[Year 1066 AA of Galactic Callender]
- 8:05AM January 12
Cuojue woke up with a very refreshed face, her face lit up with a smooth sparkle. She got up and head to the bathroom, letting the bathing system do its' job.
The light switched on and she can see a beautiful marble bathroom. She quickly undressed her nightwear and hurriedly got into the bathtub. Water flowed in from the side and the water level raised until the height of her neck.
The water was luke warm which gave a very comfortable feeling, and suddenly soap started dripping into the bathtub until bubbles started foaming. Two mechanical hands stretched out from the wall on her right side and started scrubbing her hair gently. She felt foam dripping down her forehead and giggled.
After her hair was washed away of the sweat and dirt accumulated during the night, she stood up and let the mechanical hands scrub her body. It felt very good to Cuojue when suddenly, she felt a tingly sensation down there. Shocked and horrified she quickly stop the machine from touching her precious place. That was a close call, afraid that if she let it go any further, she might become indecent. After she dried up, dressed and brushed her teeth, she immediately call for Mira.
After 3 mins, Mira came. The Young Miss complained about the new version of the bathing system and Mira ordered the other servants to recalibrate it and quickly apologised to the miss.
Mira then guided Cuojue to the dining, where she was greeted with an array of meals. Her parents weren't up yet, so she decided to dig in. Over the past 6 years her appetite kept growing and her metabolism improved. She can easily digest alot of food and woudn't get fat. Quite a jealous trait. After she was done eating, she dashed out of the room, bumping into her mother.
Pugong saw how energetic her lovely daughter was, she asked Cuojue with a sweet smile.
"Juejue, where are you going?" expecting a gullible answer.
Cuojue replied "I am heading to the librawy. Juejue want to learn more."
Mummy Huang laughed, and gave way. Before Cuojue left, Pugong informed her about her sibling.
"Juejue, when you are done reading, come to the garden later in the afternoon. I will introduce to you your baby brother." she beamed with a smile.
Cuojue felt very excited and quickly agreed to visit in the afternoon. She ran to the library and found the librarian. She tiptoed and peeked at a woman who seemed to be in her 40s. The table was 1.3 meters high. She spoke in an adorable voice.
"Ms Halley, can i have all the history books? Juejue wants to recap what she learned."
Hope seemed evident in her eyes.
"Ok young miss, here you go. 'Books' on the history of humans and other races and technological advances." Ms Halley spoke as she handed down a few glowy transparent cubes.
Cuojue thanked her and took the cubes into her hands. She hopped over to one of the private space cabins at the side. She got in through a blue film that acted as a sound proof screen, where sound from either side can't pass through.She sat on a soft cushion and inserted the cubes into the console.
In year 3033 on earth, Warpdrive was realised by one of humanity's greatest researcher, Kennedy Schaeschet. A brilliant physist and a mathematician with IQ that exceded 3 times that of Einsteins'. All of humanity decided to abandon earth as it was already badly contaminated, global warming that caused temperatures to rise above 50°c and nuclear radiation due to wars.
Humanity took it's first step out of the Solar system and entered the outer star cluster ring.
There are 3 star cluster rings in this galaxy.
Outer ring, Inner ring and Core Cluster.
Outer rings are where less advanced civilisations reside. The inner ring is ruled by 3 Stellar Empires, Dwarven nation, Darkion Union, the elven nation, Yggdrasil Empire and lastly the most mysterious of the three. Octarion Duchy, hailed to have hoarded ancient technology, magic and treasures. But no one attacked them. They were too mysterious, any empire that attacked them had a downfall. No one knew how these downfalls happen, but what they knew is to not mess with the Octarion Duchy. Although, there was evidence where the planets of these empires were ravaged, they weren't helpful in identifying the strength of the Octarion Duchy.
All researchers ever found were ashes on every planet, no other special properties, just ashes. As for the last one, Core cluster contains the most powerful of civilizations, no other information about them were recorded in the cubes.
Humanity banded together, united under the flag of Humanity Galactic Government or HGG in short. HGG fought many races through the Outer ring before solidifying a position in the Inner ring. They fought spike demons, crocgars, maritians that looked similar to humans but vastly different biology and other of such races. After 7000 years the HGG stabilised a stellar nation in the Inner ring. But, it was separated into two factions. The Holy faction, where humans did not seem to like peace with other races and wanted to enslave them. The other faction is the Azea faction, who reject the idea of violence and preferred peace, co-existence with other races.
In the end, HGG was broken into two stellar nations. The Azea faction became the Chinese Federation and the Holy faction became the Liberion Empire. The Chinese Federation had 70% of the total human population and 30% went to the Liberion Empire. Thus, the Liberion Empire chose to accumulate strength to stabilize its position, they would require a lot of time and people.
The HGG had managed to make advances in technology and the human body thanks to the contributions of genius martial artists and scientists. Ash Norman was the inventor of serums and a leading figure in the medical industry during the days of HGG, he also found ways to produce serums that can awaken bloodlines of the past and also provided technology called bloodline extractor. These extractors can pull out the genes of powerful races and make the human body more stronger.
