Feifei sighed inwardly. The first rule she set for herself and Yu Lian was that their communication terminals had to be set to automatically connect. Although this rule was actually set when she was eleven or twelve, at her most chuunibyou and controlling, after ten years, they seemed to have naturally accepted this setting.
Thinking about it more carefully, they both seemed to quite enjoy this natural state!
They couldn't break this natural state!
Feifei thought this, while maintaining her stance, sword drawn and ready to strike, and continuing to expand her spiritual energy user domain. At the same time, she replied naturally, "Yu'er, didn't I say to send an email if we're not on the same planet? How expensive are source-matter wave communication channels!"
Indeed, if they weren't on the same planet, there would naturally be a delay in beam radio signals. It really was better to use email or text messages to communicate.
However, if you were a rich person, it didn't matter. You could directly connect your signal terminal to the source-matter wave central hub and apply for a private communication channel. Ten credits a minute, which was nothing to a rich person, right?
Yu Lian wanted to say, 'Because I'm a rich person now too,' but instead he said, "Uh, because... this is important too! Didn't Feifei also want to write a shocking report? A trip to Red Maple Factory definitely won't disappoint you."
"Hmm, really?" Feifei smiled noncommittally. But at this moment, the monster opposite finally couldn't hold back. Its existence seemed to directly violate the law of mass-energy conservation. Twelve insect limbs unfolded behind its body, each limb continuously extending, spanning a distance of nearly a hundred meters.
It let out a silent roar, and all its insect limbs attacked at the same moment.
Acid and toxins gathered into a ghostly green ray, blocking all of Feifei's escape routes.
"Can a normal creature do this?" Feifei whispered.
"Huh? Feifei, what are you saying?"
"Oh, I'm interviewing an injured veteran recuperating in the Starport."
"Veteran?"
"Yes, he said that when he was Exploreing on a remote planet, he encountered local natives who sprayed him in the face and poisoned him. When he came back, he found that he had grown a carapace all over his body and was almost turning into a lobster. Now he's soaking in a culture dish receiving treatment. He said it would take one or two months just to clear out those diseased tissue cells."
As Feifei spoke, her left hand elegantly waved, and the spiritual energy user net that had already spread out drew all the corrosive rays sprayed at her into the domain she had already expanded.
Then, without any visible movement, the overwhelming ghostly green rays vanished, not even damaging the hull of the ship they were standing on.
"A spatial spiritual energy user domain? But which kind could it be?"
The monster retreated a step and withdrew its insect limbs. It suddenly realized that this opponent was far more dangerous than it had imagined.
However, it utterly lacked the instinct of wild animals or Void Realm demons to seek advantages and avoid harm. Instead, it revealed a cruel and greedy smile.
The primordial worms it had lost in today's battle couldn't be replenished in one or two months. But precisely because of this, it needed to recover its losses as much as possible.
And this spiritual energy user opposite, as long as it could devour her, obtain her genetic information, and gain her memories and experience, it would be a huge profit.
The monster launched another fierce attack. This time, it didn't bother with any deceptive probing attacks. Its insect limbs unleashed field blades, striking from all directions at the powerful enemy before it. It also launched a charge itself. It had considerable confidence in itself, certain that its body was its most powerful weapon.
Feifei chuckled, raising her hand above her head, preparing to meet the attack.
She had almost captured the opponent's attack trajectory and could even determine all possible feints and dodges. This was the most cruel and impolite energy level suppression under the system of mysticism.
...However, this monster is indeed very mysterious, so I still need to be careful! she thought.
...If possible, leave a bit of its life so I can question it! she thought again, but on her lips she said, "Speaking of which, Yu'er, do you really think that Red Maple Factory is the root cause of everything?"
"Red Maple Factory isn't the root cause, but it can be a wedge. Any Wisdom race, once it accepts civilization, can't return to a pastoral age. Give them the necessary conditions for survival, give them urgent dignity, give them hope, and religious and racial conflicts will be insignificant. More importantly, it can at least radiate across the entire Lumina Planet."
"...Alright, at this point, I don't quite understand."
"...Heh heh, it's really not easy to find something Feifei doesn't understand. I'm truly proud!"
"In any case, since Yu'er has decided, go for it! I'll finish up here and come meet you right away!"
