"Nice to meet you, Special Representative Lin. My name is Ling Xiaole. On the surface, I am a postgraduate student of the Sky Fantasia Academy, and I have just been interned in the Ministry of Culture of the Federation! Didn't you say that you wanted to experience the life of the Xing Yao Federation in all aspects like an ordinary person in the Federation? In the days to come, I will be your guide and help you learn the most real, fundamental, and intimate aspects of the Federation as quickly as possible!
"You may call me Xiaole, or you may call me Miss Ling. After all, I haven't graduated from college yet. Hahahaha!"
After the tour of the Uranian Ring War Museum, the delegation from Firefly went their separate ways.
Military, economy, law, and politics … If they truly intended to be integrated, there were too many issues that needed to be discussed. The specialists in various fields in the delegation were all picked up by their counterparts in the Federation to discuss and negotiate with each other. Even the experts of the Ancient Sages Sector who pretended to be 'Team Red Lotus' found fields that they were interested in and were received by specialists to learn more about them. Although they did not realize their joke of 'walking into the Federation on the red carpet', it was almost the same. It was a hundred times better than sneaking into the Federation with a fake identity in Fish Dragon City.
In the meantime, such a cheerful, bouncing, carefree, and even simple-minded little girl appeared in front of Li Yao, too.
The little girl had wheat-colored skin that was as smooth as honey. There was a hint of green color deep inside her black, glittering eyes. She was wearing a thin veil that looked like mist. Her earlobes, neck, wrists, and ankles were adorned with clinking crystal accessories that reflected rainbow-like brilliance.
Her appearance and the extravagant usage of crystals made it easy for anyone to recognize that she was from the 'Water Crystal Sector', her hometown in the desert world.
However, other than the distinctive features of the Water Crystal Sector, she also had two sharp ears that were slightly folded and moving nimbly naughtily from the middle of her hair. There was also a big, golden, hairy tail that was waving behind her back. Together with the vague fragrance of the fox that was spreading out of her body, which was another obvious feature of the demon race. It was obvious that she was a mixed-blood.
It could not have been more appropriate to have such a hybrid of the Water Crystal Sector and the Blood Demon Sector as the guide for the integration of the two parties.
Li Yao glanced at the little girl from head to toe and said with a smile, "Student Ling, on the surface, you are a graduate student of the Sky Fantasia Academy, but in reality?"
"In fact, of course, the most excellent agent of the Secret Sword Bureau!"
Ling Xiaole blinked her eyes in a weird way. Her big, furry tail was shaking nonstop, too. Like a wheat that was blown by the wind, her tail changed color instantly and gradually turned from gold to red. If Li Yao's memory from a hundred years ago was correct, it was the color of 'pride' for certain foxes in the Blood Demon Sector.
"Special Representative Lin, you are now a great hero that everybody in the Secret Sword Bureau knows. Who does not know that you have crushed the Immortal Cultivators' rebellion on your own? Wow. A super warrior who was tempered hundreds of years ago willingly fell into a long hibernation in order to protect an ancient republic, only to be woken up at the most perilous moment. You are almost like a protagonist in a novel or a game. Everybody in the bureau admires you more than anything! "
Ling Xiaole did not disguise the admiration that was flowing out of her big, watery eyes. Although Li Yao knew that it was part of the training of the Secret Sword Bureau, he could not help but feel that he was on cloud nine.
Ling Xiaole struck while the iron was hot. "I know that you are going to inspect the Federation on behalf of Speaker Cui Lingfeng, and I want to keep a low profile like an ordinary person. Everybody in the Secret Sword Bureau is almost fighting each other for the mission to receive you! I went through a lot of trouble to get the mission. So, if there is anything that I do not take good care of you on the way, please forgive me. Please do not show that you are dissatisfied with me, or I will be replaced by them!
"Look. The guy who is raising his head to read the news on the light beam, the fat guy who is having breakfast next to the shuttle, and the corners of the skyscrapers around are all people of the Secret Sword Bureau. Dozens of pairs of eyes are staring at us, analyzing the changes of every micro-expression on your face. If they discover that you might be dissatisfied with me, which will affect Speaker Cui's attitude and even sabotage the integration of the two parties, I will be screwed!"
Ling Xiaole pouted and crossed her hands, staring at Li Yao pitifully.
Li Yao could not help but laugh again. "So, you sold them out the moment you met them?"
"What's wrong with that?"
