Chapter 40: Did They Encounter Space Pirates?

Xu Rui watched the mother and son walk away before opening the Star Network to contact Eleven.
Eleven asked her to meet at the spaceship's surveillance room.
When Xu Rui arrived, Eleven was clicking through all the spaceship's monitoring feeds, reviewing them frame by frame.
"It truly lives up to its five-star difficulty rating. You try it—see if you can spot any Zerg through the surveillance footage."
Outside the screen, everyone held their breath, eyes wide as they followed Xu Rui's line of sight.
Her vision turned red again.
As he spoke, the wrinkles on the old man's face seemed to smooth out, making his skin appear remarkably supple.
Yet he had not expected this: just a moment ago, when he was coming down the stairs, his father had been sitting on the sofa drinking coffee with a serious expression. But only a few steps later, he saw his father walking over to his mother.
Mo Ziyan watched as the giant bird flapped its magnificent wings before him, landing on the edge of the stone platform with its back toward him and Ye Ci. The bird turned its head to look at them, as if signaling for Mo Ziyan and Ye Ci to climb onto its back.
At the thought of this, his heart warmed, and he felt an urge to whisk Su Jin and Nan Wuzhu away to discuss the techniques of jade carving elsewhere.
Everyone believed that he had appeared at this moment for only one purpose: to back his brother, Xu Tianlei.
Ban Ziyi sat at the octagonal table, watching her usually composed mother-in-law, who seemed to be facing some kind of dilemma today, her face full of hesitation. She felt deeply grateful to her mother-in-law; her ability to navigate the Pu household with such ease was inseparable from the woman's affection.
I was stunned for a moment and glanced at Han beside me. Han must have heard it too; I saw his expression darken instantly. Damn it! This cursed Nokia phone—why was the earpiece volume so loud?
Bo Yanxi nodded. "Perhaps, but life has no 'what ifs.' Besides, one never knows what one will encounter in life. You don't get to decide what you want to meet and what you don't."
"Are you crazy? No matter what I say, is there any need to self-harm like this?" Now that her heart had relaxed, she couldn't help but lecture him. How could anyone treat their own body so recklessly?
That day, she waited at home specifically for Qian Jinbao. Lately, he had seemed very busy, always returning only after she had fallen into a deep sleep. This time, she insisted on waiting; even though she was incredibly drowsy, she forced herself to stay awake.
"But you can't beat me, so how could you kill me with a single sword stroke? Besides, how would you know who is in my heart, and how could you possibly control it?" Tang Lang asked, somewhat roguishly.
Furthermore, where was Agent Braddock now? Had he discovered something before he went missing?
The Liangzhuang Police Station held no secrets from the Liuxia Police Station; whatever was shouted over the walkie-talkies, Director Ning heard it all.
The Yuan military's "Jiangnan Camp," established near the eastern part of Poyang Lake, possessed one hundred thousand elite troops. Situated in the heart of the territories held by Xu Shouhui, Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youliang, Fang Guozhen, and Zhang Shicheng, it posed a massive threat to all the rebel armies.
Suddenly, without the slightest warning, the void beyond the open dome of the Nine-Layer Devil's Den shattered. A stone about three zhang high appeared, crystalline like glaze and ancient yet plain. In the center of the stone was a blade-shaped aperture that pierced all the way through.
Jiang Chen issued the next set of instructions to the launch center: when the next supply rocket was sent to the lunar colony, the "Seed" was to be loaded onto it.
However, Chen Shou neither let go nor pulled Gu Yue Ling'er back, but instead kept his face half a foot from hers, gazing at her with sincere intensity.
His "Gangnam Style" dance video went viral in the United States, further driving his popularity back home to new heights.
It was precisely because she possessed this advantage that Bai Ling had always made full use of it.
He covered the corpses with twigs and gravel, and then buried them with soil.