Wang Huan came here this time in order to buy a blue crystal mine located here.

The Wang family’s A-level omega Wang Siyu—this illegitimate child who had never been acknowledged before—suddenly rose to prominence when the Wang family fell into crisis.

Because he had entered into a marriage contract with the Ninth Imperial Princess, he had already been acknowledged by the Wang family head, and had even become the most highly ranked figure among the younger generation of the Wang family head’s branch.

Wang Huan and the other adult illegitimate children instead became his dependents, working for him.

Wang Siyu liked blue crystal. His grand wedding with the Ninth Imperial Princess would take place in a year, and preparations had to begin now. This blue crystal mine was prepared for the wedding.

However, the blue crystal mine was merely the surface-level task of this trip.

Because Wang Huan had performed outstandingly, she learned of some of Wang Siyu’s secrets, and she was also entangled by this secret, forced to obey Wang Siyu’s arrangements and do some private matters for him.

Not long ago, the Li family head, Li Zhichang, suddenly acknowledged his biological son who had been lost outside, Fu Qi, an omega with a mental power level of 2S.

This new favorite of the Imperial Capital’s aristocratic circle showed an unusual fondness for Wang Siyu. In outsiders’ eyes, the two quickly became close due to compatible personalities, but Wang Huan knew that there were some secrets between Fu Qi and Wang Siyu.

Not long after Fu Qi and Wang Siyu first met, Wang Siyu arranged for her to come to this place, using the purchase of a blue crystal mine as cover, and privately had her make contact with a certain force on the fringe star.

She was to meet someone, obtain a batch of items from that person’s hands, and use blue crystal as cover to send them back to the Capital Star.

If things went smoothly, she would become the person in charge of this line.

But who would have thought that before that mysterious handler came looking for her, she would first run into Wang Luan here.

This most legitimate heir of the Wang family would actually appear on a fringe star—she had not died.

Many in the Wang family believed that Wang Luan was already dead. Her fiancé, Yan Qiongyu, was a spy planted in the Imperial Capital by the criminal organization Utopia, and had become an Imperial 3S-level wanted criminal.

He framed the Fifth Imperial Prince, used terrifying mental power to guide the Fifth Prince into besieging the Capital Star, resulting in the Empire losing one legion and one imperial prince, and many aristocrats on the Capital Star suffering massive losses due to this sudden assault.

He also kidnapped the imperial prince Qing Jiangxi and Wang family heir Wang Luan and fled.

In the subsequent pursuit, some fragments of Qing Jiangxi’s remains were found. Although Wang Luan’s body was not found, everyone had more or less assumed that she, like Qing Jiangxi, had already been killed.

Yan Qiongyu’s background was dug up. Comparing it with everything his biological mother had done, no one believed that Wang Luan could survive in the hands of such a criminal who had inherited his mother’s insane methods.

Two years had passed. The Wang family was in chaos. The Wang family head was overwhelmed by genetic collapse syndrome, and the effort to search for Wang Luan had already greatly diminished. Especially after Wang Siyu came to the forefront, there were even more under-the-table maneuvers, and the search teams did not seriously search at all.

Wang Huan understood Wang Siyu very well. She also hoped even more that Wang Luan was already dead. After all, only if Wang Luan was gone would illegitimate children like them have a chance.

Therefore, the moment she saw Wang Luan and confirmed it was her, the killing intent in Wang Huan’s heart deepened.

She could not allow the Wang family to discover that Wang Luan was still alive. No matter whether Wang Luan wanted to return to the Wang family or whether she intended to compete with them, she wanted Wang Luan dead.

But she could not use the Wang family people following her. She had to think of another way.

Fortunately, this was a fringe star, the most chaotic place in the Empire. It lacked everything except desperate criminals. There were countless ways to kill someone.

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Wang Luan stayed at Qi Liao’s place for five days. Three of those days were spent repairing mechs, and the last two days were spent looking at spaceships. In the end, she took a liking to a small basic spaceship, and in order to buy it, she almost emptied all her savings.

This time, she no longer took a public spaceship back, but instead flew her own new ship back to the Little Wu District.

The new spaceship was not yet easy to handle and still needed breaking in. Wang Luan piloted the ship while pondering what kinds of modifications it needed.

