Xiao Xun did not return to the base. He first went back to his own home. After many days, the villa was finished. The security guard saw Xiao Xun and greeted him warmly, "Mr. Xiao, it's been a while."
Xiao Xun nodded and walked in without saying anything.
Unexpectedly, after taking two steps, a voice came from behind, "Wait."
Turning around, he looked at the security guard who had called him, "What's wrong?"
The security guard's eyes were bloodshot. "You have disrupted the peace of Blue Star, and I am going to kill you."
"Are you crazy?"
Xiao Xun ignored him, but the security guard had already lunged. These security guards were all retired, so their physical fitness was naturally top-notch.
Seven or eight security guards immediately surrounded Xiao Xun. Their eyes were red, and they kept muttering, "Kill you, kill you..."
Xiao Xun did not want to harm innocent people, so he had to leave temporarily. But these people were like zombies, no matter where they went, whom they saw, they would be pursued.
Until Xiao Xun hid in a restaurant, where everything seemed normal.
"What would you like to eat?"
"What do you have?"
"We have a menu, please sit down and take your time!"
Xiao Xun sat down. The proprietress poured him a glass of water enthusiastically, which made Xiao Xun a little unaccustomed.
He was very curious why this small restaurant was not affected. He casually ordered a few dishes and asked for a bowl of rice. He hadn't eaten properly since he went to Base One.
"Xiao Xun?"
Xiao Xun turned his head and saw Li Chenggang. It truly was a narrow road for enemies.
He saw Li Chenggang, with half of his face bandaged, carrying dishes and walking towards Xiao Xun.
After putting down the dishes, he also sat opposite Xiao Xun and said expressionlessly, "It doesn't feel good to be chased, does it!"
Xiao Xun looked at Li Chenggang in surprise. He couldn't see any killing intent or hatred in Li Chenggang's eyes. Logically, even if the people outside didn't kill him, he should have attacked him.
"Eat up! You clearly haven't eaten properly. These dishes are not poisoned, eat with confidence."
At this moment, the proprietress came over, "Is this your friend?"
Li Chenggang smiled and said, "Mom, go busy yourself! I have something to talk to him about."
The proprietress nodded and walked away.
"Aren't you curious why I didn't attack you?"
"You liked Chu Ningxiang so much, she definitely didn't manipulate you specifically, so you're fine."
Li Chenggang waved his hand. "Actually, before I left the hospital, I was already manipulated by her. It wasn't until you injured me that I completely sobered up."
He drank a glass of water. "Thinking about it now, what I did was truly disgraceful. My parents worked hard to open a restaurant and raise me, but I ended up like this."
"Actually, my family also runs a restaurant, and it's in the countryside."
"Why don't you say you're handsome! Look at me, I was already..."
The kitchen called out, "Come in and get the dishes."
"Coming right up!"
Li Chenggang responded, then said to Xiao Xun, "Wait for me!"
He carried the dishes and rice to Xiao Xun, "Try my dad's cooking."
Xiao Xun was really hungry. He picked up the rice bowl and chopsticks, and his mouth didn't stop.
"I used to be too vain and competitive, wanting to be the best in everything, always saying, why not me."
Xiao Xun put down his bowl and started eating the dishes. "Let's not talk about useless things. What are your plans for the future? Are you still going to find Chu Ningxiang?"
"I haven't seen her since I was admitted to the hospital. I heard that you paid for the medical expenses. I feel quite indebted. I treated you like that, and you still treated me like this."
Actually, Xiao Xun hadn't planned to pay, but later he met Lu Wenshan's father and after a few words, he still felt he should pay the money.
Xiao Xun pointed to the sky, "Have you seen what's floating in the sky!"
"I have. It's Chu Ningxiang's doing, right? What a crazy woman..."
Then he changed the subject. "How do you plan to deal with her?"
"Me?"
Xiao Xun sighed. "I can't do anything. The entire human race has been manipulated by her. If I do anything to her, I'll be an enemy of all mankind."
"This rich young lady is really something."
Xiao Xun looked at him, "Are there many people like you?"
"People like me?"
"People who have broken free from her manipulation."
Li Chenggang thought for a moment. "What do you want to do?"
"I want to know what you who have broken free from the manipulation have in common. If they don't change their minds, even killing Chu Ningxiang will be useless."
"I don't know about others, but me... maybe it's introversion and low self-esteem. Ever since my face was disfigured, I've become more and more insecure. I didn't want to go anywhere. If it weren't for taking care of the family business, you might not have seen me."
Xiao Xun smiled. "Okay, I understand."
He stood up to pay. The proprietress insisted on not taking the money, so he left a stack of money and went out.
Li Chenggang chased after him, "Be careful. Chu Ningxiang is quite extreme in her actions."
Xiao Xun waved his hand and said nothing.
He used his space ring to return to Saint Romant and looked at Mu Jiahe.
Mu Jiahe's belly was getting bigger day by day. Xiao Xun watched, his smile always on his face.
"Although you are smiling, why do I feel like you are not happy at all?"
"Perhaps it's because there have been too many things lately."
"How is the situation over there being handled?"
"It's not optimistic. The aliens have successfully invaded, but they haven't harmed humans."
Mu Jiahe was confused. "If they didn't harm us, is it still called an invasion?"
"Pregnancy makes you foolish for three years. Think about it, if a stranger suddenly barges into your home while you're fine, even if they don't harm you, would you want them to do whatever they want with impunity?"
