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Chapter 349 - Chapter 349 Chapter 349 Yo

Chapter 349: Chapter 349 Yo! Chapter 349: Chapter 349 Yo! “I swear, I’ll never believe a word related to this damn wood again… I swear, I’ll never believe anything related to this wood…”

Upon emerging from the Eastern-style coffin-like hibernation chamber, our revered Miss Prophet muttered like a ghost fading into the distance, leaving us speechless.

Qianqian blinked her eyes, then turned to look at the pitifully designed hibernation chamber next to her and said, “It seems there really is a serious psychological shadow.”

“Taville,” I said with a headache as I looked at the diligent woman adjusting her glasses and checking the data recorded by the instruments. It was the first time I realized that a person’s aesthetic sensibilities could be twisted to such a degree, “you’re a scientist, not an artist, let alone a performance artist, so at least develop some normal sense of aesthetics.”

“Yes, Your Majesty,” Taville replied meticulously, “but what is performance art, exactly?”

Education, I thought, at least half of my Imperial Soldiers really need to undergo reeducation on human knowledge from scratch!

Sandora also followed with a head-shake and a wry smile, “Take some time to go out with the other officers, and bring that scorpion along with you. The severe deficiency you two have in certain common knowledge is truly worrisome–that scorpion still doesn’t understand why the street corner’s drink shop doesn’t sell high concentrations of helium-3, which is utterly hopeless.”

“Just remember not to hang out with a commander called Sicaro!” I decisively added from the side.

Then our esteemed female scientist fell into a serious dilemma. It was clear that choosing between obeying orders and continuing her research was a rather complex question for her.

It was said that since she came to Earth as an assistant and helped to establish Shadow World, she hadn’t left this city. No wonder she still hadn’t realized how great a cultural clash her aesthetic sensibility had with that of regular Earthlings…

Resonating human consciousness with a machine, despite Taville’s advanced equipment providing assistance, Lin Xue still exhausted quite a bit of mental power–of course, a significant part of that terrible mental state was due to another session sleeping in a coffin, which caused the psychological blow–almost until the afternoon did Miss Lin finally regained her usual boundless energy. The most obvious sign was her chasing me frantically around the house for half an hour.

I really don’t understand. It was Big Sister who hoodwinked you here, right? Even if it meant being dragged along and sleeping in a coffin, I shouldn’t be the one you seek revenge from, should I?

“No more exceptions!” In the end, the huffing and puffing Lin Xue, at a disadvantage in physical strength, was outpaced by me as I narrowly escaped to safety, while she herself sat on the couch, out of breath, “Really, if you need the help of Miss Prophet, just say so. Don’t trick me about some grand world-saving adventure, when in fact it’s just helping you guys find something.”

Only someone like you, who carries the title of Prophet but unexpectedly has a childlike side, could be deceived by the far-fetched claim of a “grand world-saving adventure,” right?

And from the looks of it…

“Sis, you didn’t tell Lin Xue?”

Big Sister covered her mouth with her hand, a shy smile on her face, “Ah, I just remembered to trick Lin Xue into coming over, but I forgot to tell her about what happened along the way…”

Does Big Sister really have a single-threaded brain?

“What the hell is going on?” Lin Xue frowned as she watched us siblings talk in riddles, clearly not pleased, “What secrets are you muttering about?”

“Well, the thing we want you to find, you know about it now. It’s the fragments from the Visca Star Ring explosion; even the smallest fragment triggered a biohazard crisis in a world, and now there might be more Star Ring fragments speeding towards worlds related to Earth at several times the speed of sound…”

The entire event, although complex, wasn’t too troublesome to explain since Lin Xue had been involved in many aspects of it. In less than ten minutes, I had told my fellow Demi Immortal classmate all about the causes, processes, and outcomes of the current situation.

“So you’re saying, your sister’s discarded household trash is now drifting through the Void and might crash into someone else’s world at any moment?”

“Although your summary is quite peculiar, yes, that’s essentially the case.”

I sighed in response, thinking to myself that Visca really did leave me with one heck of a mess seventy thousand years ago.

“Understood,” and much to my expectation, Lin Xue agreed without a second of hesitation, “Why didn’t you just tell me earlier?”

It’s not like you don’t know my sister is single-threaded.

“Star Ring Fragments, huh…” Lin Xue closed her eyes slightly and then sat up straight with a stern expression. She supported her brow with her forefinger, and faint wisps of energy fluctuations spread out in all directions. When she opened her eyes again, her pupils had transformed into a silvery glow reminiscent of mercury, emitting an air of mystique, “What I see, what I know, must be the only truth of this world, the illusive future flowing upwards against the river of time…”

“Smack!”

I chopped her head with the side of my hand: “Cut it out with the ghost act! Everyone knows your Prediction Skill is instant!”

Qianqian played with her phone off to the side, not even lifting her head to comment, “And since when do you manage the river of time?”

