Chapter 16

Fifteen minutes ago.

Xiyue had been walking around the market with Li Kangwen and Zhu Yuanfu for half a day. After purchasing crop seeds, growth fluids, and farm tools, the sacks on the two men's backs were already very heavy. But they still needed to buy some food.

As he walked toward the compressed food section, Li Kangwen suddenly exclaimed, "The damp underground environment is perfect for growing spinach. I forgot about that. Boss, do you want to go back and buy some?"

Zhu Yuanfu had been eagerly looking forward to the food section. Upon hearing this, he said unhappily, "Just forget it. There are not enough seeds for you to plant. It's not like you won't come back in the future..."

"Go ahead." Xi Yue interrupted Zhu Yuanfu calmly, "After you finish shopping, let's meet at the mooring point."

"Split into two groups?" Li Kangwen looked at Zhu Yuanfu and felt inexplicably uneasy.

Zhu Yuanfu was completely unaware of what was happening. He thought the boss had made a wise decision and glared at Li Kangwen, "Go quickly! Don't waste time!"

After the two sides separated, Xiyue took Zhu Yuanfu to a store in the food area.

There are plenty of fresh ingredients on the market, but the reason why we still choose compressed foods is simply because they have very low requirements for storage and cooking conditions. Even if the compressed foods are found in contaminated areas, as long as they are not damaged, they can still be eaten after tearing open the packaging.

However, there are many types of compressed foods, not just compressed vegetables and chicken. As expected, Zhu Yuanfu quickly set his eyes on the compressed beef on the shelf, his eyes almost drooling.

"Boss, would you like to buy some of this?"

Xiyue took a glance and said, "Too expensive."

Beef costs ten times more than chicken.

She picked up a bunch of compressed vegetables and chicken and walked to the counter to pay. Although Zhu Yuanfu was reluctant to leave, he said nothing and followed her to the counter.

Then, he saw Xiyue pull out a bulging little bag, unzip it, and inside was a sea of ​​white star coins. With his sharp eyes, he spotted a few large 1,000-yuan star coins.

So...how much does the whole package cost?

Just as I was in a daze, Xiyue had already paid: "Pack up your things."

"Oh, okay." Zhu Yuanfu put down the sack on his shoulder and put the compressed food he bought into it. He asked unwillingly, "Boss, just buy some beef. Those two kids have had a hard time. They've never tasted beef since they were little..."

"If you work hard and save your salary, you can buy this for Yaya."

Xiyue clearly answered with a smile, but in Zhu Yuanfu's opinion, the boss's face was full of indifference, as if it was none of his business.

The two walked out of the grocery store and, as Xiyue had suggested, found a less crowded place. Xiyue took off the backpack hidden under her coat, squatted down, and took out the small bag of money from her pocket and stuffed it into the backpack.

Zhu Yuanfu couldn't control his eyes and stared at the small bag.

So much money...

If the denominations were all 1,000, let alone beef, he could even move to a better garbage planet with his wife and children and live comfortably for a few years.

Unconsciously, he put down the sack and pulled out a blue-gray sickle. Although made of stone, it was honed to an incredibly sharp edge. With just one stroke, it was guaranteed to slice off half of Xiyue's neck.

Besides, her neck was so thin that her whole head might just roll off.

Zhu Yuanfu swallowed and glanced around. He took a step forward and raised his sickle.

Slash diagonally!

Xiyue suddenly turned her head and smiled at him.

Zhu Yuanfu froze in mid-sentence.

"Finally you can't help it? It's worth my waiting for so long. I've created another opportunity for you." She tilted her neck and nodded at the side of her neck. "Come on, cut here. Aren't you going to kill me?"

Zhu Yuanfu was not even as brave as his six-year-old daughter. When he saw the gun in Xiyue's hand, he became scared and his sickle fell to the ground with a clang.

"Boss, I'm not... I didn't..."

"You don't want to kill me, or you don't want to kill me? Could it be that you want to use this knife to cut my hair?"

Zhu Yuanfu slid to his knees too quickly, which made Xiyue lose interest.

It's like a cat finally catches a sneaky mouse, but before it even starts to tease it, the mouse suddenly frightens itself to death.

She tapped the light computer with her gun-holding hand, and something the size of a finger flew over Zhu Yuanfu's head and landed above the light computer. A light screen appeared between the two.

Zhu Yuanfu hadn't realized it was a trap yet. He widened his eyes in fear and confusion, and soon, his eyes were completely filled with fear.

Because Xiyue played the video that had just been recorded: he stood stealthily behind Xiyue, holding up a sickle.

In front of him, Xiyue cut the end of the video to the moment when he swung the sickle.

Come to an abrupt end.

"Do you understand?" Xi Yue asked, shaking her head regretfully, "It seems I don't understand."

Garbage citizens with E-level mental power are not qualified to receive education at all. Most of them are illiterate and even illiterate against the law.

"Then let me explain it to you in plain language. According to the Interstellar Code, murder is a felony, punishable by suspended death penalty. Although the sentence for attempted murder is lighter, it still requires tens of thousands of Star Reputation points to atone for the crime. No Star Reputation points? That's also suspended death penalty. You know what suspended death penalty means, right? It's exile to a contaminated area..."

Xiyue pointed in a direction at random and was stunned.

"Gray Hole! Run!" - A panicked shout came from that direction.

Zhu Yuanfu's knees trembled and he knelt down, kowtowing desperately: "Don't send me to the contaminated area, don't send me to the contaminated area, please, please, big boss..."

Xi Yue ignored him and looked behind him, where fog was already surging and rolling towards them.

How strange! She clearly didn't press the remote control. Was it necessary to detonate the contaminated area just to deal with Zhu Yuanfu?

