translator: loop
“Come back, Executive.”
The snap of a finger rang out in front of Chu Si’s nose. Chu Si furrowed his brow, pushed those fingers to the side, and spoke nonsense: “With which eye did you see me distracted?”
Sa’e Yang curved his eyes and said, “With both.”
Some said that the sincerity of a person’s smile depended on whether their smile stayed at the corner of their mouth or reached into their eyes. This method didn’t work on Sa’e Yang because when he smiled, he always curved his eyes. The smile around the corners of his eyes was obvious, but it made it difficult to determine what the smile actually contained.
Just like the first time they met, when he smiled while licking away blood.
At that time, whether in the sanatorium or training camp, everyone who had contact with Sa’e Yang felt that he was very dangerous.
Because everyone was tied to a rope, long or short. To a greater or lesser extent, their actions and thoughts were always influenced by this or that rope. Only he seemed to have none, detached from the group.
What he did or didn’t do was entirely up to whether he wanted to or not. Because he had no entanglements, he was unpredictable and uncontrollable.
The sanatorium and training camp took more than ten years to bring Sa’e Yang into society, but the results were obviously not very effective.
He and Chu Si had known each other for a total of 45 years, from adolescence to adulthood and then to maturity, every important stage of growth included. Sa’e Yang had also changed a lot, but not in the way people had hoped.
“For the sake of us knowing each other for so many years, could you secretly tell me where your soul just went?” Sa’e Yang teasingly asked.
Chu Si glanced at him and said, “I just suddenly remembered that signal source 86206-018 is very familiar. Perhaps I’ve seen it in the orphanage before… who would exist in the orphanage in 5633, and now suddenly came to impersonate me? Or conversely, who would be someone who wanted to borrow the authority of a Security Building executive and existed in the Xixi City orphanage 80 years ago…”
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Sa’e Yang drawled out, “Wanted to borrow your authority? There are a lot of people such as me, me, and me. Why don’t I be generous and let you examine me first, Executive?”
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Sa’e’s tone was very light, as if he had just mentioned it causally, but Chu Si glanced at him.
The year before 5633 was indeed very special, as it was the last year of the interstellar chaos, when the forces of chaos were forced to continuously retreat and regroup. Their den was Xixi City.
Those forces of chaos combined with the plundering forces of eighteen different planets as well as the cosmic wanderers, which started on the planet of Fermi Alpha. It had a nickname, called the City of Silver.
In fact, whether it was the plunderers of these eighteen different planets or the cosmic wanderers, they were originally from the planet Aquila Gamma, where Chu Si and his companions were located. Just after the beginning of the New Gregorian calendar, they gradually moved to other habitable planets.
Over the next five thousand years, the development speeds of those planets varied greatly. The City of Silver was the best developed in the area, with technology and intelligence far exceeding that of Aquila Gamma, its mother planet. The ones with worse development were simply abandoned, and most of their inhabitants were scattered and transferred to other planets, leaving the rest as cosmic wanderers.
During the fastest and best years of development in the City of Silver, interstellar immigration suddenly began prevalent, and their rapid expansion exposed various irreconcilable issues that could not be resolved quickly. The only solution was to deflect these issues, which accumulated into the hundred-year chaos.
Sa’e Yang’s seemingly casual remark reminded Chu Si that the background of the person who falsely used his authority might’ve been more complex than imagined. After all, the forces of chaos of the past were never completely eradicated.
But there was one problem…
“There are a total of 9 offices in the Security Building, and the most vital one is Office 1, which has the closest connection with the military. It oversees the security situations between the stars and covers the widest range of permissions.” Chu Si braced his hand against the console and stared at the corner on the screen that overlooked the street. “Since they’ve been working so hard to disguise themselves, why not just choose the executive of Office 1?”
Sa’e Yang lazily said, “Maybe they think our Executive Chu’s skin is nice.”
After saying this, he moved his fingers and tapped the buttons on the console again and said, “Come on, for the sake of your good looks, I’ll slightly tire out my fingers again to help you cast a net.”
Chu Si had originally thought he was going to be insulted, but upon hearing this helpful remark, he reluctantly swallowed what he was about to say down and nodded, saying, “Thank you for your praise.”
Sa’e’s fingers did not stop, and he laughed again.
Executive Chu’s evaluation of himself was often accurate, such as being suspicious of this point. He was never willing to believe in coincidence or luck unless he eliminated all other possible reasons. In his opinion, there was definitely a deeper reason why the so-called 86206-018 chose to impersonate him out of anyone else in the 9 offices of the Security Building.
One’s disguise was firstly difficult to handle, and secondly could be easily punctured if one was not careful.
If he was the imposter, the most important thing to consider would be these two factors. One of which was to choose between those who were easy to impersonate or those not easy to be found out. To be honest, from a normal perspective, his position was not related to either, even when carefully examined.
But what if it was from an abnormal perspective? What if for 82606-018, it was relatively easy to impersonate him and not easily be found out or captured?
So there was a possibility that became very high—
That 86206-018, whether they were a single person or a group, was someone who knew him, possibly someone around him, and was much more familiar with him than all other executives.
“Let me take a look…” Sa’e Yang lightly tapped his fingers and the entire screen circling the wall on the second basement floor turned into a deep black-blue color. From top to bottom, from left to right, it instantly connected into a complete giant screen.
“Good lord…” The three little fools who had been keeping a distance from the two of them happened to be standing in the center of the space. In the blink of an eye, the vast and boundless sea of stars seemed to spread out around, enveloping them.
This was a different feeling from standing in the primitive forest and directly seeing the starry sea.
As the screen color darkened the entire space darkened too. Chu Si looked up and scanned around, then withdrew his gaze and looked warily at Sa’e. “What’s the sudden transformation into a giant screen star map for?”
It wasn’t that he was oversensitive, it was that Sa’e Yang’s behavior was different from others, as if he couldn’t live without seeking excitement.
Those originally small movements, as long as they passed through his hand, would be magnified infinitely, causing the sky to jolt and the earth to shake.
Sa’e’s expression was full of “I’m extremely busy, please be quiet for a second, unreasonable Executive.” He continued to tap a button with one hand and pressed the index finger of the other against the corner of his mouth. “Shh…”
“Shushing me so I can’t speak and let you mess around?” Chu Si said.
“In that case, we’ll have to take a gamble,” Sa’e said with a smile as he pulled back his finger from the corner of his mouth and tapped the last few keys.
This bastard Sa’e turned his head and saluted Chu Si with no form or style. “Reporting, Executive, you can’t stop me, let’s just do it.” With that, he tapped the last button.
Pa—
With the sound of the button, a bright blue point suddenly lit up in the center of the forty-meter screen, followed by the appearance of a second, third, and fourth…
Water-like ripples spread rapidly outward from the center.
“What is this?” Chu Si looked up.
Sa’e leaned on the console and also looked up. With this movement, his arm touched Chu Si, with its beautiful muscle lines and warm body temperature.
With a smile in his eyes, he lazily blinked at Chu Si and said, “Barney has a foundation that surpasses all super base stations. It can handle more than just various signals. Since we need to cast a net to catch people, the larger the net, the better. I just adjusted it a bit and increased its coverage slightly.”
He made a gap with his fingers then lifted his chin at the countless scattered light points. “Those are the dragon pillars, each point represents a dragon pillar. This is the location of all the planetary fragments within the reach of the universe. The entire world you’ve once known is before your eyes.”
Excited to see who dares impersonate our Executive!! 😤
Too complex for my smol brain
Maybe I’m reaching a little too far but what if it’s actually Chu Si from the future? The universe can apparently fuck up time perception/flow of time 🤷