The spiritual energy user field on the monster's body suddenly burst forth, enveloping its entire body and forming a frantic tornado. Then, it brazenly plunged into Feifei's prepared spiritual energy user domain.
The spiritual energy user vortex resonated on the threads, causing violent vibrations. The tornado continuously swayed, and bizarre breaks and gaps constantly appeared, as if it were being directly erased from the spatial dimension.
Through the gaps, the monster's body finally appeared, and then, as if wounded by an invisible sharp blade, dense wounds immediately appeared.
However, those wounds rapidly closed at a visible speed. New wounds constantly appeared on the monster's body, but they always healed instantly.
If it were another enemy, even a spiritual energy user, they would probably be cut into pieces by now. But the opponent was charging forward so unreasonably. The vortex formed by its spiritual energy user, though appearing grand and powerful with its loud clamor, was too crude, inefficient, and lacked skill. If it were a supernormal being with a renowned master's inheritance, using spiritual energy user in such a way would surely earn them a slap to the back of the head from their elder.
However, this monster's spiritual energy user was indeed more surging and abundant. Such an inefficient fighting style was truly suitable for it.
Feifei slightly narrowed her eyes, thinking, 'As expected.'
...Is it spiritual energy user converted from life force? This monster always feels like it's made up of a hundred million cockroaches.
But, it's still just a beast!
Feifei pressed down the transparent Lightsaber, holding her sword horizontally and forming a graceful sword stance.
She made no special movements, simply stood there, waiting for the opponent to charge at her.
The monster's spiritual energy user vortex suddenly exploded, seemingly transforming into countless dense field arrows, but they directly disappeared into the expanded invisible domain, once again vanishing. At this moment, the opponent had already charged to within four feet of her.
The invisible Lightsaber swept out without a trace of smoke or fire, starlight interwoven in a visually distorted trajectory, yet seeming to condense into a brilliant white moonlight.
The monster's body twisted unnaturally, like an out-of-control vehicle making a sharp turn, sliding crookedly Past Feifei's side.
It uncontrollably dashed for nearly five or six meters before staggering and turning its head. On its completely monstrous and hideous human-like face, an expression of horror finally appeared.
Its torso was smoothly severed at the waist, its upper body detached and thrown into the air, while its lower body, including its legs, reflexively took a few steps, then twitched a few times, before seemingly having all its life force sucked away by the endless Void Realm, stiffening, petrifying, crumbling, and then turning into a pile of ashes.
The monster watched in horror as its lower half completely turned into cosmic dust. Of course, it wasn't afraid because it was cut in half; such an injury, fatal to other creatures and causing immense suffering before death, was no different from losing a few hairs to it.
However, what truly terrified it was that it could not feel the presence of the cells and "offspring" within its severed limbs, only watching helplessly as the half-body they formed vanished into dust.
Tens of millions of primordial worms thus lost their mental connection to it.
...Is it that weapon? It looked at the transparent Lightsaber. Even with its own vision, it could only occasionally catch a blurry ripple formed by optical displacement. More terrifyingly, with its spiritual sense, which could communicate with hundreds of millions of primordial worms, it could not feel the presence of that weapon at all.
It knew nothing about its length, width, energy properties, or whether it had mystical attributes.
The only thing it knew was that this invisible Light Blade had the effect of obliterating vitality.
Its severed lower half had already turned to dust, and a certain chilling, Cold power had directly invaded its upper body, wantonly destroying it from within.
The monster gritted its teeth, mobilizing all its life force to catalyze cell activity, barely managing to resist the erosion of this power.
The spider arms extending from its back barely supported its body, shrinking little by little into the distance, as if it were an insect encountering a natural predator.
Who exactly is the monster here? it thought.
"You should know, you have no chance of winning! Put down your weapon... uh, retract your tentacles, release your soul, and surrender! I will decide whether to spare your life based on your attitude." Feifei conveyed her emotions with spiritual energy user, already bearing a hint of the effect of 'Word of Power, Soul Suppression'!
And almost at the same moment, behind her mask, Yu Lian's voice continued to sound in her earpiece: "Hey, Feifei, why aren't you talking? Hello?"
"Uh, sorry, I just saw a spider, so I casually poked it with a clothesline pole!" Feifei replied to Yu Lian while continuing to use spiritual energy user to persuade the monster opposite to surrender.