Ling Xiaole opened her hands and said unconcernedly, "After all, you are an expert of experts. Even if I do not admit my identity, can't you tell that I am actually an agent of the Secret Sword Bureau and that almost a hundred of our people are observing you from all directions? After all, it is something that will be guessed and discovered by you. So, I might as well say it myself. Perhaps, it will increase our trust, won't it? Yes. Trust. That is what we need most right now! "
Li Yao smiled. "You rehearsed the speech in advance, too, didn't you?"
"You are truly awesome!"
Ling Xiaole bulged her eyes and exclaimed, "No wonder you were elected as the commander of the Speaker's special guards and worked as Speaker Cui's' eyes' and 'ears' in the Federation! That's right. You can say that all of this is a 'trick', but I can assure you that this is an absolutely sincere 'trick' without the slightest bit of conspiracy. Everything is for the sake of increasing mutual understanding and trust. In the end, everyone will unite into an inseparable whole!
"Trust me!"
She held her head high. She appeared to be no more than ten years old. Her tender baby face was full of solemnity. Her red fox tail was mixed with a few streaks of gold, making her look like a furiously burning torch. "Perhaps for Firefly, such contact and integration is the first and last time in the past thousand years, but for the Star Glory Federation, this is already the fifth time! We have received four batches of guests who were as expectant and yet cautious as you in the Water Crystal Sector, the Nether World Sector, the Forest Ocean Sector, and the Uranian Ring Sector, and the final result was everybody's satisfaction!
"The Federation is very experienced when it comes to 'integration'. Just rest assured and leave it to us. Yes. That's it. That's right!"
Ling Xiaole waved her tiny fists and promised Li Yao.
Li Yao was amused. He did not expect that the Federation would send out such a seemingly simple-minded, jesting, and unpredictable 'guide'.
However, on second thought, such a guide seemed much better than the solemn, white-bearded old men who were full of officialdom.
Even if it was a trick, it was a trick that was rather acceptable. Even if she confessed all her plans and schemes frankly, Li Yao still could not help but lower his wariness.
"Do you feel more relaxed now?"
Ling Xiaole looked at Li Yao, full of expectation. "In fact, we were not like this in the past. A long, long time ago, when the Federation had only three core Sectors and the Water Crystal Sector, the first new world, was just discovered, the people of the Federation and the people of the Water Crystal Sector were both clumsy, hilarious, cautious, and wary of each other. A lot of jokes were even made during the bumpy contact at that time.
"The people of the Water Crystal Sector, who were from a desert world and desperately short of water, could not understand the Federation's blatant waste of water and the Federation's insatiable greed for crystals that could be seen everywhere. The people of the Federation, on the other hand, could not understand why the people of the Water Crystal Sector valued water so much that even the slightest waste of water could be sentenced to capital punishment. They thought that the rulers of the Water Crystal Sector were all cruel tyrants and almost raised a war against the Water Crystal Sector.
"Thankfully, under the communication of the wise men of the two parties, the war did not break out. As the bumpy contact became more and more frequent, we gradually realized that, despite the different living environments and appearances, we were all human beings deep down in our bones. We all had feelings and were exactly the same.
"Hehe. Speaking of which, it was under such circumstances that my parents met each other, too.
"A long, long time ago, my father came to the Federation as an envoy of the Xing Yao Federation, just like you are today, to observe every aspect of the Xing Yao Federation so that he could decide whether the Water Crystal Sector should completely join the Federation or simply maintain the trade and trade for the water resources of the Federation with crystals. Even the trade was forbidden, in case the greedy people of the Federation attacked the Water Crystal Sector with the crystals of the Water Crystal Sector.
"My mother, a member of the Sand Fox Clan from the Blood Demon Sector, was a Secret Sword Agent of the Secret Sword Bureau who pretended to be his guide.
"Of course, the Federation at that time was far less open and confident than it is today. My mother couldn't have been bold enough to confess everything to you openly like I am today, either.
"At that time, she concealed her identity and really pretended to be a graduate of the Sky Fantasia Academy who majored in International Communication and a slightly clumsy employee of the Ministry of Culture.
"Because of the different customs, and because they were wary of each other, the two parties had a lot of hilarious fun. Also, the radicals of the Federation who craved war and the diehards of the Water Crystal Sector who absolutely did not believe in the Federation interfered with each other … The first contact between the Federation and the new world was truly chaotic and exciting!
"Thankfully, they finally trusted each other in the end and resolved all their conflicts. They became the first couple to cross the Water Crystal Sector and the Federation. The Water Crystal Sector joined the Xing Yao Federation, and I, 'Ling Xiaole', was born one day a long, long time later. The name is perhaps because they still remember the joke when they 'first met'!"
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