Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lulu, the lady guide, was one of a few people Hao Ren knew in the space station at the edge of the solar system. It was pleasant to see someone familiar. His bad mood caused by the annoyed MDT had dissipated somewhat because of that. Without needing reminder, Hao Ren knew the drill this time; He led Lily and Vivian away from the teleporting platform. As they walked over to the open floor opposite the teleport platform, Lily suddenly came to her senses. She looked at the spectacular scenery and sighed heartily. "Howl—"
Before she could finish howling, she was slapped and stopped by Vivian. "What the hell are you doing? Could you please behave yourself while being out here?"
Under normal circumstance, Lily would have gotten into a fight with Vivian, but this time she was totally out of her character; her eyes were obsessed with whatever she saw, she scampered off and ran in between the glowing columns in the hall. "It’s space station! It’s space station! It’s..."
Hao Ren hurried Vivian to keep going as he said, "Let’s go. We don’t know her."
Lily shook her ears and ran back up, the excitement on her face hadn’t subsided a bit. She would want to get her hand on everything she saw and was restless like a rabbit on drug. Hoa Ren suddenly realised he should have put this lass on a leash, it didn’t matter how effective it was but at least it would have complied with the safety requirement of keeping large dogs. The large husky had scared the hell out of the space station crew.
That being said, however, Vivian was also no less excited than Lily, but she had managed to behave—definitely a lass one would feel proud to go out with. She was always well kept and maintaining her image and composure, totally the opposite of husky which would tempted to run on four legs when got excited.
Except when finding money on the street, of course.
But Vivian had never ever found any money on the street.
They paced through the scenic corridor where Hao Ren had once gone through. Looked like Lulu had deliberately planned it so that the new guests could experience the unique scenery of Kuiper Station. Lily leaned herself against the shield, feeling extremely excited—she had the nerves of steel, totally unafraid of the darkness and coldness of the space outside. After that, they were teleported to the special port where Petrachelys docked. They were walking through a corridor high up across the space port, with giant windows on the side. Hao Ren looked through the glass and he could already see the massive body of Petrachelys—though it several-hundred-metres spacecraft was nothing compared to the fleets of battleship of the empire, it was still extremely huge in the eye of Hao Ren, and needless to say, Vivian and Lily as well.
The spacecraft had remained in the dock since the last time it ported, and was floating in the dock with help from the static energy field. A group of autonomous drones was flying around the spacecraft conducting maintenance checks. The official ship of agent of the empire didn’t need the maintenance service of the civilian port, all the crew of Kuiper Station did was simply monitoring from the outside. The spacecraft could fully self-repair itself: it had life, it had its own onboard mechanical group, its own mini factory and production lines, it could take care of itself even under extremely condition—like when the spacecraft was blown in half, it could regenerate itself. Lily leaned herself against the glass, wide-mouthed while sliding forward. "This is our spaceship..."
The husky maiden was pretty smart to say ‘our spaceship’...
"Awesome, isn’t it?" Hao Ren bragged. "The interior was much larger than the outside. It has a spatial warp installation, and its warehouse could even fit an entire skyscraper."
Vivian heard and was astonished. She suddenly felt faint and almost dropped to the ground.
Hao Ren was startled and quickly held her up. "What’s wrong? Not adapting to space environment?"
"No..." Vivian frowned as if she herself was confused. "I just felt like being held up in a spinning vessel and that made me dizzy...oh gosh, here it comes again!"
This time, she was ready for it and held herself up well, her expression didn’t look good though. Hao Ren was nervous. "OK, wait. Lulu, she needs a doctor. The vampire might’ve space sickness..."
"Please, don’t. I don’t need doctor. I know what’s wrong with me." Vivian waved at them while staring at Hao Ren with a strange expression. "It’s all your fault. Next time, I’m not going to send bats by courier service!"
"What?" Hao Ren was startled.
Vivian’s face crumpled as she shook her head with force. "I’m getting violent handling... Oww! Here it comes!"
Hao Ren: "....."
Then he recalled it; he had asked Vivian to contact the elders of otherworldly beings by sending bats which carried the runes and secret messages via courier service. No one had given it a thought and everyone thought it was a ingenious idea back then, never had they expected that the parcels were being tossed like a salad at the distribution centres.
Waves of dizziness began to hit her. Apparently, several bat-parcels had arrived at the same distribution centre, the pathetic little bats sealed inside bottle in the parcels were being thrown around and Vivian was feeling that exact tossing movement. The vampire finally found some peaceful moment after half-a-minute of violent handling. she looked up and was still blurry. "Landlord, please don’t trust those courier service advertisements... here I’m—the first-hand testimony."
Keeping a solemn face in this moment was excruciating, but he had to keep himself from laughing out loud. "Are you OK now?"
