Transform into a human

Inside the yacht, Deefu and Qiqi finally finished their press conference and leaned back wearily on the sofa.

"Sister Diefu, is it really okay to make this public?"

"Winona's character is rebellious, and her leaving alone to pursue freedom is also a form of rebellion, so don't worry, this will only benefit her."

If Luo An heard these words, she would probably cry. Is it too late for her to regret it now?

In the cold, gloomy basement, a siren that looked like it had been dead for a long time lay opposite her. She had never experienced anything so terrifying in her life!

Meanwhile, on the ground, Damian was excitedly talking on the phone with a friend:

"That's right, Winona's concert is today! How about it, are you jealous?"

"Who told you to go on the frontier? Sometimes I really don't understand. The Federation can't even fully develop the existing resource star systems, so why are you always thinking about expanding outwards?"

"What? You're saying Winona is missing?"

"I am indeed at the police hub, but I've been busy with other things since last night."

Damian quickly disconnected the communication and began to read the current news headlines. The topic of "Winona's departure" was at the top of the list, and even the Yue Lai case, which had been making a lot of noise, had become somewhat ignored.

"The timing was exactly last night; they smuggled themselves in using an emergency spaceship, which was discovered around the university town..."

Damian felt increasingly uneasy as he looked at the scene. A bad feeling crept into his heart. Could it be that the person he tied up last night was Winona herself...?

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

He quickly shook his head to banish the chilling thought. Why would Winona come to his house to steal things?

But this thought lingered in his mind like a vengeful ghost, seeping into his bones bit by bit. The young master even began to feel a little afraid to look at the mechanism on the bookshelf, and even the ordinary floor became a bit hot under his feet.

The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became. His body felt like a pot of water about to boil; if he held it in any longer, it would explode with a "boom."

"What are you afraid of? If you've really kidnapped the wrong person, I... I'll apologize!"

He gritted his teeth and opened the secret passage, moving step by step toward the pink-haired girl.

"Cough cough."

The girl tilted her head, her big, bright eyes filled with tears. Damian hesitated for a moment, then gently peeled off the tape from her mouth.

The result was as if some kind of seal had been broken, and a deafening cry rang out:

"Wow--"

Luo An cried her heart out; she had never suffered such a great injustice in her entire life!

She was just taking a nice walk, and she was knocked unconscious. Not only that, but the bump on her head is still hurting. Why did they lock her up with this monster?!

She's so terrified of even a mouse in her house!

"Hey, don't cry!"

Damian was instantly at a loss, showing no trace of the ruthless playboy he had been before.

He was almost certain that the person in front of him was Winona.

As everyone knows, Winona's family background is not simple, and her son's second skill is "spoiled". The more he is treated as the apple of the family's eye, the faster his skills will grow. Therefore, he has always been regarded by aristocratic families as the best choice to cultivate successors.

Damian is also the path of my son!

Therefore, when Winona cried, he sensed the power of being pampered and could basically confirm the girl's identity.

Otherwise, you could tell him that on the very night Winona disappeared, you caught someone who looked exactly like her and had the same connections.

Even liars wouldn't dare to tell such a lie!

Just as he was about to untie Winona, a pale hand blocked his way.

"bird?"

A flower bloomed on her pale, lifeless face. The woman said softly, "Whether she is Winona or not, young master, you should not let her go."

"Sparrow, it's none of your business what I do!"

The oppressive aura emanated from the Flower-Haired Scholar, and a power capable of disrupting one's thoughts filled this underground space. Luo An even forgot to cry, and her gaze gradually became dull.

The woman smirked: "This move by the group is like playing with fire. A slight misstep could have resulted in them being crushed to pieces by either the Imperial or Central factions. And you're taking such a risk for a woman?"

She placed her palm on Luo An's delicate face, as if she were about to crush it mercilessly in the next second.

Damian clenched his fists. He knew that to persuade this woman, he had to bring up the company's interests, so he said coldly:

"The Luo'an family is a lineage of priests from the Northern Wind faction. Which of these families is a group that a corporation can afford to offend?"

The Taiyang Group is indeed a giant in the central star system. As a senior executive of the group, he can even have an equal conversation with the planetary governor. However, in the eyes of the three true giants, they are not much stronger than ordinary people because they do not have a star behind them.

"I killed her and no one will know."

"Nobody?" Damian said as if he'd heard a joke. "If a star spirit were to sacrifice its power, do you think you could fool anyone!"

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Sparrow laughed, even though Damian was the one who made the mess, she was now turning around and questioning her.

