Chapter 201 Andrew Euripides
After experiencing an interstellar jump again, Xu Lingqu finally doesn't need to act this time.
She stood in the center of the starship, and the people of Ares stood around her. Among them, Peregrine stood in the corner with mixed feelings.
Just a month ago, he appeared in front of Xu Lingqu in a swaggering manner, wondering in his mind what level of inspector Xu Lingqu could be. Now, seeing the chief being so respectful to her, Peregrine Falcon really wanted to slap himself in the face.
Could she really have killed him when she so easily snatched his gun? But then she gave the gun to Li Jingcheng, the chief imperial physician, to extract her biometric information and verify her identity... Would Xu Lingqu come after him later?
Suddenly, the white cotton ball dog she raised appeared in front of the Peregrine Falcon. The Peregrine Falcon gave a stiff smile, and the dog sniffed the Peregrine Falcon and turned away.
Lumen ran around excitedly in the starship. Before coming to the arena, Xu Lingqu had put its vitality back into the ring. When it got on the Stalker, Lumen strongly requested to come out and play, so she let it out.
The people of Ares didn't know how Xu Lingqu could inexplicably create a dog out of thin air, but no one dared to ask.
After the league finals, His Majesty Andrew sent his chief to Yuheng Star to personally protect her. It was obvious how much he valued her. Now Xu Lingqu's mental strength was definitely above S level. If it was S+...
After two jumps, the stealth fighter landed on the capital planet. Xu Lingqu walked out of the starship and entered the palace under the guidance of Chief Ares. He walked through the meeting hall in the front yard and came to a back garden.
In the back garden, in a transparent greenhouse, a tall figure was walking around. His long, flaming red hair, identical to Jin's, was very eye-catching.
Chief Ares bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty."
The greenhouse opened and Andrew Euripides walked out. He was tall and his hair was not as bright and eye-catching as gold, but dark red.
His face was pale, but his pair of black eyes were frighteningly bright, like a lion king who had experienced many vicissitudes of life, suffering from illness, but still had majesty and aura.
Xu Lingqu stood there looking at him. Andrew stared at her for about five seconds, then waved his hand and let Chief Ares leave first.
"Xu Lingqu, or should I call you Liu Lingqu? That's not right, you are you, Lingqu." Andrew spoke, his voice deep, like a bell, while observing Xu Lingqu's expression.
He had already thoroughly investigated Xu Lingqu's background. Without waiting for Xu Lingqu's response, he lowered his head to look at Liu Ming who was standing at Xu Lingqu's feet. "If I'm not mistaken, you must be Liu Ming."
Liu Ming leaned over and stared at the man in front of him warily, as if he was ready to bite him at any time.
Andrew smiled, and then the greenhouse door opened again, and a Bernese Mountain Dog came out. It walked to His Majesty Andrew's feet, squatted down, and said to Liu Ming, "Long time no see, why are you still so stupid?"
"Holding the blade! You still speak so harshly!" Liu Ming was angry.
"Where did Admiral Yinhe take you? Where is your true form? I can't sense it." Zhiren tilted his head and looked up at Xu Lingqu. "Also, where did you find a new master with a mental power level of SS+? Where is Yinhe?"
The body holding the blade is still there, and the speed of sensing Xu Lingqu's mental power is much faster than the detection equipment.
Liu Ming's ears perked up as he said to Xu Lingqu happily, "I told you! You're still getting stronger! Becoming an SSS is just around the corner, hehehe."
"What's the use of her being so strong? Where is your real body?" The blade-wielding man continued to ask this question.
"If only I knew! Okay!" Liu Ming became angry again when facing the man with the blade.
Xu Lingqu didn't mediate between the two dogs on the spot. Instead, he responded to Andrew Euripides, "It seems you've already thoroughly investigated my identity. You said I shouldn't be called Xu Lingqu or Liu Lingqu, but just Lingqu. What you're saying is that the investigation shows I have no relatives in the Interstellar Empire. Even with my biometric information, you can't find my biological parents, or even any close relatives, right?"
"Yes, even Yinhe's biological information has nothing to do with you." Andrew Yuriphis stared at the girl in front of him. He once suspected that Xu Lingqu was Yinhe's descendant, or Yinhe himself, who had lived to this day and reappeared in a different appearance, but after thoroughly investigating Xu Lingqu, he gave up this idea.
Xu Lingqu and Yinhe have the same physique, but the two have no family relationship. The most interesting point is that their biological information exists as unique copies in the empire's database.
Neither of them has any blood relatives in this world.
"Where is my birth information? Have you checked this?" Xu Lingqu continued to ask.
In the Interstellar Empire, the advent of artificial wombs has gradually replaced natural conception, with 80 percent of women opting to use artificial wombs for their offspring. Of the remaining women who wish to conceive, the Empire has decreed a maximum gestation period of five months, within which the child must be surgically transferred to an artificial womb for incubation.
