Chapter 285: Chapter 285: Arriving at Chaotic Star

Jiang Qin never expected to run into another lily after Qi Shan.

’Is it my bad luck that I attract this kind of person, or are there just that many lilies in the Interstellar era?’

’The men in this Interstellar era sure have it rough.’

But while she respected others’ sexual orientations, that didn’t mean she wanted to partake. She still preferred her mates’ eight-pack abs and chiseled V-lines.

So she turned and rejected Yamaguchi Qiongzi.

But the slightly unhinged girl’s eyes brightened. “Sister, you’re the first female who hasn’t looked at me with disgust after I said that!

I knew you were different from the others. I first noticed you during that live variety show.

At first, I thought you were just like them, only putting on an act.

But ever since we became pen pals, I could feel your gentle heart through your writing.”

Jiang Qin was suddenly reminded of her first life.

The orphanage had never been short of sick children.

Thanks to the director’s painstaking research, their orphanage often received donations.

Whenever that happened, the director would ask the sick children to write thank-you letters and add some cute drawings.

Any child who finished would get a piece of candy.

The older children considered writing these letters an ordeal.

The younger children didn’t think too much about it. They believed they got a piece of candy because of the person receiving the letter, so their gratitude was especially sincere.

Later, Jiang Qin had received such letters herself.

Every time she visited An Xin, An Xin would give her a jar of folded paper stars.

She told her to unfold one every day when she got back.

Inside were the words An Xin had for her each day—messages of thanks, encouragement, happiness, and sadness, all accompanied by cute, colorful drawings.

That was, until the stars gradually started to contain words like: ’Qinqin, maybe… just give up.’

Only then did she realize that even someone as strong as An Xin could have thoughts of giving up on life after a long illness.

To help her, Jiang Qin also prepared replies in her spare time, folding a daily message for An Xin into a star of her own.

When the stars in their exchanged jars were all unfolded, it meant they would be seeing each other soon.

It was mainly because Jiang Qin was too busy and could only squeeze in time to visit her and exchange the jars of stars.

So when Wang Jiajia’s first handwritten letter reached her, she was suddenly reminded of those days.

The image that surfaced in her mind’s eye was of a tiny An Xin, sitting on her hospital bed in a patient’s gown, her head shaved.

And in that moment, she had written back.

After that, Wang Jia’er would bring her a letter and take one away every day.

Neither of them ever mentioned exchanging Light Brain Numbers.

Jiang Qin had even arranged long ago for Lan Yuyan to organize various forms of aid for pure human females with genetic diseases.

She even pre-ordered some medications that were difficult to purchase on the market.

For a moment, she had genuinely thought of this poor little girl—whom she had never met but clicked with so well—as a younger sister.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so eager to meet her at the birthday banquet.

That first glance had stirred a sense of pity in her heart that she hadn’t felt for a long time.

This caused her to overlook many details.

Snapping out of her recollections, Jiang Qin turned to avoid Yamaguchi Qiongzi’s touch and bluntly told her to leave. “I’d like to rest. Could you please leave?”

Yamaguchi Qiongzi didn’t insist on staying. “Then get some rest, Sister. I’ll be back to see you later.”

Jiang Qin couldn’t be bothered to argue about age, so she said nothing in response to being called “Sister.”

In any case, she refused to believe that Yamaguchi Qiongzi, who had already trafficked nearly twenty thousand females, was only fourteen or fifteen, as her appearance suggested.

…

After the girl left, Jiang Qin inspected the room.

Wary of surveillance, she didn’t try to use her Superpower. However, she could still control the few manifestations she had deployed outside with her Spirit Sea.

She could see the spaceship’s layout through the eyes of her manifestations.

The little creature following Fire Wolf, meanwhile, was able to see the hidden side of the vessel.

It turned out that besides her, the ship was also carrying a batch of Half-beastmen.

They didn’t have the luxury of a private room like she did, however. Several of them were crammed together in a cage.

Most were still unconscious. Fire Wolf, however, had someone open a cage and drag away several female Half-beastmen.

He then entered a room much larger and more luxurious than hers.

The subsequent scene was deeply unsettling. Jiang Qin didn’t watch any further, shifting her perspective elsewhere.

The spaceship wasn’t very large, with only about two or three hundred Beastmen on board.

Apart from the flight crew, the other Beastmen were essentially all fugitives, every one of them exuding a murderous aura.

After getting a general overview, Jiang Qin destroyed several of her manifestations, leaving only three active.

Then she closed her eyes to rest.

As for contacting Yun Xie and the others, she couldn’t. Her Light Computer had been destroyed and her Space Button had been taken while she was inside that Beastman’s stomach.

Fortunately, ever since her power had upgraded and given her the small plantation, she had started storing her most valuable possessions—as well as system-issued clothing and jewelry—in an empty plot there.

So, while she was heartbroken about losing her Space Button, she wasn’t overly worried.

’Still, it hurts so much!’

It had been full of her daily necessities, as well as gifts from her mates and their families.

Every single item was precious.

’Whatever. No use thinking about it. I need to get some rest and wait for an opportunity to escape when the ship docks.’

***

Without her Light Computer, Jiang Qin had a fuzzy sense of how much time had passed on the ship.

But Yamaguchi Qiongzi came to see her roughly every two hours, so she estimated that about two days had passed in the outside world.

Including the day spent in the Beastman’s stomach, it must have been the night of the third day or the early morning of the fourth when their spaceship finally docked.

Yamaguchi Qiongzi opened the password-locked door, led her out, and said with a smile, “Sister, welcome to Chaotic Star~”

Below the spaceship lay the port of Chaotic Star.

Unlike the ports she had seen before, this one looked like it had been cobbled together.

Many of the materials weren’t single, solid pieces. Some parts were old, some new, and the colors were a mishmash, giving it a refitted, industrial vibe.

The environment here was even worse.

There was no seasonal simulator, so everything was shrouded in darkness. The sky was pitch-black, without a moon.

Dim lights illuminated only the port itself; farther out, there weren’t even any streetlights.

Yamaguchi Qiongzi chuckled. “I bet you’ve never seen a place this poor, have you, Sister? And look, they even have lights.

Not like Federation Central City, which glitters with all kinds of neon lights as soon as night falls, the whole city lost in celebration.

The power resources here are scarce. There’s simply not enough surplus energy to provide electricity to the entire planet.

Since they can’t afford a seasonal simulator here, there’s no sun or moon, and they’re in a constant state of water shortage.

In short, it has nothing.

But don’t you worry, Sister. Dr. A’s laboratory has everything. You won’t have to suffer like we do.”

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