"Feel better. Just don’t know if other parcels would happen the same." Vivian’s head wobbled and she was clearly peeved. "I’ve never met with such humiliation my entire life! How dare they throw my avatars around like that!"
Hao Ren was in cold sweat and dared not speak a word. Strangely, amid all the rant, she kept mum about the humiliating days when she had to work as a cleaner in a church during the bad days, he thought.
Suddenly something cross his mind. He took out the MDT, asking, "Wait a minute. Are the bats able to contact Vivian while she was in the other world? If no, then wouldn’t those little things lose control?"
"That’s indeed a problem." replied the MDT. "She wouldn’t be able to connect to the empire’s data network, she for sure wouldnt’ be able to contact her avatars across-world. But I could reconfigure the broadcast antenna of the spacecraft and open up a broadcast channel just for her, then she would be able to contact them via Ma’am Raven’s facilities on earth..."
"Don’t have to do that!" Vivian waved with force. "The bats shared my consciousness. When contact is lost, they could carry out the mission independently. And losing the connection is probably a good thing, I’d not have to worry about being traced by the demon hunters when they discovered the bats. Muahaha... let’s quickly depart!"
Hao Ren glanced at Vivian, the vampire maiden clearly didn’t know how to bluff. Perhaps, even Lily could see that she was afraid of being thrown around again...
They were coming to the entrance of Petrachelys, the spacecraft main computer instantly detected the arriving of its captain. A very soft siren sounded inside the spacecraft as blue light-pulses and lights began to flash on the spacecraft. Droves of autonomous drones began to make some pleasant whistles as they went back in via the carrier channel at the top of the spacecraft. Meanwhile, everyone started to enter via the hatch on the underside as the Agent spacecraft was about to begin its first mission flight.
The control room was all ready for the flight. Hao Ren, Y’zaks, Hilda and the two first-time space travellers were seated in the round room. As if something had struck her mind, Lily began swinging her arms and posing on her seat. "Ocean of stars’ our destination! Toward the deepest part of the universe! Let’s go! Let’s.... Landlord, why hasn’t the spacecraft moved?"
Hao Ren had just shoved the annoying MDT in a card slot, saying, "Soon, soon." while starting the SOP a captain intern should conduct before flight:
Flight path checked. Signposts check. Kuiper Station guidance signal checked. Spacecraft main computer data report checked. Then...
Autopilot mode engaged as his hands off the control panel.
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lulu, the lady guide, was one of a few people Hao Ren knew in the space station at the edge of the solar system. It was pleasant to see someone familiar. His bad mood caused by the annoyed MDT had dissipated somewhat because of that. Without needing reminder, Hao Ren knew the drill this time; He led Lily and Vivian away from the teleporting platform. As they walked over to the open floor opposite the teleport platform, Lily suddenly came to her senses. She looked at the spectacular scenery and sighed heartily. "Howl—"
Before she could finish howling, she was slapped and stopped by Vivian. "What the hell are you doing? Could you please behave yourself while being out here?"
Under normal circumstance, Lily would have gotten into a fight with Vivian, but this time she was totally out of her character; her eyes were obsessed with whatever she saw, she scampered off and ran in between the glowing columns in the hall. "It’s space station! It’s space station! It’s..."
Hao Ren hurried Vivian to keep going as he said, "Let’s go. We don’t know her."
Lily shook her ears and ran back up, the excitement on her face hadn’t subsided a bit. She would want to get her hand on everything she saw and was restless like a rabbit on drug. Hoa Ren suddenly realised he should have put this lass on a leash, it didn’t matter how effective it was but at least it would have complied with the safety requirement of keeping large dogs. The large husky had scared the hell out of the space station crew.
That being said, however, Vivian was also no less excited than Lily, but she had managed to behave—definitely a lass one would feel proud to go out with. She was always well kept and maintaining her image and composure, totally the opposite of husky which would tempted to run on four legs when got excited.
Except when finding money on the street, of course.
But Vivian had never ever found any money on the street.
They paced through the scenic corridor where Hao Ren had once gone through. Looked like Lulu had deliberately planned it so that the new guests could experience the unique scenery of Kuiper Station. Lily leaned herself against the shield, feeling extremely excited—she had the nerves of steel, totally unafraid of the darkness and coldness of the space outside. After that, they were teleported to the special port where Petrachelys docked. They were walking through a corridor high up across the space port, with giant windows on the side. Hao Ren looked through the glass and he could already see the massive body of Petrachelys—though it several-hundred-metres spacecraft was nothing compared to the fleets of battleship of the empire, it was still extremely huge in the eye of Hao Ren, and needless to say, Vivian and Lily as well.
