Free Web NovelDan had given the Alliance—and the entire interstellar world—such a massive “gift.” Naturally, the Alliance, whose dignity had been trampled into the dirt, would not simply sit there and wait for death.
Holding back a bellyful of anger, they moved extremely quickly and investigated the other party’s identity.
—Dan Hecris.
Former chief engineer of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the current head of the Polaris Life Research Institute.
Just looking at this line, then adding the achievements and honors listed beneath it, this file practically looked like a glittering résumé.
Even Raymond An, who had no good impression of Dan whatsoever, had to admit that the other party was indeed an extraordinarily outstanding top talent in scientific research.
When Dan first entered the Academy of Sciences, he was only thirteen. By the time he became chief engineer, only ten years had passed. A twenty-three-year-old chief engineer would be enough to make anyone look twice no matter where he was placed.
The human race seemed to be born with incomparable intelligence.
Although, looking across the entire interstellar world, their combat strength could only rank around the middle, they had always been far ahead of all other races in the field of scientific research.
And Dan had grown up in a family with a strong research atmosphere. His father had been a senior researcher.
Only, when he was six years old, his father was investigated for scandals involving plagiarism and falsification of experimental results, and even illegal human experimentation in private.
Faced with a large number of accusations and lawsuits, Dan’s father lost his job and used all his savings to compensate the victims’ families, only then avoiding prison.
But after that incident, their family circumstances plummeted almost overnight.
The files did not state what happened to Dan and his family during the years in between.
The information the Alliance found was that when Dan was ten, rescue workers saved him from an illegal mine.
A photo was attached below.
A little boy, no more than ten years old, sat skin and bones amid the ruins. Rescue workers were beside him, along with reporters and doctors.
Everyone was fussing over him with concern, while the little boy merely stared blankly at the camera, his eyes hollow and numb.
This photograph was taken, quoted, and published by countless media outlets. The captions all condemned the illegal oppression of laborers in such black mines, as well as the existence of slave trafficking.
Raymond An still remembered this incident. Back then, it had caused an enormous sensation across the interstellar world.
Because of the importance of energy, ores that could be refined into energy were also extremely expensive, and opening mines had become one of the ways wealthy merchants and nobles sought enormous profits.
Under the immense temptation of money, mines at that time generally had violations.
However, after this incident was exposed, many mines underwent rectification, and on the surface, the miners’ lives improved significantly. As a victim of a black mine, Dan was adopted by Kegso after he was rescued.
And Kegso was precisely Dan’s future teacher. Even more coincidentally, Kegso had once been colleagues with Dan’s father.
Only, unlike Dan’s father, Kegso had been doing quite well over the years. He proposed a method of enhancing mental energy, became famous throughout the interstellar world, and rose higher and higher in position. It could be said to have been the most glorious period of his life.
It was also at that time that he saw Dan’s photo in the news. Considering that he had once worked with Dan’s father, Kegso specially rushed over and adopted the orphaned child of his former colleague.
Under Kegso’s cultivation, Dan gradually revealed his talent in the field of mental-energy research.
And this rather story-like adoption made this equally outstanding teacher-and-student pair a much-told tale in the scientific community for a time.
After Kegso’s death, Dan resigned from his position at the Imperial Academy of Sciences and instead took over the research institute his teacher had left behind.
However, after today’s incident occurred, the genetic modification that Kegso and the institute had been secretly conducting was also investigated.
Only now did the Alliance learn that Kegso had been carrying out genetic modification experiments in secret all these years.
On the surface, the Polaris Life Research Institute was still a research institution mainly focused on developing drugs for mental-energy treatment. But behind the scenes, under Kegso’s leadership, every researcher inside had participated in illegal experiments.
By the time the Alliance sent people over, the institute was already empty.
At this point, there was no need to guess. What had happened on Blue Luster Star had definitely been premeditated long ago.
They were not afraid of the Alliance investigating, because the Alliance could not find where they were at all.
