Xyrin Empire
Chapter 569: The Most Headache-Inducing Interruption in History

Chapter 569: Chapter 569: The Most Headache-Inducing Interruption in History

As soon as I heard the words "brilliant plan" ...four words, Lin Xue on the other end burst into a fit of crazy laughter. Although I couldn’t see what Lin Xue was doing on the projection, the background noise was so chaotic I could easily picture her rolling around on the ground. History is full of prophets, after all; in the Middle Ages, just about any schizophrenic would claim to be a prophet. But among the strengthened prophets of the past, none were as dreadful as Lin Xue. If Zhuge Liang had written "Lord, please read strategy number two" in his kit, I bet there would be no such thing as the Three Kingdoms...

"Oh ho ho~~~ Wood, you really fell for it! Miss here is indeed your nemesis, hahaha!!" Lin Xue was freaking out like she had overdosed on stimulants, while I just had streams of black lines: "Alright, alright, do you find this so amusing, huh?"

"Life should be full of joy," Lin Xue stifled her laughter and walked back to the communicator, answering seriously, "Right, Wood, you saw the words written inside the bag at the end, didn’t you?"

"How could you not know?"

I rolled my eyes, this girl... she could see everything and still pretended with me.

"I really didn’t see it," Lin Xue admitted honestly, "I messed around all night and only saw you finish reading the third note, the world interference was too severe..."

With all this effort, couldn’t you do something useful?

"By the way, Wood," as if she knew I was about to scold her, Lin Xue quickly changed the subject, "the Imperial Fleet should be hidden by now, right?"

"Yeah, they’ve established an outpost inside a Red Giant Star," I nodded, "but you have to tell me, what’s the point of doing this?"

"I can’t see it very clearly," Lin Xue looked quite serious and severe, "but one thing is certain, a large-scale Imperial Fleet appearing in this world would cause a lot of trouble... Ah, Sandora is looking for you."

Before the communicator appeared Sandora’s figure, her expression was very odd, a bit worried, but mostly helpless.

"Little Baobao says she lost her shiny shiny."

Sandora’s opening sentence was this, which didn’t immediately click for me: "Did she lose her toy again?"

"If it were just a toy that was lost, it would be better," Sandora sighed, "this time it’s her toy manager that’s missing."

Suddenly, an image of a golden, glittering figure leaped into my mind.

"That gold glittering guy is missing! Isn’t he always with Little Baobao?"

"And... Silvia is missing, too..."

Sandora’s first sentence just startled me a bit, but her next sentence hit me like a bolt of lightning.

A beat slow? Did she disappear too? Are you telling me there’s been a riot in Shadow City or what?

"Come on, that’s not how you play the game! How could Silvia possibly get lost!"

Although she was slow-witted, Silvia had never gotten lost before, of course, this wasn’t to say she had any talent for finding her way. Rather, she was so out of touch that she would forget where she was headed before even leaving her street, and then would just wander back aimlessly, which meant Silvia was like a mole that never strayed from its territory, with no possibility of getting lost. But what happened this time? From Sandora’s tone, she disappeared along with Golden Shining?

"Ah Jun, hang in there—" As Sandora watched my facial expressions cycle like a flickering screen, she hesitated before saying, "The two of them... might have sneaked onto one of your battlecruisers..."

I petrified on the spot into a monument.

"Reynolds, inform all your captains that two huge troublemakers have infiltrated the fleet!"

Uncle Hucha had been listening to our communication from the start, and naturally knew what had happened. The silver-haired slowpoke was famous for her nearly out-of-sync thought speed with reality’s timeline and her mysterious identity. Reynolds grasped the severity of the situation in an instant, "I’ll dispatch the Ghost Agents and Dark Templar right away—um, what if they resist? It seems we might not be able to subdue them?"

"That’s why we shouldn’t alarm them, I’ll go there myself."

The order was issued in an instant throughout the entire fleet. Over a thousand battlecruisers immediately buzzed with activity as Ghost Agents and Dark Templar ran back and forth. Reynolds and Zeratul, the two old chums, were now genuinely anxious and flustered: Two unauthorized personnel had infiltrated their troops, and they had only become aware of this after the base behind them prompted a notification. It was a disgrace for anyone involved. Even though Golden Shining, being a Heroic Spirit with formidable strength, could evade the Federation Army’s security measures, the fact that slowpoke Silvia had also slipped in made it a complete slap in the face—her line of thought had always been classified as absolutely harmless...

The search for the two stowaways turned out to be unexpectedly smooth, or perhaps, these two dunces, with an average IQ around single digits, had no concept of hiding their tracks. When a Dark Templar encountered these two silly girls near the Quantum’s main power reactor, Sister Jier was in the middle of innocently asking an operator for directions, having been wandering around the reactor for over ten minutes.

After receiving our instructions to steady the situation, that Dark Templar casually pointed out a direction to Jil and the two dunces happily continued their adventure inside the cruiser.

That Dark Templar was thunderstruck at the moment, then with a conflicted expression, sent us the information, pinpointing the direction where the two dolts were headed.

