Down to earth

"Nifita, where are your gifts?"

"Oh, right." Nifita had been watching silently from a corner. Only when Han Bi called to her did she swim over, drifting like a kite dancing in the sky.

Her fish tail split into four sections like a battle skirt, and a pair of long legs extended from within to touch the ground. Numerous pieces of crystal-clear glass hung from her magnificent clothes, tinkling as she walked.

Nifita approached the human representatives and presented a palm-sized Optical Quantum Computer with both hands.

The Besel Civilization's representative could not help commenting, "Seriously? Just one optical computer? Is one Lang worth that little in the Nomo Civilization?"

The human representative who accepted the computer was equally puzzled. An orc had just offered ten thousand quantum computers as a gift, so why had this mermaid brought only one? Could this portable optical computer match the performance of ten thousand of those other machines?

Nifita hurriedly explained, "Please don't misunderstand. This is only one of the gifts. It contains my gift list."

"Your... list?"

"Yes, sorry. I prepared a few too many gifts. There isn't enough room here," Nifita said apologetically.

"Huh?" Lusa and the others were baffled. How many gifts could one Lang possibly buy? How could there not be enough room? Nifita pressed her lips together and said, "My gifts are relatively cheap, so there are quite a lot of them."

Huang Ji smiled. "It's all right. Bring them down."

"Oh, okay..." Nifita sent a transmission into space. Moments later, a dense swarm of black dots descended like a meteor shower, punching the clouds apart.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The black dots kept growing larger. They were black pyramids.

Each weighed ten thousand tonnes. They blanketed the sky in a suffocating mass of darkness! Huang Ji raised a