Xyrin Empire - Chapter 47

Chapter 47: Sudden Request for Connection

The Chinese New Year was the biggest traditional festival celebrated in China. Throughout its long history, it accumulated countless cultural deposits. The addition of these cultural meanings made Chinese New Year all the more special to the Chinese. Chinese New Year was no longer just a holiday, but a ‘yearly’ culture.

All the various customs and activities made these few days at the start of every New Year become almost like a Chinese carnival which attracted the attention of people around the world. As times changed, people’s mindsets changed as well; many young people no longer kept to the strict rules passed down from the past. However, this had no effect on the atmosphere during the Chinese New Year.

Although Qianqian and I had already agreed to go overseas during this period, we had to spend the first and thirtieth day of the New Year with our families. As for the traveling itself, there was no need for us to worry at all. With the aid of Lin Xue’s huge special abilities organization, the so-called Chinese New Year Peak Period did not pose a problem to us at all.

If all else failed, we still had Pandora Corps. I believed that using the Army’s Teleport to travel across planes would be extremely exciting. Of course, when that time came, I would have to wreck my brains to think of how to explain to Qianqian and Big Sister about the Xyrin Empire.

Midnight on the thirtieth day of the New Year was always when the atmosphere of Chinese New Year was at its peak. I recalled that these moments were the most exciting for me each year. It was exactly the way Pandora was feeling now.

There was a bang. A blinding flash shot up into the sky. All around, we heard what sounded like applause as the firecrackers exploded in the sky. Sandora, who was playing this for the first time, kept cheering and jumping excitedly.

“Haha, Chen Jun!” Sandora excitedly ran to me and put her arms around my neck. “These things are so interesting! I didn’t think that you would have such interesting toys! It looks like I have to change my impression of carbon-based beings…”

At that moment, I heard a faint, cracking sound around me. Although this sound was hard to detect in the midst of the explosions in the sky, my body had been strengthened by Sandora in the Alternate World. Therefore, detecting these little sounds was easy for me. Speaking of which, this transformation technology was really good.

If I had the chance, I would want those idling Xyrin Empire Commanders—who were driving me crazy—to research into such transformation technology for carbon-based beings. For all I knew, I could really become superman one day. Hehe, although some could refer to me as Superman already with the help of Xyrin technology.

As for the source of the sound, it went without saying that it was the dedicated journalists. Ever since Sandora made those shocking moves at the Banquet, she became the center of the media’s attention. People often described her as ‘cold’, ‘proud’, ‘elegant’, ‘beautiful’, and ‘wise’.

Of course, some people also spoke negatively about her. Sandora made Ding Bai out to be a political enemy in just a couple of words; because of this, she had a reputation for being evil-hearted and for siding with people who were in the wrong. However, few people bothered about these comments.

As a public character, these negative comments were to be expected. People had already lost interest in finding out the truth behind these comments. What’s more, the person whom Sandora dealt with was Ding Bai. The general public would not care what happened to a rich man who had nothing to do with them. If the person Sandra dealt with was a common civilian, perhaps this would shock them more.

Moreover, during this period, Sandora had already shown that she was close to the commoners. (Actually, she just would not hurt people who did not try to hurt her. Since the commoners would never dare to hurt her, she naturally could interact with them harmoniously and peacefully.) She even rejected the high-end accommodation that the government offered to her and chose to stay in the home of an average civilian. (She was just sticking with me.)

All of these things gave everyone the impression that she was a princess who was ruthless to the rich but warm and kind to civilians. That was why Sandora was so popular among all the Chinese civilians and became the center of the media’s attention.

Thanks to this troublesome princess, my Big Sister and I also got a lot of attention from the journalist army. I bore the brunt of this. Sandora was always sticking to me. To the journalists, this was explosive material that fell down from the sky into their hands. There were all kinds of stories being written. They did not even have to work overtime in order to write these pieces.

Thankfully, since Sandora reacted in such an extreme manner before, these journalists did not dare to interview her directly. They did not have the same power as Ding Bai did. If Sandora accused them of being political enemies, they would suffer for the rest of their lives.

What’s more, the Revenge Army and the Pandora Corps were working together so that these journalists could not save a single one of the photographs that they took of us. Our lives were also largely undisturbed by these journalists. Nevertheless, it was extremely uncomfortable to be stared at all day every day!

“Chen Jun, what’s the matter?” Seeing that I looked quite uncomfortable, Sandora asked curiously.