Thus, it was all rather simple.

Silvia and Sister Jier, a combo of dunces that left one utterly speechless. The former was the slowest respondent in the entire Empire, while the latter was the notorious second member of the "Bubbles-Dingdang-Golden Shining" trio of fools. Their average intellect hovered around single digits, miraculously blending into the Expeditionary Army, clearly not linked to any strategy or plan. It was all the doing of that gleaming character cheating.

"Ha, what an easy and pleasant task, how could this king always entertain a little girl?" Lady Shining spoke, clad in a set of armor with the attention-grabbing factor of six plus signs, striding through the empty cruiser corridors. Although lacking the self-illuminating ability of Alaya, Sister Jier still shone brightly, "Finally managed to escape successfully this time. Really, all the Upper Heroic Spirits are supposed to join the expedition, yet this king had to mess around with a little girl, how many missions have they carried out already... Hey, silver hair, what are you fiddling with!"

Silvia was sprawled across the corridor floor, peering with one squinted eye into a ventilation shaft, and slowly turned around with a gentle "Ah" sound, "What a magical place... I didn’t expect such a place to exist, um—what—where is this—"

Up to now, she still hadn’t realized what was going on, still in a dazed state. Well, in fact, she had never had a moment of realization about anything.

"Tch," Sister Jier snorted impatiently, "Bringing along a dimwit like you is the biggest mistake this king has made. I thought you were military personnel wandering near the outpost, and it took so much effort to abduct you, only to find out you’re just a fool... Listen up, white hair, this king is on a very important military operation. Whatever happens later, don’t you drag this king back, or don’t blame this king for abandoning you at a crucial moment!"

This statement also had a folk version: Keep this up, and I won’t bring you along to play!

The above was everything I saw and heard when I arrived via the Transmission Device behind the two stowaways. Together, this pair of dunces were simply unbeatable.

"Cough, cough!!" Seeing two clueless fools about to ignore my sudden appearance and walk away, I immediately coughed loudly twice, startling one with golden hair and another with silver hair. This requires some clarification; it was Sister Jier who was startled, while Silvia only began to shiver after seeing Sister Jier do so and took a good while to realize she should be trembling...

"You two, the adventure is over."

With a boss-like smile, I walked step by step towards the two girls, who were looking at me with uncertainty (I seriously doubted whether Silvia’s dumbfounded little face showed any uncertainty at all). And as my words ended, the empty main corridor rapidly flashed with the red light of alarms. Amidst the blaring alarm sirens, heavy isolation doors descended one by one from behind the two girls, from afar to near. Each closure of the doors sparked a ring of blue sparks around them, clearly indicating that an electric field had been activated. The unexpected appearance of the ultimate boss, the glowing red steel corridor, the piercing alarm sirens, the girls huddling close in panic, and the heavy gates descending one by one from afar... This scene was just so Hollywood.

"Oh, hey—it’s Mr. Chen—"

As if completely oblivious to the eerie atmosphere around her, Silvia cheerfully waved to me. Meanwhile, a heavy gate about twenty meters away from them had shut.

"AH! It’s you, you unscrupulous, cheap—uh, Boss!"

Unlike the carefree Silvia, Sister Jier exclaimed in shock, and with the end of her words, the gate behind her also slammed shut.

"This time let’s see how you’ll run. I don’t believe you, Golden Shining, would dare to make a hole in the warship right in front of the boss."

Wearing a triumphant expression, I flashed Sister Jier a brilliant Crest all-advantage seven-effect smile, and then, a gate descended from above...

Blocking between me and the two fools...

The victor’s smile instantly turned into a bas-relief, and at that moment, I was dumbstruck, and theoretically, I believed those two silly girls opposite must have been dumbstruck too—who could have anticipated that the once-helpless and panicking young girls trapped by the approaching isolation doors would, in the next second, find the continuous gates had just conveniently locked the big boss outside. This turn of events was so damned Empire style...

Stuff you and your bloody circles! I hadn’t noticed there was one isolation door between them and me at all! Who can tell me which movie features a boss being isolated by an isolation gate in the end!

"Boom!!" A thunderous rumble; the recently closed gate was blasted open right down the middle. I was choking with sneezes and continuous coughing. Heaven knows what this layer of interstellar alloy was made of—just heating it a bit, and it smelled almost like Sandora’s high-energy cooking. Climbing out of the large hole, I found Silvia and Gilgamesh still hugging each other in dumb shock, staring at the smoky gate without a word for a long time.

"Boss..." Sister Jier was indeed quicker to react than Silvia, "Didn’t you say no holes should be opened on the warship?"

"I said YOU are not allowed to make holes! But this is your boss’s ship!"

Immediately, Reynold’s voice came through the public channel, unable to help but laugh and cry: "Emperor, but this is Federation property..." , accompanied by the background sound of Zeratul’s earth-shaking cough.

Hmph, seems like I’m not strict enough ordinarily; even Uncle Beard, who used to revere the Empire as if it were a god, has started to mock the Imperial Leader.

