"Is everything confirmed? A large number of interstellar monsters have really appeared on the battlefield?" The dean of the Federal Academy frowned, his face full of worry.
Yang Yanlong nodded, closed the window and door of the dean's office, and looked at Gong Jing, saying:
"Given the current situation, do you still want to stick to your previous ideas? You know how strong the interstellar monsters that have appeared recently are. With your previous strength, you simply can't defeat them. With your talent, your strength will definitely increase greatly after accepting that method!"
Gong Jing sneered, "So what? Does that mean I should lose my humanity and do such heinous things?! Sorry, I can't do that."
After saying that, Gong Jing was about to leave, but he was drawn in by what Yang Yanlong said next and stopped in his tracks.
"You can't do it? Do you think it's easy for your brother and father? Do you know that your brother has already... "
"What do you mean?!" Gong Jing turned around abruptly, his green eyes filled with shock and confusion.
“My brother was contacting me just a few days ago. Wasn’t he supposed to be recuperating at a federal military hospital? What happened to him?!”
Yang Yanlong seemed to have said something wrong. After a moment of stunned regret, he sighed deeply and exchanged a glance with the dean of the Federal Academy in front of him: "You should say it."
The dean adjusted his reading glasses and told Gong Jing that his brother's condition was not optimistic.
When he came down from the battlefield, nothing seemed wrong, but now, his right leg, which had been bitten by the interstellar monster, was unable to move normally.
"To be precise, it's no different from being broken."
Gong Jing knew how outstanding and confident his brother was. His first reaction after hearing what the dean said was to turn around and leave, his feet barely touching the ground, his green eyes filled with panic.
"Hey!!............" The dean wanted to tell him to stop, but Yang Yanlong shook his head and interrupted him, "Let him go. Perhaps only by facing this matter directly will he change his mind."
Qiao Mei and Ao Cang were eavesdropping from the side, somewhat confused about what the method they were talking about was.
Seeing that one of them had disappeared while they were talking, and then Yang Yanlong started discussing student matters with the dean, Qiao Mei temporarily suppressed her confusion and continued to eavesdrop.
"Currently, there are fewer and fewer people available for reinforcements in interstellar space. We can only look to call upon those from the Federation Academy, starting with second-year students. First-year students know too little, and they wouldn't be of much help even if they went."
The dean adjusted his reading glasses: "You mean, students from sophomores to seniors all have to use it?"
"Yes, but in that case, we'll have to reorganize the campus. It's best to separate it from the first-year students so they don't know about this. I'll discuss the specifics with the Federal Army when I get back tonight, and I'll contact you once we've made a decision."
After saying that, Yang Yanlong stood up and left. Qiao Mei did not follow him, but she could still see some problems from the dean's worried face.
She felt that the skies of interstellar space were probably about to change.
After the two left the dean's building and headed back towards the pavilion, Ao Cang hesitated for a moment before telling Qiao Mei:
“An’an, I smelled a strong aura of death on all of them just now, especially Yang Yanlong. It was so strong that I almost thought he was a fallen beast.”
Qiao Mei raised her red eyes in surprise: "Are you sure you didn't smell it wrong? Gong Jing had it on him too?"
Ao Cang shook his head, his golden eyes filled with confusion: "I didn't smell it wrong. I smelled something on Gong Jing when I went to see him with you a long time ago, but this time I can be sure that he doesn't have that scent."
Qiao Mei knows best whether he's lying or not.
After a moment of silence, she decided to keep the matter to herself for now. Then she took Ao Cang into the pavilion, and while listening to the torrential rain and howling wind outside, she brought up the important matter she had wanted to ask him earlier.
"Do you know anything about the former Interstellar Alliance?"
In the original story, although Ao Cang was mostly trapped in the Awakening Domain, he would occasionally send his clones out to help the female and male protagonists. Therefore, she felt that the possibility of him knowing something was not low.
Sure enough, Ao Cang soon nodded and told her that he had heard of and seen the former Interstellar Alliance Army.
"At that time, the Interstellar Alliance Army and the Federation Army were the two major factions in the interstellar space, jointly protecting the entire interstellar space. Until the existence of the Holy Beast suddenly appeared, the concepts of the two factions began to conflict."
"The former Allied forces advocated using weapons to deal with interstellar monsters and were unwilling to perform the Holy Beast Prayer, while the Federation forces were the opposite."
The sacred beast appeared about thirty years ago, which isn't too long ago.
It has only been in the last decade that it has been fully accepted.
Before that, citizens who were not recognized by the sacred beast were not sent to garbage planets, and the number of people who believed in the sacred beast accounted for two-thirds.
Qiao Mei heard these things from her teachers at the Federal Academy, but she didn't know that Ao Cang had told her this part behind the story.
"And then what happened? Why did the Interstellar Alliance forces disappear?"
Ao Cang thought for a moment and then recited all the information he knew:
"It seems that the Federation Army cooperated with the Royal Family under the pretext of better protecting the interstellar space to focus fire on the former Interstellar Alliance Army. After that, we don't know what happened. Overnight, the former Interstellar Alliance Army personnel simply evaporated, and those citizens who were unwilling to perform the Holy Beast Prayer or did not receive a response from the Holy Beast were all taken to a junk planet for disposal."
Overall, Qiao Mei didn't think the Interstellar Alliance had done anything wrong; at most, some of their ideas were outdated.
Given the current situation, using the superpowers of the summoned beasts to fight is clearly a better way to protect the galaxy.
However, they weren't entirely useless; at least in not sending citizens who couldn't awaken their sacred beast companions to garbage planets, they were quite humane.
When she was reading the book, she wondered why ordinary people could still be used in many situations, even if they couldn't fight on the interstellar monster battlefield.
In the past, when there were no superpowers among the Familiars, things were developing just fine. Suddenly, they were all driven to extinction because they couldn't awaken their Sacred Beast Familiars. It's really a bit inhumane.
But these things cannot be changed by her speaking out alone.
Qiao Mei remembered that the interstellar law had provisions for this matter, so she temporarily put aside how to change it and instead wondered why the death aura on the Federation army's side was so strong.
What is that method they're talking about that can make the palace stronger?
She couldn't figure it out, but a possibility that seemed unlikely yet was the only plausible one arose in her mind.
"Cangcang, come with me to my maternal grandfather's house."
She wanted to go and see if he knew.
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