Chapter 286 Invisible Foundation
More than a year ago, he was just an ordinary human living on Earth, leading a peaceful life with his lover and children. But overnight, he was suddenly caught on a spaceship, and then after a confusing struggle, he was thrown onto an alien planet. Now, this matter, which is even more outrageous than a third-rate online novel, is developing like a wild horse that has run away from its reins, and he has suddenly become the only heir to this hot treasure.
This treasure is considered by these aliens to be an omnipotent object.
After facing wave after wave of negotiations, pleadings and even threats from the alien guests, Yan An felt exhausted.
Everyone seemed to have good reasons. Listening to their stories, just asking him to think about it first seemed like a serious sin. After temporarily sending these alien guests away with perfunctory words, the harshness in their eyes made him the culprit who caused the death of millions of innocent lives, the extinction of more than a dozen intelligent races, and the bombing of several planets. This made him even more anxious.
Lello was watching him with a subtle look, as if waiting for an animal to do something interesting. When another guest left, Yan An felt a little annoyed when he saw his look of anticipation.
"Lelo," he said aloud.
"Have you decided yet?"
"Don't you have any wishes?"
"Um?"
Yan An took a step forward and continued, "Most of the guests here are here for this secret collection. Aren't you the same as them?" He looked at the alien he had just met not long ago, "Don't you want it?"
Lei Luo's expression remained unchanged. "But now the owner of this secret collection has been determined."
"Don't you want it? Don't you have a wish you want to fulfill?"
"This question can also be applied to yourself." Leilo lowered his head and took a sip of wine. "All intelligent life has desires. Of course, I have too. But there are two things I hate the most, and one of them is asking for help."
So you don't want to ask me for it just to save face? Yan An complained in his heart.
As if hearing his inner thoughts, Lei Luo smiled and said, "When you officially inherit this treasure, if you ask me to take it over, I can do you a favor with reluctance."
Thank you so much.
After a brief conversation with Lello, guests came to him one after another to discuss matters.
Just when Yan An's spirit was tortured to the limit by the verbal attacks of one guest after another, the messenger of the Invisible Foundation finally arrived.
"Here it comes! Here it comes!" The buzz of discussion spread throughout the conference hall.
The Invisible Foundation is one of the most secretive organizations in this vast galaxy. For tens of millions of years, they have never participated in any struggle between galactic forces. Their vaults are impregnable, and no accidents have ever occurred with the important items entrusted to them for safekeeping. Of course, there have been daring people who have tried to take advantage of the Invisible Foundation's vaults, but few people can find the real location of the Invisible Foundation's vaults. There is a legend in the galaxy that someone once located the vault, but was quickly wiped out. Those few idiots who disappeared without a trace were some of the nobles and kings of some planets. These legends are undoubtedly one of the unshakable symbols of the Invisible Foundation's credit.
Today, there are many wealthy people in the galaxy who are eager to store their belongings in the Invisible Foundation, but not everyone is lucky enough to deposit their belongings in the Invisible Foundation. The Invisible Foundation has a set of mysterious procedures and standards for business acceptance. Some say it is a referral membership system, and some say it is an invitation system for the Foundation. In any case, all customers who can contact the Foundation are tight-lipped about it. It is invisible and traceless, just like its name, hidden in the fog.
Now, the guardians of the Invisible Foundation are about to appear in public.
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Several straight rays of light suddenly appeared in the empty air, and then a clear door frame was outlined. Under the gaze of everyone, white light seeped out from the crack of the door.
A moment later, a deep passage that did not belong to this space at all appeared in the air, bounded by the door frame. It extended forward, and it was unclear where it was heading. This suddenly appeared passage reshaped the space visually and physically in an incredible way. But if someone turned behind the door frame at this time, they would only see a square frame outlined by light in the air.
Then two figures stepped out of the door. They were wearing grey cloaks, were short, and had a pair of green eyes that shone in the shadows. They looked like Homo sapiens, but were only as tall as Yan An's waist. Their faces were hidden under their cloaks and could not be seen clearly.
At that moment, Yan An understood their identities. These two little monsters were the messengers of the mysterious Invisible Foundation.
Barlett's private lawyer saluted the two emissaries and said, "Dear guardians of the Foundation, the Mr. Sapiens next to me is the person you are looking for."
Yan An took a step forward.
Along with a sharp pain, a flat voice echoed in his mind: (Are you an agent?)