Is it... just a coincidence?

As she was thinking, she saw Zhu Yuanfu suddenly jump up from the ground, bypass her, and run out for his life.

Xi Yue did not stop him. It was right for a garbage citizen to run away when he encountered a polluted area. Besides, she did not want to expose the pure space in front of Zhu Yuanfu.

There were many people in the market, so Xiyue decided not to go into the contaminated area to see what was going on. She was about to follow Zhu Yuanfu out when she suddenly stopped.

At a fork in a passage ahead, in the increasingly thick fog, she saw a figure that seemed... a little familiar.

The figure was quickly swallowed by the gray fog.

Xi Yue took two steps in that direction, and suddenly heard a high-pitched electronic voice above her head: "Don't panic, don't panic, the 28th Regiment's Mecha Star Team has arrived, the 28th Regiment's Mecha Star Team has arrived..."

The Corps is subordinate to the Army Corps, and the 28th Corps is a subordinate organization of the 33rd Corps.

Xi Yue had read some information on the Star Network. The Mecha Star Team was usually divided into two teams to deal with contaminated areas. One team was responsible for blocking the contaminated area to prevent pollutants from escaping and hurting people, and the other team went deep into the contaminated area to kill as many pollutants as possible before the pollutant gas settled, that is, before the pollutants entered a violent state.

Blockade is the first step. If the Mecha Star Team finds out that an unprotected garbage citizen has walked out, it will not be a good thing no matter how you look at it.

Xiyue decided to evacuate.

Blocked by thick gray fog, Yuan Xu used the detection system to capture her leaving figure and touched his chin.

Did you do this again, God of Pollution?

What's the point of always triggering the lowest level of pollution?

He shook his head, his steel glasses transforming into mechanical arms and gun barrels, easily killing two pollutants that rushed towards him. Qi Jin then surged to his feet, carrying him up into the sky.

A soldier in a fully-powered mecha was stunned for a moment, then quickly recognized the face he had just seen in a video conference and flew over.

"Commander! Commander, why are you here?"

Yuan Xu didn't answer, but patted his shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work."

Then he flew straight towards his starship.

Coincidentally, Shi Liheng’s starship had just landed.

"General Yuan!" Shi Liheng glanced at the chaotic wholesale market not far away. "Is there pollution?"

"Yeah, bad luck." Yuan Xu said nonchalantly.

Shi Liheng still couldn't figure out the temper of the new No. 33 coach, so he feigned sadness: "Why is it in the market? Oh, how many people are going to die again."

Then Yuan Xu glanced at him strangely. "It's only level five pollution. Not many people will die. When I said bad luck, I meant Major Shi."

He imitated Shi Liheng's sigh. "Alas, the gray hole appeared right above his head, and he didn't even have time to open his mecha... Oh, and General Shi Shang is coming. I'll give him an answer in person. I want the ownership of this wholesale food market."

Under Shi Liheng's dazed gaze, Yuan Xu's light brain projected a light screen.

"Look, the exchange application has been submitted to the Asset Management Center. General Shi Shang, you won't try to steal it from me, will you?"

-

The stopover point for the manned route of Star Area 28 was located in the center of the wholesale market. Zhu Yuanfu was running while looking back when someone suddenly grabbed his arm.

He screamed in fright, only to see that it was Li Kangwen.

"What's wrong, where's the boss?!"

"Dirty, dirty, dirty! The boss died in the polluted area!"

Zhu Yuanfu's face was filled with fear. He glanced around rapidly, then suddenly felt a sense of relief. No one else was rushing to escape. It seemed that the scale of the pollution outbreak was not too large, just enough to engulf his boss.

When Li Kangwen heard the Mecha Star Team's announcement in the air, he had a bad feeling and immediately became anxious: "Then run back by yourself!"

As he was about to walk into the market, Zhu Yuanfu grabbed him.

"Where are you going? That's a contaminated area! Are you trying to kill yourself? Even if she's the boss, she's already dead—"

Zhu Yuanfu's mouth widened, his eyes suddenly widening, "Boss?"

Xiyue stood quietly behind Li Kangwen, smiling, "Do you really want me to die?"

Seeing her press the light brain through her sleeve, Zhu Yuanfu swallowed hard.

"No, that's not true! I told you that the boss would be able to turn danger into safety!" While Li Kangwen wasn't looking, he wrinkled his face and looked pleading.

Xi Yue then turned her gaze to Li Kangwen, but she had something else to say: "I also thought I was dead, so I took advantage of the last minute to tell the second and third bosses exactly what happened here. But fortunately, the pollution was not serious, so I saved my life."

Zhu Yuanfu's heart shuddered. The boss's words implied that he had handed over evidence of his crimes to the other two bosses! Wasn't he trying to use the video to keep him in check?!

"That's good, that's good." Li Kangwen said, breaking into a cold sweat for Xiyue. "Then, big boss, let's go back quickly."

He was also still frightened.

The three of them boarded the starship together. Perhaps because the star team had arrived and the contamination hadn't spread, some passengers disembarked before the starship took off, leaving the cabin suddenly empty.

Li Kangwen carried a sack and sat next to Xiyue. Zhu Yuanfu hid in a corner far away and didn't even dare to raise his head, let alone come over.

Xiyue smiled silently, turned her head, looked out the window, and suddenly her eyes fixed.

From above, the wholesale market resembled the ancient Roman Colosseum, with a dedicated berth for private starships just outside. There, a familiar figure stood.

Shi Liheng?

What a coincidence, seeing him in a place like this.

Xiyue couldn't help but touch the remote control in her pocket.

It was such a coincidence that she only realized he was there after she had left.