Xyrin Empire-Chapter 699 Another Fragment

According to the model calculations, after Atlantis began its ascent, its pan-energy conversion system was to enter an unstable state, making it difficult for demons with poor control of their own strength to safely "handover" to others. Therefore, after the ascent began, all demons had no choice but to persist until they could no longer hold on. In preparation for that situation, the demons had to start taking turns resting, allowing those with better endurance to rest right now.

However, their maximum rest time was only 12 hours, as a few minutes ago, an agent from Atlantis had brought some troubling news: the number of mutated creatures on the floating island was greater than expected, and the city needed to ascend as soon as possible.

After repeatedly explaining the things to keep in mind for the ascent to these unreliable-looking demons, Sandora and I started chatting with a few of the locals, Yukari Yakumo, who had temporarily nothing to do, also joined in.

We have to thank Boli Lingmeng for the bamboo mats she brought, which provided a great place for everyone to chat and shoot the breeze on this chaotic, rugged hillside. Thanks are also due to her for the green tea and snacks, although I noticed that all the aforementioned items bore the mark of Shadow City manufacture.

"Hmm, the Great Barrier is basically stable now, but it can’t be completely fixed, that would take a long time, and even if it’s fixed, it might still malfunction as soon as you start messing around," Yukari Yakumo appeared quite leisurely and comfortably leaned back in a luxurious, genuine leather armchair, almost dozing off, "It’s lively here, although it’s a crisis, Fantasy Country has really not been this active for a long time, reminds me of the time when this place was first established, when everyone was full of vigor—although most of the time they were just fighting."

"I’m quite curious, where did you get that chair from?"

"Dormitory—one—don’t be so stingy, at least I’m better than Ling Meng!" freёnovelkiss.com

I immediately gave Ling Meng, who was in the state of having tea, a judgmental look. This girl had been continuously pulling out items marked with the Empire’s insignia, including the tea set and cushions, since a while ago. Having Personal Space isn’t surprising, anyway, she is also considered one of my staff, and it’s right to bind a moderately sized Personal Space to her, but how much did this girl scavenge before leaving Shadow City?

Ling Meng, truly living up to her notorious reputation of hundred thousand lack of morals, continued to sip her tea indifferently and yawn even under my gaze; however, gentle and honest Yakumo Lan beside her couldn’t stand it anymore. While feeding small pieces of snacks to the Orange Cat-eared Girl lying on her lap, she murmured softly, "Better check properly when you get back. She even scraped off the gilding from the bathroom mirror frame."

I choked on my gulp of hot tea.

No wonder the greedy and penny-pinching Boli Lingmeng was willing to share her tea and snacks with us, turns out this girl had implemented a policy of plucking every feather before leaving my company?

Watching the lack of morals witch calmly drink tea in front of her boss, obliterating even the gilding from dormitory furniture, I couldn’t contain my frustration and right there I patted Sandora’s shoulder and pointed at the snack plate on the table, "Girl! Eat back what belongs to us!"

Sandora’s mouth was already stuffed full of mung bean cakes, did she even need my guidance? Instantly, there was a whirlwind as if an Alliance Army had passed through; Ling Meng’s forehead visibly throbbed with veins, but since she had already promised to treat us to snacks, she could only obediently distribute the secretly transported goodies from her Personal Space. However, not only Sandora made Ling Meng’s veins pop on the spot, another character sitting across from us was equally competent...

Xixingsi Youyouzi, a student, I knew from the beginning her elegant and noble appearance was just for show!

The pink-haired girl sat across the small table, scavenging any snack in front of her with speed almost matching Sandora’s, her small mouth seemingly obliterating food without needing to chew, throwing more than a dozen plates of snacks down in a row, Youyouzi committed wholly to eating without a hint of interest in our conversation, the only physical action left was eating.

Although I knew that Xixingsi Youyouzi never stopped feeling hungry and had eating as her second name in Fantasy Country, seeing this scene made me sigh, "Sandora, you’re truly not alone in the multi-universe, this opponent is of much higher quality than Saber!"

Next to Youyouzi, Yao Meng who had been sitting attentively in a follower’s posture had been wearing that embarrassed expression for the past few minutes and still looked embarrassed, always trying to use an adult-like serious demeanor to cover up her distress as a young girl when facing her voracious Miss.

And so, after an awkward while, Yao Meng decisively shifted her adoring gaze toward me, her eyes clearly conveying: "Your partner is devouring two and a half pounds of food per second, yet you can still chat and laugh with ease, I really admire you!"

Having a little girl admire me for such a reason, I didn’t know whether to cry or cry or just cry—if you had experienced a three-year life of competing for food with a Glutton, you’d manage to stay calm too.

As for the no-morals witch, who had unwittingly become the big losers’ scapegoat, she finally got a taste of her own medicine. Initially, she could still sip some tea and serve a new plate of snacks, but as Sandora and Youyouzi voraciously speeded up as if in competition, she was left frantically pouring out snacks. It was unbelievable what this insatiable person had done in my employee canteen before leaving; she had been continuously feeding Sandora + Youyouzi for over ten minutes without running out of supplies!

