Wouldn’t it be easier to just smash one out?

In fact, after‌‌‌⁠‌‌⁠⁠​​‍⁠‌‌‍‌‍‌​​​‌‍​ Jiang Ci became an adult, as a parent, Zhou Jiuya had thought about what kind of alpha the kid in his family would eventually marry in the future. In most of his daydreams, the person Jiang Ci liked should be someone like his elder brother, Jiang Jinsheng.

Gentle, humble, polite; a person who evokes a sense of warmth at first sight.

After all, when Jiang Ci was a child, he only softened up slightly when facing his biological father.

— Not someone like Huo Xianfeng! 

A single careless sentence from him could choke someone to death.

Zhou Jiuya struggled for a long time before finally changing the topic,

“…Now that Bright City is in ruins, where are you planning to find a training ground?”

“That’s simple.”

Huo Xianfeng’s tone was completely casual, even giving Zhou Jiuya a surprised look as if wondering how he could think of such a foolish question.

“—Wouldn’t it be easier to just smash one out?”

Zhou Jiuya: “…”

Typically, a training ground for mechas required a vast space, at least several thousand square meters, and the ground needed to be as smooth as possible. Even building the simplest, roughest one would take several months.

Yet this guy was talking about just casually smashing one out? 

At that moment, the young man suddenly stopped walking.

For some reason, Zhou Jiuya stopped as well. And in that very second, a chilling wave of terror surged up his back.

Because, at that moment, Zhou Jiuya realized that their surroundings were filled with countless compound eyes.

It was only now that the Legion Commander snapped back to his senses, realizing that he had been unconsciously following Huo Xianfeng’s footsteps. Before he knew it, he had left the area occupied by the First Legion and entered the Zergs’ territory.

Zhou Jiuya’s entire body tensed up. He knew the Zerg wouldn’t attack, but his human instinct still made his skin crawl. He watched as Huo Xianfeng casually said something, then drew a rough circle.

It was in the Zerg language, so the Legion Commander couldn’t understand it.

But soon, he realized what was being said.

Because the moment Huo Xianfeng finished speaking, Zhou Jiuya felt every hair on his body stand on its end, his pupils dilating as they reflected the countless compound eyes.

Swarms of Zerg began crawling out from underground.

That scene was like a black tide surging straight from beneath the earth.

The movement practically alarmed the entire First Legion. Most of them had fought against the Zergs before, and in an instant, terrifying memories were triggered.

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“Are they about to attack?!”

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So, everything anyone could do was stand silently, their faces showing shock and fear, as they watched the countless massive, and terrifying creatures received orders from their King. One by one, they flew into the sky, forming neat ranks, their enormous, monstrous bodies nearly blocking out the entire sky.

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In fact, the First Legion’s cameras were once chewed up by these little creatures. Then there were the star behemoths responsible for transporting soldiers, with fully grown bodies almost as large as the First Legion’s carriers.

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His sharp limbs resembled bizarre metal skeletons, and the bony wings on his back were similar to the skeletal structure of a Western dragon, but the center was filled with a membrane similar to a cicada’s wings, with densely packed crimson veins running through it like tree roots.

In short, the ferocious and terrifying appearance of the lower-level Zergs perfectly matched humanity’s deepest fears of monsters and aliens. Just a single glance could trigger instinctive fear and repulsion in human genes.

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An elderly man with white hair gently stroked the wall, his eyes and his sighs were filled with an untold complexity.

“The architect who designed this temple was truly a genius. Its structure is somewhat like a mechanical version of traditional wooden joints. Under normal circumstances, it’s incredibly sturdy—even a magnitude-10 earthquake wouldn’t bring it down. But when a real danger arises, the temple activates its disassembly mechanism, splitting into countless small parts and deploying protective shields to preserve as much as possible of the people and things inside.”

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Yet, because of its unique construction, repairing it wasn’t particularly difficult. So, after arriving in Bright City, the academicians immediately began restoring the most critical upper part of the temple, and after reconstruction, it stood nearly 50 meters tall.

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Initially, many of the instruments were unfamiliar to them because the Empire’s system and the Church’s computing frameworks were entirely different things.

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“A-Ci!!”

Bai Ze, who had been downcast for days, was now unusually excited.

“My external unit has been fully repaired!”

It had to be said, the mecha repair lab at the top of the central temple was simply unparalleled, befitting the place where an SSS-class mecha like the Forbidden Abyss was restored. Bai Ze’s external unit, damaged by molten laser beams, was fully repaired in less than five hours.

Even the charging speed reached 300%, and in an instant, it was fully charged.

“Good.”

Jiang Ci was extremely busy and his expression was serious and cold. Without even looking up, he gave a brief acknowledgment.

The academicians were handling the repairs for the Forbidden Abyss. They gathered together, occasionally discussing something before marveling at their findings.

On the other side, Jiang Ci had already completed writing the separation program.

On the console, Forbidden Abyss’s black ring hovered on the left, while Xiao X’s silver ring mimic floated on the right. In between them was a one-way data transmission blue chain, with countless streams of data being stripped from the Forbidden Abyss and transferred back into the external unit of Xiao X’s mecha.

Jiang Ci was determined to fully restore Xiao X, as he still wanted to understand why his mother’s projection was in there and whether his father had left any crucial information behind.

The separation program was expected to take two to three days, so they had to wait.

Meanwhile, the temple’s central brain had been activated, and another group was using its signal to reverse track the location of the Holy Relic White Tower. This process was going faster than Jiang Ci had expected, likely because the private communication channel between Bright City and the White Tower had not been closed.

Was it an oversight? 

Or intentional? 

Jiang Ci thought of the pink-haired woman. Although Huo Xianfeng was interrupted while talking about her because of his shocking revelation about Pei Changyun and Huo Chao’s scandalous secrets, the young man later seriously explained who Cecilia was.

— That woman was his mother’s apostle.

She could be understood as someone with an extremely close and intimate relationship with his mother, perhaps even a confidant.

This explained why, when Cecilia saw him, she had been so emotional, calling him “Minmin.”

With this piece of information, Jiang Ci could somewhat grasp the complicated emotions Cecilia held towards him—an almost obsessive longing for his mother, but more so, a deep hatred for his father.

— What Jiang Ci couldn’t understand, though, was why Cecilia had opened the signal channel for Pei Changyun.

Was she on their side?

Otherwise, why would she have deliberately revealed the location of the Forbidden Abyss to him?

But the evidence wasn’t strong enough. After all, members of the Illusory God Church couldn’t be judged by normal logic.

The Illusory God Church…