Mu Jiahe frowned. "I was just saying that! Why are you so angry?"
Xiao Xun cupped Mu Jiahe's face. "I'm not angry, I'm just in a bad mood lately."
"If you don't want to, then don't go back. It's the same for me here. Let's just live well here and not worry about anything. You said yourself that the aliens won't do anything to humans."
Xiao Xun lay on the bed. "I don't want to think about those things now. Let me sleep well first. I haven't had a good night's sleep in days."
After saying that, he closed his eyes.
Mu Jiahe gently stroked Xiao Xun's temples and found that he had premature gray hair in his late twenties.
Half of it was because of Saint Romant, and the other half was because of Blue Star.
He slept so comfortably that when Xiao Xun opened his eyes, it was almost afternoon. Mu Jiahe was not there; she must have gone to the Fire Shield Divine King's Palace.
He got up and traveled to the Temple of Time and started searching for information about the Tuoluo people online. To his surprise, there was information.
They were a people who lived on a desert planet. More than sixty percent of their planet was desert, with severe desertification and very little vegetation. There were no large bodies of water like oceans.
So on their planet, water was gold. Ten liters of water could get you a wife.
Their planet had only one country, ruled by the king.
Seventy percent of the people lived by hunting, ten percent were farmers, ten percent were merchants, five percent were in other professions, four percent were officials, and one percent were members of the royal family who did nothing.
The country produced diamonds and gold, so many of their metal utensils were made of gold, looking very magnificent.
Diamonds were used as marbles for children to play with, so they vigorously developed technology, wanting to find a habitable planet.
Since their planet had no satellite like the moon to protect it, they built their own spherical artificial satellite called 'Death Star'.
This Death Star could resist any radiation damage, and the power of the cannons installed on it could shatter the core of a planet of the same mass, making it extremely formidable.
Xiao Xun read this and exclaimed, "So there really is something called the Death Star! It seems Chu Ningxiang didn't lie to me."
Then he searched for the weaknesses of the Tuoluo people. The computer showed that their intelligence was low, with only the royal family having exceptional intelligence. The rest of the people had an average intelligence below the normal line.
Xiao Xun felt this was false. If the Tuoluo people had low intelligence, how could they have created weapons of technological level like the Death Star?
Unexpectedly, there were people in the comments section who had the same idea as him. Then a netizen explained that the Tuoluo royal family had exceptionally high intelligence, and they had already made fifth-category contact with high-dimensional alien life.
They exchanged their resources for resources from other planets. Most importantly, they had four-dimensional beings as guardian deities, who were stationed on their planet, making them very powerful.
Xiao Xun left a comment below, asking how to defeat the Tuoluo people.
He realized this was not a chat, and he couldn't get a timely reply. He searched online again for how to defeat a nation with a higher technological level than oneself.
The replies he received were all about ideas like mentally disintegrating their fighting spirit, making peace, and assimilation.
He didn't find anything useful, so he searched again, what are the Tuoluo people most afraid of?
The answer he got was: black cats, because the Tuoluo people were quite superstitious and believed that black cats brought bad luck.
Xiao Xun had no choice but to return to his original world, put on sunglasses and a mask.
Then he went to the pet market and asked every shop, "Do you have any black cats for sale?"
Looking at the black spaceship overhead, Xiao Xun didn't know what kind of manipulation these people had undergone; they didn't find it strange at all.
After visiting several markets, he finally bought a black cat. After a series of packaging,
Xiao Xun used his space ring to return to the bridge of the spaceship.
Chu Ningxiang was not there, only a few Tuoluo pilots.
"Where is your princess?"
These Tuoluo people clearly couldn't understand Xiao Xun's words and were very hostile to this person who had suddenly intruded. They drew their guns and pointed them at him. Unexpectedly, when the cat in the gift box meowed, those Tuoluo people started to tremble.
Xiao Xun was amused. It seemed what was said online was true; the Tuoluo people were indeed afraid of cats.
When Xiao Xun opened the box, the black cat inside, startled, suddenly leaped out, scaring two Tuoluo people to death on the spot. The remaining three also let out strange cries and ran away.
This made Xiao Xun laugh heartily, bending over with laughter.
After finally catching the cat, he put it back into the box and closed the lid.
From a distance, the sound of high heels stepping on metal could be heard. "Xiao Xun? Why are you here again?"
"It's my birthday today, and I'm giving you a gift."
Chu Ningxiang listened, completely confused. "Why would you give me a gift on your birthday?"
"Because I want to share good things with you."
Chu Ningxiang snorted. "It doesn't feel good to be chased, does it? You know to change your ways now?"
Saying that, she took the box without opening it, sat in the command seat, and placed the box on her lap.
"Besides giving a gift, is there anything else today?"
Xiao Xun pointed at the box. "Aren't you going to open it and see?"
Chu Ningxiang said arrogantly, "The entire Blue Star is mine, what haven't I seen? As for you, hurry up and return the chip to me."
Xiao Xun couldn't recall for a moment. "What chip?"
"Don't play dumb. The people from the Door Gods Society told me that they sent you to sneak into the mothership, steal the chip, and blow up my data center. Otherwise, I would have moved long ago. Do you think I want to stay floating up here all the time!"
"You mean that chip? I gave it to headquarters."
"Nonsense, the Door Gods Society..."
"Meow~ Woo~"