Silvia was probably stunned by the explosion right next to her. Here she is, carrying the title of Xyrin Emperor, but in reality, she’s just an airhead who’s living off of government subsidies, runs a dessert shop in a military-controlled area on an extraterrestrial military base, and insists on believing she just moved to another district in Academy City. Witnessing a metal gate that could squash the Tokyo Tower into the ground get turned into a hole in an instant might just leave this idiot permanently traumatized by all metal objects...

And just as I was contemplating how to soothe her, she slowly said, "Wow (this ’wow’ took two seconds)—Mr. Chen, can you do magic?"

Sister Jier fell to the ground with a "thud", her head banging "clang, clang" on the titanium alloy steel plates: "God-like enemies and pig-like teammates, who on Earth did I offend in my last life!"

"Condolences to you, you’ve just met Silvia, and I’ve been tormented by this silly girl more than once. Now, even Alaya can find a sense of superiority from Silvia, do you think there’s any hope for her?"

My facial muscles twitched, and I switched to a serious demeanor, pointing at Shan Shan, whose gaze was drifting, and spoke righteously, "Alright, now explain to me how you managed to sneak in here—weren’t you supposed to be a nanny?"

"Are you insulting my dignity?!" Shan Shan bristled at the word "nanny," her fur standing on end, "I am the oldest king of humans, the greatest..."

I knocked on her forehead with a thud, "Enough, enough, the Heroic Emperors I command are all organized by camp. Hm, Silvia, do you want to find a room to rest for a bit?"

Suddenly, I remembered there was a person here who should have been excluded first. It’s still a mystery where Silvia’s lower intelligence limit lies, and although she seems to have miraculously ignored the sci-fi spaceship scenery and pierced alloy gate around her, I fear she might suddenly become curious about her surroundings. Actually, Silvia’s dull reaction now is a miracle in itself.

"Ah, but I’m not tired—," Silvia slowly shook her head, "Mr. Chen, what is this place? The walls seem to be made of steel..."

My forehead tensed, as this girl actually had the ability to think.

"Ahem, it’s a secret, don’t ask around!"

To such an obviously irresponsible answer, Silvia miraculously didn’t think any further and just nodded knowingly, "Oh, okay—"

Then, with a pure smile, she stood aside and entered a ’vase’ state.

She’s practically a creature that can be described as a miracle! If she hung around with Little Baobao and the others all the time, where would Shan Shan fit into the trio of dunces?

Speaking of Shan Shan, I’m quite curious about how she got in, actually.

Knowing she couldn’t hide it anymore, Sister Jier confessed quite frankly. There wasn’t a thrilling process; as an Upper Heroic Spirit and due to her status as the "Little Princess’s exclusive pet", Sister Jier in the Imperial Army system was a privilege class, neither big nor small. Most of the time, no one could restrict Little Baobao’s ghost-like activities, so most of the time no one limited Sister Jier’s movements, who was Little Baobao’s bonded equipment. Encouraged by this favorable condition, from the moment Sister Jier learned that her old acquaintances were about to serve as the appointed guards for this expedition, she believed the time had come to escape the bitter sea and return to the free-spirited days of white-robed wanderings.

With a huge doll and a collection of treasures to distract the Little Princess, and a large number of lollipops to keep her off her back for a long time, she took off her armor, changed into casual clothes to look like she was going out to sleep in another room, and then managed to escape from the "Demon Cave". It has to be said that the months-long pet + nanny + collector life taught the ancient King of Uruk a lot of subtle skills, and she successfully escaped the control of the Little Demon King Baobao, breathing the free air under the sun again, and then... she ran for the Shadow Fortress Starport teleportation gateway.

Since Little Baobao could notice her collection missing its largest piece at any moment, and that omnipresent Little Demon King might suddenly appear before her, although at worst she’d just be joyfully taken back home by the Little Princess for further care, without any punishment, the Heroic King who felt she had lost all decency over the past months really didn’t want to return to the degrading daily routine.

Even if she couldn’t maintain the dignity of a king, she had to fight gallantly as a warrior on the battlefield!

The above are Golden Shining’s true inner thoughts she confessed to me, this naive fellow doesn’t seem to realize that marching with us won’t produce any relationship with the glory of war.

"As for this dumb guy with white hair," having completed her tearful history of escape from the "Demon Cave", Shan Shan waved her hand and pointed at the tranquil and smiling Silvia, who looked as beautiful and graceful as a prime daughter of a respectable family but was in fact just daydreaming as a vase; the latter immediately smiled and nodded happily at Sister Jier, "I had already broken through the military blockade line, but then I bumped into this fellow wandering in the military restricted area. I know the more capable commanders under you are, the less they seem like soldiers, so I thought she was military personnel! It took a lot of effort to kidnap her over here, and who would have thought, she turned out to be a pig-like teammate!"

Sister Jier successfully kidnapped Silvia, should I say this is the victory of an IQ of 10 over an IQ of 9? (To be continued, for more please visit www.qidian.com, where there are more Chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)