Mark Stozgan was a space commander who lead a charge against the Jyorgan race, one of the most ferocious races between the outer and inner star cluster ring. They had muscular humanoid bodies similar to bodybuilders, but much bigger and average adults reaching 4 meters in height. Pale bluish skin and tentacle faces with slightly glowing irises. HGG won due to Mark Stozgan's contribution to the martial arts industry as a pioneer in cultivation.
There was also the weapons and armor inventor that was born after the war with he Jyorgans, he created forging machines that could process extremely hard and densed materials that could be used to create more powerful spaceships, better energy containers and processors, mechas that were so strong that ordinary cultivators can't use. He created a material called Adaman Spirit Ore. They were very hard ,but malleable in a forging process, one's cultivation level can be used to control powerful mechas thanks to these spirit ores. His name was Albatino Crusian.
Cuojue's eyes sparkled. Recalling all the information on the glowing blue screen.
She thought, (Haha~, reading this still gets my blood boiling...but the Liberion Empire huh...they might be a bunch of nasty people, lets take note of them for now. Welp time to head to the garden)
With a delighted expression and a humming tune, she ejected the cubes and left. She handed the cubes back to Halley. The cabin shutdown while a little girl headed to her homely garden.
When Cuojue arrived at the garden, she saw a heart warming scene. A man and a woman we sitting on white bench carrying a baby in their arms, a silver tea table on the right side of the bench holding cakes and 2 cups of tea and a tea pot. Cuojue felt like taking a picture of this memorable scene before her.
Suddenly, she saw an image in her mind, blood scattered on the ground, painting the grass red. A man who seemed to look like her current father laid on the bloodied soil, a sharp looking silver sword stuck in his stomach, the sword had a symbol of a golden emblem with a hideous mantis head with claws in its mouth. Two mantis scyths cross each other. The man on the floor struggling, blood leaking out of his lips. On top of him a figure coverd in a black coat from head to toe, hiding his face and other details that might give her a clue, a fedora on his head seemed like the only other clue she could observe. The black figure stepped hard on the man's chest and pulled the bloody sword out, so did the man's soul. A woman who was clutching her child was crying and huddled in a corner, protective of her child, resentment evident in her eyes, trying to burn the image of the black figure into her mind.
The black figure turned to Cuojue's way. She felt a suffocating killing intent, like she was stepping on a bunch of knifes. Her heart was beating so fast that she coudn't breath. Behind those dark eyes, lies a blackhole, an unhideable psychotic emotion, a *monster*. Sweat laced her body, trembling from the intense pressure.
Barely, holding herself from relieving.
"Juejue..." a melodious voice echoed.
She turned pale, trying to understand whats going on.
"Juejue!" the voice grew louder until she could hear it.
Snapping her back to reality, Cuojue quickly smiled.
"Whats wrong? Are you okay?" Pugong became worried.
"Yes mummy, I just found all of you to be stunning" her face was pale for a second before being rosie again. No one noticed this change.
Cuojue thought internaly,
(What...whats happening, what was that scene i had just saw.)
Her heart grew increasingly worried, but decided to leave it for later when she was back in her room.
Pugong, who knew nothing of what Cuojue was feeling right now beckoned her daughter to come over. She spoke happily.
"Juejue, this is your little baby brother, his name is Baohu Huang, when your little brother grows up to be a man, he will protect us. Say hi~"
Pugong brought the baby infront of her and the baby laughed extendid its little hands to her.
Cuojue felt this heartwarming. She extended her hand again, abit of hesitation, the little brother grabbed her own hands. But this time she didn't feel her hands being crushed. Feeling that she was ok, she smiled brightly and started playing with Baohu.
Both Pugong and Youshi smiled seeing this.
They were both happy with this peaceful life.
After awhile, Youshi stood up and called out to Cuojue. Pugong took Baohu with her to the nursery room to feed him.
"Juejue, today, ill be giving you something. Here. This is a braze, a tool that is useful in todays era. You should explore it when you have the time. And here is the Huang family's cultivation manual. When you are done checking these out come see me in the office tonight."
Youshi smiled while he handed a bracelet that is similar to the one in a game called Fallout, but with a very sleek design with a silver surface and no annoying buttons to ruin the design. He also handed a red cube, but it was abit larger than the blue cubes in the library.
Cuojue's eyes sparkled, absorbed in the reverie of a new toy. She quickly shook her head and thanked daddy huang and skidaddled back to her room.
Youshi chuckled briefly before heading to his office.
In her room, Cuojue explored her braze. A small screen appeared before her. The screen informed her to register a username and password. She input Illusion as her username and she used her birthday in her previous life as her password. Once her braze was done registering she could now access the quantum network. Whats even more surprising that the data storage was 10 times more enormous than what a military base computer system could store in her previous life.
Seeing the potential of her new toy, she decided to turn her attention to the cube. She wondered whats in-store for her.
A sharp glint present in her eyes.