Anti-Star Alliance Base
Dasan extended his index finger and scanned his fingerprint on the metal door of the container. With a "beep", the metal door slowly rose, revealing the dim view inside.
Yu Sheng was shocked. There were clearly large iron cages inside, and the cages were filled with Snow Star people with animal ears and tails!
Before Yu Sheng could think, the middle-aged man said to them nonchalantly, "Go up, don't dawdle!"
None of the five people moved. The squirrel boy turned his head woodenly and stared at the middle-aged man's mouth, as if trying to understand what he meant.
Dasang spat, an impatient expression on his face. "It's convenient to purify milk, but it's too stupid. You can't even understand the instructions."
"Be content." The middle-aged man and another man dragged the five people onto the car and found space in a cage to stuff them in. "These are all real gold star coins. In the past, catching orcs required a lot of manpower, wasted weapons and equipment, and there was also the risk of injury. Now we have pure milk. We can coax these beasts to drink it, then walk quietly to the city and sell it smoothly. It's no exaggeration to say that pure milk is the greatest invention in the entire galaxy in the past ten years!" The middle-aged man became more and more excited as he spoke. The fat on his cheeks trembled and saliva flew into the air. "You two will definitely be right to follow me. Get into this business and make money!"
With a roar, the hover truck rose into the sky, loaded with "cargo", and drove towards the central city.
Yu Sheng and Frey were trapped in darkness, squinting their eyes to observe their surroundings in the thin light pouring in from the skylight overhead. Aside from them, everyone else looked numb, some huddled in a corner, heads in their arms, some lying on the cold floor of the train, eyes closed. There was no trace of panic, resistance, or sadness, a single ounce of emotion. This clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of the "purifying milk," and no wonder the middle-aged man praised it so highly.
"Once we reach the central city, we'll kill these three." Yu Sheng used his mental power to create a barrier, isolating himself from the outside air, and discussed with Frey, "As for them, we'll find a place to settle them down for the time being and find a chance to send them back."
Frey nodded, "If there's an internet connection somewhere in Central City, contact Wenxing immediately."
After the two of them discussed their next plan, they dozed off quietly in the cage. Perhaps affected by the airflow, the hovercraft was shaking and very unstable. Suddenly, Yu Sheng's ears caught a "hiss" sound, and the hovercraft suddenly sounded an alarm: "The propulsion source is damaged, the propulsion source is damaged, and the forced landing procedure will be initiated in three seconds! Three, two, one..."
"Shit! What's going on?!"
"Someone! Someone attacked our car!"
"Get the gun! Quick! Under the seat!"
A chaotic sound came from the driving position. The hovercraft had begun to descend at a very fast speed. Yu Sheng was holding onto Frey's arm tightly, while Frey reached out to hold the welded iron cage fence to steady his body.
"Bang--" The hover car slid forward after landing, and hit something unknown, almost overturning. Yu Sheng heard a gunshot, followed by Dasang's scream. After no more than a minute of fighting, everything returned to silence.
However, this series of changes did not attract the attention of any of the Snow Star people in the cages. They were still curled up stiffly, their eyes focused on one point, motionless.
Yu Sheng and Frey's plan was disrupted. Not knowing the background of the kidnapper, they followed the other orcs and lowered their heads and pretended to be stupid.
“Crack—”
There was a sound of breaking glass coming from the skylight. Yu Sheng's heart skipped a beat. He raised his eyes slightly and saw a nimble figure jumping directly from a height of more than ten meters to the ground. Seeing the group of people in the cage, he frowned and shouted to the outside, "There are ten people in total, all poisoned by the Jingnai poison. I need a rope." After that, he opened the photon knife he was carrying and directly cut off the iron bars of the cage.
A rope was quickly lowered from outside, with a buckle at one end. The man deftly put the buckle on one person and pulled the rope, and the person above rescued the person. This process continued, and soon everyone was rescued.
When it was Yu Sheng's turn, with the sunlight shining directly through the skylight, he could see clearly that the person who saved them was a teenager with big pointed ears on his head. He should be a fox. The right side of the boy's face was so beautiful that he looked like the son of the goddess of beauty in mythology. But when Yu Sheng glanced at the boy's left side, he was stunned, because there was a huge brand on the boy's left face. The flesh had grown dead and it was a horrible color, which was shocking.
