Chapter 1379: Chapter 1229: Chasing No. 3! (Part 2)

"Can we just chase directly?"

Watching as Number 3 complained to someone and then patiently sat in the reception chair waiting for a reply, Yellow King, completely uninterested in the happenings, couldn’t help but ask:

"Looks like Number 3 has been waiting here for quite a while. We’re not going to have to keep him company here forever, are we?"

"Let me try."

Upon hearing Yellow King’s inquiry, Omnia Cicada closed his eyes, lightly pressed the marking on the back of his hand, and with his action, as if fast-forwarding a player, the lighthouse marking’s light began to accelerate.

Little Number 3 first exchanged a few words with the figure that seemed to be a person in charge, having arrived upon hearing the situation, then pulled a notebook out of his small backpack and handed over something called an expenditure estimate form.

Soon after, two tall figures with only their arms visible came over, snatched the little notebook from Number 3’s hands, then picked up little Number 3 and tossed him out the door, flipping his backpack upside down and throwing it out as well.

’As expected, complaint reception departments shouldn’t be set up in the same place as the corresponding execution departments, but it’s no big deal...’

The small figure sighed with a grown-up demeanor after being rudely thrown out, but Number 3 wasn’t angry. Instead, he brushed himself off, gathered his muddy backpack, walked down another street, and finally entered a school built at the end of the street.

’Oh dear!’

Following little Number 3 into the school, the Four Pillar Gods entered a classroom on the third floor, where a female figure with an indistinct appearance rushed over, holding what was likely a handkerchief, and tenderly wiped Number 3’s little face.

’William? What happened to you? How did you get so muddy?’

William?

Upon hearing the name, the other Three Pillar Gods hadn’t reacted, but the eye of the thrush widened dramatically, and the heart rate of the entire god spiked to over eight hundred beats per minute.

Brother! Number 3 is actually Food God’s brother! We’ve been searching for Number 3 here, but we’ve ended up looking for death!!!

"Ugh!!!!!!"

Realizing this terrifying truth, the thrush immediately struggled with all his might, trying to inform the other three idiots of his discovery, but alas, suppressed by the marking, he was now just an ordinary person. Before he could make a sound, he was pushed back by Red and Yellow Kings.

"Don’t mess around, we’re almost successful!"

After warning the thrush who seemed to have gone mad, Omnia Cicada used the remaining power to erase the human perception of their Four Gods nearby, then gently pressed the lighthouse mark, accelerating once more.

With Omnia Cicada’s manipulation, the trace left by Number 3 in past times began to speed up.

In the gaze of infinite anticipation from three pillar gods and the gaze of an infinitely hopeless thrush, little Number 3 used mud on his body to get a lot of snacks from a human female named "Lisa Teacher", successfully skipping two afternoon classes.

Before long, a male human figure came over asking about Number 3’s sister’s homework, indicated to be in his backpack, and walked away with a workbook entirely soaked through and illegible. Then down the hallway came a girl’s voice of grievance.

With the chaos outside the hallway drawing all the shadowy figures out of the office, a little girl with an indistinct appearance climbed in through the office window, shyly gave Number 3 a small flower, and then, holding his hand, said she’d have her prime minister father stand up for Number 3 when they get home.

Before long, after the flower-giving girl returned the way she came, another little girl burst through the door, aggressively questioning Number 3 about what happened, demanding why so-and-so secretly came to see him, and angrily declaring she’d never play with him again.

But when little Number 3 caught her hands and took the new arrival around to the back of the office desk to look at his muddy backpack and coat, the new girl huffed twice indignantly and announced only she could bully him, and she’d settle the score for him!

Soon after the second girl ran out, a gentle knock came from the office’s back door, another girl with an indistinct appearance tiptoed in through the back door, tearfully asked Number 3 a couple of questions, then tearfully ran away again.

Once the third girl declaring to help settle the score left, the office window was knocked again, with a little girl resembling a mischievous monkey climbing in using hands and feet up the old locust tree outside, asking merrily:

"William, I heard from Lisa Teacher you were bullied? Need me to stand up for you?"

"..."

How did this kid so young already start living off Soft Rice? Where did he learn this?

Even the well-traveled Three Pillar Gods were shocked by Number 3’s incredibly complex emotional life, and once a string of chaotic happenings finally wrapped up, the middle-aged man who had taken the homework book pushed the door open again, holding several papers and asking frustratedly:

"William, what have you written here? The most important measure of the Kingdom’s new policy clearly is the abolition of the upper house parliamentary system, how could it be the Queen marrying the Duke of Lionheart?"

"Isn’t it?"

Number 3 blinked, then replied:

"I thought this was actually the true start of the new policy, and when writing it, I specifically asked my sister-in-law, she laughed heartily and said my summary wasn’t wrong."

Alright then...

Faced with this acknowledgment from a new policy initiator, the middle-aged man was dumbstruck, then had to skip over this question, pointing at another answer asking:

"What about this? Regarding the evaluation of the Sea Race’s Queen Wendy, the answer should be positive, open-minded, diligent, farsighted, and actively promoting cooperation with humans... What did you write?"

"Penny pincher, lies to kids, lucky, dim-witted, and terrible at driving, frequently wrecking the ship."

Seemingly recalling something unpleasant, William said unhappily:

"She once crashed into my sister-in-law’s ship and ruined the goods my sister brought. During the Twelve Kingdoms meeting later on, I sat behind her in observation and felt she was goofy and knew nothing about matters on land.

Oh, and then she didn’t understand what was going on, wanted to see my conference notes, promised to buy me chocolate, but outright forgot, never delivered it, lousy!"

"..."

"Teacher, any more questions?"

"No... no more..."

What a mess is this?

Although Omnia Cicada wanted to keep watching, the Red and Yellow Kings had no interest in these meaningless questions and answers, repeatedly urging him to continue speeding ahead, leaving Omnia Cicada to speed up again.

The Four Pillar Gods followed the shadow of Number 3 out in the afternoon sunlight, ran through the streets, finally arriving under an apartment building before sunset.

"Let’s go! Number 3 is inside right now!"

Watching as Number 3’s clearly visible "trace" entered the apartment, the Three Pillar Gods of Cyan, Red, and Yellow couldn’t help but rejoice, pulling the utterly hopeless thrush along wanting to rush inside, yet at this moment, their heads were abruptly called out to from above.

"Hey, you Gods down there, look up!"

"?!!!"

Gods down there? Is this calling us? Have we been discovered?!!!

The Three Pillar Gods of Cyan, Red, and Yellow were instantly shocked at hearing this, quickly raising their heads, extraordinarily astonished to find a small head sticking out by a window on the sixth floor, and the one calling them was a little baby with a pacifier in his mouth.

Soon after, before the Three Pillar Gods understood the situation, the baby who had climbed to the window leaned back, then forcefully spat the pacifier toward them.

In the dumbfounded gaze of the Four Pillar Gods, the small pacifier caught the wind and began to inflate, growing in size to reach table-top dimensions, and continued expanding, larger and larger, until finally...

"Boom!!!"