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“Was that child also being targeted by someone?”

“No. This child’s identity is very special, and what he’ll be doing in the future is also very special. No one would dare set their sights on him.”

Jiang Yue looked at him. “Who is it?”

Zhang San held up one finger. “That has to remain confidential. I have professional ethics, after all.”

Jiang Yue rolled her eyes at him again. “Bullshit. You just don’t want to tell me.”

Zhang San patted her shoulder. “Ah, I’m also doing this to protect that child. This matter is still very important.”

Jiang Yue asked, “Besides these, are there any other relatively special brain domains?”

Zhang San rubbed his chin. “Does the Zerg’s brain domain count?”

“The Zerg—they’re not even the same species as us. There’s simply no point in comparing them.”

Talking to Zhang San really tested human patience. Jiang Yue genuinely wanted to punch him right in the head.

“Forget it. I’m not talking to you anymore. I suggest you go get your prostate checked.”

Zhang San looked puzzled. “Why? There’s nothing wrong with me.”

Jiang Yue said coldly, “Because you can’t empty your bladder completely.”

She gripped Chang Geng and walked forward. Zhang San was stunned for quite a while before finally catching up with her.

“Hey, Li Si, how can you be like this!”

In the evening, the Chubby Boss brought dinner to the two people keeping watch: braised chicken legs and scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Zhang San and Jiang Yue sat on the warehouse roof with their lunch boxes. Jiang Yue picked up a chicken leg with her chopsticks and started to eat enthusiastically.

After they finished eating, the Chubby Boss brought over another bottle of liquor.

“It gets cold at night on the Garbage Planet. Have some liquor to warm yourselves up.”

Jiang Yue handed the bottle to Zhang San. Zhang San grinned. “Could it be that you don’t know how to drink?”

Jiang Yue kept a cold expression. “Why would I need to learn how to drink?”

Zhang San laughed as he opened the bottle and handed it to Jiang Yue. “You take the first sip. I won’t mind that you’ve drunk from it.”

Jiang Yue sneered. “You think I’m some middle-aged greasy old man like you? I don’t drink!”

Zhang San held up one finger and pointed at himself. “Hey, hey, hey, where am I greasy?! You can’t just think I’m greasy because I don’t pay attention to managing my appearance when I’m mining!”

Come to think of it, the wind on the Garbage Planet was really strong at night. Sitting on the roof keeping watch really was a little cold.

Jiang Yue hissed, snatched the bottle of liquor from Zhang San’s hand, and took a sip.

She had drunk alcohol before, back when she was still a delicate female college student. When she ate Western food, she would order a bottle of red wine to set the mood.

The Chubby Boss’s liquor was very cheap and poor-quality stuff. The water resources on the Garbage Planet were terrible; even if the God of Wine himself came here, he wouldn’t be able to brew good liquor. The moment Jiang Yue swallowed a mouthful, it was like gulping down a knife smeared with chili peppers. The burning spiciness rushed from her throat into her chest, and Jiang Yue suddenly coughed.

Zhang San burst out laughing. “Has some kick, huh!”

It really did have some kick. Jiang Yue’s whole body warmed up. She narrowed her eyes, gave a little laugh, and took another big gulp.

The sky gradually began to brighten. Jiang Yue lay on the roof, resting the back of her head against Chang Geng as she gazed at the sky.

Wrapped in a blanket, Zhang San sat up sleepily. He yawned, pulled a thin piece of something from inside his clothes, and pressed it onto his face. His face instantly changed into an utterly unremarkable one.

“The peacekeeping warship is about to arrive,” Zhang San said.

Jiang Yue gripped Chang Geng and jumped down from the roof. She followed the tunnel and found Pan Bu’en and the Chubby Boss.

Pan Bu’en had already changed into a completely different appearance, and Jiang Yue almost failed to recognize him. Even the Chubby Boss found it quite remarkable, staring at him from one angle and then another.

Jiang Yue held Chang Geng in both hands and offered it to Pan Bu’en.

Pan Bu’en said, “Child, I’m already old. Who knows, maybe one day I won’t even be able to wield it anymore.”

Jiang Yue smiled. “I’ll take it away the day you can no longer wield Chang Geng. The Garbage Planet is too dangerous a place. You can’t be without a weapon to defend yourself.”

Jiang Yue had once lost Fat Eagle, so she understood this feeling.

A weapon is a soldier’s companion. Chang Geng had accompanied Pan Bu’en throughout his entire life, witnessing his trials through wind and frost, rain and snow. It was not simply a weapon.

