Chapter 4: Investing Heavily for Him, Enhancing His Physique

As the giant approached, the firelight inside the cave cast shadows across his face, revealing his rugged features with startling clarity. His broad forehead and prominent brow ridges framed a pair of deep yellow eyes, calm yet piercing. The scar slashing across his face seemed especially menacing in the flickering cave light, lending him a fierce, almost terrifying aura.

“I received your message. Where is he?” The mountain-like man’s voice rumbled deeply, causing the eardrums of everyone in the square to throb steadily.

Xu Rui pointed to the figure lying on the ground. “Here. Take him away.”

...

“So they’ve known each other all along, and... she sold Boss Chu to the Nils?” It was said that the Nils, fierce warriors by nature, delighted in cruelty—especially in tormenting others. For a child like Xu Chu to fall into their hands, the fate awaiting him was too horrifying to even imagine.

Those on the awarding platform stared at Xu Chu in disbelief. If he had been captured by the Nils, how had he survived until now?

Yet Xu Chu remained composed, merely tilting his head slightly to gaze at the giant screen. “I’ve said before, my memories of Silver Frost Star are already very faint. Besides, when Xu Rui did those things, I was unconscious. How could I know what she did to me?”

A sardonic smile curled at the corner of his lips. “Moreover, given her nature, it shouldn’t be surprising that she could commit such heinous acts, right?”

...

The giant hoisted the unconscious Xu Chu onto his broad shoulders, excitement flickering across his solid face.

“You’ve finally come to your senses.”

Xu Rui nodded and looked up at him. “Squat down. I want to ride on your shoulders—I don’t want to walk, it’s too tiring.”

Her soft, sweet voice combined with her delicately carved face made her seem irresistibly adorable and innocent.

The giant chuckled sheepishly, scratching the back of his head. “You’re coming too? That scene is pretty brutal. Can you handle it?”

Xu Rui shook her head, her braided pigtails swaying with the motion. “I need to watch over him to feel at ease.”

Resigned, the giant crouched down. She climbed onto his shoulders, and with a swift stride, he disappeared into the darkness.

Countless sympathetic gazes followed them.

Xu Chu’s body tensed, trembling slightly with bitterness. Xu Rui had sold him to the Nils—and now she had to witness his torment in person to feel reassured?

This woman was only five years old—how could she be so cruel?

Beside them, Jiang Chen mocked, “Could it be she saved her first fortune here and bought a spaceship to leave Silver Frost Star? Boss Chu, you must be quite valuable.”

Bu Xingye frowned. “She only moved to Nevada Star at age ten. By the timeline, she should have stayed on Silver Frost Star for a few more years.”

Jiang Chen impatiently said, “Liu Han, when will you be able to detect her soul’s electromagnetic waves? Let’s settle this quickly—I find her harmful memories disgusting just to look at.”

Liu Han tapped on the virtual keyboard, and a progress bar appeared on the screen.

2%, 3%, 5%...

“I’ve locked onto her soul’s electromagnetic waves, but to strike precisely will take time. When the bar hits 100%, I can directly erase all her electromagnetic signals.”

“At that moment, she will face true death—vanishing completely from this world.”

Liu Han glanced at Xu Chu as he spoke.

Xu Chu’s eyes were dark and somber. He pressed his lips tightly but expressed no objection.

At first, he had hoped to capture her soul to resurrect his wife and child. But now, seeing this, he only wished for her death—complete oblivion!

Only then would the raging hatred inside him finally calm.

At this moment, the screen showed the giant leading Xu Rui and Xu Chu through mountains to a cave.

Nearly ten meters high, the cave contained several robots chiseling at the walls, illuminated brightly as if it were daytime.

The giant walked deeper inside until they reached a laboratory carved into the rock, where he finally stopped.

Inside were two beds—one surrounded by various needles, resembling a gruesome experimental platform.

Seeing this, Xu Chu felt a choking sensation in his throat and waves of nausea wash over him.

Xu Rui intended to use his body for experiments?

Yet the giant pressed against the wall, revealing another passage. Inside were two nutrient pods.

Opening one, a dark red viscous liquid—like thick blood—was visible.

The giant said excitedly, “If you accept my treatment, you’ll have to work for me for a year.”

Without hesitation, Xu Rui nodded, “Agreed.”

The giant smiled crudely and roughly threw Xu Chu into the nutrient pod.

To harness Xu Rui’s formidable combat power, he had been charging the nutrient pod to keep it operational, and now he finally had the chance.

As soon as Xu Chu lay inside, his skin began to corrode, becoming raw and mangled.

But soon, the medicine took effect, and his flesh visibly regenerated before the eyes.

Then it corroded again, then healed again.

This cycle repeated.

Xu Rui leaned against the glass of the pod, her large, bright eyes gradually misting with tears.

“Big guy, do you think it hurts him?”

The giant turned to operate the machinery, his voice deep and steady. “He feels nothing. There’s anesthesia in the liquid.”

Xu Rui wiped her tears with her sleeve, wanting to see more clearly, to confirm that her brother showed no sign of pain.

But no matter how she wiped, the glass remained fogged and wet.

When alone with Xu Chu, she had always been commanding and proud, like a little princess ordering him around.

Now, for the first time, she revealed the emotions of a five-year-old child.

Fear. Helplessness.

Several men on the awarding platform watched the screen intently.

They had seen many sides of Xu Rui: seductive and beguiling, lively and innocent, cold and ruthless…

But never vulnerable or afraid.

It turned out she was not inherently evil—at least not at this moment, she still had a sincere heart.

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