Dan, meanwhile, had no intention of hiding anything. He appeared directly before everyone without any disguise at all. Even the Alliance’s investigation was within his predictions.
The Alliance busied itself for a while, yet obtained nothing.
That energy barrier still could not be opened. The Alliance tried all kinds of methods, and the Saint Clan’s warships had already entered the skies above Blue Luster Star.
Dense masses of warships hovered in the air, like the “black clouds” above Blue Luster Star.
“Is the Saint Clan going to attack us?”
“That’s not right. Didn’t the Saint Clan come for the conference too?”
“I heard it seems like some Saint Clan members are also...”
At first, the residents of Blue Luster Star were frightened badly. Only after discovering that these warships had no intention of attacking them did they dare to curiously watch the warships.
It had to be said that the Saint Clan’s wealth was indeed as abundant as rumor claimed. This was the first time the residents of Blue Luster Star had seen so many planet-destroying warships appear together at once.
And beneath where these warships had gathered, Selet led Saint Clan soldiers and stood before that energy barrier. By contrast, the Alliance Army, which had arrived first, could only retreat into a corner.
If this had been in the past, backed by the Alliance and calling themselves the elite of the elite, when had they ever suffered such humiliation?
But before the Saint Clan, these Alliance soldiers could only obediently withdraw to one side, holding their breath as they watched the colossal object in the sky, which had completely blocked out the firmament, launch an attack against the energy barrier.
The firepower of Thanatos was enough to destroy an entire planet.
Yet under such a violent impact, that energy barrier remained completely unharmed.
Selet frowned. “Cease fire.”
There was no need to waste more energy. He had already realized that no attack could possibly destroy this energy barrier.
Because no matter how many rounds of attacks they launched, all firepower was transferred away the instant it touched the barrier.
This strange ability immediately made Selet think of the cloaked figure who had taken the little highness away from the palace back then.
If the other party truly was royal-blood, then as long as the other party was still alive, they would not be able to break this shield from the outside.
And this also meant that they could only wait outside. They had to wait three days, until the game inside ended, before this energy barrier would disappear.
After Mansendis received the report from Selet, the order he replied with was also to suspend the attack.
Then he lifted his head. In the livestream image, the young man was searching for traces of stray beasts.
Wen Yuzhi held the chip in his hand, his mental energy constantly released outward.
After sensing that the chip’s reaction toward a certain place had become relatively strong, Wen Yuzhi immediately pointed there and said, “The chip is reacting. Let’s go take a look over there.”
Without a word, Xi Heyan and the six Saint Clan royal guards advanced in the direction Wen Yuzhi had pointed.
On the other side.
Qiqi was an adventure blogger.
This time, she had come to Blue Luster Star to ride the heat of the conference, but she had never expected to be swept into this nightmare.
Fortunately, as an adventure blogger, Qiqi usually exercised often. Relying on the physical strength she had trained, when danger descended, Qiqi escaped from the crowded square and barely avoided the first wave of stray-beast attacks.
And Qiqi noticed that these stray beasts found people through scent. After realizing this, she smeared wet mud all over her body. This way, the thick layer of mud could effectively block the scent on her body.
The only downside was that it did not look very good.
But Qiqi could no longer care about appearances at a time like this. In any case, there was no signal on her light-brain here, and even if her livestream room was open, it was completely black.
Qiqi simply let herself go.
Only, her luck was not very good. Just as she walked into a cake shop, preparing to find something to eat, a stray beast happened to wander nearby.
Thankfully, as a blessing within misfortune, this stray beast was blind. It could not see anything in front of it. As long as Qiqi did not make a sound and hid, it would not notice her.
Qiqi was currently hiding under a table in the cake shop.
She held her breath and silently prayed in her heart for this stray beast to hurry up and leave.
Unfortunately, it seemed the gods had not heard her inner voice. That stray beast still wandered around inside the cake shop, and several times, it nearly bumped into the table where Qiqi was hiding.
Qiqi’s heartbeat grew faster and faster.
Yet precisely at this moment, another stray beast’s roar came from outside.
