Chapter 1255 - 1115: Authority Over Everything

Chapter 1255: Chapter 1115: Authority Over Everything

Bentley couldn’t help but roll his eyes at the question. "I’ve already said, I’m on good terms with Liang Shui!"

As long as you can ensure the things you present aren’t problematic, why worry about no one managing them?

B-level contemplated for a moment and pulled out a small storage device from his pocket.

"This storage device has scanning prevention and self-destruct features. During the eight-second countdown, you need to input a twenty-one-digit password..."

A storage device the size of a fingernail; cracking its self-destruction is quite difficult, and although the decryption method is simple, it’s not something an ordinary person would consider.

Silver Fir stepped forward to take the storage device and turned to Bentley. "Sir..."

Old Ben waved his hand, expressing blandly, "Go check it out. If there’s no problem, we need to intervene."

Silver Fir soared into the air, heading straight to the backyard.

A minute later, he flew back and nodded slightly, "The image is fine."

"Alright," Bentley nodded, "I’ll head back to the backyard first. No matter who comes, we’ll take on this matter."

Just then, a patrol guard came over, carrying a wristwatch.

"Sir, our Chief Patrol Captain would like to speak with you for a moment."

Bentley waved his hand, responding nonchalantly, "I don’t know him well. If there’s anything, let him look for Iron Skin Snake."

The patrol guard was instantly stunned, "Guardian Supreme... Are you familiar with him?"

Bentley cast him a cold glance, not bothering to reply.

Old Ben was always inept with words, his hands more capable than his mouth, and he had only recently advanced, unsure of how the Supreme should be handled.

So he could only take the aloof route—no matter how you look at it, isn’t it normal for the Supreme to be uninterested in socializing?

Unexpectedly, his reaction really did align perfectly with the persona he had crafted for himself.

Instead, it was Xiang Xue who spoke, "Guardian Supreme just visited a few days ago and chatted all night with my lord, agreeing to talk again later."

Her words carried no exaggeration. Iron Skin Snake also personally agreed to return in a few days.

In fact, this matter wasn’t a secret at the inn; many security personnel were aware of it.

However, Xiang Xue never liked exploiting her connections, specifically instructing the inn’s staff not to spread the word thoughtlessly.

And although the River Technology people came to inquire about some background of the inn, their understanding of recent events was limited.

But this was understandable; River’s people on Paradise Star don’t really need to consider too many issues.

Being able to inquire about the other party’s background in advance was already considered prudent.

The patrol guard was momentarily stunned upon hearing this, and couldn’t help but curse inwardly, wondering what River Technology was up to!

Iron Skin Snake is Paradise’s Guardian Supreme but didn’t graduate from River Academy.

This involved considerations regarding the comprehensive management of the Imperial.

The Imperial’s territory is too vast, necessitating the consideration of checks and balances when managing.

Awakened individuals graduating locally could hold high positions but theoretically couldn’t manage things single-handedly.

Controlling the rapid expansion of local forces is an important duty within Iron Skin Snake’s guardianship responsibilities.

The patrol guard cursed inwardly, wondering why River hadn’t clarified this situation—weren’t they creating problems for everyone?

Guardian Supreme... How should I put it? Certainly, there are no issues with strength, but it’s a relatively vague position.

Guardian Supreme can oversee everything, even moderately interfere with military affairs.

But having oversight over everything is equivalent to... being specialized in nothing.

In fact, the Guardian Supreme typically doesn’t have many useful subordinates or specialized business domains.

Generally, there’s a "Guardian Supreme Mansion" on each planet, but it’s usually just for liaison and coordination purposes.

At most, some Supreme Mansions have relatively independent intelligence agencies.

But that’s just having their own intelligence network to avoid being deceived by local entities, enabling independent judgment in emergencies.

In terms of authority and responsibilities, Guardian Supreme certainly holds weight, but sometimes it’s more akin to an honorary title.

However, where there are drawbacks, there are benefits. With the "Guardian" title, actions naturally can be more excessive than ordinary Supremes.

So the patrol guard hesitated for a moment but still said, "Sir, the Chief Patrol Captain thinks the matter is significant, and wants to communicate with you."

"After all, it’s a matter of River Technology... Lord Du Pont is also a representative figure of River."

Bentley was taken aback, then replied coldly, "Are you implying that... I’m a minor figure then?"

"Sir, you jest," the patrol guard’s legs began to tremble.

This person’s dealings with the Supreme were always decisive and unflinching; how could he dare to stand firm against him?

Hearing the Chief Patrol Captain repeatedly "Hello, hello" through the wristwatch, he dared not keep pushing the matter.

Bentley turned and left, leaving not even a disdainful glance behind, just outright ignoring him.

Since he was just a fill-in, with the leader’s avatar in the front courtyard, there shouldn’t be further issues.

However, soon after, Silver Fir also flew back, leaving only Xiang Xue and Zi Jiu Immortal in the front courtyard.

The River Technology people noticed this scene.

However, although they had quite a few A-levels, capable of easily overpowering these two A-levels, none dared to act.

