Although Lin Xue's inexplicable nightmare from a few days ago had everyone concerned, and that equally inexplicable voice that might have been connected to it was also unsettling, neither issue was something that could be resolved anytime soon. First, I had to find a way to contact that voice again, and then... well, there was no then...
It wasn't some automated hotline that would answer whenever you called. No matter who the voice belonged to, I was connected to them randomly. God knew when they would contact me again. Maybe by then Miss would have already given birth to a lively Xiao Xue Mark II—well, not exactly Mark II... Anyway, that wasn't important. What mattered was that nobody could pin down the pattern behind the voice's appearances. Tawell had been working hard on it, but anything involving Void Creatures wasn't something effort alone could crack. So far, everything related to that voice had been classified by the researchers, along with the Other Shore Civilization, as an "unsolved mystery."
I took Lin Xue to headquarters and went straight to Siweisi. It was around two in the afternoon, and she was busy handling routine affairs in her office. Calling it an office was a bit of a stretch; it looked more like a fully equipped Tactical Center. The rather spacious circular room was made from the most common material used in Shilin Architecture: silver-gray specialty alloy. Holographic Projection displays lined the walls at regular intervals, showing incomprehensible charts and documents, military-map-like displays, densely packed Star Charts, and simulated Void territory maps. A large semicircular desk in the center held fixed Data Terminals and Holographic Projection generators. Apart from those, there were only a few neatly arranged everyday tools: Siweisi's personal Data Terminal and several small devices. At the corner of the desk