126: Chapter 126 Inviting the Angel Lady into the Home

On the surface of Planet G-77-3, in the Angel Defense Zone.

Ling Xi looked at the newly refreshed headquarters announcement on her terminal, blinking her ice-blue eyes.

"Abnormal biological units... Tier 4-5... Recommend moving closer to friendly forces..." She read aloud in a whisper, then looked up at Li Yuan, who was helping pack up the Light Guardian beacons. "Classmate Li Yuan, should we... go with you?"

She said this with a tone as casual as asking "What's for lunch today?", but the wings behind her were nervously tucked in—a small gesture the Angel Race used to express unease.

Li Yuan, who was directing the Light Guardians to disassemble a three-meter-high beacon tower into standard modules, paused in surprise at her words: "Your entire squad... wants to come to our base?"

"Yeah!" Ling Xi nodded vigorously, her silver ponytail swaying with the movement. "Doesn't the announcement suggest gathering together? Plus, you guys are so strong, your base must be safe, definitely safer than ours!"

She paused, then added, "Besides, aren't we friends? Friends should help each other!"

She said this with such righteous confidence, paired with her soft, cute face, it was devastatingly effective.

Li Yuan's mouth twitched. He glanced at the seven Angel ladies behind Ling Xi—all of them stunningly beautiful with pure white wings, currently looking at him with eager eyes, clearly begging to be "taken in."

"Don't you angels have any pride at all! Fine." Li Yuan rubbed his temples. "But our base... might not have that many spare rooms."

"It's okay!" Ling Xi said immediately. "We can... bring our own rooms! Really!"

The angel sisters behind her nodded in unison, their wings flapping happily twice.

And so, it was settled.

Half an hour later, when Li Yuan watched the Angel Base begin to disassemble and "transform," he finally couldn't hold back the question he had been holding for a long time: "Ling Xi, you're just abandoning this base? Isn't it a pity?"

He was referring to the steel fortress before him, which had already taken shape—although it couldn't compare to the "planet battleship" scale of North Star Base, it had everything: shield generators, automatic turrets, a command center, living quarters... It looked like a lot of effort had gone into building it.

Ling Xi was checking the packaging status of the last beacon module. Hearing this, she turned around and looked at Li Yuan with a strange expression: "A pity? Why would it be a pity?"

"I mean... you spent so long building it, and now you're just abandoning it..." Li Yuan tried to explain.

Ling Xi blinked, then suddenly realized: "Oh—Classmate Li Yuan, you don't think... this is a 'disposable' base that we're just throwing away, do you?"

Li Yuan: "...Isn't it?"

"Of course not!" Ling Xi giggled. "This is a modular mobile forward base! It can be disassembled, taken with us, and reassembled at the next location!"

She pointed at the transforming base structures: "Look, every module has a standard interface; once disassembled, it's in transport mode. When we arrive at a new location, it can be unfolded and formed within a few hours. Otherwise, did you think... we dig foundations from scratch every time we reach a new planet?"

Li Yuan fell silent. Their human race often dug bases everywhere.

He turned his head to look in the direction of his own North Star Base—that steel monster crazily expanding, which now suddenly seemed to him to have a bit of... the aura of an nouveau riche landlord.

"Do you humans not teach this?" Ling Xi asked curiously. "Building it on the spot when you arrive? That's so... lavish?"

She pronounced the word "lavish" clearly, evidently a piece of human slang she had recently learned.

Li Yuan coughed dryly: "We don't necessarily build it from scratch, but we don't really recycle it. Maybe it's because... we focus more on 'base construction'?"

"Or maybe it's because your lifespans are short, so you don't have many chances to change bases?" Ling Xi tilted her head, her silver hair sliding to her shoulder. "Like us, the Angel Race, we're an immortal species. We spend a few hundred years on this planet, then switch to another for the next few hundred. Building a base every time we go somewhere is too wasteful!"

She said this with an innocent expression, completely unaware that she had just delivered a dimensional strike regarding racial age.

Li Yuan looked at her teenage face, which looked at most seventeen or eighteen, and suddenly inspiration struck: "Ling Xi, if I may ask... how old are you? You wouldn't be 'three thousand years older' and on the verge of ascension, would you?"

"Hater, you're asking for a beating! Take my Holy Light Slash! How dare you call me old!" Ling Xi's eyes widened, and she raised her hand indignantly, Holy Light beginning to condense in her palm: "I'm only one hundred years old! In terms of growth and development, it's roughly equivalent to... um, sixteen?"

A beam of pure Holy Light energy shot toward Li Yuan.

Li Yuan stood still.

