A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 547 Rainbow Sea

There are several spaceports surrounding the planet where the Interstellar Alliance headquarters is located.

When Guan Luoyang's small spaceship arrived at a port near the Alliance headquarters from the spaceport of the Kingdom of Karen, the Karen Kingdom's diplomats who had been stationed at the Alliance headquarters for a long time had already received the news and were waiting there.

The layout of this spaceport is very similar to that of the first spaceport in the Kingdom of Karen; both are continents floating in space.

One area is used to dock spaceships, while another area uses technology to create an environment similar to the surface of a planet to store goods. Shopping malls, hotels, and other facilities are built nearby to facilitate business people's travel and stay.

Diplomat Karen's small spaceship led the way, followed by Guan Luoyang's small spaceship, heading towards the city district of the port.

The city here is vast, with towering buildings. The high-strength metal materials and the understated luster of artificial crystal give these tall buildings a base color of pale blue and green.

Spacecraft shuttle back and forth everywhere, with old transport fleets mixed with trendy new spacecraft, showing a prosperous and thriving interstellar scene where everything, old or new, and through different generations, blends together.

Beep!

As Guan Luoyang and his group were leisurely flying towards the city in their small spaceship, a piercing siren suddenly came from their electronic receiver.

A somewhat old commercial spaceship, with its engines running at maximum power, roared in with a warning siren, passing by Guan Luoyang and his group.

Several angry shouts rang out from the fleet that was guiding Guan Luoyang.

However, when they were about to report it to the port patrol team, they were somewhat surprised to find that the old spaceship's speed was just right and did not exceed the speed limit.

Even though they panicked and drove recklessly, no real accident occurred. At most, they would just be fined, and there was no other reason to deal with the ship.

Immediately afterward, another spaceship painted in gold and red passed through Guan Luoyang's fleet, relentlessly pursuing the commercial spaceship.

A loud shout came from the gold and red spaceship through the receiver.

"I'm in a hurry, please excuse me! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!!!"

These spaceships have receivers with built-in translation systems that can translate most of the languages ​​known in interstellar society into a common language.

When Guan Luoyang listens to others speak, he directly receives the fluctuations of their thoughts; whether or not there is a translation system is actually not important.

However, after the noisy sounds came from the gold and red spaceship, the translation system interface displayed the original language of the other party's words before translation.

The other party's language comes from the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, one of the languages ​​of human civilization in the solar system.

"Oh, an Earthling?"

Guan Luoyang had already learned from browsing information on the StarNet that this world also had Earth civilization.

However, although the Earth in this world does not have the peculiar structure of the ancient Earth in the Southern Ming world, it is still quite different from the conventional Earth in other worlds.

From space, the ocean area appears as a deep blue, but the continents on the surface are shaped like leaves and are a rich turquoise.

Perhaps it's because the landscaping is so well done that the whole planet looks vibrant and exceptionally beautiful.

Therefore, although Earth civilization has not been a formal member of the Interstellar Alliance for very long, it has already gained a reputation in the interstellar tourism industry.

Even though they were in different universes, they were both Earth civilizations. Guan Luoyang was moved and sent his thoughts to the void, sensing the entire process of the gold and red spaceship chasing the business spaceship.

The gold and red spaceship clearly didn't carry many weapons, but the pilot was exceptionally bold, directly ramming the commercial spaceship to force it to stop and crash into an alley.

The commercial spaceship crashed, kicking up a cloud of dust. The cabin popped open, and seven or eight figures leaped out.

They were from an unknown civilization; they all had light green skin, square faces, and pointed ears, and they were all carrying guns.

One of the most burly-looking men pointed his gun menacingly at the gold and red spaceship and shouted, "What are you trying to do? We haven't done anything yet! Even if you catch up with us and take us to the patrol, there won't be any bounty!"

"Wow, if you keep shouting like that, soon people will know what you were planning to do."

The golden-red spaceship hatch didn't open from the side, but rather flipped open from the top like a lid, and a nimble young man jumped out, squatted at the front of the spaceship, and looked at the group of people with a smile.

The young man was wearing black trousers and a vest, with a red trench coat over them. However, the sleeves of the trench coat were folded up to near the elbows, exposing both forearms. The trench coat, which should have looked a bit old-fashioned, immediately looked youthful.

The square-faced men, however, dared not underestimate this young man.

Previously, they were discussing their future in the factory behind closed doors when they suddenly saw this kid lift the factory door with one hand.

Although the factory gate wasn't locked at the time, it was still an electric gate. If you tried to open it manually without the switch, it would require at least 200 tons of force.

Moreover, this kid's hearing is ridiculously good; he actually overheard their entire conversation from outside the door.

