Chapter 9

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Protagonist:

Xuan Ge

The Antimatter Legion, this one branch, had followed them all the way to just outside the Shen Wu Xian Zhou's massive spaceport.

An enormous fleet of Destruction Warships, swarms of Virtual Soldiers covering the sky and earth, and ferocious Doomsday Beasts — they just hovered there, a black, oppressive mass, stagnant outside the Xian Zhou's protective force field perimeter.

The Legion and, inside the port, the Shenwu Warships standing tall like a forest and the busy Engineering Star Skiffs shuttling back and forth formed a bizarre yet spectacular confrontation scene.

They couldn't get in, nor did they dare easily attack the Xian Zhou main body; they merely hovered in silence, exuding a suffocating Destruction pressure.

At first, the Shen Wu military in the port faced a formidable enemy, all defensive weapons brought online, the atmosphere tense to the breaking point.

But a day passed, and the Destruction Legion showed no movement whatsoever.

Another day passed, and some bold, curiosity-driven Gongzao Si artisans and Diheng Si coordinators began tentatively approaching the force field edge, observing those legendary Destruction constructs through the pale blue shield.

Later on.....

"Hey! I'm talking to you! Yeah, you, that big lump!"

An artisan wearing a Gongzao Si uniform, machine oil smudged on his face, held a Jade Amplifier and shouted at a Doomsday Beast outside the shield — a beast the size of a small mountain peak, currently boredly picking at a space station's outer hull with its claws.

That Doomsday Beast's movement froze; it slowly swiveled its ferocious head composed of Destruction Energy and metal skeleton, eyes focusing on that tiny human, as if confirming whether it was being called.

"What are you looking at! It's you!"

The artisan was not polite at all; he pointed with the amplifier toward the Pile of construction materials at Port Warehouse Area Three.

"Go, move those 'Stardust Alloy Plates' and 'Imaginary Conduction Crystal Pillars' over there to the newly planned foundation at the Xingcha Hai West District! They're waiting to be used! Hurry up!"

Doomsday Beast: "??????"

Its simple Destruction thought processor took a full several seconds to understand this insignificant ant's meaning.

He's ordering me? Ordering a noble Doomsday Beast to..... haul bricks?!

"Roar——!!!!"

A furious roar instantly exploded; the terrifying sound waves even made the sturdy port shield ripple violently.

The Doomsday Beast raised its giant claw capable of smashing a warship; Destruction Energy gathered at the claw tip, clearly about to give this death-ignorant insect a ruthless blow.

"What are you roaring for!" That artisan actually dug at his ears, numbed from the shock, a face full of impatience.

"The General gave you a place to stay, didn't directly wipe you out — that's the General's magnanimity! Here, the General is heaven! Understand?"

He paused, then suddenly recalled the rhetoric the General often hung on his lips when admonishing them, applying it on the spot:

"You also don't want that, because you don't work hard and make the General unhappy, it leads to your Lord Xing Xiao being bullied in the General's Mansion, right?"

Doomsday Beast: "................."

The Doomsday Beast's raised giant claw froze in mid-air.

The boiling Destruction red light in its eye sockets flickered wildly, bright and dark uncertainly.

Its simple brain processed this sentence:

Not working → General unhappy → Lord Xing Xiao gets bullied.

The logic seemed..... to connect?

A few seconds later, urged by the artisan's "Hurry up! Don't dawdle!", this terrifying Destruction behemoth actually slowly lowered its claw......

Turned around, extended its claw carefully gripping a large stack of Stardust Alloy Plates, then strode off with steps that made the earth tremble, heading toward the Xingcha Hai West District the artisan indicated.....

With this "successful case," the port's management personnel seemed to have opened the door to a new world.

Gradually, commanding Virtual Soldiers to clear channel debris, having Doomsday Beasts assist moving heavy components, even utilizing certain special Virtual Soldiers' energy properties to assist the Gongzao Si's smelting.....

The Antimatter Legion, temporarily..... transformed into the Xian Zhou's expansion and infrastructure construction efficient labor force, or rather, the General's Pals.

And the source of all this——

Shen Wei Jiang Jun Fu, Zheng Dian.

Ling Sha walked into the main hall with quickened steps.

She had only taken a few days' leave at the Dan Ding Si, and the result was Destruction Virtual Soldiers everywhere on the Xian Zhou.

Flying in the sky, walking on the ground, even swimming in the sea.

She knew the General had gone on campaign, but no one told her the General had brought the Legion's Virtual Soldiers back!

Seeing the General, Ling Sha's steps stopped.

Those always calm, transparent brown eyes, when they took in the scene behind the desk.......

Bit by bit, slowly widened.

Her ruddy lips also unconsciously parted slightly, forming a small "o" shape.

What did she see?

General Xuan Ge, indeed sat in his wide General's Chair, right hand holding a brush, rapidly annotating a document.

