The young man shot the newcomers a glance before nodding at Angenia. Then, his gaze paused for a moment on Silin before settling on Huimao.
Huimao was also staring at the young man. Huimao remembered Ah Yue telling him about the Xi Family's characteristics and how he criticized Xi Kai for being "unorthodox" in private.
Ah Yue said that the Xi Family's "authenticity" depended on their eyes. The Xi Family members had a very special pair of eyes, and the young man in front of him happened to fit the description perfectly. At the time, Ah Yue was very depressed because he thought that he would never see another "authentic" Xi Family member again. He didn't think that he would still be alive after all.
Excited, Huimao patted Silin with his fat paw and said, "A Xi Family member? Look, Silin, it's a Xi Family member! An authentic Xi Family member, meow! "
Silin slapped his paw away and said, "I know!"
Everyone's expressions changed when Huimao mentioned the Xi Family. The young man was no exception.
For a moment, the atmosphere became a little heavy. Even Hara, who never liked to pause when he was cooking, stopped and looked at Silin. This was the second time Hara showed Silin an unsmiling face.
"Do you know the Xi Family, Silin?" Angenia asked seriously.
Cillin shot Angenia and Hara a glance. If it wasn't for his relationship with Genya, they would've killed him to silence him already.
"I know a Xi Family member," Silin replied.
Angenia was confused. Even Genya didn't know a Xi Family member, and how did Silin know a Xi Family member like that?
On the other side.
The Eleventh Squad was resting at their assigned place when a beautiful maid brought them green tea. Green tea was the most common thing in Golden Beginning, and they were all high-quality green tea.
When the beautiful maid passed the tea to Czedow, she glanced at Czedow a few times. Czedow smiled at her, and the maid's face immediately blushed red.
Seeing this scene, the members of the Eleventh Vanguard Squad all had a strange look on their faces.
Xiao Shang and Kari winked at each other. "Look, our charm can't even compare to a robot's!"
Czedow ignored Cary and Xiao Shang who were winking at him. He rose to his feet abruptly and looked at Moon and Sigma who were circling the room. "Cillin wants you and Xi Kai to meet him."
"What's the matter?" Xi Kai put down the cup and asked.
"You'll know when you get there." Czedow didn't explain any further.
They were stopped by the guards when they were about to leave the house. It was forbidden to roam freely in this place, not to mention that their destination wasn't far from Angenia's residence. However, the man in front of them received the message very quickly. He smiled awkwardly and led the group to the place Angenia told him.
Czedow and the others arrived at the courtyard entrance, but the guards only allowed Xi Kai to enter first. Although Xi Kai was puzzled, he knew that Silin was inside, so he didn't say anything.
Xi Kai knew that the young man was a member of the Xi Family the moment he saw him.
Xi Kai's eyes were metallic gray, but they were a little darker than the young man's. Moreover, his eyes didn't reflect the pure silver light of the sun.
Regardless, Xi Kai was very happy to see a member of the Xi Family who had stayed behind in the League of Stars.
"My name is Xi Kai."
"Xi Mu." The young man licked the cream off his hand before asking, "May I speak to him in private?"
"Of course."
After receiving Angenia's nod, the guards inside the house left, and Xi Mu and Xi Kai entered the house.
"I didn't expect you to know a member of the Xi Family." Angenia smiled. "This is good news for you. After all, not everyone can win the Xi Family's trust."
Hara was deeply moved by Angenia's words. He patted Silin's shoulder and said, "Seize the opportunity, but don't tell anyone about the Xi Family. It'll only bring you trouble."
Seeing Silin's puzzled expression, Angenia said, "The Xi Family is a very special family. It's almost as if they were born with an extra nerve, and that's why they attract jealousy from others. Moreover, some ambitious people have their eyes set on them. Right now, I only know about fifteen members of the Xi Family. Ten years ago, the Xi Family was ambushed. Although I was friends with them at the time, I didn't dare to offend the government of the League of Stars recklessly. However, the Xi Family offered five sets of armor in exchange for Xi Mu's safety for ten years.
