Once upon a time, the 'New Hope City' behind Shanuya had been a bustling city full of traffic and lights. Countless residents had lived and prospered here for generations.
However, as most of the residents moved to live on the starships nearby, the town appeared much more spacious and desolate. At this moment, only the people who were close to Shanuya lived here, such as the staff of the "Dream Control Bureau" and … the guards.
Yes, the "guards" was a hilarious organization. Hardly had Pep approached the town when he saw hundreds of warriors in armor training. Commanded by Pep's brother, Lei Qi, they were all waving glittering weapons. They seemed to be ancient cold weapons, but they boasted all kinds of unbelievable techniques. They could even tear apart space and remotely control the powerful unmanned shuttles, which were hovering around them like thousands of shooting stars. They couldn't have looked more awesome, but that was all.
To be honest, Pep had never understood the significance of the "guards". Theoretically speaking, the so-called "guards" were an organization that protected everybody, weren't they? The problem was that the golden combination of human beings and the Void Hunters had never met any opponents in the thousands of years they had traveled in the sea of stars! Yes, there were behemoths such as the "Mountain Crab" that could compete with the Void Hunters on certain planets and space zones, but the bigger the behemoth was, the milder their personality would be. They would mind their own business and occasionally exchange precious resources and information. They posed no threat to them at all.
As for the predators who were smaller in size, just as Shanuya said, as long as he waved his tentacles casually, they would flee hundreds of astronomical units away in fear. With Shanuya's protection, what was the purpose of the pretentious "guards"?
Pep thought about the question for a long time before he finally realized it.
It was some kind of game, wasn't it?
It was like playing house.
That was because life as a vassal race of the Void Hunters was simply too boring. They had all sorts of resources including psionic powers, and there were no natural enemies that could threaten their safety. In such a dull life, everyone had to think of ways to please themselves.
Pepe's way was to tell stories, and his brother and his companions, who had nowhere to vent their energy, learned from the stupid ancients and played ridiculous war games, pretending that they were also great heroes like "Iron Xiong". If they didn't do that, what else could they do?
At this moment, the guards seemed to have run into something. His brother was shouting to gather his subordinates, but he did not greet Pep even though he saw her. His eyes and eyebrows were all furrowed, as if he were faced with a great enemy. He was almost exactly like his father.
"Hehe. If you don't greet me, I won't greet you, either!"
Pep grimaced at his brother and the young guards far away before he hopped into "New Hope".
Right now, almost half of the space in New Hope was occupied by the "dream control center". 3D light beams were everywhere, projecting pictures extracted from the folds of Shanuya's mind. They were like flowing but sticky oil paintings. The experienced psychoanalysts could analyze Shanuya's subtlest thoughts and emotional reactions from the colorful pictures and come up with different control plans so that they could better please him.
Of course, on some of the light beams, the pictures of Pep and Shanuya's storytelling just now were being repeated. Every micro-expression on Pep's face and every change of Shanuya's synapses had been recorded.
It was a standard operating procedure that had been the case for hundreds of years. Pep did not feel that anything was wrong.
She was only curious that the staff of the "dream control center" were as panicked as the guards today as if they were faced with a great enemy, as if something big had happened.
Some of them were even looking at her weirdly, as if she had caused a great disaster. But when she asked, those people all shook their heads and waved their hands, asking her to ask the director of the dream control center, who was her father, Ryan.
"Dad!"
Confused, Pep returned to the mission center of the dream control center. The atmosphere here was even more intense and solemn. Her father's face, which was usually dark, was so gloomy that ink seemed to be dripping from it. Pursing his thin lips, he stared at the bouncing crimson runes on the light beam, deep in thought.
Pep looked at where her father was looking, only to discover that the line of runes was: "Special Alert!"
What did it mean?
Pep was greatly surprised. She only knew that Shanuya had encountered a very powerful four-dimensional storm when he led them in a space jump last time. It was Shanuya who had taken the initiative to tear off almost a hundred tentacles in order to lead them out of danger. But that time, it was only "Level One Alert". What kind of crisis could be called "Special Alert"?
Pep vaguely felt that it had something to do with her.
Was it because she accepted the "Infinity Flower" from Shanuya? It couldn't be!
"Dad?"
The girl called again carefully. "What's the meaning of this? Did we do something wrong? Was it because of the flower?"
"No, you didn't do anything wrong. The flower is not the most critical factor, either."
Her father finally moved his eyes back and glanced at her casually. "There's nothing for you to do here. Go back and take a good rest. Ask the mentors to help you recover your spiritual power. There are important things to do in the next few days. We are going to help Shanuya be 'reborn'."
Perhaps because her father spoke too casually and peacefully, Pep did not realize what "reborn" meant for a moment. But when she chewed on the meaning of the word carefully, her face couldn't help but turn pale, and there was nothing but anxiety and fear left in her eyes.
The reproduction of the Void Hunters was different from that of human beings. They adopted a certain approach that was similar to "split reproduction". When a Void Hunter approached the end of its life, it would automatically explode and blow a few tentacles far away. Those tentacles would certainly turn into a new Void Hunter.
Therefore, the so-called "reborn" also meant "death".
However, the normal lifespan of the Void Hunters was very long. It was even infinite by the standard of human beings. Shanuya was still a "young man". No, he was still a "child" who did not know anything. It was far, far from the time when he was about to explode!
They wanted to kill him!
Humans wanted to take the initiative to kill the Void Hunters!
Her father, her father, her brother, and all the people who lived on Shanuya — these were Pep's family, friends, and compatriots — wanted to kill Shanuya!
"Why?"
Pep blurted out. "Just because of a flower?"
"It's not about the flower. It's that it finally asked that question."
Her father explained to her calmly. "It finally asked you why it is' Shanuya '?"
Pep did not understand at all. "So, so what? What does this mean? "
"This means that its mind is gradually maturing, and the degree of self-awareness has touched and exceeded the critical value."
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