Thus, the solemn conversation between the Leader and the Demon, the all-out eating showdown between the Queen and the Ghost, and the despair-faced Half-Spirit and Witch, intertwined into a bizarre tableau titled "The First Rout of Everyday Fantasy Country"...

But I knew the competition between Sandora and Youyouzi was predetermined, the latter, although boasting an incredible appetite that seemed like a bottomless pit, was at a loss once Sandora rolled out her dietary knowledge, which was a veritable periodic table. When the two started competing over inedible items, it would be Sandora’s day of victory.

As the last walnut pastry was cleanly split and devoured by Sandora and Youyouzi, Boli Lingmeng suddenly stopped throwing out snacks. With both hands spread out, she declared, "No more, really no more."

Then Sandora and Youyouzi stared resentfully at her.

Ling Meng shook her head vigorously, her large bow fluttering as the girl’s head moved up and down: "Really, really none left! Those were the snacks I was planning for the winter! You’ve eaten them all!"

I glanced at Sandora’s face full of regret and without saying another word, grabbed the fleeing Ling Meng by her belt. I shook her upside down, as if emptying her pockets, not worried about her lantern pants glimpsing more than intended.

Though the Red and White strongly protested, her lack of familiarity with Imperial space technology betrayed her terrible actions as her still-open Personal Space started spilling items while she was being swung upside down. Like Doraemon, Ling Meng began to drop things: Imperial Uniform, clothes hanger, comics, Crystal Table Lamp, Communicator, Gold-plated debris and Mithril slag, Kalimdor Silver Coins, Eastern Kingdom Small Gold Coin, Jingde Town porcelain, British bowls, Redwood furniture with silver shovels, small stools, dressing mirrors, five-drawer chests, Tang Sancai, Goblin Rocket Boots, C-4 Gauss gun, Jedi Lightsaber, Silver Scale Chest Armor, Tri-titanium alloy, Independent Graphics Card, data terminal, Children’s Trojan, Rocket Engine, Oxidizer, Helium Three Fuel Tank, Vending Machine, Physical Therapy Massage Chair, Barrel of styrene, two motorcycles, a Detector, three sets of Patriots, High-speed Fusion Reactor, and at last, I even shook out two tractors!

Goodness above, in the end, I even had to fly up and grab Ling Meng’s feet, throwing out items like wringing out a washing machine: This greedy penny-pincher; there was no space left to stand on the ground! And how did she even pick these items; did she scourge them based on rhyming or what?

As for Sandora and Youyouzi, they had already begun picking out the tasty stuff and feasting aside. After about fifteen minutes, I carried away a face full of grievance, like Xiang Lin, that Red and White Witch for some re-education. Normally, she always looks lackadaisical and lazy, but why so energetic when causing me trouble? And I can explain the items earlier, as they are indefinitely available for free with an employee card at the base center, but where did those two tractors come from...

"Because they looked fun, swapped with a Boeing 747 and some farmers."

Red and White explained.

No matter if you find it embarrassing, but I was completely Spartaned.

"And besides, these pieces of furniture are needed at the shrine too! With demons always fighting at the shrine, and no one compensates for the damaged items, having these would at least save several repair expenses!"

Suddenly, more chaos ensued, and a few minutes later, the mountain of trash rose several meters again.

Standing atop the mountain of "stolen goods," I swung Ling Meng back and forth, my voice changed, "Spill it! Where else have you hidden things?!"

Ling Meng, flailing with her hands at her neck, pleaded, "Boss, I’ve really handed everything over! Let me go!"

"Ha! You still wanna keep some for yourself!"

"555 I just wanted to get my year-end bonus early..."

I suddenly jerked Ling Meng up and down, "Your compensation for demolition is gone! Completely gone!!"

Ling Meng instantly went into berserk mode, "...I’m gonna fight you!"

Below the "trash mountain," Sandora stuffed half a sliced cake into her mouth, elegantly and efficiently eating while muttering unaffectedly, "Really, without Lin Xue and Lilina around to make snide remarks, Ah Jun just goes off the rails, and Ling Meng starts meddling nonsensically."

Youyouzi, with a piece of cake in her mouth, exclaimed, "Eh? You can talk while eating too?"

At that moment, the two Gluttons found unprecedented mutual recognition.

However, the fun only lasted a short while before the spiritual connection suddenly came to both me and Sandora’s minds from the Atlantian exploration agents, cutting our brief joy short.

I threw Ling Meng back to the ground, this shameless individual who had smuggled and pilfered things from several miles around her dormitory, and she immediately began tearfully tidying up her massive pile of loot. Besides not daring to snatch food from Sandora and Youyouzi, she cleaned up a small mountain weighing tens of tons in minutes. It dawned on me how she managed to cram these things into her personal space just half an hour before leaving.

