Chapter 102: What can't you do anymore!?

  "Do you think that with the 'gun' in your hand, you can threaten me?" A soft laugh sounded, and the white-haired girl's light voice reached Jiuming's ears. It was unknown what method she used, but somehow she managed to make such a gentle sentence reach Jiuming's ear.

  Old monster, you really have mastered many spells...

  What really shocked Jiǔ Mìng was the implication of her words, did she actually know that the weapon in his hand was a gun? He could affirm that the 'gun' in her mouth absolutely wasn't that kind of cold weapon, but rather this high-end one in his hand, whose power was not to be underestimated.

  Jiǔ Mìng bit his teeth, stretched out his hand and quickly pressed a string of numbers on the password lock on the gun body. After the displayed password lock disappeared, he directly pressed the blood-red button that appeared on the touch screen.

  He let out a long sigh, the power of this shot was restricted level, if he fired it, even if the material of the entire gun was special, it would still be unable to withstand it, and the damage to the gun would be huge. If he were to fire continuously, something would definitely go wrong... No, it would definitely go wrong, Jiǔ Mìng didn't have the conditions for continuous shooting now, one shot with restricted level power, and the four high-level high-energy crystals inside would already be useless.

  It's just this massive energy output that can easily damage internal components, especially the exciter as a major component.

  Can it be even more exaggerated?

  This time, the white-haired girl really furrowed her brow. She could clearly feel that the threat level from Jiǔ Mìng had reached a degree that required her attention. Obviously, after his adjustments, the attacking power of the unknown firearm pointing at her had risen again.

  It's a bit of a loss... After dragging on for so long, the capable monsters by the lake must have taken notice of this place. There are quite a few troublesome existences inside that even she would find difficult to deal with. Taking down Jiu Ming, if he still uses his previous explosive method, would be difficult for a while.

  I didn't think he could use that ability on himself with just a mirror, and the burst's bonus seems to be even higher... A glass-made mirror, haha! It's really something that doesn't blend in with this era of people on the ground.

  "Whatever, you're really a disagreeable little demon." After glancing at the Ninth Life, the white-haired girl put away the large bow in her hand and retreated into the moonlight, quickly disappearing from view.

  Jiǔ Mìng let out a breath, hung up the heavy high-energy beam gun in his hand, thought for a moment and still didn't remove the setting that locked the restricted-level power, not even taking out the advanced high-energy crystal inside. He decided to just leave it like this for now; after all, there was insulating material inside the ignition device, so energy wouldn't be lost.

  "I'm telling you... are you out of your mind? Why aren't you running?" Taking advantage of his height, Jiǔ Mìng pressed down on her head with a scowl, although he was too far away to hear their conversation, but seeing her body tremble when she was being suppressed, Jiǔ Mìng guessed that it definitely wasn't anything good... Not fearing death, the fear factor would also be greatly reduced, and he could still judge that the girl's trembling was due to 'fear'.

  "...I'm running away." The girl said with a reluctant tone, stubbornly talking back.

  Yah! Still talking back? The nine-lives eyebrow twitched, and his tone turned serious. Even now, he didn't dare put away the weapon in his hand, and instead brought out another sealed card, sealing the super-energy crystal. All of these were threats to the opponent. "I can't beat her, and if I try to change locations, we might both end up getting dragged down. Afraid? Can't even win against the opponent, then hurry up and retreat."

  "How can this be... We finally met again after all the difficulties." Upon hearing Jiuming's words, she not only didn't waver but her expression became even more resentful.

  "Them?"

  "It's that despicable woman who brought me down to this state!"

  “…I don’t know.” Jiǔ Mìng was extremely entangled, scratching his hair, grudges and whatnot were really... if they could be resolved, they wouldn't be called grudges, “Alright! Don’t glare at me with that biting gaze, rest assured, I won’t advise you to give up your hatred, or have love or whatever.”

  It's all just a waste of breath, seeing her determined actions, Jiǔ Mìng knew that it was useless to just talk about it. If there's an opportunity, let's see who the person she's talking about is?

  "Hmm, one thing's for sure, that person must have something to do with the white-haired ponytail girl. Looking around cautiously, Jiǔ Mìng said somewhat anxiously, 'Why don't you follow me back first? Who knows if she'll make a sudden move or something, it wouldn't be good for either of us.'"

  Now, none of the nine lives dared to put away their weapons. If he were alone, he might have been able to make a move, but with the girl by his side, although she had grasped what seemed like considerable power, this power was still in its infancy and rough around the edges. Otherwise, that flame that looked so intimidating wouldn't have been easily extinguished by a single arrow.

  "No need, I'm going to cultivate now!" The girl strongly pushed away the hand that Jiǔ Mìng had stretched out, and she was still too weak.

  "Well, good luck then. Don't forget to use the thing I gave you when it gets dangerous, it's very useful." He shrugged and saw that she had made up her mind to leave, so Jiǔ Mìng didn't continue to block her unnecessarily.

