Chapter 104 They Look Like Siblings

The communicator quickly decoded the unfamiliar contact signals, which came from one of the Airem floating islands. Hao Ren turned on the communicator, and a male voice came out, trying to remain calm but with a noticeable tremor in his tone: "Foreign spacecraft, please identify yourselves, please identify yourselves..."

This was the first time the Airem elves had seen unfamiliar space travelers appear above their "homeworld." Their surprise and excitement were self-evident. For this civilization that had been struggling in hardship for thousands of years, it didn't matter who the outsiders were or what their purpose was. Any change was a great encouragement to them. Hao Ren wanted to experience what it felt like to speak to an unfamiliar civilization, but after thinking about it, he pushed Hilder forward: "You speak."

Hilder nodded gratefully, opened her mouth in front of the communicator, and took a long time to calm down: "Vimm, is that you?"

The communicator suddenly fell into extreme silence. The silence faintly revealed someone's great shock on the other end of the communicator. After half a minute, a trembling voice came: "Mother?! Is that you back?!"

This time it was Hao Ren and his companions' turn to be silent.

Hilder didn't notice the change in the surrounding atmosphere and said quickly with a happy face, "It's me. I was sent to another world, but fortunately, I'm fine. I got help from the locals to return to Airem. Now we are going to land on the Sunrise Floating Island..."

Hilder quickly discussed the landing with someone on the other end of the communicator and beckoned to Hao Ren: "Please follow those triangular cruisers, they will take us to the landing field."

Hao Ren quickly told the data terminal to do so. As the spaceship slowly approached the floating island, he couldn't help but say, "Speaking of which, was that your son just now?"

"Yes, Vimm is my only child. It seems that he has temporarily taken over as leader in my absence," Hilder said proudly. "It seems that the order of Airem has not collapsed. The situation is better than I imagined."

Hao Ren chuckled dryly, thinking that these long-lived creatures really couldn't be judged by common sense. Hilder looked about the same age as him, but her son was already a regent—these days, he always inadvertently regarded Hilder as a girl of the same generation as himself, and at this moment, the sense of disharmony was simply overwhelming.

Vivian noticed the strange expression on Hao Ren's face and could guess what this guy was thinking. She went up and poked the other person's arm: "That's why you have to adapt to the long-lived species. Not to mention anything else, there are two beads in the Shan Ding Dong artifacts exhibited in the archaeological museum that I wore back then... I've been thinking for several years and don't know how to ask people to return them, it's so painful."

Hao Ren couldn't stop sweating on his forehead at the time, and he sat on the chair trembling and muttered, "You are amazing, you are amazing, you live forever... no, you really have lived forever..."

At this time, the spaceship had arrived above a floating island located in the middle of the space island chain under the guidance of several "cruisers." The details of this island gradually appeared in front of everyone. Its scale was similar to other islands, and the outer edge also had an artificial "hoop" protruding about half a kilometer from the surface. The upper end of the hoop emitted a hazy halo, covering the entire floating island in an almost transparent shield. At the top of this hemispherical shield, you could also see clouds condensed from water vapor. Obviously, the Airem elves had simulated an atmosphere similar to the natural atmosphere in this magnificent creation. At the same time, everyone also saw a part of the island that was different from other islands: there were many particularly large buildings in the center of this island, and there was an extra high wall around those buildings, which could not be seen on other islands.

After asking Hilder, the group learned that it was the location of the Airem elves' "Royal Court" and also Hilder's palace. But speaking of the Royal Court, those huge buildings were not luxurious, and there was no unique imperial enjoyment. Its huge area was more to accommodate functional organs such as the Council, the Resource Council, the Technology Council, and the Island Protection Council. The place where the queen's family lived was just a spire in that huge building complex.