"Mu Qi! These three men had no other weapons except a pistol. The robbery was in vain!" A young man kicked the middle-aged man's body angrily and spat.
Mu Qi had no expression on his face and glanced at the young man coldly, "You saved someone, so it's not in vain to rob him."
"Ah! Why did you bring these guys back to base after being poisoned by the milk-purifying poison..." the young man muttered angrily, "There's no way to cure this poison. After saving them, they'll be unable to do anything except eat and sleep. We're already short on resources..."
"Shut up." Mu Qi was obviously a teenager, but he was very imposing. Coupled with his horrible scar on half of his face, the young man who had been complaining just now shrank his neck and dared not say anything more.
Listening to their conversation, Yu Sheng's mind rapidly processed the information. From the fragments of their conversation, he could tell that these two Snow Star people must belong to some kind of organization, hostile to the people in Central City, a rebellious uprising. Come to think of it, with so many Snow Star people, it's impossible for all of them to be willing to become slaves and pets of the interstellar people.
Yu Sheng narrowed his eyes, feeling the need to observe further. His and Frey's plan had already fallen through, so now they could only act according to circumstances.
Following Mu Qi, they walked across a plain and then through a dense forest. When Yu Sheng felt he was about to get dizzy, he finally found a very secret door located in the middle of two mountains. The door was covered with lush plants, which were new branches grown after the warm season came, and the colors were fresh.
Before Mu Qi could knock, the door creaked open and an adult in a bulletproof vest appeared in front of him. He smiled and said to Mu Qi, "I knew it was you when I heard the footsteps. What did you get today..." Before he finished speaking, he saw the ten Snow Star people following behind him and frowned deeply. "The leader just issued an order. Until an antidote is developed, the base will no longer accept new patients with 'Clean Milk Poison'. Why are you..."
Before he could finish his words, the young man in front of him coldly interrupted him, "If we don't rescue them, what else can we do? Just leave them there to die? If the Snow Star people themselves won't save the Snow Star people, then we shouldn't form an anti-interstellar alliance. We should just go and beg for food in the arms of those 'nobles'."
These words were so vicious and cruel that they left the gatekeeper speechless and helpless. "I'm not the one who makes the rules. Besides, the leader's actions make sense. After all, the base's resources are really limited..." Seeing Mu Qi's determined eyes, he sighed, "Forget it. Take these people to the reserve dormitory first. I'll guard them for you. Once you get the leader's permission, you can take them to the living area for treatment."
Mu Qi pursed her lips and finally compromised after a while, "Okay."
He led Yu Sheng and others to the preparation dormitory, and earnestly instructed the gatekeeper to bring water and food. Then he turned around and left with his snow-white fox ears erect and his huge fox tail raised.
——Wen Xing, Starry Sky Research Laboratory——
Randy stared intently at all the detection and research conducted by his predecessors on the Hundred Turns Tunnel. The data was enormous, containing countless records of pressure differences, tunnel speed changes, and storm values. Randy attempted to find the patterns between them, so as to deduce which direction in the universe the Silver Dragon would go after passing through the Hundred Turns Tunnel.
But how could he possibly find a law that had remained unbreakable for millions of years in just a few nights? Randy racked his brains, but still had no clue.
"Ding ding!" The personal terminal suddenly rang. Randy sighed subconsciously. He knew without looking that it was that little girl Xiwen again.
"Randy, you've been working for sixteen hours straight. Even if you don't accept me, you should at least accept the food, right?"
Since stubbornly following Randy to Wenxing, Xiwen simply joined the palace guard. She is enthusiastic, cheerful and casual. Although she is a girl, she is not inferior to other strong men in fighting. Therefore, she quickly integrated into the guard team and got along very well with her colleagues.
This was something Randy was happy to see, but when Xiwen chased him every day to confess his love, Randy began to have a headache.
Sure enough, as soon as I walked out of the Starry Sky Research Laboratory, I saw a familiar figure running towards me, with a smile on his face as bright as the June sunshine. "Randy, I've booked a table for you at the hotel. Let's go!"
Randy pinched his brows and said, "Xiwen, you have to understand that I am just your teacher. Your admiration for me..."
