Chapter 217: ‘Shortcut’ Opens [Part 2]
Even though Cillin knew Jiada only for a short amount of ti, it still wasn’t hard to guess that his systems would be hard to hack even with the combined strength of the gray cat and Czedow.
Jiada walked out of his transport while being followed by two other people after the spaceplane descended on the ground. Cillin recognized one of them; it was that invisible man. This ant that they belonged to Grim Reaper.
It would appear that they were very familiar with each other. Cillin didn’t expect Jiada to share such a good relationship with ‘Grim Reaper’.
Jiada tossed over an item to Cillin. After Cillin took in and gave it a look, he discovered that it was a starmap piece. It wasn’t a piece of the starmap he was assembling, so it was probably the one Lung was looking for.
“It is ti for you to fulfill your promise.”
“We’re opening ‘Shortcut’ now?” Cillin asked.
Jiada nodded.
This ant that the remaining the starmap pieces of ‘Shortcut’ were all in their hands.
Looking at their appearance, Cillin understood that they weren’t going to let him contact the Sixth B Squadron.
“Don’t worry,” Jiada seed to know what Cillin was thinking, and he said, “I’ve already contacted Ji Feng, so you should be seeing him pretty soon. This is a cooperation, so it’s only natural for us to display our sincerity.”
Having witnessed Oskulos’ power himself, Cillin grew so confidence in Ji Feng’s abilities. There was also no harm in having a Star Rank Hunter to back him up.
“Can I talk to the admiral?” Cillin asked.
“No, you cannot. But I can pass on a ssage for you.”
“Alright, please tell him to bring Sigma along to.”
“Sigma, is it? I’m not sure who you’re referring to, but I can permit this request.”
Jiada cast a glance at the guy playing a yoyo next to him, and the latter returned him a helpless look before walking back into the spaceplane.
It didn’t take long for the person to co back out of the spaceplane once more. “It’s sent.” Then, he went back to playing with his yoyo.
It was dayti when Ji Feng finally arrived.
Ji Feng brought five people with him to this expedition. They were all core mbers of the A Squadron.
Those core mbers behind Ji Feng were all staring at Cillin, the gray cat and Czedow like they were living ghosts because they knew that they had killed the Lone Wolf, Oskulos. But Ji Feng only smiled and said, “With Oskulos’ temperant, it’s only a matter of ti before he ets his end. Speaking of which, congratulations on becoming one of the Six Stars of Hunt, Jiada.”
So everyone knew that this would happen all along.
Ji Feng’s eyes were causing chills to crawl up Cillin’s spine, however. He suddenly reminded him of Elder Mo for so reason.
Sigma kept its silence throughout the journey to this planet. This was the first ti he exited his base after so many years, and the one reason that motivated it to do so was the words ‘for Shortcut’ uttered by Ji Feng.
However, Sigma’s silence was shattered the mont he saw Cillin, Czedow and the gray cat. It imdiately started chatting with the gray cat in machine language, which no one else understood.
Learning that what Ji Feng told it was true, Sigma was so happy that the blue strip of its faceplate turned into big waves.
Cillin produced three starmap pieces from his possession, while the yoyo guy from ‘Grim Reaper’ nad Xin Zhao produced two.
The five starmap pieces were greatly attracted to each other the second they were taken out of the subspace containers. After the five starmap pieces had joined into one, they imdiately displayed the complete image of a starmap. However, no coordinates were displayed on the starmap. It was impossible to tell which Sector this place belonged to either.
A key with the word ‘Shortcut’ hovering above it appeared inside the image.
The spinning key ultimately stopped and pointed at Sigma, who was currently jumping in excitent.
“It’s not possible to know the exact coordinate without the ‘key’,” Jiada said.
No one realized that the key referred to Sigma. They all thought that the key was down the direction Sigma happened to be at.
Jiada barely finished his words before Sigma shot out a ray of light. It was the projection of a starmap, and the two starmap holograms overlapped one another.
The starmap was now complete, and one of the planets were blinking constantly. That was their destination.
“This map...” Ji Feng frowned in thought for a mont, “I think it’s sowhere around our regint.”
“It is,” Xin Zhao said, “Juno had investigated this starmap just now, and he confirms that it is a region around your territory.”
Cillin’s pupils shrank. Juno?! Did he an the creator or Aier?!
Jiada smiled, “That’s convenient. I was wondering what to do if it were so other powers’ territory.”
“Haha, I’m going ho! I’m going to find master!”
Sigma was so happy that it moved around in circles non stop, drawing the attention of everyone from Vanguard. They asked Sigma so questions, but Sigma only replied with a simple explanation. It didn’t tell them any details at all.
Still, considering the occasion, no one minded that Sigma was withholding so information from them.
After the starmap was recorded, Cillin got onto the spaceplane with Ji Feng. Jiada had also gotten onto Ji Feng’s spaceplane. The rest of the Grim Reapers went back to their own starship on their own spaceplane.