(I am.) Yan An answered subconsciously in his heart. He didn't know which of the two people this voice came from.
The pain became more and more intense, and Yan An felt as if he was swept by something invisible, and a rustling sound passed through his mind.
(pass.)
(Agent, please follow us.)
Yan An glanced at Principal Wu and said, "Then I'll go in first." Principal Wu nodded excitedly.
He followed them into the passage.
In the eyes of the guests at the auction house , Yan An disappeared the moment he stepped into the door frame.
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He could hear rumbling sounds coming from nowhere, and the walls around him were made of honeycomb hexagonal structures. The further he walked, the heavier his head felt. The floor, walls, and the corridor with no end in sight were all shrouded in dim light.
"How long will we have to walk?" Yan An opened his mouth to ask, but he found that his throat could not make any sound.
Then the voice echoed in Yan An's mind again: (It's about to arrive.)
After the sound disappeared, Yan An's eyes suddenly flashed with a strong white light. He lost the ability to receive vision. After a few seconds of panic, his vision was restored.
This time, he found himself standing in a room, with the two Foundation messengers standing in front of him.
There was a cone-shaped object in the center of the room. A beam of light spread from the top of the cone, covering and scanning Yan An. He heard a mechanical electronic sound.
"Lola people from the wide-area star region, Homo sapiens male, Yan An."
"Agent's identity confirmed."
Laura? Yan An was stunned.
The moment the sound ended, countless thin lines of light flashed on the wall, like circuits drawing mysterious patterns. They danced on the ground, walls, and ceiling, forming a dense network overflowing with light. Some runes that he couldn't understand flashed in the void, far, near, near, far, his brain couldn't locate their position, they seemed to be close at hand but thousands of miles away. He felt his eyeballs vibrating at high speed, and his eardrums were buzzing because of some inaudible high-frequency sound waves.
A panel on the ground slid open, and with a soft mechanical sound, a device spiraled up. A box was placed on this minimalist device.
With a click, the box opened automatically.
A blinding white light suddenly lit up, and countless images flashed before his eyes, memories of the past. He saw him as a child, laughing and playing football in the open space, he smelled the scent of summer sweat, he saw him and the teenage Wei Hongzhuo wandering in the teaching building, that was the most unforgettable adventure of their childhood, he saw the first date he invited An Yuan, he was calm and graceful, but in fact he practiced that opening speech privately no less than twenty times, he saw his wife blushing and accepting his proposal, her smile was the most beautiful scenery in the world, he saw his beloved dog Zhengyi running in the courtyard, he heard the cry of the baby coming from the delivery room. Xiaozhen, that was the first child born to me and her...
Then the picture darkened, the world full of laughter faded away, and he saw himself again, the younger self, lying on the road, blood seeping from the ground, pedestrians on the roadside looked at him, shook their heads and sighed, and then a layer of white cloth was covered on his body. He heard a girl's shrill cry, and he saw his parents who were almost fainted...
No, Mom and Dad, I'm not dead, I'm still alive! But then his fear came like a tide, he saw his own death again, a weird monster that shouldn't exist pierced him and bit him. Death again and again, thousands of selves, thousands of tragedies, thousands of developments he had never thought of, An Yuan who was like a stranger and had never been involved with him, his parents who hid all his photos at the bottom of the box and never looked at them again in an attempt to get rid of the pain and start a new life, thousands of worlds he couldn't see the way forward...
The light faded and he stood in front of the box. He was still in the room of the Invisible Foundation.
There were two objects in the box, one was a small piece of crystal, and the other was a small piece of wood with a silver flower on it.
He gasped and whispered, "What was that just now?"
No one answered him.
He asked again: "What are these two things in the box - Barlett's legacy?"
One of the guardians said, "One is time."
Another guardian said, "One is destiny."
"I do not understand."
"That is the crystal block that connects to the vortex. When it is activated, it will tear open a rift in space and send the user into the time curve."
"It is a powerful thing - a fragment of the unfilled cup, and it will only follow its new covenant master."
"So, the same object can travel through time, and the same object can make wishes, is that what you mean?"
"The crystal block is not stable. The user cannot decide where the end of time is."
"This fragment can only be used once by the Master of the Contract."
Yan An felt his mouth and tongue go numb, and he swallowed. He couldn't decide between the crystal block that could travel through time and the wish fragment that could only be used once. It seemed that only the latter was useful. But when he thought of the guests in the auction hall who were waiting for him to hand over the treasure and hoped to use it to save the planet and the race, he felt a splitting headache.
