Big Foot was about to say something when a foot in a leather boot smoothly stepped over his enormous boot, but Stephen's face remained expressionless.

His tone was unusually gentle: "If we didn't manage to meet the person, we all share the responsibility. Let's not keep that person waiting too long, okay?"

Bigfoot screamed in agony, "Aa ...

Stephen nodded, adjusting his top hat, a matter-of-fact smile on his pale, ordinary face.

"Yes, that's right. I'm very unhappy right now. You'll be responsible for this mission."

The group quickly blended into the crowd and disappeared.

The boat, which had been rocking slightly in the waves, returned to calm, but after being ravaged by the three men, the entire ship was teetering on the brink of being scrapped.

As darkness fell and the presence of the hidden spot on the ship disappeared, a human figure slowly appeared on the wall of the cockpit.

The slender figure staggered, cursed under her breath, and quickly disappeared into the night.

"Damn, my legs are numb."

·

Inside the alien city, everyone spontaneously gathered again at Cen Xingbang's house. Eric, quite unabashedly, took a bottle of red wine from the decorative wine rack and poured it for everyone.

Cen Xingbang glanced around coldly, swirled the equally scarlet liquid in his glass, and took a sip: "When are you guys leaving?"

Lancer almost swallowed the cup whole, then looked at him innocently and said, "Old...we just didn't want you to be lonely, so we came to keep you company."

Lan Meng rolled her eyes at him with a natural air of superiority, thinking, "He can't even come up with a more believable reason for lying."

Cecil squirmed in the basin, and finally couldn't resist touching Levi.

Levi, having had his fill of walking on two legs, finally reverted to his original form. He stretched out a tentacle and pushed the potted plant away: "I just came to sit for a while. Cough, Eric, didn't you have something to do?"

The man with the sheep's hoof, holding a glass of red wine, glanced at the group with a smile, knowing that Cen Xingbang was getting impatient, and then finished his wine in one gulp.

He cut to the chase: "This time, when Miss goes out, they certainly won't stand idly by. Isn't that too dangerous?"

Cen Xingbang toyed with the crystal glass in his hand, feeling the increasingly intense gazes on him, but finally he could only suppress his helplessness: "She is the agent, the power wielder, the queen of the alien city, the child of light."

He walked to the window and looked up at the sky obscured by dark clouds: "Besides, she's not even twenty years old. Judging from the smell of blood, she's probably just come of age. She can't stay here for the rest of her life."

Levi and the others were taken aback. They had always known that Gu Li was still young, but they hadn't expected him to be this young.

Cen Xingbang's cold voice reached everyone's ears: "The situation is very different now. It's not that she needs us, but that we need her. She can go out and about, and we can support her in doing whatever she wants. The Mysterious Church is just a front."

“I want her to know that this is a home that will always be open to her, and that these things are not enough to just keep people locked up here.”

The ornately decorated building fell silent for a moment. Cen Xingbang turned his head and suddenly realized that, apart from Cecil who was unable to move, everyone had retreated five meters away.

Lancer walked out with his hands behind his back, whistling: "Suddenly I'm sleepy, I'm leaving first. I didn't expect you guys to be so insidious. My sincerity towards the girl is as clear as day and night, it seems I'm not suitable to stay here any longer."

Lan Meng followed behind his brother without saying a word, unusually refraining from uttering a rebuttal.

Levi shook his head and chuckled dryly twice: "Then I'll leave this matter to you. I suddenly remembered that the weapon I made for Miss is still in the pot. I'll be going now."

Angell walked out with his little paws on the ground, a basin of Cecil behind him.

The deer-headed man's forehead veins bulged, he crushed the crystal glass in his hand, stepped forward and grabbed Lancer's head with a sinister look, and the invisible hand slammed the door shut.

"Are you all itching for a beating? Come here and take it all. You'll be checked every week!"

Cen Xingbang placed the books he had prepared on the table, and Eric looked at the table with the title "Three-Year Mock Test Questions on a Five-Year Plan for Making People Feel at Home".

Eric: ...

Lancer touched the octopus's head, somewhat exasperated.

"Mr. Cen, so many years have passed, why do you still like to pull this kind of stunt?!"

Angell slung his bag over his shoulder, squinted comfortably, and walked out, saying, "Thank you, Director Cen~"

Meanwhile, the person who indirectly caused all of this was walking down a bright but old street, looking around with wide eyes.

After finally finding her way to Valley Chestnut in the Federation territory, she encountered three men with ill intentions before even disembarking. He Shiyi's hairband concealed her presence, and Eric's silver cane confused them the moment they looked over.

This allowed her to successfully evade capture.

Before the three could turn around and launch a surprise attack, Gu Li took her luggage and darted into the alley behind the dock, intending to slowly find a building materials store by wandering through the alley.

Then she got lost in the poorly planned and congested alleyways.

After wandering through the dusty, dirty alleys for a whole day, she finally arrived at this main street, where Gu Li looked up at the sky.

It was a deep black, and under the surrounding neon lights, there wasn't a single starlight. It looked no different from the alien city.

This street, covered with all sorts of light signs, is a disaster of light pollution, but it can't hide the fact that it's old and dilapidated, with most of the signs piled up on top of older ones.

The surrounding high-rise buildings seem to reach for the sky, with a very high-tech silver exterior, and countless fluorescent blue light strips inlaid along the edges of these towering buildings.

However, the silver coating on the building's exterior had turned yellow, and many windows had been repaired by the residents themselves, resulting in various patches embedded in the futuristic building.

Some people are particular about sealing the windows with wooden strips, while others are more casual and simply cover them with colorful cloths. Still others are too lazy to repair them and just pile up clutter in the windows.

Gu Li withdrew his gaze from above, his expression subtle, as if he had entered a rural-urban fringe area a hundred years in the future.

This place gave her a strange feeling.

It's both modern and old-fashioned.

Gu Li plans to tackle the first task: finding materials to repair the alien city. If he can also fix some infrastructure issues at the same time, that would be even better.

As she looked around, she saw that although the streets were brightly lit, there were still dark shadows flying by from time to time on the rooftops of the towering buildings.

However, the variety of shops is extremely limited.

Most of them were called "District 1 Health Store," "District 1 Wellness Store," or "District 1 Health Preservation Center," and she felt a sense of bewilderment, as if she had stumbled into a group that specifically targeted and defrauded the elderly.

Gu Li watched as yet another young man walked out of the health center, looking quite smug.

Then, in his heart, he added with a sigh, "Scams are getting younger too."

Suddenly, a dark figure brushed past Gu Li, quickly disappeared into a nearby health store, and vanished.

Gu Li touched the suddenly disheveled light golden hair behind her and narrowed her eyes.

The plan has been temporarily changed.

Her first task was to catch the thief who stole He Shiyi's clone.