Xi Mu wasn't even five years old at the time, but he was as smart as an adult. Not long after the Xi Family was captured by the League of Stars government, a space laboratory they were locked in exploded. Not a single person survived the explosion. Xi Mu's hair turned white overnight after he learned of the news. Can you imagine a child who's not even five years old having his hair turn white because of overthinking? "
At the time, Angenia was shocked. She never thought that something like this could happen to a child who wasn't even five years old and was younger than her own grandson. Xi Mu had turned into a contradictory person overnight. The innocent smile he used to have was gone, and his personality seemed to have split into two halves. One was bright silver, and the other was cold and dark gray. When Hara met Xi Mu for the first time, he made him a cake named "Daybreak". The night was coming to an end, and the dawn was coming.
The Xi family had helped Hara before, and although they hadn't given him any benefits before they left, Hara had always been kind to Xi Mu. Every time he came to Golden Beginning, he would visit Xi Mu as well as Gensheng. Xi Mu loved sweets, and Hara would bring him a lot of them every time he came to visit.
Both Angenia and Hara knew that every member of the Xi Family was a genius. Xi Mu was separated from the rest of the Xi Family at the age of five, and he didn't receive any formal education. The fact that he was able to create all kinds of machines by himself was a testament to his own research. What was even more puzzling was that Xi Mu was able to make massage chairs for Angenia and food dispensers for Hara, but he didn't know how to make cannons, aircrafts, or airships. Angenia and Hara wouldn't believe that he couldn't do something like that.
"The ten years are almost up, and the League of Stars is in chaos right now. The Xi Family geniuses scattered throughout the League of Stars are being fought over by every force. There are still Xi Family members in the League of Stars, but they are few and far between. Therefore, Silin, you should try to recruit Xi Mu if you can. Otherwise, he'll become a dangerous weapon in the hands of the other forces, "Angenia said.
While the people outside were talking about Xi Mu, Xi Mu brought Xi Kai into the house and took out a palm-sized device. Xi Mu turned on the device, and a square image of about one cubic meter appeared in front of them. It looked like the dark background of the universe, but it was dotted with a few specks of starlight.
"Stars in the Sky?" Xi Kai recognized this game. He had played it when he was a child. It was the Xi Family's first game, but why did Xi Mu take it out now?
Xi Mu didn't say anything. He looked at Xi Kai and tapped a spot on the image. A speck of starlight immediately appeared. Then, Xi Mu looked at Xi Kai.
Xi Kai had no choice but to play. After looking at the distribution of the specks on the image, he tapped a spot as well.
And so, the two of them continued to play, and more and more specks of starlight appeared on the image.
"Stars in the Sky" was indeed the Xi Family's first game. Every speck of light in the game represented a basic unit, and it was like a part of a whole. It wasn't easy to add parts one by one without destroying the function of the whole. In fact, it might even be necessary to make the whole even more perfect.
Xi Kai thought that he was pretty good at playing "Stars in the Sky", and judging from the young man in front of him, he was pretty good at it. The two of them didn't take any breaks during the game at all.
It didn't take long for Xi Kai to tap a spot. He thought that the game was finally over, but before he could say anything, the Stars in the Sky suddenly shrank and doubled in size.
"Well …" Xi Kai didn't understand why this was happening.
Xi Mu looked at Xi Kai in confusion. "Of course a level two structure would appear after a level one structure is finished. Have you been stuck at level one all your life?"
Xi Kai: "..." Fine, the ancestors of the Mist Bodhisattva Empire had tricked him again.
The level two structure was doubled in size from the level one structure, and they needed to expand the empty space to continue.
Compared to the first-level structure diagram, Xi Kai had to treat the second-level structure diagram more seriously. He had to consider the first-level structure diagram at every step and think based on it. His speed of drawing wasn't as fast as when he was drawing the first-level structure diagram. But Xi Mu was still as fast as before. Basically, Xi Kai was pointing out every time Xi Kai made a move.