"No! I don't call you teacher anymore!" Xiwen glared and said seriously, "Randy, even if you don't like me, you can never treat my love as a joke. I, Xiwen, am confessing my love to you openly and honestly as a rational and mature adult!"
These words stunned the usually calm and self-possessed Randy. His eyes flickered, and a beautiful, weeping face naturally appeared in his mind. Her long fox tail had almost lost its luster, and her two white fox ears drooped on her head. She collapsed and shouted to Randy, "Randy, don't like me anymore. I can't bear it. I'm sorry..."
Randy's head ached, and he rubbed the corners of his eyes to clear his mind. He looked at the youthful girl in front of him and said firmly, "Xiwen, there's really no chance for us. A girl as outstanding as you deserves a boy with equal integrity and enthusiasm to join hands with you. I wish you happiness."
After saying that, Randy turned around and left in a hurry. Xiwen, who was left there, had expected this outcome, but she overestimated her ability to bear it. Tears fell uncontrollably. She tried to open her eyes wide, but her vision was still blurry. Randy gradually walked away in this blur and disappeared from her sight.
As the sky grew darker, a large, hidden base located among the hills of Snow Star began to light up under the cover of mountains and trees.
The densely packed, scattered area of bright spots is the living quarters, the busiest spot in the entire base. To the west, clusters of factories house the base's tool manufacturing and energy supply. In the center, a small, low-rise building serves as the office for core personnel. Further north, at the base's very edge, a five-story, grid-like structure serves as a reserve dormitory. This area is essentially cut off from any core base operations, and residents are limited to a maximum stay of seven days. If they fail to gain entry after seven days, they must leave.
Yu Sheng and Frey were in this dormitory building at this time. They were assigned to a dormitory with Squirrel Boy, Qiqi Mianmian and another person. These four people drank water so much that most of the water flowed down their necks. Yu Sheng couldn't stand it anymore. What's more, subconsciously, he felt that Qiqi and the others were poisoned by the "purifying milk poison", and it was also his and Frey's responsibility. After all, they clearly guessed that there was something wrong with this thing, but they still watched them drink it in order to hide themselves. This made Yu Sheng feel uneasy and guilty.
Yu Sheng first grabbed the squirrel boy, and a thread of mental power stretched out from his palm, quietly climbing up the squirrel boy's head. The mental power barrier of the Snow Star people was very weak, and for Yu Sheng, it was almost equivalent to no barrier. Therefore, Yu Sheng's mental power easily penetrated into the squirrel boy's brain to check the situation.
Yu Sheng divided his five senses over mental power and checked it thirty times before finally discovering the problem: a part of the mental power source stored in the squirrel boy's brain was contaminated.
The purifying milk acts directly on mental power, indirectly feeding back into the brain, thus causing brain abnormalities. Yu Sheng mentally analyzed the principles of the purifying milk, then released even more mental power, dividing it into countless extremely fine strands that penetrated the squirrel boy's brain from all directions, scouring the contaminated mental power sources. Simultaneously, they condensed into a blade-like shape, severing and removing them with one stroke. Then, they condensed into a ball, firmly sealing the contaminated mental power source at the center of the ball, preventing it from further contamination.
When Yu Sheng's mental power ball was taken out of the squirrel boy's brain, the squirrel boy whimpered, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, but he quickly closed his eyes and fell into a dormant state.
Yu Sheng immediately cut off the small spiritual power ball that was trapping the polluted spiritual power source. He checked the time and found that the treatment had lasted for four hours! He then looked at Frey, who was guarding him to prevent any accidents. As expected, his face was gloomy and he was breathing cold air.
Yu Sheng smiled ingratiatingly, relaxed his body and lay in Frey's arms, resting his head on Frey's arm. "I'm sorry, I didn't expect it to take so long... But it's mainly because I'm not very experienced. I should be able to do it faster after doing it a few times." After saying that, he looked at the squirrel boy lying on the bed and said, "Once he wakes up from his sleep, he should be back to normal."
At this time, in the office building at the center of the base, no one knew that there was a way to completely cure patients with "milk poison". They were still arguing over whether to continue to accept terminally ill patients with "milk poison".
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