I manage female characters in all the heavens.

"Hmph!" "Maido" tilted her head back, her face full of pride, as if to say, "Praise me!"

Bai Yuekui pursed his lips, speechless. You're quite smug!

Do I need your help to get the Abyssbrough back?!

With her hands on her hips, "Maido" threw the Abyss to the ground. The heavy machine hit the ground with a thud, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The armor, which should have remained stationary without human intervention, managed to maintain its balance and stand upright on its own.

It's just a few tons, which isn't heavy for a powerful Awakened One. Even the metal sledgehammer used by Shan Da weighs nearly a ton, let alone a master like "Maido".

She raised her chin, with an expression that said, "I'm pretty awesome, aren't I?"

"Boss Bai! I chased away the big pot lid, and I also brought this thing back with me."

“I heard from the old folks in the village that this was the armor you wore when you were young, but it was shamelessly taken away by the big pot lid.”

"Those guys with the pot lid are scoundrels! They actually kept your armor for decades. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I just helped you get it back. None of them objected!"

When she said "want," she emphasized it, as if it had truly been obtained through friendly negotiation.

Bai Yuekui stood before Lin Yuanzhe, remaining silent for a moment.

Then, she slowly reached out her hand, her fingertips gently brushing over the delicate biological patterns on the chest armor of the battle suit.

The touch was familiar. After decades, touching the armor she had designed and built herself again brought a flood of complex emotions to her heart.

Back then, she climbed the lighthouse to demand her brother Bai Yuetian's body from the first city lord, Gray. Everything went smoothly until Gray suddenly turned on her and gathered his men to attack her.

Disappointed, she fought her way through the siege and escaped from the lighthouse, but she left the Abyss Warrior armor behind on the lighthouse.

This can indeed be considered as the lighthouse stealing the abyss.

However, that was only on the surface. With her strength, the Beacon would have been completely unstoppable if she wanted to retrieve the Abyss afterward, but she didn't do so.

Leaving the one on the edge of the abyss at the lighthouse was a choice she made after weighing the pros and cons, and it contained multiple layers of profound meaning.

Firstly, she hadn't fully researched the Abyss Walker at the time, and the process of creating it was somewhat haphazard. The Lighthouse, with its more comprehensive research system and equipment, might be able to help her fill in the missing part.

Secondly, the connection between the Abyss Walker and the Mana Ecosystem is too close, and placing them in a densely populated area like Dragon Bone Village poses certain risks.

Thirdly, and most importantly, her own body was no longer able to control the Abyss Walker due to cell failure, and no one else in Dragonbone Village was qualified to wear it.

Conversely, some people in the Lighthouse might be capable of that.

From the perspective of the overall interests of humanity, she chose to leave the Abyss Walkers in the Lighthouse, gambling on another possibility: that one day, someone in the Lighthouse would be able to master this suit of armor and become a new force against the ecosystem.

but now……

Chapter 247 A Shocking New Discovery

Bai Yuekui withdrew his hand, turned around, looked at Maiduo's smug face, and took a deep breath.

He took a deep, long breath, as if suppressing some complex emotion.

Then, she spoke slowly, her voice almost too calm:

“...Maido”.

"exist!"

"You deliberately flew up to the lighthouse and forced them to change course?"

"Yes."

"You've beaten up quite a few people, haven't you?"

"Uh, less than a hundred..."

"You threatened Morgan, didn't you?"

"No, no! Lin Yuan himself gave me permission to take him away. If you don't believe me, you can ask him!"

Bai Yuekui looked at her self-righteous expression and remained silent for a long while.

"Do you know, the One Who Stands on the Edge—"

She wanted to explain something, but the words caught in her throat.

She couldn't say.

We cannot say that Lin Yuanzhe was deliberately left behind in the lighthouse, nor can we say that the armor itself has many hidden dangers and problems, etc.

For a thirteen-year-old girl, Bai Yuekui's thoughts and calculations are too dark and not suitable for a minor to know. It would have a huge impact on her young mind and be detrimental to her healthy growth.

Besides, Maido was ultimately doing it for her own good.

A thirteen-year-old child single-handedly drove back the lighthouse and happily retrieved her armor. If she were to blame someone for this kindness and ability, it would be utterly wicked.

Bai Yuekui closed his eyes.

Then, she sighed softly and patted "Maido" on the head.

"Well done, thank you, Madonna."

"Maido" was stunned for a moment, then a big smile immediately bloomed on her face, a smile as bright as if she had found the world's treasure.

Boss Bai, watch me defeat you completely with my radiant smile!

However, before she could be happy for more than five seconds, Bai Yuekui removed his hand from her head and gently pinched her ear instead.

“However—” Bai Yuekui’s tone remained calm, “I remember telling you not to attack the lighthouse first, not to cause casualties, to stay away from the lighthouse’s firing range, and to evacuate immediately after completing the mission.”

"How did you carry it out?"

Maido's ears were pinched, and she froze on the spot, her smile instantly freezing.

"Uh……"

"You'll be penalized with a year's salary as an Awakened Practitioner. From today until a year from now, you'll only receive the most basic living allowance, but you can't reduce your Awakened Practitioner duties in the slightest. Do you understand?"