The纨绔公子 (playboy/spoiled young master) whispered:

"If she is Winona, then the two who escaped earlier must have taken the news out with them. Now we can only cut our losses as soon as possible, even if it displeases her."

"As for Winona," he glanced at the pink-haired girl, trying to appear indifferent, "letting the group negotiate with the North Wind faction is just a misunderstanding. It only requires sacrificing a little profit..."

"That's the Neptune's Crown!" the woman sneered. "How do you know they don't want to get involved!"

Damian hid his face in the shadows: "We're just doing things for others, aren't we? Someone will stop us."

"Then go and speak to him, my young master!"

The sparrow flicked its sleeve and left.

……

……

National University, President's Office.

Tang Xiao was flipping through an extremely thick file. In this day and age of such advanced crystal technology, the fact that such a primitive method of preservation was still being used was itself noteworthy. The discarded file folder cover next to it further indicated that it was not ordinary.

"Extraordinary Person File, No. 199"

The Federation has a clear definition of "Outcasts": "extraordinary life forms that do not belong to any race and have a certain influence." The Federation's territory has a diameter of more than 5 light-years, and the number of Outcasts within it is as vast as the ocean. Even he has to be cautious about the number "199".

Name: Yue Lai

Life form: Unknown.

Age: Unknown.

"Ability: Deception Techniques (tentative)"

"Reason for archiving: Due to its long lifespan, it has a wide and profound influence in various galaxies. It is currently located in Esfri, but its destructive potential cannot be ignored and it should be monitored in the long term."

"experience:……"

Tang Xiao frowned more and more as he looked at the document. Although his position was not high, he held a very special position within the Imperial system because he was in charge of the educational institution responsible for cultivating the next generation of elites. He could be described as "high-ranking and powerful," as evidenced by Hou Fan's attitude.

If someone else had made such a huge mess, it wouldn't have been as simple as just making a few veiled remarks.

The only thing that could make him frown was the factional strife.

"The experience is indeed legendary, but I can't see anything about it..."

In fact, he sensed something was wrong the moment Yue Hao came to his door. Yue Lai and Yue Hao sounded like they had a close relationship, and after checking, it turned out they were siblings!

The FBI is responsible for monitoring—or, to put it more politely, "observing"—the superhumans.

Therefore, what he told Yue Hao was half true and half false. The "true" part was that the FBI agent did want to use Yue Hao to remind him of something, while the "false" part was that it was definitely not as simple as the central government being eyeing Shanghai Crown.

Yes, even when it comes to the divine relic "Neptune's Crown," he used the word "simple." After all, if we're serious about it, the potential danger posed by an Outcast numbered 199 might not be much less than that divine relic.

Now it seems that Yue Lai's existence was what the other party wanted to remind him of.

"What kind of riddle is that old guy uttering...?"

Just then, he suddenly saw the plush toy left by the woman on the sofa. His heart skipped a beat, and just as he was about to think deeply, he was interrupted by the sound of footsteps.

He hurriedly packed the file into his office drawer, but before he could even close it, Yue Hao burst in:

"Principal Tang, something unexpected has happened!"

Tang Xiao's eyelids twitched; he couldn't stand the word "accident" right now.

"What's wrong? Tell me slowly."

"Didn't I promise you I'd frame someone from the Central faction...?"

"Stop, stop, stop," Tang Xiao quickly interrupted him. "First of all, I didn't instruct you. These were all Miss Yue's spontaneous actions, which are righteous acts. Secondly, it's not called framing someone; it should be called 'using some unavoidable extraordinary measures to stabilize the situation under special circumstances.'"

"I understand, I understand, it's what you imperial people call 'having no other choice'."

Tang Xiao said wearily, "There are no Imperials, Republics, or Alliances in Andromeda, only Federations..."

"Oh, stop with the nonsense, guess what I found!"

"What?"

"My men discovered a siren at the home of the Taiyang Group representative; it looks like a native species!"

Tang Xiao quickly took the photo from Yue Hao. This female agent was quite professional and did not use the Chain Crystal Network to transmit information.

The photo was taken from Winter's perspective. Yue Hao, worried about the situation, had the Snow Elf record the entire process using the Chain Crystal Runes, and it unexpectedly came in handy. In the photo, a creature unlike any other sea monster lay serenely, with mysterious rune arrays engraved in the void around her.

Tang Xiao was not a genius related to magic arrays, so he immediately used his authority to match the data from the headquarters database and quickly found the result.

Principal Tang's eyes widened, which greatly worried Yue Hao, who was standing nearby.