“Those journalists are annoying me!” I answered listlessly. This girl did not feel guilty at all.

“Let me kill all the journalists on Earth,” Sandora said, grinning brightly. It was almost as if she was talking about killing a couple of cockroaches.

I choked on my saliva and quickly answered, “There’s no need for that. Just teach them a lesson. You don’t have to go to such extremes, do you?”

Sandora adorably tapped her lips with her index finger and then responded, “Teach them a lesson. Let me think… ah! I know!”

Sandora shouted happily. I looked at her evil grin and felt beads of perspiration form on my back.

This girl… what kind of lousy method was she thinking of?

Sandora seemed very happy to have settled one of my problems. She picked up various types of fireworks and ran off to play on her own. I stayed where I was.

I scanned my surroundings and saw Big Sister bring Pandora to a plain not far from where I was. I did not know what she was planning to do. When I got closer, I saw that Big Sister had her arms around an expressionless Pandora, and they were listening to the sounds of fireworks around us.

“What’s the matter, Big Sister?” I smiled and sat beside them. “It’s so boring to sit here.”

“Lili can’t see,” Big Sister said, looking uninterested. “She can only sit here and listen to people celebrating…”

…So that’s it.

I did not know how to explain these things to Big Sister. In the beginning, in order to cover up Pandora’s identity and the problem with her eyes, I came up with this story about the blind girl. Now, I was in trouble.

Actually, I was already prepared to tell Big Sister and Qianqian a part of the truth. Even Lin Xue knew that I was a Xyrin Emperor. Big Sister and Qianqian were the closest people to me; I should not keep this from them any longer. Even if I did not tell them about the Xyrin Empire for now (As ordinary civilians, what they did not know would not kill them), I should at least tell Big Sister about persons with special abilities. Otherwise, it would be difficult for me to explain who Lin Xue was as well.

I bent down and pulled Pandora out of my Big Sister’s arms. This little fella was already frustrated with me. When I pulled her, she immediately slipped out of my hands and landed next to me. Then, she hugged my leg and clung to it tightly.

It looked like my plan to turn Pandora into an obedient little sister was having some effect. Although she mostly only stuck with me to listen to stories about world wars or to tell me about planet wars.

“Big Sister,” I said as I touched Pandora’s long hair. “About me and Lili… there are things that I haven’t told you…”

“En?” Big Sister tilted her head and looked at me curiously. “What’s the matter? You have a weird expression.”

“Big Sister, do you believe that persons with special abilities exist in this world?” I chose my words very carefully.

Big Sister did not expect me to talk about these things. She paused for a while and then tried to suppress a smile as she said, “Hehe, why are you suddenly talking to me about these things? How old are you…? Wait, you’ve not gone to some scammers in order to heal Lili’s eyes, have you? Don’t believe people like that so easily!”

I felt touched seeing Big Sister become so anxious. I smiled and quickly comforted her, “How can that be? I’m an adult; how could I be lied to so easily? I’m just asking.”

“Persons with special abilities?” Big Sister fell into deep thought and then suddenly smiled. “Although I’ve never seen them, I feel like they should exist. The world is so big. Who is to say that there is no such thing?”

I finally made up my mind and said, “Big Sister, actually I—”

Suddenly, a voice in my head interrupted me: “Aliya requesting connection…”

At the same time, I felt a strong wave in my brain coming from afar. Another Xyrin Apostle had just entered this world!

“What’s the matter?” Big Sister found it strange that I suddenly stopped talking.

“It’s nothing. I’ll bring Lili to the little plaza to walk around…”

Big Sister looked at me suspiciously and said, “The little plaza? Didn’t we just come from there?”

I smiled dryly and said, “It was just a sudden thought. I’ll bring Lili there to play…”

“Me, too!” I heard Sandora’s voice coming from beside me. “I did not even play all that I wanted to earlier before you pulled me back. Now, I’m going to watch people play with fireworks!”

I looked into Sandora’s eyes as her voice sounded in my head. “I think your subordinate is here, but her situation is strange. Let me go and take a look with you.”

“Then I’ll also—” Big Sister just began her sentence when we quickly interrupted her. “Big Sister, stay here and look after our spot. We will be right back!”

“Ah!” Big Sister was frightened by our sudden response. She slowly nodded and said, “Come back soon. Be careful not to get hurt by the firecrackers…”

We quickly mumbled in acknowledgment and walked off.