Apocalypse Online For All Worlds - Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Birthday Present (Part 3)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

At the president’s residence in the capital county of the Federation, there was an unusual flurry of activity slowly spreading throughout the place.

Three men from the military in neat uniforms met with one another and quickly made their way to the president’s office.

“General Li, why are you here?”

“Greetings, General Zhang.”

“General Song!”

There were many people who greeted them along the way, and everyone looked surprised.

The three commanders of the military had appeared together here. Did something serious happen?

Had Fuxi Empire made an attack? Were they about to go to war?

Everyone had a lot of questions and felt uneasy inside.

The three generals never stopped walking and kept moving forward. It was unlike how they would normally stop to greet and chat with the staff they were familiar with.

The door to the president’s office was already open. The three generals walked in and saluted at the same time.

“Mr. President, the Impartiality Goddess requests that you connect to her immediately,” said General Li.

A gray-haired old man turned around to look at the staff next to him questioningly.

The leader of the staff standing next to him responded, “Mr. President, it’s an urgent call, but it’s not a war.”

The old man’s expression relaxed a little, then he gave an order, “Generals, connect us.”

One of the generals saluted then opened the heavy suitcase in his hands and placed the Portable Space Communicator in front of the president.

The Space Communicator immediately lighted up.

The Impartiality Goddess’ solemn voice rang out from the communicator.

“A highly classified call will begin soon. Please ask all unrelated persons to leave immediately, otherwise, all persons who are not authorized to be in this call will be wiped out according to the Federation’s security act.”

Everyone’s expressions changed.

To be wiped out meant to be killed off. What matter was so severe that the Impartiality Goddess was willing to kill for the sake of maintaining secrecy?

Many people quickly left the room.

The entire office was only left with the three generals and the president.

The Impartiality Goddess started speaking again.

“I am about to activate the highest level of security measures for the Intergalactic Fortress, ‘Shrine’, so I am officially requesting authorization from Mr. President and the three commanders.”

“Why do you need to activate the highest level of security measures?” asked the president.

The Impartiality Goddess replied, “In accordance with Article 5 of the Constitution of the Federation, anything that concerns the fate of humans or major advancements in human civilization will gain the highest level of protection from the country.”

The president’s expression became stern as he asked, “What’s happening on the Shrine?”

The Impartiality Goddess replied, “To maintain secrecy, this will not be revealed at the moment.”

The president and the three generals were stunned.

They were the highest-ranked persons in the Federation, but the Impartiality Goddess wouldn’t even tell them.

The Impartiality Goddess was rarely so cautious. What exactly had happened?

Theoretically, advancement in civilization should only be something good, but history told them that things weren’t always so simple.

The president thought for a while and said, “If I remember correctly, the last time we activated the highest security level was thirty years ago.”

“That’s right,” affirmed General Song. “That was because there was a major breakthrough in warp drive technology. But eventually, when the battleship fleet tried the warp drive for the first time, they ran into aliens.”

Thirty years ago, the Federation’s intergalactic battleship fleet had gone into warp drive for the first time. They had gone through a wormhole and found themselves in some galaxy 500 million light-years away, only to have witnessed a shocking scene.

There was an enormous, soft creature hugging a planet tightly and absorbing something from the planet greedily.

This horrifying incident, as well as warp drive technology, had been classified as top-secret information.

These high ranking men exchanged glances, and their expressions grew even grimmer.

Advances in civilization were often accompanied by the risk of the unknown. So actually it was only natural for the Goddess to behave this way.

The president sighed and said, “Since the Impartiality Goddess is treating this so seriously, let’s begin the authorization process then.”

The Impartiality Goddess immediately started, “Intergalactic Fortress ‘Shrine’ has finished creating an SSS grade security plan. Request for authorization from the president to proceed.”

The president replied, “Authorization granted.”

“Request for authorization from the Commander-in-chief of the Space Force.”

General Song replied, “Authorization granted.”

“Request for authorization from the Commanding Officer of the Navy.”

General Li replied, “Authorization granted.”

“Request for authorization from the Senior General of the Army.”

General Zhang replied, “Authorization granted.”

“Authorization process complete. SSS level mission will begin now.”

The Space Communicator projected the view from the vast outer space in front of everyone.

“Intergalactic Fortress ‘Valiant’ to turn back and remain close to Shrine and cruise around the fortress.”

“Intergalactic Fortress ‘Brightness’ to leave the bottom of the sea and go into outer space. It shall remain close to the Shrine and it will be responsible for remaining on guard.”

“The 1st, 7th, and 16th Intergalactic Fleets shall take flight and guard the flight of these fortresses.”

