Chapter 1061
Chapter 1061: Sunset
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Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Han Sen was taken aback by the gesture . He looked down at the bugs all around him and asked, "Can you guys hear me?"
There was no response . And while Han Sen looked at them all in confusion, a beetle leaped into flight and hovered before him . It made a queer noise before turning around and flying off towards the old, decayed city .
Han Sen continued to stand still, unsure of what was going on . After a while, that same beetle returned and started to fly around him . From what he could tell, this was the beetle's way of telling him to hurry up .
Han Sen nibbled his lips and decided to follow it .
Since he was there, he thought he might as well poke about the old city and see what he could find . If the beetles sought to do harm, surely they would have attacked him by now .
And judging from their current posture of praise or worship, Han Sen was positive that wouldn't change anytime soon .
After Han Sen started moving, the other beetles paced behind him diligently . They followed his every footstep, like the coming and going of a tide .
Before long, Han Sen had made his way into the city center . Everything there was in crumbling ruin, all except for one thing: a temple . This peculiar temple was immaculate and untouched .
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The flying beetle landed on the temple's stairs and made a noise to Han Sen, indicating he should continue following it and go inside .
Han Sen scaled the stairs, but the beetles did not follow . They all knelt as he ascended, and looked exuberantly happy .
Han Sen summoned beast soul armor, pushed open the door to the temple, and stepped inside . The place was old, and dust caked each and every surface .
The temple was devoid of statues, but there were a few dings about . Curiously, they were all empty .
As Han Sen looked into a corner of the temple, he was shocked to find a crystal vase there .
Han Sen could tell that the vase was not built from ordinary crystal . It had instead been forged from a unique variety of crystal, laden with symbols that looked like machine parts or cogs .
Finding curious items and artifacts inside a crystallizer ruin was par for the course, but this vase particularly surprised Han Sen .
It was completely transparent, but its shape and form were stark and unmissable .
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Han Sen went to look inside the vase and was even more surprised to see a woman inside it .
The girl was sitting at the bottom, hugging her knees . She had blonde hair, but Han Sen could not see her face .
There were no shura horns to be seen, and she had human ears, but she was naked .
The long blonde hair helped to dress some of her exposed parts, though .
"Human? Is she one of the missing researchers?" Han Sen looked at the woman in the vase and wondered who she might be . Instinct told him that she was very young, though, and she couldn't have been a researcher if that was true .
Han Sen knew that two humans and two shura had gone inside the ruins to explore before their arrival, but only one of each had come back .
If the girl was one of those researchers, he wasn't going to just ignore her .
Han Sen then noticed the vase was sealed, and not with a lid . The whole thing was complete .
The crystallizers had strange technology, and their creations were always unique . This had always been true, so this vase's structure was not exactly a surprise .
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Han Sen spoke with a soft voice, gently asking, "Can you hear me?"
He received no response, so he asked with a louder voice . Again, he received no response . He asked several times, with a voice that became louder each time . It seemed as if she couldn't hear him .
Han Sen touched the vase with care, unsure of what might happen . Fortunately, nothing out of the ordinary occurred .
When he felt safer in its presence, Han Sen started to knock against it .
The girl seemed to hear that, and showed a reaction . After seeing her move slightly, Han Sen knocked again .
She woke up and looked around for the knocking noise, and that was also when Han Sen saw what she looked like in full . She seemed to be around eighteen years old, and she was ravishingly pretty . Curiously, her eyes were the same golden color as her hair .
Judging from her appearance, she seemed to be a human girl .
Han Sen again thought she might indeed be the human researcher . Her appearance did not betray this notion, as even forty-year-olds could maintain the same beauty and grace as an eighteen-year-old in that day and age .
When the girl saw Han Sen there, her eyes blinked to get a clearer view, as if she had indeed just woken up .
She stood up and beat against the vase . Her mouth moved, as if she were saying something, but Han Sen couldn't hear a thing .
All Han Sen could do was read her lips, and from what he could tell, she was saying, "Save me . "
He brought out a paper and pen and wrote down a few words he could show her .
"Who are you?" He wrote, wanting to learn about her identity .
Han Sen had to be wary and maintain vigilance at all times . You could never guess what tricks or traps might be waiting for a person inside crystallizer ruins .
The lady blew air onto the cold crystal of the vase and wrote, "Sunset, of Blue Blood Special Forces . Rank: Colonel . "
This confirmed to Han Sen that she must have been one of the researchers, and now it looked as if she had been trapped there .
"Stand back; I'll break the crystal," Han Sen replied .
Acknowledging what he wrote, Sunset took a step back .