The Meaning of Justice

"Ah!"

Ximen Lang sighed again. From yesterday until now, he had lost count of how many times he had sighed.

Whenever he thought about how all his secrets had been laid bare before Keisha and He Xi, Ximen Lang felt that his future was shrouded in darkness.

As for how Ximen Lang had discovered this problem... it was because he had realized that his phone was gone! Anyone with even a little sense would never underestimate the strength of Merlot Heavenly Court.

Especially Pi Pi Xi—the greatest scientist in Merlot Heavenly Court, one of the handful of top scientific geniuses in the Known Universe...

Even if he used his butt to think, he could...

Whenever he thought about the few episodes of Xiong Bing Lian on his phone...

"My future really is shrouded in darkness. Ah! I wonder if the phone's password lock can stop He Xi from cracking it? Ah!"

All right, no answer was needed. He understood.

Unfortunately, Ximen Lang's muttering had still been overheard—and by more than one person.

Holy Keisha, Pi Pi Xi, and her little disciple Zhi Xin. Good grief, not one of them had missed it! As luck would have it, Keisha and Pi Pi Xi had just arrived when they heard Ximen Lang muttering upstairs.

Although there was some distance between them, who were Keisha and Pi Pi Xi? Was he underestimating the senses of a Fourth Generation Divine Body? At this distance, it was nothing to those two great gods upstairs. Even Little Zhi Xin could hear him without the slightest problem.

Holy Right Wing Guard, Third-Generation High-Ranking Angel—ever heard of them? "Come down. Do you really want us to come and get you?"

Ximen Lang was still agonizing over what to do when the words suddenly sounded beside his ear, startling him.

"System, system! Help me! Come out quickly! If you don't come out now, your favorite host is finished!"

Ding~ Power of the Galaxy Ximen Lang, hello. I am your Super Gene Dark Plane System.

"Get lost! Stop putting on an act! Think of something, now!"

Ding~ The host is about to face the strongest combat power in the Known Universe: Holy Keisha.

The Known Universe's top scientific genius: Celestial Base King He Xi.

Holy Right Wing Guard, Third-Generation High-Ranking Angel: Zhi Xin.

The system's analysis is as follows:

Probability of successfully resisting: 0%

Probability of successfully lying: 0%

Probability of successfully escaping: 0%

System reminder: There is an entire Merlot Heavenly Court outside as well. Good luck!

"MMP! What use are you?"

After cursing the system in his heart countless times, Ximen Lang heard the urging from downstairs.

"What? Are you really planning to make us come and get you?"

He had no choice but to brace himself and walk downstairs.

At a glance, he saw the autumn-pants Queen sitting with her legs crossed, Pi Pi Xi looking disdainful, and a furious little angel.

Zhi Xin was angry. She felt that Ximen Lang was insulting her teacher.

The phone's password lock? That iron lump from a Pre-Nuclear Civilization? Could it really stop Celestial Base King?

She felt that there had to be something wrong with Ximen Lang's brain.

However, the kindhearted girl still explained solemnly.

"A so-called communication phone developed by a Pre-Nuclear Civilization-level Earth has no secrets whatsoever before an angel!"

Ximen Lang's expression grew even more bitter.

"Sit." Queen Keisha raised her chin slightly and pointed at the small wooden stool opposite her, her aura utterly overwhelming.

Ximen Lang glanced at the little wooden stool before him, then at the thrones where Keisha and He Xi sat upright...

He obediently sat down on the little wooden stool, looking perfectly well-behaved.

"Do you want to resist?"

Ximen Lang glanced at Little Zhi Xin, who had already raised one arm, and hurriedly shook his head.

"Then run?"

Good grief, Zhi Xin had already spread her wings.

"No, no, no, Queen Keisha, I'm not running. Really!"

"Then shall we talk?"

"Talk about what? Don't you already know?" Ximen Lang felt miserable inside.

"Knowing is one thing, but I still want to hear your view of your universe."

"My universe... where I come from... there's really nothing special. It's just an ordinary Pre-Nuclear Civilization. There's no extraordinary power at all. The strongest weapon is only the nuclear bomb. Humanity can't even leave the Solar System, and even the moon..."

"All right, all right." Queen Keisha could hear Ximen Lang's reluctance, but she did not mind.

Since he did not want to talk about it, so be it. She had already figured out the basic situation anyway.

Was Ximen Lang reluctant? Of course he was reluctant to discuss this topic.

Ximen Lang was dumb and pathetic, but he was not stupid! Besides, that was the place that had given birth to and raised him. He truly did not want to expose it—even though it had already been exposed almost completely. Not even if they were angels of "justice."

Seeing Ximen Lang's unease, Queen Keisha still gave him a little reassurance.

"Don't worry. We angels will not casually invade any civilization, even if it is merely a Pre-Nuclear Civilization. Besides, that is another... universe."

Ximen Lang understood what she meant. They would not invade "casually." And there was another universe! They still lacked the ability to enter other universes.

That finally allowed Ximen Lang to relax a little.

"What about the angels, then? What do you think of the word 'justice'?"

Ximen Lang answered instinctively.

"The word 'justice' refers to a set of highly reasonable laws established seventeen thousand years ago, when Holy Keisha ruled Angel City, to ensure order in the Known Universe. That is: the Justice Order."

What a joke. Who knew how many times Ximen Lang had watched that scene of Yan negotiating with Reina?

At the time, Ximen Lang had thought that the scene was very stylish—and very chuunibyou.

It was second only to... "Let the clouds churn. Queen Keisha has arrived!" The moment he finished speaking, Ximen Lang froze.

The three angels opposite him were clearly stunned by his performance as well. How should he put it? Every one of their expressions was wonderfully entertaining.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You memorized that very smoothly," Pi Pi Xi teased.

Queen Keisha turned to glance at Pi Pi Xi, thinking to herself,

You've already said my line. What am I supposed to say now? Should I say that I am Holy Keisha, and that I established the Justice Order?

Then she glared at Ximen Lang.

What a slippery little brat!

"Ahem, justice is not merely a set of laws. It is also a form of compassion—the angels' compassion."

"For thirty thousand years, we angels have protected one civilization after another, freeing them time and time again from certain extreme, depraved ideologies."

"And that extreme depravity is the Demon Queen Morgana! I believe you can understand that, right?"

Ximen Lang nodded frantically.

"I can, I can, I can! I know exactly how harmful Morgana is to the lifeforms of Shenhe!"

Ximen Lang had spoken this sentence from the bottom of his heart. He truly had no favorable impression of Morgana.

What the hell was that corrupted freedom of hers? Was endlessly amplifying the evil within living beings supposed to be freedom? What bullshit!

It did not matter to Ximen Lang how the Demon Queen Morgana committed evil elsewhere in the universe. It had nothing to do with him, and there was nothing he could do about it anyway.

But she should never have committed evil in Huaxia!

However, Ximen Lang knew one thing very clearly: Morgana had wreaked havoc on an entire village in Huaxia! At that thought, Ximen Lang suddenly jolted.

That's right—Huang Village!