Chapter 429: The Ten-Thousand-Year War Between the Moon Star Girl and the Demon Claw (Part 2)
Subsequently, each suspected "Moon Star Girl" transcendent ability user was marked for further investigation.
[Prepare for the support and information transfer three days from now, initiate the "lure the tiger away from the mountain" plan]
Since it is a secret war, and it's only just begun, naturally it cannot be easily exposed, so the focus is on luring the tiger away from the mountain.
As for how to lure them away, it's very simple.
Whether it's Anna or Lucy, they're both small employees, so it's really easy to lead them away.
It's just a matter of targeting their companies.
Whether by acquiring the company to send them on a business trip or making them win a prize trip, surely, no problems would arise.
Through the consumption habits, salaries, and daily lives recorded in the great Ascension database, it can be confirmed that these two don't fit the normal lifestyle of transcendent ability users, but resemble superheroes in hiding.
Furthermore, the demon minions they deal with are not too bright, so any subtle actions wouldn't alert the Moon Star Girls.
Three days quickly passed, the passage opened once more, and this time with an insider, the route was briefly blocked for three hours, during which all the nearby Moon Star Girls had been coincidentally led away in various ways.
The Moon Star Girls' sense of temporal-spatial fluctuations has a distance limitation; Anna was sent on a business trip out of town, while Lucy was abroad on a seven-day vacation after winning a prize in a supermarket. After multiple checks, the Ascension Empire's automatons confirmed no Moon Star Girls were around, then proceeded.
In those three hours, vast information intertwined with a host of new automatons arriving, further probing all governments of this planet.
Gu Shanhai within the Ascension Empire also received all intelligence from these three days.
"So, beyond the Moon Star Girls, there's infiltration from other worlds? What's going on?" Gu Shanhai was puzzled.
Demon Claw and Moon Star Girls are clearly at odds; the former, from monitoring the Moon Star Girls' communications, could be confirmed to be alien.
The Moon Star Girls' emergence was granted by the moon or through genetic inheritance.
From this, Gu Shanhai was certain this should be the moon energy derived from the lunar concept descending dimensions. Compared to ghost energy and spiritual energy, this moon energy is far gentler, without high fatality and mutation rates.
Of course, it might also be that the Moon Star Girls' genes evolve bit by bit to withstand the moon energy.
The identity of demon minions is temporarily unclear, as the Ascension Empire's automatons are focused on world control and creating a conducive environment. Secret warfare isn't effective for further investigation, and more time is needed.
However, the Moon Star Girls are quite active; ancient records trace back to as far as ten thousand years ago.
Back then, traces of demon minion and Moon Star Girl activities were already evident.
"Interesting, this transcendent profession is only suitable for females, and all offspring of Moon Star Girls are females for sure, yet only one offspring can inherit the Moon Star Girl abilities unless only one remains after deaths, then that one awakens."
"But this seems a bit unstable."
Gu Shanhai knows this limits the number of transcendent personnel like the Moon Star Girls, but what about accidental death and inheritance?
More importantly, there's an empty period. Before a new generation matures and awakens, the previous Moon Star Girl generation loses their abilities.
This means if demon minions infiltrate this world, resistance would be futile.
Hence, there's a critical issue: the empty period spans nearly nineteen years, with Moon Star Girls serving around ten years at most. How to compensate for their limited numbers?
Furthermore, why demon minions appear only around Moon Star Girls, there must be some connection.
In areas devoid of Moon Star Girls, their appearance is not impossible, but probabilistically so rare it occurs once a millennium.
"Data suggests a definite link between Moon Star Girls and demon minions." Gu Shanhai didn't believe in so many coincidences.
A big data survey shows Moon Star Girls number at most a thousand, therein lies the problem.
Even adding a zero, with ten thousand Moon Star Girls worldwide, their sensing ability of demon minion temporal-spatial fluctuations covers at most two blocks, and couldn't protect the entire planet. Demon minions, should they appear in unexplored deserts or trenches, could wreak havoc.
Sadly, none of this occurred, and an empty period means the area is free of demon minions.
"A Moon Star Girl named Anna seems to have discovered something, ha, interesting." Gu Shanhai saw some data; she appeared to have noticed something and was conducting experiments.
Battling demon minions meant risking life.
But if having a child could free one from this destiny, who wouldn't want that?
"Why hasn't such a simple thing been discovered?" Gu Shanhai was puzzled.
Entangled for at least ten thousand years, the pattern is quite simple.
"Unless there are certain restrictions on them, otherwise it's unexplainable." Gu Shanhai's eyes narrowed.
"Wait and see until the automatons gain complete control over each nation, then I'll go."
Gu Shanhai isn't foolish, he uses existing tools.
The opposite universe's issues seem larger than Navia Universe's, and even he suspects two worlds might be overlapping.
Such coincidences made Gu Shanhai cautious.
He noticed a potential connection.
In the cancer universe he just entered, life's conceptual descent, whilst Navia Universe portends death.
Coincidentally, Emperor Navia's secondary ghost energy descent into dark sun and Mo Yue, where dark sun is unclear, but Mo Yue seems to correspond to the moon-descended Moon Star Girls.
If he confirmed demon minions' link to solar-derived sun energy, it might suggest these clustered worlds were originally one vast world, shattered due to some unknown cause into fragmented worlds.
"We must find a way to completely remove Anna and Lucy, those two Moon Star Girls, or things will get tricky later on."
The tunnel formed by the quantum collider is fixed, immovable, otherwise there's no need for such trouble.
Hence, a large-scale relocation plan is necessary.
This demands more time; Gu Shanhai estimated it'll take at least a year.
"Fortunately, I have ample time to slowly lie low."
"Plus, address some associated risks."
Gu Shanhai's gaze fell on the Royal Research Institute's location, where spatial fluctuations unknown before appeared again.
Lately, it's becoming more frequent, indicating the other side has gained enough strength. In three to five years, they may open the inter-world passage, potentially making it permanent.
Initial suspicions suggest it's a coupling of death and life concepts, akin to the sun-moon conceptual coupling, drawing each other closer.
This naturally requires some help from the Child of Destiny's protagonist aura, else how would such coincidences exist.