When the level two structure was finally finished, the level three structure appeared. Xi Kai was starting to feel a headache coming on.
In the end, Xi Kai made a mistake during a step in the level four structure, and a "crack" appeared on the Stars in the Sky. The crack was the chess piece that collapsed the system because of this one mistake. From a mechanical point of view, it was because of this last component that broke down the other components.
"It's only level four?" Xi Mu looked disappointed.
Xi Kai was even more disappointed. He hadn't even figured out the kid's strength yet, and he had already lost. It was really … a loss of face!
"It's nothing. It's your first time playing a chain Stars in the Sky, so you're not used to it yet. You'll get used to it." Xi Mu looked at the completed game. "You've been playing the level one structure all this time?"
"Yeah. I didn't even know that Stars in the Sky was a chain chess game." Xi Kai was helpless as well. He had really been tricked. First, it was the Original robots that made Yue feel estranged from him. Now, it was the Stars in the Sky. How much more did he not know?
"Which branch of the Xi Family do you belong to?" Xi Mu asked.
Huh? There are branches? Xi Kai was confused.
Xi Mu looked at Xi Kai with disdain. "I really do think you're an impostor. The Xi Family has been divided into three branches since a thousand years ago. They were later called the Tricolor Branch, red, white, and blue. The white branch is still in the Xi Family's birthplace, the blue branch is gradually working with other forces in the League of Stars, and the red branch is supposedly leaving. "
Xi Kai's heart skipped a beat. "Why do you call them blue, white, and red?"
"The light effect. It's based on the fact that the frequency of light reflected by an object changes with its own speed. The light reflected by an object moving away from us is red, just like how the nebula we see here is red because it's moving away from us. The red branch, for example, is called this color because they chose to leave. As for the blue branch, I don't think I need to explain it to you, do I? "
Xi Kai nodded. "No need. I know which branch I belong to. Red branch, I belong to the red branch. "
Xi Mu raised an eyebrow in surprise. "When I was young, I heard from my clansmen that there's been no news of the red branch for almost a thousand years. Rumor has it that they left the League of Stars and went to another galaxy. I wonder if it's true? "
Xi Kai was hesitating whether he should tell Xi Mu about the Mist Bodhisattva Empire, but Xi Mu spoke up again. "I see. It's true."
Xi Mu belonged to the white branch, and he was the only member of the white branch he knew. Xi Kai thought that his branch was miserable enough, but it turned out that the white branch was even worse. At least his branch was safe in the Mist Bodhisattva Empire, while Xi Mu's branch had been tortured to this state.
The two Xi family members chatted here for a while, and the three robots who were still standing in front of the courtyard gate heard the voice to let them in.
Czedow didn't feel anything, but Moon and Sigma felt a strange sense of familiarity until they were called into the house.
The moment they entered, Sigma and Moon's attention was immediately drawn to the chessboard of stars that hadn't disappeared yet.
"Stars! It's Stars! It's been a long time since I've seen a chain of stars! "
While Moon and Sigma were circling the chessboard, they noticed Xi Mu who was standing next to Xi Kai. The two robots froze.
While Moon and Sigma were studying Xi Mu, Xi Mu was also observing the two robots. It was true that the Xi Family members were capable of building robots like these, so they should've at least reached the seventh level of Stars. But why had they fallen from grace when they were so talented? Why was Lan Zhi, the one everyone thought to be the least talented of them all, still doing so well?
"Ahem, have you played Stars before, Sigma?" Xi Kai broke the silence and asked.
"Of course!" Sigma looked very excited. "We used to play it all the time."
"Did you play Stars Chain? A single level at that? "
"Of course it's a chain! Stars Chain is supposed to be connected to each other. Why else would it be called 'Stars Chain'? "Sigma asked in confusion.
"Ahem, I got it." Xi Kai shot Moon and Sigma a glance before asking, "What level are you guys at?"
Hearing this question, Moon lowered his head and twirled his fingers with an embarrassed expression, "I … only went down to the sixth level."
