Chapter 1027 - 571: Sibling Reunion (2)

"Interplanetary travel?!" Li Wenxi was instantly shocked, "So powerful! Alien technology is really strong!"

"It’s indeed very strong. If it weren’t strong, how could it travel across star systems to reach us?" Xu Ying sat on the sofa, tilting her head back against the sofa’s backrest. "Just thinking about opposing them gives me a headache..."

Then she shook her head vigorously to clear her mind, and explained to Li Wenxi again: "That’s why stability and long-distance are the advantages of transmission devices, but their drawbacks are very obvious, so you don’t need to worry too much."

"But that passage is different. That passage was left by my brother. It’s a quick channel for humans in the underground world to quickly advance to the surface, with a very strong collective transmission capacity. If it’s detected and reverse-utilized after being opened..."

Xu Ying’s eyebrows furrowed slightly: "One careless move, this place could face a catastrophe."

"Um... no need to worry that much, right? They have the ability to install transmission devices here. If they really wanted to make a large-scale attack, surely they would have a way, right?"

Xu Ying shook her head: "No, I don’t think they currently have the ability to attack the human base. Their permanent location is very far from here, almost spanning half the planet, and an expedition is not easy.

The existence of transmission devices here is likely related to the mutant biological invasion that started a hundred years ago.

My guess is that over the millennia, those mutant creatures kept expanding in the underground world, eventually spreading here, finding this place, and letting some bastard know about it.

So, that bastard sent people with transmission devices to venture here, install the devices, and slowly infiltrate and erode the underground world. They did this because they have no way to initiate a collective attack here."

"But if they have such a way, there might be big trouble..."

The more she spoke, the more anxious Xu Ying’s face became. Then she suddenly stood up: "No, I need to go up and check, we can’t let my brother open this passage early!"

"This..." Li Wenxi also stood up, "You want to go up? If this passage isn’t opened, will Xu Xin and the others not have a way to come down?"

"It’s not like it won’t ever be opened, but now is not the time to open it." Xu Ying stomped slightly, and a purple-black vortex began to appear beneath her. "At least we need to wait until the resources and weapons below are fully equipped. The current human base doesn’t have resistance capabilities, humans even start to distrust each other!"

As she spoke, she stepped into the vortex and disappeared.

"Left so quickly..." Li Wenxi sighed, sat back down on the sofa, and lamented, "I also wish I could teleport so conveniently. Transmission devices... That transmission device can actually cross planets..."

...

"Don’t move." Xu Xin stopped Lou Fei’Er from fiddling with the stone statue’s earring. "For now, don’t trigger the mechanism."

"Hmm?" Keke called out in confusion on the statue.

"Why not? Since we’ve found the method, let’s open it first."

Lou Fei’Er, although slightly unwilling, removed her hand from the stone earring.

However, she still hadn’t given up on convincing Xu Xin: "If it’s similar to your statue, maybe there’s another Crystal City below? If we activate the Crystal City below, wouldn’t we be stronger? Protecting that World Tree would be easier, right?"

Xu Xin opened his mouth, but ultimately did not reveal the truth to her.

The issue regarding the entrance to the human base in the underground world was speculated by him, but it should be quite close to reality.

The less people know about this matter, the better; otherwise, it could cause significant problems if it reaches the alien invaders.

"Hmm?" Keke jumped down from the statue’s head, into Xu Xin’s arms, tilting its little head while looking at him, seemingly asking Xu Xin why he didn’t trigger the mechanism.

"This matter isn’t that simple, and now we’re also a team. Charging ahead on one’s own isn’t a good habit. Some matters need to be discussed with the explorers’ group before taking action."

Bringing up the explorers’ group made Lou Fei’Er sigh and reluctantly accept: "Alright, indeed, it’s dangerous for just the two of us. If we bring more people, it should be much safer."

"Bringing more people is even less feasible." Xu Xin refuted, "Now is the phase of protecting the World Tree. How can we let the main force protecting the World Tree do something that might take an unknown amount of time."

"Ah—what to do then?" Lou Fei’Er glanced at the statue, then at Xu Xin, "You’re not planning to move this statue, right?"

"Let’s at least wait for the current World Tree siege event to end before discussing it." Xu Xin felt that it was better to be cautious.

First complete the current goal, protect the World Tree, and then talk about other matters.

"Uh... okay, okay." Lou Fei’Er said disappointedly, itching for a look at the statue, "We’re just taking a glance? Fine, shall we go back now?"

"Hmm, there doesn’t seem to be anything else here."

"Hmm!"

Before Xu Xin finished speaking, Keke suddenly cried out, pointing its little paw in a direction.

Looking in the direction it pointed, behind the human-faced stone statue, there was a faint... purple-black glow?