Chapter 70: Genma Space Station (1/2)
“The Perseverance has reached Genma Space Station. All departing students, please take all your belongings and leave in order.”
Standing beside the window, Lu Yin stared down at the space station below. Genma Space Station was a long distance from the solar system, and the first place that the Perseverance would perform a wormhole skip. It was quite ordinary to most people, but for earthlings like Zhang Dingtian and Xu San, it was a completely novel experience. The place was thousands of times larger than the Perseverance, a construct of all sorts of strange metals that looked like a giant beast brandishing its claws. Its flight machinery constantly adjusted its position ever so slightly, keeping it floating in one place.
Behind Genma was a protective net made of countless flying machines. Even though they were quite a distance away, Zhang Dingtian could feel the shocking fluctuations of Explorer-realm star energy from out back. The Perseverance settled down on a giant dock, and beam after beam of light flashed below as students left the ship.
Coming from all corners of the Empire, most students didn’t need to go to the Capital Star. Over twenty of them stopped off at Genma and left the Perseverance, clearly in a more relaxed mood. One of them was Jeraldine, who finally left Lu Yin’s side. Glancing back at the spaceship, she saw Lu Yin waving to her and glared firmly before mumbling something under her breath; they clearly weren’t pleasantries. From his perch up above, Lu Yin raised a brow; this brat needed a beating.
Besides Jeraldine and Veron who were from the same school, Parlie’s planet wasn’t far and he left as well. Surprisingly, even Silver got off at this stop, leaving Lu Yin deep in thought as he watched the youth’s back. That guy was unfathomable. Cooperation? They’d work out who’d played whom soon enough, but before that, he needed to understand Silver’s backing.
Lu Yin noticed Sigmund’s figure in the sky before returning to his observation of the star charts; it was only in outer space that he could truly feel its boundless nature. He was confident in getting to the fifth star within the month, so how strong would he be then? Every additional star was double the former’s power, and he had suppressed a Sentinel Qingyu with four. Five could perhaps let him match Yu Academy’s Melders; even Munoor might not be a rival at that point.
The Station Master of Genma was named Barudar, an Explorer whose combat level had broken past 10,000. He had been stationed here for over two centuries and worked conscientiously the entire time; while someone of his status didn’t need to oversee the wormhole personally, he had made sure to be its primary guardian for the past 200-odd years and thus gained fame throughout the Great Yu Empire.
Sigmund respected this man quite a bit, so he smiled, “Station Master Barudar, we haven’t met in thirteen years. How have you been?”
Barudar replied with a serious tone, “Haven’t noticed any enemy invasion in these thirteen years.”
“That’s great. His Imperial Majesty has mentioned many times to thank you for protecting the borders.”
Barudar immediately gave a military salute, “I’m a soldier of the Empire, it is my duty to protect the borders.”
“You should be notified that there’s a fringe planet called Earth that recently evolved. We have to trouble you to monitor it strictly, and dispatch people at the earliest opportunity to destroy the failed goods or the enemy may sneak in,” Sigmund warned.
Barudar grew apprehensive, “The Neohuman Alliance?”
Sigmund nodded and looked towards Earth, “The zombies that failed to evolve cannot be discovered by the Neohuman Alliance. Even if they take just one corpse king, it will spell trouble for the Great Yu Empire. You must understand the importance of this matter.”
Barudar remained stern, “I do. I’ll send troops to Earth immediately.”
“Also, don’t harm the planet when you destroy the zombies. That planet belongs to the Zishan King now.”