Electromagnetic Supreme was right in the nearby backyard, with that body technique... Even if they succeeded, they wouldn’t be able to escape.

And these two female A-levels, are they really that easy to kill? They still have security handling heavy weapons.

Not to mention, there’s also Kakas on the side.

Seeing Silver Fir following him back to the backyard, Bentley came over, "Boss, that Divine Text Treasure, can you take it out so we can take a look?"

Silver Fir looked at him in surprise, "You’re interested in this now?"

Bentley nodded, "Living another hundred years, you have to cultivate some hobbies, learning Divine Text isn’t bad."

Silver Fir didn’t object to him learning Huaxia Language; in his team, Bentley and Flower Scorpion were his most trustworthy members.

Even Xiao Moshan, Claire, and Youyou were slightly less trusted.

Silver Fir took out a Storage Device, connected it to the Pioneer, and released the projection.

It was a broken tower-like object, with a total of seven layers, all covered in darkness.

The tower’s body was engraved with two large characters, which in bell cauldron script read "Black Horse".

There was also a column of small characters in seal script, faintly recognizable, "The departed *sifu, like a horse *crossing a gap."

Bentley didn’t recognize a single word, wanting to ask aloud but saw Silver Fir’s gaze seemed a bit dazed.

This robot was made very realistically, even its gaze was usually lively, clearly the boss was deep in thought.

Silver Fir indeed had many thoughts swirling; this was a jumble of idioms and sentences, but undoubtedly, roots could be found on Blue Star Divine Land.

Besides these words, there was another small line on the base of the tower, "Replica of White Horse Tower".

So, there really is a fleeting horse in the gap; does cultivating in the tower shorten time?

The brokenness of this tower wasn’t merely weathering erosion; cracks were visible everywhere.

On the whole, the Black Horse Tower seemed to have been completely shattered, then reassembled by someone.

There were also profound patterns on the tower body, presumably the array patterns that distort spacetime.

Unfortunately, even the text wasn’t very clear, making the heavily damaged array patterns even worse.

Array patterns are a delicate craft where even a tiny error can lead to great discrepancies, so recreating the Black Horse Tower would be quite the task.

Luckily, the Big Head Butterfly couldn’t appear now; otherwise, it would likely start churning again, Silver Fir could imagine what it would say.

"Our computing power... is once again somewhat lacking."

Besides this, there was also a passage of over twenty characters in seal script, which was the Black Horse Tower’s usage instructions.

However, this passage of seal script was quite badly damaged.

Coupled with the very laconic phrasing in classical prose, Silver Fir spent some time deducing the usage of the Black Horse Tower.

Simply put, setting up arrays for cultivation inside and activating the Black Horse Tower makes the flow of time inside much faster than outside.

Exactly how much faster is questionable because there’s a "one" at both ends of the passage but the middle section is missing.

Roughly, it should be something like a ratio of 2.5 or 3.5 to 1.

It’s unfortunate there’s no Supreme Liang Shui’s evaluation and research on the Black Horse Tower—it’s deliberately hidden by the other party.

But Silver Fir didn’t feel too much regret about this; when it comes to understanding Divine Text, who could be better than him?

So such "stage outcomes," it’s good to listen to them; if obtained, great; if not, it’s okay too.

Seeing Silver Fir nod slightly, Bentley then asked, "What’s the situation like?"

Silver Fir didn’t hide from him, explaining the rough situation of the Black Horse Tower.

Bentley hesitated for quite a while before asking a question, "Boss, why are these things... all broken?"

"Heh," Silver Fir shook his head helplessly, answering after a while.

"Not necessarily all broken; maybe those complete treasures are ones we can’t access yet."

While the two were conversing, Fourth Master and Youyou also arrived, seeing the projected Black Horse Tower.

These two were also curious about this Divine Text Treasure, so Silver Fir had to explain again.

Of course, compared to the explanation given to the boss, theirs was the "simplified version of the simplified version."

After all, Supreme Liang Shui had already confirmed the treasure causes "spatial distortion leading to temporal inequality," there’s no need to hide it.

But even so, the two were greatly shocked upon hearing it.

Youyou couldn’t help but speak up, "I wonder where the physical form of this treasure is located."

"Knowing that wouldn’t make much difference," Fourth Master was quite pragmatic, "It’s already damaged, not very useful."

Silver Fir spoke up, "The mystery of this thing might not just lie in the array patterns; perhaps the tower’s material is special."

This was his conclusion based on analyzing the Obsidian—this material only exists in the Cultivation World, the Imperial side hasn’t found a distribution yet.

The rules of two worlds differ significantly, so differing yields are also normal.

Fourth Master thought for a moment and shook his head, "This thing... I’m afraid Green Water Academy can’t hold it, there’s a high chance it’s with the Divine Text Association."

"Don’t you know?" Silver Fir asked, raising his brows with some regret.

Before defecting, Mountain Fortress was a military division-level officer, with a decent level of confidentiality.

If even he didn’t know, one could tell the item was absolutely well-hidden.

Just then, a slight energy fluctuation came from the front yard, as two aircraft flew closer from afar.