Chapter 8: First Communication

Although Li Xue was not walking slowly, if one looked closely one could realize that he was completely following the path he had taken when he first came to scout the Ice Fortress, even to the point of stepping on the original footprints with each step.

　　Although the footprints had been obliterated by the shockwaves of the two air-to-ground missile explosions, under the navigational guidance of the man-armor, above the display window in front of Li Xue's eyes floated a green footprint and a path marked with a yellow dotted line, which was the path he had taken for the first time. In this situation, it was like traveling inside a minefield, taking the path he had taken before could bring down the risk a bit.

　　The heavy breathing sound of "huffing and puffing" echoed in everyone's ears on the communication channel, as drops of sweat ran down Li Xue's cheeks and dripped onto the black cushioning lining of the man-portable tactical armor, which was absorbed in an instant.

　　At this moment, his palms were already filled with sweat, and his heart was beating violently. A short distance of a hundred meters, but in Li Xue's opinion it was like a road that would never end.

　　Facing this kind of unknown, anyone would feel nervous, even well-trained elite warriors were no exception.

　　But Li Xue is who he is, he is the company commander of the ace company from that soldier king piece of land, usually welding detonator sawing light bulb thing can not do less. So although the heart is now tense to death, but usually after a thousand refined movements are still perfect.

　　Just when Li Xue was less than ten meters away from the gate, a figure walked out from within the gate.

　　Just three minutes ago, when Ayrin opened the gate of the Eternal Star Palace, she hid herself behind a thick icicle and merely released a simplest basic light magic-Eye of Light to observe the opponent's every move.

　　It was hoped that by observing the other party's actions, she could analyze the other party's purpose or even some simple psychological activities, which was very important in negotiations.

　　After she saw that the other party not only came alone, but also acted cautiously, and did not have the arrogance that she had when she defeated the enemy and later accepted the other party's surrender. She then understood that although the other party had the power to easily kill her, they also had a clear fear of themselves.

　　"The other party's fighting style is distinctly different from her own, it could be that the way she and Kleya fought was also unheard of by the other party, which is why the other party is so cautious."

　　Erin pondered in her mind, "Never mind! In any case, isn't this the best negotiation condition for two parties that have unknowns at the same time?"

　　Thinking of this, Ayrin directly walked out from behind the icicle, anyway, sooner or later, they would have to meet, so they might as well take the initiative themselves.

　　Right at the moment Erin appeared, her spiritual power kept tumbling to alarm her, that was the warning issued when she felt a deadly threat.

　　Erin looked down slightly and spotted four or five red dots swimming back and forth across her body and repeatedly stopping at her heart, brow, liver, and other deadly areas.

　　Although Ayrin didn't know what this was, she was able to clearly feel that as long as she made even the slightest dangerous move, the other party would not hesitate to attack.

　　And with her almost depleted second rank Dou Qi and half-assed ice light magic, the result of resisting would probably be to let herself die with a bit of dignity.

　　So she chose to stop, not taking a step forward. At the same time, she revealed a beautiful smile.

　　Seeing this, Li Xue slowly leaned over while shouting, "Get down with your hands on your head!"

　　Watching Irene make no move, Ren just stood there with a smile on her face. After waiting for about three seconds, Li Xue once again shouted in English, while repeating in Russian and Japanese.

　　At this time, Irene took half a step back and performed a common nobleman's etiquette on the continent of Orpheus to Li Xue, her every movement was as elegant as a swan, as if she was not in the battlefield but attending a banquet in the imperial city.

　　Then, Irene's red lips lightly opened and said with a smile on her face, "I am the second daughter of Roland Empire's Hales family, Irene, Irene Hales. For the series of misunderstandings caused by my companion and I mistakenly trespassing into your territory, we deeply apologize and are willing to pay compensation." Her voice was cold and elegant, just like two pieces of cold jade clashing.

　　After the intelligent system of the Single Tactical Armor received Ayrin's voice, it instantly started a matching translation within its own translation system. But just three seconds later, a beep came, "This machine's language database does not include the relevant language, it is being uploaded, accessing the central database for matching."

　　And at this moment, the intelligent translation system of the supercomputer located somewhere deep in the mountains began to operate at full capacity, and these few words were instantly identified as not being those six major common languages, nor those ten or so commonly used languages.

　　More than ten seconds later, after comparing with the more than five thousand languages recorded in the database, it was initially determined that this was a brand new language. And the only takeaway from this was that it was an ideograph. (Ideographs, words that use a certain system of symbols to represent semantics, have a certain pronunciation, but do not simply represent speech.)

　　This one result was choking Li Xue and the group of bigwigs in the command, how could they communicate when they couldn't even understand the language?

　　Looking at Li Xue's lack of response, as if she had thought of something, Irene stretched out her left hand and lightly wiped it on top of the ring worn on her right index finger.

　　Seeing Ayrin make this action, Li Xue's whole body immediately tensed up, ready to defend against the attacks that might come.

