Chapter 121 : Chapter 121
121. Forgot to Eat or Sleep
“Ding dong.”
“Ding dong.”
“Ding dong ding dong ding dong.”
Lu Zheng had already been standing at the door pressing the doorbell for quite a while.
But even when Yi Ning’s anti-prank doorbell device activated, Yi Ning still did not come out to open the door.
This was also something he had never seen before.
Could it be that Yi Ning really ran into some kind of trouble?
However, he actually had not pressed the doorbell many times before either, so he could not jump to conclusions so hastily.
But he had already called Yi Ning quite a few times on the way over, and she had not picked up a single one.
Lu Zheng still gradually began to feel anxious inside.
He thought it over and finally made up his mind.
Break down the door!
He walked up to Yi Ning’s door, casually tossed a die, then sank his breath into his dantian, planning to smash Yi Ning’s door apart with a single punch.
“Ha!”
Lu Zheng tightly clenched his right hand, his body swinging along with his arm, using his ability to explode the full strength of his body toward the door.
Wait!
At the instant before his fist was about to make contact with the door, he suddenly remembered that this door of Yi Ning’s seemed to be made with a special material that could rebound force, which according to her could bounce him straight to the moon.
Lu Zheng hurriedly retracted his strength.
His fist was only 0.01 centimeters away from that door.
But while his fist stopped, the airflow driven by his punch could not be stopped.
Almost in the next second, a powerful force came from the direction of the door, forcing Lu Zheng to retreat two steps.
Could the airflow driven by simply swinging his fist really generate such a powerful force?
It looked like Yi Ning had not lied to him before.
This door really could bounce him to the moon.
But this made things troublesome.
Lu Zheng crouched by the door, looking left and right, but could not find any way to break through it.
It was exactly the same as yesterday.
He retreated a few steps, scanning left and right across Yi Ning’s base, and finally landed his gaze on the walls of the base.
Right!
If he could not break the door, he could break the wall!
He rarely ever forcefully demolished Yi Ning’s base walls, so she probably would not have used the same material in the walls too, right?
Out of caution, Lu Zheng first threw a punch in the air toward the wall, confirming there was no rebound force like the door, then he gathered strength again and struck, creating a huge hole in the wall with a single blow.
A hole taller than a person appeared in the wall, and in an instant, a huge cloud of dust engulfed Lu Zheng.
“Cough, cough!”
Lu Zheng used his hand to fan away the dust around him.
Hopefully, Yi Ning was not standing right behind the part of the wall he had just blown away.
He prayed while cautiously stepping over the remaining half of the wall, walking into Yi Ning’s base.
His gaze swept a circle around the base.
The rubble he had blown away.
The table and the mountain-like pile of tools beside the table.
The sofa that had been smashed by the rubble he had blown away.
Wait!
Lu Zheng’s gaze returned to that mountain-like pile of tools once more.
Just now, did that pile of tools move?
Lu Zheng heightened his vigilance, lowered his footsteps, and walked bit by bit toward the pile of tools.
Then he saw Yi Ning sitting by the table, buried under various tools.
She seemed to have just heard the sound, looking at him with a face full of confusion.
“Are you okay?”
Seeing the person he had come to find, Lu Zheng quickly strode over, pulling Yi Ning out from the pile of tools and lifting her in the air, looking her over left and right to confirm there were no external injuries, then using his foot to drag out the chair also buried under the tools, placing her on it.
Perhaps still not recovered from the confusion of Lu Zheng breaking through the wall, Yi Ning just sat there on the chair in a daze.
“Wait, wait a minute!”
After two or three seconds, Yi Ning snapped back to her senses.
She looked at the big hole in the wall, then at Lu Zheng in front of her.
“Why did you smash my wall! Can’t you see the doorbell?”
She jumped up from the chair with a swish, holding her head in her hands with a look of collapse.
“If you have something to say, just say it, why smash my wall?”
Seeing Yi Ning’s expression full of resentment, Lu Zheng felt a little embarrassed.
“I actually had been pressing the doorbell outside for a long time. When I saw you never came out to open the door, I got worried something happened to you, so I just smashed through the wall to come in.”
Unfortunately, this explanation could not convince Yi Ning.
