Chapter 179: Chapter 133: Just Now, My Classmate and I Were Attacked by the Austin Family...
Shu Yao snuck back home early in the morning to find the house completely silent. There wasn’t the slightest hint of chaos.
’Looks like Xiao Juzi didn’t make a scene.’
She went to the room to check on her sweet baby, only to find Xiao Juzi gone. As Shu Yao turned, she ran right into Shu Xin, who was giving her a teasing, knowing look.
"Mom."
Shu Xin knew she had been at Ah Bao’s place and didn’t complain, but she said, "Yesterday, when Xiao Juzi woke up and found you gone, they threw a crying fit and insisted on going next door to find you."
"Did they go?"
"Of course they did!" Shu Xin shot her another reproachful glance. "Your little uncle went looking for you a few times, and each time, that robot butler named First Generation said, ’The master and madam are... not... available... at the moment!’"
Shu Yao looked sheepish.
’It was hard to imagine how many times her "single dog" of an uncle had been invisibly wounded by those words from First Generation.’
Shu Xin had never been against her dating Ah Bao, so naturally, she didn’t mind her spending the night next door.
But Xiao Juzi was a different story.
If Shu Chao Yu hadn’t been there to run interference yesterday, that little Zaizai would have likely run over and torn the neighbor’s house apart.
Shu Yao chuckled sheepishly. "So where is Xiao Juzi?"
Shu Xin shot a peevish glance at Shu Chao Yu’s door, but her voice was gentle as she smiled and said, "They’re with your little uncle. He took the baby out for most of the night and only got back in the wee hours."
Then, her eyes fell on a cluster of bite marks on the side of Shu Yao’s neck. Shu Xin’s face flushed, and she raised a hand to swat at her daughter, flustered and angry.
"How could you! Doesn’t Ah Bao know you have the unified examination? Acting so outrageously... and you still expect to get into the Imperial University Agricultural College? Fat chance!"
Shu Yao dodged her mother’s blows, begging for mercy. "Mom, Mom! Stop! Ah Bao has been tutoring me! He’s an honors graduate from Imperial University! He had excellent grades!"
She dodged into the bathroom and quickly locked the door.
Facing the mirror, she pulled aside her clothes and discovered it wasn’t just her front; her back was also covered in large, telltale marks.
’My lower body... I haven’t even checked it yet...’
She wasn’t like Qin Shiwei; she didn’t have the constitution of a Beastman. If marks like these, or even worse, appeared on Qin Shiwei, they would self-heal in an instant.
Don’t ask how she knew. The answer isn’t fit for description.
After showering, Shu Yao made several servings of omurice, placing them in a thermostatic container. She packed two of them in an insulated box for Ke Dancheng.
Taking the packed omurice, Shu Yao piloted her Flying Machine to take Ke Dancheng to the Imperial Hospital to visit his aunt, Ling Yunyun.
However, halfway there, the Flying Machine was struck by an unknown object.
The fuselage shuddered violently!
The expressions on both Shu Yao’s and Ke Dancheng’s faces changed instantly!
A sense of weightlessness and fear from the impending emergency landing spread through him. Ke Dancheng gripped his seatbelt, his panicked eyes darting to Shu Yao, whose face was grim but composed.
SCREECH— SCREECH—
A piercing alarm blared inside the cabin.
Shu Yao quickly pressed the red emergency button near the base of her seat.
The seatbelts automatically tightened, pinning them firmly in their seats.
A powerful sense of unease washed over Ke Dancheng, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead. He tensed his entire body and clenched his jaw, trying to keep himself from screaming out of control.
’If a girl can stay so composed in a crisis, as a man, I can’t bring shame upon my gender!’
Two safety pods shot up, enveloping each of them completely, then lowered a pair of respirators.
Now inside the safety pod, Ke Dancheng was completely blind. He couldn’t see Shu Yao or what was happening to her. Survival instinct took over, and he quickly grabbed the respirator and put it on.
A second later, with a loud BANG, an airbag suddenly inflated from all sides, enveloping him completely.
Instantly, he felt a surge of security.
But before he could even sigh in relief, he felt his entire safety pod being violently ejected from the craft!
Immediately after, he was sent tumbling end over end!
「Above a district of abandoned buildings.」
A white, nearly-oval Flying Machine plummeted toward the ground, trailing a thick plume of black smoke.
The tail of the Flying Machine was visibly pierced, spewing flames and black smoke.
During the descent, once the Flying Machine reached a safe altitude, it activated its emergency brakes and ejected two safety pods.
With a thunderous BOOM, the Flying Machine crash-landed among the abandoned buildings. It skidded for more than ten meters down the desolate, empty street before grinding to a halt, gouging deep tracks into the pavement.
Emerging from her safety pod, Shu Yao walked forward, her expression grim as she surveyed the battered Flying Machine.
The tail had been pierced by an unknown object, throwing the machine off balance and damaging some of its flight systems.