In Merlot Heavenly Court, Kaisha had just ended her call with Angel Yan in the Angel King's Palace when she received a communication from her good friend and bestie, Hexi.
Kaisha accepted the call. Before she could say anything, she heard Hexi's slightly anxious voice.
"Kaisha, are you sure the information you sent is all true?"
A smile curled at Kaisha's lips. It had been a long time since Hexi had sounded this anxious, and Kaisha found herself feeling a little nostalgic.
"Answer me already, Kaisha!"
"Of course! Hexi, you know me. I would never deceive you about something like this!"
Kaisha shook her head, but she was not angry at Hexi's attitude in the slightest.
"So... these two people—the man called Su Luo and the girl named Akashi—aren't from our Known Universe? In other words... they're Void creatures?"
Having received Kaisha's explanation, Hexi was no longer as anxious as before.
"The answer is obvious, isn't it?"
Kaisha did not give a definite yes or no. After all, both of them were only speculating, but all the evidence indicated that Su Luo and Akashi were not from the Known Universe. As for whether they were so-called Void creatures, Kaisha did not know.
"What are you going to do?"
Hexi calmed herself before asking Kaisha.
"I've already had Angel Yan stay there to observe the two of them. After all... Carl is far ahead of us in Void research. We can't determine whether Su Luo and Akashi were summoned by Carl through some means."
"Of course, to prevent them from being discovered by others in case they entered the Known Universe by accident rather than being summoned by Carl as I suspect, I had Yan conceal their Dark Plane information."
Hexi did not offer any opinion on that. Instead, she asked about what would happen next.
"Kaisha, what if it's confirmed that the two of them were summoned by Carl?"
Kaisha narrowed her eyes.
"Then... we'll need to reassess Carl. If he really did it, then he may have gone far too deeply into Void research. Angel Civilization may be in for a period of instability."
Hexi still did not state her stance and merely continued asking.
"Kaisha, you know what I'm really asking. I don't care what you're going to do with the Angel Legion next. I care about those two! If they were summoned by Carl, how will you deal with them?"
At Hexi's persistent questioning, Kaisha blinked.
"How will I deal with them? I definitely won't return them to Carl. If Carl summoned them, then either his technology isn't good enough and he failed to pinpoint their location, or he deliberately threw them over to draw our attention."
"Either way, it doesn't matter to the angels. Since they've appeared before us, we get to decide what happens! At worst, I'll have Yan capture them and toss them into your laboratory to keep you company while you experiment on them!"
Hexi snorted without objecting, seemingly tacitly accepting it.
"What if they weren't summoned by Carl?"
Hexi continued.
"If they weren't summoned by Carl, that means they accidentally entered the Known Universe. Since they weren't summoned by Carl, that grim reaper who reeks of the same evil stench, then we should treat them a little better!"
"So?"
"Hmm... Hexi, what do you think of this Su Luo?"
A teasing smile rested on Kaisha's lips.
"What do you mean, what do I think?"
Hexi asked back in a somewhat strange tone. She had guessed what Kaisha was trying to do. She knew that tone far too well—Kaisha's habit of playing matchmaker was acting up again!
"What do you think of him as a male god?"
"I can look at him standing up, sitting down, or lying down."
Kaisha chuckled and shook her head, not minding Hexi's teasing.
"I just used Su Luo's genetic information to run a match with yours..."
"Old woman, you..."
Before Kaisha could finish, Hexi understood what she meant and grew anxious, immediately snapping back. Kaisha did not give her the chance to finish.
"Hexi, I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious yet. Listen to me first!"
Without waiting for Hexi to reply, Kaisha continued.
"The Gene Matching data is excellent—so excellent that it exceeded even my expectations! This is the first time in all these years that I've seen compatibility data this high!"
As she spoke, Kaisha sent Hexi the matching data she had just run.
Hexi glanced at it: 86.3%.
