Chapter 1098: Chapter 1098: Recent Developments
Her face showed no emotion, only a pair of clear eyes where ripples began to stir.
People like them, even love was scarce; even if given out completely, it was but a small handful in the palm of their hands.
Arnold Simmons was stingy even to himself, yet he was still willing to present everything he had with both hands.
Hannah closed her eyes.
The memories were still of the familiar scenes.
Her mother said she loved her, and took away her loyalty.
Her father said he loved her, and took away her life.
She had once been adored, but when the flames of war swept past her, all that awaited her was an endless fall.
In the cyber-brain, Golden Lotus was joyfully flipping through the latest plot developments, incredibly pleased.
Once the female protagonist leaves the stage, the extent of the plot’s collapse would reach ninety percent.
Golden Lotus happily closed the plot in its hands and turned to ask Hannah with immense excitement, "Master, can we go back soon?"
It could hardly wait, having heard that the option for systems to materialize had started to spread, with many systems already possessing physical forms.
In the past, every time they gathered, it was system performance that they compared, and it always lost, also being teased by Dalong as a "Degenerate System."
But now it was different, the systems compared who had more fur, who was cuter.
Hehe, it was clear that it would win this; who made Dalong’s cat shed so much fur.
Hannah did not answer but instead asked about the recent situation of the royal family.
Golden Lotus, without thinking too much, eagerly reported the intelligence it had collected to Hannah, "I really made a great effort to get back in touch with ’Honey-Coated Knife’ and the others. I heard that the live streaming platform was suspended again, and many streamers have been trapped in the small worlds, unable to escape. Fortunately, we are not like them, hehe..."
It was also because the current situation was special, so the requirements for the plot’s collapse were exceptionally high. Otherwise, they would have returned long ago.
For a long time, interstellar live streaming was one of the main sources of income for the interstellar royalty and also one of the major interstellar entertainment projects.
Once live streaming was suspended, it meant that the interstellar royalty had once again entered a state of alert.
Indeed, that was exactly what happened.
Golden Lotus did not know the true identities of "Honey-Coated Knife" and "The Commander’s Ex-Wife," but these two indeed knew a lot of gossip about the royalty.
For instance, the wanderers still showed no intention of leaving the border.
More importantly, not only did they have no plans to leave, they even set up camp directly at the border, spending their days barbecuing meat and playing cards, living even more leisurely than the royal mecha squadron.
On the contrary, the squad stationed at the border had to be vigilant every day, fearing when the wanderers might attack.
Life for them was unbearably hard.
Especially after the commander fell into a coma and the request for external assistance failed, the interstellar royalty entered a "hunkering down" status, showing no response even to the wanderers’ occasional provocations.
The official explanation to the outside was that it was due to having the dignity not to fuss with a group of "lowly civilians."
After saying this for so long, even they started to believe it.
Those in power, having lived comfortable years, had long lost their original ambition and combativeness, with their minds only thinking about how to maximally ensure their wealth and power.
Other matters were not within their consideration.
Among the interstellar residents, some had seen through the true nature of the royalty early and chose to flee, while there were still those who firmly believed in the royalty.