Immediately after, that stray beast also walked into the cake shop.
Qiqi: “......”
She thought she was probably done for.
And on StarNet, Qiqi’s fans had also discovered that Qiqi had appeared inside that Hide-and-Seek livestream room.
They hurriedly sent the livestream room to the fan group. As one of the ten hottest influencers on StarNet right now, Qiqi had a huge number of fans. In just one hour, the news that Qiqi was trapped in the livestream room climbed onto the trending searches.
Immediately after, her best friend Lulu also stepped forward and spoke out, confirming that the person in the livestream room was indeed Qiqi.
For a time, Qiqi’s livestream square instantly poured in a large crowd of people. Some were her fans, and some were bored netizens who had come to watch the excitement.
In short, without Qiqi knowing anything about it, her livestream square became the most-watched one among all the squares, and this number was still constantly increasing.
And now, watching Qiqi trapped in danger, the bullet comments also began flooding the screen.
[We all know our Qiqi has a bit of unlucky constitution on her, but I never thought she’d be this unlucky. She ran into two stray beasts at once.]
[Streamer, run!]
[How is she supposed to run from two stray beasts?]
[It’s over. The streamer is going to die.]
[Oh my god, I already can’t bear to keep watching.]
The bullet comments had almost all begun lamenting. Anyone with eyes could see that with two stray beasts blocking the entrance, Qiqi had no way to run. And the newly entered stray beast was not blind. Qiqi being discovered was only a matter of time.
Even Qiqi felt somewhat despairing.
Listening to the footsteps drawing closer and closer, she simply closed her eyes and waited for death to descend.
“Found them. They’re right here!”
Suddenly, a clear voice rang out.
Another burst of footsteps approached the entrance.
And the voice that had just spoken sounded again.
“Huh? There are two inside?”
When Qiqi heard someone speaking, she did not know where a sudden burst of courage came from. She opened her eyes and shouted loudly, “There are monsters here! Don’t come in! Run!”
That shout undoubtedly exposed her position as well.
The stray beast closest to her instantly lunged forward, flipping away the tabletop above. Qiqi, curled up beneath it, clearly saw the stray beast open its huge mouth full of fangs toward her.
Along with a foul, bloody stench, the stray beast gradually closed in.
Just when Qiqi thought she was going to die, an inflatable hammer smashed onto the stray beast’s head.
Before the camera, the exquisite and beautiful young man moved with agile grace, landing lightly on the ground like a nimble cat, one knee just brushing the floor.
And in his hand, he was still holding that inflatable hammer.
Like the stray beast that had previously been framed for injury, the victim Number Two before them also could not endure this kind of insult. It immediately abandoned Qiqi, who was right within reach, and instead turned back, preparing to eat the young man who had arrived behind it first.
However, it had only just bared its teeth when several parents emerged from behind the young man.
From the perspective of these Saint Clan royal guards, this was the stray beast deliberately roaring fiercely at their little highness.
Especially since this stray beast was also very fat and huge. Standing before it, Wen Yuzhi looked like a doll.
The ferocious, enormous monster and the doll-like beautiful young man, placed together like this—almost anyone would think this monster was bullying the young man in front of it.
Even the viewers in the livestream room, who had watched the whole thing from beginning to end, thought so, let alone the Saint Clan royal guards, whose bias had practically tilted to the other end of the universe.
Without the slightest hesitation, they smashed this stray beast into meat paste.
How dare you act fierce toward our little highness!
Our little highness only wanted to play with you, yet you were actually unwilling?!
Stray beast: “......”
If it could speak, it would definitely have cried out its grievance for itself—it was clearly your little highness who attacked first!
Unfortunately, it could not speak, and so it could only die in such a stifled and aggrieved manner, becoming brothers-in-hardship in the underworld with its previously victimized colleague.
As for Qiqi...
She had already been completely stunned by this sudden turn of events.
“Um... are you okay?”
Wen Yuzhi stretched out a hand and waved it in front of her.
