Chapter 115: Diversification of Risks

Bu Fan’s brother, isn’t he the current head of the Bu family?

Jiufang Yu frowned slightly. After he returned to the Jiufang family a few years ago, he joined the army. He has been recuperating in the past few years and has basically not been involved in the Si family's business. However, he also heard his sister mention in casual chat that the Si family has been very close to the Bu family in recent years.

On an occasion like today when family members are meeting, Si Wen would bring along an outsider like Bu Fan, at least 60% of the reason is to give face to the head of the Bu family.

Just now, Bu Fan wanted to leave without even eating. It was obvious that something big had happened, so Si Wen motioned him to come over and find out.

Such a big thing happened to the Bu family, it would be inappropriate for them to ignore it.

"If you rush back now, you still have to take a starship to the third star field. It's better for you to come with us directly and meet up with the Bu family there. It's possible that you can be faster than them." Jiufang Yu suggested.

The Si family and the Bu family are on good terms, and Qi Huan now has a family business here and will need the Bu family's care in the future. Jiufang Yu made a decision almost immediately to send Bu Fan over and ask for help if he could.

"But aren't you here to do business?" Bu Fan paused. Jiu Fangyu's suggestion was indeed very pertinent. Small starships were superior to large starships in terms of speed. In this case, if he could arrive one minute earlier, there would be more hope of saving people.

"I mainly came here to accompany Qi Huan to deal with some household chores. Today, I have almost finished them. The rest should be handled by the agency." Jiufang Yu replied.

Their original plan was to return tomorrow, but now it would just be one night earlier. The only problem would be with Si Wen's itinerary.

"Then I'll trouble you. If Qi Huan encounters any problems in the Eighth Star Region, our Bu family will definitely help solve them." In an emergency, Bu Fan didn't hesitate. This time he was talking about the Bu family, not himself.

This is exactly what I wanted to hear. Jiufang Yu nodded slightly.

The nine-tailed fox excitedly shook the fluffy tail behind it and said it was time to go back to eat!

"Do you mind if I explain the specific situation to everyone? Or should I talk to my brother-in-law alone?" Jiufang Yu asked Bufan what he meant as they were walking back.

"It's okay, go ahead." Bu Fan thought for a moment and nodded.

There were only the Si family couple, Si Liang, Qi Huan and the two seniors at the table. Si Wen would definitely know about it soon. The two seniors were able to accompany Qi Huan and Jiu Fangyu to do private things. They must be trustworthy people. In addition, the starship was so small that they couldn't hide the fact that they were going to the triple star field. It was better to just make it clear. The sentinel senior's mental power level was unfathomable, and he might get some unexpected help.

When the two were halfway there, they met Qi Huan who was chasing them with a take-away box.

In the narrow starship corridor, the three people and six people looked at each other in confusion.

"I was afraid that you and Qianzhen were too hungry, so I got you some food to take with you." Seeing the two men staring at him, Qi Huan held up the takeaway box and explained.

"It's just right for my brother-in-law to take it away later." Jiufang Yu nodded.

Qi Huan: ???

After several people came back, everyone at the table was a little surprised. Jiufang Yu briefly explained the situation and then looked at Si Wen.

The rest of them were fine as they were planning to return home anyway. Only Si Wen needed to consider whether to get off the starship now or go on a tour of the triple star field.

"You guys go, I'll go down now." Si Wen made a quick decision, touched the top of Si Liang's head, and glanced at Jiufang. He was a little reluctant to leave without finishing his meal after just seeing his wife and children.

Jiufang Yu nodded and immediately notified the pilot crew to prepare to return.

Qi Huan silently handed over the packed food box in his hand. Jiufang Yu had already guessed Si Wen's decision.

Jiufang Yu went to the control cabin. The Si family of three were saying goodbye. Bu was busy contacting his family. Only Qi Huan, the store owner, and Senior A Luan were left at the table.

Jiujiu also guarded a small dish of Tianwu white seed mapo tofu to feed Xiao Tengzhi, while Zhouqiba came to Qi Huan to eat and drink.

In the past few days, Hei Tuanzi's body has grown a lot bigger, and the golden lines in the middle of his back have become thicker. Jiufang Yu said that this means that his superficial combing and food supplements have worked, and Jiufang Yu's mental strength has recovered, but he must continue to pay attention to sustainability, otherwise it will be like rowing against the current, and all previous efforts will be wasted.

"It's not easy to carry a noble family." The shop owner shook his head as he looked at Si Wen's empty seat.

"Yeah, there are so many things to do that I can't get away." Qi Huan added a few pieces of Sky Crow to Zhou Qi Ba's plate. Otherwise, he could stay on the ship for two more days, and then take the Bu family's starship back to the triple star field.

The shop owner took a piece of Tang Zhuo Tian Wu and put it in his mouth. He seemed to taste the brightness of the sun and the clarity of the sea water. His eyebrows showed a slight expression of enjoyment. "Do you think he went down there just because he had too much to do?"

What else? Qi Huan raised his eyes slightly.

