Chapter 242 - 222: A Good Place
Everyone climbed onto the transport vehicle and received another pack of crackers that Jiang Si handed out.
Everyone had a look of gratitude on their faces.
If Jiang Si and the others hadn’t saved them time and time again, they would have been long dead.
Zhang Aihua held the crackers in his hand and watched Jiang Si’s back, only now feeling a bit despicable.
’When it’s safe, I think about doing something for Jiang Si and the others, but when real danger arrives, all I can think about is saving my own skin and my family’s.’
Bao’er also began to peacefully drink the formula Shen Baoying had prepared for her.
Everyone was here, except for Jiao Chunzi, whose whereabouts were unknown.
’I really hope she can return safely, too.’
The transport vehicle Jiang Si was on started to move, and the entire Space Barrier moved along with her.
The Barrier Space maintained a comfortable, constant temperature. Dai Mao and the others—Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter—were tired too, so they crouched on the roof of the vehicle, leisurely dozing off.
Jiang Si leaned against Qin Shen, carefully studying a map. They were now near the Ring Sea, and there were some islands in the vicinity.
The larger islands usually had mountains, and where there were mountains, there would be caves.
If they lived in a cave, they probably wouldn’t be as affected by the corrosive acid rain.
Jiang Si looked at Qin Shen. "What do you think?"
Qin Shen didn’t answer. Instead, he asked her a question. "How large of a Barrier Space can you create right now?"
Jiang Si sensed it with her mind before answering, "A range of about six hundred meters, up and down."
After she absorbed two energy stones, her range had expanded from over five hundred cubic meters to over six hundred square meters.
Qin Shen suddenly added, "Perhaps the safest place is one you create by continuously absorbing energy stones."
Jiang Si thought so too, but both times she’d absorbed energy stones, she and Qin Shen had nearly lost their lives.
’If we do that a few more times, one of those times we might not make it.’
Qin Shen suddenly looked straight at her and said, "I know how to keep you from losing control."
Jiang Si’s eyes widened in an instant. "How would you know?"
The next second, Qin Shen wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her forcefully.
In the moment Jiang Si was completely stunned, she discovered that Qin Shen’s energy was covering the energy stone inside her body, locking down and blocking the excess, rampaging red energy from the stone.
After a good while, Qin Shen released her. "Did you feel that?"
Jiang Si was slightly out of breath, her pretty face flushed red as she said, "Mhm. As long as that volatile energy is locked down, I won’t lose control, right?"
"That should be it."
"So you mean we’re not leaving? We’re just setting up camp here?"
Qin Shen shook his head, looking at her earnestly. "No. We’ll go wherever you want to go, wherever you like."
Jiang Si smiled sweetly. She was just about to give him a little kiss when she suddenly remembered something.
"That man before, he was able to penetrate my space and grab me directly. Could there be others like him?"
"Just like how Bobby has Invisibility, Niu Niu can now turn invisible too after absorbing a Superpower Stone."
Qin Shen furrowed his brow. "There might be. As long as we aren’t discovered, it shouldn’t be a problem."
’It shouldn’t be a problem as long as we aren’t discovered? We’ve already been discovered several times.’
Jiang Si suddenly thought about the Illusion Technique Superpower Stones from her past life. ’If I accidentally fall under an Illusion Technique and open the Barrier myself, wouldn’t that be even worse?’
Jiang Si made up her mind. "We need to go somewhere farther away, somewhere more hidden."
Then she looked at the map carefully again and said, "Antarctica. No one would go to Antarctica on purpose, right?"
Qin Shen nodded. "Perhaps."
"Okay, then we’ll head for Antarctica. If any ’side dishes’ serve themselves up along the way, we can just dig them up to replenish my power."
The "side dishes" she was referring to were superpower users who came knocking on their door.
’Since absorbing Superpower Stones can expand the Barrier’s range, then the more, the merrier.’
As for Zhang Aihua and the others, Jiang Si figured she would let them leave once the acid rain stopped.
’But on second thought,’ she mused, ’with my current abilities, it’s no big deal to keep protecting them.’
She made a special stop to bring more soil into her space.
She could grow radishes and grains inside her space, so she wouldn’t have to worry about running out of food.
They continued onward, but the acid rain still hadn’t stopped.
When cold fronts moved in and the temperature dropped sharply, the acid rain would even turn into terrifying, sharp cones of ice.
It was a good thing Jiang Si had her space; otherwise, everyone would have been turned into pincushions.
But in the distant Holy Mother Base, their every move was being monitored by Lolisa.
She reported everything she saw to the Holy Mother.
The Holy Mother, seated high in the main hall, suddenly opened her eyes and gave a sinister smile. "Antarctica... What a fine place."
Jiang Si had just woken up when she heard everyone shouting happily, "Sisi, Sisi! The acid rain has stopped, come look!"
Jiang Si looked over. The acid rain had indeed stopped. The sky was clear for miles, a breathtaking sight.
But Jiang Si was far less relieved than when the acid rain had been falling.
After all, when the acid rain was falling, they only had to worry about the rain. Now that it had stopped, they had to worry about all the other dangers.