First, the damage that childbirth causes to the female body is too serious. Second, the survival rate of children bred in artificial wombs is close to 100%, which is much higher than the survival rate of maternal conception.
An artificial womb cannot increase the success rate of sperm and eggs. It is only a tool to divert the pain of childbirth for women, not a machine for producing offspring. It does not turn this interstellar world into a world of socialized parenting.
However, whether in the Empire or the Federation, with artificial wombs, the government basically has control over the birth information of all their lives.
Previously, Xu Chengbi was able to completely conceal the truth because, firstly, Liu Linghui's pregnancy ended in utero and the fetus died three months later. Secondly, the autopsy reports of their group of sacrificed soldiers had been piled up in the military department and not transferred to the imperial physician. This was because Xu Chengbi colluded with the then deputy minister of the military department to embezzle their pensions.
They suppressed the autopsy reports of that group of people and reported double the number of deaths, making an excuse not to hand them over to the imperial physician. They also forced the Ministry of Finance to pay out money by claiming that the martyrs' families were in urgent need of compensation.
Back then, Liu Zhi was unable to get the pension for his granddaughter and grandson-in-law. Seeing that he was getting older and Lingqu was still a child and in poor health, he had no choice but to write a letter to Xu Chengbi to lie and ask for money.
The money Xu Chengbi sent was what they deserved, and even the total amount he sent was only one-third of the pension...
"You can talk to her in detail about your life experience." Andrew Euripides coughed twice and returned to the greenhouse to sit down and rest.
Chi Ren and Liu Ming were still staring at each other, as if they were about to fight at any moment.
The chief imperial physician, Li Jingcheng, appeared. Her ice-blue hair was exactly the same as that of Dr. Li, the school physician of Moye Military Academy.
"Haisha did a great job of keeping you a secret. She didn't even tell me some of your body data. Ares used some special methods to reconstruct that data." Li Jingcheng nodded at Xu Lingqu. "Your birth information is also unknown. You weren't born in an artificial womb. It's as if you just appeared out of thin air."
"Doctor Li told me that there are also cases in the Federation who have the same special physique as the Galactic Admiral. Could I be from the Federation?" Xu Lingqu asked.
"No, our research into the Galactic Admiral's anatomy only began within the last thirty years. The Federation simply heard we were doing research and started fabricating rumors that they also had similar anatomy data. They might not even know what's so special about it, but they're claiming to have it. We won't give it to them when we ask, hoping they'll let our guard down and release it. They've pulled this kind of frivolous trick countless times."
After Li Jingcheng denied the first half of Xu Lingqu's statement, he took a deep breath and said, "As for whether you're from the Federation, that's what I suspected at first. So I traced back your presence in the Empire. The earliest trace was when you registered at Zhuyun Frontier-X when you were two and a half years old. The record at the time stated that your grandfather, Liu Zhi, brought you here from the tenth planet in the fourth galaxy."
"That was the 79th year of the Empire. The reason for your migration was similar to most people's. A group of interstellar pirates from the Federation bypassed the space fortress's defenses and reached the tenth planet of the fourth galaxy, burning, killing, and looting. Later, this group of pirates was wiped out by Xu Chengbi at the time, and no one survived."
"If you're from the Federation, then there's only one possibility: you're the descendant of that group of interstellar pirates. But if they were out plundering, why would they bring a two-year-old like you? It's impossible for Liu Zhi to raise the offspring of interstellar pirates. It doesn't make sense, so I tend to think you're not from the Federation."
After Li Jingcheng finished speaking, he looked at Xu Lingqu who was lost in thought and asked, "Do you have anything else to ask?"
Xu Lingqu looked at her and asked, "When did the technology for artificial uterus appear?"
Li Jingcheng was surprised to hear her ask that. He glanced hesitantly at Andrew Euripides again, "Around the 120th year of the Federation, this technology... maybe because there's so little documentation available, it seems to have suddenly appeared."
After she said this, her heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason, and she felt that she had unconsciously said something extraordinary. She looked at Xu Lingqu, whose expression remained calm.
"Thank you." Xu Lingqu nodded at her and turned to enter the greenhouse. There was a set of tables and chairs made of white jade inside. Andrew Euripides was sitting there, waiting for her to answer a few questions about her life experience before sitting in front of him.
Liuming and Chiren also followed in at this time. The two dogs just had a conversation. Chiren didn't know where Liuming's real body had gone and couldn't sense it at all. He had always guessed that Yinhe took him to Yuheng and hid him, but Liuming had been in Yuheng for so long and had never felt his real body.
The memories of the two dogs are incomplete. They can still remember the fights between the three mechas and some happy daily moments, but the more important content is completely missing, so communication is useless.
Xu Lingqu sat down and looked up at Andrew Euripides: "You called me here today not just to help me answer questions, right?"
"Yes." Andrew Euripides poured a cup of scented tea and pushed it in front of Xu Lingqu. "I hope you can become the heir to this interstellar empire."
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