The energy compartment, engine, accelerator, and jump reactor all needed to be replaced. A special coating needed to be reapplied with another twelve layers, to conceal the ship and prevent cosmic radiation, and so on. She also needed to grow vegetables on the ship, which meant installing some solar reaction boxes on the surface… there were still many things to do.

But with so many things to do, her motivation rose as well, and she could not wait to get started and try them out.

Suddenly, the steady values on one of the screens fluctuated. This represented an unknown energy reaction approaching. Without even thinking, Wang Luan manipulated the spaceship to evade an energy cannon shot.

The energy cannon missed, and a spaceship revealed itself behind her small craft.

After those months of long interstellar travel, she had learned a great deal from Captain Shanma, including the insignia of the various large and small star bandit groups that roamed the fringe stars.

She recognized this as a star bandit ship from a group that was neither big nor small, and could not figure out why they would attack such an inconspicuous private small craft like hers.

Only small star bandit groups would target lone small ships; groups like this generally only hijacked cargo ships, or private ships that looked relatively luxurious.

Wang Luan couldn’t figure it out, nor did she have time to keep thinking. That ship clung tightly behind her small craft, continuously laying down firepower, seemingly unwilling to stop until her ship was destroyed.

Could it be those few young masters she ran into last time when she went to pick up the mech? Wang Luan guessed.

No matter how good her piloting skills were, she couldn’t withstand the fact that this newly bought small ship’s hardware couldn’t keep up. Seeing that if this continued her newly bought ship would be scrapped, she sent out a signal to cease fire and surrender.

Of course she had no intention of surrendering without resistance—she was just distressed over her newly bought ship. Once the star bandit ship sent people over to take control of it, she would act depending on the situation… it wasn’t the first time she’d done this kind of thing.

Sure enough, that star bandit ship sent three people to capture her, and one of them looked very familiar.

That alpha was also startled when he saw her, lowered his head in shame, and wore an uneasy, hesitant expression.

Wang Luan remembered that his name was Ping Xiaoshan. He was one of the crew members on Captain Shanma’s dilapidated ship. He liked eating shredded radish, liked eating dumplings, could eat an entire pot in one sitting, especially liked the radish flowers planted in flowerbeds, and had even told her that the sister he depended on for survival liked flowers, asking whether he could dig up a radish flower to bring back to his sister.

“Heh, this job’s pretty profitable.”

“Hurry up, put your hands out and cuff her!” the two star bandits shouted.

Wang Luan didn’t move. Ping Xiaoshan squeezed forward and said in a rough voice, “Let me do it!”

With his back to the other two, he pretended to cuff Wang Luan.

Perhaps because Wang Luan didn’t struggle, and she didn’t look like someone with a particularly strong or imposing build, and her energy gun had already been confiscated by Ping Xiaoshan, the two star bandits didn’t take her seriously. They walked ahead, letting Ping Xiaoshan, this newcomer, escort Wang Luan at the rear.

Ping Xiaoshan glanced at the two in front and anxiously whispered to Wang Luan, “There are more than ten people on the ship, what should we do?”

He hadn’t expected the target to be an acquaintance, but now it was too late for regrets. With just him alone, there was no way to rescue her.

The two star bandits moved quickly. In the time it took to say that one sentence, the hatch of the ship ahead had already opened.

Wang Luan shook her head at Ping Xiaoshan, signaling him to give her the energy gun. Ping Xiaoshan immediately returned her energy gun to her hand. Wang Luan merely gave a light tug, and the restraints on her hands came free.

Just as the hatch opened, Wang Luan raised the energy gun.

This gun, which she herself had spent effort modifying, had an extremely fast instantaneous firing speed. The two star bandits in front, with their backs to them, fell silently, and the two star bandits waiting at the hatch hadn’t even had time to raise the guns in their hands before they were shot down head-on.

Wang Luan grabbed one person’s collar with one hand, hooked the body of another who was falling with her foot, and gently placed the two bodies in the doorway. The other two were caught by Ping Xiaoshan.

Seeing Wang Luan continue forward, Ping Xiaoshan hurriedly set the two people in his hands down and followed.

This group of star bandits had never encountered such a tough opponent. When Wang Luan entered the interior of the ship, there were still people chatting and laughing, talking about how much payment they would get this time, fantasizing about how they should spend it afterward.

Taking advantage of the fact that they hadn’t reacted yet, Wang Luan took down two more. But after that it wasn’t so smooth. The star bandits reacted, raising their guns one by one and cursing loudly.