"What is this? Tell me!"

"One of the Thirty-Six Extraordinary Warriors, the Blood Priest's Summoning Array."

"I never imagined that the child from back then would have descendants."

"What the hell?"

Tang Xiao closed his eyes:

"It's alright to tell you, you'll forget about it in a bit anyway. It involves the Battle of the Raging Sea back then."

Yue Hao's eyes lit up. Perhaps because she had followed Yue Lai on "archaeology" since she was a child, she was extremely interested in lost history.

"Go on, I'm listening."

"Well, in the history of human exploration, there has always been an unwritten rule: whoever contributes the most among the three forces can try to seize divine power first. That's how the paths of 'gentleman' and 'talented man' fell into the hands of our imperial faction."

"However, an unexpected incident occurred during the battle to defeat the siren. The siren's 'spatial' authority was too domineering. Even with 'anchors' anchoring space, the siren queen could still stir up spatial tides, and the human alliance was routed."

"Later, the Grand Preceptor personally negotiated with her. The Siren Queen was unwilling to see her people slaughtered again, so she agreed to develop the Tianli system with humans, and even gave up her home planet Serena."

"But little did they know that this little bit of stuff wouldn't satisfy the appetite of the human alliance. Our initial target was only divine authority."

Yue Hao interrupted him:

"It's not 'we,' it's 'you.' I'm not human."

"In short, the two races experienced a period of peace, and even the Grand Preceptor and the Siren Queen fell in love and gave birth to the first hybrid child."

Yue Hao's mouth dropped open. You two were fighting like madmen just a second ago!

"The Siren Queen thought this would protect her people, but little did she know that this child was humanity's trump card."

"Before giving birth, the Imperial Advisor used the power of a blood priest. Once the child was born, it took away a portion of the mother's divine power. In the end, the Siren Queen was beheaded by the Imperial Physician, and the Empire made the greatest contribution and won a great victory."

"But humans underestimated the power of the gods. Before she died, the Siren Queen sent her child away and entrusted some of her divine power to the Sea King's crown, finally sending the Sea King's crown into the 'Eternal Curse'."

"An eternal curse?"

"Actually, it only takes four words—'Thinking of me is painful.'"

Yue Hao felt a mysterious murmur in her ear, and the air became thick, as if the quiet seawater was pouring into the office, trying to pull her into an endless abyss.

Tang Xiao's mouth transformed into a datura flower, whispering against whispers to barely maintain order in the office.

"This was specifically designed to target the Grand Preceptor, who is a top-notch 'archaeologist' who focuses on pursuing 'truth,' but once he looks back at this period of history, he immediately falls into endless pain."

Many artifact hunters are archaeologists, and Yue Hao has a deep understanding of this profession, which is one of the Thirty-Six Extraordinary Warriors:

"But that won't stump the Imperial Advisor; he's an expert at manipulating history."

"That's right. In the end, he came up with a plan to cover up the original true history with a false history, that is, the history in the textbooks now, and change the past with people's perceptions. In fact, it would only take another ten years or so to succeed, which naturally attracted the attention of other factions."

Yue Hao suddenly realized:

"No wonder we've never heard of the prodigal son's divine right manifesting itself in the world; it's incomplete at all!"

"Actually, it's simple to bring out that part of the divine authority. The Neptune's Crown is hidden in real history. As long as the truth of that year is revealed, it will have nowhere to hide. But the price is the Grand Preceptor."

"The other two factions are also dissatisfied with us because of this. After all, everyone wants to have an extra god, and the impact of losing a divine authority on the Federation is more profound than you think."

"Fortunately, we've managed to survive all these years through exchanges of interests. Now that the true history has been squeezed down to a tiny bit, and Neptune's Crown is in an unprecedented state of weakness, these guys immediately jumped out to reap the rewards."

Yue looked at the photos on the table:

"Is this a direct descendant of that mixed-race person from back then?"

Tang Xiao said bitterly, "We spent a huge amount of manpower and resources but still couldn't find that child from back then. We never expected that he would fall into the hands of the central government. No wonder we can't find him."

"Their claim of helping to suppress true history is a lie; their real intention is to use the connection between the two to secure Neptune's crown in advance!"

……

……

Just as the true history was being told and Damian’s secret room was opened, Yue Lai, who was sitting quietly in prison, suddenly sensed a familiar connection.

It's the school history museum! He had a brief encounter with the Neptune's Crown there.

"The ancients..."

"Give me truth, and bestow upon you... divine authority."