Interesting.
Wang Chen smiled from where he sat in the mecha control room.
The little girl was not communicating with him through sound, nor was she speaking the Imperial language, yet he could "hear" her with perfect clarity and fully understand her meaning.
This was communication on a spiritual level!
In other words, she met the standard of a superpowered being.
Yet Wang Chen did not believe that, among the hundreds of millions of superpowered beings in the Holy Light Empire, anyone could be stronger than this seemingly innocent little girl.
She even gave him an intense sense of threat!
The next moment, Wang Chen opened the mecha hatch and leaped out.
Against an enemy of this level, the God of War Mecha was not only no help—it had become a burden.
The instant he left the cockpit, he stored the God of War Mecha in the Star God Ring.
Then he landed firmly on the ground.
"Hmm?"
The little girl's gaze flickered. "Since when did the Empire master spatial storage technology?"
Rather than answer her question, Wang Chen asked, "Who are you?"
"My name is Shan Lan."
The corners of the little girl's lips curled slightly, and strange light flickered in her large eyes.
Wang Chen fell silent for a moment, then said, "If I'm not mistaken, you are the Nether Mother Nest!"
Or, more precisely, the Spirit of the Nether Mother Nest—the condensed consciousness of the Nether Mother Nest, perhaps something akin to the Artifact Spirit within a Magic Treasure!
But Wang Chen could be one hundred percent certain that she had a direct connection to the Nether Mother Nest.
"You are the strongest human I have ever seen."
Shan Lan sighed softly. "May I know your name?"
Wang Chen replied, "My name is Wang Chen, Colonel of