"Mom!"
Before Xu Yulan had the chance to distinguish the difference between the "Xing Yao Federation" and the "Imperium of True Human Beings", she was pushed out of the examination area in confusion. Then, her daughter lunged at her and burst into tears and laughter, almost flying to the sky with her in her arms.
Her head, which had just been thawed, was still a mess. She stroked her daughter's hair to her toes carefully and pinched her daughter's chubby cheeks hard. After making sure that her daughter was safe and sound, she finally took a long breath in relief.
For some reason, Xu Yulan felt that her nose was sour when she saw her daughter's carefree smile, as if two bean sprouts had been stuffed in her nose. She somehow felt wronged for no good reason.
"Yanzi, why did you wake up earlier than me? How long have we been asleep?"
Xu Yulan grabbed her daughter's arm and looked around warily, as if the jubilant ocean before her eyes was just an absurd mistake, and the impartial Immortal Cultivators would show up at any moment and regroup them into a well-disciplined army with iron rods and electric whips. Her daughter would also be snatched away from her by brute force and locked in the hibernation cabin to be frozen again.
Xu Yulan had every reason to question her daughter.
Her daughter should not have been thawed before her because she was several levels lower than her daughter.
In the immigrant fleet of the Imperium of True Human Beings, everybody was classified into different levels according to their value.
The Immortal Cultivators were naturally of the highest level. They were entitled to the fastest starships, the safest hibernation cabins, and the most abundant resources.
The "price tag" of the hominoids was different, too. A "level-three explorer" like her was a very useful talent close to a specialist. Her level was relatively high, and she would be assigned to the central part of the fleet. In case of danger, she would be one of the "important strategic resources" that deserved protection, second only to the Immortal Cultivators.
Her daughter, Yan Jinzhi, did not have any special skills. It was only because she was a level-three explorer and her husband was a servant of an Immortal Cultivator in the Building Foundation Stage who was serving in a warship that they were able to escape from hell together.
Other than her parents, her daughter's only asset was that she boasted a healthy and plump body at the age of nineteen, which meant that it was possible for her to give birth to strong offspring. Nothing more.
In the immigrant fleet, her daughter belonged to one of the lowest levels. She was on a different starship from her.
In case of a shortage of resources or a disaster, the peripheral starship where his daughter was would be the first to be abandoned.
Even if a new world that was suitable for colonization was found, according to the procedure, the first batch to be unfrozen and released would be the battle legion made of the Immortal Cultivators and the servant soldiers, and the second batch would be the construction team that she was in. It was not until years later, when the environment of the new world was completely stabilized, that the young men and women who were "temporarily useless" could be unfrozen and released according to the quantity of resources.
Her daughter had actually thawed earlier than her, and she had a joyous look on her face. Coupled with the dream-like scene around her, Xu Yulan was at a complete loss.
She blinked hard, only to discover that her daughter was wearing a tiny Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars emblem on her chest, too. Below the emblem was' Star Glory Federation ', too, except that there were three larger words below it, which read' volunteer '.
"It's been a hundred and seven years since we entered the hibernation state. We have sailed to the edge of the territory that the civilization of mankind has ever explored. This is indeed an unprecedented new world!"
Yan Jinzhi held her head high proudly. Pointing at the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars emblem and the word 'volunteer', she exclaimed delightedly like a swallow. "Mom, I woke up two weeks earlier than you did. I am now a volunteer in the fleet. My purpose is to help those of you who have woken up later figure out what happened exactly so that you can start a new life in the Star Glory Federation, the country here, as soon as possible!"
"It's been more than a hundred years …"
Xu Yulan was in a trance with mixed feelings.
She had never tasted the feeling of a super long hibernation before. She did not expect that more than a hundred years would pass after she opened her eyes and closed her eyes. She really did not know how the Wild Wolf Sector and the Green Dragon Sector were doing. What happened to the Green Valley Fortress that she had worked so hard to build? Had the apple trees that had been burnt up by the war grown again?
However, compared to the past, it was more important to plan for the future.
'Volunteer' was a new term. The brilliance on her daughter's face was something that Xu Yulan had never seen before.
In her impression, her daughter had always been an honest, if not submissive, little girl who needed the protection of her hands that could move a hundred tons of heavy magical equipment.
Why did her daughter become so … so … after waking up two weeks earlier than her?
Xu Yulan thought for a long time but did not know what to say because she had never seen such brilliance on her daughter's face before. She had never seen such brilliance on the face of any 'hominoid' before.
At this moment, the last few words that her daughter said finally attracted her attention.
So, there was a country at the edge of the cosmos named the Xing Yao Federation.
"The Xing Yao Federation has surrendered to the Black Wind Fleet. This is the territory of the Imperium now, right?"
Xu Yulan knew the style of the Immortal Cultivators very well. Perhaps the outside world was already a mess, and she would have to spend the next few years cleaning up the debris.
