After Becoming an Alpha Upon Meeting an Alpha - Chapter 12

Su Cha said, “No, I’m not!”

Leng Zhuoyan: “…”

She looked deeply at Su Cha and did not deny it.

Wendy said, “That isn’t important.”

She gave a light cough and remembered the real reason she had come.

“That thing you mentioned yesterday… does it still count?”

After Su Cha said those things yesterday, they had gone home and thought about it seriously for half the night. Then, in the middle of the night, they contacted one another and began holding a meeting. Every family sent someone who could make decisions, and the group argued until dawn. In the end, they decided to let a portion of willing people try first. If it truly worked, then everyone would join. If it did not, the others could still provide support.

The mechanical-legged driver slapped his thigh and was the first to agree to this proposal. “All of you have families and children. You’re not like me. In my whole large family, I’m the only one left. If this matter really is feasible, then everyone can follow after me. If it doesn’t work, I’m already almost a machine man anyway. Being able to help everyone before I die is enough to satisfy me.”

“Dark…”

Everyone’s expressions stirred. In the end, they still agreed to this decision.

In the end, only eight people chose to agree to work with Su Cha for now. Among them were the mechanical driver, Wendy, three half-grown children, a wise elder, and two physically strong young people.

“For now, the eight of us will follow you. If you can truly lead us onto the right path, then everyone on the planet will follow you together.”

Su Cha also knew that it was impossible to expect these people to work with her without her showing anything first, so having these eight people was already very good.

“Then let’s start with eight people.”

“Bring them here. I need to ask them some basic information.”

Wendy said, “All right.”

She went to say something to Norma, then left on her little motorcycle.

Looking at her departing figure, Norma’s gaze shifted back toward the main hall. She had a feeling that it was very dangerous inside.

66 diligently wiped the seats with a rag. Looking at Norma, who was spacing out again, it asked, “Norma, want to play flower arrangement?”

“Oh.”

Norma knew there were many things Su Cha did not want her to know, so she obediently stopped looking over.

Inside the main hall, there was silence. Leng Zhuoyan sat opposite Su Cha, looking at her with cool eyes, saying nothing.

Su Cha thought of the Zerg corpse in 66’s space twist, then thought of the Zhuyu grass that she still could not figure out how to produce seeds from. She gave a light cough and said, “Do you have anything else?”

If not, then leave. Don’t keep disturbing me from farming.

Leng Zhuoyan’s gaze was stubborn. “You are not Su Cha.”

Su Cha: “?”

Although she had been exposed, Su Cha clearly had no intention of admitting it. “What are you talking about? I don’t understand.”

“Su Cha isn’t like this. You only have the same face as her. Or rather, are you actually an unknown twin deliberately left behind by researchers back then?”

Leng Zhuoyan’s imagination ran wild as she tried to prove that this person really was not that person.

Su Cha: “…”

She let out a soft sigh, not understanding why this person was so persistent. She clearly could not guess the truth, yet she still insisted on letting her imagination run loose.

“You won’t be able to guess it. And I am indeed Su Cha.”

Just not that Su Cha.

“I don’t understand where I gave you that misconception, but I am me.

“Leng Zhuoyan, I know I treated you badly in the past, but I’ve already thought things through now. It was nothing more than a woman who kept stringing me along and wanted benefits from me. If you want her, then take her. My brain is already clear now.”

Leng Zhuoyan still shook her head, holding firmly to her own thoughts. “No. You’re not her.”

“You two are different.”

She trusted her intuition.

Su Cha lowered her eyes. “Enough.”

“What exactly do you still want?”

Leng Zhuoyan took a deep breath and remembered the purpose of her visit. “I’ll help you. In return, give me control over Water Blue Planet. It doesn’t have to be all of it. I only need absolute freedom.”

“There’s no such thing as absolute freedom in this world. At most, I can give you relative freedom.”

Leng Zhuoyan was not picky. “Then relative freedom. But I need power.”

“I need power second only to yours. I want to be the second-in-command of Water Blue Planet.”

Su Cha looked her up and down and said honestly, “You’re very ambitious.”

“But based on your ability, you may not necessarily be able to do it. I need proof from you.”

Leng Zhuoyan asked, “How do you want me to prove it?”

Su Cha said, “For the people who are coming next, I need you to personally check what they’re capable of, then arrange suitable positions for them.”

Leng Zhuoyan understood. This was testing her leadership ability.

“I understand. Leave it to me.”

She said meaningfully, “If I do it well…”

Su Cha did not drag things out and directly promised, “Then the position of second-in-command is yours.”

Leng Zhuoyan said, “Good.”

After Wendy arrived with the remaining seven people, Leng Zhuoyan received them.

“I’ll be the one arranging you. From now on, the person who coordinates with you will be me. I am Su Cha’s newly appointed assistant.”

Wendy looked at Su Cha doubtfully. Su Cha nodded. “That’s right. Temporarily.”

Thinking of the relationship between these two people, Wendy understood. What assistant? Wasn’t this just a wife-and-wife team?

She understood.

