It must be Patrick’s messenger with the contract. Once that contract was signed, the destiny of this planet would be changed forever, and she should follow the messenger back to Patrick like a tame kitten. Then how could she run away? As the Cheetah became clearer, Emerald got lost in thoughts. She thought of the first time she had seen a Cheetah, which was on the lawn of the mansion of Kenzo Lane. The iron-grey fighter was like a resting eagle that Patrick had used to change her destiny. “Boom!” There was a big bang heard in the air. Emerald widened her eyes and couldn’t believe what she saw in the sky. The Cheetah above their head, representing Patrick Lewis and the mercenaries, was hit by a strong beam of light. The sounds and the light blew the fighter into pieces! The only thing left in the sky was smoke! Debris of metal and flesh was falling onto the ground like hell! The messenger of Patrick Lewis had been shot dead! Emerald was in shock. Where was this strong firepower coming from?There was no way that the Tang Dynasty, which was still in ancient times and only had cold weapons, could own that kind of firepower! The thing that had suddenly destroyed a Cheetah was a missile launched from the ground. Yearwood and the others on the ground were also in shock. Turning around at the same time and saw the place where the missile had been launched. Right from the debris of Sunset Palace! Wasn’t that where the princess was buried? Back in the space fortress above the sky, the technical officer jumped up and said in a low voice. “Commander, our fighter was shot down. The pilot isn’t responding to our call, which is our preliminary affirmation that the pilot is dead. Please give further instructions.” The officers in the command center were shocked and looked at Patrick Lewis for his instructions. Patrick looked coldly at the radar screen and said in a sharp voice. “Initiate the first-level alert and prepare to fight.” In the debris of Sunset Palace, an enormous, two-story-high silver metal thing suddenly emerged, emitting smoke all over the sky. It had an oval head, a short-streamlined body, and long sharp wings sitting on the ground like a metal eagle. That was a fighter! The cannon barrel in the belly of the fighter was pointing to the sky, which meant that the missile hitting the Cheetah had been launched from there! Emerald had never seen a fighter in this shape. Where did it come from? Was it the mysterious power of the universe or...? After a short humming of the engine, the silver fighter slowly flew up in the sky, stumbling the first tens of meters. Suddenly, it sped up and lifted off vertically. Suddenly, Emerald felt her body swaying, and Yearwood held her, protecting her from falling. Then, looking around, she noticed that everything was stumbling because the land was trembling like in an earthquake! Earthquake? No, it was not an earthquake. Emerald saw lots of clefts rapidly emerging from the ground, as if the ground was torn apart by strong power, splitting the ground underneath them. The people standing on the ground were thrown away by an invisible force as the soil was broken through.From the clefts, silver fighters emerged one after another and broke out of the ground as if they were woken up and brought back to life after a long sleep. The fighters flew to the sky one by one. After the thirtieth fighter had lifted off, they automatically formed a cone-shaped alliance for the attack, waiting for their next order. What was going on? They were not the fighters of the mercenaries, the alliance, or the Zerg. Emerald had never seen this kind of fighter before. They seemed to be old, some even broken, but the sharp wings and dark fuselage with the cannon barrel in the belly made people feel threatened. Who was piloting them, given that they had taken off from under the ground? Were those drones? Emerald suddenly understood why she had felt strange and confused. She thought of the day when she flew around the planet with Yearwood and the details she had ignored because she had been too weak that day. She had been confused about the scenery they had seen that day... the dead ocean... the desert extending for thousand miles... and Europe, Africa, and South America all had been without human life... She had thought that she didn’t see any people because of how she was flying since there were not many people in this undeveloped era, but she felt that something was missing. Humans, deserts, oceans, animals, plants.... Yes! Animals and plants! There were neither humans nor animals or plants on this planet! She hadn’t seen a blade of grass or a gazelle in the locations of the nuclear bombs, except the Tang Dynasty! Could it be pure coincidence that she didn’t see humans? But she hadn’t even seen any other living thing either... Was this planet really planet Earth? But why did all the people here look Chinese and speak Chinese? Why were there Kung Fu fighters who were really good at martial arts? Besides, what about the Tang Dynasty, City of Chang’ an, and the Great Wall? Was this a parallel universe to the Earth? Or was the real-time on Earth the opposite of Emerald’s knowledge in history? What was the truth? She immediately ran to her Cheetah and turned on the engine to get prepared to run away. Suddenly, she heard Yearwood say something.“Your Highness?” He looked in the direction of Sunset Palace in sheer confusion, not believing what his eyes were seeing. Emerald looked in the same direction and saw a thin, weak woman, dressed in tattered clothes, slowly standing up from the smoke and dust. Her head was down, and her noble hairstyle was messy. She looked like a beggar with dust in her hair and face. Despite her appearance, she walked steadily to the people step by step. Her moves seemed slow at first, but then she appeared suddenly in front of them like a ghost. The princess? The fighters? Wasn’t she blown by her grenades and buried under Sunset Palace? Why did she seem alright only with her clothes ripped, as if nothing had happened?