Following his movement, Qiqi woodenly looked toward Wen Yuzhi.
And her livestream room happened to give a close-up at that exact moment.
Dawn rose at this moment. In the pale glow of morning, the young man before her was like a porcelain doll who had stepped out of a display window. From his brows and eyes to the contours of his features, Qiqi found it hard to imagine that someone could truly be born so delicate.
It was as if the gods had poured all their gentleness into that beautiful face, kissing and blessing it.
And now, this exquisite and beautiful young man was tilting his head slightly, looking over with a somewhat worried gaze.
“Um... hello? Can you hear me speaking?”
His clear, pleasant voice was also like a stream of crystalline spring water flowing past. Slowly, a blush climbed onto Qiqi’s face.
Seeing their own streamer act so hopelessly, the bullet comments were strangely not mocking her at all.
Because the viewers before the screen all looked equally hopeless.
After becoming used to all kinds of bloody and miserable scenes, then suddenly seeing a young man so beautiful he seemed to be glowing, the livestream room’s viewers were directly struck deep in their little hearts by this wave of face-value critical damage.
The bullet comments even entered a bizarre vacuum for an instant.
Only after quite a while did a pile of people start flooding the screen with ahhhhhhh.
[What number is this super pretty little beauty?! I want to go watch his livestream room!]
[This face... Sorry! Auntie is instantly overwhelmed with maternal love! I really want to carry him home and find a dollhouse to raise him in!]
[Does anyone know this little beauty’s identity? Waiting online. Very urgent!]
[It’s over. This is clearly such a bloody and terrifying livestream room, but after seeing such a good-looking little beauty, I actually want to lick the screen. Is that kind of bad?]
[He looks like he isn’t very old. He has such an obedient feeling.]
[It’s fine if he’s not old. Who doesn’t like this fresh, tender little shota type?]
Taking advantage of the fact that the people inside could not see them, the bullet comments grew more and more enthusiastic.
Wen Yuzhi’s appearance was like a lethal weapon, instantly blasting the livestream room’s viewers into a daze.
Moreover, the livestream room’s camera had no beauty filters or retouching. Under the high-definition image quality, the young man’s naturally beautiful face among a group of dusty, disheveled lucky ones was like a firefly in the darkness.
It could no longer be called eye-catching. He was simply the legendary angel descending to earth, directly turning a tense and thrilling survival game into some kind of talent show.
Wen Yuzhi still did not know that so many people outside were currently watching him. He reached out and waved in front of Qiqi again.
This time, Qiqi finally came back to her senses.
Looking at the young man before her, she grew nervous for a moment, and even her words became a little stammered.
“You... you’re also...”
“...a survivor,” Wen Yuzhi softly finished the last few words for her.
“Yes, I’m also a survivor.” freewebnøvel.com
Hearing this, Qiqi’s eyes stung, and they turned slightly red.
“Thank you for saving me. My name is Qiqi, I’m from the Laila race. Thank you so much!”
As she spoke, a pair of things like little wings popped out on both sides of Qiqi’s head.
This was a feature of the Laila race. They had a pair of ears that looked like wings, and once they were stimulated, they would open.
Wen Yuzhi’s gaze lingered curiously for a moment on the wings on either side of Qiqi’s head.
However, the young man still very politely exchanged names with Qiqi.
“Hello, my name is Wen Yuzhi.”
Wen Yuzhi did not say which race he came from. Seeing that Qiqi had just experienced a brush with life and death and had finally managed to recover, he was afraid that if he stated his race, he would scare the other party half to death all over again.
Wen Yuzhi felt that he was still very considerate, having properly taken care of the other party’s fragile little heart.
Qiqi clearly did not care about this trivial detail either. ƒгeewёbnovel.com
Only the viewers in the livestream room were still curious about the young man’s identity.
And they did not connect this well-behaved, beautiful little beauty with the ferocious and brutal Saint Clan at all.
So much so that after the bullet comments guessed for ages, the viewers only drifted farther and farther from the truth.
