Over a hundred thousand years ago, Star Gate Base had been an important reserve residential planet of the Ancient Civilization. Its original conditions had been excellent, and its transformation had been extremely thorough. After Human Civilization revived, this planet had been among the first to recover. In keeping with its standing in the Galaxy Alliance, its living conditions also ranked among the top five, with four natural seasons and lovely, harmless rain and snow.
But this referred to the surface and upper-class areas such as Shou'er City, and had little to do with the several underground residential levels.
If the people of Minsheng District were born here and died here, they might never see rain or snow in their entire lives.
When a pitter-patter sounded outside the window, Zhong Lizi knew it was not raindrops tapping against it. Some pipe overhead must have sprung a leak.
These scattered thoughts helped her relax a little. She took a deep breath, looked at the short-haired girl sitting at the other end of the chair, compared her to the portrayals in the book and the game, and asked, "You're Zhao Layue?"
She wanted to appear as calm as possible, at least like a host, but still could not keep her voice from trembling slightly.
At some point, the long-haired white cat had jumped onto Zhao Layue's shoulder. He lay there lazily, slowly turning his head to survey his surroundings with some curiosity and some disdain. The short-haired girl asked calmly, "He mentioned me to you?"
The white cat, who was inwardly grumbling that this cave abode was too shabby to befit True Person Jingyang's status, was naturally Lord White Ghost, a Green Mountain Guardian, whose nickname was Liu A'da.
The girl with picturesque features and tousled short hair, who looked as though she