　　Although the moment Ayrin appeared, his entire body had already been scanned several times by the detection system that came with the tactical armor, from the electromagnetic field emitted by the metal detector, to infrared rays and even X-rays.

　　However, the results of the scanning showed that the only thing that could be considered as a weapon was the ice-blue short sword hanging on the opponent's waist. Other than that, there wasn't anything that resembled a weapon on the other party's entire body.

　　Although with the protection of his single tactical armor, Li Xue didn't think that a short sword that might only be used for ceremonial purposes could pose much of a threat to him, but when he thought of the other party's unimaginable tactics, he still raised his spirits to deal with the possible dangers.

　　However, the scene that occurred in the next moment directly stunned Li Xue.

　　As Irene's finger brushed over, the complex and gorgeous silver pattern on the surface of that dark blue ring gradually lit up, while the silver gemstone set in the center of the ring emitted a light silver glow.

　　When the light dissipated, a pair of finger rings appeared out of nowhere in Ayrin's originally empty hands, which were bright silver in color, with complicated patterns on the surface, just like long snakes entangled and coiled, magnificent and mysterious.

Looking at this scene in front of him, even with Li Xue's mental quality of collapsing into a mountain without changing color, he almost exclaimed in shock.

　　This has completely exceeded human cognition, originally should only exist in novels and magical stories of the storage ring at this time but really appeared in front of the eyes of the crowd, this impactful scene makes Li Xue and the headquarters of a group of generals of the brain almost down.

　　At this time, Irene put the silver-colored finger ring on top of the little finger of her right hand, and the bright silver-colored finger ring flickered slightly with a gorgeous silver aura, as if it was a star in the night sky, dreamy and beautiful. Immediately afterward, Irene extended her hand and passed the other ring towards Li Xue.

　　Li Xue looked at the ring that was handed over, but did not reach out to pick it up, instead, he turned on the Geiger counter and a variety of detection scanners, continuously collecting data on that ring.

　　After about thirty seconds, and after no alarm was raised by any of the detection systems, he took out a half-meter long, black insulated plastic pliers from the weapon rack behind his back, and carefully clamped the ring.

　　Seeing Li Xue being so cautious, Ayrin's heart was even more certain that the other party had never seen this kind of translation ring before. Although translation rings were not cheap on the continent, they were widely spread in the hands of merchants.

　　In the middle of the Roland Empire, even if a civilian had never seen it, they should be able to guess it, but the way the other party was acting it was obvious that they did not recognize it.

　　An unknown country, from the point of view of their single soldier equipment and terrifying means of attack, should be no less powerful than any other powerhouse on the continent, yet they had never seen a translation ring before. Although Ayrin did not understand the reason for this, it did not prevent her from gaining a bargaining chip once again.

　　Just as Li Xue was indecisive, Ayrin next spoke, "You can't do it like that, you have to wear it directly on your finger like this."

　　At the same time, she stretched out her right hand and gently shook it. The ring that emitted a silver aura was like a beautiful silver butterfly fluttering between Ayrin's hands as she shook her finger.

　　Seeing Ayrin's movements, although Li Xue couldn't understand what the other party was saying, he was able to analyze what the other party was trying to express from her movements and tone.

　　"Try doing what she says." Command instructions came from within the communication channel that had been silent. "Be careful with everything, put your own safety first, and if anything happens, you can just shoot!"

　　After receiving the order, Li Xue did not hesitate, taking the ring in his hand and slowly backing away.

　　Until he was separated from Ayrin by a safe distance of about five meters, and after determining that there were at least four other sniper rifles in the squad aiming at her, Li Xue slowly half crouched down, placing the assault rifle in a place where he could immediately reach it.

　　Stretching out her hand, she gently pressed the switch at her wrist, and amidst a slight mechanical friction sound, the hand armor of the Single Tactical Armor slowly opened up, revealing her right hand wearing a tactical glove.

　　Li Xue pulled off the glove and placed it on the ground, revealing a hand full of calluses and scars but still firm and strong. He stretched out his little finger and slowly put the ring on it.

　　After a few seconds, the expected situations did not happen. Li Xue looked at the unresponsive finger ring and suddenly felt that he had been tricked.

　　Just then, Eileen spoke up, ''You're still really cautious! Your entire body is almost flawless, and you can make a thunderous counterattack at any time, truly an elite amongst elites!" Hearing these words, Li Xue was slightly flabbergasted, "You speak Chinese!?"

　　"No! I don't speak Chinese, this is the function of the translation ring, conveying the information one wants to express through a pair of rings, just like how you don't speak the continent's common language yet you can still communicate with me."

　　Hearing this, Li Xue immediately verified with the command, and the result obtained was that through the analysis of the sound coming from the microphone, the language used by the other party indeed belonged to the same language as the first one, and Li Xue spoke extremely standard Mandarin.

　　This result was so amazing that the group of bigwigs in the command headquarters were breathing heavily. After that, Li Xue asked the other party in English, and Russian, and all of them received replies from the other party.

　　Eileen smiled as she looked at Li Xue and said softly, "Since there is no problem with everyone's communication, then I think we can talk about it as well."