Chapter 13: Parental Calls and Planetary Secrets

“Mom and Dad?!” The moment she saw her parents’ call, the girl’s pupils abruptly constricted. She immediately clutched her head, pacing anxiously from side to side in a state of panic.

‘Damn it! What was she supposed to do now? She couldn’t possibly answer the phone like this, could she?’

‘Should she pretend no one was home?’

Lin Ling considered altering her vocal cords to deal with the situation. However, the reality was rather harsh; currently, she could only use her body to subtly mimic relatively simple objects, such as keys or knives.

As for completely reshaping her vocal cords, she truly couldn’t do it!

“Master! I can help you!” As if sensing Lin Ling’s predicament, Little White volunteered, leaping forward.

Then, under Lin Ling’s astonished gaze, Little White somehow connected the computer and the phone using a tangle of strange wires. They then performed a series of operations on the computer.

Our Miss Lin Ling watched, completely baffled yet impressed.

‘Huh? What’s going on here?’

As Lin Ling remained bewildered, Little White finished the modifications.

“It’s done!”

“You finished it?!”

“Yes, Master! You can now communicate with them using this microphone! I extracted audio recordings of your original voice from your computer and created a simulation system. When you speak into this microphone, they will hear your original voice!”

Little White practically preened, seeking praise from Lin Ling.

“That’s all it takes?! That’s incredible!”

Hearing this, the girl was overjoyed. A brilliant smile bloomed across her exquisite features. Then, Lin Ling excitedly reached out and ruffled Little White’s head as a reward.

Beholding Lin Ling’s goddess-like smile, Little White’s face instantly flushed crimson, and some unidentifiable liquids slowly began to drip.

However, Lin Ling didn’t notice, for she had already answered the phone.

“Hello?”

The moment she spoke, a woman’s anxious voice abruptly entered Lin Ling’s ears.

“Hello?! Ah Lin! Where have you been these past few days? Your father and I have been calling your phone, but it’s always off. You don’t answer the home phone? You’ve worried us sick!”

Listening to her mother’s familiar, anxious tone, Lin Ling was filled with a myriad of emotions. Indeed, there were still so many people in this world who cared about her. How could she have been so despondent back then?

‘Sigh, how utterly foolish.’

“It’s nothing, Mom! I just went camping for a week with Little Wu and the others. My phone accidentally broke midway, so I couldn’t hear any calls. It’s fine!”

“Couldn’t you have borrowed someone else’s phone to call home and let us know you were safe? You’re so old now, yet still so thoughtless. How could you not tell your family anything?!”

“Alright, I get it. I’m not a child anymore; I don’t need to report every little thing to the family. Besides, I was having too much fun earlier and forgot to ask them for their phones.”

“Then why didn’t you call after you came back? The landline must have had many missed calls. Did you forget to check again?”

“I just got back last night. I was too tired and rested first. I forgot, hehe.”

“You’re really too thoughtless! Not reporting to the family for so long…”

…

…

‘Just like Mom, as verbose as ever.’

‘And I’m already this old, why does she still treat me like a child? Honestly.’

Furthermore, she was still incessantly lecturing about various hygiene issues.

‘It was a bit mundane.’

The girl couldn’t help but pout.

But truthfully, Lin Ling’s current minor germophobia was inextricably linked to her mother’s upbringing.

After a long thirty minutes, the call finally came to an end.

Although Lin Ling was mostly listening to her mother’s incessant nagging, she didn’t feel as impatient as usual. Instead, she calmly listened to her mother’s lecture.

Perhaps, after experiencing so many things, the girl had also matured.

Her mother’s voice gradually warmed Lin Ling’s heart. Her heart, previously lost due to Xi Yue’s matter, also received considerable comfort.

However, all that being said, business was business!

After hanging up the phone, Lin Ling decisively made a WeChat call to her good friend, Wu Hang. To prevent her mother from checking, she needed to coordinate their stories first.

“Hey! Little Wu, if my mom calls you, just say…”

After another ten minutes of effort, her week-long disappearance was barely explained away to her family. As for her friends, a simple fabricated story would easily suffice.

Having dealt with these trivial matters, Lin Ling turned her gaze back to Little White.

“How are Xi Yue’s records coming along?”

“Mhm, everything that could be collected has been collected, Master, take a look.” With that, Little White directly pulled up all the previously searched data and displayed it on the computer screen.

