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Chapter 128 - 48: Fortune and Disaster Offset Each Other

Chapter 128: Chapter 48: Fortune and Disaster Offset Each Other

If everything could be settled peacefully, Duan Mingyuan still had many things he wanted to consult with Tian Yun about

such as the criteria for reserve members to become official.

And the compatibility between armor and the human body.

Because just now when he carefully observed, he had an unexpected discovery—the Life Energy of this armor existed independently, distinct from the armor’s user.

There was no such dissonant feeling when he faced off against Western Wind earlier.

However, it seemed that Tian Yun had completely given up on the idea of negotiation, and the topic of armor seemed to have enraged him thoroughly; blue jets shot out from his feet, and in an instant, he had reached Duan Mingyuan’s face.

The raised right hand aimed at Duan Mingyuan’s head, revealing a gun barrel in the palm.

As the explosion sounded, the broken limbs stained the desk red.

Duan Mingyuan didn’t miss that fleeting moment—Tian Yun’s arm disappeared for about one second after the gun exploded, during which several tentacle-like objects surged out from within the armor, instantly filling in the missing part of the right arm, so that by the time Tian Yun stood steady, his right arm had already returned to its original state.

Tian Yun looked to the left, where the armor’s detector signaled the presence of a very strong Life Energy signal.

Almost simultaneously, a figure collided with him, bluntly knocking him more than ten meters away.

With blood-colored pupils full of ominous light and nine tails undulating with vigorous Life Energy, Fox Lady suddenly appeared, baring her sharp teeth.

The sudden explosion of the gun barrel had clearly been Fox Lady’s doing.

"I see."

With his left hand on the ground, Tian Yun stood up from amidst the broken remains of the wooden desk. As a company employee, he naturally recognized this Star Zone’s most wanted criminal.

Night Disaster, charged with the assassination of company executives.

"I didn’t expect Fu Ling to have dealings with the Star Zone’s most wanted criminal."

With that, everything made sense. Bai Kou’s death was a result of infighting within the Life Science Department, and not long after the flying vehicle accident, Fu Ling took over as director.

The moment he decided to act, he attempted to contact the Council, but the communication equipment within the armor was blocked, and all signs pointed toward Duan Mingyuan as the ringleader of all these calamities.

Although he seemed harmless, the very moment he entered the library, some unknown Barrier had enclosed them inside.

What Tian Yun found even more worrisome was that he could sense the Life Energy fluctuations of Night Disaster, yet Duan Mingyuan, sitting in front of the desk, was like air, undetectable by the detector.

He knew that even third-class citizens had a small amount of Life Energy; he didn’t believe that Fu Ling could find a collaborator who was a second-class citizen on this planet.

"Fu Ling is not involved in this matter."

Duan Mingyuan said, "And from the very beginning, the ones who killed the Messenger, conspired with Chancellor Chu, and attacked the academy were all of you."

He found that the Extraterrestrials were all skilled in the art of shifting blame, judging from the way Tian Yun verbally and literarily crucified them as if they were the root cause of all these troubles.

Even so, he had just given them a chance to leave unharmed.

Mr. Tian Yun, lacking a cooperative spirit, refused them.

"Moreover, after discovering all this, it’s even less likely I would let you go—"

Before he could finish, the table before Duan Mingyuan suddenly sprouted several sharp barbs, thrusting straight toward his eyes.

The scene unfolded so suddenly, Jiuyue was also stunned.

Seeing that all the barbs had stopped in front of Duan Mingyuan, she breathed a sigh of relief, followed by deep confusion.

The one who should have been pierced by the barbs was supposed to be the armored figure lying in the shattered wood, but the attack she launched had bizarrely veered towards Duan Mingyuan behind her.

This feeling was somehow familiar to her.

"This is Ruihu’s ability, Mr. Tian Yun, you carry something that does not belong to you."

Jiuyue had said more than once that the luck of this world is conserved.

The trickery of Ruihu and Hu Hu essentially involves imposing the already existing luck and disaster onto someone, and just now, his luck had changed.

Misfortune had enveloped him, dooming him to such bad luck that even sitting and reading could lead to death by splintered wood.

According to the agreement between Universe Company and the Ruihu clan, it seemed there was only one Ruihu available for their research, which was her father-in-law who had been transported to "heaven" with the 67th batch of goods.

Yet now, this innate ability of Ruihu had been transferred onto an unrelated person in the form of armor.

Was it coincidence, or the workings of fate?

The second reserve team member they encountered, who could be linked to "Long Branch," used the armor infused with luck.

It was presumably from this that the title of Tian Yun came to be.

But, as the omen of lucky marinated chicken had indicated, a person of unparalleled luck was a disaster for everyone around him.

Jiuyue finally understood where this familiar feeling stemmed from; as she looked towards Tian Yun, the bookshelf beside him suddenly collapsed, crushing Tian Yun who was underneath.

The armor developed by the company itself was equipped with a protective field; not even a wooden bookshelf, let alone a cannonball, could cause them any substantial harm.

But this time, Tian Yun chose to dodge.

As the books shook off the shelf and fell to the ground, they suddenly emitted a strange light, turning under the dominion of disaster into the most dangerous of scrolls, triggering the Strange Gates and Devious Techniques inscribed within them all at once.

The pitch-black armor sprang into action, aiming its gun barrel at Jiuyue once again.

This time, the gun barrel did not explode, but instead spewed out a scorching red beam.

"I did not expect to encounter a descendant of the Ruihu clan here."

Tian Yun advanced, and as luck and disaster canceled each other out, Duan Mingyuan, standing by as a mere spectator, suffered an unprecedented blow.

With every clash between the two, the bizarre consequences somehow always transferred to him.

This made him realize just how dangerous it was when Ruihu and Hu Hu fought; they couldn’t overcome each other in the short term, but the onlooking crowd was definitely the first to be wiped out.

"Why harbor resentment? Everything on this planet belongs to the company."

In the midst of their confrontation, Tian Yun did not forget to instill his philosophy into Jiuyue, "Being chosen by the company is precisely their good fortune, for they are given the opportunity to have their intrinsically insignificant value widely developed... You in the well have never seen the real dangers between star systems, thus harboring many radical thoughts."

Jiuyue remained unmoved.

Having fought with Western Wind before, she had learned to block out Tian Yun the moment she made her move.

Her pointed ears atop her head curled up, hearing no sound at all.

Her mind was clear as still water, focused on only one thing.

She needed to find a way to stuff the misfortune she had collected over the past two days into this man’s body.