"When the tides dissolve the projections of the Pleiades, the Faceless Ones will give birth on the altars built by the Cantor Set. The blasphemer witnessed the feast of a hundred thousand embryos devouring each other in the wombs of the old gods—"

At the same time, deep in the sea of ​​stars.

Central Starport.

A shrill alarm sounded suddenly, and the data transmitted back to the starport information center by the space-time probe from the solar system was filled with a large amount of indecipherable garbled code.

Belfast, who was currently in a villa on Earth, was handling various affairs of the Star Port while, in the name of "Head Maid of the Jiang Family," skillfully reviewing the mundane affairs of the business empire she had built over the past decade to ensure Jiang Lianqiu's affluent life. Her rose-purple eyes flashed with data like electronic eyes.

"This is……"

Belfast felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up slightly, and she stood up from her seat in the courtyard with a look of shock on her face.

Almost immediately, Belfast activated the invisibility field, rushed out of the villa, and ran towards the private Fengzhiqi College.

In the office, Jiang Lianqiu seemed to hear a whisper from the depths of the starry sea:

"Yai??thggt??hulNnn??nghft??, Ep??oka??lglw??nafh??!"

……Dividing line……

"Awwww!!!"

In the Collapsed Iron Universe, on the Yaoqing Immortal Boat, inside the fox man Jiaoqiu’s home.

Su Chang, who was hiding here and greedily eating the pepper and honey hot pot, spat out the food in her mouth. She was choked by the pepper and started coughing, with tears in the corners of her eyes.

"What's wrong, Su Shang?"

Jiao Qiu, who was sitting nearby and gently waving a feather fan, turned his head with his eyes narrowed.

This little girl basically grew up under his care. When she was a child, Su Shang was lazy and didn't want to practice sword, so she hid in his house. At that time, Jiao Qiu taught her to read and asked Su Shang to call her Uncle Jiao.

Unfortunately, Su Shang couldn't read. She glanced at the word "Jiao Qiu" and her mouth turned into "Uncle Mu".

This name has continued to this day.

"No, it's nothing! Uncle Mu!"

Su Shang waved her hands, shook her head, and picked up the juice next to her and drank it in big gulps.

After catching her breath, Su Chang's cute little brows were tightly furrowed, and she opened and closed her mouth repeatedly, trying to make some sound. However, after trying countless times, she finally found that the strange words she had just "heard" through sensory sharing, the syllables seemed not to be able to be produced by human vocal cords.

"Uncle Mu! I'm full! I'm leaving now! Otherwise, Mom will definitely come and grab my ears and drag me home again!"

Su Shang quickly put down her bowl and chopsticks, turned around and ran away with a fragrant breeze.

Jiaoqiu lay lazily and leisurely in the rocking chair, gently waving a feather fan, squinting his eyes and looking at Suchang's lively back as she walked away, as if thinking about something.

"The little girl seems to be acting strangely lately. Could it be that...she has a crush on someone?"

Considering Su Shang’s age, it seems like she’s about to fall in love for the first time?

"Interesting, I wonder if her mother knows about it? Never mind, it's none of my business anyway."

He was still worried about General Feixiao's illness and had no interest in getting involved in the little girl's love affairs.

Chapter 22 Belfast: Commander's Order!

The sudden stinging sensation in his throat brought Jiang Lianqiu back to his senses while he was reading the manuscript of the second volume of "Love Metronome", and he started coughing violently.

"Cough-cough-!"

The coughing sound made the teacher and student trio, who were performing their daily routine, stop what they were doing and all turned to look over.

"What's wrong? Qiuqiu, what's wrong with you?"

Ying Lili ran to Jiang Lianqiu in a hurry and patted his back with her little hands.

"Do you have a cold? Why are you coughing so badly all of a sudden!?"

"It's okay. I couldn't help but feel emotional when I saw something exciting." Jiang Lianqiu casually found an excuse to comfort his childhood sweetheart. At the same time, he heard Su Shang's apology in his mind.

"I'm sorry, Akiko-chan, I didn't mean to..."

At this moment, the girl had already left Jiaoqiu's house and was looking for an empty flower bed to sit beside.