The spacecraft had remained in the dock since the last time it ported, and was floating in the dock with help from the static energy field. A group of autonomous drones was flying around the spacecraft conducting maintenance checks. The official ship of agent of the empire didn’t need the maintenance service of the civilian port, all the crew of Kuiper Station did was simply monitoring from the outside. The spacecraft could fully self-repair itself: it had life, it had its own onboard mechanical group, its own mini factory and production lines, it could take care of itself even under extremely condition—like when the spacecraft was blown in half, it could regenerate itself. Lily leaned herself against the glass, wide-mouthed while sliding forward. "This is our spaceship..."
The husky maiden was pretty smart to say ‘our spaceship’...
"Awesome, isn’t it?" Hao Ren bragged. "The interior was much larger than the outside. It has a spatial warp installation, and its warehouse could even fit an entire skyscraper."
Vivian heard and was astonished. She suddenly felt faint and almost dropped to the ground.
Hao Ren was startled and quickly held her up. "What’s wrong? Not adapting to space environment?"
"No..." Vivian frowned as if she herself was confused. "I just felt like being held up in a spinning vessel and that made me dizzy...oh gosh, here it comes again!"
This time, she was ready for it and held herself up well, her expression didn’t look good though. Hao Ren was nervous. "OK, wait. Lulu, she needs a doctor. The vampire might’ve space sickness..."
"Please, don’t. I don’t need doctor. I know what’s wrong with me." Vivian waved at them while staring at Hao Ren with a strange expression. "It’s all your fault. Next time, I’m not going to send bats by courier service!"
"What?" Hao Ren was startled.
Vivian’s face crumpled as she shook her head with force. "I’m getting violent handling... Oww! Here it comes!"
Hao Ren: "....."
Then he recalled it; he had asked Vivian to contact the elders of otherworldly beings by sending bats which carried the runes and secret messages via courier service. No one had given it a thought and everyone thought it was a ingenious idea back then, never had they expected that the parcels were being tossed like a salad at the distribution centres.
Waves of dizziness began to hit her. Apparently, several bat-parcels had arrived at the same distribution centre, the pathetic little bats sealed inside bottle in the parcels were being thrown around and Vivian was feeling that exact tossing movement. The vampire finally found some peaceful moment after half-a-minute of violent handling. she looked up and was still blurry. "Landlord, please don’t trust those courier service advertisements... here I’m—the first-hand testimony."
Keeping a solemn face in this moment was excruciating, but he had to keep himself from laughing out loud. "Are you OK now?"
"Feel better. Just don’t know if other parcels would happen the same." Vivian’s head wobbled and she was clearly peeved. "I’ve never met with such humiliation my entire life! How dare they throw my avatars around like that!"
Hao Ren was in cold sweat and dared not speak a word. Strangely, amid all the rant, she kept mum about the humiliating days when she had to work as a cleaner in a church during the bad days, he thought.
Suddenly something cross his mind. He took out the MDT, asking, "Wait a minute. Are the bats able to contact Vivian while she was in the other world? If no, then wouldn’t those little things lose control?"
"That’s indeed a problem." replied the MDT. "She wouldn’t be able to connect to the empire’s data network, she for sure wouldnt’ be able to contact her avatars across-world. But I could reconfigure the broadcast antenna of the spacecraft and open up a broadcast channel just for her, then she would be able to contact them via Ma’am Raven’s facilities on earth..."
"Don’t have to do that!" Vivian waved with force. "The bats shared my consciousness. When contact is lost, they could carry out the mission independently. And losing the connection is probably a good thing, I’d not have to worry about being traced by the demon hunters when they discovered the bats. Muahaha... let’s quickly depart!"
Hao Ren glanced at Vivian, the vampire maiden clearly didn’t know how to bluff. Perhaps, even Lily could see that she was afraid of being thrown around again...
They were coming to the entrance of Petrachelys, the spacecraft main computer instantly detected the arriving of its captain. A very soft siren sounded inside the spacecraft as blue light-pulses and lights began to flash on the spacecraft. Droves of autonomous drones began to make some pleasant whistles as they went back in via the carrier channel at the top of the spacecraft. Meanwhile, everyone started to enter via the hatch on the underside as the Agent spacecraft was about to begin its first mission flight.
The control room was all ready for the flight. Hao Ren, Y’zaks, Hilda and the two first-time space travellers were seated in the round room. As if something had struck her mind, Lily began swinging her arms and posing on her seat. "Ocean of stars’ our destination! Toward the deepest part of the universe! Let’s go! Let’s.... Landlord, why hasn’t the spacecraft moved?"
Hao Ren had just shoved the annoying MDT in a card slot, saying, "Soon, soon." while starting the SOP a captain intern should conduct before flight:
Flight path checked. Signposts check. Kuiper Station guidance signal checked. Spacecraft main computer data report checked. Then...
Autopilot mode engaged as his hands off the control panel.
