Peerless Bodyguard of a Stunning Beauty

At that moment, Zhao Rong suddenly took out a glasses case from his Magic Ring. When the three women and the assistant saw it, they asked in surprise, ”Zhao Rong, what are you doing with a glasses case? Does it hold a special pair of glasses?”

The assistant’s imagination ran wild. ”Zhao Rong, I bet those are Piercing Eye glasses! With those on, you could see right through the ladies next to us...”

Hearing this, Zhao Rong tapped him on the head, put on the glasses, and looked at the Loch Ness Monster in the distance. ”You don’t know the half of it,” he said to the group. ”I bought these from the Paradise Shopping Cart. They’re Object-Penetrating Glasses.”

Confused, the assistant asked, ”What does that mean? Can you see through anything with them?”

”It’s not about seeing through everything,” Zhao Rong explained. ”When you put on these glasses, you can see the essence through the appearance, the inside through the surface.”

Listening to him, Lili scratched the back of her head and guessed, ”Zhao Rong, if you put on those glasses, can you see whether that Loch Ness Monster is a real one or a fake?”

Zhao Rong nodded and gently pressed a red button on the frames. ”You’re right. I’m going to use these glasses to look right through its flesh and into its organs. I want to see if it’s a genuine Loch Ness Monster or something man-made or man-controlled.”

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the creature’s internal structure through the lenses. The shock sent him collapsing onto the deck. In utter disbelief, he stammered, ”Oh my god! You’ll never guess what I saw!”

Seeing Zhao Rong’s stunned expression, the assistant ventured a guess. ”Zhao Rong, did you see a person inside it, piloting it forward like a submarine?”

Zhao Rong shook his head, taking the glasses off. ”You’re thinking too simply. This Loch Ness Monster is far more complex than you imagine.”

Lili stepped forward, her eyes wide. ”Zhao Rong, I bet it’s just like that so-called artificial dinosaur we found on Murder Island! It’s all machinery on the inside, padded with chicken and duck meat, and covered in a layer of bionic skin to make it look real.”

However, Zhao Rong shook his head again. ”Miss Lili, your guess is bold and imaginative, but you’re not quite there yet.”

Yu Lan stepped forward. ”Zhao Rong, could it be an American spy submarine?”

Zhao Rong shook his head and looked at her. ”Yu Lan, your imagination is impressive, but you’re overthinking it.”

Xuelian had a flash of insight. ”Zhao Rong, could it be a spy left on Earth by aliens, waiting for the day to coordinate with their kind in space to destroy the planet?”

Zhao Rong shook his head, putting the Object-Penetrating Glasses back on. ”Xuelian, have you been watching too many ’Mission: Impossible’ movies? That sounds like a simple, Hollywood-style fantasy.”

When the three women and the assistant heard that all their guesses were wrong, they asked anxiously, ”Zhao Rong, since we’re all wrong, just tell us the answer!”

Wearing the glasses, Zhao Rong carefully examined the Loch Ness Monster again before finally announcing, ”This Loch Ness Monster... its insides are filled with Swiss watches.”

Hearing that the monster’s belly was full of Swiss watches, the assistant and the three women were utterly stunned.

”Zhao Rong, what are you talking about?” the assistant asked in disbelief. ”How could its belly be full of Swiss watches? Does this thing eat them for food? How else could it have so many inside?”

Lili was even more baffled. ”Zhao Rong, are you saying this Loch Ness Monster is priceless?”

Yu Lan took out her phone, opened the calculator app, and started tapping away. ”One Swiss watch is 100,000,” she murmured. ”One hundred watches would be 10 million. One million watches would be 10 billion... Given the size of this monster’s belly, there must be tens of millions of them inside. This Loch Ness Monster has to be worth several billion US dollars!”

While the others were still struggling to understand, Xuelian grasped what Zhao Rong really meant. She smiled and said, ”Zhao Rong, I know what you’re getting at. You’re not trying to tell us how valuable the monster is. You’re trying to describe how incredibly intricate its internal structure is—so intricate that its complexity surpasses even the world’s most precise instruments, like a Swiss watch.”

Listening to her, Zhao Rong nodded, still in awe. ”Xuelian is right. The belly of this Loch Ness Monster contains a perpetual motion machine, constructed entirely from the mechanical gears of Swiss watch movements.”

At these words, the assistant was flabbergasted. ”Zhao Rong,” he stammered in disbelief, ”haven’t scientists proven that perpetual motion machines are impossible? Why are you saying there’s one inside this monster?”

Zhao Rong explained, ”Although the world believes perpetual motion machines don’t exist, that doesn’t mean one can’t be invented. And inside this Loch Ness Monster, there is one, created by a genius.”

He then warned everyone, ”I’m about to destroy it. Everyone, get down! You don’t want to get hit by the precision instruments when they fly out.”

With that, Zhao Rong took out a rocket launcher from his Magic Ring.

When the assistant saw him preparing to destroy the creature, he objected, ”Zhao Rong! Since you said its internal structure is so precise and it even contains a perpetual motion machine, why don’t you capture it alive? You could extract the machine, patent it, and become incredibly wealthy! You’d be set for life!”