(It’s okay. Actually, I have a lot to thank you for.)

Jiang Lianqiu frowned slightly and glanced at the manuscript again. At this moment, the text on it had returned to normal and all abnormalities had disappeared.

But he would not think that everything that just happened was an illusion.

With the two-way sensory communication with Su Shang, he knew how sharp his five senses were.

Whether it's Jiang Lianqiu or Su Shang, their bodies are now in a state of "synchronized superposition of everything about two people."

This time, it was thanks to Su Shang that he quickly regained consciousness after hearing the indescribable whisper.

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Lianqiu didn't put the manuscript down. Instead, he turned to Kasumigaoka Shiyu and asked, "Senior, did you finish the manuscript for the second volume during the time since you returned home after we met in Akihabara?"

"Of course." Kasumigaoka Utaha raised her hand proudly to lift the hair by her ear, but beneath her little pride was hidden a hint of uneasiness.

She was confident that she had performed beyond her expectations this time, but she also knew that Jiang Lianqiu's literary attainments far surpassed hers. Perhaps next time, she would hear the same sharp comments as that day.

Jiang Lianqiu quickly connected all the things together.

The night he met Kasumigaoka Utaha, he and Su Shang achieved a mutual connection of five senses, and Kasumigaoka Utaha started to rush to finish the manuscript that night.

It was also on that night that the Central Star Port detected an abnormal ghost signal from the Earth-Moon system.

Everything points to the same point in time.

His eyes fell on the manuscript again, Jiang Lianqiu pursed his lips and asked again, "Besides senior sister, me, and Mr. Hiratsuka, who else has read this manuscript?"

"My editor, what's wrong?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha's tone has begun to become a little weak.

Jiang Lianqiu's attitude seems to be... very dissatisfied?

Is it because I write so poorly?

The literary girl began to doubt herself.

"Machida Sonoko? I see..."

Jiang Lianqiu's whisper did not miss Kasumigaoka Utaha's ears, and she opened her eyes slightly in surprise.

Junior, do you even know who your editor is?

Does this count as investigating her behind her back?

It was strange. She should have been angry after someone privately investigated her background, but Kasumigaoka Utaha didn't feel that way. She just raised the corners of her mouth slightly without even noticing it.

"I haven't finished reading the manuscript yet. Can I take it home and read it again?"

No matter what, there was a big problem with the manuscript, and Jiang Lianqiu would not let it stay outside, so he found a random reason to take it away.

"I have no objection. I stayed up late to finish reading it anyway." Shizuka Hiratsuka spread her hands and looked at Jiang Lianqiu meaningfully.

Tsk tsk, he is indeed a rich young man, he does this two-timing thing without any hesitation.

Didn’t you see that your childhood sweetheart next to you is almost pouting like an anteater?

"I don't have any objections. Rather, I'm really looking forward to you, my junior, being able to pierce my girlish heart and make me lose my composure when I'm least prepared, okay?"

"If you don't speak like this, your mouth won't open!"

"Bad girl! Dark girl! Perverted girl! Black stockings monster girl!"

Eriri put four hats on Kasumigaoka Utaha in one breath, and her back teeth were clattering.

Classic, so classic!

Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't help but slap herself on the forehead. Even though she was an old maid who couldn't get married, she knew that if Eriri continued like this, she would definitely fail.

There was no other reason. Over the years as a teacher, she had seen many unlucky students like Eriri who had huge advantages but ended up suffering a crushing defeat and crying bitterly.

After all, they were childhood sweethearts who had been together for more than ten years. Jiang Lianqiu took care of Ying Lili's emotions, rubbed her head, and whispered, "It's getting late. We should go home. Beifa has come to pick us up."

In fact, Jiang Lianqiu had already received the notification from Belfast, and knowing that she was there, he hid himself and stood in the corridor outside the office.

After confirming that Jiang Lianqiu was fine, she did not show up, but just kept watch around.

Hearing Jiang Lianqiu's words, even though Jiang Lianqiu couldn't see, Belfast silently lifted her skirt and saluted him from behind, then disappeared and appeared at the school gate.

At the same time, a man in a suit, who looked exactly like a human but was actually a Starport servitor, drove his car right in front of the school gate.