The sixth level … and "only"?!
Before Xi Kai could vomit blood, Sigma, who was standing beside Moon, exclaimed, "What?! You're able to reach the sixth level already? I'm still stuck at the fifth level. I really am the dumbest. "
Xi Kai: "..." How could he, a player who had only reached the fourth level?
"You're all in the Hunter regiments right now?" Xi Mu interrupted their conversation.
"Yeah. Why don't you join us? We can play Stars Chain more often that way! "Both Moon and Sigma were looking forward to it.
Xi Mu didn't give them a direct answer.
When they came out, Xi Mu saw Czedow and asked Xi Kai in secret, "Who made that robot?"
Xi Kai looked surprised. "You can tell it's a robot at first glance?"
"It's hard to tell without looking closely. If the robot's creator played Stars Chain, he could've reached the seventh level at the very least."
"The seventh level?!" Xi Kai nodded when he thought of something. "He's capable of that."
How could a person who could replace Guan Feng in Black Viper be weak?
"The robot's creator is Silin, the captain of the Hunter Squad I'm in right now. I can trust him."
That night, Xi Mu stayed in his room alone and played Stars Chain with himself. It was something he had done frequently for the past ten years. When the first glimmer of dawn arrived, the Stars Chain was already densely packed on the chessboard. A normal person's vision would've blurred if they looked at it, but Xi Mu still stared at the chessboard intently. He would spend a minute or two before making a move.
The chessboard was at the eighth level, and Xi Mu was trying to break through to the ninth level. In fact, he could've reached the eighth level two years ago, but he never succeeded in breaking through to the ninth level.
Two minutes later, Xi Mu tapped a spot on the chessboard. He knew he'd failed again the moment his finger touched the chessboard. Sure enough, after the new point appeared, a spiderweb-like crack appeared, covering the entire chessboard.
Xi Mu sighed softly and dispersed the chessboard with a wave of his hand. Then, he got up and started packing his things.
The first thing Silin saw when he woke up was Xi Mu.
"I want to join you." Xi Mu cut straight to the point.
Silin was surprised to hear this. He had considered the possibility of recruiting Xi Mu into his team, but he didn't expect Xi Mu to deliver himself to his doorstep. Angenia and Hara had told him last night that he should take the initiative against someone like Xi Mu, or he wouldn't have told them his thoughts.
But before Cillin could put his plan into action, Xi Mu came running to him on his own.
"You'll have to go through a trial before you can join the squad, and you'll need enough votes from the other squad members," Silin said. That was the old rule of Vanguard B Squadrons.
"Angenia gave you her armor, didn't she?" Xi Mu asked instead of answering Silin's question directly. He sounded very certain.
Silin didn't deny it. "Yes, she gave me her own set."
"Give them back to her. Those five sets of armor belong to the broad spectrum. As long as one's physical fitness is up to standard, anyone can use them. However, for those who have high requirements and often have high-risk missions, the armor's compatibility with the nerves isn't enough. Angenia and the others don't have to fight often, but you do. So, you don't need armor that doesn't suit you. "
Silin looked at Xi Mu and smiled. "Alright."
Xi Mu didn't say it out loud, but the underlying meaning was clear. I'll give you armor that suits you better.
"Welcome to the Eleventh Squad of Vanguard!"
Moon, Sigma, and Xi Kai were very happy to see Xi Mu join the Eleventh Squad. After joining the Eleventh Squad, Xi Mu assumed the role of Xi Kai's cousin.
Xi Mu listed out a few materials to make the armor. Angenia had given most of the materials to Silin, so he didn't need to look for them himself. There were also a few rare materials that Angenia didn't have, or Golden Beginning didn't have much in stock to begin with.
However, Xi Mu knew the general location of the rare materials he needed. After staying at Golden Beginning's headquarters for three days, Cillin and the others left to search for the materials Xi Mu mentioned. Angenia sent someone to see them off. After all, anyone who didn't have a navigation system in Sector S would be treated as an invader.
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