"By the way, Mr. Summers has already found the control terminals for those combat machines. We can operate the robots and use them in battle now. According to the rules of the trade, I let him take one with him," Feifei added.
"Sure. The people upstairs don't even know how many there are, anyway." Yu Lian smiled. "The Brotherhood of Mechanical Intelligence sure knows its stuff. They're good people to work with."
"They really are reliable, but I think it's best not to get too close. Let's keep things as they are: a friendship between gentlemen, as light as water. That's the best choice." Feifei glanced at Yu Lian and said quietly, "Yu'er, you need to understand where you stand."
Yu Lian nodded. After all, he wasn't a lone-wolf wanderer anymore. Come to think of it, Mr. Summers had seemed to be deliberately avoiding him lately. Maybe that was why.
Sigh. In both his past life and this one, Summers really was a decent guy to know. Even though most of his body was mechanical, he had far more warmth than those naturally born spiritinists. What a shame.
And so, the Enlighteners' ruins incident on New Jade Gate came to an end. Naturally, nobody knew that the most important—and perhaps even greatest—being in the ruins had already slipped away while everyone was none the wiser. It had even made it all the way into orbit without any of the monitoring systems in the entire star system noticing a thing.
Then, as the Scarlet Throne, the ship Little Gray had called "so ugly it was anti-civilization," returned to New Jade Gate, she slipped aboard as if nothing were amiss and sent Yu Lian a message.
It was now the fourth day since the ruins had opened, and the date had finally