The bei ming core lazily rotated in his Energy Center, separating a wisp of True Essence to meet it. The moment the Holy Light hit the True Essence, it was like a snowflake falling into warm water, vanishing with a "hiss."

A system prompt flashed in his consciousness: [Absorbed pure light-type energy, Energy +50]

Li Yuan felt it and evaluated it in his mind: The power is okay, but the quantity is a bit low. Not as good as Sai Wei.

Li Yuan: "...You angels only count as adults at one hundred?"

"Yeah!" Ling Xi nodded, her wings flapping gently. "Our angel lifespan is theoretically infinite, as long as we aren't killed or give up our immortality. One hundred is just finishing basic education, equivalent to your human university graduation."

She tucked away her wings and turned to direct her sisters to continue moving: "Alright, alright, enough messing around. Let's finish packing up and go see your base—I'm really curious what that 'lavish' base of yours actually looks like!"

When the Angel Race's transport module group arrived at North Star Base, Ling Xi and her seven sisters collectively fell into a thirty-second silence.

They stood on the observation platform on the perimeter of the base, looking up at the structure before them... could this thing really still be called a "base"?

On the steel plain spanning hundreds of kilometers, countless building modules were stacked, extended, and grown like building blocks. Seven full layers of pale blue energy shields were nested, refracting a rainbow-like halo in the thin atmosphere.

Inside the shield, the most exaggerated part was the energy zone—over a dozen medium-sized fusion engines bloomed like giant metal flowers, spewing stable plasma streams; and further away, dozens of drilling pipes with diameters exceeding one hundred meters pierced deep into the earth, with dark red light flowing along their walls, representing the geothermal energy being extracted directly from the mantle layer.

Even more ridiculous were the weapons.

The automatic turrets could no longer be called "turrets," they should be called a "forest of cannons"—at a glance, dense cannon barrels extended like a forest to the end of the field of vision. Ling Xi even saw several giant turrets with diameters exceeding fifty meters, with deep blue energy veins flowing along the cannon bodies, a design she had only seen in war history footage...

"Is that... a Mega Particle Cannon?" Ling Xi's voice was a bit airy. "The main gun of a xihe-class battlecruiser?"

Li Yuan nodded: "Yeah, Chen Jingyi said since there were extra materials, she just built a few to play with."

"...Play with?" Ling Xi turned to look at him, her expression like she had heard someone say, "I was bored, so I built a star to play with."

"Chen Jingyi's talent, Daoyan Military Nexus, can manipulate matter to build things on its own, and can simultaneously endow equipment with intelligence, building itself." Li Yuan explained, "As long as there are blueprints and materials, everything is built quickly. These cannons were all churned out by the automated production lines themselves."

Ling Xi opened her mouth, but no words came out.

The angel sisters behind her had already started whispering to each other:

"Sister, is that a production line for the 'white emperor' mecha?"

"Seems like it... look, there's also a 'Xing Tian' assembly platform over there..."

"They even have a starship dock?! Are they trying to build warships on the planet's surface?!"

"I see it! Over there! That's laying the base for a super-large jump engine, right?!"

Ling Xi took a deep breath and turned to look at Li Yuan, her tone heavy: "Classmate Li Yuan, is your Blazing Dragon Federation... planning to transform Planet G-77-3 into your planet battleship?"

Li Yuan thought for a moment and answered sincerely: "Chen Jingyi's original words were—'Since we're already here, it would be a pity not to build something big.'"

Ling Xi: "..."

At this moment, a figure came bouncing over from deep within the base. Chen Yao was wearing a work jumpsuit today, her silver hair tied in a high ponytail, and she was holding a wrench—though with her talent, she had no use for such a thing.

"Welcome to the North Star Military Academy forward base!" Chen Yao smiled until her eyes curved into crescent moons. "Friends from the Angel Race! I'm Chen Yao, and this is Chen Jingyi—"

She stepped aside, revealing the quiet, emotionless girl standing behind her. Chen Jingyi pushed up her glasses and nodded at Ling Xi: "An access port has been reserved for your party. Your base modules can dock in Sector C-7; the shield frequency has been synchronized."

Ling Xi nodded blankly: "Th-thank you..."

The following process was as fast as a dream.

Dozens of the Angel Race's transport modules were guided to the designated area, robotic arms automatically docked, interfaces aligned, and energy pipelines connected. In a mere twenty minutes, the originally independent Angel Base was perfectly "annexed" into the North Star Base system, becoming a fully functional auxiliary area.

Ling Xi stood in the newly assigned command room, looking at the joint shield data displayed on the holographic sand table—the strength was more than 300 times stronger than the shield of their previous Angel Base.

"...Is this the efficiency of humans?" She murmured.