189 The gratitude tokens that disappeared (1/2)
Yang Xiaojin seized two grenades from one of the Qing Consortium's soldiers with lightning speed. The Qing Consortium soldier unconsciously tried to avoid her attempt since protecting one's weapons was the instinct of every solder. But in the end, all he felt was a numb sensation in his hand, the grenades gone.
Yang Xiaojin resolutely and decisively pulled out the safety pins and threw the grenades into the sewer. With a thunderous boom, the stone bricks on the streets flew up with the explosion.
The Experimentals confined in the tight space of the sewers couldn't withstand the destructive power of two grenades going off at once. They were blown away and dropped to the ground with blood oozing from all orifices.
But even so, everyone discovered that several of the Experimentals were actually unaffected by the blast. Ren Xiaosu said in a cold voice, ”Blow them up again!”
Yang Xiaojin seized another two grenades and threw them down into the sewer. It was only at this time that the remaining Experimentals that were still mobile started retreating and letting go of Ren Xiaosu's shadow clone!
Ren Xiaosu laid on the ground with his head throbbing. He was finding out for the first time just how powerful grenades were.
The feeling was like 10,000 knives cutting into his flesh. The shrapnel from the explosion was even more powerful than he imagined.
However, he had the bravery to let Yang Xiaojin throw the grenades in because he knew he could bear with the pain from the blasts, and his shadow clone would not be affected by it.
But after this was over, Luo Lan would owe him a great big favor!
When the shadow clone crawled out of the sewers, Luo Lan teared up and held its hand. ”Xu Xianchu, I've really got to thank you for this.”
Ren Xiaosu thought, 'This has nothing to do with Xu Xianchu.' But he couldn't explain it to them yet.
In the past, he had always made his shadow clone his scapegoat. But now that he had done something good with it, Ren Xiaosu was unused to it.
Luo Lan suddenly said, ”Go on, everyone, thank him. If it weren't for Xu Xianchu, five of our men would have died in the sewers.”
”Thank you, Xu Xianchu!”
Seeing this big group of people thanking his shadow clone in unison, Ren Xiaosu did not receive one single gratitude token!
Ren Xiaosu immediately felt his heart ache. Over a 100 gratitude tokens had slipped through his hands just like that!
As a matter of fact, he was still around 800 gratitude tokens away from unlocking the next weapon in his Side Quest #2. If Luo Lan had his men to give thanks a few more times, wouldn't the weapon be unlocked with just a snap of a finger?
A 100 gratitude tokens were all that was needed to give him a powerful weapon like the black saber. If it weren't for the black saber, Ren Xiaosu would have died several times over. So Ren Xiaosu was really anticipating what kind of weapon a 1,000 gratitude tokens could get him. But instead, he had lost the opportunity to gain over a 100 gratitude tokens just like that!
At this moment, Ren Xiaosu even considered admitting to all of the deeds he had committed. As long as there were gratitude tokens to be earned, to hell with being wanted!
Then Luo Lan looked at Ren Xiaosu and said, ”Xu Xianchu carried and helped both of you to escape. Shouldn't you two also thank him?”
Ren Xiaosu said, ”…Thank you.”
Yang Xiaojin stifled her laughter as she also expressed her gratitude to the shadow clone. She was quite amused by this sudden turn of events, but this was not the time to tease Ren Xiaosu about it. She said, ”The sound of the explosions here will be sure to attract many Experimentals. Everyone, gather up all the bombs you can from inside the courtyard!”
Yang Xiaojin then pushed open the courtyard house's door. Everyone was stunned on the spot when they saw the entire courtyard filled with cluster bombs. Ren Xiaosu suddenly thought about how Yang Xiaojin was always sleeping in class and wondered if she had been staying up late every night just to finish making all these bombs.