Plans could never keep up with change. Hua Zhen had considered that the Old Angel King might use his mother, Xin Yao, to threaten him, but he had never expected him to be so direct, without even the slightest pretense of subtlety.
Gus and Andre had been secretly brought back to Tiangong by him before their departure, and they had already begun working on cracking the Tiangong Ship's defense mechanisms. Their progress had been extremely slow, but now, whether they succeeded or not hardly seemed to matter.
The commander of the First Angel Legion did not lead Hua Zhen and the other two to the Tiangong Ship. Instead, they arrived at an enormous Aerial Fortress floating above the Main Star.
Though it was called a fortress, it was actually unlike the one on Silver Wing Star in the west. There were no buildings or towers atop it, nor any offensive or defensive installations. It looked like nothing more than a massive platform, with everything visible at a glance.
Of course, that was only the surface. Through the Eye of Insight, Hua Zhen could clearly sense that every side of the platform was enclosed beneath a hemispherical "cover."
It was also releasing some kind of energy waves outward, disrupting the various force fields, magnetic fields, and Dark Energy outside the "cover," forming something like a vacuum isolation zone to defend the fortress.
As a result, using the Eye of Insight to read the data within it was simply impossible.
The Tiangong Technology you see is only the surface. Only the Angel King knows what truly lies within.
Hua Zhen's eyes flickered as he recalled Miller saying those words to him. The facts proved that Miller had been right. Could one not see the whole from this Platform Fortress alone?
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