“I was probably too absorbed in my work just now to hear the doorbell, but if you were worried about me, couldn’t you have called me?”
“I actually called you quite a few times.”
Lu Zheng raised his phone, pointing to the call log on it.
Yi Ning leaned over to take a look.
It was true.
There were quite a few calls made to her, all within a span of several minutes.
She patted around on herself for a while, then finally found her phone in the pile of tools on the table, turned on the screen, and saw several missed calls on it, all from Lu Zheng.
She pressed the volume button on her phone in confusion, then awkwardly discovered that she had put her phone on silent mode.
Probably set it to silent when Lu Zheng called in the morning.
Yi Ning blinked, turned off the phone screen, sat upright on the chair, and blatantly changed the subject.
“Ahem!”
“So, what did you come to find me for?”
Coming to find me in such a hurry must mean he needed something from me; Lu Zheng definitely would not be so tactless as to call me out on it.
Yi Ning shamelessly pondered.
And that was indeed the case.
Lu Zheng did not continue entangling on this matter and directly pointed to the time, indicating it was already time for Yi Ning to implement her evil plan.
“The Hero Association did not receive your alert today. They were worried the alarm machine was broken, so I came over to check on the situation.”
“So, what’s going on? Are you going to implement your evil plan today or not?”
“Uh...”
Hearing Lu Zheng’s question, Yi Ning’s expression became even more awkward.
After sending Lu Zheng off in the morning, in order to vent the inexplicable irritation in her heart, Yi Ning had pulled out her tools to tinker with the compensation gift Lu Zheng had brought, spending several hours disassembling that toy knife back into its original parts and materials.
Perhaps the success from the first disassembly brought her confidence.
Yi Ning actually had the idea of disassembling the remaining robot in one go.
What a joke.
The difficulty of disassembling that robot was on a completely different level from the toy knife.
Dr. Mandel truly lived up to his reputation.
After personally experiencing Dr. Mandel’s invention, Yi Ning could not help but praise him a little.
Not only were all the parts interlinked, but even the tools and methods needed for disassembly were all different, making it practically a super large-scale puzzle game.
Accompanied by the robot occasionally saying, “If you want it, then you’ll have to take it.”
If you want it, then come and take it yourself.
Aside from being a meme, it was also undoubtedly a challenge letter for Yi Ning.
Her motivation was fully ignited, and she was in full firepower mode.
Without realizing it, she had forgotten she still had an evil plan to do today.
Thankfully, Lu Zheng came over to remind her, or else she would probably have stayed in the base until she finished disassembling before coming out.
“Sorry, really made you all worry.”
After explaining, Yi Ning chuckled, scratching the back of her head with her hand.
She quickly pushed Lu Zheng over to the sofa, signaling him to sit there.
“Could you please wait a bit? I’ll go get my evil invention for today. I finished it last night pulling an all-nighter. There should still be some cake and snacks in the fridge in the kitchen, and there are magazines too. Eat whatever you want, read whatever you want, I’ll be right back.”
“Once I’m back, we’ll start today’s storyline.”
After rummaging out a pile of random magazines from various places on the sofa, Yi Ning pulled out a remote from her pocket, teleporting herself back home, hurriedly tidying up the Super Invincible Turn Your Cooking Into Dark Cuisine Machine she had made, then teleported back to her base with the machine in hand.
A wave of food fragrance wafted into Yi Ning’s nostrils.
She felt a sourness in her mouth, and saliva began to uncontrollably flow.
At the same time, her little belly began to gurgle.
Yi Ning then remembered that she had been fully immersed in the puzzle Dr. Mandel had given her and seemed to have skipped lunch entirely.
Sniff sniff.
She twitched her nose again.
What smelled so good?
Yi Ning looked toward the source of the fragrance.
Lu Zheng was sitting by the table, slurping down noodles from a disposable clear lunchbox in big mouthfuls.
Beside him was another bowl of noodles, still unopened.
Judging by the looks of it, while Yi Ning was back home tidying up her evil invention, Lu Zheng had used his ability to run out and buy two portions of noodles.
“You’re back?”
Lu Zheng raised his head, biting off the noodles in his mouth.
He tapped the unopened noodles with the other end of his chopsticks.
“Want to eat first before we start?”