Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
“Ah!” Lin Xue, who was standing before a huge square tower, suddenly screamed. “What is this?”
There was no need for Pandora to step in and answer her. I could reply, “A Phantom Storm Obelisk. This is the sixth one, isn’t it? Speaking of which, were you even listening earlier?”
“I’m just excited; how can I remember all of these things?!” Lin Xue exclaimed as she ran towards the huge, black, square tower. She shouted, “Chen Jun! What is this?”
…She is doing this on purpose. This lass is playing me on purpose, isn’t she?!
I was already frustrated with Lin Xue, whose life’s goal and joy seemed to be to cause trouble for me. Thus, I turned to Carmen and asked for help, “Do we have anything to shut this lass up?”
“The carbon-based being there!” Carmen suddenly shouted in a loud voice. “If you move any further up, you will enter the core of the defensive region against carbon-based beings. Any unauthorized actions will cause 166 automatic floating cannons to shoot at you immediately!”
What a threat!
Carmen’s words had an immediate and obvious effect. Lin Xue let out a yelp and then ran all the way back to our side.
“Are you going to be good now?” I glared at her.
Lin Xue seemed to have thought of something as she glanced at Carmen and said, “Are you serious? I did not seem to sense that anything dangerous would happen.”
Carmen said matter-of-factly, “I was lying to you.”
“…You!”
“Alright, alright.” I held Lin Xue’s head and said, “You’d better know when to stop. You know full well what kind of place this is. I also know what kind of plans you have. Don’t cause trouble for me anymore.”
“Tch.” Lin Xue pursed her lips and said, “I’ve been found out so quickly.”
I already discovered it from the beginning, alright?
Since the beginning until now, Lin Xue has been strangely excited. She ran around and around, acting like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world. It was almost as if she had lost all memory of how to act like a proper leader. How could I not have noticed such abnormal behavior?
Pandora did a check and found that every time she came to a new place, she would use her skills to get good sensing of the situation around her. In other words, she was trying to gather as much information as she could on this alien base.
This was really a very attention-seeking way of doing things. I guessed that every single Xyrin Apostle here had figured out what she was trying to do. However, since I had absolute authority as the Xyrin Emperor, they closed one eye and pretended not to notice what Lin Xue was doing. Moreover, given the human race’s current development, we did not pose much threat to the Xyrin Empire anyway.
I scanned my surroundings. Although I had seen the city on the Xyrin home-star countless times in my dream, it felt very different seeing an actual Xyrin Army base in real life. Everywhere I turned, I could see several hundred-meter-tall Energy Defense Towers, factories producing countless battle machines and equipment, and many other strange buildings that even the information bank in my head had no words for.
In this huge fortress, team after team of fully-dressed—or should I say fully-transformed—warriors kept patrolling the city. From time to time, a huge and awesome Xyrin War Chariot or low-altitude fighter plane would pass by, giving me—as a first-timer in this city—a huge fright.
It must have been hard on Lin Xue. She was very bold to come here and collect information on the army and surroundings. No matter how much information she managed to collect, she would never be able to help the human race move out of the solar system overnight.
At that moment, I was already at the centermost pyramid-shaped building in the center of the base. Carmen bowed to us and said, “Please wait here for a moment.” Then, he led his subordinate-soldiers into the building.
Once the people around us left, Lin Xue leaned into me and said, “What if the Xyrin Empire releases their troops on the humans? We would not have any chance of retaliating…”
I was very confused by Lin Xue’s worries. “In any case, they will not attack humans. What are you worried about?”
Lin Xue rolled her eyes and said, “You’re so trusting. Who wouldn’t be worried after discovering the existence of such a powerful alien empire? In any case, I don’t trust whatever empire this is.”
I cleared my throat awkwardly and said, “You are talking to the head and a high-ranking General of this empire, mind you.”
Lin Xue stared at me in silence then turned to stare at Pandora for a long time. Finally, she said, “I forgot… speaking of which, do your words hold any weight? These armies are not under your charge, are they?”
“The Xyrin Emperors are forbidden from engaging in armed conflict with one another. Even if they don’t answer directly to me, they are not allowed to fight Earth. Are you trying to say that I am planning to conquer the world?”
“You don’t have such guts,” Lin Xue said, cutting right to the heart.
Should I laugh or cry?
At that moment, I suddenly felt a strange wave in the deepest recesses of my mind. This type of wave felt completely different from the ones I felt before when I connected with the Xyrin home-star or with Pandora Corps. It felt uncontrollable and was more like a resonance—a friendly signal. It also carried with it the joy of reuniting with an old friend.
Suddenly, I fell into a daze induced by this never-before-felt mental touch. The next second, I saw a blue figure floating towards me.
Bang!
The sky was so high… the clouds were so white…
The breeze by my ears told me that I was flying towards the sky at top speed…
Now, I know what that never-before-felt spiritual connection was all about. It must have been the other Xyrin Emperor’s unique spiritual resonance with me. Now, without a doubt, I had been knocked backward by this high-speed, moving Xyrin Emperor.
The above was the historical ‘meeting’1 of two heads of the Xyrin Empire.
After about ten seconds, I finally landed on the ground.
Since one of the two Xyrin Emperors had accidentally sustained internal injuries, the meeting came to an abrupt end. At last, I was carried by Pandora into the base’s repair station.
Hey! Wait! Why was I at the repair station? Pandora, don’t you understand that there’s a difference between you guys and carbon-based beings like me? I refuse to be killed by those repair facilities! Ah, ah, ah!
The next day…
…
The Xyrin Empire’s strength was really something to behold. Although they had never before researched how to medically treat carbon-based beings, they still managed to dig out facilities that could treat me. I really did not know how they managed to understand the biology of the human body in these tens of minutes; even scientists from Earth were still having trouble figuring out what was in their stomachs.
When I finally opened my eyes, I found myself lying down on a temporary hospital bed. Beside me was the culprit who got me to where I was.
She was tall and wearing a long, sky-blue dress with white laces. It resembled the classic, European dress worn by those from aristocratic families. Her long, dazzling, and curly blond hair hung freely by the sides of her face, forming two exaggerated, golden spirals. A pair of pure, blue eyes looked as deep and unfathomable as the sea. I felt like she could look right into my soul with those eyes.
Although she had a head of blond hair and blue eyes, Sandora’s face had classic, oriental characteristics. Her features were delicate and elegant, and her poise was seventy-percent dignified but thirty-percent mischievous. Coupled with her elegant dress, she looked just like a princess on visitation.
Once she saw me open my eyes, she immediately grinned brightly and jumped into my arms. “Yeah, you’re alive! I thought I had killed you!”
…Any Xyrin Apostle could not be judged by their appearances. Take the Lolita-shaped, battle-crazed monster, Pandora, for example; or the serious, pirate-disc-selling Sicaro; or the elegant, dignified, daring lass, Sandora…
“How do you do,” I said, forcing a smile. “I’m glad to meet you. I am Chen Jun.”
“How are you, how are you!” Sandora looked over-excited as she grabbed my hand and said, “I am Sandora! I’m sorry for injuring you. I did not expect your body to be this weak. Don’t worry, however. I have already made your body stronger… well… are you here to take me back?”
“En?” At that moment, I was finding it difficult to understand Sandora’s words which sounded to me like a million beans falling out of a bag at once.
“I said are you here to take me back?” Sandora asked again, “Take me out of this planet.”