Kaisha had asked Hexi to create the Gene Matching system. As its creator, Hexi believed she knew exactly how high that figure was.
In the past, a match rate above 60% among angels was already considered high!
"So what? Old woman, are you planning to use me for one of your Marriage Alliance schemes? Do you really want to marry me off that badly?"
Hexi sounded somewhat exasperated. She had only wanted to conduct an experiment, yet this old woman actually wanted to drag her whole self into it!
"Hexi, this is also for the future of Angel Civilization! Besides, you've been single for over thirty thousand years. It's about time you dated someone and nourished both body and mind!"
"Old woman, we're cut from the same cloth. I've been single for over thirty thousand years, but aren't you the same? Why don't you run a match for yourself? Why don't you contribute to Angel Civilization's future?"
"As the Queen of Angel Civilization, the Queen who guides the angels, and the Angel Queen who loves playing matchmaker, don't tell me you're too scared when it comes to yourself?"
Hexi's voice carried a hint of mockery, along with some inexplicable goading.
"Hexi, you don't need to provoke me. You know I won't fall for it!"
"Heh!"
Hexi ignored her and secretly ran a match for Kaisha herself. As the creator of the matching system, bypassing Kaisha to do so was far too easy!
Before long, the matching data came out. Looking at it, a smile appeared at the corner of Hexi's lips.
"Heh, old woman, take a look!"
With that, Hexi sent the matching data to Kaisha.
Kaisha glanced at the data Hexi had sent and blinked.
"Old woman, did it leave you stunned? Yours is even higher than mine! Don't you love using this data to make your case? Well then, now it's your turn to contribute yourself! For the future of Angel Civilization!"
Hexi's tone was full of ridicule, but Kaisha did not react. Instead, she frowned and compared her data with Hexi's.
Her compatibility with Hexi was 86.3%, while her compatibility with herself was 87.1%.
That was strange! Truly strange!
"Stop laughing, Hexi. Don't you find it strange?"
"What, that the compatibility data is frighteningly high?"
"That's right!"
"What's so strange about that? After all, they may have come from outside this world! Although the Known Universe is vast, because of the influence of the Super Seminary back then, nearly every civilization's Super Gene research was built on the foundation laid by the Super Seminary. Their specializations may differ, but at their core, they're still much the same! To say nothing else, take the three great God-Making Genes. Though they're now distributed across Earth and Lieyang, which one of them doesn't have roots in the Super Seminary?"
"Didn't the angels conduct joint research with the Super Seminary back then as well?"
"And since we believe Su Luo came from beyond the Known Universe, that means his genes were never influenced by the Super Seminary! Genetic diversity is an important part of the matching system! What's there to question? If you don't believe me, try Angel Yan, Angel Leng, Angel Zhui... even my little Zhixin. Try anyone you like!"
"I can tell you clearly, Kaisha: the younger the angel, the higher her compatibility with Su Luo will be! That's because the genes of the new generation of angels have already become nearly homogeneous! Don't be fooled by how you spend all day searching the universe for male gods for the angels under your command. Because of the Super Seminary's influence, a male god you find at the easternmost edge of the Known Universe has genetic data almost identical to one you find at the westernmost edge!"
"That's because the Super Seminary taught them the same things back then. Only the most advanced God-Making civilizations have truly found their own paths and undergone even the slightest changes, but not by much. And the key point is that those civilizations wouldn't let their male gods form Marriage Alliances with angels either!"
"In other words, strictly speaking, the Super Gene warriors of all Shenhe Body civilizations in the Known Universe that were influenced by the Super Seminary are close relatives! That's why Gene Matching rates have always been so low! The male gods with high compatibility with angel genes are merely the ones among those relatives who are a little more distantly related than the others..."
(Hexi: Is that old woman trying to marry me off? If that's the case, I need to prepare a dowry! What should I choose as the dowry? I've decided—I'll choose the old woman, along with her subordinates and the entire Merlot Heavenly Court!)
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