“Intergalactic Special Mecha Battle Group to be on standby. Start testing weapons and prepare to gather at the edge of outer space in one minute.”

“To avoid any unnecessary trouble, I ask Martial Arts Saint, Zhang Zongyang, to guard the border.”

When the Impartiality Goddess said this, everyone looked at General Zhang.

General Zhang laughed bitterly and said, “I’m already an old man with tired arms and legs, but I still have to take on tasks?”

The president consoled him, “You’d better go. After all, you’re the only Martial Arts Saint in the whole Federation.”

General Zhang sighed, then he opened the balcony door of the president’s office and walked out.

In the next moment, he leaped into the sky, making a boom that broke through the sound barrier, and flew off into the sky like a flash of lightning.

“In order to avoid any spying or disruption from other countries in our seas, I ask Sea Emperor, Li Dongyuan, to guard the waters.”

General Li shook his head and said, “Why doesn’t the Goddess say everything at one shot. This Zhang thought he was the only one who got it bad.”

The president replied, “You’d better go, I’ll tell him.”

General Li pulled a few bottles out very slowly and looked at each one of them.

“The one closest to this place should be the Yellow Sea.”

He opened a bottle that was labeled ‘Yellow Sea’ and poured out the seawater inside.

The seawater floated in the air and quickly combined to become a ball of water.

General Li held onto the ball of water and said, “I’m off.”

Then he disappeared with the ball of water.

The president’s office was only left with the president and the Commander-in-chief of the Space Force.

The Impartiality Goddess spoke again, “I ask General Song to protect the capital and make sure that everything runs normally.”

General Song breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Oh not so bad, not so bad. At least I don’t have to hurry off.”

In outer space.

On the Intergalactic Fortress, “Shrine”.

Gu Qingshan had no idea what impact he had made.

In his previous life, he had already left for Fuxi Empire by this point in his life, so he had no idea about the Federation’s highest security operations.

After he had continuously worked on the problems for seven hours, he finally worked out all the formulas and structural methods.

Gu Qingshan exhaled and said, “Now I will begin to build the mecha, and Life Configuration Algorithm will be its foundation.”

“Understood. Algorithm ready. Materials ready. Please build a model of the mecha.”

“A model of the mecha…”

Gu Qingshan thought about it for a while, then turned on his communication device and typed a message.

“What sort of mecha do you like?”

There was no reply after sending the text out for some time.

Gu Qingshan shrugged and said, “Let’s just wait for a while more.”

The Impartiality Goddess remained silent.

But beneath the sky, in the capital county of the Federation, at a singer’s live concert.

“Xie Shuangyan!”

“Xie Shuangyan!”

“Xie Shuangyan!”

The crowd was cheering and chanting wildly.

The young lady on stage that was adored by billions had a microphone in her hand and was about to respond to the chants of her fans.

Suddenly, more than a dozen mechas flew in from the sky, and more than twenty special troops landed among the crowd from all directions.

The young lady closed her mouth again and stared in shock at this scene in front of her.

A huge, intergalactic battleship that seemed to cover the sky was parked right above the concert venue.

“Silence! All are to remain silent!”

“The concert will be paused temporarily. We will start to search for criminals hiding among the crowd.”

“All are to remain silent, otherwise, you will be arrested immediately and handed over to the Impartiality Goddess for further investigation.

The special troops started to search the crowd, one by one.

Initially, the crowd was in an uproar and many people were cursing loudly at them.

But the moment the words “Impartiality Goddess” had been mentioned, everyone knew that this wasn’t a joke. Tens of thousands of people shut up immediately in less than a minute’s time.

The sound system was turned off, and there was no more sound from the stands, so the noisy live concert had gone completely silent.

Su Xue’er was seated in the VIP area. She could finally hear the ringing of her communication device now that everything was silent.

Before she could notice anything, the caller information on the communication device had changed from “Impartiality Goddess” to “Gu Qingshan”.

Su Xue’er picked up her device and smiled happily when she read the message.

“Are you making a mecha model for me?” she asked.

Back in outer space.

Gu Qingshan received this voice message immediately.

He smiled too.

That’s right. He was making something for her, but it wasn’t just a model.

Gu Qingshan replied, “Tell me, what sort of mecha would you like to pilot?”

Su Xue’er thought about it very seriously and replied, “I like seraphs.”

Gu Qingshan was surprised. “An angel? Why do you like that sort of thing?”

“Seraphs signify love and dreams, stupid.” She added a glaring emoji at the end.

“Got it, I’m making your birthday present now, bye.”

“Qingshan, are your handicraft skills good enough? If the model looks terrible, I’m going to laugh at you.”

“You’ll know when the time comes.”