Chapter 341: A Clever Disguise (2/2)

”Nebula? We are heading to the nebula?” Ye Chong was shocked, while the men had their jaws dropped.

”There are people...” said the boy, in a kind of complicated emotions, ”After the nebula.”

”People?” Fei Si screamed a little. ”That is preposterous! How could there be people in an interstellar cloud?” Even Old Jalopy's face was twitching.

”There is and there will be,” stated the boy slowly, who sounded like an elderly who had experienced the darkest time of life, his voice rang like a lethargic drum. ”In this world, not every person favors technology. Because of that... there was once a great divide, a long, long, long time ago, where there was one particular group of people who fancies the morning sun and not the fluorescent lighting, the chilling breeze and not the turbine spinning. They moved out, looking for a place, a new settlement for the deviance of humankind like them. Well, they found it, a galaxy, not really a galaxy though. Frankly speaking it's merely a zone with 32 inhabitable planets, located somewhere in the dark, unknown by the world. They cut away contacts with the outside since then. Years had passed, nobody really knows where they are anymore...”

He held his words and glanced at everyone, ”This is... what they called... the lost space zone of nature.”

The secret had been revealed and truly people had their mind blown.

”And Xi Feng tribe came from here.” A new piece of information bombarded the remaining sanity of the people. One of the three aristocrats was actually from a lost world? How could that be not shocking enough?

”According to records, the zone is inhabited by mainly martial arts practitioners and mentalist. With that in mind, I would say that's the true origin of all beauty of breakthrough made in human anatomy.” The little boy's expression was showing a kind of worship, and suddenly the expression was distorted into a joy of naivety as he jumped up and down, ”And now we could finally head to the legendary zone unknown to the world! I had been looking forward to go there ever since I was born!”

”Is there really such a place?” asked Fei Si to Old Jalopy.

”Uhhhhhhh.” The old man seemed to have been reminded of a bitter past regarding the place, ”He's right you know.”

Little boy was shocked of the statement, for Old Jalopy actually was aware of the place.

”History did mention of a natural interstellar zone like that...” His profound voice was depressed, ”30 years ago, when I was still 35, at the prime of a man, I was informed of a place like this when learning the mechanics of the ancients and sadly there had barely been any actual machines created by the ancient people. So I worked hard, striving to find the place, as I wanted - with my own eyes - to witness the working of a true ancient machines. So I, with a bunch of pals as crazy and passionate as I was, barged into the unknown zone. That was a team of 9, if I remember correctly.”

Fei Si never expected Old Jalopy to have such legend behind.

”We found it, to be honest,” stated Old Jalopy, ”though it was the most painful visit we ever experienced in our life. When we got home, there were only 2 of us left, and my other friend passed away last year.”

”Holy!”

”Seriously?” There were exclamations, including one from the little boy who tried to act all mature and experienced while he waddled to Old Jalopy, ”Old man, did you really get into the place?”

Old Jalopy was once looking grave, but that clumsy movement of the boy brought up a smile on him, showing an unconcerned attitude to the way he was addressed, ”Yes we did, boy.” He rubbed the boy's head, ”Yes, we did.”

”How did it look inside?” The boy was curious.

”Well, boy. That place is a rather...” It took a while for the old man to piece his thoughts, ”I can't really describe it with words. Sigh, it's not something one could feel with mere description. You have to experience it yourself,” he said with a bitter smile.

”Ah! Ah! Ahhh! I want to go! I wanna go!” The boy jumped in screams, finally acting like his age, though it felt like he was on a shopping day with his mom and was trying to get a toy he wanted in the shopwindow.

”It's very dangerous inside. We were lucky enough to survive. We even bumped into a spaceship of the Xue Lai clan. I wonder what happened to them after that. If it was not our great lucky, we would have been knocked down,” said Old Jalopy, with fear crawling up his words.

Ye Chong was hearing the stories, while his eyes were all focused on the intergalactic layout. Ugh, there was in fact no other workaround for the escape. They surely would encounter the armies anyhow. It seemed like they could only head to the Nebula like what the boy had suggested.

Ye Chong realized he did not have much options there.

At least there were people who had been there before, they would be the tour guide then. Ye Chong was a little relieved, ”Old Jalopy.”

”Yes?”

”Do you still remember the way there?”