And that Monarch of Extinction — Xing Xiao.

At this moment, was actually sitting at the General's side?

She still wore that pure white Dress, her pretty gray-purple eyes currently lowered.

Long eyelashes concealed all emotion, but the tightly pressed lip line and slightly reddened cheeks revealed extreme reluctance and restraint.

And what made Ling Sha's brain almost stall was, the General's left hand, at this moment, was firmly grasping Xing Xiao's..... right wrist?

The two people's hands, in a posture nearly like "holding hands," rested on the General's knee.

Xing Xiao's left hand, meanwhile, somewhat awkwardly, slowly picked up the top document from the stack piled beside her, and handed it to Xuan Ge.

Xuan Ge received it, glanced over it, annotated, set it down.

Then his left hand tugged lightly, a signal.

Xing Xiao's left hand then reluctantly reached for the next one.

Between the two, aside from the faint sounds of paper turning and pen tips writing, there was utter silence.

But that silent, weird "collaborative office" atmosphere, as well as the Destruction aura that still seeped out thread by thread from Xing Xiao despite her utmost restraint, filled this scene with an extreme sense of absurdity.

"General, you....."

Ling Sha barely found her voice, speaking with incredulous shock.

"Hm?" Xuan Ge didn't even lift his head, pen tip unstopped, tone casual.

"Oh, Ling Sha. Put the documents there, I'll look later."

He shook the left hand "clasped" with Xing Xiao:

"Relax, Xing Xiao is very safe now. Aside from cursing me a few times in her heart, she can't do anything."

He paused, then added:

"Right, that group of Destruction Corps labor outside the port, coordinate with the Artisan Commission and the Ground Equilibrium Commission to put them to good use.

They have great strength, special energy properties, waste not to use them.

I see the planned new district outside Xingcha Hai's periphery, the foundation can be laid larger, defense fortification standards raised two tiers. Make them hurry up and do it."

Ling Sha: "..... Yes."

She exerted great effort to close her slightly open mouth, and place the documents on the designated desk.

Before leaving, she couldn't help but glance once more at that absurd yet harmonious office scene.

She believed the General.

The General said safe, then it was necessarily completely under control.

Ling Sha, with a head full of daze, lightly withdrew from the grand hall, and thoughtfully closed the door.

The soft sound of the heavy hall doors closing came.

Inside the grand hall, only the rustle of pen tips scraping paper remained, and the two's nearly merged breathing sounds.

Xing Xiao's lowered eyelashes trembled violently once.

She violently raised her head, in her gray-purple gemstone eyes cold fury nearly gushed out, staring dead at Xuan Ge's side face right before her.

Her chest began to visibly heave, obviously suppressing towering rage.

"Xuan Ge.....!" She spoke, voice pressed very low, yet like ice slag grinding, each word carrying chill.

"I am the General most often summoned under Nanuk.

You imprison me here, openly profane.... Destruction's majesty, you really aren't afraid the Creative God's gaze will turn toward your tiny Shen Wu Xian Zhou?"

This was a warning, and also her last, attempted leverage to break free.

Xuan Ge's document-reviewing motion didn't stagnate in the slightest, not even his gaze shifting from the paperwork.

"Afraid?" He blandly countered, tone calm to the point of near indifference.

"Afraid of what? You can summon Destruction's gaze....."

He finally signed his name at the document's end, set down the pen, slowly turned his head, meeting Xing Xiao's furious gaze.

In his golden pupils, no fear, only a bottomless, near-arrogant calm.

"..... Then can I not, request the Emperor Bow Fate, to cast a glance?"

He tilted his head slightly, lips hooking a very shallow arc that made Xing Xiao's heart suddenly tighten.

"At worst, it's just opening a Divine War's prologue. Let's see whether Destruction's tide devours here first, or the Hunt's arrows pierce Destruction's source first."

Light tone, yet speaking a terrifying possibility to make countless worlds tremble.

"You.....!" Xing Xiao was choked by his words, trembling all over with anger, yet finding no words to refute.

Because he spoke fact.

At their tier, the Aeons behind them are both power source and final trump card and shackle.

She could only hatefully glare at him once, then turn her head away.

But her left hand still had to, following his intangible signal, "slap" the next document onto the desk before him somewhat heavily, to express her anger and protest.

Xuan Ge's lips hooked slightly: "Right, these few nights might trouble you."

"After all, the long night is endless......"

Xing Xiao's body, thoroughly froze.

Next second, she like a cat with its tail stepped on, violently twisted back!

Left hand carrying sharp wind sound and humiliation-driven fury, fiercely clamped onto Xuan Ge's neck!

Her pretty face flushed bright red, even ear tips stained crimson.

Every word seemed squeezed from between teeth, carrying near-tangible killing intent:

"Xuan! Ge! You! Dare!"