“Here are only Miss Xi Yue’s records from after she entered high school. Everything before high school is unknown. Moreover, she has no record of participating in the junior high entrance exam, yet she has exam results. Furthermore, there’s no information about her family, as if she appeared out of thin air…”

Listening to Little White’s explanation and looking at the data before her, Lin Ling found it increasingly unbelievable. She suddenly realized she knew next to nothing about her girlfriend.

Little White’s abilities were absolutely trustworthy!

The data here could be considered all the information available about Xi Yue on Blue Star. Although still somewhat disbelieving, Xi Yue truly seemed not to belong to this planet…

‘Not from Blue Star, huh…’

But what did it matter?!

Her feelings for Xi Yue were undeniable. Even if she was an alien, even if she had kept many secrets from her. Now that she was gone, dwelling on those things was meaningless!

What she needed to do now was uncover the truth and avenge her!

However, her previous wide-area perception hadn’t yielded any valuable intelligence. Therefore, next time, Lin Ling intended to expand her perception range to encompass all of China, or even the entire Blue Star.

Moreover, after discovering the Fiery Dragon King this time, Lin Ling felt that Blue Star might not be as ordinary as she had previously imagined. Perhaps her next perception scan could uncover other unexpected clues.

To that end, she now had to find a way to restore her spiritual power. Aside from the Holy Spirit power that formed the core of her body, she also needed to absorb a certain amount of external spiritual power to unleash greater strength.

The Battle Sovereign wasn’t incapable of generating spiritual power independently. However, it required a certain baseline of spiritual power before it could continuously regenerate.

In other words, to fully exert her power, Lin Ling now had to find a way for her body to absorb the minimum amount of spiritual power required to initiate self-regeneration. After that, everything would be much simpler.

‘But where should she gather it?’

This was undoubtedly a serious problem.

The residual spiritual power from Ruohua Mountain had already been entirely absorbed by her, yet it was still a drop in the ocean. Now Lin Ling somewhat regretted using such a wide-range spiritual wave cannon earlier; it had fired too far, making it impossible to recover the spiritual power.

She had originally wanted to travel to a star system rich in spiritual power to absorb energy. However, considering her current state, whether she could even fly there was a major question mark.

“Argh, if only I hadn’t been so extravagant earlier!”

In that instant, the silver-haired girl clutched her head and paced frantically, filled with regret.

“Is there any other way to recover spiritual power?”

After deliberating for a few seconds, Lin Ling had no choice but to consult Little White again.

“Ermmm, actually, Master, your body will still generate ordinary spiritual power on its own, it’s just a bit slow. After some time, once it recovers to the minimum reserve, it should speed up considerably.”

“Oh? Is that so?”

“Yes! Also, Master, if you want to accelerate the recovery speed, you can also absorb external things, like food or thermal energy. These will also convert into spiritual power, though the efficiency isn’t very high.”

“Oh, I see!”

Wow, Little White was truly reliable. Lin Ling happily hugged Little White and rubbed her face against them.

Little White appeared outwardly calm.

However, inwardly, they were cheering with joy.

Lin Ling, though, didn’t delve into Little White’s emotions.

Now, only one question remained in the girl’s mind.

‘So, does that mean I should go steal a nuclear bomb to eat?’

****

Meanwhile, somewhere unknown beyond the Source Star Universe, in a chaotic space formed by the fusion and combination of strange, chaotic energy, a black-haired man with heterochromatic black and white eyes sat cross-legged at the center of the space, a smile gracing his face as he read a report in his hand.

“Heh, a newly born Original Battle Sovereign, and on Blue Star of all places. How interesting.” (Unknown language)

As he spoke, a bizarre black energy instantly gathered at the tip of the man’s right finger, forming a pure black orb enveloped in white mist.

The next moment, the man flicked his finger.

The orb landed in the hand of a grim, angel-like creature wearing a crying mask, positioned behind the man.

“Have that fellow send it into Blue Star.”

Upon receiving the man’s command, the angel-type monster bowed respectfully.

Subsequently, it gradually faded into the darkness and disappeared.

After sensing the departure of his subordinate, the man refocused his attention on the report in his hand.

“And ‘Xi Yue’? I didn’t expect her to still be playing such child’s games.”

Recalling the terrifying, decisive entity from his memories, the man couldn’t help but let out a scoff.