“Tsk, damn couple’s combo,” Lin Xue gritted her teeth at the tacit coordination between Qianqian and me, but the silver brilliance in her eyes signaling the full activation of her abilities didn’t fade, “Don’t interrupt me, I’m about to see it.”

Seeing the seriousness in Lin Xue’s face, we stopped joking and quietly watched the Great Prophet perform her Prediction Skill–or you could call it a Demi Immortal’s spellcasting. Meanwhile, I started to ponder what the process of seeing into the future must be like for Lin Xue. Just like she couldn’t imagine how I connected with an energy source far away in the Void, I found it hard to picture the scenes of the future, especially of a world that I had never seen.

“Ah!”

Lin Xue suddenly let out an uncontrollable exclamation, her silvery gaze flickered and vanished, and then she patted her chest, seemingly unsettled, and took a long breath after looking around.

“What happened?”

I asked nervously, dreading that her Prediction Ability might have some sort of annoying magical backlash.

“It’s nothing,” Lin Xue wiped the cold sweat that had just appeared on her forehead, still a bit pale, “You’d have the same reaction if you found yourself hurtling toward Earth at several kilometers per second–and the target being the tip of the Eiffel Tower, no less.”

Uh, we overlooked that. After Lin Xue’s spirit resonated with the Star Ring Fragment, her prediction naturally took the perspective of a fragment; thus, the future she saw was indeed of her own collision course with Earth…

Quietly gasping in shock, Miss Lin could already be crowned a calmness champion.

My sister gently patted Lin Xue’s back to help the startled girl compose herself, while I cautiously asked, “So, uh… you should have seen it clearly, right? The planet you crashed into, did you remember the spatial coordinates of that world?”

After taking a deep breath, Lin Xue said, “It’s indeed a planet almost identical to Earth. I’ve forcibly recorded the spatial coordinate information with my spirit, but I can’t understand it myself. Bubbles will need to help analyze it–And if you think about tricking me into using that suspicious device made by that dubious woman named Taville, I’ll fight you! Got it?!”

“Yes, yes, my Miss…” I dodged the astonishing aura of killing intent and resentment inadvertently emanated by Lin Xue while saying, “Also, before you crashed into it, you must have seen something else, right? Try to recall–well, never mind, the impact of that scene seems quite severe.”

“You woodhead, so you’re actually capable of thinking with something above your neck!”

This girl really makes my blood boil!

After resting for a few minutes, Lin Xue once again activated her ability, aiming to locate all those fragments at this opportunity. However, no matter how good the plan, it’s no match for fate’s tricks. During the second prediction, she found that she could no longer see the corresponding future scenes no matter how hard she tried.

“Phew, it’s pitch black,” Lin Xue exhaled after almost an hour of consecutive predictions and ungracefully flopped back onto the sofa, “I just felt like I was floating alone in some empty place–we’re probably talking about the legendary Void here. It looks like I’ve reached the limit of temporal extension into the future. Congratulations are in order, congratulations indeed, at least for the near future, apart from that thing that got me to crash into Earth, no more debris will be hurdling into the Main Material Plane.”

“Alright, you take a break too.”

Seeing the girl’s face barely concealing her fatigue, I felt a strange twinge of sympathy, despite our usual bickering. She really did put her heart and soul into the tasks I entrusted her with.

“I’m fine,” Lin Xue flashed a smile at me, only to accidentally trigger a reflexive yawn, “Uh, I’ll have Bubbles record the coordinates first, Wood, get a room ready for me…”

With precise spatial coordinates and Bubbles’s high performance, it took us less than a few minutes to pinpoint the unlucky world that would soon be struck by the Star Ring, just like we discovered with the Zombie world the last time. It’s a universe quite close to our own, and its resemblance to Earth is as high as ninety percent. If there’s any difference, it’s that it’s an Intermediate Energy Level place, which means, in other words, it’s a universe where things like magic could exist.

A place almost identical to Earth but with an energy level far exceeding Earth’s–this is practically a magical version of Earth!

Although the world we currently live in, with its aliens, superpower users, immortals, and angels, is magical enough…

In any case, a world that’s identical to Earth but might have magic and superpower armies has piqued the interest of the two Earth-born beauties in our home. In the spirit of life being all about meddling, Qianqian and Big Sister insisted on coming along this time, and Dingdang, who has basically become a decorative accessory attached to me, chose to stay home and continue studying for her upcoming exams due to her panic over them and lack of interest in one or two specially developed worlds–as she is a God who has seen it all. However, I believe her primary reason is that this perennial slow learner is once again unable to pull herself out of pre-exam dread. Visca, being the owner of the Star Ring, naturally follows us around, and another essential little fellow is Pandora, who has finished adjusting her body and is still full of resentment toward Visca for sneaking by without her last time. Then, there’s Alaya, who I brought along (strictly speaking, inside my own Spirit Sea) as a precaution in case we needed to deal with magical forces–although I’m not sure if having this blockhead around is safe or unsafe.

