Chapter 134: Echoes of Time
When the news predictably aired in the Kubfu Alliance, Arthur's Starbo, as expected, exploded again.
Countless people on Starbo took screenshots of the interview footage, tagged him, and in the blink of an eye, pushed him to the top headline of Starbo's hot search list once more.
The hottest comment in his Super Topic said: "Originally, seeing you had disappeared for nearly a month and weren't streaming, I wanted to curse you for being a 'pigeon' (flaker). But now, seeing that another hundred-plus people have died around you, I suddenly can't bring myself to curse anymore."
Bella from the Sea Carp Club, who hadn't seen Arthur when she went to the youth training camp to watch the ranking tournament that day, had been following his Starbo daily ever since. Now, she rushed to comment at the first opportunity:
"As expected of you!"
This comment received several thousand likes in the blink of an eye, almost scaring her out of her wits.
Her own appearances in matches generally didn't garner this many likes.
Simultaneously, Justin, who was still training diligently every day at the youth training camp, also came across this Starbo post that evening and sighed with admiration.
"As expected of Bro Arthur; after experiencing another major event like this, he's still so calm."
So, he casually gave that "As expected of you!" comment a like as well.
However, Justin, who didn't usually spend much time looking at Starbo, was evidently unaware that his understanding of "As expected of Bro Arthur" and the netizens' meaning of "As expected of you" were actually completely different...
Within a few days, Arthur had already been crowned with a series of new nicknames on Starbo, such as "Walking Natural Disaster," "Humanoid Harbinger of Death Bird," and "Disaster Always One Step Behind Me."
Many people even left comments teasing him, "Maybe it's better if you don't return to Kubfu just yet; finish using up your 'powers' in Star Brilliance before coming back."
Reading these, Arthur also felt a whole bunch of black lines forming over his head.
What damn powers am I using?!
If his mentality weren't steady enough, he might have already smashed his phone at this point...
However, all of this wasn't without its benefits.
Thanks to that reporter completely leading his public image astray, David and the other rangers subsequently stopped probing into the matter of him wandering deep into the slums while out for a "midnight stroll."
In the words of one young ranger, "A formidable life needs no explanation."
Consequently, this also helped Arthur cover up the fact that he had secretly pilfered the poacher group's loot, preventing it from being discovered.
To a certain extent, it could be said they had helped him out...
For a period of time afterward, Arthur met with that reporter from Kubfu International Channel several more times.
The other party was very interested in him; every time they met, it was like looking at a walking hot news trigger.
Arthur, on the other hand, forcefully endured the urge to roast him, his purpose in meeting the reporter each time being—he hoped to use this connection to inquire about some news from the Kubfu military.
The Kubfu International News Channel's main focus recently was still the military's progress in annihilating the Stitched Shadow Army.
The incident in the slums was merely a recent hot topic they had stumbled upon incidentally.
The Star Brilliance Alliance receiving so much attention recently also stemmed from the military's presence.
Otherwise, such a remote small alliance would likely not even have a resident reporter stationed there normally.
Arthur also wanted to use the military's movements to indirectly reconstruct the Stitched Shadow Army's tracks, thereby predicting when Oliver might finally appear.
From the current looks of it, facing the full firepower of the Kubfu military, the Stitched Shadow Army had almost no opportunity to fight back.
A terrorist organization, regardless of how rampant it was within the territory of small alliances, still seemed somewhat lacking in weight when confronting Kubfu, one of the world's three superpowers.
Leader Oliver being sniffed out and his whereabouts exposed now seemed to be just a matter of time.
Moreover, now that Arthur understood the internal situation of this organization, he was even more worried that under these circumstances, Oliver might be pushed out by his already disloyal cadres to be a scapegoat!
That trash dying doesn't matter.
But he absolutely must not drag my Gengar down with him to perish.
Therefore, recently, while David and his team were very relaxed, spending their days in the embassy bragging, playing cards, and whiling away the time, Arthur, in contrast, was abnormally seriously monitoring the international situation.
