Chapter 1149 Holy Treasure

Hao Ren's words completely silenced the living room. Even Lily, who usually had a broad imagination, hadn't expected that the landlord would find the Holy Treasure Orb while attending a meeting. Becky, ever the ditz, blurted out, "What treasure orb?"

"Have you been loafing around on Earth so much that you've gone stupid?" Hao Ren looked at Becky, amused. "Of course, it's the Holy Treasure Orb from the Dream Plane. You were even hoping to buy a garden villa within the Third Ring Road of the capital with it – I found it, in the little green men's homeland, and those four ascetic monks are still alive."

Becky finally realized what was happening. After a gasp of surprise, she rushed to Hao Ren like a small whirlwind. "Ho-Ho-Ho-Holy Treasure Orb?! What's going on?!"

Hao Ren then told them everything he had heard at the meeting today, and mentioned the possible reasons why the Holy Treasure Orb ended up on the little green men's planet. However, the others didn't seem to care about how the orb got there; they were only concerned about what the orb looked like. Becky clapped her hands, her face beaming. "Heh – this is it. Taking the orb back, I can at least be knighted. If I'm lucky, I might even get a title... and a house... hehe, hehehe..."

Hao Ren watched as this greedy mercenary was about to descend into a state of madness. Although he felt a little bad, he still cautiously reminded her, "Well... you don't need a house or a title right now. You can only spend ten days in your hometown each time..."

Becky suddenly came to her senses. The expression on her face instantly crumbled, and her joy turned into a look of bitter resentment. She grabbed Hao Ren's arm and gritted her teeth. "I suddenly, very, very, very much want to fight you to the death..."

Hao Ren sweated profusely and quickly comforted her for a long time, finally preventing Becky from killing him on the spot. But thinking about it, this girl was really unlucky: Becky had no other hobbies in her life except for being greedy and liking to boast about her reputation. She went to find the Holy Treasure Orb for both fame and fortune, but now that her dream had finally come true, she realized that she had to watch the clock even when she went back to her hometown to brag... To be honest, the only thing worse than her situation was being granted ten thousand households and given the imperial surname – posthumously.

"Anyway, let's bring the Holy Treasure Orb back first," Hao Ren said quickly, seeing that Becky had calmed down temporarily, trying to change the subject. "And the four monks."

The "ascetic monks" of the Dream Plane were certainly not the monks in Hao Ren's impression. They were a kind of church knight who took the path of asceticism, strictly speaking, similar to battle priests who adhered to strict rules and regulations, but Hao Ren still casually imagined them and called them "high monks." Becky was too lazy to correct this small cultural error: the mercenary girl was still sad, and in order to commemorate the title and fiefdom that were "posthumously conferred," she temporarily didn't have time to pay attention to other things.

After Hao Ren confirmed that Becky would be going with him to the little green men's planet tomorrow, he casually asked who else wanted to go. As expected, everyone in the house jumped up excitedly. Of course, Izhaks, as a mature and steady older brother, didn't jump, but clearly, this great demon with lofty ideals and awareness of the starry sea was also very interested in aliens. He scratched his bald head and said with a grin, "I think I should have a lot in common with those aliens. If those idiots in my hometown could put half of their energy into exploration like those 'little green men,' they might have rushed out of the solar system long ago."

This trip to the Kabala United Kingdom was a publicly funded trip... business trip without any risk. It was no problem to bring all these people along, so Hao Ren agreed readily. He also took the opportunity to introduce the little green men's peculiar customs to everyone while eating, especially that "the farther you die, the better." Even the well-informed Vivian was amazed by such a magical cultural difference, but Izhaks chuckled, "Sometimes cultural differences are just like that. Many of my clansmen give themselves titles like the Evil So-and-So – in demon traditional culture, these three words are commendatory, meaning they can bring the greatest fear to humans. Of course, I don't do that."

At half past eight the next morning, Hao Ren and his companions were ready to set off for the Kuiper Station. Lily, in particular, was dressed up like she was going on a trip. Of course, for her, this was indeed a trip. Vivian also put on her best clothes (the ones Hao Ren bought for her, which she had always treasured). She couldn't help but sneer at Lily's excited look. "Isn't it just that your tail has recovered? Is there any need to be so happy?"

Lily waved her tail vigorously. "I want to! If you have the ability, grow a tail too!"

Vivian flapped her wings. "If you have the ability, fly!"

Hao Ren: "..." These two really hadn't changed. They had only been at peace for a few days, and now they were starting to bicker over such inexplicable things again. But come to think of it... could this be a sign of a good relationship?