However, her daughter shook her head hard and said resolutely, "We did fight a battle, but we lost the battle. The Black Wind Fleet surrendered!"
"Ah …"
Xu Yulan half opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.
Losing a battle was nothing new for her.
Perhaps, in the capital of the Empyreal Terminus Sector, the high and mighty citizens of the Imperium believed that the Imperium of True Human Beings was invincible. But for her, who was born at the border of the Imperium in the middle of the war between the Imperium and the Holy League, it was not the first time that she had heard the news of a defeat.
More than a hundred years ago, in the most gory defeat, they even lost the Wild Wolf Sector, their home, and had to flee together with the Wild Wolf Fleet.
Not long after they escaped, they were swallowed by the Black Wind Fleet in an 'internal integration', and they had to obey the command of the Black Wind King ever since.
Right now, even the Black Wind Fleet had been defeated and surrendered to the new overlord. Xu Yulan was so upset that she could not figure out whether she was a member of the Wild Wolf Sector, a native of the Imperium, or … a member of the Federation.
She had seen how horrifying the captives of the Holy League turned into after the modifications of the 'temple', but the 'Xing Yao Federation' in front of her did not seem to be one of them.
Xu Yulan pondered for a long time. Holding her daughter's hand, she asked hesitantly, "How is your father? Is there any news about him?"
Yan Jinzhi nodded her head hard. "Yes. Dad is on this planet, too. However, the soldiers are all in the 'freshman school', and they have to attend classes and work. They can't come out easily. But I've talked to dad through a video call. He is fine. Not a single hair is missing!"
"Freshman school?"
Xu Yulan had studied in advanced magical equipment schools for more than ten years. She was not an ignorant housewife. After thinking for a moment, she immediately understood what was going on. "Captive camp!"
"It's not exactly a captive camp."
Yan Jinzhi said in a hurry, "Mom, rest assured. The starship that dad served in has been staying somewhere outside of the Xing Yao Federation and did not participate in the war against the Federation. I've asked around. They are sort of a 'battlefield uprising', which is different from captives.
"Also, dad is a hominoid, too. No, 'hominoid' is not the right word here. He should be called an 'ordinary soldier'. He will be treated differently from the Immortal Cultivators.
"According to the officials of the Federation, the Xing Yao Federation is a country of Cultivators. Everybody is equal regardless of whether or not their spiritual root has been awakened! All the ordinary soldiers of the Imperium of True Human Beings are 'cannon fodder' in the first place. They are the group that has been cheated and oppressed the most. They will learn a lot of brand-new theories in the 'freshman school', which will be disseminated to the entire Black Wind Fleet!
"Right. When we talked on the phone, dad said that he was doing well in the 'freshman school'. He learned a lot of knowledge that he had never heard before and considered a lot of questions that he had never thought of before. He was now an 'activist'. He also said that the Cultivators thought highly of him and were going to train him as a teacher so that he could go to other 'freshman schools' and tell more soldiers of the Imperium the stories of the sufferings of our ancestors."
"Cultivators …"
Naturally, Xu Yulan had heard the name before. Although the Imperium of True Human Beings considered the Alliance of the Holy Covenant to be its greatest enemy, the Star Ocean Republic established by the Cultivators was the 'predecessor' of the Imperium after all. How could the brightness and greatness of the current dynasty and the reasonableness, inevitability, and necessity of the change of dynasty if the corruption of the previous dynasty was not explained?
Therefore, in Xu Yulan's education, the Cultivators were hypocritical, hypocritical, shortsighted, idiotic, and selfish people who ruined the future of the entire civilization in order to satisfy their personal morals and kindness.
Xu Yulan had never considered whether or not those theories were correct before.
It was because the end of thinking was free choice. What was the point of thinking if one could not control one's own fate?
But right now, a few rusty gears seemed to be running in Xu Yulan's head, giving her the urge to think. She tried to explain everything that had happened in the only half an hour after she woke up with the barren experience of the past.
"Where — where are we exactly?"
Xu Yulan licked her lips and raised another question.
"Boneyard!"
Yan Jinzhi replied. "The Federation has arranged three places for us to settle down. They are the desert of the Water Crystal Sector, the primitive forest of the Forest Ocean Sector, and the wilderness of Boneyard. We have all been assigned to these places.
"This is a planet far away from the homeland of the Federation. Although we have nothing yet and have to start from scratch, at least the gravity and the temperature are suitable. There is an atmosphere and relics of the ancient civilization. It is a very decent habitable planet!
"Right. Very soon, this place will no longer be called 'Boneyard'. It will be called 'Ultimacy' again, which was more than a hundred years ago. We will even build this place into the eighth or ninth Sector of the Xing Yao Federation based on Ultimacy!"
Fourth update! The legendary fourth update! In a trance, the fourth update that had not appeared for a long time reappeared!
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