Peerless Bodyguard of a Stunning Beauty

Zhao Rong took out a pair of binoculars and carefully observed the space fortress built by the Avatars in the distance. He then rejected Lili and Yu Lan’s ideas.

”Miss Lili, Yu Lan, your ideas simply won’t work,” he said. ”That fortress is built from a very special metal. Never mind atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, or TNT. Even if we brought all the world’s most powerful nuclear power plants here and blew them up together, we probably still couldn’t destroy the space fortress the Avatars built.”

Hearing this, Lili and Yu Lan were at a loss for words.

Just then, Xuelian stepped forward. With a wild leap of imagination, she said, ”Zhao Rong, isn’t there a saying that a great levee can be brought down by a single anthill? What if we gather tens of thousands of termites and throw them into the Avatars’ space fortress? We could let them completely annihilate that indestructible fortress...”

Zhao Rong still shook his head, chuckling at her wildly imaginative suggestion. ”If termites could destroy the fortress the Avatars built, then these primitive people would have already brought some from the forest to get rid of the Avatars long ago. Would they really have needed to ask us to come all this way to help them?”

At his words, Xuelian found herself without any other ideas.

Just as the three women were out of options, the assistant suddenly stepped forward with the determination of a martyr. ”Boss,” he declared, ”Miss Lili, Yu Lan, and Xuelian may not have a way to destroy the Avatars’ incredibly sturdy space fortress, but I do! I have a method that will absolutely blow that impregnable fortress to smithereens.”

Hearing that the assistant had a plan, Zhao Rong and the three women immediately turned their curious gazes upon him. ”Assistant, what’s your method for blowing up this impregnable space fortress?”

The assistant snickered, then snatched a bombardier beetle from the ground nearby. Holding it up, he said with a laugh, ”Boss, ladies, you may not know this, but the gas released by this insect is hydrogen sulfide. If we could catch, say, a trillion of them and place them near the Avatars’ space fortress, we could surround it with a high-concentration cloud of hydrogen sulfide gas. After that, all we’d need is a small spark to trigger a massive explosion. I refuse to believe an explosion of highly concentrated hydrogen sulfide gas couldn’t destroy their fortress!”

Listening to the assistant, cold sweat trickled down Zhao Rong’s forehead. He shook his head, firmly rejecting the plan. ”Assistant, if the fortress the Avatars built were as easy to destroy as you say, the primitive people would have already caught ten thousand bombardier beetles and taken care of it themselves.”

The three women were so astonished by the assistant’s idea that they stumbled and fell to the ground.

When the surrounding primitive people saw that Zhao Rong and his group of five seemed to have no way to destroy the space fortress, they grew deeply pessimistic. ”It seems these five modern humans who came to help us have no way to eliminate the Avatars’ military base,” one said. ”What do we do now? Are we just going to let the Avatars kill every human on Earth and take over the planet?”

A primitive child, clearly unimpressed, chimed in, ”It seems if we want to get rid of the Avatars, we primitives will have to do it ourselves. These five modern humans are completely unreliable.”

One of the uglier tribesmen added sarcastically, ”If these five modern humans can actually destroy the space fortress right in front of us, I’ll jump into a latrine and eat filth.”

However, just as the primitives were losing all hope, Zhao Rong pointed to a package falling from the sky. ”Lili, Yu Lan, Xuelian, Assistant,” he said with a grin, ”I’ve just bought a very high-tech gadget from the Paradise Shopping Cart. With this in hand, we won’t have to worry about how to destroy the Avatars’ impregnable fortress anymore.”

When the three women and the assistant heard him and saw the package land on the ground, they rushed over, their hearts filled with hope. They all muttered, ”We hope whatever powerful explosive Zhao Rong bought can blast this fortress into a pile of rubble...”

Lili guessed, ”I think he must have bought a nuclear weapon more powerful than a hydrogen or atomic bomb. Only the explosive yield of a nuke could destroy that fortress.”

Yu Lan shook her head. ”I think he definitely bought some kind of biological weapon,” she said. ”Something easy to use but highly effective against the Avatars’ base.”

With a flash of insight, Xuelian said, ”I don’t think Zhao Rong would use such clumsy methods. Knowing his intelligence and foresight, he’ll definitely use some kind of futuristic weapon to destroy their military base—effortlessly, impressively, and in a completely unexpected way.”

The assistant then offered his own wild theory. ”I think Boss is definitely going to use a DNA weapon to destroy their base!”

But before they could finish speculating, Zhao Rong took out the weapon he had bought from the Paradise Shopping Cart. When he revealed the so-called sophisticated and highly efficient weapon, everyone present was so shocked they fell to the ground.

Lili stared at the screw in Zhao Rong’s hand. ”Zhao Rong,” she said, completely baffled, ”I thought you bought some kind of advanced weapon to deal with the Avatars. But... you just bought a screw? What on earth is that supposed to do?”

Yu Lan took the screw from Zhao Rong’s hand and examined it carefully. Shaking her head, she said, unconvinced, ”Zhao Rong, what’s the use of this screw? You really wasted your money on this.”