Pan Bu’en looked at Chang Geng and extended his aged palm, gripping it tightly.

“I only hope that this old man of mine can live a few more years to keep it company.”

Jiang Yue left the tunnel again. She and Zhang San sat quietly in front of the warehouse, waiting for the peacekeeping warship to arrive. Finally, her ears caught a faint, low humming sound.

She raised her head and saw a streak of silver light flash across the Garbage Planet’s gray sky.

The streak of light gradually drew closer, growing from a tiny silver dot until it slowly became a round spacecraft flying toward the warehouse.

The peacekeeping warship was enormous. This round spacecraft was merely a small shuttle sent over by the peacekeeping warship, but it could easily accommodate three to five hundred people.

The spacecraft hovered above the warehouse like a huge silver bowl turned upside down. A silver ladder sprang out from the hatch, and two Alphas in silver uniforms stepped down the ladder.

The worry that Jiang Yue had been carrying in her heart finally eased.

A female Alpha with shoulder-length hair walked up to Jiang Yue. She had a pair of silver eyes, and her hair and eyelashes were silver as well. It was the first time Jiang Yue had ever seen someone with such hair and eye colors.

The silver terminal on the female Alpha’s wrist lit up. A silver three-dimensional information panel appeared in the air, displaying Jiang Yue’s personal information.

She compared it with the information, and the panel in the air shifted, bringing up her own personal information.

The beautiful female Alpha was named Lan Xi. She was a seven-star lieutenant colonel. She extended a hand toward Jiang Yue and smiled. “Hello, I’m Lan Xi. Let’s keep this brief. May I ask where the 302 underage Omegas are, and what is their current condition?”

The warehouse’s large metal doors opened, and the frail, pale Omegas filed out in a long line, timidly making their way outside.

The smile disappeared from Lan Xi’s face, and her expression became extremely solemn.

On the prosperous and powerful Beta Star, Omegas, as a disadvantaged group, enjoyed the best treatment. Compared with the Omegas on the Garbage Planet, the difference was like heaven and earth.

Zhang San, whose appearance had been changed, and Pan Bu’en handed out candy to the children. The children held their sweets, their faces pale as they stared at the spacecraft hovering in the sky.

These children had only ever seen such things in books. To them, spaceships were things that existed only in their fantasies.

Pan Bu’en tilted his head back and looked at the spacecraft, his eyes slightly moist.

Five more soldiers in uniform gradually came down from the spacecraft. Jiang Yue noticed that everyone who came down this time was exceptionally approachable.

One of the soldiers closed his eyes. Suddenly, layers of ripples spread through the air, and a little raccoon emerged from the ripples.

Omegas could hardly resist something fluffy. The little raccoon wagged its tail as it walked from the soldier toward the Omegas, brushing the tips of its fluffy tail against the children’s faces.

The Omegas it brushed against pressed their lips together and smiled.

Seeing that this trick worked, the soldiers all released their spirit entities one after another: little squirrels, little foxes, little monkeys, little pigeons. These translucent spirit entities flew toward the children.

Jiang Yue was completely captivated by the sight when Lan Xi suddenly pulled out an electronic handcuff and put it on Jiang Yue.

Jiang Yue came back to her senses. Lan Xi said, “There’s nothing I can do. It’s the rules.”

As the 302 children gradually boarded the spacecraft, Lan Xi also escorted Jiang Yue up the silver ladder.

“Can I say goodbye to them?”

Lan Xi smiled. “No.”

Jiang Yue had no choice but to give up. Before walking through the spacecraft’s hatch, she turned back for one last look. Zhang San and Pan Bu’en were standing in the courtyard, waving goodbye to her.

Jiang Yue didn’t see the Chubby Boss. Perhaps the Chubby Boss didn’t want to get involved in this matter. Jiang Yue felt a little disappointed.

She took one last look at the lead-gray sky of the Garbage Planet, then stepped into the spacecraft at Lan Xi’s urging.

As a prison escapee considered to be extremely dangerous, Jiang Yue was fortunate enough to be assigned a small private room.

The spacecraft meal consisted of a tube of nutrient solution, a bag of chicken breast meatballs, a cup of corn salad, a serving of beef mixed rice, a bottle of mineral water, and a milkshake.

Jiang Yue swept through the food like the wind sweeping away the clouds, finally getting to drink water without a strange taste and eat food without a strange taste. She was so moved that she practically wanted to cry.

Life aboard the spacecraft was basically eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating. Other than those two things, she had nothing to do, so she could only lie in bed and sleep every day.

