My Classmate is 200 Million Years Old

ritten in the projection.

The projection was suddenly zoomed in.
Evidently, the person controlling the projector couldn’t see the remarks and comments accompanying the stone either.
Pity the surveillance camera was placed very discreetly, so Xuan Mo couldn’t get a good view of the words.
The angle however was convenient enough for Xuan Mo to notice the stone placed within the glass display cabinet underneath the large screen.

There was not much change to the stone; it looked the same.
Beneath the light however, it seemed to reflect a colour that you usually wouldn’t expect from a stone.
In fact, it made the stone seem as though it was a metallic material that had been sanded; it emitted a faint, blurry glow, making the veins running through the material all the more apparent.

Xuan Mo suddenly found it a little glaring to look at.
She wanted to try if she could enter into the lab’s local intranet through the camera’s connection and check out the stone at a closer proximity.

As she slowly slid in with her mental powers, she could feel the sturdy defense of the intranet.
At that, she frowned.

She’d barely learnt much regarding cyber attacks and defenses back with Zone Seven.
Ever since the last counterattack against their enemies, she lost interest in learning after she realised that her mental barrier could block out all the cyber-attacks even when they were in a terribly disadvantaged position.
Now that she was up against such strong cyber-defense, she couldn’t help but regret.
She should have taken the time back then to learn how to spot loopholes or the likes.

Thankfully though, while her progress was slow, she was still nearing the stone.

The closer she moved, the more bewitching the stone’s surface felt.
As this strange feeling became more prominent with time, Xuan Mo’s mental power investigating the stone also flowed with more urgency.

She drew closer and closer to the stone.
Her mental powers was as though her hands, she could touch it, feel its strength, smell it…

“Zzz…”

The moment her mental power passed through the glass display cabinet via the wires to the lights to touch the stone, Xuan Mo could distinctly feel a blue ray of light streaming quickly through the veins on the surface of the stone, producing an activation sound as though it was being overcharged.
When she retracted her mental power, startled, the blue light disappeared.
As it did, chaos ensued in the lab.
Researchers dashed towards their own computers to operate the settings.
A few armed guards ran into the lab and surrounded the glass cabinet tightly.
Following that, a red warning light blinked and the video delved into darkness.

The surveillance camera did not resume its operation even after a very long time.

With the electricity and the internet cut off, Xuan Mo could only retract her mental powers.
Evidently, that lab was quite a distance away from here.
The inertia she felt when pulling her mental powers back to herself was so large it had her entire mental-net trembling for a moment from the effort it took.

Xuan Mo closed her laptop and slowly sat up on her bed.
She pressed her temples with both hands, expressionless.

The stone, no, it was definitely some sort of metal.
The veins on the metal, the blue light in the veins, the feeling when her mental power touched its surface… it felt very familiar… she definitely must have felt the same thing before somewhere… but it didn’t make sense, ever since she’s awakened in the Blue Planet, she hadn’t felt anything similar…

That wasn’t something from you could find even in the Scorpio civilisation, but from somewhere else, somewhere, some place, long ago, far away..

“Ah!” Xuan Mo’s eyes widened as she hit her bed in realisation.
She exclaimed softly, no longer able to maintain her calm, “Elge Civilisation?!”

That Elge civilisation that’s being hunted down by many other civilisations?! That Elge civilisation that’s been on the run for abusing the space warp technology, one of the ten bans by the coalition?!