Chapter 25

“Ah, is that so?”

Su Cha also looked away unnaturally and sat up straight, giving a light cough. “I’m done using it. Thank you.”

Leng Zhuoyan said, “Mm.”

The two turned their heads aside and did not speak again.

The spaceship advanced silently. Modesty checked the damaged areas and found that they were all relatively serious spots. Repairing them would require quite a lot of star coins. Moreover, the outer shell material used for the spaceship itself was not something ordinary people could obtain. If they wanted to repair it, they would have to have someone tow it to the Tao family.

She was just about to turn back and discuss the details with Su Cha when she discovered that the two people sitting behind her both looked a little dazed. The atmosphere was also somewhat awkward and ambiguous.

Modesty: “?”

What were these two being awkward about at a time like this?

In order to stop the two from continuing to be awkward, she decided to speak and break the silence. “Su Cha, the materials used for this spaceship still have to be bought from the Tao family. It may be very expensive, so pay attention to that later.”

Su Cha, who had escaped from the awkwardness, nodded messily. “I understand. I’ll talk to Tao Yi about it.”

After Modesty interrupted, the awkward and ambiguous atmosphere on the spaceship dissipated quite a bit. At least Su Cha no longer felt too embarrassed to face Leng Zhuoyan.

The people on this side were rushing back, completely unaware that Norma in the manor had already started crying. All of this was because Su Cha had turned off her light brain.

66 was a different kind of robot. After obtaining the upgrade permission in Su Cha’s light brain, it had updated all of its own data and internal programs. It had even gone deeper into Su Cha’s light brain and bound a simple little program to it, allowing it to contact her through the light brain without anyone else discovering it.

But a few days after Su Cha left, 66 discovered that it could no longer contact Su Cha’s light brain. A powered-off light brain would block its own light brain signal as well.

66, unable to contact Su Cha, knew that she might have fallen into danger. But although it was a robot, it could not fly into the universe, nor could it take off. So it could only stay in the manor and worry anxiously.

Norma, who had noticed several times that 66 was not responding to her, sensed that something was wrong. After asking about it, she learned what had happened. Immediately, one person and one robot became anxious at the same time. They wanted to find someone for help, only to discover that the entire planet had only one spaceship, and that was the one Su Cha had flown away in.

Without a spaceship, they could not enter the universe. If they could not enter the universe, they could not find Su Cha and the others traveling through space.

Norma gritted her teeth and went to find Monica, who seemed rather capable.

As for why she did not look for Wendy, it was because she felt that since Monica’s alpha was up there, the person Monica was anxious for must be the same as hers. Wendy would help her too, but that kind of worry was different.

Sure enough, the moment Monica heard they could not contact Su Cha, she immediately began trying to contact Modesty. But the spaceship drifting through the universe had been shot, and its signal receiver could not be turned on at all. Naturally, there was no way for Monica to contact Modesty.

Unable to contact Modesty, Monica’s only seeing eye instantly reddened. The next moment, she wanted to go find Elder Yu, the former designer, and ask him whether he could use scrap materials to make a spaceship capable of entering the universe.

Seeing Monica’s impulsive appearance, 66 somewhat regretted telling Norma about this. It quickly held Monica back and persuaded her, “Don’t panic. Maybe this is because signal connection is slow in the universe, not because something happened to them.”

Monica pressed her lips tightly together. Her mind was filled with all kinds of bloody images, and she was afraid she would see Modesty in one of them. “But I’m very worried.”

66 said honestly and sharply, “They should be coming back soon. Besides, we don’t have a spaceship. Even if you go find Elder Yu, he has no way to make one.”

The first step in making a spaceship was using mental power to forge the materials. The higher the mental power rank, the better the forged materials. The higher their resistance to attacks would be as well, because mental power would continuously remain inside the material through the forging process, constantly strengthening the material’s toughness.

So the reason spaceships were expensive lay here. Labor costs made up the majority of it.

Monica bit the nail of her thumb, somewhat uneasy.

“Then we’ll wait a little longer.”

This was the first time she had been separated from Modesty for so long. She could not adapt to it at all.

Seeing that it had persuaded her to stop, 66 let out a breath of relief. Blue light flickered in its mechanical eyes, afraid this person might suddenly decide to fly an aircraft straight out of the planet.

Aircraft were relatively cheaper because their interiors had not been repeatedly tempered by mental power.

By the time Su Cha and the others finally entered Water Blue Planet’s atmosphere, the area below was already full of people. Everyone wanted to know where Su Cha, who had been gone for several days, had gone.

Everyone had thought she might not come back.

“Why is everyone still here?”

Seeing through the viewing mirror that everyone was still there, Su Cha was somewhat surprised. They had been gone for several days. Normally, people with no patience should have left long ago.

“Maybe they were worried you wouldn’t come back.”

After not seeing Monica for several days, Modesty also missed her greatly. The moment the spaceship stopped steadily, she rushed out of the spaceship. Then she fiercely pulled Monica, who was standing at the very front, into her arms. Only after deeply inhaling the scent of Monica’s pheromones did her tense nerves feel much better.

Monica’s eyes were red as she leaned against Modesty’s arms, looking wronged. She softly asked where Modesty had gone and why she had taken so long to return.

Modesty did not say how dangerous things had been earlier, nor did she mention the genetic modification experiments. These were all secrets concerning Monica, so she only briefly said that she had gone to pick up Leng Zhuoyan.