Jiang Yue would occasionally think of the Zerg, of Pan Bu’en, the Chubby Boss, and Zhang San. She would think of that mutated plant on the Garbage Planet and the white crystal mine.

Sometimes she would lean against the headboard and read a book, but the seemingly stagnant passage of time aboard the spacecraft had given her a goldfish brain, she would forget whatever she read almost as soon as she saw it.

Jiang Yue summed it up herself, this was when nearing one’s hometown, one becomes anxious.

A month and a half later, the spacecraft arrived at Beta Star and landed in Liyue City.

After a brief period of rest, Jiang Yue was escorted to the B1233 single-person cell in Liyue City First Prison.

Liyue First Prison and Garbage Planet First Prison perfectly embodied what it meant for the world to have disparity of the world.

The First Prison here allowed inmates to take showers, watch movies, and play games. It even provided holographic gaming pods; its level of luxury was comparable to a five-star hotel.

While showering, Jiang Yue couldn’t help drinking several mouthfuls of shower water. The water supplied aboard the spacecraft had been rationed, and she hadn’t had her fill of pure water in a long time. Even if it was shower water, she was going to drink her fill.

And so she leisurely spent a week in prison.

Then, one day, Xiang Sui and Xi Boyu suddenly came over. When they arrived, Jiang Yue was wearing a holographic helmet and lying in a holographic pod, raising a virtual baby.

She had been playing a dress-up game. When she was customizing the face, she got a little too excited and ended up making her little virtual baby look exactly like how she had looked in the past.

Waist-length black hair, a smooth and gentle oval-shaped face, softly curved distant-mountain brows, a pair of large, bright deer-like eyes, a very straight nose with a slightly upturned tip, pink petal-like lips, and a slightly pointed chin.

It was about eighty percent similar. Jiang Yue was very satisfied with her little baby. When it came time to enter a name, she thought for a long time and finally typed in the three characters ‘Little Princess’.

She had completely failed to realize that there were sooooo many babies with that name. It wasn’t until the name was generated that she saw the number at the end:

LittlePrincess23959

Jiang Yue: “……”

As everyone knows, dress-up games require you to spend money. Jiang Yue was currently penniless, so she had no choice but to embark on the path of hard grinding.

She grinded day and night, and finally managed to grind out two legendary outfits. Just as she happily dressed LittlePrincess23959 in a gorgeous white bridal gown, the alert button in the holographic pod went off.

Jiang Yue took off the helmet and crawled out of the holographic pod.

When she looked up, Xiang Sui and Xi Boyu were standing in front of the holographic pod with their arms crossed, staring at her with indescribable expressions.

Xiang Sui frowned and nudged Xi Boyu with his elbow. “Weren’t we supposed to come here to comfort her? This hasn’t-got-a-care-in-the-world woman looks like she’s having a pretty damn good time.”

Xi Boyu’s expression was also somewhat speechless. He glanced at Xiang Sui and said in a cool voice, “Who was it that said she was currently terrified and uneasy, becoming increasingly anxious, washing her own tears, and desperately needed a heart-calming pill?”

Xiang Sui took a step back. “The Xiang Sui who said that yesterday is already dead. Today’s Xiang Sui is a brand-new Xiang Sui.”

Jiang Yue stood sheepishly in front of the two of them. Seeing their familiar yet unfamiliar faces, she held it in for a long while before finally squeezing out, “You two got more handsome.”

Xi Boyu rubbed his temples and sighed. “We worried for nothing. Your state of mind is much better than ours. We came this time to tell you that the military court will begin the trial in three days. We’ve already arranged a lawyer for you.”

Jiang Yue placed the helmet in her hand on top of the holographic pod. Her demeanor was languid, and her whole body radiated a kind of dull, sluggish energy, looking completely like someone who would say, ‘Even if the sky falls, I don’t give a damn.’

Jiang Yue genuinely didn’t care. She now understood the values of the interstellar world—that was, value above all else.

There were at least a hundred charred corpses surrounding the bungalow, yet the soldiers who came down from the peacekeeping warship didn’t even spare them a glance, nor did they ask a single question.

Back when she was a genius, even though she had come from a slum, she could still enter the base together with Xiang Sui.

When her brain domain was damaged and she lost her spirit body, everyone abandoned her. Even though there were many suspicious aspects surrounding the extraction of her spirit body, no one investigated any deeper. The truth of everything was hastily swept under the rug when she was exiled to the Garbage Planet.

Now that she could summon her spirit body again, even as she was being escorted to prison, she could stay in a luxurious cell and play dress-up games day and night.

If she was going to live in this world, she had to understand the rules for surviving in it.

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