Chapter 122: Want to enter the number? Accomplish you
"What do you want to do? Let's get one thing straight, I can really escape."
"Are you so confident?" Frowning, Meng Yue Yi looked at Jiu Ming with a rather awkward expression. This guy has no fighting spirit now, what's the point of even fighting?
That's right! She wanted to continue the unfinished battle, and every time she recalled the scene where she was at a disadvantage, she felt uncomfortable, unless she could prove herself after determining the outcome.
"I still have some confidence." Jiǔ Mìng nodded slightly.
"Then have it your way!"
"Huh?" This time Jiǔ Mìng was stunned. Hey, hey, I was just joking around, it can't be real, right!?
It's really come to this, the Ninth Life was sent to a prison cell, but it wasn't as expected. Along the way, he saw all sorts of torture devices that could extinguish humanity, or heard those unbearable screams of agony. "Hmph... does this kind of place think it can hold me?"
It's not that the prison cell is terrifying, but rather it looks like a real prison in front of him. The moon capital was originally so humane, saying it's a prison cell is not as good as saying it's a simple room.
"You're the second one to come here." The Moon Rabbit soldier who escorted Jiǔ Mìng shook his head, looking at him with great sympathy.
"Ah ha?" Jiǔ Mìng slightly tilted his head, wearing some kind of power-suppressing handcuffs on his hands, "So I still have a senior, huh?"
"Of course not, the first one here is Princess Moon."
"I've heard of this." From those two gossipy 'gatekeepers', "Is she out of prison now?"
"After failing to execute him, he was exiled to Earth... Alright, now you should go in."
Good grief! Exile to Earth? The nine-tailed fox blinked in confusion. Had he been had? He noticed that the moon rabbit's expression when mentioning exile to Earth was not right, it was one of revulsion. Ah, it seemed that exile to Earth was a difficult punishment for those born and raised on the Moon, an unbearable penalty.
But what's the point of that for a youkai who was originally from Earth? Without a doubt, even if all the youkais on the moon got on, Yakumo Yukari would still be the one to survive until the end. Oh, and wasn't there also a prefix of "unexecuted" before being exiled?
What kind of punishment would lead to this result?
Whatever...
"Just lock him up, no need to send him food." The Nine Lives' ears were stuck on the door and heard Meng Yue Yi's commanding voice. He was stunned for a moment, then roared loudly towards the outside.
"Hey!! You vicious woman, do you want to starve me to death?!" Then Jiǔ Mìng heard the sound of something being smashed.
"By the way, this guy is very cunning and forbids anyone from outside to contact him, even verbally!"
"...I haven't offended her before, have I? No need to hate myself to death like this."
I touched around, the wall wasn't cold either, and the material felt like plastic... When I pressed hard, there was a feeling of powerlessness. It's as if the force applied was dispersed into the air, okay, the place that can hold the Moon Princess is really not an ordinary place.
It turns out that there is still a Moon Princess living on Earth? If I have the chance, I'll go see her, hopefully I can meet her.
Do I feel like I'm starring in a TV series that's walking into the lunar princess's prison life? Won't there be any surveillance cameras peeking around every now and then?
Lying on the moon princess's bed, I'm also considered a pioneer.
"Sloppy guy!" Not to mention, there's actually a surveillance camera here. There definitely wasn't one before, but now that the person living here isn't as big of a deal as the previous one, they've installed this thing, and it's pretty well-hidden too - Jiǔ Mìng didn't even notice it.
Now seeing the nine lives, there isn't a bit of crisis awareness. Carefreely started sleeping, and Meng Yue Yiji simply turned off the video. Shifted attention to other places, such as some proper matters... like how to deal with those demons with not-so-strong presence.
How dare you invade the Moon Capital? Then let's give them a profound lesson once and for all, and thoroughly crush their desire to invade, so they'll be more honest in the future!
The turmoil in the imperial palace has also subsided, as if something was lost and yet nothing was lost... Only Yakumo Yukari, who had been secretly manipulating the Moon Capital's confidential archives, seemed to have gotten what she wanted, so she too fell silent. Also for this reason, Mononobe no Futo decided to formally subjugate those youkai masses.
These days of fighting, those monsters have been attacking the defensive power of the Moon Capital for a long time without success, and their morale has plummeted.
The monsters who were gradually approaching the outskirts of the Moon Capital suddenly found that the counterattack power of the Moon Rabbit had increased greatly, to the point where they were caught off guard and their equipment was also updated in a big way. Even the monsters who could withstand those weapon attacks said they couldn't hold on anymore. The monster crowd appeared to be retreating, causing the fighting spirit of the monsters, which had already been declining, to plummet even further.
