Chapter 1 Enemies
I surrendered myself
"Hello, Miss Qin Shu, I'm Zhou Yin. I think you should know why you were brought here?" On a secret starship located on the edge of the planet Sigma 13, which belongs to the Interstellar Federation, a woman in federal military uniform was sitting in a square transparent room, asking the young woman opposite her with a serious expression.
"I know." The woman he called Miss Qin Shu was sitting obediently on another chair in the transparent room. She looked pale due to excessive blood loss. Although the wound on her head had been repaired in the treatment chamber, her haggard and disheveled appearance could not be hidden. However, it was this sick appearance that made her inexplicably more beautiful.
Even Zhou Yin had to admit that this face was worthy of being called the top goddess in the entertainment circle of the Interstellar Federation. Even though Qin Shu was being blackened by the entire Internet now, there were not many comments calling her ugly after searching the entire Internet. Even on an extremely xenophobic planet like Aiken, Qin Shu's face seemed to have appeared on the list of the most beautiful faces on the planet.
The room was so empty that only two chairs were available. Qin Shu didn't hide even the slightest movement. Her eyes shifted slightly, then stopped at a man in ancient costume with an ethereal aura outside the transparent room. "Because of him."
"It seems you know what he did." Zhou Yin nodded calmly.
"Well, he... flew on his sword."
Zhou Yin fell silent for a rare moment after hearing this: "..."
After all, in the year 2373, when exploring and developing the universe has become a basic operation, it is really incongruous to suddenly hear such an ancient word that is completely out of touch with the current interstellar society and only exists in the database, even though this incident actually happened not long ago.
Qin Shu blinked innocently, looking particularly innocent and harmless: "I think you should know what's going on from him, right?"
Zhou Yin certainly knew. After all, the person outside had no intention of hiding anything and confessed everything very consciously. However, what he said was really hard to believe. After all, he said -
"I'm Qingxuzi, a Jindan cultivator from the Dongyi Sect, who hails from another continent. I'm hired by Miss Qin Shu as... er, an expert? She asked me to bring a message to everyone: 'I'm surrendering myself!'"
Outrageous.
It's completely off the mark.
Even novels wouldn't dare write this kind of plot. God knows when they monitored the abnormality in the fifth channel of the aircraft, they thought they were attacked by the Kopra Empire again. But what they saw was someone flying in the sky on a sword, waving to the passing aircraft from time to time. How shocked were they?
Even though personal air flight has been achieved now, it still requires wearing specific flight equipment. No one can fly on such an unpowered device.
This matter was too bizarre, so bizarre that even when some citizens of the Federation uploaded the video of Qingxuzi flying with a sword to the Star Internet, netizens just joked that it was "well made up", and no one believed it at all. There was no need to even specifically refute the rumor.
However, netizens on the Star Network did not believe it. However, the top leaders of Sigma 13, a member of the Interstellar Federation, knew it was true. For this reason, various departments on the planet were dispatched urgently and brought Qingxuzi and Qin Shu, who was still in the hospital, here overnight.
"Ms. Qin Shu, I'd like to ask, how did you manage to hire that... Qingxuzi outside?"
"Uh, have you heard of the quick travel system?"
"Quick travel system?" This term was a little unfamiliar to Zhou Yin, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Qin Shu explained honestly, "Yes, it's probably a technology different from our own. I'm not entirely sure, but my system can take me to various worlds with different backgrounds to complete quests. Completing a quest will earn me rewards. Oh, and my system is the [Heroic Spirit Recruitment] system. It disregards space and time and recruits Heroic Spirits from the resource library."
"You can recruit as many people as you want, no restrictions?"
"No, since it's a recruitment, it's naturally a two-way choice. I put forward my requirements, and the other party proposes the salary they want. If both parties feel it's appropriate, the recruitment contract will take effect."
"Salary, money?"
Qin Shu shook her head. "It's achievement points plus a wish. If I were to use an analogy, achievement points are like wages, and wishes are employee benefits, like bonuses, vacations, and so on."
Zhou Yin frowned: "Achievement points...how do I get them?"
"It's just like what it says. If you achieve certain things, you'll get corresponding achievement points. For example, cough..." Qin Shu coughed lightly, a little embarrassed. "I think I was the number one trending search on Star Network a few hours ago?"
"...Can this be considered an achievement?" If Zhou Yin remembered correctly, the most searched term seemed to be #秦姝失脸#, and the accompanying picture was a photo of her being sent onto a spacecraft with blood all over her face.
"Yes, but the achievement points are very low, only 3 points."
"How many achievement points are needed to recruit a Heroic Spirit?"
"That's not certain. Just like how you pay an intern the same salary as a vice president, can you? Anyway, the minimum standard is 1,000 achievement points. The highest Heroic Spirit Resource Library hasn't been unlocked yet, so I don't know how many points it will cost."
"Regarding this Heroic Spirit Recruitment System, could you demonstrate it to us?"
"Okay. But I only have enough achievement points to recruit one more Heroic Spirit. What kind of person do you want me to recruit?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yin raised his hand, motioning Qin Shu to wait, and then lightly tapped the device on his right ear. Qin Shu knew that she was waiting for instructions, so she cooperated without urging him.
After about two minutes, Zhou Yin finally spoke: "A week ago, the Federation's interstellar fleet discovered a two-eared animal-faced bronze gui from an unnamed star in the Gamma Quadrant while exploring it. Did you know that it's about 4,100 years old?"
Qin Shu was stunned when she heard this, then shook her head: "Sorry, it's been too long, I don't remember."
