The military
In a who-know-where military laboratory
Two soldiers were standing outside a room, guarding the doors.
"Guarding inside this lab always creep me out!" said one of them.
"Yeah, me too. It feels like someone is gonna grab you to the lab and make you a lab rat." replied the other one.
Suddenly, the two hear footsteps.
"Who's there?" one of them asked.
But when the figure was revealed when he turned around the corner, they immediately saluted him.
"Colonel Sanders!" they both greeted him.
The man nodded and said: "Open the doors!"
One of the two soldiers turned around and inputted a code. Immediately after that, the doors opened and the colonel went in.
"Finally, you're here!" an Asian man in white lab coat said.
"Prof. Ueda, I don't have the time. Tell me what you've found." Colonel Sanders said.
"Here!" Prof. Ueda pointed at the things on the table. Colonel Sanders looked at them. On the table were the burned bodies of creatures he didn't recognize. The bodies was so destroyed that even Teyvatian people wouldn't recognize them to be four hilichurls and one Cryo Abyss Mage.
"Aren't them just some creatures' corpses?" the colonel asked.
"Yes, indeed. However, I found this one on one of the creatures' body." Prof. Ueda said and showed the colonel a staff.
Colonel Sanders showed a disapproved face until Prof. Ueda did something to trigger the staff. Ice shards appears around the professor.
Believing this to be some illusion technology. The colonel touched the ice shards.
"Arghhh!"
The ice shards were real and his hand was hurt badly.
"Do you know what this means, Colonel?" Prof. Ueda asked before answering himself, "This technology cannot be found anywhere on Earth, unless some powerful factions hide it. However, those corpses disprove this theory. So that's mean..."
"Extraterrestrial technology." the colonel finished Prof. Ueda's word without looking at the scientist, but only at his damaged hand.
"And this is the story I heard..." Prof. Ueda then proceeded to tell what he had heard and read from the police's investigation, including the two mysterious people who escaped before the explosion and the high possibility that the 5 creatures were 5 people of the new company in disguise, while he went to get some medicine he had put nearby and applied it on the colonel's hand.
"An alien invasion!" the colonel said after hearing the story.
"There's a way to confirm it 100%, go find out what information they searched for before their demise in the explosion." Prof. Ueda said.
Colonel Sanders did not reply but turned around and went out.
"Wait,..."
"All the technologies we found will be given to you scientists to research."
"Ehehe, you know me well." Prof. Ueda then waved and said goodbye to the colonel.
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Alexy's father, General Tsarivich, was enjoying his break. He went home to visit his family and take a break from heavy work at a general, even though he still had to do some paperwork from home.
RING RING RING
General Tsarivich opened his phone.
"General!" he could hear the voice of Colonel Sanders.
"Judging from your tone. It's something serious."
"Yes. And it's better to talk in person."
"Alright, I understand."
The general put his phone into his pocket and went to his wife.
"You have to go, darling?"
"Yeah, I have to return to the military base. I guess my break's over."
"Take care, darling!"
"I will! Tell Alexy and Ivan that I love them!"
General Tsarivich put on his military robe again and went out. Outside the door, a black car was waiting for him. It did not look like anything belonging to the military at all. But its red license plate indicated that it belonged to the military.
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Meanwhile, Alexy was at school and trying to complete his commissions for today. Aside from the two very usual ones of helping his mother at home, the other two were helping a female friend named Aisha carry a lot of books back to the library and helping his teacher find the ring she had accidentally dropped.
"Ouch..."
"Are you ok?" Aisha asked.
"I'm OK!" Alexy said reassuringly to Aisha, while holding tight the books in order not to drop them.
"I advise that you take a break for today, you don't want the wounds to become more serious." said Herbalist Gui.
(I'm fine. Don't worry, doctor!) thought Alexy.
He remembered last night after Klee had run off to make more bombs somewhere in the black space, he told Paimon about the wounds, which he tried to hide from Klee.
That was when Paimon called out the 3rd AI inside the system, Herbalist Gui, who gave him some medicine to apply on his wounded back.
"We've arrived!" said Aisha when they came to the door of the library.
"Ok, here are your books!" said Alexy.
"Thank you, Alexy!" said Aisha.
<<Commission complete>>
<<You gained: 25 EXP, 10 primogems>>
<<AR 2: 350/400 EXP>>
"It's time to put on the medicine again. Apply it thrice a day, remember?>> said Herbalist Gui from inside the space.
"Yes, doctor!"
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At the military base
General Tsarivich looked through the photos of the creatures' corpses and of the site of the explosion.
"What information did you find out?" asked the general.
"Sir, the information those 5 creatures researched when they disguised as workers were information about government, military, social-economic centers of the world. At first, we thought it was not suspicious until we found out they also searched about hackers and hack software. From our data, they probably have downloaded at least a hack software into their computers."
"Can you find out the identity of the two escaped people?"
Colonel Sanders shook his head and said:
"We can't. We did get some hair but they were badly damaged by the explosion. However, Prof. Ueda could confirm that they belonged to a male and a female. And according to the testimony of the guard, the male is likely a young man, and the female is a little girl."
"What a strange duo!" commented General Tsarivich, "If not for the incident, I think I have to call the FBI."
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<<Commission complete>>
<<You gained: 25 EXP, 10 primogems>>
<<AR 2: 375/400 EXP>>
After helping his teacher, Alexy went home. He was late because he spent much time finding the ring for her. Fortunately, his mother was not at home right now. So he went into the home like he owned the place.
But when he saw the photo on the newspaper on the paper, he was taken aback.
(That building. Oh no I'm a terrorist accomplice now. The police and military will chase me.)
At school, he had heard about the incident, but he didn't think that was the very same building that Klee destroyed.
(I'm a fool!) lamented Alexy.
"Paimon thinks we should be more discreet next time." Paimon said. "But Paimon thinks we have already attracted attention."
(Ugh, this cannot be worse!)
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Inside the red space where Klee stayed,
"Hihihihihi . . . my new bombs are done!" said Klee, holding one of her red "treasures".