CHAPTER 1086: CHAPTER 95: THE CONSERVATIVES OF THIS ERA

Under the guidance of Liliang Chuangkou, Jeanne and Asgard gazed at the Heroic Lands several astronomical units away from the Asteroid Belt.

That was the city of the Heroes.

In reality, at this distance, it’s hard to see anything clearly. The optical observation equipment carried by the spacecraft is meant for observing interstellar material at close range, not for astronomical observation. Jupiter’s mass is 2.5 times that of the other seven major planets in the Solar System combined, and its volume is 1316 times that of Earth. Observing Jupiter from the Asteroid Belt is merely seeing a particularly bright small dot.

The so-called city is just a pixel of grey-white.

But Liliang Chuangkou pointed very seriously, and Jeanne and Asgard also looked seriously.

Asgard unceremoniously plugged the direct line into Jeanne’s interface: [Tsk tsk, who would have thought, with a different mentality, everything feels completely different.]

Jeanne and Asgard had actually seen information about the Hero-controlled areas. The image data attached to those materials even included occasional data from space telescopes that scanned the Hero cities.

Back then, Jeanne and Asgard were equally curious about these cities, but they mostly saw them as military merit points orbiting the sun.

King Aqini could directly turn a Space City into space debris—that was still in an era where old concepts hadn’t completely faded, an era in which almost everyone had eliminated "direct massacre of a city" from their consciousness. Even then, King Aqini dared to blow a Space City to pieces from an extremely long distance without any warning.

And at that time, Jeanne and Asgard were the Houndhawks under his command.

[I never thought I’d have a chance to go over there in this lifetime.] Asgard muttered.

Jeanne nodded. If not for this strange illness, she would kind of want to...

——Hmm?

Jeanne’s focus concentrated on the hallucination of Tumor Xiang Shan. Due to the direct line, Asgard also sensed a vague shadow.

[Is this your influence, old man?]

The phantom of Tumor Xiang Shan shrugged: [I admit there might be some elements of my influence. But didn’t you notice? That little girl on the other side is trying to launch a publicity offensive on you.]

[Huh?]

[You’ve already demonstrated extremely strong abilities. Under this premise, the Heroes would also want to recruit you and turn you into a Hero. It’s quite normal. A First Heavenly Layer Martial Artist can be regarded as a lightweight deep space battleship. Recruiting you saves a lot of military expenditure.] Xiang Shan remarked, [What she just introduced is something not hard to find, but most reflects the characteristics of the Hero-controlled area, and also most reflects their ideology. This was originally the concept created by Xiang Shan, perfected by history and people. It’s only normal that it resonates with me.]

[I guess they will have other activities coming up, continuing to launch promotional offensives on you.]

Jeanne was astonished: [Didn’t they say to help them sort out some of the peripheral personnel?]

The purpose of Liliang Chuangkou this time was to call Jeanne over to go to that mining site and rebuild a base point.

Chaldea is mining ores, and the Heroes are constructing a facility along the way that can conceal resources or weapons, and at the same time, they are also communicating with the workers.

"Did you just say that those workers were originally old soldiers of the old era?"

Xiang Shan sighed heavily: [Not quite, not quite. Those old soldiers might be the ones who hate Xiang Shan the most. Maybe even more than the Protectors. They were originally soldiers defending the homeland, but ended up being used as tools by the Usurpers of the State because of the internal breakdown of Superman Enterprise, eventually fighting bloody battles up to a hundred years ago. I think they should be the least willing to become Heroes. What kind of fools would willingly fall into the trap of Xiang Shan twice?]

Jeanne glanced sideways, amazed "Is it that difficult?" Tumor Xiang Shan shrugged: [If you don’t believe it, just ask.]

Although Liliang Chuangkou noticed Jeanne frequently focusing her gaze on a seemingly empty spot, and even Asgard would look there after connecting the direct line. But in the Cyber age, this is hardly a problem. After all, watching AR artistic works is totally regarded as a normal hobby in this era—even watching while chatting or fighting isn’t an issue.

After hearing Jeanne’s question, Liliang Chuangkou nodded: "That’s roughly the case. Some of the old workers in the Asteroid Belt really don’t like us. But they only dislike us; they don’t have hostility or intent to kill. That’s pretty good already. Besides, we’re also conducting research on removing genetic backdoors, regularly recruiting volunteers—these all require support from the workers. Even if our actions bring a slight improvement, that would be enough."

Soon, the group reached their destination. It was a numbered small asteroid, with a diameter exceeding one hundred meters, and more than ten workers were there. Floating around the asteroid were two spacecraft and an unpowered container. Inside the container were fuel and personal propulsion devices. Every worker arriving here would remove their fuel and place it uniformly to avoid accidents during operations.

The asteroid was already very small. They were still going to hollow it out; if workers carried fuel tanks while working, any mishap could trigger a chain explosion. Not to mention damage to the Prosthetic Body, even lives could be lost. These propulsion devices are all managed publicly.

The unpowered container was fixed to a spacecraft using Hook Lock. That spacecraft was completely silent, with only two or three workers resting on it.

The entire asteroid had been surrounded by a special steel frame. It looked a bit like scaffolding. This made the whole process appear like a bygone-era construction team repairing an illegal Earth building.

In reality, however, this was to prevent the small celestial body from completely fragmenting during construction.

At the request of the Heroes, Chaldea’s construction team was merely hollowing the thing out, rather than smashing the entire celestial body to pieces and transporting it back. This base point had a certain defensive significance.

It took Chaldea’s miners several days to travel back and forth, consuming a lot of fuel. To avoid wasting too much time and resources traveling, they would work continuously on-site until the project was completed or their spirits couldn’t bear it. At that time, they would return to the city. In the online and local martial arts tournaments, these people would receive mental relaxation.

Then, they would repeat this process.

In this era, this was the daily life of the workers.

"We’ve arrived." Liliang Chuangkou said.

Inside the asteroid, there were also Heroes coming out to greet them. Liliang Chuangkou then asked Jeanne to conduct a personality profile of these people, eliminating potential suspicions on them.

The Heroes wouldn’t ask Jeanne to directly search the renowned Heroes and teams, but she still needed to check the teams near Chaldea.