Wandering Meteor-Chapter 18: A Thousand-Year Lifespan

Never would have expected that the Wandering would eventually join the partners' organization.

However, the Wandering's only purpose for joining was for Kim, and it didn't care much about anything else.

It asked Tie Yang of the partners' organization when they would go to seize Kim, but the latter claimed the time was not right yet, asking the Wandering to wait a bit longer.

Unexpectedly, this wait turned out to be more than two months. When the Demon Star descended onto Iron Base Star, Tie Yang told the Wandering that the time was approaching and to start taking action immediately.

Only then did the Wandering realize that the moment the partners' organization was waiting for was the "Lu Chen's arrival."

It turned out that the astronomical observatory on Iron Base Star had been monitoring the state of Demon Star Lu Chen. When they found out the flying speed of the Demon Star had slowed down on its own without external forces, they became even more certain it was an Advanced Civilization!

Because asteroids can't decelerate voluntarily, only spacecraft have this function.

This action also led to the speculation that Advanced Civilization might not want to collide with Iron Base Star.

It made sense.

Even if the technology of Advanced Civilization were powerful, a collision with a planet would definitely not end well, ultimately resulting in mutual destruction.

As an Advanced Civilization, they would surely not be so foolish.

As long as a planet-level collision did not occur, they still held hope.

After all, a planet-level collision was too despairing; facing an Advanced Civilization, at least they still had a chance to struggle.

Nonetheless, the Iron Base Government did not dare to take the situation lightly; they calculated the descent time of the gradually slowing Demon Star and made early arrangements for both aerial and ground forces to strictly guard against it.

This intelligence was known to the partners' organization, who then realized it was a perfect opportunity.

When the Iron Base Government was focused on guarding against the Demon Star, their forces in other areas were undoubtedly weaker, making this the best time for action.

Additionally, they professed to be partners with the Advanced Civilization; acting during the descent of the Demon Star would also appear justified!

When the Demon Star descended, fires of war erupted on Iron Base Star.

When Lu Chen controlled the asteroid to dock outside the orbit of Iron Base Star's satellite, the partners' organization launched the rebellion under the banner of "cooperating with Advanced Civilization to rebuild Iron Base society."

Overnight.

The situation on Iron Base Star underwent a dramatic change.

With the partners' organization having the advantage of time, location, people, and having articulate strategies of long standing, many Iron Base troops defected and formed a force equal to the Iron Base Government.

Overnight, the partners' organization occupied half of the cities, declaring the establishment of the Iron Alliance Government.

The biggest difference between Iron Alliance Government and Iron Base Government was their ideologies; the former advocated for friendly relations with Advanced Civilization and learning from their technologies; the latter advocated for eliminating the Demon Star, refusing to become puppets of Advanced Civilization!

Among them, the Iron Base Government and Demon Star Lu Chen had conflicts dating back over five hundred years, with no possibility of reconciliation;

While the Iron Alliance Government from the beginning professed cooperation with the Advanced Civilization, now after a successful uprising, in order to expand their influence, even fabricated evidence of their connection with Advanced Civilization.

At this juncture, a critical point emerged, finally tipping the scales in favor of the Iron Alliance Government over the Iron Base Government.

That was the Demon Star arriving at Iron Base Star, merely floating quietly in outer space, without any aggression or dispatching any troops against Iron Base Star.

The Iron Alliance Government then falsely claimed that this was the result of their communication with the Advanced Civilization.

Now the Advanced Civilization had given them an opportunity to resolve issues internally; if unsuccessful, the Advanced Civilization would deploy formidable forces.

To make their claim seem more credible, the Iron Alliance Government once again released fake communication proofs.

Despite all the evidence being fake, because the Iron Alliance Government timed their actions well, and given the Demon Star indeed showed no aggression, more and more citizens began to trust their own eyes, even some forces within the Iron Base Government started to waver.

They believed in the ideals of the Iron Alliance Government and trusted that it could lead them toward a new brightness.

Thus, after a brief confrontation period of just seven to eight days.

The Iron Base Government quickly collapsed, completely disintegrated, and the Iron Star Lord could only flee with a part of his loyal troops.

Lu Chen, floating in outer space, quietly watched all these happenings, taking no action.

He did not want to interfere in the civil war of the Iron Base people, and he did not care which government triumphed.

His only concern was when the Wandering would get Kim?

In fact, on the night of the successful rebellion, the Wandering had already requested Kim from the Iron Alliance Government.

However, Tie Yang, who initially pulled the Wandering into the organization, claimed that the situation was still unstable and they would discuss it once it stabilized.

When the Iron Alliance Government defeated the Iron Base Government, effectively unifying the entire Iron Base Star, the Wandering raised its request again, only to find itself unexpectedly detained by the Iron Alliance Government.

"What do you mean by this? Planning to betray us after crossing the river?" The Wandering was extremely enraged.

Tie Yang, who brought the Wandering into the organization, looked coldly at the Wandering: "Can you tell us what you really need Kim for?"

"Didn't you say the organization was absolutely free and wouldn't interfere?" the Wandering stated.

Tie Yang said: "The situation is different now, Kim has significant utility and is costly, we can't just give it to strangers."

"After all, you just want to renege, right?" the Wandering said coldly.

Tie Yang coldly shook his head: "You didn't understand my main point, I said it can't be given to strangers. If you can prove that you are not a stranger and provide a plausible reason, I can help you apply for some Kim."

"Humph, we've known each other for not a short time, still considered strangers?" the Wandering scoffed.

Tie Yang said: "But I do not know you well, and today I heard someone say that you mentioned skin peeling is the shedding of the stratum corneum, right?"

"Isn't that correct?"

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This was what the Wandering talked about yesterday with an old Iron and hadn't thought there was anything improper.

Tie Yang gave a faint smile and slowly explained: "Allow me to enlighten you then; Iron Base people are Iron Base lifeforms, shedding refers to expelling oxidized iron elements from within or on the body surface because oxidized iron severely impacts our health. Each Iron Base person sheds about once every hundred years, which means, in a lifetime, they will shed about nine to ten times, implying that the natural lifespan of Iron Base people is roughly around a thousand years."

Hearing this, the Wandering realized something terrible!

It had guarded against many things, but had made a blunder over such a trivial matter!

It had never thought to understand the lifespan and habits of Iron Base people, treating them directly with Earth People's understanding, and indeed, issues had arisen!

At the same time, Lu Chen, located in outer space, also heard these words.

He was shocked too, never would have expected the Iron Base people to have such a long lifespan.

Their peeling was akin to metal rust removal on Earth, those peeled off were the oxidized metal dust.

Oxygen may be essential for human survival, but it could be poisonous to other special forms of life, as there were anaerobic organisms on Earth!