Chapter 1294: A Bustling Library

The Star Alliance recently cracked a major case involving a criminal syndicate suspected of crimes against humanity; it was reported that the gang, in order to attract attention and disturb extraterrestrial biological genes, disguised a planet as a TV show for filming, and the planet has now been rescued, with police conducting further investigations.

Subsequently, the Salvation Squad, as representatives of Tianhai Star, visited the Star Alliance and received a warm welcome.

Lu Yang has been at the Star Alliance for five days already, and he discovered that promotional posters for the Salvation Squad were everywhere on the streets, their fame far exceeding his imagination.

After the public learned that 《The Legend of Tianhai Star》 was not a TV drama but a real event, their admiration for the Salvation Squad grew even stronger.

What surprised Lu Yang most was the appearance of his own fan club.

In the Cultivation Realm, he had been widely spread as an image of the righteous path, with many admirers, but the atmosphere in the Cultivation Realm was closed off, and they certainly would not have done something like parading the streets holding up his banners.

The Star Alliance dared to.

Handsome in appearance, mysterious in identity, upholding justice……these elements combined to make Lu Yang a breakout new star in the Alliance.

Whenever Lu Yang thought of similar events unfolding on various planets, his eyes twitched slightly.

Although he liked to stand out, having so many people obsessed with him still made him somewhat afraid.

He cast aside his distracting thoughts and walked into the library.

These days he had been in the library learning about the history of the Star Alliance.

The history of the Star Alliance, even when condensed into a brief history, would fill an entire bookshelf; simply put, the Star Alliance is the product of the great fusion of civilizations from various planets.

The Star Alliance originally had only twelve members, but later continuously discovered life-bearing planets, which joined the Alliance for development, eventually becoming the colossal entity it is today.

However, Lu Yang did not find any records about the Candle Heaven Civilization; presumably, their spacecraft had not yet come here.

The Blue Star Civilization naturally also had no records.

"The technology of the Star Alliance is truly advanced," Lu Yang couldn't help but sigh.

"They built devices to capture solar energy and carry out star-scale construction."

"They created brain-simulating signals, with mechanical body sensations fully transmissible to the brain, though this technology is expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it."

"The most powerful weapon is the star-destroying cannon capable of producing high-energy particles to pierce stellar cores."

"There are also ultra-fast quantum computers, and etheric computers that can calculate anything from input data."

The Immortal Fairy sat on the bed, pulling at her two little feet, left and right, completely not understanding what Xiao Yangzi was sighing about.

Capturing solar energy is something the Radiant Yang Sect can easily do; brain-simulating signals are just illusions.

Moreover, Xiao Yangzi's endless praise of the etheric computer just hearing it makes one feel displeased.

"What nonsense, where is there an immortal's brain with a flash of insight? The immortal can deduce the fruit of the Dao—can this etheric computer do that?"

The Immortal Fairy secretly made up her mind: if Xiao Yangzi doesn't give her an explanation, then one year……a bit long……one month……also a bit long.

Then she'll ignore him all day, making him anxious to death!

Lu Yang quickly smiled apologetically, soothing the dissatisfied Immortal Fairy whose displeasure showed on her face: "That's only natural, that's only natural—how could such an object compare to a fairy of heavenly talent who calculates through all ages?"

"Hehe, you have good taste, I forgive you."

Lu Yang helplessly shook his head and continued studying the culture of the Star Alliance.

He pulled out a folded map from an astronomy book—this is the universe explored by the Star Alliance.

The Immortal Fairy disdainfully let out a "yi": "Only explored this much, at most a corner of the universe."

"If Tian Xian casually took out one person's territory, it would be larger than this area."

Lu Yang wanted to ask the fairy how large her territory was, but after thinking carefully, for safety's sake, he decided it was better not to ask such a question that would make the Immortal Fairy scratch her head.

"The map is already large enough."

Just this one map alone could be called worthy of the journey, and combined with the Star Alliance's numerous technological products, it would be enough to renew the Cultivation Realm completely.

A crystal nucleus the size of a fingernail fell from between the book pages; Lu Yang picked it up and examined it under the light, but could not make out what it was, not knowing what the crystal nucleus was used for, and prepared to put it back in its original place.

Just as this thought arose, he heard an explosion sound coming from not far away, followed by alarm sounds and the panicked voices of the crowd.

Lu Yang followed the sound and saw a rather luxurious-looking sports car crash into the library; a blood-covered boy jumped out of the car,.

Then several more cars crashed into the library, and a carload of fully armed robots got out, apparently coming to capture the boy.

Through the large hole blasted out, one could see the outside in chaos, seemingly the result of the boy and the robot legion racing.

The boy stumbled and ran, with a hail of bullets behind him, looking extremely dangerous.

However, the boy was very lucky—the bullets grazed past him, none hitting him.

People of the Star Alliance have no habit of reading paper books, so there are few in the library; when they saw danger, they all fled the library as if escaping for their lives.

Lu Yang felt he had to leave the library with these people.

No mistake in a single word, sentence, or line—look closely!

The reason is simple: the boy was running straight toward him.

Lu Yang took a big step and dodged into a gap between the bookshelves.

Then he saw the boy also take a big step and dodge to his side.

The two faced each other.

Lu Yang: "!!!"

Isn't it, buddy, what are you coming over here for?

"Quick, get down!"

The boy suddenly shouted loudly and urgently threw himself onto Lu Yang.

Machine-gun bullets swept horizontally over their heads, penetrating several rows of bookshelves.

One can imagine that if the boy had not thrown himself onto Lu Yang, Lu Yang would also have been unharmed.

While throwing himself down, the boy rolled and tossed out a grenade, which exploded, temporarily putting the robots into a rigid state, unable to move.

The boy turned his head and solemnly warned Lu Yang: "Don't think we're safe just yet—this is my last pulse grenade, it can only temporarily immobilize them."

"To completely deal with them, we must find the crystal nucleus left by grandfather here!"

Lu Yang felt the boy was so capable that he probably didn't need his help, after all, he was just here to travel.

Seeing that Lu Yang had no intention of helping, the boy spoke solemnly: "The outside has already been surrounded by the robot army; neither you nor I can escape. For now, the plan is to find the crystal core."

"Do you want to know why we're being hunted? Because Grandfather discovered that artificial intelligence wants to overthrow human rule!"

Lu Yang again took out from the book a crystal core the size of a fingernail cap and asked: "Is this what you want?"

The boy was very excited, took it over and compared it, then disappointedly returned it to Lu Yang.

"No, this isn't it. The crystal core should have Grandfather's mark on it."

Lu Yang became even more puzzled: where did the crystal core tucked in the book come from?

Just as Lu Yang was puzzled, an explosion sound also came from the other side of the library; a heroic and vigorous girl likewise came running over in a stumbling manner, with pursuers behind her.

The girl had excellent vision; even from far away, with smoke and dust in between, she could clearly see what Lu Yang was holding.

Her eyes lit up, and she excitedly said: "This is it! The evidence of the conglomerate's illegal development of stars is right here!"

Lu Yang: "..."

Should I not have come to the library today?

(End of chapter)