The manpower for this mission was basically just that. There was no need for everyone else to come swarming along, after all, we are here to save the world, not to start a third world war. And thanks to the successful establishment of the Space-Time Management Center, if we need someone else to help, we can summon them in an instant, even more convenient than a summoning technique.

Speaking of which, we really seem to be turning into professional world savers, being able to dispatch and divide our personnel so quickly and efficiently before each departure.

But…

“Say, you guys are supposed to be saving the world, right?” Struggling to suppress a twitch in her eye, Miss Lin contorted her face and said, “Even if you’re going to blend into the background, could you at least look a bit more like saviors of the world!?”

Lin Xue’s rampage was understandable.

Standing in the transporter’s preparation area, Qianqian was busy stuffing pots, pans, ladles, vegetables, fruits, and piles of clothing into her Personal Space. Just now she even had two Xyrin Soldiers help move a complete kitchen set inside. Visca and Pandora were busy competing to see whose cannon assembly was faster, with the victor receiving limited edition cartoon lollipops acquired from the Candy House on the corner. Big Sister was meticulously transferring clothes, bedding, blankets, shoes, and hats into her Personal Space as if preparing for 2012. Alaya was more serene, lying beside me grooming her feathers, burying her head under her large wings just like a pigeon, while I… helped Alaya groom her feathers.

Do you think this is what the preparation activities of a savior should look like before saving the world?

“You must be planning to go on a picnic,” Lin Xue said, on the verge of breakdown, pressing her hand to her forehead as dark clouds swirled behind her. “And maybe save the world along the way…”

We nodded, nodded.

There’s no way to feel tense, really. Unlike any previous frantic firefighting mission, the world we’re about to save hadn’t yet fallen into disaster. The place was as peaceful as the old cadre activity center three hundred meters west of here. According to Lin Xue’s predictions, the Star Ring Fragment might not even enter the Main Material Plane for several months. We had plenty of prep time, enough to build a planetary barrier to cover the entire Earth if we wanted. Facing a task with no challenge whatsoever, you could even call it a picnic. How could you expect me to get worked up about this?

“Ugh, I can’t deal with you guys.”

Seeing the Savior Squad engrossed in sorting out their groceries, the Miss with her over-the-top sense of justice and responsibility finally let out a resigned sigh, then waved to us: “Fair winds on your journey, I’ll keep you posted with whatever I see.”

The announcement that the World Transporter was ready sounded just in time. The world’s first to nth travelers, having packed their bags, were finally ready to set off.

As many times as I’ve wanted to describe just how magical traveling between the two worlds is, or how magnificent the scenes of space-time transformation were, I’m sorry to say that, in the face of Xyrin Technology’s audacity, such things as traversing space-time… are just plain.

We opened the door, walked through, turned back to close the door, and we’d arrived.

Not much more complicated than stepping out to buy a pack of cigarettes.

Old bearded men, mysterious mature women, beautiful lolis, ancient tomes floating in mid-air, and the Main God’s Light Ball all silly and white… none of those were there.

Damn Space-Time Management Center’s third-generation user-friendly spatial transport door, give me back the dreams of my 18-year-old self!

“Ah Jun? What’s wrong with you?” Seeing the person who inexplicably paled, Qianqian couldn’t help but come over with concern.

“It’s nothing, just zoning out as usual.”

Facing Qianqian’s tender concern, I instantly revived with full health and vitality, and with a beaming face, I said as much.

“This place really is a lot like Earth,” ignoring her silly little brother, Big Sister continued, looking ahead, “It’s like a typical urban scene, with similar architectural styles and surrounding environments, and even the concentration and composition of energy in the air are pretty much the same. It’s hard to tell if the energy level is that high here. Ah Jun, are you sure our transporter didn’t malfunction? We didn’t just transition from inside Shadow City to the outside, did we?”

“Taville would be in tears,” I said while releasing my spiritual power to check. After a moment I had my answer, “We’re definitely in another world. Connecting to Shadow City’s spiritual power requires passing through the World Barrier. It just seems that this place closely resembles Earth.”

It was then that Pandora, who had been standing quietly by my side, suddenly tugged at my sleeve and pointed behind us with her little hand.

“Big brother, we have a witness.”

We all froze for a second, then slowly turned around with the creaky sluggishness of rusted machinery.

… And there really was a witness! And a very pretty girl at that!

Damn it! Which idiot was responsible for the pre-jump scan?! Don’t I have a single reliable person under me?!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Pandora, why are your eyes glowing red? Don’t jump straight to thinking about silencing the witness, and you, Visca, are you sure the twitch of your hand wasn’t you reaching for the cannons?

After hurriedly stopping two overly enthusiastic and foolish younger sisters from committing a crime, my facial expression stiff with strain, I locked eyes with the girl not far away who was obviously scared by a bunch of aliens. I managed to muster a smile that was a slight improvement over crying and greeted her: “Yo!”

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