Chapter 115: Alpha·Auspicious Time

“Alright, alright, I’m done! Time to take a break!” After all, Alpha Princess was still Alpha Princess.

Lively, energetic, naturally restless, free-spirited, a little destructive… In short, asking her to focus on one thing for a long time—other than binge-watching shows or gaming—was simply impossible. It never would be.

“What are you up to now?” Ye Chao rubbed his temples slightly.

Last time it was sneaking around with Gun Gun; before that, a verbal showdown with Uncle Bird; and earlier still, going up to the second-floor plaza to enjoy the scenery, with some strange old song playing—something like, “I’m watching the mountain view from the pavilion, suddenly hearing a commotion outside the door,” though no one knew what it was…

As more and more engraved relics were collected, the restored data from these ancient artifacts kept growing—truly, everything one could wish for.

They even helped her find several lost shows that had continued airing for a while after the disaster, like the story of a boy who dreamed of becoming the Pirate King—she was hooked.

Gun Gun was manageable; despite his internet addiction, he was still nimble. But Uncle Bird? He really got under her skin!

Known for being talkative, sharp-tongued, and mercilessly sarcastic, Uncle Bird met his match with Alpha Princess. An endless stream of jokes and old gags—raunchy, cold, dark, vulgar, subtle—constantly reinvented without repetition.

Uncle Bird was so enraged he froth at the mouth.

Trying to soften up with his seniority backfired; when comparing ages, Alpha Princess’s mental and physical age was just a bit “older.”

In the end, this chatterbox parrot was left doubting his own existence, almost shutting down mentally.

If only she could fly to the stars—she’d have already planted flags, drawn circles, and marked her territory on some distant world.

The key was, all those previous antics—the last time, the time before, and the time before that—happened within just three hours…

“What now?” Ye Chao asked, headache deepening.

“Leaf Chao, what’s your attitude? Do you regret signing the contract with me?”

“No… No! Impossible! Not at all!” Seeing Gun Gun moving beside them, Ye Chao quickly shook his head.

Alpha Princess glanced suspiciously: “Then it’s still the new rule—twelve-hour work shifts, half an hour your call, half an hour mine!”

“So, what are we doing?”

“We…” Alpha Princess paused, actually recalling two things she nearly forgot amid her busy schedule. Checking the time, it was just right.

“Let’s go up to the sky first, then I’ll show you a great place!”

Up, up to the sky? Earth can’t hold you anymore? You really want to go to the heavens?

Of course, not literally. It was almost nine o’clock—the time to connect to the Sky Forum.

This time, Alpha Princess didn’t have to crawl along the network cable all the way; she had already installed cameras outside the city walls—in prime locations.

These were Fireseed Cameras, thought-controlled devices, corrosion-resistant and weatherproof, with lifetime warranty.

Sensing the camera’s presence, she instantly appeared outside the city walls, raised a DTH shield, and adjusted the azimuth.

Before long, the Sky Forum login interface appeared before her eyes.

Discussion on cultivation, post-apocalyptic martial arts, adventure guides, prehistoric excavations, black market trades… The forum’s background was blurry, requiring registration and login to navigate.

This time, no invitation code was needed—she logged in directly with username Matrix and password Neo2032yuan.

“Username/password incorrect. Please try again. You have 4 attempts left.”

Incorrect?

Alpha Princess froze.

No way she had mistyped—input was via thought, not keyboard…

Still skeptical, she tried again, carefully double-checking. Absolutely no mistake.

“Username/password incorrect. Please try again. You have 3 attempts left.”

Impossible!

The username and password were neat and straightforward—words belonged to words, birthdays to birthdays, surnames to surnames—clean and unpretentious.

She had also observed the Sunglasses Man’s microexpressions; he wasn’t lying.

Could it be case sensitivity?

“Username/password incorrect. Please try again. You have 2 attempts left.”

How could this be…

Just as Alpha Princess was about to lose her mind, a message popped up: “Stop trying, no matter how many times you do, it won’t work. Xiao Hei already informed us! —by Zenith Star Folk”

Damn!

Turns out the administrator had changed the account credentials—no way to get in now.

She should’ve logged in the day she escaped the temporal bubble, but with everything happening, she forgot—a small delay snowballed into a big one.

“Don’t get cocky! You don’t know what I’m capable of! This lousy forum? I have a hundred ways to get in and a thousand ways to shut you down! If you want to try, I’m game!” Alpha Princess typed furiously, each word dripping with anger.

Zenith Star Folk probably had no idea where those words came from. The lack of knowledge seemed to have genuinely unnerved them.

“Bring it on, I’m not scared.” The words themselves were fine, but the reply came after a delay of twenty or thirty seconds—that was the real problem.

So the domineering CEO style really worked… Alpha Princess, initially furious, suddenly felt a bit amused.

“What’s your plan to get in?” Ye Chao frowned thoughtfully. “According to your calculations, the forum’s relay satellite is about 35,786 kilometers away—roughly a tenth of the distance to the moon…” So distant!

“And the signal is Fireseed-encoded…”

The will-shaped world alteration meant matter entered quantum states.

Time was no longer linear but could jump forward and backward, making restoration easier;

States were no longer fixed but collapsed according to the observer, which made changing Fireseed weapons nearly impossible for others.

Matter could be quantized; information even more so—this was why Jiang City’s intranet was unbreachable and why Sky Forum was nearly impossible to access by conventional means.

Ye Chao barely grasped these concepts; the disaster had caused such a deep rupture that high school knowledge regressed to middle school, and quantum theory was understood by only a handful worldwide.

But Alpha Princess’s arrival, along with her data and advanced ideas, greatly broadened Ye Chao’s horizons and bridged the gap.

“You really don’t know what ‘bragging’ means…” Alpha Princess gave a sidelong glance.

So it was just bragging? Ye Chao was speechless.

“But this time, I’m really not bluffing!” Immediately, Alpha Princess became smug again.

In Ye Chao’s mind, a recently heard song sprang to mind: “Don’t try to guess a girl’s heart, guessing and guessing, you’ll never understand…”

How would Alpha Princess crack the Sky Forum?

Simple—he who unties the bell must be found to untie it! She’d just find Sunglasses Man again and ask for the account info.

How?

Even easier—when escaping Hallelujah Mountain, she had left behind a network camera.