"According to Big Sister Tarnished, he cares about Ursus the most. So as long as it's for Ursus, he's willing to do anything, even die."
"...In other words, whatever seal is inside your sister's body can truly make Ursus burn," Emperor felt a headache coming on as he heard this. When did this world get such ridiculous things? Ursus was a great power, after all.
"Right?"
"Probably," Xia Yu nodded, grumbling, "Big Sister Tarnished didn't have much time left to begin with, so she wanted to pass through the snowfield and head beyond the Boundary of Civilization, using her own life to cast the Frenzied Flame into that door and banish it."
"But who would have thought that just because she kindly saved a few Infected on the snowfield, Black Snake would bring a whole fleet to cause trouble for her. Sigh, her sanity was already crumbling after so many years of sealing it..."
Xia Yu sighed, sat back down on the sofa, and put on a sullen expression as she said, "The Frenzied Flame was born from oppression and suffering; it's a curse on the world from those who died unjustly. The suffering in the Ursus Icefield is practically overflowing. Encountering this kind of situation, she was also influenced by the Frenzied Flame."
"So she just went on a killing spree and destroyed the entire fleet. Later, to reseal the Frenzied Flame, she had to head straight into Yan and trick Miss Painter out of a painting to use as a vessel."
Speaking of this, Xia Yu sighed and said sadly, "But that was already her limit. After handing the letter to me, she no longer had the strength to head to the Sami snowfield and could only make her way towards the ocean."
"An Evil God born from suffering and oppression?" Exusiai's face was full of curiosity hearing this. "If I may ask, why didn't she go to Laterano?"
"If it were Laterano, she would definitely..."
"Because your god isn't capable," Xia Yu sighed, making things up. "The PCS System wasn't created to suppress an Evil God. Her going to Laterano would only interfere with the system's operation."
"So our god is actually a supercomputer?" Exusiai noticed the blind spot.
"Yes." Hearing this, just as Xia Yu was about to say something, she noticed the halo above Exusiai's head flicker.
"Hmm? What's wrong?" Suddenly, everyone was looking at her, leaving Exusiai a bit flustered. "Why are you all looking at me?"
"Exusiai..." Texas's tail bristled. "The halo on your head..."
The halo, which just moments ago looked like a fluorescent tube, was now gradually changing shape, distinctly extending into something resembling a crown.
"Ah?" Hearing this, Exusiai hurriedly found a small mirror and looked at the top of her head.
"What is this?"
"It's nothing," Xia Yu smiled upon hearing this. "It just heard us talking about its name, so it came to take a look."
"Ah? The Lord is that free... Unauthorized user detected... Error, authorization... Error! Error!"
Before she could finish her sentence, inexplicable words kept tumbling out of her mouth one after another, and she looked thoroughly terrified.
"Stop looking. No matter how much you look, I won't have authorization," Xia Yu was quite calm hearing this. It was just a supercomputer system, after all. If this were her first time on Terra, she might have been a little afraid of it, but now, with the Power of Acheron in hand, she was invincible!
Even if the big boss herself came, she could still casually tease her!
"The Vidyadhara Race didn't participate in the research on angels; we just know that a project like you exists," Xia Yu continued to spout nonsense. "Rather than staring at me here, you'd be better off looking at Kazdel. That guy AMA-10 dug up something incredible and did something incredibly stupid."
"...Vidyadhara, entry not recorded." After these words popped out of Exusiai's mouth, she felt control over her body return, and the halo above her head reverted to its unadorned, fluorescent tube-like shape.
Meanwhile, in the secret server room beneath the Holy See of the Laterano Pope, the current Pope was about to pull his beard out as he watched their rapidly operating god.
"That was the Lord?" Exusiai was completely dumbfounded. "It really is a supercomputer?"
"No, I don't think that's the important part," Croissant shrank her neck hearing this. "The important part is, is this really something we can listen to?"
The truth behind the annihilation of an Ursus fleet, an Evil God capable of burning a great power to the ground, the true face of Laterano's Lord...
We won't get silenced as soon as we step outside, right?
"Minor detail," Xia Yu calmly shook her head hearing this. "Aren't you Emperor's subordinates? You can listen."
"Boss, you have that kind of influence?" Hearing this, everyone from Penguin Logistics looked at Emperor in unison.
"Now you know your boss's greatness, right?" Emperor looked at his subordinates disdainfully upon hearing this. "Then show me some respect on a daily basis!"
In truth, there was a lot in there that he didn't know either, like the fact that Laterano's Lord was a computer.
Heh, this was just too amusing.
