the team, Li Lanfeng would still be able to live on with vim and vigour2.
However, this still indirectly displayed Ling Lan’s great faith in the leopard — Li Lanfeng had not been moved for nothing.
Ling Lan then turned to look at Qi Long and instructed seriously, “Qi Long, after this, you lead the team mbers to provide full protection to the leopard.
Even if you all die in battle, you cannot let the leopard die.” Qi Long’s expression turned solemn.
“Yes, Boss!” Qi Long and the others knew very well that the true challenge would only start after this.
“After that, we will move as planned.
We will split our forces in two.” As Ling Lan signalled with her gaze for her team to move out, she also instructed Little Four within the mindspace, “Carry out the original plan.” Receiving his orders, Little Four imdiately rubbed his palms together and got to work.
Killing spectres had only been a temporary job — now, it was finally ti for him, Little Four, to really showcase his skills.
******** In one of the dormitories of the makeshift camp accommodating the survivors of the Jinglong mainship, a soldier was constantly looking at the communicator in his hands.
Suddenly, an expression of pleasant surprise appeared on his face and he quickly lifted his head to et the nervous expression of the companions by his side and said, “There’s news!
The commanding officer has succeeded on their end and has asked us to start moving to take control of the military ship and wait for their return.” At these words, a mber of the group who looked to be the leader imdiately nodded his head and gave the order.
“Good, then let’s start acting according to the original plan.” These people imdiately sorted out their weapons and quietly left the camp grounds, sneaking their way towards the spaceport of the military vessel.
Their objective had been determined early on — the patrol ship which had brought them here in the first place.
According to their plan, when the commanding officers ca back, they would also sneak into this military vessel, and before anyone in the Swift Dragon base discovered them, they would start the ship and leave this place.
Ling Lan, who had long sussed out their plan, decided to take advantage of the situation and let her team sneak onto the ship in question as well.
This way, with these people from the military as their shields, no one would discover their movents.
Qi Long and the others soon left the canteen — they had to rely on themselves after this.
Ling Lan watched them leave and sighed softly.
A data file suddenly appeared in her hands — it was that confession she had given Li Lanfeng.
The almighty Little Four had already made a perfect copy of the docunt.
Ling Lan would not put all her eggs in one basket — she had entrusted Li Lanfeng with a copy but had also kept a copy for herself.
As long as one of them stayed alive, this mission could be completed.
This way of doing things was actually against the rules, but with Little Four making adjustnts behind the scenes, everything beca reasonable and acceptable.
Ling Lan once again kept the docunt away.
She had divided their forces for two reasons.
One, she wanted to completely eliminate the hidden threat.
She could not let any of the people from the Caesar Empire who had infiltrated the base go, because she could not let any hidden dangers that could threaten her team mbers in any way to remain.
Two, she needed to rescue those Federation investigation team soldiers who were entrenched in trouble.
She still needed to use them as shields to deflect attention from her team.
Little Four simulated the commanding officer’s communication signal, and after relaying news to those people holding the fort back in the camp, he left Ling Lan to go kill off those hackers hiding in the command centre.
In the anti, with Little Four providing cover, Ling Lan made her way to the warehouse at top speed.
Although there was still one spectre there, having figured out how to control her spiritual power, Ling Lan had the ability to protect herself.
Therefore, she was not afraid, and this was also why Little Four felt reassured enough to leave his boss.
In a hidden room of the command centre, 8 black-robed hackers were staring at the ti on the screen before them with ashen faces.
The initial estimated ti for the successful activation of the T-virus had already exceeded 20 minutes — they had already made the preparations to celebrate their triumph, but reality had intruded to slap them in the face.
The virtual world of the Federation was still operating normally with no sign at all of anything wrong.
末世: This phrase is the first two characters that make up the na of the Doomsday Flower, and on its own it ans ‘end/doom of the world’.
Little Four broke up this term to co up with ‘小末’ and ‘小世’.小世 and 小四: The joys of Chinese pinyin at play.
The second characters of the two nas sound very similar in Chinese.
shi1 and si1 respectively.
Those who don’t know Chinese (or another language which differentiates aningfully between the two sounds) may not even be able to hear the difference.小花: This part really doesn’t translate well into English if I stick with the original.
The direct translation here would be ‘Little Flower’ as taken from the full na of the Doomsday Flower, but ‘Little Flower’ sounds closer to ‘Little Four’ than ‘Little World’ does.
So, I decided to take so creative liberties here and tweak it a little to make the baby virus’ na ‘Little Blossom’.
FYI, ‘Little Flower’ in Chinese is pronounced ‘xiao hua’.那种祸祸害遗千年的货: Hahahahaha, this was rather fun to translate.
Super challenging, but fun.
Not sure how well I did with it overall …
if anyone has a different version, I’d be interested to hear about it.
Let try to give you all a more literal version — ‘the type of thing which causes harm lasting a thousand years’.
Perhaps easier to understand, but it’s missing the inherent poetic charm of the original, hence my final version.生龙活虎: Sorry for the sowhat old-fashioned saying here, but it sohow fits.
The literal original is ‘live dragon live tiger’ — basically, full of life and in high spirits.
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