Published: February 12, 2025
CHAPTER TEXT:
“Five in the morning, time to sleep!”
“Sit.”
Jikesu gestured to Ye Zhongming, treating this remarkably performing garbage with high regard.
Being able to sit in front of the Chief of Technology was a privilege that not even the masked warriors enjoyed.
But Ye Zhongming was unaware of this; since he was invited to sit, he took a seat directly, noticing a cup identical to the one in front of the elder. He lifted it up and drank all the liquid inside.
It was a bit bitter at first, followed by a mouthful of sweetness.
Jikesu looked at this scene with a half-smile, finding the little guy quite interesting.
“Aren’t you afraid it’s poison?”
Ye Zhongming glanced at the elder's cup, feeling somewhat eager to try.
“Drinking too much can lead to paralysis of the nerves, causing sluggish reactions,” Jikesu replied while drinking from his own cup, making Ye Zhongming think he was being stingy.
The King of Cloud Summit had felt a lot better after drinking this following his injuries.
“Expressing recklessness is not a good way to protect oneself.”
Jikesu wouldn’t believe that someone capable of understanding and applying inherent skills while retaining two-thirds of them could be a reckless person.
Ye Zhongming was not embarrassed at being exposed; he laughed heartily, “There’s a saying in my hometown, ‘the child who cries gets the milk.’”
Jikesu pondered the meaning and laughed heartily.
“Go ahead, what milk do you want?”
“Who are you?”
Jikesu introduced himself to Ye Zhongming, briefly explaining the situation of the Star Eye Clan. There were two clan leaders, three teams of masked warrior troops, and functional departments like training, technology, and logistics.
It wasn’t complicated but seemed quite efficient.
Strictly speaking, this didn’t seem like the structure of a true race. To effectively manage a race, one must consider numerous aspects, and a few departments like these surely wouldn’t suffice, leaving Ye Zhongming puzzled.
It felt more like a company.
Perhaps noticing Ye Zhongming's confusion, Jikesu became more serious and said, “The place you are in now is a semi-biological, semi-mechanical artificial fortress in the universe, just outside your home planet.”
Jikesu tapped on the table, and what Ye Zhongming thought was a metallic surface suddenly lit up, projecting a soft glow that flowed upward, forming a holographic image of different brightness and colors.
It was a spherical... building? That was the only way Ye Zhongming could describe it because the artificial markings on it were very obvious, resembling a layer of skin wrapping around a metallic sphere, with unique lusters showing in some areas.
Ye Zhongming looked at it and suddenly asked how big this sphere was.
Jikesu thought for a moment, then lowered his head and slid his finger across a part of his three-inch wristband, saying, “It should be 3.564 times the size of your home planet.”
Ye Zhongming nearly fell off his chair.
Was it that big? Man-made?
Previously, he hadn’t realized it was a fortress at all; he had thought it was a brand new planet.
Jikesu chuckled bitterly, “There’s nothing to be done about it.”
After that, he organized his emotions and said, “You can call it Base Step Five. ‘Base Step’ is a term from a certain race's dialect, translated into the Dark Tongue, it means ‘survivor.’”
Survivor Five?
Ye Zhongming narrowed his eyes; the name itself implied a lot.
“There are a total of seven such artificial planets in the universe.”
“All Races of the Universe are concentrated on them,” Jikesu’s words shocked Ye Zhongming immensely.
All Races of the Universe didn’t live on their respective home planets, but on such artificial planets?
Then what about their home planets?
“They’ve been destroyed.”
Ye Zhongming opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.
“Because of the Roulette and the Slave Clan.”
The King of Cloud Summit’s hands trembled slightly under the table; he knew the answer he had been pursuing since his rebirth was about to be revealed, and at that moment, he felt an anxiousness akin to a homesickness.