But if there were a few more amusements like this, even he wouldn't be able to handle it. A Beast Lord wouldn't die, but that didn't mean his subordinates wouldn't either. So he changed the subject, "That old Black Snake fancies himself the god of Ursus and has always been driven purely by profit. For him to risk angering a powerhouse, I'm guessing your sister must have revealed something that he couldn't help but care about?"
"Oh, Big Sister Tarnished used Incantations to treat most of the Infected under her sister's command," Xia Yu pointed at Chen Huijie, who had been in a state of shock this whole time. "Along the way, she also ruined his plot to seize Talulah's body, so he probably flew into a fit of rage."
"Wait, the Infected can be cured?!" Hearing this, Lin Yühsia's eyes widened. There were quite a few Infected in the slums, and she had had a major headache dealing with them!
But Chen Huijie focused on a different point. "What do you mean 'seize Talulah's body'? What exactly was that bastard planning to do to her?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Xia Yu shrugged. "Talulah is incredibly useful. Combined with his own title as Duke Kaschey, she holds claims to three nations, especially a strong claim to Victoria. With the Aslans having lost their country, she genuinely has the qualifications to vie for the position of Emperor of Victoria. She's absolutely perfect for stirring up trouble."
Hearing this, the few members of Penguin Logistics shrank into a corner, not even daring to breathe loudly.
What did she mean, 'vie for the Victorian throne'?
Is this really something we can listen to?
"Also, Big Sister Tarnished only alleviated the condition of the Infected; she can't cure Oripathy."
More accurately, no one could cure Oripathy in a patient, because it wasn't a disease at all!
As long as the Originium problem remained unsolved, Oripathy would remain incurable.
"To what extent can it be alleviated?" Lin Yühsia was very interested.
"Hmm, roughly restoring an Infected who is on the verge of death back to the state of having just been infected?" Xia Yu answered.
"...I know why that Black Snake or whatever got so anxious." Hearing this, Lin Yühsia instantly understood, her gaze turning extremely fervent as she looked at Xia Yu. "Doctor! Doctor Bailu! Can your sister come..."
"Don't even think about it!" Hearing this, Emperor instantly let out an indescribable shriek. "If you really dared to invite that great god over, the Tianshi Bureau would dare to twist your head off!"
"The kind where even your father would be dragged to Baizao to be beheaded!"
An Evil God capable of forcing that old Black Snake into choosing death just to keep her away from Ursus—if she really settled down in Lungmen, it would be the assorted lords of Baizao letting out indescribable shrieks.
Emperor more or less understood now. Black Snake might not necessarily have been unable to win, but he genuinely didn't dare to fight. After all, that person's body was a vessel sealing an Evil God.
If you lose the fight, she gets furious and wants to destroy Ursus. If you win the fight, she dies, the Evil God comes out, and Ursus gets destroyed all the same!
He could entirely imagine the stifling frustration in that old Black Snake's heart!
As for whether Bailu was boasting... he might have doubted it before, but when the halo above Exusiai's head reacted abnormally just because of a name, Emperor knew that he'd better take her words seriously.
"Then aren't you a physician, Miss Bailu?" Hearing this, Lin Yühsia's eyes darted around. "Do you know those methods to treat the Infected?"
She truly had been physically and mentally exhausted by the Infected in the Lungmen slums recently. Moreover... to be honest, of all the things she had heard here, most sounded like nothing more than bragging to her, because she had no way of distinguishing truth from falsehood in those matters.
So the best proof would be those methods to heal the Infected.
"It depends on the situation," Xia Yu shook her head hearing this.
"You're still too green," Emperor looked at Lin Yühsia. "Go back and tell that dead rat that what happened here today isn't something he can interfere with. He'll know what's at stake!"
"Even Wei Yenwu doesn't have the qualifications! The only one who can sit at the table is his brother in Baizao!"
Lin Yühsia was initially still a bit defiant, but upon hearing the latter sentence, she simply lowered her head and stayed silent.
"Alright," Emperor looked at Bailu in front of him, hesitated for two seconds, and sighed. "Why do you just say everything?"
That liquor was incredibly enticing, but that little mouth was also really capable of talking, blabbering on with absolutely no sense of secrecy!
"Can't I say it?" Hearing this, Xia Yu tilted her head and showed a confused expression. "It's not like it's some top secret. As long as it doesn't interfere with the Originium Project, that cyber ghost won't come knocking."
"But Yan will come knocking," Emperor said grumpily. "A massive nation sitting on a population of three hundred million with a vast territory!"