"What a vicious woman, even if she knew she wouldn't starve to death, she didn't have to go this far." Jiǔ Mìng hadn't had any contact with the outside world for several days in a row, and it seemed that this time he had really gone too far. This prison cell wasn't something an ordinary person could break out of by force, and Jiǔ Mìng didn't want to waste his last chance to use the steel pipe to break through here either.
It feels like the whole world has abandoned him, but at least having someone who cares about him can make him happy for a while. As he gnaws on the apple in his hand, Jiuxing absent-mindedly thinks that these days he's been so bored to the point of counting the patterns on the walls.
Even the carpet he had placed was moved to another location by him.
"......Is it really okay to lock him up like this? He doesn't seem to care at all!" The two Moon Rabbit soldiers in charge of monitoring Kurenai were at a loss, they still couldn't understand why Kurenai was able to use his abilities even though his powers had been suppressed, and how he could take out various things. Was this really the life of a prisoner?
Obviously just a useless NEET, right?
"Here?" Jiǔ Mìng narrowed his eyes, looking at the texture on the wall, and ran his hand along it. The feeling was a bit off, he thought this place was slightly offset, which shouldn't be happening. In the other 80% of the area, Jiǔ Mìng saw a uniform pattern, every part without any deviation. Maybe it was just this regularity that made him hold the photon gun against the wall and fire without any effect.
It was just that the place he touched now looked normal, but it felt slightly different to the touch, as if the texture on top had been distorted. Without thinking, he took out a dagger and stabbed at that spot, as if piercing something. A small pill-like object appeared where Jiǔ Mìng had touched, and when he reached out again, the feeling returned to normal.
Wow! What a special way of hiding things!
"…What! Emergency situation!" Seeing the nine-digit wall pattern unexpectedly brought out something that none of them had ever discovered before, the two rabbits immediately realized that something was off. It turned out that this prison cell hadn't been used since the princess was exiled, so who knows what was hidden inside... The hiding method was still so secretive, it's hard to even discover it.
Thinking of the moon princess's forbidden crime, what exactly is this thing in Jiǔ Mìng's hand, the answer is already on the tip of one's tongue.
What he held in his hand was a taboo within the taboos of Moon Capital.
"What!?" The battle-engaged Mutsuki Ikaruga quickly retreated from the fight, and the youkai girl she was fighting also stopped her attack.
"Oh dear, it seems something bad has happened?" With a shameless grin, Yakumo Yukari smiled slyly at the pale purple-haired ponytailed girl whose face had turned very ugly.
"Hmph, you're just a lowly demon...do as you please."
Meng Yue Yi Ji let out a cold hum and turned to leave, but was stopped by Yakumo Yukari who suddenly appeared in front of her again. "Hey, can you tell me where that little shopkeeper is now? Then I might consider letting you pass."
"Huh? I thought you all had forgotten about him already. Even if you knew, could you have saved him?"
“……”
"You're a monster, just a monster! See you later!" With a flick of her ponytail, Tsukino Ikko walked past Yakumo Yukari and headed towards the Moon Capital. At this moment, her sister suddenly appeared beside her as if she had teleported.
"What is that?!!" After Meng Yue Yi Ji left, some demons looked at the light wall that surrounded them from a distance in astonishment.
"Wow, it's not easy to get all this done." After sending off her own sister, the older sister jumped out and saw her take a deep breath. "Although it was a bit rushed, but it can hold up for a while."
Is that a large-scale barrier? Looking at the vast expanse of light wall, Yakumo Yuko's side had just floated out a gap and quickly closed it, and the gap temporarily did not extend beyond the boundary. A powerful sealing barrier. "You're really close sisters."
"It's all right, as a sister I've always been troubled by my younger sister's strong personality." Mutsuki Toyokami smiled softly, "So, youkai who stole the secret of Tsukimiya, are you ready to surrender?"
Yakumo Purple looked around and shook her head, "I think there's still room for improvement."
"Alright then, I agree with his words. Give you some leeway... This barrier can last for three incense sticks' time..."
"Put down what's in your hand!!!" The sudden roar scared Jiǔ Mìng's hand into a tremble, and the thing in his hand almost fell to the ground. So fast? He had only been holding this thing for less than two minutes! Hey, are there surveillance cameras set up here?!
He looked around suspiciously, but couldn't find any surveillance cameras anywhere.
As for the Meng Yue Yijie who was shouting loudly outside the door, Jiuling simply ignored her. Even though his own strength was suppressed by 90%, as long as she made a move to rush in, Jiuling would immediately swallow the medicinal pill in his hand without hesitation!
Anyway, one's own physique is not afraid of taking wrong medicine.
Perhaps thinking of this, Mian Yue Yi Ji did not make any sudden movements for a while, but instead gritted her teeth and stared at the small pill in Jiu Ming's hand.
How detestable! That woman who was exiled to Earth and even resisted returning actually played such a trick!!