  "Shut up!" The girl slightly annoyed waved her hand at Jiǔ Mìng, and fell silent for a moment, "...I know."

  "This is good, I am called Jiǔ Mìng."

  Nine Lives? After a moment of silence, the girl turned her head to look back, but Nine Lives was already gone, having said his own name without even asking for hers before leaving?!

  "It's strange, one is missing." The girl flipped through the dozen or so sealed cards in her hand, carefully counting them. Indeed, there was one less than before. Had it fallen to the ground? She searched around but couldn't find the "lost" card. Fortunately, the three interval sealed cards that Nine Lives had given her, which were the most important ones, were still there.

  Isn't this exactly the specialty of that youkai known as Yakumo Yukari?

  "Cough, what's the point of suddenly pulling me back?" Having been pulled out from the gap, Jiǔ Mìng let out a light cough and said sincerely, he really didn't want to stay in the gap for long, the feeling of being stared at by the dense eyes inside was truly terrifying.

  "Time's up, little shopkeeper. You'll have to wait till next time for emotional exchanges with the ignorant little girl." Yakumo Yukari said with a smile.

  "......You're indeed peeking, aren't you!" Her mouth twitched slightly, and her expression had already revealed the fact that she was watching everything, "Right, that white-haired braid... Ah!?"

  Just then, Jiǔ Mìng's body stiffened all over, his eyes gleaming with an evil red light as he said, "I feel that being human is not very good."

  "Well, any difficulty can be overcome, and here is a mature person who can 'communicate' with you."

  "I think we're done, you can sell me now!" The nine lives could see the sympathetic and even more schadenfreude gazes of the nearby monsters towards him!!

  "I'm not that kind of person." Keeping the folding fan half covering her face, Yui Kasumi's face slightly tilted to one side, "Who made you, little shopkeeper, repeatedly harass her with your gaze?"

  "...This is unfortunate." murmured Kowaku.

  "Indeed." The green-haired girl spoke up, her voice was pleasant to listen to, but the first sentence made people calm down. At this time, saying such a thing that adds insult to injury is really okay? "You've been paying attention to me three times in a row, are you preparing to declare war on me?"

  "Huh? The nine-tailed beast looked at the green-haired girl in front of him with a surprised expression, feeling that she seemed to be not used to interacting with others. Even so, with her strength reaching this level, even if she's foolish or cute, she's still a fierce beast."

  And I believe that at their level, their intuition wouldn't be too bad either. If they chose to deceive and were discovered... Hehehe.

  "No, I'm just simply attracted to your beauty." This doesn't count as cheating... after all, she's really beautiful!

  "Are you kidding me? In that case, I should have killed you, it's the right thing to do."

  In an instant, the faces of all nine lives turned green. Hey, hey! This script is wrong! It clearly said to praise your beauty, how did it become covetous? Don't suddenly say such a dangerous thing!

  "Ah! It's not what you think, I'm just praising, praising!!"

  "I'll find you when I get back." However, the green-haired girl didn't respond to Jiǔ Mìng's words after that. A voice came from the lake surface towards Jiǔ Mìng, "If you run away... Ha!"

  A cold, mirthless laugh, the naive expression of exchange faded away, replaced by an overwhelming, intense aura, what a short life!

  "......" Ba Yunzi ignored the nine deaths and looked over at that gaze which had become very dangerous, trouble was brewing... Ah, it wasn't exactly trouble brewing either.

  "Praising another girl in front of a girl might make her feel a little jealous."

  You're really good at spouting nonsense! Jiǔ Mìng's eyebrows were about to stand on end, but he didn't say anything. Following the green-haired girl's pointing finger, he looked over and saw that the entire lake surface was now reflecting a gigantic full moon, as if the whole lake had frozen in place, without even a ripple.

  Suddenly looking over, Jiǔ Mìng almost thought the moon on the lake surface was real, and... even if it's an inverted reflection, it shouldn't be reflected to such a large size.

  The moon in the mirror, the water and the nine lives looking at the huge moon reflected in the lake, don't know how to produce a contradictory illusion of the moon in the lake and him being extremely far yet extremely close, "feeling a bit strange."

  "Oh? What did the little shopkeeper see?" Yakumo Yukari tilted her head, looking at Kuro with great interest, "If you're wrong, she won't laugh at you."

  "I don't mind the ridicule either." Jiǔ Mìng stared at the unusually calm lake surface, "It's a very contradictory feeling, this reflected moonlight, it feels like it's real and yet fake... And also, it seems that as long as you touch it... you can really touch the moon?"

  Snap! Yakumo Tsubaki closed the folding fan in her hand, and smiled softly, "The spatial sense of this small shop is quite good, no mistake, this is our passage to the moon."

  "......WTF!?!" The nine-tailed fox turned around to look at the enormous group of monsters, then looked back at the calm lake surface. "Yatsume no Murasaki, are you trying to defy heaven?!"