However, the spaceship could not land directly at the Royal Court, and there was no platform for this big guy to take off and land. The Petrified Tortoise landed at a protruding point on the edge of the floating island under the guidance of the navigation signal. Here, a series of semi-circular platforms were supported by huge alloy skeletons, which were used by the Airem elves to take off and land spaceships. Because this entire facility was outside the floating island's shield, its surface was covered with an extra translucent barrier to prevent air loss. The Petrified Tortoise found a larger platform where it could land under the guidance. As the spaceship slowly descended, Hao Ren noticed that it passed through a layer of rippling "membrane," which should be the same thing as the shield above the floating island.

There were already many people waiting on the take-off and landing platform, no less than a hundred men and women, which seemed to be representatives of the Airem elves. These "welcoming teams" were obviously formed in a hurry. Some of them even had puzzled expressions on their faces, and in the distance, you could see that there were still people rushing over. In addition to these people, there was no honor guard on the scene, and there were no other colorful welcoming groups. Obviously, the Airem elves had abandoned this habit for a long time. The hatch of the Petrified Tortoise slowly opened under the gaze of this group of elves. Hao Ren pushed Hilder to the front and let her be the first to get off the spaceship.

Then he led the others to show up one by one.

There was no other noble reason, it was just that these bumpkins were a little nervous except for Izhaks...

As soon as Hilder appeared, the group of elves obviously rioted. Then a tall, golden-haired young man who looked about the same age as Hilder walked out quickly from the front of the crowd. He seemed to want to give Hilder a hug, but he hesitated because of the calmness he should have in this occasion. Instead, Hilder took the initiative to give him a hug: "Vimm, it's so good to see you again."

"Mother, I'm so glad to see you are safe and sound." The young man who was hugged by Hilder was indeed the prince of the Airem elves, and also the only son of this seemingly young queen, Vimm.

Lili muttered beside Hao Ren: "These two really look like siblings."

At this time, Hilder turned around and introduced a group of friends from another world to Vimm: "It was they who helped me. These people are very powerful and come from an incredible organization. This is Hao Ren, is..."

Hilder finished the introduction one by one, but because the concept of the Bureau of Time and Space Administration took a long time to explain, she did not go into details. Vimm quickly came to Hao Ren and bowed in the unique etiquette of the Airem elves: "Thank you for rescuing my mother."

Hao Ren reached out and shook hands with the other party: "You're welcome..."

Vimm looked curiously at Hao Ren's outstretched hand, and sure enough, he did the same thing as his mother did back then: he grabbed Hao Ren's wrist and shook it up and down vigorously.

The group walked along the wide trail towards the exit of the take-off and landing platform. Vimm and Hilder walked in front, and the former was asking some things: "Mother, you said you were in another world these days?"

"Yes, another world—not the universe we currently know, but truly another world."

"Did the space-time accelerator succeed? Or... more successful than expected?"

"No, it failed. My crossing into another world was just an accidental byproduct. The probability is extremely low and there is no reproducibility. There is a problem with the design of the accelerator itself, and this project still has to be stopped. Let's not talk about these things. How is the current situation? What happened after the explosion? What about the Island of Stars? What about the Island of Rainbows?"

"Let's talk slowly on the road," Vimm paused unnaturally. This pause implied disturbing factors. At this moment, several rounded, flat, oval-shaped vehicles were parked at the exit. He pulled his mother towards one of them and pointed to the other one next to him, "Please take this hover car, guests."

"No, the hover car has a lot of space. I hope to ride with them," Hilder nodded to Hao Ren. "There is nothing confidential that can be hidden from them. They won't care how many secrets an ordinary civilization has."

"Wait a minute," Hao Ren suddenly remembered something before following the others into the car, then turned his head and pressed the Petrified Tortoise twice, and he heard the spaceship make two "beep" sounds, "Okay."

Vivian looked at Hao Ren with a strange expression in the car: "You used a motorcycle anti-theft lock to lock the spaceship?"

Hao Ren looked distressed: "Raven 12345 installed it... It won't work if I don't use it, otherwise the spaceship door can't be locked."

Vivian: "..."