Ding Meng was shocked speechless as he looked at Xiao Ai in her human form.
Xiao Ai was very tall, a head taller than Ding Meng. She was wearing a set of ancient warrior's attire, which made her face look even more heroic. Xiao Ai's appearance was more like Meng Yan's when she had just recovered her appearance. She had a kind of masculine, tenacious, and heroic beauty that was mixed together.
At this time, the short girl turned around. Ding Meng was stunned again. The short girl was less than 1.6 meters tall and was dressed very plainly. She was wearing a light grey sweater, light blue jeans, and a pair of white sneakers. If they were not on the spaceship, Ding Meng would have thought that she was a female student from some city in the Federal Empire.
The short girl had a round face. Her face could not be described as beautiful. It was the purest kind of purity, like a piece of flawless white jade. It was as if all the beauty in the world was concentrated on her. Anyone who saw this face would be moved, but they would not have the slightest intention to profane it.
"Ding Meng!"
The girl suddenly showed a warm smile. When she was not smiling, she looked like a picture scroll, but when she smiled, she immediately became lively. Her pair of peach blossom eyes seemed to be smiling as well, as if she was showing a kind of friendliness.
"Little Rascal!" Ding Meng was stunned again. "I didn't expect you to become like this."
Little Rascal was amused. "How is it?
I told you that every time I change, my form will become more beautiful, but you didn't believe me. "
Little Rascal looked to be about 17 or 18 years old. Ding Meng could not imagine that the Red Origin Crystal could produce such a rebirth effect.
"By the way, Little Rascal, I didn't expect you to be Princess Mou Xing."
Little Rascal's smile disappeared. "I'm sorry, Ding Meng. I didn't mean to hide it from you. I was just worried that it would put too much pressure on you. I also wanted to keep it a secret so that the Demons wouldn't find out."
Ding Meng said with a wry smile, "I really didn't expect that."
Little Rascal said, "When Mou was destroyed, I was killed in the chaos of war. In order to protect me, the Great General compressed me into a three-dimensional spirit form and sent me to this star system. I wandered in space until Dr. Harxinte found me in an interstellar ruin."
Ding Meng then looked at Xiao Ai. "Is Xiao Ai also a spirit?
Why didn't I feel it? "
Little Rascal said, "Little Ai was my personal guard. She also sacrificed herself in that battle, and the damage she received was especially great, causing her spirit body to be damaged as well. In order to extend her life, I suggested that the Doctor modify her into an AI program and embed it into a biochip. She has to rely on a host to survive, so she hasn't awakened until now. However, the True Origin Red Crystal just now was full of energy, so I might as well restore her."
Ding Meng let out a long sigh of relief. "That's great. I didn't expect you to really recover."
Xiao Ai explained, "We haven't truly returned to Mou. Right now, we're only in human form. After all, this is three-dimensional space."
Ding Meng carefully sensed Little Rascal's and Xiao Ai's auras. Their auras were very unique. They weren't pure heat or ice elements, but a combination of pure Origin Energy from all elements. However, the fluctuations were slightly weaker. Little Rascal seemed to be a junior warrior, while Xiao Ai was a junior war lord.
Little Rascal said, "The Divine Light Energy and True Origin Red Crystal only restored our spirit bodies and physical bodies. We still need to cultivate again to improve our strength."
Ding Meng smiled. "Little Rascal, I'm very curious. How do you cultivate?"
Little Rascal smiled. "As long as we have energy, we can cultivate. Our cultivation speed won't be slower than yours. Ding Meng, you have to know that I know everything you know, and I know everything you don't know."
Ding Meng sighed. "The Diamond Star Art must be a high-level cultivation method of Mou, right?"
Little Rascal also sighed. "That's something only royalty is allowed to cultivate. You have to know that I'm a princess. Only the direct descendants of my bloodline have the right to cultivate it."
Ding Meng said, "No wonder it's so powerful. It's practically all-encompassing and invincible."
Little Rascal smiled again. "Actually, I'm also quite curious. The Diamond Star Art is far more complex and difficult than a human can cultivate, but Ding Meng, you're a freak. You managed to cultivate it to the terrifying height of ten stars."
Ding Meng smiled bitterly. "I was forced to cultivate it time and time again."
Little Rascal smiled and said, "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Anyway, Ding Meng, I'm very glad that I met you and not anyone else. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be where we are today. There's not much time left, so we have to prepare to set off."
Ding Meng asked, "How much time has passed?"
Xiao Ai's tone was as indifferent as ever. "It's been 13 hours, 05 minutes, and 36 seconds."
Ding Meng was once again convinced. It took Little Rascal and the others such a long time to recover. It seemed that he didn't have much time left.
After waking up Xin Jie and Su Xia, Xin Jie and Su Xia were also quite shocked. In Xin Jie's mind, the Red Origin Crystal was simply too heaven-defying. It could actually reconstruct an extraterrestrial spirit body and even transform it into a human. This was practically cheating.
