Chapter 298 - Which Planet Do You Come From? (2/2)

She pretends to just speak to herself. But as she expects, everyone else in the temple hears her words.

The man comes by, looking around her for a while and says, “It’s you. There is a little girl outside looking for you.”

Which girl will look for me who comes from 2000 years from now? Does this sissy man know Amytis and the ceremony is over?

The sissy man stretches his fist, and Lin Luoran widens her eyes. There is a petal in his smooth palm, and a minimized figure is sleeping in it. This figure is not Thumbelina, but in fact is Yang Lisha!

Lin Luoran never thinks it’s great to see Yang Lisha again although they are separated for only one day. Finding Lin Luoran is happy, the sissy man blows to his palm and the petal drifts down. Yang Lisha opens her eyes and arrives on the floor. She grows with wind and becomes as tall as a normal adult.

What is that? Theurgy? Lin Luoran is confused, because this seems totally different from Spells of the Five Elements. It looks more like Mini World in the Robe by Fairy Zhenyuan from Journey to the West. She has a lot of questions but Yang Lisha slightly shakes her head. The monster is much calmer than her, and it is surely not a good time to raise questions because the woman surnamed Ji has told the saintess where Lin Luoran comes from when Lin Luoran and Yang Lisha meet each other again.

The so-called saintess looks at her with her normal supercilious look. Because of that she didn’t recognize her in the Kalahari Desert even though they had met before? What happens first when different times cross with each other? Maybe it is the paradox of history…

“You said you knew the distance between these two planets?” the saintess asks in a soft but emotionless voice.

Gaining everybody’s attention, Lin Luoran replies, “Honored oracle, I know nothing. It is the priest who told me just now that he had worked that out.”

She can clearly sense the priest freezes when she says these words. “Come on!” she thinks, “It seems that we are on the same boat, please trust me once!”

Seeming the ancestors respond to Lin Luoran’s praying, the priest conceals his instinct hesitation. He doesn’t believe Lin Luoran’s moral quality, but the time she appears, and the fact that she knows the star atlas though she is young gives him confidence.

In a second, Lin Luoran sees his smiling face, replying “So will you please respond for me to the saintess?”

Yang Lisha looks at Lin Luoran worriedly. This human female cultivator needs her to teach even the basic s.p.a.ce and time common sense, does she really remember the distance between Mars and Earth? At least, she doesn’t know that. Even the college students from the 21st century will stammer if their major is not about astronomy.

Lin Luoran takes a deep breath and answers, “The distance between the two planets is not fixed. In fact, it is constantly changing.”

The saintess raises her eyebrows and seems to be interested, “Oh?” she responds.

The priest is a little disappointed. By doing researches for many years, he knows the distance is changing, too. This is not the right answer.

However, in his disappointment, the little girl from Huaxia raises her voice, “However, this change follows a 15-year cycle, the nearest distance can be as near as 110 million li, whilst the farthest distance can be as far as 800 million li. Am I right, honored oracle?”

She uses li instead of kilometers because it is the unit of length. She speaks with a clear and melodious voice. Even the woman surnamed Ji looks at her in great surprise after she finishes speaking.

The arrogant saintess finally moves. She sits up and with her chin up, looks hesitated and quickly says one sentence.

The supercilious voice and the vague utterance make no one understands what language the woman uses.

Lin Luoran feels fainted. Time has a flashback and she sees the man in robe in her dream for the second time.

This time the background is not Earth anymore, but a celestial body that looks like an emerald. The man in robe stands in the void and the satellites go around him. However, there is no alarm setting off. He slowly descends and Lin Luoran finds out the planet does not cover with green plants, instead all the constructions are green. That is why the planet looks like an emerald.

The planet is covered by green and local people have greenish skin. Lin Luoran can conclude the technologies on that planet are more advanced than those on the Earth by several thousand years, or even ten thousand years.

The man in robe seems disappointed and is about to leave when sharp alarms ring. The airs.h.i.+ps float in the sky and countless light beams with high energy all target at him, ready to fire. He is regarded as an invader.

The electronic sound that has the same source with the language of the saintess echoes above the city.

Lin Luoran gets pale. What does the sound say? Does the sacred pearl record what the man has experienced?

It’s the fragment of the big universe era. Lin Luoran feels she suddenly understands the question the saintess asked before the saintess loses her patience.

Or in other words, the man in robe understands the warning.

It is the emotionless, repeated questioning: Warning, where do you come from? Warning, where do you come from?

“Ah!” Lin Luoran squats down in great pain. All in her mind is the electronic sound. The sound is deep and dull, and is similar to the noise when the tape is not running smoothly. It keeps asking Lin Luoran “Where do you come from?”

No one knows what happened, and Yang Lisha looks worried. The sissy man squats down and says to saintess, “Look what you have done to the little girl. She is pale because of the pain.” Green light comes out of the man’s hand and Lin Luoran’s pain is relieved. Still, there is a lot of sweat on her face and her lips are pale.

Saintess frowns. She stands from the golden ottoman and walks down with her bare feet.

Yang Lisha wants to protect Lin Luoran, but she is pulled away by the sissy man’s two fingers.

“Ancestor!” Yang Lisha seems annoyed. “Shh”, says the man, “Don’t disrupt. It is their family business.”

Yang Lisha is speechless. No one knows better than her because she comes with Lin Luoran. There will be no business between Lin Luoran and the saintess.

The saintess raises Lin Luoran’s face. The gloomy light s.h.i.+nes in her eyes and a beam of light goes into Lin’s third eye area to find the truth. Lin Luoran’s ocean of consciousness is vulnerable, but another power protects here and hides the truth, so the saintess gets nothing.

“What?” The saintess is surprised because she has never seen an empty ocean of consciousness like that.

The pain in Lin Luoran’s brain fades away and her lips stop quivering. She suddenly opens her eyes when she feels something grips her chin.

She sees the light in the eyes of saintess and is very happy though tears are still around her eyes. The saintess is frightened.

“You want to know where I come from?”

She responds in a cold, arrogant voice. It is the most standard interstellar language.

The expression of the saintess changes. The woman surnamed Ji does implant an interpreter into Lin Luoran, but she is sure that the interpreter doesn’t have interstellar language.

Because she sets what language the interpreter has!

Lin Luoran laughs with tears, “Want to know who I am? You’d better tell me where you come from first!”