"Too long?" Zhou Yin raised an eyebrow, but didn't mind Qin Shu's explanation. "It doesn't matter if you can't remember. Anyway, there's an inscription engraved inside this bronze gui. This inscription is an ancient script we've never seen before. We don't even know what civilization it came from, so we can't decipher it for now. Can you find someone from this time period to come and decipher it?"
"Can you share the holographic image of that inscription with me?"
"Okay." Soon, Zhou Yin shared the relevant images directly to Qin Shu's terminal.
Qin Shu looked at it carefully, and then called the system.
Zhou Yin immediately looked at Qin Shu warily upon seeing this. Qin Shu glanced at the empty sky and then nodded. "There's a person who fits the time period you described, but the concept of galaxies didn't exist in his time, so he doesn't know what galactic civilization he came from. However, he can read and is a craftsman. I'll ask him if he's seen these characters before."
After hearing this, Zhou Yin looked around carefully. Although the room was still the same room, Zhou Yin, out of his military intuition, always felt that there was a strange atmosphere in this transparent room.
Almost at the same time when she felt this breath, a middle-aged man with his hair tied up in a crown and wearing ancient clothes of a top and skirt suddenly appeared out of thin air beside Qin Shu.
Zhou Yin almost instinctively put her hands on her waist, where she wore her pistol. If she hadn't heard "Don't be impulsive" from her headphones, Zhou Yin might have pulled out her pistol.
"That... the person you're looking for." Qin Shu took the initiative to introduce the person on her right. "Mr. Lin, from Lindong 4,100 years ago."
Lin Dong seemed to be very familiar with this recruitment model, and he greeted Zhou Yin directly and openly.
Zhou Yin was still unable to react at this point and could only nod woodenly. From time to time, she heard words that she could not understand, such as "narrow-sleeved woven pattern clothes", "marked patterns", "open knees", "jade groups", etc. from her headphones. The voices were so noisy that it was obvious that more than one person spoke at the same time.
Although Zhou Yin looked calm on the surface, he was still frightened by the sudden appearance of this person.
But the other party was completely unaware of this. He held up the image of the bronze gui and said, "What a coincidence! This bronze gui was one of the utensils I used when I offered sacrifices to my father."
"Ah?" Zhou Yin couldn't help but respond when she heard that. After she responded, she suddenly came to her senses and felt that she must have been very stupid just now.
Fortunately, Lin Dong didn't care at all. He pointed at the inscription on the statue and said, "Look, doesn't it say, 'Lin Dong is the father of the precious Zun Yi'?"
Zhou Yin was a little confused.
Suddenly, someone excitedly shouted in her earphones: "Shi should be his father's name, he should really say it, Zhou Yin, Zhou Yin, hurry up and get him out to us!"
"Dr. Cai, calm down..."
"I'm not calm at all! You guys don't understand his value at all. Hurry up!"
Countless voices were making a cacophony of noise in Zhou Yin's headphones, causing him to subconsciously tap the air near his left ear and lower the volume by two degrees.
Qin Shu also spoke at this time: "Have I proved my ability now?"
"certainly."
"Then—can I make a small offer?"
Zhou Yin was a little surprised when she heard this, because it was the first time she sensed a sense of urgency in Qin Shu's emotions: "What conditions?"
"I am willing to hand myself over to the Federation. I only hope that the Star Alliance can help me protect someone and let him live safely and healthily." Qin Shu emphasized the last two words "live".
"who?"
"Lu Yishen."
When Zhou Yin heard the name, her expression grew even more surprised. Even though she didn't pay much attention to entertainment news, she had heard of Lu Yishen's name. "The Lu Yishen who just won the Youngest Best Actor Award in the Interstellar Federation?"
"right."
"Who is he to you?"
Who? Qin Shu wanted to curse just thinking about it.
It all started on the night of her 20th birthday. Due to her financial difficulties, she moved to the lower city of Sigma 13. Compared with the upper city and the middle and upper floors, there were no cutting-edge technologies here. The lifestyle here was relatively simple, and the various technological equipment used were also the ones that were eliminated by the Interstellar Alliance a long time ago, so she had no robot butler to help take care of everything at home.
That day she just went out to take out the trash after dinner as scheduled, but she was suddenly pushed from behind and fell down the stairs and hit her head.
Because she fell so hard, not only did her vision go black, but her body was also unable to move. In addition, she did not bring the terminal when she went out to throw away the garbage. She had no choice but to shout for help, but the place where she lived was too remote and no one heard her cry for help.
Qin Shu still remembers the feeling of powerlessness and despair of having to watch her life slip away bit by bit and waiting for death to approach. But just when she was dying, the quick-travel system suddenly bound her, and she had a chance to survive.
She kept fast-forwarding and completing tasks diligently, and finally accumulated enough points to be able to retire and return to her original world to enjoy her retirement life. However, not long after she came back, there was a click, and her eyes went black. The world restarted, and she returned to the night when she fell down the building.
This happened nine times, and Qin Shu was going crazy.
It was not until the last time she saved up enough achievement points to restart the system and hired a fortune teller to do a calculation that she found out that the restart of the world was actually related to Lu Yishen's death. She was still hesitating whether to believe it, but the next second she saw Lu Yishen being hit by a falling billboard on a live variety show on TV.
At the same time, her eyes went dark, and she lay back in the corridor where she was 20 years old.
Now you have to believe it even if you don’t want to.
Qin Shu felt a pang of anger when she thought about how she had been forced to repeat herself nine times because of Lu Yishen's death, and how each time she returned to the time when she was being scolded by the entire internet. "He, he is my...enemy."
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