"Can this fragment fulfill any wish?"
"The fragments are not the unfilled cup itself, and its effectiveness is limited."
"So what are the consequences of using this fragment? Are there any side effects?"
The two guardians did not answer him.
"Can I store these two things here with you again?" Yan An asked.
"No, the storage period for Barlett's collection has expired."
" Can renew my contract? How much does it cost?" Yan An made his last struggle.
The Foundation's guardian ignored him. The box closed again on its own.
The panel rose and pushed forward, and the box was pushed to Yan An's side.
"The transfer of ownership has been completed. Please ask the agent to pick up the items."
"No, no, no, you really don't want to consider keeping it for a while longer?"
"Agent's note: Please do not open the storage box without opening the Kuta barrier. The Foundation has fulfilled its obligation to inform you. From now on, any consequences caused by this item have nothing to do with the Foundation."
"What is the Kuta Barrier?"
"Agent, please leave."
"Wait a minute! I want to renew my contract with you guys!! Please keep it for me!!!"
"Agent, please leave."
Yan An was determined to have a thick face and discuss with the two guardians again. He was even ready to roll on the ground if they refused to leave. But then a white light flashed in front of his eyes again, and the floor under his feet turned into nothingness. He stumbled and fell to the ground. People's surprised shouts echoed in his ears.
"He's back!"
He looked around and was surprised to find that he was sitting in the center of the auction venue. He was kicked out of the secret room of the foundation in an instant, and the passage opened by the foundation just now disappeared without a trace. Something rolled down in his arms, which was the box containing the treasures that the foundation had just given him.
"He's back!!" the guests around whispered.
"Did he get it?" Some of the guests looked at him expectantly, while others looked at him with murderous intent and jealousy.
"Are you okay?" Principal Wu walked up to him and held out his hand.
Yan An pulled Principal Wu's hand and stood up, "I'm fine." But I'm afraid we'll be in trouble next.
"We have to leave immediately." Yan An said to Principal Wu.
"Did you get it?"
"I got it. But the trouble is coming. Let me tell you..."
"Is this it?" Principal Wu said with a smile, holding the box in his hand.
"Yes." Yan An suddenly realized something, "Wait a minute, you..."
"You reacted quickly." The "Principal Wu" in front of him laughed, and he reached out and pressed his ear. Principal Wu's face flickered and deformed in the light. After the optical filter faded, this "Principal Wu" turned into an alien with a sharp laugh. Yan An recognized him. He was the galactic thief Goldfinger Kadoro mentioned by Lello.
"You!!" Yan An asked anxiously, "What did you do to Principal Wu?"
"I threw that green-haired Homo sapiens into the toilet." Gold Finger Kadolo quickly jumped to the window, his slender hands lightly grasping the wooden box, "Is this Barlett's collection?"
Before Yan An could react, the other guests in the auction hall took action. Commander Lan Xin was the first to throw a chair at Golden Finger Kado Luo. Guests in the auction hall were not allowed to carry weapons, but for some races, their own combat power was strong enough. They rushed to pounce on this cunning galactic thief. The thief smiled slightly, raised one hand, and an invisible barrier appeared in front of him, blocking the angry guests. They could only punch and roar at him from behind the barrier.
He jumped onto the windowsill and admired everyone's expressions with a leisurely and mocking attitude. "It's really lively today. The spies from the Third and Fifth Courts of the Overseer's Eye, the Chief Inspector of the Security Committee, the Commander of the Galactic Fleet, and distinguished guests from all sides, unfortunately, you will return empty-handed today. Let me see what's in this box first."
He picked up the box and prepared to open it.
Please do not open the storage box without opening the Kuta barrier. This sentence suddenly exploded in Yan An's brain.
"Stop!! Don't open it!" Yan An shouted.
Kadolo opened the box and said with a smile: "It seems that I am the only winner of this auction..."
"Don't open it!"
Before he could finish his words, there was a sudden loud noise from outside the window.
Glass fragments flew everywhere, and with the roar of the engine, a landing craft crashed directly into the auction venue. Because of the strong impact, the decorations on the ceiling kept falling, the floor of the room was buzzing and vibrating, and the people in the venue screamed and retreated.
The door of the landing craft was pushed open, and a chicken jumped out, shouting, "Where is Yan An?"
The venue fell into silence.
After a moment, one of the guests said, "It seems that the chicken has knocked the thief to death."