"There are countless messy rules for aristocratic families like them. One of them is that when traveling or attending important occasions, the head of the family and the heir must not travel together. The elders of the family are also not allowed to travel together."

Qi Huan was puzzled, "Why?"

"To ensure safety and spread the risk, even if someone encounters an accident during the trip, the family will at least not be destroyed."

Qi Huan: ...

If you think about it carefully, it actually makes some sense.

A few minutes later, the head of the Si family stood at the port with a team of guards, watching the small starship "Human Restaurant" take off into the sky, still holding the four-layer food box handed to him by Qi Huan.

The captain of the escort wanted to take it, but he waved his hand and said, "Contact Zhang Qi and Fei Ming immediately and ask them to bring people to the triple star field to support Ahan."

Zhou Ba was busy eating, the nine-tailed fox raised his chin high, looked at Taotie and the table full of dishes, then looked at Bu Fan who was busy contacting his family, and shook his tail dejectedly.

Qi Huan, who was chatting with the owner, noticed the way it was glued to the grilled tilapia, and quickly used a serving chopstick to pick up two pieces and put them on the plate for it. "What else do you want to eat? I'll help you."

The white fox pointed at the Tang Zhuo Tian Wu and the Honey Sauce BBQ Pork with its two tails, and Qi Huan helped it pick them up. The nine tails behind the white fox spread out like a peacock, and it leaned over and started eating gracefully.

Black Tuanzi was not satisfied and also asked for the braised Tianwu, grilled Tianwu and honey barbecued pork, and also added a braised beast meat, trying to overwhelm the nine-tailed fox in quantity. Qi Huan did as he was told and served it an extra bowl of Tianbao abalone soup. He specially added rattan stick mucus to the soup, which was very good for replenishing the little guy's mental strength.

After that, Jiufang Yu and Bu Fan were always very busy, with messages popping up on their personal terminals almost every one or two minutes.

Until the next morning before entering the quiet room to sort out his mental energy for the evening, Jiufang Yu stood at the door and replied to two messages.

"Why are space pirates so rampant?" Qi Huan leaned against the door frame and watched Jiu Fangyu reply. On the way here, he encountered a freight team being massacred by space pirates, and on the way back, he encountered space pirates kidnapping students. Isn't this frequency of crime a bit too high?

"My brother-in-law and I also feel that something is not right, so we are looking for someone to investigate." Jiufang Yu explained gently, without pausing for a moment as he replied to the message.

The child kidnapped from the Bu family was named Bu Yan, and he was studying at the best Jingtian Military Academy in the alliance. The students kidnapped with him also included the children of Gongshu and Shangjia, who were also direct descendants. The pirates took advantage of this and demanded a huge ransom from the three families.

Although the other children were not from wealthy families, they were almost all second-level sentinels, with performance far exceeding their peers. Given time, they would surely become pillars of the army in the future. Any loss would be a loss for the alliance.

"The most important thing now is your own injury." Qi Huan stared at Jiu Fangyu's hand, and as soon as he left the holographic keyboard, he dragged him into the quiet room. If he didn't move quickly, he was afraid that the next message would come.

The small starship accelerated all the way, using an extra jump point in the middle, and arrived at the same time as the Gongshu family's people who came from the Sixth Star Region. The merchant had already arrived because he was close.

The people sent by the three companies discussed it and decided to negotiate with the pirates together. Finally, both parties agreed to deliver the ransom at 10 o'clock the next morning in the public route area of ​​the triple star field. The specific coordinates would be notified by the pirates one hour in advance.

The Bu family, the Gongshu family and the merchants immediately dispatched personnel and deployed them in the public air route area, preparing to catch this group of brutal and arrogant space pirates in one fell swoop and eliminate the trouble forever.

Jiufang Yu and Si Wen both felt a little worried, so they decided to stay temporarily, stay on the outskirts during the ransom payment, and leave after the group of students were rescued. In case there were any problems, they would be able to provide support at that time.

That night, a scene very similar to that in the morning was played out outside the meditation room. Jiufang Yu stood outside the meditation room, continuously replying to messages with his fingers.

Qi Huan was helpless, "Didn't Bu Fan say that every area has been fully manned and those people will definitely not be able to escape?"

"That's why it's so strange. They have to deal with the three great families at the same time. How can those pirates be so confident that they can get away with the money?"

"Maybe they have a magic door." Qi Huan crossed his arms and said casually.

"What?" Jiufang Yu frowned.

"I mean, they are pirates, so they might be more familiar with this star field. Maybe they have some hidden routes or secret jump points that you guys don't know about?"

Jiufang Yu’s frown deepened.

"Don't think about it. This is your first regular combing session. The most important thing for you now is to cooperate with me calmly." Qi Huan dragged him into the quiet room.

The two connected their spiritual imprints layer by layer to create a fixed connection, and Jiufang Yu also opened up a deeper spiritual picture to Qi Huan.

Qi Huan stretched out his mental strength and found that what was in front of him was no longer a forest, but an endless ice field.

Arrow-shaped icicles stood everywhere, thick white fog was floating, and visibility was extremely low.