“Careful!” Ping Xiaoshan suddenly saw someone emerge from another compartment and sneak up on Wang Luan from behind. He shouted a warning and raised his gun, blasting that person.

“Fuck! Damn it! There’s a traitor, an inside mole!”

“Kill her together!”

Wang Luan raised her gun again, but this time she did not shoot at the furious, vicious star bandits. Instead, she destroyed the lighting devices inside the cabin, and the surroundings instantly plunged into darkness.

Before the small emergency lights came on, Wang Luan killed two more people in the darkness.

She knew very clearly that with so many people, if she could not kill them in one strike, she would fall into the most dangerous situation, so she did not hold back at all.

Gunfire, chaotic shouting and curses, the sounds of people crashing into companions they could not see—all rang out together.

At times like this, Wang Luan felt that her mental power really had improved greatly. She could keenly perceive where everyone was, and her shots never missed.

By the time the emergency lighting illuminated the cabin again, there were only three star bandits still alive. In the brief darkness just now, aside from those killed by Wang Luan and Ping Xiaoshan, there were also star bandits who had died at the hands of their panicked companions.

Of the three star bandits, two shot at Wang Luan, while the other turned and ran.

Wang Luan kicked a cabinet beside her toward one star bandit. With one hand pressing on the cabinet, she leapt up, dodged the shots from the two star bandits, and charged forward, knocking both of them to the ground.

The two who were knocked down tried to fight back, but felt a wave of electric numbness surge through their bodies. Their limbs would not move, and their energy guns fell to the ground. Wang Luan held her own energy gun in one hand and one of theirs in the other, pressing them against the two men’s chins.

After two soft sounds, aside from Wang Luan, there was no one left standing in the cabin.

At this time, Ping Xiaoshan, who had gone to block the fleeing star bandit, dragged an injured leg over. Seeing that Wang Luan was covered in blood but did not seem seriously hurt, he let out a huge sigh of relief and threw the corpse in his hand onto the ground.

“What happened?” Wang Luan wiped the sticky blood off her hands, pressed down her trembling hand, and asked him.

Ping Xiaoshan slumped down dejectedly, not daring to look at her, and said in a muffled voice, “My sister has pneumoconiosis. She raised me by quarrying stone since we were young, I couldn’t watch her die. This illness needs a lot of money to treat. The money the captain gave me wasn’t enough, and the money I borrowed from others wasn’t enough either, so I… joined this star bandit group. This time, someone paid to buy your life. I didn’t know it was you. This was my first time coming out to do a job with them.”

Wang Luan didn’t know what to say, so she asked, “Then do you know who bought my life?”

“I don’t know. It was all handled by the star bandit boss. Your whereabouts were also given by that person.” Ping Xiaoshan looked ashamed and desperate, his eyes red as he looked at her. “You should hurry and leave, go hide somewhere else. I’ll take care of things here.”

Wang Luan stood up instead and pointed at a corpse. “This one is the boss?”

Ping Xiaoshan didn’t understand what she was planning to do and nodded.

Wang Luan rummaged through the boss’s body and took out a communicator. After fiddling with it for a while, she handed it to Ping Xiaoshan. “You take a photo for me and send it to the employer contacted on this, tell him to transfer the remaining payment.”

Ping Xiaoshan was still staring at her blankly when Wang Luan had already found the bloodiest spot, dragged the corpse over, and lay down on it with her eyes closed.

Ping Xiaoshan: “…………”

“Will this really work?” After doing as Wang Luan said, Ping Xiaoshan was still hesitant. “They said before they wanted to see the body with their own eyes, wanted us to bring the body over.”

Wang Luan said, “What code of conduct is there to talk about with someone hiring star bandits. Just say the body was destroyed. If he believes it, giving the money would be best. If he doesn’t, threaten and intimidate him, say you’ll go find trouble for him. There’s a fifty percent chance he’ll just pay to settle it.”

She handed the unregistered transaction card she had taken from the boss to Ping Xiaoshan. “This is probably the deposit. Take it and use it.”

Holding the transaction card, Ping Xiaoshan almost burst into tears as he looked at her. Wang Luan said, “If the remaining payment is transferred to me, I’ve been short of money lately.”

Ping Xiaoshan nodded repeatedly. “Okay, okay! I’ll definitely give it to you!”