Just then, a hoarse voice suddenly echoed in Jiang Qin’s mind.
"You... Hello."
???
Jiang Qin stopped singing and looked around in confusion.
Seeing no one suspicious, she thought for a mont and called out in her mind, ’Sys...tem?’
’After all, isn’t my head usually occupied by the system?!’
"What... is a ’system’?"
"Who are you??" Jiang Qin understood now. This wasn’t the system, but sothing else that had invaded her Spirit Sea.
"I... I don’t know who I am."
Jiang Qin: "...Then, do you need sothing?"
"I like your voice. Are you... willing to co out? I want to take you away."
"Are you... the Cosmic Beast??"
"I don’t know what you’re talking about. Are you willing? Is this thing trapping you? I can smash it and get you out."
Now Jiang Qin understood.
The voice in her head was actually coming from the giant tree outside in space.
’And it wants to take away??’
Still, this was good news. The Cosmic Beast could actually communicate!!
If this news got out, it would probably shake the entire Interstellar community.
But right now, she needed to seize this opportunity!!
She quickly asked, "What do you want?"
"Why did you stop making that nice sound?"
Jiang Qin: ’...Even a workhorse needs a break.’
However, there was no negotiating with this living King Yan. She quickly resud singing while continuing to probe its intentions in her mind.
The great tree sighed. "Is it because I’m disturbing you? The sound you’re making now doesn’t seem as nice as before."
What could this human music box do? She could only focus on her singing and stop trying to communicate.
’If I want to talk to it, I probably have to placate it first.’
After she finished two more songs, the hoarse voice sounded again.
"I like your voice. Co with . I’ll help you smash this thing that’s trapping you."
Jiang Qin: ’...Is it possible this isn’t ant to trap , but to protect ?’
Of course, she didn’t dare say that out loud.
She only asked, "Why do you like my voice? Is there sothing different about it?"
"I don’t know. I just feel that your voice can calm down.
I searched for you for a very, very long ti. I sensed your aura here, so I thought this was your ho. That’s why I waited outside for you to let in.
But it seems I was mistaken. Those little crawlers have actually trapped you."
Jiang Qin: "...No, this is my ho."
"Then why didn’t you invite in?" The great tree’s voice was filled with confusion, as well as a hint of aggrievent and displeasure.
’I was clearly being very polite.’
’I didn’t even barge into soone else’s ho, but the little thing that makes sounds actually had other crawlers co burn my leaves.’
’If it had been any other crawlers, I would have invaded their hos and trampled all over them long ago.’
Jiang Qin was speechless, but at the sa ti, a wave of realization washed over her.
’No wonder... No wonder it didn’t directly enter the Main Star after arriving. It just waited outside, wrapping around the Main Star to prevent anyone from getting in or out.’
’The Main Star hadn’t even raised its Energy Shield back then. If it had wanted to attack, it could have easily invaded.’
’But it only trapped, it didn’t kill.’
’That was one of the things no one could understand. So the Cosmic Beast actually knows you need an invitation to enter soone’s ho?’
’The prerequisite, however, was that you had to be soone it acknowledged.’
’After all, humans don’t ask ants for permission before destroying their nests. So in the eyes of the Cosmic Beast, these Beastn were probably nothing more than ants.’
"So... can you invite in now?"
"You want to co in? But you’re too big. You’ll destroy my ho if you co in."
The great tree realized, "True, your ho is too small and fragile...
No matter. I can send my main body back to Deep Space and just send a projection of my consciousness to a branch to find you."
Jiang Qin frowned. She could tell this great tree seed to really want to co in, but what for? To eat people? To cause destruction??
’Probably not. After all, if it had such intentions, it wouldn’t need to consult her at all. It could just continue its attack.’
’But maybe it didn’t know the Energy Shield would fail without power, so it was trying to trick her into opening the door.’
’Just like the Big Bad Wolf tricking the little bunny who was ho alone.’
However, her thought was overturned the very next second, because the great tree said, "Your ho’s door doesn’t seem very sturdy. I can feel its energy fading."
"In Deep Space, there’s a strange creature’s shell that would make a much better door than this one."
"Do you want it? I can go drag it over for you."
Jiang Qin felt her heart pound wildly, but she quickly cald down.
She knew that even if she could trick the great tree into leaving, it would find her again soon enough. After all, she had no idea how it tracked people, so she couldn’t possibly evade it.
So, rather than tricking it into leaving, it was better to get so more information out of it first.
’But she also wanted that nice material... ’
So she asked, "Are you going now? Is it far?"
"Not far. Wait."
In an instant, the great tree vanished from the monitor screens.
Everyone who saw this cheered. "Great, it’s gone!!"
"Is it really gone? Or is it just hiding?"
"Don’t celebrate too early. Everyone, run a scan imdiately."
The warriors who received the order quickly launched escape pods from their ships and entered space.
One opened the bio-detector equipped on his escape pod and began scanning.
Finally, he confird it—the entity was really gone!!
Upon receiving the confirmation, everyone beca excited. "Quick, use this chance to transfer so of the Main Star’s equipnt out, and people too."
"Contact Miss Jiang’s side. Have a ship take them away imdiately. If anything gets left behind, just have her send one of her partners or contact soone else to pick it up."
"Hurry up with the evacuation, and be wary of it circling back for a surprise attack."
All the cities on the Main Star burst into activity.
To avoid causing a panic, the news still wasn’t released to the public, but the major powers had all basically received word.
All the prominent families were evacuating, and the Star Officials stationed in each city were also notifying all B-level and higher females to evacuate.
It wasn’t that they wouldn’t take the lower-level females, but that lower-level females were generally not wealthy enough to own private ships.
So, there was no point in notifying them. They had no ships, and everyone else’s ships were already full.
It was better to let the first wave leave and then have the ships co back for them.
Everyone had their own set of standards for weighing priorities.
Given Jiang Qin’s current achievents, the Federation certainly wouldn’t abandon her. But she didn’t agree to leave, only urging her partners to take Zhaozhao away.
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