Because a fixed connection was created, his movement speed in the picture instantly increased several times, but there was heavy fog here and it was easy to get lost.

Qi Huan had no choice but to keep marking the icicles he passed by to avoid going around in the same area again.

There is nothing wrong with those crystal-clear icicles. The ones with dark shadows in the middle are what Qi Huan needs to sort out and clear.

It was as if he was in a real ice field. After combing through four or five icicles with shadows, Qi Huan felt that he was frozen and his whole body was numb, and his movements became slow.

"Crack!" When he tried to probe his spiritual thread into a problematic icicle, the ice underneath the icicle suddenly broke, taking him with it and sinking to the bottom of the water.

The waves pressed down layer by layer, freezing cold, pitch black as ink, without a single light.

Qi Huan struggled hard.

Sadness, uneasiness, fear, anger, many dark emotions burst out along with the darkness and entangled with it, tightening like seaweed, almost making him unable to move or breathe.

Negative emotional vortex! Qi Huan suddenly remembered the three dangerous situations of fixed combing that Jiufang Yan had mentioned. This emotional vortex was one of them. If it was swallowed up, the guide himself would also have problems.

Stay calm, don't struggle randomly, use the 468 T-angle formation, stay relaxed, keep a peaceful mind, avoid emotional resonance, Qi Huan quickly recalled how to deal with emotional whirlpools, and circled and circled accurately according to the T-angle formation to relax the mental threads, and those tightly entangled things really slowly stopped.

Qi Huan took a deep breath, grabbed the nearest place, and slowly began to comb. Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise he would have been dragged into the depths of the whirlpool in a few seconds.

Qi Huan persisted in the first fixed combing for twenty-five minutes, but finally withdrew due to exhaustion of mental strength.

This was also the first time that he finished combing his mental energy while being sober. It was as if he had been caught in a heavy rain. His face was covered in sweat and his clothes were soaked with sweat.

"Are you okay?" Jiufang Yu supported Qi Huan, who was on the verge of fainting, and gently wiped his face with a handkerchief.

"It's okay." Qi Huan shook his head, raised his sweaty hand and touched Jiu Fangyu's cheek distressedly. Just receiving those memory fragments almost made him collapse. How painful must this person have been when he was going through it? Fortunately, he can now use his mental power to sort out the emotional shadows left by the past.

"This method of using up your mental energy is very good. It will help you and Jiujiu to increase your mental energy limit. It would be best if you can continue this way next time." Jiufang Yan opened the quiet room and walked in, saying approvingly.

"I'll take him back to take a bath first." Jiufang Yu nodded to Jiufang Yu, picked up Qi Huan and went back to the room.

"Brat, deep combing will only expose more of your weaknesses. There's no point in sulking." Jiufang Yu shook his head towards Jiufang Yu's back.

At ten o'clock the next morning, Bufan, Shangjia and Gongshujia's men took a mini shuttle and arrived on time at the coordinate point given by the pirates. As expected, they saw a black and blue starship.

Jiufang siblings, Qi Huan, the shop owner and others gathered in the control room of the small starship, watching the two sides approaching each other through peripheral signals in sync with the people of several other families. The triple star field is the territory of the fifth family. Knowing that this happened, the fifth family immediately gave support to the other three families.

At this moment, a communication request suddenly popped up on the starship's communicator.

"Ahan, this is a trap. Find a way to get Bufan and the others back quickly. I just received news that those pirates are actually descendants of the Liuxia family. They don't want money at all, they just want revenge." Si Wen's face appeared on the holographic display. He spoke very quickly, delivering the key information in a hurry.

Jiufang Yu didn't even have time to respond before the other party hung up the call. It was obvious that he wanted to seize the time to contact more people from the Bu family and several other families.

Jiufang Yu reacted quickly and immediately asked the pilot crew to request the communication channel of the mini shuttle. At the same time, he also began trying to contact other people on the starship. Si Wen used the starship's dedicated communication channel instead of calling his personal terminal, which proved that the personal signals nearby had been deliberately interfered and made ineffective.

Qi Huan was a little confused. Who was the Liuxia family? What did they want to retaliate against?

"The Liuxia family was one of the original big families. Previously, the triple star field was managed by the Fifth Family and the Liuxia family respectively. Later, because of the Soldier Plan, their family was expelled by the major families. At that time, the evidence was revealed and provided by the Gongshu family who helped them build the experimental site and the merchants who helped transport the experimental equipment. The Bu family was the first to initiate the expulsion ticket." The owner saw Qi Huan's confusion and explained to him in a low voice.

When Qi Huan heard about the Soldier Plan, he remembered that Jiufang Yu seemed to have mentioned that this company had declined due to a joint boycott of its inhumane experiments.

Before he could fully figure out the situation, he suddenly discovered that Jiufang Yu was missing!

Where are the people? He quickly scanned the control room and found that not only Jiu Fangyu was missing, but also Senior A Luan!

Within a few seconds, two mechas, one black and one gold, appeared on the holographic display screen. They slid across the screen as fast as a meteor and rushed towards the mini shuttle and the pirate ship.