Courting Death

Jia Shuiqing did not have many relatives in the Hope Star Region. As a prodigy, she had never been particularly close to them.

It was not that she was cold-hearted. It was simply that... ordinary people only lived to around one hundred and fifty.

The First Generation she had known was gone. Even the Second and Third Generations were gone. How much affection could possibly remain?

Zi Jiuxian was the only exception, because she was truly worth cultivating. The Old Lady had even killed her husband herself.

Yet even so, Professor Zi did not know that the gatekeeper of the Old Town District Library was actually her great-grandmother.

The government and military higher-ups knew this secret, but trying to arrest and interrogate her... was far from easy.

"She is a professor at Green Water Academy. Never mind her prestigious status—the Guardian Supreme is extremely protective of his own!"

University teachers did indeed enjoy high social status, and their students were scattered everywhere.

"They already investigated her connection to Panda before... is it appropriate to investigate her again now?"

After much discussion, the military ultimately decided not to make a move against Zi Jiuxian for the time being.

To show that they had not done nothing, they recorded the discussion and sent it to the Planet Three Military District.

Yet just over an hour later, a communication came through. "This is Mars. I will arrive at Second Star shortly..."

Mars was also a military Supreme, with the Poison Attribute. The Poison Attribute A-rank killed by Paranoid had been the person he thought most highly of.

They had never formally been master and disciple, but judging by their awakened attributes, their relationship could not have been poor.

Among the military Supremes, he had demanded revenge most strongly. The only reason he had