After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Ye Shijie came over and knocked on the door of their aircraft.

This was the first time he met Xia Chujian since he scolded her away that day.

Xia Chujian looked at him calmly and asked, "Captain Ye, would you like some braised lamb?"

Ye Shijie also said calmly: "Well, come on, one bowl."

Li Fu, Song Mingqian and Ping Qiong were all making faces at each other, feeling that the matter was finally over.

While Ye Shijie was drinking mutton soup and eating mutton, Li Fu turned on the built-in display screen on Xia Chujian's aircraft to see if it could connect to the star network.

As a result, the signal here was very strong, completely different from the previous situation in the Far North where the magnetic field interfered with the signal and even the host could not be set up.

As soon as I clicked in, the homepage of Empire Star Network appeared.

Li Fu exclaimed, "What's going on? Is the color display on the screen broken?"

Because at first glance, the homepage only has black and white colors.

Unlike before, once you enter the star network, the colorful colors are so dazzling that it almost blinds your eyes.

Song Mingqian took a quick glance, his expression suddenly becoming serious. He said, "Don't you read the headlines? - The eldest prince has passed away! The entire empire is in mourning! The royal family is going to hold a funeral!"

"Ah?! No way?!" Li Fu howled, "Are we going to ban entertainment?!"

"Not only is entertainment banned, but marriages are also prohibited in the entire Beichen Empire for three months. Everyone is in mourning for the eldest prince..." Song Mingqian read the news at a glance, his brows furrowed even tighter.

Xia Chujian had just cleaned up the kitchen and came out. When she looked up, she saw the large black and white photo on the screen.

The man had long black hair draped over his shoulders, pale skin, and a staring look in his eyes, looking a little crazy.

The nose is high and the tip is slightly hooked, which is a standard hooked nose.

Looking at his overall appearance again, Xia Chujian's heart skipped a beat and her pupils shrank suddenly.

She has seen this person!

That very night, the night their team was being chased by that shuttle-shaped aircraft...

Their aircraft was controlled by someone and mistakenly flew over the southern area of ​​Mulan City. The gray man who jumped out of the rectangular moon gate and the tentacles that chased him out of the moon gate, pierced through his back and killed him on the spot, all appeared vividly in her memory.

She had felt that he looked familiar then, and now she finally understood why.

Because this person looks somewhat similar to the current emperor of Beichen Empire.

All students in the Beichen Empire have to swear an oath to the portrait of the Emperor of the Beichen Empire every morning, so the students are very familiar with the emperor's appearance.

No wonder she felt that this person looked familiar, because he was the eldest prince, the first child born to the emperor and the empress, and the first-in-line heir to the throne of their Beichen Empire!

Because he looks like the emperor, so he looks familiar...

Xia Chujian took a deep breath, slowly walked to the display screen, and asked softly: "...Is this the eldest prince?"

"Yes, he is the eldest prince." Song Mingqian nodded. "There are photos of him online. Every year on New Year's Eve, the royal family takes family photos and sends New Year's greetings to the entire Beichen Empire. Don't you watch TV or go online?"

Xia Chujian curled her lips and said, "I don't have a TV at home, and I have to use other people's internet to get online. I'm poor and can't afford it."

It was only after she entered high school that she got her own smart bracelet that could access the Star Network.

However, the data usage fee for StarNet is very expensive, so she would use it whenever possible and hardly ever use the data to access the Internet.

Song Mingqian was choked and almost rolled his eyes.

Xia Chujian sat in her seat, holding her chin with her hand while watching the news on the screen. She pretended to be curious and asked, "The eldest prince didn't look very old, how could he die? Did they tell us the cause of death? When did he die?"

Song Mingqian read the news quickly, so he summarized his thoughts: "I heard he'd been in poor health since childhood, and had been taking all sorts of precious medicinal herbs to keep himself healthy, but now he finally couldn't hold on any longer. Looking at the time on the news, they say he died seven days ago."

Xia Chujian blinked.

She remembered that day, which was the day before their team received the Blood Qilin mission and went to the Forest of Exotic Beasts.

They stayed in the Forest of Strange Beasts for seven days. It took them one day on the way here and three days on the way back, for a total of eleven days.

So the eldest prince should have died twelve days ago, not seven days ago.

Why would the royal family announce a false time of death and a false cause of death?

However, Xia Chujian just thought about it casually and put it behind his mind.

She actually didn't care how or when the eldest prince died.

Because that class was too far away from her and she could not empathize with them.

She and her aunt could not even afford three meals a day and could barely guarantee adequate food and clothing. She had no extra mercy to sympathize with these members of the royal family who lived in luxury.

Rather than worrying about the eldest prince who was already dead far away, she might as well worry about whether Sanzong and Xiaogouzi could survive safely in this place.