Bai Yuekui's slender hand rested on Maiduo's shoulder, as firm as steel and as heavy as a mountain.

"OK……"

"Maiduo" said obediently.

Bai Yuekui stared at her for three seconds, then released her hand and tapped her forehead. "Next time, follow orders."

"Maido" immediately stood up straight, raised her right hand, and saluted: "I promise I will not act without authorization again!"

But what she was really thinking was that she would do it again next time.

Bai Yuekui glanced at her confident expression. With her decades of experience, how could she not see through what this little girl was planning?

But she did not pursue the matter further.

Now that things have come to this, "Maido" has taken back all the Lin Yuanzhe, completely shattering Bai Yuekui's previous ideas and plans, which is giving her quite a headache.

Sending the Abyss Back now is definitely not an option. If we did that, it would be a clear message to the Lighthouse that there's something wrong with the Abyss. In that case, the Lighthouse wouldn't be researching how to use the Abyss, but rather how to destroy it.

Frustrated, Bai Yuekui had no choice but to take Lin Yuanzhe back first and try to find a way to send him back to the Lighthouse later. If there was no chance, he would just have to leave him to gather dust in Dragon Bone Village.

She turned around, her gaze falling on the two-jawed beast that she had bound with her light field.

Although this particular Dipladenia is not a subspecies of Dipladenia, and is much smaller than Dipladenia, it is still over six meters tall and over twenty meters long, making it a behemoth to humans.

Even Bai Yuekui couldn't carry it all the way back to Dragonbone Village with his light field active, so he could only find a nearby place to conduct research.

Coincidentally, the direction the Bjawed Beast had fled in was a valley, and now they were very close to that valley. Bai Yuekui decided to take the Bjawed Beast to the valley to set up a small temporary shielding tower and a research room to conduct preliminary research.

If it is confirmed that this Bamicanthus has significant value and cannot be thoroughly studied in a short period of time, she will then use the Swift to send it to the professional research base in Dragonbone Village for long-term and detailed research.

"Set up the shielding towers at the camp and debug the research equipment. We'll start working tonight." Bai Yuekui strode into the depths of the valley, his voice drifting back calmly, "Xia Dou, tell your dad to send the supplies over."

Bai Yuekui carried the Abyss Warrior Armor and the Twin-jawed Beast into the depths of the valley, his figure quickly disappearing into the shadows of the jagged rocks.

"Maiduo" stood still, watching Bai Yuekui walk away, before turning her head and looking at Shan Da, Xu Tong, Sui Xing, and Xia Dou.

Shandong University was looking at her with an extremely complicated expression, as if he were getting to know this young girl all over again.

Xu Tong squatted on the ground, rested his chin on his hands, and marveled with an expression of "the younger generation is truly formidable."

It was rare for Sui Xing to be aloof; she held her longbow with a satisfied smile on her lips.

Xia Dou felt utterly hopeless, feeling that having such a Tyrannosaurus Rex-like sister made her future seem bleak.

"What are you looking at?" Myodo put her hands on her hips. "Haven't you ever seen a genius girl dominate the battlefield?"

Shan Da shook his head: "I've seen geniuses, but I've never seen a genius like you."

Xu Tong added insult to injury: "I've never seen anyone as good at causing trouble as you."

"With great power comes great responsibility!" Mai Duo said confidently. "Even Boss Bai praised me, so what's your problem?"

The group exchanged glances and shook their heads in unison. Forget it, they acknowledged the skill and confidence the person possessed.

If they had a choice, wouldn't they all want to fly up to the lighthouse and wreak havoc? It's just that they can't.

Over the next period of time, the group worked together to set up a temporary research camp in the valley.

On a relatively flat ground, several tents with high-strength alloy frames were quickly erected, with small temporary shielding towers and energy devices set up around them.

Shan Da was in charge of moving heavy objects, Xu Tong was in charge of installing pipelines, Sui Xing was in charge of guarding, and Mai Duo was assigned to help Xia Dou debug the equipment.

Seven days later.

Inside the makeshift research room deep in the valley, there was an eerie silence.

Bai Yuekui stood before the Twin-jawed Beast, the dark blue Tang sword in his hand slowly returning to its sheath.

Before her, the body of the two-jawed beast was disintegrating at a visible speed.

The flesh and blood, like melted wax, turned into a grayish-black viscous liquid, peeled off the bones, flowed, and seeped into the collection tanks on the ground, where it was then drawn into the incinerator to be burned.

These are "breath soils," which become extremely dangerous once they come into contact with hemoglobin. If possible, they should be disposed of.

Soon, only a complete, grayish-white skeleton remained, lying there quietly, proving that this enormous creature had just been alive.

In the Mana ecosystem, once the Spirit Seed is destroyed, the creature's body will quickly melt into Spirit Soil, leaving only hard bones.

The enormous skeleton that supports Dragon Bone Village also came about in this way.

Bai Yuekui did not move.

She remained standing in the same spot, still in the position where she had sheathed her knife, her gaze fixed on the empty skull, lingering there for a long time.