In their panic, the men fled in a commercial spaceship they had scraped together, which led to this chase.

"What...what exactly do you want?"

The burly man looked around, but his voice had already lowered, lacking any imposing presence.

"Well……"

The boy in red scratched the dimple on his face with his fingernail, and said with an embarrassed smile, "Actually, I just heard that your shipyard sells spaceship parts especially cheaply and they're quite sturdy, so I wanted to buy a bigger spaceship. I didn't expect your shipyard to be on the verge of bankruptcy, and I even heard you guys say that you couldn't keep going and were planning to become pirates..."

"Stop talking!!"

The burly man interrupted him, his hands trembling, his face filled with grief and indignation. "Don't you have any manners? If you're here to buy something, why didn't you ring the doorbell? Why did you just fling open the door? And you were eavesdropping on our conversation! You're despicable!"

The kid barged in and yelled, "Oh, you've been caught!" which scared everyone half to death.

I thought I'd run into plainclothes patrol officers, but it turns out they were just guests!

"Boss, it's a guest!"

A chubby guy with bright eyes leaned over and said, "We haven't had any customers in a while. Should we go back and get some tea to serve him?"

"Damn it, get lost! He's been chasing us the whole way."

The burly man kicked out, but the fat man was too agile. He missed his target, slipped, and fell flat on his face, his gun flying away.

The gun traced a perfect arc and landed steadily in the red-clad boy's hands with a soft thud.

Just like a bird returning to its nest and a gun returning to its rack, everything fit together perfectly.

The scene immediately fell silent.

The boatmen stared intently at the gun that landed in the boy's hand, their round, dark eyes wide with disbelief.

The boy in red laughed and said, "Oh dear, so you see, you haven't even become pirates yet, and you've already run this far in fear. If you really became pirates, how far would you have to run?"

"But only pirates make money quickly."

The chubby guy spoke up, "The factory can't keep going. Everyone's family back home needs medicine and money."

The boy in red: "There's no need to be a pirate, is there? Maybe we could look into other factories or other professions?"

"We've already come to work in a big place like the Alliance headquarters, and we still only earn this much. If we go to work elsewhere, we'll only earn less."

The burly man with a full beard sat on the ground, not bothering to get up. He said dejectedly, "Pirates are terrifying. I'm not even an adult yet. If there were any other way, who would dare become a pirate?"

"But there was an accident at the factory in my hometown before, everyone got sick, and the factory owner committed suicide. The compensation he left behind wasn't enough to pay for medical treatment. If we don't have money, my grandpa, my mom, I... I sob sob sob..."

The burly man's eyes filled with tears, and his face was sore from crying. His sobs brought tears to the eyes of his friends around him as well.

"hiss!"

The red-clad youth gasped, then asked with a hint of awe, "May I ask, according to the interstellar calendar, at what age does your race reach adulthood?"

"Eighteen."

The burly man wiped away his tears, his beard still wet, and said, "I started working when I was eight years old, and I've only been working for nine years. I just matured early."

As he spoke, he rummaged through his pockets for a while, then pulled out a photo and said, "Look, this is a photo of me when I first started working. I was so young back then."

Is he eight years old?

The boy in red squinted, genuinely unable to see any difference between the photo and his current appearance.

Oh, and that burly man in the photo is leaning on a skinny woman who's probably only half his height.

"never mind."

The boy in red didn't dwell on the issue. He stood up, tossed his gun aside, and said, "In any case, being a pirate won't work. If you have nowhere to go, why not become my partner?"

The burly man stopped crying, exchanged bewildered glances with his companions, and asked, "What do you do for a living?"

The boy in red said, "I am an adventurer, and there are many people in my group."

The burly man: "Aren't adventurers just pirates?"

"Nonsense!"

The boy in red suddenly became anxious and pulled out a license. "Take a good look. Legitimate adventurers all have licenses. Besides exploring ruins or dangerous areas that produce valuable items according to their own interests, most of them take on missions on the StarCraft website."

"My intelligence officer can filter out many missions, all of which don't take too long but have very high rewards."

The boy in red spoke with great confidence.

"Although there are some very poor people in this world, there are also quite a few extremely rich people. If we could get even a little bit of money from those super-rich people, everyone's life could be much better."

"Many people in my group used to be like you, but they saved up enough money and went home."

The boy in red started muttering to himself, "But there are still so many people left, so we need more big ships. And Cynthia won't let me buy one of those fancy-looking ships. Damn it, she's in charge of all the money… I'll definitely save up some money on my own from now on…"

He muttered to himself for a long time, and the burly men thought about it again and again before finally deciding to go with him to see what that adventure group was like.

