Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 52
Chapter 52: I Will Directly Request Instructions from the Lord!
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Jiang Qiao: “Have you all drawn scratch cards? What did you get? Show them quickly.”
Having drawn something strange and useless himself, his curiosity naturally made him wonder what kind of rewards the other chat group members would receive.
Soon, there were replies.
Yunyun: “It’s Explosion Magic…”
【Explosion Magic (Megumin Version)】
This was what Yunyun drew in one pull.
Kyoko: “I got a golden apple.”
Unlike the others who would exercise restraint, Kyoko would keep playing with anything interesting, so she directly spent all her 30+ points drawing, though she only got one thing—
【Golden Apple】
A famous treasure from Greek mythology that once caused a dispute among three goddesses, but in Kyoko’s eyes it was merely a golden apple with an incredibly delicious taste.
Kyoko’s evaluation was — it tastes amazing, I want to eat more!
Hu Tao: “I seem to have drawn something strange…”
【Haagentus’ Spirit】
Hall Master Hu had no idea what this thing was for.
Jiang Qiao was also somewhat confused.
He did know about spirits, roughly meaning souls or essence, with the deepest impression probably being from some game.
This might be something like【Puni’s Spirit】or similar?
Perhaps it was some later-released sprite or something.
It probably wasn’t anything important.
Having no impression of it, Jiang Qiao didn’t dwell on such matters.
“Let’s deal with the current situation first~”
The pink-haired girl, now wearing the Flame-Chaser outfit from the previous era, casually brushed the hair by his ear and looked at the exquisite poster in his hand, a charming curve forming at the corner of his mouth.
— Famous artist and singer Eden will hold a touring concert soon.
“Although this might seem like I’m neglecting serious matters for pleasure, I’m really looking forward to that【Golden】Flame-Chaser’s concert~”
Of course, Jiang Qiao wasn’t participating in the concert simply because he wanted to attend a concert.
For the blueprint he was planning in his heart, he definitely needed to make contact with that【Elysia】 close friend in advance.
Besides, he had previously lied to Elysia, saying that the outfit was designed by some wealthy young lady.
If later when Elysia changed back and didn’t see the wealthy young lady, wouldn’t that be embarrassing?
So, even for the sake of his own face, Jiang Qiao had to make this lie come true.
In summary—
“So then~【My】dear Eden, let us have a romantic encounter in advance?”
His gentle, smiling slender finger traced over the poster showing the woman with beautiful features and noble temperament, his bright clear blue eyes filled with hints of laughter.
…
Before Gray Serpent, the remains of a damaged monitoring device were displayed as a projection for him to examine clearly.
Needless to say, this was naturally the result brought by Miss Raven’s immediate report after detecting the anomaly.
Unlike Gray Serpent, who didn’t want to lose face before the Lord and wanted to wait until he had some results before notifying the Lord, Raven as a mercenary couldn’t be bothered with such concerns. She just needed to report any clues she found, she only cared about money!
“You think this is Fire Moth’s symbol?”
The hoarse voice revealed no emotion from Gray Serpent, who simply gazed at the remains before him with those crimson mechanical compound eyes, asking the question to Raven on the other end.
“Don’t ask me about this. I don’t care and I’m not interested, but don’t you think it looks quite similar?”
“This is impossible. Fire Moth has long since disappeared along with the Previous Era civilization. It cannot still exist.”
Gray Serpent obviously couldn’t believe this thing was related to Fire Moth.
Just a damaged, highly similar icon, what did that prove?
The world was vast, and extremely similar patterns weren’t unheard of.
If it was just a moth pattern, comparing it with image databases worldwide would surely find matches.
At this point, Jackal also joined the conversation and provided technical support:
“The restoration results are out. This is indeed Fire Moth’s pattern, but there’s no data about this portable communicator model in the Previous Era database.”
“Of course, this doesn’t mean this thing isn’t from Fire Moth.”
As a rigorous researcher, Jackal didn’t make absolute statements.
Because the Previous Era database couldn’t be said to be completely accurate either. After so many disasters and 50,000 years of time, quite a bit of data inevitably had errors and losses.
“Say, it couldn’t be that some old relic from the Elysian Realm snuck out when you weren’t paying attention, could it?”
Hearing this, Raven couldn’t help but tease.
If it was some old thing from the Elysian Realm that had escaped and caused this incident, that would indeed not be strange.
Jackal, who was responsible for this area, couldn’t help but refute:
“There’s no such possibility. The Elysian Realm’s data is all normal, and I haven’t received any news about any Lord coming to reality.”
“Heh, so you’re saying it’s haunted? In broad daylight, a Fire Moth device suddenly appears, something that was swept into the trash heap of history couldn’t have suddenly come back to life, could it?”
Miss Raven didn’t mind making a big deal of watching the excitement, casually joking about this “supernatural incident” before them.
“…Actually, we can’t rule out that this thing came from ruins.”
After thinking about it, Jackal provided another possibility.
Although most of the Previous Era’s legacy was inherited by World Serpent, some parts were also obtained by Schicksal and Anti-Entropy.
It wouldn’t be impossible for a communicator with just the Fire Moth marking to be excavated.
Of course, this explanation actually didn’t hold much water.
Because although this communicator could be called military-grade, it still couldn’t possibly survive 50,000 years of time’s erosion.
Even if it really could survive, repairing this thing would be completely cost-ineffective.
After all, this was just an extremely ordinary portable communicator.
Of course—
There was another possibility.
That this Fire Moth communicator was deliberately forged by someone, with the purpose of confusing them!
If that were the case, then the mastermind behind this incident would be truly terrifying to contemplate.
As World Serpent executives, they had to consider all of this.
Soon, Gray Serpent began the next arrangements:
“Jackal, take that communicator into the Elysian Realm. You might be able to get useful information.”
“Raven, continue the investigation. Next, focus on investigating that man named Jiang Qiao. Be careful, that man is definitely not as simple as he appears on the surface.”
Although Gray Serpent wasn’t worried about Raven’s safety since she carried the Seven Thunders of Retribution, he still deliberately reminded her.
“What about you?”
“Me?”
Facing Raven’s question, Gray Serpent’s hoarse voice became the conclusion of this World Serpent executive meeting:
“— Things have come to this point. I must personally request instructions from the Lord.”