But Monica looked at the spaceship, which had been new and bright when it left and had returned battered and broken. She knew Modesty must have experienced many things, only that they were inconvenient to say. She did not fuss about it either. She only hugged Modesty tightly, inhaling the other party’s pheromone scent to soothe her panicked heart.

Only after breathing in enough did Monica murmur, “I missed you so much.”

Modesty kissed her lips, her eyes full of longing, as well as something deeper. Her gaze darkened. “Me too.”

Watching the two of them pour their hearts out to each other, Su Cha guiltily touched her nose. She kept feeling that she had done something inhumane by making two people who loved each other so much suffer the pain of separation.

“Sister!”

Norma immediately drove her little wheelchair over. Then, with a flying pounce, she landed directly in Su Cha’s arms. Her small hands held Su Cha’s body tightly, and her whole person was trembling with fear.

But she knew these things could not be said loudly outside, so she leaned quietly in Su Cha’s arms and told her what 66 had said, as well as her own worries.

Su Cha’s eyes warmed. “Sister will pay attention next time.”

“What happened this time was sudden. It won’t be like this next time.”

“Mm.”

Norma smiled through her tears again and was carried by Su Cha back into her wheelchair.

Although holding her was also fine, Su Cha had many things to do next. If she kept holding Norma, it would instead be inconvenient.

Leng Zhuoyan’s parents were also among the worried crowd. The moment they saw their daughter get off the spaceship, they went up to meet her. Seeing the extent of the spaceship’s damage, their pupils shrank, and they roughly understood something.

They pulled Leng Zhuoyan over and examined her carefully. After discovering that she had not suffered any overly serious injuries, they immediately let out a breath of relief and quickly pulled their daughter back to use a treatment instrument to check for internal injuries.

Leng Zhuoyan did not even have time to say a few more words to Su Cha before she was pulled away. But thinking of the school construction later, she figured there would still be opportunities. There was no need to rush to speak right now.

After Su Cha answered everyone’s questions and told Tao Yi about the spaceship’s condition, she turned back again read the original at bailiantales.comand discovered that only Norma, Wendy, and 66 remained here.

Everyone else had already left. The moment Modesty got off the spaceship, she hugged her delicate little wife and went to comfort her. Originally, she had thought of saying something to Su Cha before leaving, but seeing that Su Cha was surrounded by people asking questions nonstop, she simply told 66 and then carried Monica home.

She had been away from home for so many days and made Monica worried and afraid. She had to properly make it up to her.

The rabbit-ear headband on her head had fallen off during their deep kiss. Before leaving, Monica had casually scooped it up.

Wendy had stayed behind to confirm that Su Cha truly was safe. Seeing that Su Cha was still fine after dealing with so many people, she finally relaxed. “Everyone was worried you had flown away in the spaceship and wouldn’t come back.”

In truth, there was also the planetary subsidy. Su Cha had only just submitted it, and it was still under review. Everyone was also afraid that she had only done all this for the subsidy, and that the previous groundwork had only been to gain their trust. In the end, she might still have wanted to use them for experiments.

On some planets even more remote than theirs, there were still quite a few experimental bases. Those places were darker than the black market. They were practically hell on earth, just like the planet Monica had been on before.

If she had not escaped and spoken about it, no one would ever have noticed how unsafe these marginal places were.

However, Wendy had always stood on Su Cha’s side. She firmly believed Su Cha was not that kind of person. She would definitely come back.

And look, she had indeed waited until Su Cha returned.

“But it’s good that you came back safely. The spaceship is so badly damaged. Did you get into a fierce battle? Did you run into pirates?”

Pirates often visited border regions. Although they were poor, not all pirates were after money. Some were after omegas and alphas, as well as beautiful betas.

Selling them to certain small nobles on the fringes could also bring in quite a lot of wealth.

She was direct as well, saying whatever she had to say without any intention of hiding it. She was exactly the same as Modesty, probably because of Water Blue Planet’s local customs.

Su Cha smiled lightly and swept a hand through her hair, brushing it behind her head and revealing her full, fair forehead. “I discovered quite a few things on this trip. It was very rewarding.”

“I even found a big fish.”

Wendy was somewhat worried. “A big fish turning over is very dangerous. It’s better for us to stay farther away and not risk ourselves.”

A big fish was not something a small planet like theirs could swallow. If they were even a little careless, they could be crushed to death when the big fish turned over.

Thinking of the Qu family’s human genetic experiments, Su Cha’s gaze grew firm. “When the nest is overturned, how can any egg remain intact? Since we discovered it, we have to catch it.”

A handle delivered right to their door—if she could not make good use of it, then it would lose all meaning.

Moreover, the Qu family had long since noticed her. Now that she had played them once, it was highly possible that they would use her as their next target.

The planetary subsidy application she had submitted was both her biggest loophole and her greatest hope.

Not submitting it would not work. Without submitting it, there would be no future. But once she submitted it, people would unauthorized copydiscover that she had already left the Su family.

Without the Su family’s protection, every step she took was like walking on thin ice. At any moment, she could be suppressed by the Su family’s enemies seeking revenge.

Those people could not deal with Su Yunshan, so they could only target her, the youngest daughter who had been driven out of the Su family. As long as she was crushed, no matter whether Su Yunshan acknowledged her as his daughter or not, it would make Su Yunshan lose face.