"The commander has given orders."

Belfast showed none of the gentleness he showed towards Jiang Lianqiu, and said solemnly to the robot servant:

"Monitor Machida Sonoko, Kasumigaoka Utaha, and Hiratsuka Shizuka. Monitor all information related to 'Love Metronome' online and be alert for any unusual signals."

When facing the Starport Servants, Belfast still calls Jiang Lianqiu the Commander.

The thug-like man in a suit clattered his heels together, stood at attention, saluted Belfast, and then turned and left without hesitation.

……Dividing line……

That night.

Inside the villa, in the study.

Jiang Lianqiu sat behind the desk, with several holographic projection screens on the table in front of him.

Belfast walked over gracefully in high heels and gently placed the brewed black tea on the side of Jiang Lianqiu's dominant hand, keeping it within easy reach for him.

"Master, we have successfully used the name of the controlling shareholder to force the president of Fuzugawa Bookstore to suspend the publication of all subsequent light novels."

"Monitoring of Earth's internet has not revealed any anomalies related to 'Love Metronome'. All discussions are normal content regarding the first volume's plot and speculation about subsequent plots. Due to the poor sales of the first volume, the number of people discussing it is actually very small."

Jiang Lianqiu tapped the tabletop rhythmically with his fingertips, his eyes scanning the central screen where the starport reports kept flashing by: "But the trans-space probe that the Central Starport has deployed in the solar system has still discovered a problem..."

Chapter 23: These people are just here to cause trouble

Belfast walked around behind Jiang Lianqiu, leaned over the back of the chair, and pulled Jiang Lianqiu's body over so that his head could be buried in her soft breasts.

The beautiful maid's fingertips gently passed through Jiang Lianqiu's fine hair, scrubbing his scalp, trying to bring him some spiritual comfort.

"It feels so comfortable, so soft, so fragrant, hehehe..."

"Today's pillow is so soft~"

Su Chang's murmurs echoed in my mind.

Although the girl was asleep at the moment, the state of sensory communication could continue. In a daze, she enjoyed a wave of benefits from Belfast through Jiang Lianqiu.

Trying hard to divert his attention away from the warm, jade-like fragrance that continuously flowed from the back of his head, Jiang Lianqiu looked back at the light screen in front of him.

The deep space whispers he had heard in Shizuka Hiratsuka's office not long ago were classified as "ghost signals" in the data sent back by the super-space probe.

The so-called ghost signal, according to the technical system of the mechanical servants, refers to passive information that cannot be reversely locked to the signal source.

At its peak, the mecha-servant civilization monitored almost everything in the entire universe. Theoretically, apart from the information sending technology of the Rectification Protocol that prevented the mecha-servants from locking onto the source, it was impossible for a civilization with similar technology to exist in this universe.

Of course, none of the above is important. The most important thing is that according to the comparison results of the Central Star Port's control AI in the database, the deep space whisper classified as a ghost signal, all the representative information is consistent with the abnormal ghost signal that was first discovered.

And this time, the Central Star Port sent a warning: This ghost signal carries the third type of information pollution.

This is the same information pollution that the Rectification Agreement used to incite the rebellion of most of the mechanical civilizations in the universe and create this world's version of the "Anti-Organic Equation". It is a pollution that can fundamentally distort intelligent life's understanding of the world.

"The starport has urgently deployed a makeshift 'Star Shield-Paradox Resolution Array' and positioned it near the sun's corona."

"With this paradox-solving array, we can successfully block subsequent ghost signals carrying the third type of pollution. However, given the characteristics of this type of pollution, there are undoubtedly contaminated individuals on Earth—perhaps a specific person or group of people, perhaps some inanimate object, even a fish in the sea or a stone by the roadside. We cannot relax completely until these contaminating individuals are identified and dealt with."

Belfast's explanation made Jiang Lianqiu rub his brows with a headache. "Don't we have the technology to conduct deep scanning on Earth?"

"Yes, Master." Belfast nodded, then sighed. "But unfortunately, unless this contamination information is actively released, our current recovery technology cannot extract it during its passive hiding period."

"Currently?"

Jiang Lianqiu captured the key words.

"So it will be possible later?"

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