Pheromone Recognition DisorderCh32.2 - The Artificial Sun

After saying this, he turned and walked away without looking back.

The young child watched Zhou Jiuya chase after him, shouting—

"Ye Shu!!!"

Jiang Ci closed his eyes, pushing the yellowed memories back into the depths of his mind. He shifted his gaze away from Huo Xianfeng’s thoughtful eyes and whispered, “However, it’s also possible that it’s a case of two people having the same name.”

Even though he was the one who said this, Jiang Ci did not believe that it was as simple as having the same name. After all, Zhou Jiuya had specifically come to the Winter Day Planet. Therefore, the City Lord was most likely the man who appeared at his father’s funeral twenty-two years ago. RZGfJe

Wanting to change the subject, Jiang Ci began to seriously analyze the situation of the wreckage inside the Forbidden Abyss. “The angle and cut of this fracture is very strange. It wasn’t shattered by external force but rather broken from the inside. A preliminary guess suggests that the core of the Forbidden Abyss should have voluntarily detached itself…”

“The internal plates here unexpectedly use the rare Mandalay metal, and the forging technique seems to be different from the standard…”

Chrysanthemum Garden.

The silver-haired Major General activated the scanner installed on Xiao X, quickly analyzing the local damage effects. “Apart from the fusion caused by the interstellar nuclear bomb, there also seem to be some impact scars from other weapons…”

At this point, Jiang Ci frowned. Logically speaking, the Forbidden Abyss faced the Zergs in its final battle, so why were there so many attack scars from human weapons? Moreover, it didn’t seem much like the standard weapons used by the military three hundred years ago. GXUDv

Listening to Jiang Ci’s analysis, Huo Xianfeng’s eyes showed a slight surprise. After all, he knew that Jiang Ci was the pilot of Bai Ze, but usually, mecha pilots focused more on combat skills. Knowledge and skills in analyzing damaged mecha remains like this were generally the domain of mecha engineers.

“It seems like you know a lot about mechas?”

This was no longer simple knowledge; even a professional mecha engineer might not be able to achieve this level.

The young man’s voice suddenly interrupted Jiang Ci’s thoughts, and he pursed his lips, “It’s… I know a little.”

After all, his father, Jiang Jinsheng, was the Empire’s top mecha manufacturing master, and the Jiang family controlled the most complete military production system in the Empire.

Jiang Ci didn’t dwell on this topic anymore. He knocked on the nearby metal and said, “Someone has been nurturing the wreckage of the Forbidden Abyss with vast energy, but they haven’t actually started substantive repairs. There are only two possibilities…”

The photon trails reflected into his eyes, creating a particularly beautiful glow in those splendid crimson pupils.

“Either the other party doesn’t have the actual repair ability…” FEO5VA

But someone who could create such a huge energy reactor wasn’t someone incapable of repairing the Forbidden Abyss. The only possible explanation was—

The young man helped him say the second possibility, “Or his goal is just to maintain the current state of the wreckage, not intending to repair it.”

Originally, Huo Xianfeng thought that this underground city was just a simple gray force, only looking for power or wealth. But now, it seems that might not be the case.

After all, what could a scrapped mecha wreckage do? 5x9qSF

Nothing.

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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Just like some people would spend a lot of money and effort on something without any return and give this originally meaningless behavior a value based on nostalgia.

Huo Xianfeng fell silent for a moment and suddenly spoke, “I know where the core of the Forbidden Abyss is.”

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

“What?!” Jiang Ci turned abruptly, only to see the young man pointing to the east.

“Do you remember what the most central district of the underground city is called?” YuFI5t

“Sun… Sunrise District.”

Jiang Ci suddenly realized something. If Ye Shu knew Zhou Jiuya, then he must also be a subordinate of Marshal Huo Chao.

“Yes…”

The young man sighed. CeZdPS

“Sunrise.”

It was already quite obvious.

The core of the Forbidden Abyss was the artificial sun high above the Sunrise District.

 Swoosh— fav zQ

Above the boundless desert, the fierce wind carried ash-gray sand over Ye Shu’s face, which was adorned with a strange skull mask. At this moment, nearing dusk, the blood-red sun finally disappeared below the horizon.

The City Lord raised his head, coldly staring at the distant sky. Across the vast expanse of the sky, a terrifyingly large space crack tore open. It was as if a monstrous beast from another world had viciously ripped through the sky, revealing a greedy and bloody visage.

A massive white aircraft carrier, like a mythical sacred sword, forcefully entered through the crack. The entire world almost fell into the extreme dark due to its shadow, and Ye Shu saw the familiar emblem on it, a blood-red cross.