Inside the spaceplane, Ji Feng chatted with Cillin about his takedown of Oskulos for a bit. He looked very pleased with Cillin’s performance, and his eyes started to resembling Mo Heng more and more.
At the sa ti, Cillin also learned from Ji Feng that the group that attacked the Sixth B Squadron’s base belonged to ‘Mist’. The base was mostly intact, and no casualties were incurred during the attack.
“Expect chaotic battles to happen all around GAL after the news of Oskulos’ death had spread. All those people who were once shackled by Oskulos’ power would definitely start making their own moves. Everyone must make preparations to face the impending battles.”
Ji Feng’s words were for Cillin to hear. He was the one who made most of the decisions inside the Sixth B Squadron anyway. Shawton’s influence within the B Squadron was slowly but surely growing smaller due to Cillin’s presence, and in fact Cillin had surpassed Shawton in the eyes of many A Squadron mbers.
Ji Feng’s attitude also showed that he valued Cillin a lot. He would’ve pulled Cillin over already if Cillin himself hadn’t been unwilling to accept the offer to be promoted to the A Squadron.
The coordinates shown in the starmap wasn’t far, so they quickly arrived at their target destination.
The target planet was a small and extrely unassuming rank D planet. The environnt was so bad that even Ji Feng and Jiada had to put on a protective suit.
Sigma and the gray cat ran ahead of the group and drew everyone’s envy.
It was one of the advantages for being nonhuman.
The group didn’t need to scan and analyze about for an exact location. The gray cat and Sigma quickly found the place they were looking for.
It was an entrance. It was only after they had entered the entrance that they realized that the planet itself was a machine that could create jump points.
The entity to activate this machine was Sigma. It knew so of the commands because they were stored inside its mory since a long ti ago.
Sigma was filled with excitent knowing that it could return ho and seek out his long lost master very soon. At the sa ti, however, Sigma couldn’t help but feel a strong sense of regret. For so reason, it felt reluctant to part with this place. It was a feeling that it wouldn’t have experienced had it not encountered the Sixth B Squadron beforehand. Perhaps this was what humans ant by ‘conflicting emotions’.
While Sigma was busying itself, Ji Feng, Jiada and the mbers of the Grim Reaper asked a few questions about the ‘Shortcut’.
They ca to the unanimous decision to test the functionality of the jump point and its safety for human travel before sending soone in. It wasn’t a preparation that they could skip or make poorly.
“Are you sure that this jump point is a two-way?” Ji Feng asked Sigma.
Sigma was so busy that it didn’t even turn back to answer Ji Feng, “Of course. How else did I get here in the first place?”
Everyone knew by now that Sigma didn’t originate from GAL, but Ji Feng still couldn’t shake the feeling that sothing was a bit off. It wasn’t sothing was amiss with the jump point, he just had a feeling that things wouldn’t develop the way he think it would.
Ji Feng cast a glance at Jiada. He knew at least so of Jiada’s abilities. However, Jiada was currently closing his eyes and thinking god knows what in his head.
At a side, Cillin stood together with the gray cat and Czedow. There was no longer any need for them to do anything. In a sense, if Cillin didn’t possess the starmap pieces, and if Ji Feng and Jiada weren’t here to protect him, the Grim Reapers would’ve chased him out of the place long ago. They might even have acted to rob the starmap pieces he possessed.
“Cillin, can this ‘Shortcut’ really connect to a whole new star system beyond GAL?” The gray cat asked.
“I think so,” Cillin couldn’t be sure because he hadn’t seen a new star system himself.
The gray cat licked its lips, “I sure hope that the world on the other side of ‘Shortcut’ is one that’s filled with a lot more food and a lot less mad scientists.”
Cillin scratched the gray cat’s chin and said nothing. Every system had its own way of existence and complexity. For example, GAL had places that were peaceful, war torn, prospering, or failing. There was no telling what kind of state the world on the other side of ‘Shortcut’ would be. Still, Cillin was more curious than anything else about the world that could create an existence like Sigma. There was also one other thing that Cillin was mulling over his mind.
Cillin had spent many years investigating the Elder Tree Fuji Gen Family to no avail. Perhaps he might find a clue on the other side of ‘Shortcut’.
“Ahh, it’s ready!” Sigma cried out loudly.
Everyone felt spirited when they heard this.
“Let us check if this node is stable first,” Sigma said.
It didn’t take long before Ji Feng, Jiada and Xin Zhao’s communicators rang.
The person on the other side of the communicator exclaid in excitent when Ji Feng accepted the transmission, “Admiral, a space-ti vortex just appeared outside!”
“Let’s head out and have a look,” Sigma led the way and moved outside.
Everyone followed suit seeing that Sigma had gotten out of the place.
Suddenly, a strange feeling struck Cillin.
When the crowd has gotten to the open, they could see the ti-space vortex hanging on the atmosphere-less sky. Moreover, it was growing larger and larger.
“So this is ‘Shortcut’!” The gray cat let out a gasp of surprise and turned to look at Cillin.
What it saw caused every hair on its body to stand on its end.
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