"Spider? The Starport's ecosystem is pretty good, I thought the ragtag Far Shore Fleet would be lucky to even fold their blankets neatly."
"Yu'er, you're really starting to sound like a Moon People now!" Feifei laughed.
"I know! Lilia said the same thing yesterday. That's why people like me, when I get too pleased with myself, I like to stick my tail up like a flagpole, and I need you all to remind me."
"Lilia? Yesterday?" Feifei noticed the blind spot and even stopped her spiritual energy user persuasion.
"Uh, well, yesterday I just had dinner with her."
"Just the two of you?"
...It was in the Militia Command HQ canteen! Of course, we got a small private room, but that was for quiet conversation. However, there's no need to tell Feifei about that.
"Is that so... I see!" Feifei drew out her words, her smile seeming even brighter.
"Uh, source-matter wave communication is expensive... I'll wait for you at Red Maple Factory, see you!" Yu Lian conveyed the above meaning with an impeccable calm voice, then cut off the communication even faster.
At this moment, the monster's limbs suddenly unfurled Light Wings, and it turned its head, gliding into the distant Void Realm.
Clearly, it truly refused to surrender.
"Tsk, naughty little vixen..." Feifei grumbled discontentedly, putting away her invisible Lightsaber. With a flick of her hands, she somehow pulled out a phase wave cannon.
Yes, it was the kind of heavy cannon used on main battle tanks, fighter jets, and even mobile fortresses, with a barrel alone over three meters long. However, Feifei, who was only one meter seventy-five (after transforming), picked it up with one hand and unleashed a barrage of fire at the small figure that had already scurried far away.
She bombarded it for a full three minutes, exhausting the cannon's battery, before clapping her hands and casually tossing it onto the ship's hull. Several engineering robots emerged from who-knew-where, carefully drove over, nervously waved their mechanical arms, hoisted the Light Cannon, and then scurried away at a speed almost like fleeing in disarray.
Feifei gazed into the distance, making sure she could no longer feel the monster's fluctuations, then finally relaxed a little and directly connected to the ship's internal communication to find Commander Hanford.
"Are you done fighting?" the old Commander asked.
"Done! Any abnormalities in the ship?"
"None found yet, I've already had Dr. Joe start checking. Also, with that last shot, the ship lost half its supplies!"
"You can dock at New Seville or Lumina. We'll certainly have free supplies, fresh meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, and good wine! I'll arrange it."
What Feifei didn't know was that the fragmented corpse of the "monster," reduced to half a head by the bombardment, had already fallen into a state of complete silence, with no vital signs remaining in the pile of debris.
At least, the most precise instruments and the most outstanding spiritual energy users currently existing could not detect any.
It was slowly drifting towards the green planet that seemed to hang at the edge of the sky.
And at this very moment, on that distant green planet, in the only modern city on that planet, a young worker leader, a Lumina person youth named Babalu, had just woken up from his sleep.
Babalu closed his eyes and rested for a few minutes in the small room, then carefully got out of bed. He was two and a half meters tall, considered a big guy even among Lumina people, and if he wasn't careful, his head could easily hit the ceiling.
In the room, there was only a single bed that he could only sleep on by curling up, a set of iron chairs, and a cabinet, with a total area of no more than three or four square meters. This was the entire living space of the most influential young leader in this city.
He walked out of the room and stood on the solid metal corridor floor, taking a breath of air mixed with metal rust, sweat, and even heat waves. On both sides of the corridor, there were identical doors to his room, extending all the way to the end, connecting to corridors leading to the rail transit station and the shopping street.
Being here felt like being inside a massive fortress built seemingly from steel.
This was actually the workers' dormitory of Red Maple Factory, housing a total of three thousand people. And there were eight more dormitories of this size in this city.
Of course, all were prepared for single workers.
Babalu greeted everyone he met enthusiastically as he strode towards the distant transit station.
No one noticed that his smile was actually a bit stiff.
He had a lot of work to handle today. Envoys from the tribal alliance on the Eastern Great Plains had arrived, preparing to exchange food for industrial products; Mel City by the Southern Great Lake had sent their sea sponge cloth, asking them to help sell it; the General Headquarters also had military representatives, hoping to obtain finished metal products needed for the front lines.
Ever since the great change, Babalu and his companions had been relying on these trivial small businesses to maintain the factory and the basic operation of this city.