When the bald man and his henchmen woke up, they realized that they were in a very peculiar huge room. This room’s walls, flooring, and ceiling all seemed to emanate a silver glow; they seemed to have been formed by some compound metal. There were no pieces of furniture in this room, only some apparatus in the corner. A few red crystals were mounted on the room walls. From these crystals, many artery-like red tubes extended. They glowed with a strange light as if they were alive as they flowed.
“Boss, what is this place?” Old Dao sat up as he realized that he wasn’t hurt that bad. He surveyed his surroundings and had a thousand questions.
“Damn, how could I know?” the bald man spat out some saliva forcefully as he forced himself to stand up. After exercising his slightly numb limbs, he said, “Why does this place look so much like in the movies…?”
“We can’t have been caught by some crazy scientific experiment organization, right?” the skinny man who was called Hedgehog said uneasily.
“Scram to one side, you useless thing!” The bald man slapped Hedgehog as the latter moved to a side. However, although the bald man was acting tough, he was actually as anxious as his two men. This slap might have been to discipline his follower for being timid, but it actually bolstered his own courage, too.
At this moment, a soft sliding sound traveled as they saw that the wall actually split open and slid in two directions, revealing a two-meter-wide exit.
Accompanying a sound of metal crashing against metal were two troops of soldiers decked out in battle armor and holding strange firearms that ran into this spacious huge room. They stood orderly in two rows. Their metal armor and the strange weapons they were holding made the bald man and his companions instinctively think of the futuristic soldiers in science fiction movies.
Just as they were still flabbergasted, another set of footsteps rang out as three people entered under the escort of more soldiers.
After they walked closer, the three criminals finally saw that one among the trio that had entered was their target this time, the youth called Chen Jun. The remaining two were the recently very popular Princess Sandora and the twelve- or thirteen-year-old cute little girl who was probably Chen Jun’s little sister, Pan Lili.
The three criminals would never have thought that they would meet Chen Jun and company under such circumstances. It seemed as if that burly man that had struck and defeated them effortlessly had been sent by Chen Jun. If not, there was no way to explain how they had landed up here and have met Chen Jun and the others.
However, who on earth were Chen Jun and company?!
A seemingly ordinary young man, a small Lolita that hadn’t even turned fourteen, and a princess that had suddenly come to visit China. However, standing behind the trio was a troop of heavily-armed, strange, and mysterious soldiers.
The three criminals who had been living life on the edge and long thought nothing of death suddenly felt a chill down their spines. All sorts of movies and dramas they normally came in contact with played out in their minds. Although these three men looked fierce and devilish—as assassins, their daily lives were actually rather boring. When they were bored, they would watch movies or the likes.
As such, these three trained assassins were actually secret science fiction movie fans. The suspicious scene that was playing out in front of them rekindled their fantasies as they started to draw all sorts of links and connections. All of these thoughts pointed to a common possibility: they were witnesses to some terrifying secret. Once this secret was made known to them, they would lose the opportunity to leave this place forever.
Hollywood movies were all like this.
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Although my face was rather calm now, my heart had still not fully recovered from the shock I had received. The Xyrin Empire’s technological prowess had once again allowed me to bear witness to an impossible miracle.
The place we were at now was a military base established in an alternative space.
That’s right—an alternative space. A space that had been created by the Xyrin Empire’s powerful spatial technology!
This space was superimposed on the real world, accurately replicating District K in the real world as well as a huge area around it. Besides having not one human being here, this place was like another real world. Of course, there were some differences between here and the real District K. At the very least, the huge Xyrin buildings in this space did not exist in the real world.
Pandora had obeyed my commands to the letter. She had not created a Xyrin Outpost on Earth; she had thought of an even better method: to create a Xyrin Outpost in a superimposed version of Earth.
I had no intention of reprimanding her. After all, superimposing this Xyrin Outpost on Earth would not cause any impact on human society. As long as the Pandora Corps could remain in here and not cause trouble, I couldn’t care less. However, I was still a little worried: what would happen if a human accidentally entered this replicated world? He couldn’t possibly be killed, right?
That would be a little absurd.
“The Xyrin Empire’s technology is definitely reliable,” Sandora had guaranteed to me very confidently, “scenes like those in movies where someone would accidentally step into a created world would definitely not happen here.”
Alright, I would put some faith in the Xyrin Empire’s technology. After all, they have not failed once yet.
I sized up the three men that were acting tough as I asked curiously, “Why did you three attempt to harm my Big Sister?”
That bald man shrugged and snorted as he turned his face away.
They were not ordinary men!
That was my first conclusion. Ordinary ruffians would have succumbed after witnessing all these. However, although this person in front of me was rather anxious, he had disregarded the fact that he was in a very precarious position and still held onto his secret. It seemed as if they were not just some ruffians, who had decided to become perverts, but were part of a larger organization.
“You don’t want to say?” I squinted slightly. These men had been injected with nerve-control agents by Aikman. I wasn’t worried that they would leak any secrets and so had decided to play an interesting game.
“Bring them along!” I waved as I turned and left the room while a few soldiers pointed their weapons at the bald man and his friends, making them follow along.
As the trio saw more things that exceeded their wildest imaginations, the three men following me completely fell into a state of shock.
They saw troops armed with strange weapons and heavy armor; unheard of battle vehicles, mechanical warriors that seemed to have come from a science fiction movie; as well as defensive cannons floating in mid-air.
None of these things have been invented by humans yet!
When they came to an unimaginably huge hall and saw a black swamp of orderly humanoids beneath their feet, the bald man finally broke.
“You… you guys… what are you guys exactly?!” The bald man couldn’t contain his fear as he stretched a trembling finger and pointed at my nose as he asked.
“Oh? You guys do not know who I am?” I tried my best to change my features into that befitting a crafty conqueror; however, Sandora—who was quietly sniggering—exposed me as my harmless face seemed to fail in portraying that manner. I then gave up as I said plainly, “Who sent you guys?”
These three mens’ willpower and courage had exceeded my expectations; they had maintained a veneer of calm all the way. Hence, I could deduce that they were no ordinary hooligans but had been sent by someone. Also, as my Big Sister had not offended anyone, I was very curious as to who would target her.
“You… who on earth are you…?” The bald man was still pointing at my nose and asking as if not having heard my question.
At this time, a hoarse voice that contained a tone that made one tremble rang out, “Enough; these humans are not fun at all; I have grown tired of this game!”
A murderous plume of black flames soared into the sky as Sandora changed into her half-human and half-demon Abyss-mode.
“…Ge… Ge… Mons… Monster…”
The three unlucky fellows immediately were affected by the Abyss’s powerful mind-corroding force as they sank onto the ground helplessly. Only the bald man could still talk as he pointed at Sandora, suspended in mid-air, as he stammered and said. The beautiful and high-class princess had suddenly turned into a fiendish monster; the three criminals could not take it anymore.
Sandora, this was a little overboard!