At this moment, Little Rascal reached out and swiped the screen. The system's voice really did change. "Pearl life form detected. System automatically authorized. Your Highness, please give the order."
Little Rascal frowned. "It seems that the energy is not enough to support an interplanetary space jump. We can only fly normally. Where should we go?
Ding Meng, set a target. "
Ding Meng pondered and said, "Let's go to the Norse Empire!"
"Don't go!" Xin Jie decisively stopped him.
Ding Meng said in surprise, "Oh?
Then where are we going? "
Xin Jie said in a low voice, "We're not going anywhere. We're just going to wait here for this super warship to finish recharging. I want to see what it really is."
"I advise you to give up on that idea." Rat King's voice rang out again.
This time, it was Xin Jie's turn to be puzzled. "Why?"
Rat King let out a long sigh. "Young man, seeing that you're also the chosen one, I can tell you responsibly that this warship has been buried underground for so many years, and I can't sense any fluctuations from it. No one has ever walked out from inside it. No one knows whether it's a human or a ghost inside. Although I can't sense the situation inside this Divine Arrow spaceship, I now know that it's Shenguang Technology's self-protection system that isolates it from the outside world. However, this warship's situation is definitely different."
His words were actually very easy to understand. After all, Divine Arrow spaceship was an extraterrestrial Shenguang Technology. It was normal that high-end technology couldn't decipher it. However, this super warship was definitely not an extraterrestrial technology. It was something that belonged to this galaxy. The only question was who designed it and who was commanding it.
Xin Jie gritted his teeth and said, "It's precisely because I don't know. That's why I want to find out."
Rat King let out another sigh and said earnestly, "Young man, don't think that you people are very powerful. That's why you're so fearless. Let me tell you again, I've been absorbing this warship's energy and the minuscule amount of Shenguang energy outside the spaceship for so many years. If I were to transform into a human, I can say with certainty that all of you, including Ding Meng, would be no match for me. Even I am so wary of this mysterious warship, what more you people?"
Xin Jie was still a little unconvinced. "But it was ultimately created by the human world."
Rat King sighed. "Alright, you think you can do it. Then let me ask you, if Mou Xing's spaceship is so powerful, why couldn't it escape the pursuit of the super warship?"
"This …" Xin Jie was stunned. "I haven't thought about this before. Perhaps there's another reason."
Rat King said, "Alright, if the first time is a coincidence, then what about the second time? Even the hacker of the grassroots empire that you admire the most was only able to seal it and not destroy it. If even the grassroots empire is so wary of it, do you think you're stronger than the grassroots empire?"
Xin Jie could only lower his head and sigh. "You're right, senior. I was too arrogant. The grassroots empire also reminded me before, but I forgot again."
Rat King said seriously, "I think that the most important thing for all of you to do now is to think of a way to stop this warship from recovering. I have a strong feeling that once this warship is operational, it and the people inside will pose a great threat to all of you, perhaps an unprecedented threat."
This was the truth. Disregarding everything else, a single True Red Crystal was enough to make the entire Federation and the entire empire go crazy. Fortunately, Little Rascal had already used it.
Little Rascal pondered for a moment before saying, "The Divine Arrow Spaceship is only a reconnaissance spaceship. It doesn't have a powerful attack system, and we don't have much energy left. We can't just squander it."
Xiao Ai praised, "According to my calculations, many of the systems on our spaceship are already aging. Simple weapons won't be able to cause any substantial damage to a warship of this size."
Ding Meng nodded decisively. "There's only one way to stop it from recovering, and that is to seal it again."
Xin Jie smiled bitterly. "Sealing it again? Who else in this world besides the grassroots empire has the ability to do that?"
Xiao Ai stared at him. "Not even you?"
Xin Jie shook his head. "I'm not worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as him."
Little Rascal said, "We can go find him and ask him to take action. He must have his reasons for sealing this big guy back then. I also want to meet this legendary person."
She didn't want to meet this great being, but she had finally found a Mou Xing spaceship after much difficulty. As long as it was something that could threaten the spaceship, she definitely wouldn't allow it to exist. She had to find a way to deal with it.
Xin Jie seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes suddenly lit up. "I know where to find him."
Su Xia was surprised. "Didn't you say that no one has ever seen a grassroots empire before?"
"No!"
Xin Jie immediately refuted. "It wouldn't have been a problem if I said that a day ago, but when I was removing the seal at Julie's place, this proud great being left behind a clue for me. I'm confident that I can find him again."
Ding Meng said, "You mean we still have to make a trip back to the surface?
Won't that be enough time? "
Xiao Ai immediately stood up. "It's fine. We can use the 'traveler transmission' system on our spaceship to send you to the northern stronghold in just a few seconds."