He felt no surprise, no shock at the Church’s space jumping technology surpassing this era’s capacity, or fear of the impending war and death threats. nqaYe8

At this moment, the City Lord just turned his head to look at his once most trusted comrade-in-arms, calmly saying, “Is this your plan, Zhou Jiuya?”

Ye Shu sneered,

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

“I thought, after so many years, at least there would be something new.”

Zhou Jiuya knew what he was referring to. Three hundred years ago, when Huo Chao led the Dawn Legion to resist the Zergs, the Church suddenly betrayed them. It was the first time the Illusory God Church revealed such a terrifying space travel technique, almost surpassing the current human level of theoretical knowledge. tAZubH

—Ye Shu lost his left arm at that time.

Later, Jiang Jinsheng installed a biomechanical prosthesis for him. Ye Shu seemed completely indifferent at the time, even specifically showing off that extremely cool prosthesis to many people.

On that day, Zhou Jiuya originally wanted to go and comfort him, but Marshal Huo Chao stopped him, shaking his head.

[That kid Ye Shu is very afraid of pain. He’s hiding in the corner and crying right now.] 0ypJYf

“…”

So, now Zhou Jiuya said to Ye Shu, “That situation won’t happen again.”

His tone was not heavy, but he repeated it very firmly.

“Ye Shu, it won’t happen again.” Cli2dJ

Zhou Jiuya raised his hand. In an instant, in the distant night sky behind him, dazzling dots of light lit up successively, converging into an extremely brilliant and dazzling starry sky.

The First Legion of the Empire, reorganized from the remnants of the Dawn Legion, is currently the most powerful military force in the Empire.

At this moment, both sides were on edge. The originally fragile cooperation between them was like a thin sheet of paper, about to be torn apart by the wind.

In the planned operation, the Church was only responsible for taking the core of the Forbidden Abyss and not deploying troops. But Zhou Jiuya also anticipated the possibility of the Church suddenly turning hostile and directly attacking the Winter Day Planet.

At this time, a faint light faintly shone from below the white carrier, and several figures in white robes slowly landed.

Seeing this scene, Ye Shu let out a cold sneer. The Church always liked to create this inexplicable sense of ceremony when making appearances, as if they truly saw themselves as representatives of God in the mortal world. Xt4AwV

“Legion Commander, don’t be angry,” the white-robed bishop with golden embroidery floated down. She was a female alpha.

The Illusory God Church had a total of twelve bishops, and the one captured by the Zerg underground was just one of them.

She slowly walked towards the two, her posture and steps unusually graceful. WjsBIr

“We didn’t want to break the agreement of cooperation, but we’ve just received a report. Not only does the Winter Day Planet engage in underground transactions of Gardenia Rose Blossoms, but it also harbors Zergs deep underground.”

The white-robed Bishop Julia finally stood before the two. Her gaze swept over Zhou Jiuya’s face, then she met Ye Shu’s cold and murderous eyes.

“Whether it’s according to the laws of the Empire or the rules of the Illusory God Church, extreme punishment must be imposed, right?”

“…” m5UiwD

Zhou Jiuya’s heart shook, but he didn’t show it.

“It’s just a report, not evidence,” he said coldly. “Currently, Winter Day Planet is under the jurisdiction of the Empire. I remember that the Church is not qualified to intervene.”

“It’s a matter of life and death for humanity. We, the Illusory God Church, cannot stand idly by. However, although this point cannot be reached as a consensus for now, Legion Commander…”

Yulia smiled. KtG3Ps

“We have obtained the core of the Forbidden Abyss, and our cooperation can continue.”

 Boom—!

This statement was like a giant rock thrown into the water, and Ye Shu’s expression changed in an instant. In that very moment, Yulia suddenly surged forward, grabbing the side of Ye Shu’s face. Golden patterns instantly grew from the woman’s slender arm, like some disgusting parasites, and pierced into Ye Shu’s temple.

She glimpsed the secret that Ye Shu had desperately been hiding for three hundred years. TMVbqB

The core of the Forbidden Abyss…

They had searched for its core for three hundred years!!!

And in the end, it turned out to be the seemingly ordinary artificial sun high above the underground city!!!

New character 尤利娅 Yulia, transliteration of the Western name Yulia/Julia/Yuliya. Holy stigmas are too OP… Z7d138

Marshal Huo Chao seems to be such a good leader so far in the flashbacks ;ww; why are you deaddddddd (he reminds me of Himmel)

and so we’ve reached the end of the ko-fi extra chapters! next update will be Friday and we’ll have the 4 promised chapters from reaching the Holidays’ goal~ XPM5Lk