’Valkyrie’ is a large landing craft that travels between space orbit and Pandora, and it also serves as the bridge between the spacecraft ’Pioneer Star’ and Pandora.


    The ’Pioneer Star’ could be described as the culmination of human technology in this world, with controlled nuclear fusion and antimatter application, neural network connection, will transmission, and so forth—all converged into one.


    But in essence, Pioneer Star was just a freighter, shuttling back and forth transporting the room temperature superconductive materials refined on Pandora.


    Also, due to limited transport capacity, no excessive space could be wasted. Therefore, the superconductive mines on Pandora Planet had to be refined locally, resulting in bases on the surface centered around the gigantic Valkyrie landing crafts.


    This base itself had even achieved industrialization, capable of mining and producing some relevant equipment on its own—a true representation of interstellar civilization.


    Although for Earth in this world, the only colony outside the Solar System was Pandora, it looked far more sophisticated compared to the folks next door in Starship Troopers, who seemed to have colonies all over the place.


    For a journey over two thousand kilometers, even for ninjas traveling at their speed on foot through the forest, it would take a considerable amount of time. But with those two transforming helicopters, it took less than an hour to arrive.


    As the two helicopters with transforming abilities flew back toward the base, two four-meter-tall powered armors stepped forward with mechanical strides, holding their weapons as they arrived at the landing pad, keeping a watchful eye on the descending helicopters.


    "Activate biometric detection and automatic scanning."


    "Initiate semi-autonomous mode for automatic threat response."


    "Alert level medium."


    As a series of control modules on the powered armors were activated, the armors emitted the sounds of machinery in motion, their guns lowered, shoulder-mounted turrets raised, and laser aiming dots appeared.


    It was obvious that their equipment had been significantly enhanced compared to the original. The base itself, having industrial processing capabilities, had broken some routine practices and started enhancing its armed forces to a higher level after encountering unforeseen incidents.


    Although they had been in constant communication on the way, they also had to be prepared for potential hijacking threats.


    Only when they saw their own people coming down with a group of unarmed human individuals did they slightly relax their guard.


    "Hold on a second."


    However, just as a worker wearing a breathing helmet was about to proceed with the handover and the two powered armors were about to deactivate the autonomous firing mode,


    a somewhat indifferent voice came from one of the powered armors from behind.


    "Have you forgotten about those ninjas? They are quite adept learners, and they can shape-shift into others. We need to double-check."


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    This statement was not concealed, causing the Avatar accompanying Tao Yu all this way to grumble in complaint before apologetically saying to Tao Yu,


    "Sorry, we’ve encountered some troublesome people before. Colonel Miles Quaritch might be a bit strict, but it’s for the security of the base. You have no idea, those guys employ all sorts of bizarre methods.


    "If not for our biometric radar and advanced automatic attack systems, they might have already infiltrated us. And recently, some other troublesome folks have shown up..."


    Under the subtle prompting of Tao Yu’s simple illusion technique, Sully the Avatar rambled on with some unimportant intelligence.


    This allowed Tao Yu to contemplate rapidly. Sometimes, the technology side really defied logic: biometric radars coupled with automatic aiming systems.


    "Don’t worry, we’re not bad people here. Once we confirm there’s no problem, we will let you go. We all speak the same language. Maybe in the future, we could even be companions. But for now, we will only grant you visitor privileges."


    Hearing this, Tao Yu curiously asked Sully,


    "Don’t those enemies speak the same language as you?"


    "Those ninjas certainly do not."


    "Then how do you communicate?"


    Ninjas can indeed communicate to a certain extent through Illusion Techniques, but given the adversarial tendencies between the two parties, such communication is likely to be somewhat challenging.


    "They don’t seem to be together, you know. There’s just a desert region over there where both sides engage in probing skirmishes at the connecting passage. It seems the ninjas are hired by the Harkonnen Family."


    "The Harkonnen Family?"


    "Yes, that’s what they call themselves, the masters of Erakos Star. It must be that sandy world. There seems to be some rare resource there, mixed in with the sand. They call it ’spice,’ and it seems to have invigorating effects."


    "However, unfortunately, we’ve now lost contact with our home planet. Apart from our own use, these materials are not of much value anymore. Hence, we’re now allied with the Na’vi..."


    With Tao Yu’s subtle suggestion, Sully, like an Avatar spilling beans, revealed everything he knew.


    He didn’t know why he felt such an urge to talk; maybe because he felt a sense of kinship with these strangers who spoke the same language.


    Moreover, because of the reconciliation with the Na’vi, he felt a significant burden lifted off his heart.


    Even with external pressures, his mood was quite good.


    Tao Yu was somewhat bewildered by the other party’s words.


    The yellow sand world didn’t surprise him – the Land of Wind, after all.


    But what in the world were Erakos Star and the Harkonnen? Had the Sand Hidden Village really turned into extraterrestrials?


    "The Land of Water and Hidden Mist Village plummeted into that apocalyptic world swallowed by the sea. So, it seems normal that the Land of Wind and Sand Hidden Village fell onto a sandy planet. In fact, I think Konoha is quite suited for falling into Pandora, but it seems not to have happened yet..."


    Tao Yu contemplated and formed his judgments in his mind.


    He had no recollection of the Harkonnen Family or this Erakos Star; he had no idea what they were, possibly fragments from Earth or somewhere else.


    However, it seemed they were starting to colonize other planets as part of an interstellar civilization.


    Yet, in facing RDA Company, a corporation currently capable only of colonizing neighboring star systems, they were not faring well. They must belong to a world that, like Starship Troopers, was either quite archaic or didn’t focus heavily on technological aspects.


    He just didn’t know which side the person they were suddenly summoned to meet belonged to.


    Given the sensitivity of the issue, Tao Yu refrained from using the Illusion Technique to ask directly in public to avoid any accidental friction.


    It was better to wait until he was in a more private place to properly operate...


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