Because the group was going to an alien planet, and even the Kuiper Station wasn't human territory, no one was afraid of exposing their identity. Lily's tail swished behind her, Vivian's red eyes flickered, and even Becky considered meeting the respected ascetic monks and brought the imposing mercenary equipment she had when she first came to Earth. Only Nangong Wuyue and Izhaks honestly maintained their human appearance: these two were too big, and they couldn't even enter the portal in their original form. Nangong Wuyue did have a mermaid form in addition to her sea serpent form, but unfortunately, she bounced on the ground even less skillfully than Doudou...

Speaking of Doudou, Hao Ren couldn't help but turn his head to look at the fish baby hanging on his arm. He saw that the foot-long little guy was tightly clutching his sleeve, lying comfortably in the crook of his arm. Hao Ren looked down at her, and Doudou immediately made a soft humming sound, patted her tail to say hello – and to express her determination not to come down.

Anyway, it wasn't a dangerous place, so he might as well bring this little guy along.

Only one person didn't come with them, and that was the temporary lodger Hesperides – this shrewd "Goddess of Twilight" realized that this family of strange guys was going to do something special and secret, so she proposed to leave one step ahead of time. Her body had completely recovered, and the reconstruction of the Athens Sanctuary after the disaster also urgently needed the Ancient Ones to hold the line, so Vivian didn't try to keep her.

But Hao Ren knew that as he delved deeper and deeper into the millennia-old feud between hunters and the different races, he would definitely have many opportunities to meet with Hesperides and alien friends like Hasse Anna in the future.

After seeing off Hesperides, the remaining group came to the Kuiper Station like they were on a spring outing with their families. Because the size of the teleportation device at home was limited, they even teleported over in two batches. Lulu was shocked when she saw them: it was estimated that the guide girl had never seen an ambassadorial delegation with this kind of atmosphere in her life...

Kabala was still staying at the Kuiper Station with a group of little green men. They had come specifically for the matter of the crashed spaceship, and would stay at the space station for a long time as permanent negotiators until the matter was resolved. Due to the unique political structure of the Campbell people and their racial character, Kabala, the nominal "President of the United Kingdom," was not necessarily burdened with important affairs. It didn't really matter if he didn't go back to hold the line for a while. Strictly speaking, the really important person in their country was the Minister of the Cosmic Development Department, and Kabala had been forced to resign from this position by his wife many years ago...

The various vassal stars of the Kabala United Kingdom implemented a high degree of autonomy. The place where the Holy Treasure Orb "landed" was not on the main star of the United Kingdom, but on another colony star, so the group could go directly to the executive officer of this vassal star. Hao Ren greeted Kabala and led the group to the executive officer, who was the little green man who told Hao Ren about the Holy Treasure Orb yesterday, named Talam.

However, Hao Ren felt that it was completely meaningless to remember the names of these little green men, because in his eyes, most of the little green men looked the same. These alien creatures with huge heads and green skin lacked the easily distinguishable facial features like humans (except for Koreans). Hao Ren could only barely remember the name of a certain little green man from some "heresies," such as Kabala – the latter's skin was slightly yellowish, which was the only difference Hao Ren felt between him and the other little green men.

He wondered if the little green men could distinguish humans clearly when they saw them. Probably... it should be fine.

At least it was no problem to distinguish the group Hao Ren was leading: each of them had such distinct characteristics that you could recognize them even if you didn't color them and just left a silhouette!

In order to shorten the voyage time, Hao Ren politely declined Talam's offer to have everyone ride his spaceship, and instead led everyone, including Talam and some of his entourage, to board the Petrified Turtle Rock. This inspector's official ship manufactured by the Empire had a speed that any mortal race in the universe could only dream of, especially after the main engine's limitations were lifted and it entered full fast-jump mode, its speed could no longer be described with the word "speed," but almost became a pure mathematical process.

Unlocking a spatial equation would allow one to reach any corner of the universe – the Holy Treasure Orb incident was a major event in Hao Ren's mind, and he had the ship go full speed.

Soon, the Petrified Turtle Rock arrived at its destination, a galaxy a full two million light-years away from the Milky Way.

The Campbell Civilization Circle was the only overlord of this galaxy.

On the bridge, Talam happily introduced the galaxy to everyone. "I am very proud to introduce you to my hometown. This is the Campbell Nebula. Our explorers have died in every corner of this galaxy. It is our glorious territory..."

Everyone on the scene felt that this thing called cultural difference was simply incomprehensible...

(The Xiling physical book has been published, and should be in bookstores in various places in a few days. Those who participated in the group purchase can start to pay the balance, and wait for the tutorial to come out in the bar if you forget the link or order number. Go to tB if you don't want to wait at the bookstore, it is easy to find. I hope everyone will actively support it. Only based on the sales volume of the first phase can we decide whether the second and third phases will be successfully produced...)