Incidentally, he was also waiting to see when the "seed" he had planted that one night would relay back valuable intelligence.
Just like that, another three days passed.
The trial date for the poacher group was drawing closer and closer.
On this day, David suddenly came to find Arthur, telling him a familiar person had arrived.
"A familiar person? Someone I know?"
Arthur was momentarily surprised.
He found it hard to imagine having any acquaintances in the Star Brilliance Alliance in this era.
That kid Kevin was still at the police station repeatedly giving his statement at this moment.
It wasn't until he came out and saw the true identity of the visitor...
It turned out to be Raymond.
"How did you come here?"
Raymond also sighed with some helplessness.
"Hey, what else could it be for? Because of that experimental farm, of course."
"After receiving your guys message, we first moment then entered Viridian Forest looked. That piece land indeed ruined complete mess. Like above erupted one big battle like."
Hearing this, Arthur and David looked at each other once. Both somewhat guiltily averted their gaze.
What Raymond didn't know was there not like erupted big battle. But indeed erupted one big battle.
One side among them at this moment still precisely stood in front of him.
But this fact it was believed David and Arthur both had a tacit understanding, would forever never tell him...
"There's no way; that experimental farm has to be completely renovated and redone. It needs a lot of things, including buying new seeds, fertilizer, hiring people to clean the debris and bullet casings from the fields, tilling the soil, and so on."
"Because that field is a bit closer to the Star Brilliance side, and it just so happened someone from my family was coming over, I came along for the ride, to purchase seeds and fertilizer over here."
Hearing this Arthur couldn't help but ask: "Is someone in your family from the Star Brilliance Alliance?"
"That's not it."
This time, before Raymond could speak himself, David already proactively helped him expose the news.
"His family is a military household; everyone in his family serves in the army. This trip, they're coming as a new batch of reinforcements, to join the crackdown on that Stitched Shadow Army."
Arthur looked at Raymond with slight surprise.
"You're from a military family?"
Thinking about it this way, it's no wonder he would practice slashing arts at a dojo since childhood.
Regarding this, Raymond waved his hand indifferently.
"My family is my family; I am me."
"I'm not military material. Doing research-type work is still more suitable for me."
"Right now, the ones developing in the army in my family are all my cousins. It has nothing to do with me. I just hitched a ride over here, that's all."
Although he repeatedly emphasized it had nothing to do with him, Arthur still couldn't stop his eyes from lighting up.
"What rank are your family members in the military?"
Now he desperately needed intelligence!
No matter what, he hoped to rush before Kubfu caught Oliver to meet that person once.
At worst, Oliver could die, but Gengar must go with him!
If Raymond's family here was a military household, perhaps it could bring a brand new intelligence channel!
However, at this moment, Raymond still hadn't replied, when David again spoke first, quite proudly.
"Haha, luckily for you, kid, you were even brought over by Raymond, and you still don't know this? His family is full of martyrs and heroes! Tracing back nearly two hundred years, their family even produced a Marshal!"
"A Marshal?"
Arthur was shocked.
According to what he knew, looking throughout the entire history of Kubfu, the number of Marshals produced to date did not exceed thirty people.
This was not a permanent military rank; in many eras without large-scale wars, the Alliance did not confer the title of Marshal at all.
Like the current era, Kubfu had no Marshal, and hadn't for many years.
"Which Marshal was it?"
"You actually really don't know? It's precisely the only female Marshal the Kubfu Alliance has produced in nearly two centuries, Lyneth Everhart, Great Marshal Everhart."
In that moment, it was as if a torrent of time rushed past beside him...
Arthur, in a daze, seemed to hear echoes reverberating across time and space...
Memories from the past surged into his mind like a tide. Counting the past events, who could have imagined that the seas had already turned into mulberry fields, and things and people were no longer the same.
For a moment, his throat seemed to be choked with myriad emotions surging up, yet there was no one he could confide in.
Lyneth Everhart...
That was my disciple back then...
(End of Chapter)
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