Xianyu sat up and sighed to the Aeon and the man before him:
"I'm starting to fall in love with sleeping."
What he craved most now was eternal slumber.
Unfortunately, Xianyu wouldn't be getting his release anytime soon.
Then surely it wasn't too much to settle for a nap? Close enough to fulfilling his wish.
As Xianyu pondered this, a sudden pain shot through the back of his neck.
He instinctively raised a hand to touch it.
Seeing his superior's movement, Guan Liang discreetly glanced at the Aeon.
Lan asked without betraying anything, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Xianyu replied casually, "My neck hurts. Maybe I slept on it wrong."
Lan: "..."
But I'd clearly held back!
Guan Liang: "..."
Reignbow Arbiter! Aren't you a little too unreliable? That was close. We almost got exposed.
Xianyu massaged the back of his neck with one hand and waved the other, shooing them away.
Once they left, he picked up the Jade Abacus by his bed and checked his messages.
Akivili had sent him over a dozen messages, including several photos sharing the scenery along the journey.
Xianyu patiently replied to them one by one, then asked whether the Astral Express was short on Credits.
[Akivili: Oh, come on, my friend... Angry gray rabbit.jpg]
The Aeon turned down his Credits once again. After chatting for a while, Xianyu ended the conversation and opened someone else's unread messages.
They were from the subordinate attending the Starsea Community meeting in Xianyu's place.
Xianyu had made his actual intentions clear from the start. For example, he wanted rogue Intellitrons and the Swarm Disaster classified as natural disasters.
Another example was explicitly prohibiting all intelligent life from conducting research related to Intellitrons or the Swarm Disaster.
Besides humans, that definition of intelligent life included Intellitrons.
Although enslaving