"Chen, has something happened?" Yakumo asked, pausing her talk with Youyouzi—who, believe it or not, was still chatting leisurely with Mother Zi while eating at a rate of half a jin per second. Curiosity shone in her eyes as she looked at me; after spending so much time together, she could read from our expressions when big events unfolded.

"The agents have reached the impact site at Mount Olympus."

I said softly, then activated the holographic projection. The clear images sent back by the Imperial agents immediately appeared mid-air.

"Wow! What’s this, what’s this?!"

A cheerful voice rang out. It turned out that the cat-eared little girl, who had been clinging to Lan, had her attention caught. While we were previously playing the Atlantian chronicles, she had been snuggled up in Lan’s arms, reunited after so long, but now the little one was seeing the miraculous holographic projections for the first time.

"Lan, keep an eye on your daughter," I said, shoving the little cat girl attempting to dive into the projection back into the blushing Nine-tailed Fox’s arms, then turned toward the direction of the projection, "Soldier, you can report now."

"Yes, Your Majesty," reported the Imperial Agent, cloaked in full Light Armor with his face shrouded by a black crystal mask, using a deep voice, "We’ve traveled incognito and have reached the impact point. The metal structure behind us is the source of the pollution. The Abyss reaction here is extremely strong; at a distance of more than ten meters from the source, our individual Shields are already near saturation, thus we cannot proceed further. I have uploaded its energy data to the Mother Ship, which has now confirmed that the pollution source is explosive. The assessment of the pollutant’s appearance has been completed; about eighty percent is consistent with the structure of Imperial machinery—it’s a fragment from a large Imperial Starship or a similar space object, shattered from an internal explosion."

The well-trained Imperial Agent objectively described his findings. He didn’t reveal his own judgment concerning the fragment to prevent influencing Sandora and my line of thought, but looking at the gigantic machinery half-embedded in a mountainside, bursting with black Lightning and smoke, even without his judgment, my associations were quite clear.

Black thick armor, broken and diverging energy pipelines, slightly curved edges on one side, and those functionally unclear compartment structures.

"Um, Sandora, this thing looks somewhat familiar."

"Right, it’s not just familiar, it’s recognizable at first glance," replied Sandora, slightly disheartened due to being interrupted in her "duel" with Youyouzi but still entering work mode. Her eyes flickered with a faint light as she swiftly compared data with the database, "The match is up to one hundred percent. This is a small fragment of the Visca Star Ring, from the outer ring’s power section, filled with severely mutated Ghost Energy Crystals and a reactor. Any energy imbalance could lead to the birth of a Micro Abyss Gate. It’s good that we didn’t rashly launch a full assault on the Floating Island."

I looked at the soldier in the projection, "Well done, now proceed with caution. Set up the Spirit Beacons nearby. Alaya’s feather can now be used. Place it near the energy nodes and activate it after twenty-four hours’ delay."

Before the agents had set off with Ares, I had handed them a freshly plucked feather from my own Angel sibling’s wings, specifically so they could turn the tables when the Abyss erupted. It seems now, the sacrifice of that silly cat was worth it.

The fragment of the Visca Barrier Star’s Star Ring, that’s no trivial thing. Last time a fragment fell into a Parallel World, it nearly caused the entire Earth to undergo species extinction due to a biohazard crisis within a mere few days. If we hadn’t discovered it in time, who knows how far it would have spread, and today’s situation could only be more severe: since it crashed into Mount Olympus, the Atlantians have been desperately trying to stop its Energy leak. The Atlantis city grid has also sealed off the Star Ring fragment’s Abyss pollution, which means, aside from the limited energy leakage, we are facing an unmitigated source of Abyss pollution.

Even without an outbreak, it might well be equivalent to a small Abyss Gate.

"In the name of the Empire! I vow to accomplish the mission!"

The Imperial Agent said powerfully, and the holographic projection subsequently vanished into the air.

The scene quieted for a few seconds before Youyouzi pulled at Yukari Yakumo with an uncertain tone, "That... that black thing, is it what these humans call the Abyss?"

"It’s actually something that has been infected by the Abyss. The real Abyss is non-material. But I’ve never come into direct contact with it either; I only know its dangers. Just looking at it is unsettling, right?"

Youyouzi thoughtfully nodded, while Ao Meng...cough, Yao Meng, standing beside her already wore a visibly frightened expression. Although she tried to maintain a stoic face, it was the small girl’s first encounter with something that could transmit such an intense sense of madness through just a screen, and it left her filled with dread.

I firmly believe that after seeing that thing, even someone like Youyouzi would be dedicated to assisting us with all her might.

"Alright, let’s not be nervous. We are here to solve this problem," I stood up and clapped my hands, "Let the demons who are ready to act as ’batteries’ get plenty of rest, we will be taking off soon. But, speaking of which, where exactly did Dingdang go?"

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