Before the "guest" arrived, Luo completed her final preparations in her living room. She attached a Teleportation Rune Card to the door leading to the inner room of the suite and activated it, constructing a portal that could lead to the Inn Hub at any time.
The building possessed extremely powerful early-warning antennas and a certain degree of defensive firepower. Although she felt Old Qiao might not be so bold—after all, attacking in an uninhabited zone and opening fire on Grey Dwarf Star were two entirely different matters—just in case, if some logic chip in that mechanical freak really did burn its way into astonishing intelligence and, in the most extreme scenario, he fired a Hellfire torpedo directly down from orbit, she would still have several minutes to evacuate with her subordinates.
After making these preparations, she gave every employee in the building time off in advance and drove out all the ordinary people who merely worked there.
After waiting patiently for an hour, her guest arrived as promised.
A little later than Luo had estimated.
A silver-white luxury shuttle entered the atmosphere and sent a docking request the moment it entered the planet's airspace.
Luo had changed back into her favorite silver-white gown and was lazily leaning against the sofa in the living room. A spherical communications robot hovered before her. In the holographic projection floating above it, the visitor's docking request popped up, along with an icon resembling a greeting card.
Luo tapped the icon. A beautifully designed welcome image appeared before her, and a line of text bounced in front of her amid an effect of exploding fireworks:
"Congratulations on the safe return of our best colleague and friend—welcome back among us."
"Boss," the captain of the guards said from nearby, "there are still two unidentified light