I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1973 - 1337: Q&A Session (Part 2)

"Okay."

The young man was stunned: "Why?"

"Because this is the first time you’ve asked me."

This kind of response made the young man feel absurd for a split second; the anger within him, seemingly never capable of release, was just as simple as this?

Letting go of Tia’s neck, the young man wanted to help restore Tia’s deformed neck, but before he could do anything, it had already naturally returned to normal.

"What do you want to know?"

"...I don’t know." The young man hesitated for a moment, shaking his head even more bewilderedly, feeling that he had many questions to ask but couldn’t perceive what he wanted to inquire.

Suppressing the wild rampage within, the urge to tear the woman in front of him to pieces, he lowered his voice and said: "Say something."

"You need to ask."

"Are you sick?"

Tia did not speak, just quietly looked at the young man.

After a while, the young man thought of a question, or rather something living he had encountered over the years.

"What is Tianhe?"

"Tianhe is a scar from the Old Era lingering in the New World, left by you to preserve life from the Old Era."

Looking at the woman with dusk-colored eyes in front of him, a slight realization flashed in the young man’s eyes, vaguely forming a new impression.

It’s like, a long, long time ago, he had seemingly asked the same question to her, and she responded with the same expression, the same tone.

"I can’t see Tianhe." The young man looked up at the sky, the thick clouds parted, revealing the night sky, but in his eyes, the night sky was empty.

"That’s because you’re seeing the sky of the past, not the present."

"The past?" The young man shook his head: "I can’t remember the past, but I know hating you must be right."

"...From your standpoint, indeed it is, do you have new questions?"

"Many." The young man, having asked a question, seemed to have unlocked a new switch, the questions within growing, even though many were trivial compared to what he wanted to know.

But no matter the questions, the woman beside him would always provide an answer.

Including how to see the ’present’ sky.

The Thunderstorm Land calmed down, the sky becoming clear in the young man’s eyes, with Tianhe presenting itself, although the dusk it was cloaked in didn’t please him.

"Since I created Tianhe, I want to go there."

"That’s not a question."

"I didn’t ask you." The young man stood up, his figure blurred momentarily, but as if treading in place, his eyes immediately reddened.

"Damn woman! You’re disgusting me again!!"

Boom—

The Thunderstorm Land, which had been calm for months, erupted in rampage once more.

This time, the disturbance was massive, the nearby fleet halting due to the abrupt riot.

This fleet had arrived here as the regular army of the Hundred Clans.

This planet was one of the forces against the Hundred Clans conscription; there were many such planets, the natives unwilling to be dragged into the Hundred Clans’ war.

Becoming bones under the glory of the Hundred Clans, the seeds of doubt brought by the Tianhe Broadcast quickly took effect.

The Hundred Clans were unwilling to waste time on this, opting for armed suppression, forcibly conscripting cannon fodder.

The front line couldn’t hold, the Tianhe people could briefly escape Tianhe’s battles but couldn’t stabilize the front, and the Hundred Tribes Alliance Army was on the verge of collapse.

And this action naturally triggered stronger resistance, not because the Hundred Clans didn’t want to cut losses, nor were reluctant about sunk cost, but because they truly had no retreat!

Losing the Tianhe War meant waiting for death, the Tianhe Broadcast further blocking their few retreats.

Once defeated, the Hundred Clans would become the losers; as long as the Tianhe people weren’t foolish, they could easily unite with other non-Hundred Clans from the New World, then the Hundred Clans would truly become the trash of the era.

They could only gamble everything, forcibly dragging those non-Hundred Clans into the combat vehicle, and even some Hundred Clans not originally involved in the war had finally made a real decision.

They completely severed from the ’Hundred Clans’; this group of ’wall spectators’ elicited more hatred from the Hundred Clans involved in the war, yet there was nothing they could do now.

Those Hundred Clans involved in the war understood that these Hundred Clans weren’t necessarily impressed by the Tianhe people; they might intend to act as third-party scavengers in the future.

No matter if the Tianhe people won or the participating Hundred Clans won, they could benefit afterward.

If the participating Hundred Clans won, it was a pyrrhic victory; those not participating naturally could partake in the spoils, and if the participating Hundred Clans lost, they could ally with Tianhe, feasting on the defeated Hundred Clans...

So why didn’t the war-participating Hundred Clans act accordingly? Naturally, for greater benefit, while being a wall spectator was stable, it likely yielded nothing.

Nowadays, this approach actually proved profitable.

The Hundred Clans involved in the war couldn’t openly confront the wall spectators, as it would deplete living forces internally.

Hence, the Hundred Clans first dragged those non-Hundred Clans from the New World into the war, having them provide credentials, then continued to coerce other non-Hundred Clans.

Although this heightened conflict, in the short term, its impact was substantial, with numerous non-Hundred Clans joining the war effort, stabilizing the Hundred Tribes Alliance Army’s front line, gaining much time for the war Hundred Clans.

It allowed them to consolidate all forces for a last stand.

During the last stand, the Hundred Clans kept conscripting more cannon fodder; at this stage, additional forces increased the odds.

This planet was very close to Tianhe, and quite renowned, because it housed a complete advanced warship belonging to the Hundred Clans.

Such warships suffered heavy losses in the war; when the Hundred Clans were in good condition, producing a warship wasn’t difficult, but now it was different.

Thus, after consolidating their forces, they focused on this planet once again.

They intended to reclaim the warship; hence, they assigned the regular army of the Hundred Clans.

Yet upon truly arriving here and encountering the individual controlling the warship, the war Hundred Clans realized discrepancies in their intelligence!

The warship was indeed an advanced vessel, its integrity matched the reports, but the biggest problem was that the warship was entirely ’free’!

This astounded the incoming Hundred Clans fleet because once a warship was produced, certain things were fixed, with no possibility of altering, unless constructing a blank warship anew and setting it up accordingly.

However, this warship was absurd, and the arriving Hundred Clans fleet recognized its original model, confirming it had indeed been a crashed warship.

Being capable of such complete restoration was likely due to the plethora of crashed warships on this planet, allowing the acquisition of ample materials for self-repair.

Yet no matter how capable of self-repair, it couldn’t possibly remove the inbuilt Hundred Clans agreement or the numerous authorization limits of its clan!

The arriving Hundred Clans fleet assumed using a recognition secret key could easily reclaim the warship, not expecting such an occurrence, transforming what should have been an easy operation into a complex one.

Advanced warships were crucial on the frontline, their role as primary forces capable of sweeping ordinary fleets, should a battle break out, their fleet visiting this place might not prevail.

Moreover, they sought a warship in perfect condition, not one damaged in combat.

Just as the fleet command prepared to delay and request reinforcements, the long-quiescent Thunderstorm Land suddenly exploded, with the rampaging impact somewhat ’mitigating’ the tense atmosphere.

Standing atop the advanced warship, Xiyun focused on the Thunderstorm Land; this eruption was vastly different from previous ones, seemingly something was indeed trying to escape...

Why at this moment? The eruption of the Thunderstorm Land made Xiyun somewhat anxious.

Having resisted the Hundred Clans conscription for a period, this place had long garnered attention, and if the specifics of Thunderstorm Land were exposed...

"Attack!" Xiyun decided to take the first move.