“I am the captain of the first squad of this planet’s defense force. I know about all kinds of major and minor matters on this planet, and I have contact with the other defense force captains. If there’s anything you don’t understand in this regard, you can ask me.”

Wendy first stated her advantage, openly declaring that she was one of the local leaders of this planet.

Leng Zhuoyan understood. She said nothing, only used her light brain to take an image of her, then filled in her strengths and skills on the form.

“Old sir, what about you?”

She asked the elder first. After all, he had lived a long time and knew more.

The old man was already over eighty this year. In an era where people who had successfully differentiated and possessed mental power could live to one hundred and fifty, or even longer, betas like them only had a maximum lifespan of one hundred and twenty.

Even so, the old man’s body was still very strong, and his movements were steady. He briefly explained what he knew how to do.

“I used to be a civilian robot designer. For the first thirty years, the latest CK-series household robots on the market were all designed by me. It’s just that later, because I had no mental power, I had no way to personally manufacture high-quality robots, so I was gradually eliminated.”

Speaking of this, the old man sounded somewhat helpless, but he also understood that this was inevitable.

As a beta, he had no mental power, so he could not create more refined things. There were also many things that could not be made through brute force alone. He knew his shortcomings, but he was still unwilling to give up. He still wanted to fight for one more chance.

Although he had fallen silent over the years, there were still some things that made him feel rather good.

“These years, I’ve also relied on discarded parts everyone bought to make some simple transportation tools myself. The buses on this planet were all pieced together by me using scrap materials. Old Liu has driven his for thirty years, and it’s still as stable as before.”

“And Old Liu’s mechanical eye and mechanical leg were also made by my own hands. They’ve been used for around twenty years.”

The mechanical driver nodded, proving the old man’s words. “That’s right. They work very well.”

Su Cha thought of the broken-down bus she had ridden before. She paused and did not refute it. Although it looked very dangerous, it was indeed quite stable. With so many people squeezed on it, the bus had not collapsed.

As for the mechanical driver’s leg, thinking of the screw that had almost flown out at the time, she fell even more silent.

Leng Zhuoyan had never ridden the bus and did not know how the vehicle actually was, so she marked his ability as pending, to be judged after inspection.

The three half-grown boys had not differentiated yet. They were sixteen this year, but they had already graduated. This planet had no university. All the learning materials they had before had been left behind when pirates attacked.

Because of that, the contents were very mixed. They had also once obtained an unbound terminal from pirates, but they were undocumented residents without identification, so they could not bind it.

The pirates were also undocumented residents, and wanted criminals at that, so they were even less able to bind it. Even so, that terminal could connect to the education network of a neighboring planet.

That was how Water Blue Planet’s school materials had come about.

However, since it was a pirate’s item, after connecting to that education network once, it automatically closed. It even blacklisted the terminal and almost triggered an alarm.

Therefore, the school on Water Blue Planet stopped at middle school.

Everything after that could only rely on the skills people passed down by word of mouth, then compiled into materials. For things like combat, the defense force had passed down combat training methods generation after generation. Only then had they been able to protect Water Blue Planet with their lives.

They had no accurate training methods. They could only figure things out bit by bit, improve bit by bit, and patch things up bit by bit.

The mechanical driver’s leg and eye had been destroyed during the war with pirates more than twenty years ago. However, because he had still been young back then and his body had been strong, he had survived the rejection between his body and the mechanical parts.

He was a hero, but the physical pain would follow him for the rest of his life.

After being injured, he retired from his position in the defense force.

It was also because of this that Su Cha and Leng Zhuoyan learned that this planet’s defense force was not made up entirely of alphas. Betas could join as long as they were capable, and that included omegas.

On this planet, even omegas, who were supposed to be naturally delicate and weak, were astonishingly tough.

They were no different from everyone else. They also had to put in equal labor in order to receive corresponding food. People would not treat them preferentially because of their omega status.

Leng Zhuoyan had not expected Water Blue Planet to be this difficult, yet this resilient. A bit of pity appeared on her usually indifferent face.

“I understand your situation now.”

“After this, I will arrange you into corresponding positions according to your circumstances. Don’t worry. All of you will receive the positions most suitable for you.”

Wendy was somewhat nervous. Her clenched fist quietly loosened, and her sweaty palm was hidden behind her back as she quietly rubbed it against her waist.

Su Cha pondered for a moment and said, “I bought several large transport flying vehicles. I need a few people who can drive to come for training and take up the jobs. In the future, everyone’s travel will be much more convenient.”

“Also, I will have Deputy Leng ‘download’ some of the latest teaching materials to update the school’s resource library. Starting next month, everyone who has graduated from middle school must return to school and begin high school.”

“Although I don’t yet have the ability to let you attend universities on other planets, I am still a university student, after all. I understand quite a few things.

“I promise that within three years, I will establish a university so everyone can receive a better education.”

Previously, Su Cha had felt that the teaching content was wrong and completely different from the education she had received in university. Now she understood. It was because she had been attending a completely different kind of “middle school.”

However, this also showed that her cheap father had never investigated this planet’s situation at all before transferring her here.