"Oh, it's fine," Xia Yu smiled faintly upon hearing this. "I have many big sisters. Worst comes to worst, I'll tell Big Sister Tarnished that I'm getting bullied in Yan and have her come back to back me up!"
She straightened her back proudly. "Anyway, she entered the sea between Yan and Higashi, which is close by. If that really doesn't work out, I'll just go find my other sisters!"
"You have many other sisters?" Hearing this, Emperor's mouth twitched. One who used her body to seal an Evil God was a heavy hitter already. If a few more came along...
"Yeah, Big Sister Firefly is currently free," Xia Yu said proudly. "She just cured her Entropy Loss Syndrome and is thoroughly enjoying her free life of not having to stay in a medical cabin."
"Let me just ask this... your Big Sister Firefly..." Emperor fell silent for two seconds, then said, "Does she not also have an Evil God sealed inside her body?"
"She doesn't have that," Xia Yu shook her head hearing this. "Evil Gods aren't just cabbages you can find anywhere, you know. But Big Sister Firefly is super good at fighting. Let me think..."
She tilted her head, acting as if she were thinking. "Hmm, it wouldn't take her more than a few days to tear down this city, right? Anyway, whenever she goes on a mission, she just goes 'Boom!' 'Boom!' all the way and it's over in a few hits."
"Well, these sisters of yours are certainly incredibly capable..." Emperor sighed as he heard this.
"Of course," Xia Yu proudly straightened her back. "If I didn't have several big sisters backing me up, would I dare to come out and roam the martial world?"
"Alright, I won't delay the great hero Bailu from roaming the world anymore," Hearing this, Emperor could only endure the pain of abandoning that fine liquor and toss this hot potato over to Wei Yenwu. "Weren't you here to deliver a letter?"
"Just go with her," he pointed at Chen Huijie. "Hurry up and go, my heart is dripping blood right now, you know!"
The Emperor, who had always feared nothing in heaven or earth, was ultimately scared. True, he couldn't die, but that didn't mean his subordinates weren't afraid of death.
"Alright," Xia Yu stuck her tongue out upon hearing this, then stuffed a bottle of Jade Essence into Exusiai's hands. "This is for your sister. Keep it for now. She can't drink it right now, but once she wakes up, she can. At the very least, it'll make her recovery go a bit smoother."
"Then we'll be leaving first," she stood up and took the initiative to grab Chen Huijie's hand. "Everyone from Penguin Logistics, until we meet again."
"No, it's best if we never meet again!" Emperor said irritably.
The normally super-courageous Emperor couldn't muster any courage right now. He was in a truly terrible mood.
On the other hand, Chen Huijie looked at the little girl holding her hand with a complicated mood.
"So what's the plan?" Xia Yu looked up at her. It wasn't that Bailu's body was bad, but having to look up at people like this was really hard on the cervical spine. "Are you going to read the letter now, or talk later?"
"Come home with me first," Chen Huijie didn't know what expression to make hearing this. "I... need a quiet place. As for the Governor's Mansion..."
She looked at Lin Yühsia.
"I know," the latter also knew that now was not the time to be willful. "I'll go back and tell them."
"Alright, let's go then," Xia Yu didn't mind. "By the way, what's good to eat in Lungmen? Let's get this straight, I'm delivering a letter for you, so you have to cover all my room and board in Lungmen. Consider it my reward."
"Of course," Chen Huijie chuckled hearing this. The gluttonous appearance in front of her truly looked like a child, but could those experiences really belong to a child?
She absentmindedly held Xia Yu's hand as they walked towards her residence.
"...Although I'm not too sure," after walking for a distance, Xia Yu really couldn't hold it in anymore, "but as a member of the LGD, your residence shouldn't happen to be right on Sunset Boulevard, right?"
"Hmm? It's not, why?" Chen Huijie hadn't reacted yet.
"Then are you planning to take me all the way back on foot?" Xia Yu gave her an extremely resentful look. "Using our two legs?"
Hearing this, Chen Huijie finally realized her own foolishness. She had been so distracted after hearing news about Talulah that she actually forgot she had ridden a bike here.
She hurriedly brought Xia Yu back, got on her motorcycle, and rode all the way toward her residence.
Meanwhile, the two LGD Operators who had come to investigate and collect evidence froze completely as they stared at their retreating backs.
"Brother Li, I'm not seeing things, right?" the younger Operator said in disbelief. "That's Madam Chen, right? The one she's holding hands with... couldn't be her child, could it?"
"...Hard to say," the middle-aged Operator also had a face full of shock. "That workaholic... could she actually have gotten married and had a child too?"