"If your group really pays us, we can work as ship repairmen. I used to want to be a pirate, specifically to apply for that job."

"Well, that's pretty good. You actually managed to take a bunch of scrap metal, hammer it up, and build a spaceship that's traveled this far... So you're not pirates, I'm an adventurer, an adventurer, say it ten times!"

"Okay, wait a minute, your real name isn't... Adventurer, is it?"

"Of course not. My name is Mailin. 'Mai' means wheat, and 'lin' means forest. It means wheat growing into a forest, which in my hometown represents a bountiful harvest. The orchard owner gave me this name hoping that my life would be as fulfilling and happy as a bountiful harvest!"

The boy in red laughed and said, "I really am happy every day. By the way, have you guys heard of the Rainbow Sea?"

"Never heard of it? Then I'll have to tell you all about it! It's said that there's a place in the universe where a giant rainbow of tens of thousands of colors spans the sky, and gold flows in its rivers. If you can find that place, you can have any wish granted..."

………………

"Rainbow Sea".

When things settled down with the boy in red, Guan Luoyang, who had been carrying some hopes for that boy, met with the liaison from the Alliance headquarters.

After the diplomat from the Kingdom of Karen led him here, he withdrew.

These intelligence management personnel, who came from the highest ruling power, were all mechanical life forms with a similar size to ordinary people, and were taciturn.

However, they were all very polite. After inviting Guan Luoyang into a secret room, they left to wait outside.

There is only one chair and a multi-faceted mirrored crystal ball suspended in mid-air.

Guan Luoyang gently touched the crystal with his finger, and a screen was immediately projected above, displaying the account of the Imperial Tutor of the Kingdom of Karen.

"Rainbow Sea is my prime suspect."

He had already noticed the mysterious Rainbow Sea when he used the One-Armed Bear account to search for information on the StarNet.

That legendary place, with its boundless and magnificent resources and the ability to grant wishes, has been the subject of countless rumors throughout the universe for some time now.

However, this has never been proven.

If that place truly exists and is indeed that mysterious, there's a considerable chance that fragments of the Dao Fruit will descend upon it.

However, judging from the intelligence channels at the level of the One-Armed Bear alone, there are many other suspects, and Rainbow Sea is just one of them.

Guan Luoyang now needs to utilize the intelligence network of the Alliance headquarters to conduct a thorough investigation and verify the identities of those suspected one by one.

It must be said that the Interstellar Alliance headquarters is quite powerful.

Within the One-Armed Bear Channel, many things in the universe that cannot be verified, and mysterious and dangerous areas without conclusions, all have complete exploration records at the Interstellar Alliance headquarters.

Some of the dangerous areas were even recorded from the very beginning of their formation, so they were not mysterious at all to the Alliance headquarters.

The whereabouts of the founder of the Eight Extremes Heaven, the number one martial arts school in the universe; the suspicious points in the rise of the God of War, Kusa; the true identity of Commander Doom, the commander-in-chief of the seven fleets of the Black Flag Alliance...

Mysterious fluctuations within Hercules interfering with wormhole teleportation; the origins of the five "Five-Colored Eyes" high-ranking members of the Galactic Eye organization; the source of the Alliance headquarters' technology for stabilizing space expansion...

Even the information about the City Beyond, the First Core, and the Supreme Dao Sect has many detailed records.

In order to verify his suspicions, Guan Luoyang quickly used up all the merits in his Imperial Tutor account and then used Queen Karen's merits before he could proceed with his investigation.

The intelligence of the entire interstellar society is so vast that even after being filtered by the Star Network, Guan Luoyang, with his level of expertise, still spent three whole days in the secret room before he could verify it all.

"call--"

He turned off the screen, closed his eyes slightly, and slowly exhaled, his thoughts finally clearing.

Of the remaining targets, the most suspicious one was indeed Rainbow Ocean.

Or rather, during the investigation, Rainbow Ocean became increasingly suspicious.

It turns out that the legend of the Rainbow Sea actually dates back much further than the information that is generally available on the StarNet.

According to the secret records of the Alliance headquarters, long before the establishment of the Interstellar Alliance, there were already powerful ancient civilizations that confirmed the existence of the Rainbow Sea, and there is also some other corroborating evidence.

"As for the possibility of reaching the Rainbow Sea, the so-called Golden Civilization Hexagonal Amulet is something that several top powers in the universe are closely watching."

"Hehe, I originally wanted to be patient and cause trouble after finding the fragments, but now it seems that in order to find the Dao Fruit fragments, I will inevitably have to run into these people first."

Guan Luoyang's eyes shone brightly, his expression a mixture of praise and a smile.

"OK!"

(End of this chapter)