Free Web NovelChapter 634: Chapter 192: Farewell (2)
The soldiers under Admiral Bai were drooling and howling; before all the loot was even collected, they were already asking how it would be divvied up.
The Ten Stars Republic’s victory came fast.
A war that was supposed to drag on for months, even years,
was hard-pushed into a win in just over half a month.
Admiral Bai finally let out a breath. Good thing they won; if the Imperial Army had managed to settle on Blue Star, there would’ve been waves and waves of Imperials coming afterward.
Once the frontlines stretched out, what followed would inevitably be the loss of territory.
They couldn’t let the enemy put on that pitiful act long enough to get a ceasefire. All resistance had to be killed off, beat them until they were utterly routed. No way to run, no way to win.
They had no choice but to surrender halfway through.
Too bad—surrender no longer accepted.
The Imperial Commander and several high-ranking officers of the Empire didn’t escape their fate. After Vice Admiral Bai took them down, he immediately forced Truth Serum on them and dug through the entire story from start to finish.
Once they knew what the other side had planned next, Admiral Bai and Vice Admiral Bai bumped their fists together, then had people clean up the battlefield and tally up the supplies.
While everyone else had been busy for more than half a month, the Mecha team tournament had already finished, and Su Xiaocai still couldn’t get out of bed.
She had unconsciously forced her Qi Sensitivity Level up, jumping straight from Level Four Qi Sensing to Level Seven.
Her body couldn’t adapt in time; her genes almost collapsed.
Before, she had been deliberately keeping her Qi Sensing from rising too fast, thinking that as long as she didn’t break through on her own, it would just grow naturally.
Who knew that wasn’t "control," that was "suppression"—always feeling just a tiny bit away from leveling up, then stubbornly refusing to level. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
She had underestimated her own talent, and also underestimated how fast those acupuncture needles pushed her growth.
She successfully took down the enemy—and took herself down too.
If she hadn’t prepared a large stash of gene-stabilizing meds, she might’ve had to lie there for a few hundred days.
During this period, a lot of big things happened outside.
The name Su Xiaocai was especially loud. The military awarded her a lifetime military achievement medal, and she broke through the normal rules to go from a big-shot business mogul in the scientific world to a military commander.
Honorary Admiral—sounds pretty badass.
But she didn’t have a single soldier under her.
The Bodyguards following her went from eighteen to thirty, barely enough to count as her free laborers—since their salaries were paid from above and not by her. freewebnøvel.coɱ
This big event had already become headline news known by every household, and it was very unfriendly to kids—their parents tugged their ears every day, telling them to learn from her.
Another major event was the Mecha team competition. The Vegetable Farmers didn’t get first place, but every last one of them entered the military and became corporals.
Ji Heng and Xing Miao were even given an exceptional promotion, becoming First-level Military Sergeants.
As long as they rack up a few more merits, the rank of Lieutenant will be in the bag.
Once you join the army, you’re the army’s people. With their battle record, they no longer needed to go back to school. If they wanted their diplomas, they could just apply for an online assessment, write a thesis, then swing by campus once for their defense, and that’d be it.
Su Xiaocai fully supported the Vegetable Farmers’ decision. It was their life; she hoped her friends could climb higher and higher.
There was one more thing that concerned Su Xiaocai: the police had found the people who harmed her.
The one who buried that thing in her field was Feng Ruchuan, whose identity was that of an external operative of the All-Knowing Sect.
She was with Lu Yunzhi’s group. Ever since Lu Yunzhi was captured, Feng Ruchuan had been pulled into the spotlight.
Feng Ruchuan had repeatedly sent people to scout the area, avoiding the patrol routes of the little robots. Just before dawn, she had a Mecha Master pass by and toss the egg containing the mother body into Su Xiaocai’s field.
To shift the blame, she dragged a bunch of young people who didn’t like Su Xiaocai down with her.
Li Kuanyun’s teammate was the first to be exposed. At that time, there just happened to be police nearby who caught video of them sneaking into a space station restroom.
Once they were exposed, there was no way Li Kuanyun would escape. But he was relatively smart; he only ever gave oral orders to his teammates.
He refused to admit he was an accomplice, leaving everything else to his lawyer.
But some crimes don’t just disappear because you refuse to admit them. His previous financial transactions and coded communications with Feng Ruchuan were all evidence of his crime.
And during the break in the competition, his conversation with his teammate had been monitored. Just on that alone, they could even detain him on espionage charges.
Whether it was attempted murder or espionage would have to wait for trial—the only difference was how long he’d be in prison.
And Su Xiaocai’s identity wasn’t what it used to be. Even if they pegged it as attempted murder, the prison time would be very long.
What goes around comes around. You shouldn’t harbor the intent to harm others. For harming Su Xiaocai, the backlash was inevitable.
The other intel couldn’t be disclosed to her for the time being, because things were too tangled and complicated, and with the war on top of it, they lacked manpower and resources to fully gather evidence.
The last thing to explain had to do with Vice Admiral Bai.
Relying on the two strongest attackers—Admiral Bai and Su Xiaocai—Vice Admiral Bai managed to clean up the entire war front. He could officially go on vacation now.
