Chapter 574: The “Charm” of Pearl
After about an hour, Pearl finally pushed open the door and stepped out. Ye Feng and the others, standing not far from the door, hesitated to speak. The room had already been equipped with a sealing spell, preventing anyone outside from detecting what happened inside. Thus, Ye Feng and the others had no idea what had taken place or whether Pearl had succeeded.
Pearl walked toward Ye Feng at a leisurely pace, holding the finger-sized recording device between her fingers before handing it to him. “Here, listen to it yourself. There’s no need to ask me anything.”
“Uh…” Ye Feng took the recording device with a wry smile, gathered everyone together, and played it.
“I know you won’t easily reveal everything, so I prepared something interesting for you…” Pearl’s alluring voice came through the recording device.
Soon after, the shrill screams of the mantis beast followed, one after another—“Ah… ah…” Each scream sent chills down everyone’s spine.
After about half an hour of such screams, Pearl’s voice came again. “Well, it seems the warm-up is over. Let’s play something real now…”
Sweat broke out on everyone’s foreheads. A few even glanced at Pearl secretly, but upon seeing her icy, unfriendly expression, they quickly stared fixedly at the recording device, not daring to move.
“Ah… ah… ah…” This time, the screams were different from the previous ones of pure pain. Ye Feng and the others could hear a hint of submission in them. The voice was hoarse, filled with pleading, along with rapid breathing. After another fifteen minutes, the screams turned into pleas for mercy—“No… stop… please…”
But Pearl didn’t stop right away. Instead, she said in a very gentle tone, “Really don’t want to? The game has just begun…”
“Ah!!!” The mantis beast let out another agonized cry.
“How about this? Tell your sister everything you know, and she won’t tell anyone else…” Pearl’s words made everyone even more terrified.
After that, the mantis beast fell into a brief silence, seemingly still struggling, but Pearl, not getting an answer, seemed to do something to it again. “Aah!!!”
“I… I’ll tell you everything…” The mantis beast finally gave in.
“You should know what happens if you lie, right?” Pearl threatened.
One could imagine the mantis monster nodding vigorously as Pearl asked those questions.
“We, the aliens, discovered a wormhole in a small universe in the primary plane, which leads to this secondary plane. However, that wormhole is still in its early stages and can only accommodate beings at the nebula level for a short time. I’m just a scout sent here for reconnaissance. To avoid detection, only me was sent this time. My main task is to check if there are any powerful beings from the primary plane guarding this plane and to understand the overall situation here. The mission duration is one hundred years, during which they will send another scout every ten years or so to prevent any accidents. The main army will invade officially after a hundred years. After conquering this plane, they will use it as a base to invade other secondary planes. Since reverse teleportation from the primary plane to the secondary planes is very difficult, the powerful beings from the primary plane won’t be able to stop us effectively. Once all secondary planes are conquered, those who ascend to the primary plane will become slaves of our aliens. At that time, we will use human strength to eliminate the powerful humans from the primary plane…”
Hearing this sinister plan, Ye Feng and the others’ expressions changed drastically. It was a complete strategy to strike at the root of the problem. If the primary plane didn’t discover this, these secondary planes might truly become the domain of those aliens. Even if the primary plane discovered it after those aliens had developed for some time, it would be powerless to intervene. After all, the number of people and their cultivation levels that could be transported back each time were heavily restricted, making any intervention futile.
If those aliens really occupied all secondary planes and turned those humans into slaves, and then those slaves ascended to the primary plane, it would turn into a war between humans, which would undoubtedly be a disaster.
After hearing his explanation, Pearl’s voice came through the recording device again, “What are the coordinates of that wormhole? What will be the strength of the people they send over time?”
“I don’t know the coordinates of the wormhole; I’m just a lowly soldier. After being assigned this task, all my senses were sealed before I was thrown into that wormhole. In this Sacred Realm, I drifted around for almost a month before the seal automatically lifted. As for the location of the corresponding wormhole in this dimension…” The Mantis Beast hurriedly explained, “As for those sent later, they should all be stronger than me. I’m only at the early stage of the three-star star realm cultivation level. Those sent one after another should be at the middle, late stages of the star realm, or even at the peak of the star realm, plus those at the nebula level, as they also need to test the stability of that wormhole. However, there are many different races among us. Our Scythe Race is only among the upper-middle ranks. With a three-star cultivation level, we have a strength equivalent to around five stars. For higher-ranked races, those at the three-star level can reach six stars, and some even reach seven stars. There are even super-high-ranked races where a three-star cultivation level is comparable to eight or nine stars, with a few even reaching ten stars.”
All those present were already powerful beings who had transcended the Sacred Realm, so they naturally understood what these star levels meant. The star realm was divided into early, middle, late stages, and the peak stage. In fact, it was precisely divided into ten stars: one to three stars were the early stage of the star realm, four to six stars were the middle stage, seven to nine stars were the late stage, and ten stars represented the peak of the star realm.
However, this classification was generally used among those at the star realm level; other powerful beings rarely used it this way.
“Very good. Today’s game is over,” Pearl’s voice came through the recording device again. “Next time, if there are any problems, Sister will come to play with you again. But if I find even one lie in what you said this time, you know very well the consequences…”
“No, it’s all true…” The Mantis Beast quickly replied.
Only then did the sound from the recording device completely stop. The expressions on everyone’s faces were a mix of emotions, and they fell into silence.