In the sky.
More and more triangular Guardian Alliance escort ships appeared.
They hovered about a thousand meters above the ground, connected by crisscrossing electric grids. Like a net woven from currents, they completely covered Kepler-16b without leaving a single gap.
The once bright and clear sky was cast in an eerie light by the grid, pale white mixed with a dim blue glow.
Crackle!
A bolt of electricity struck down from the sky and hit a wildly fleeing Ghost Tribe member. It immediately collapsed to the ground, its limbs twitching.
It was like a confrontation between higher predators and lower prey.
Span, Kun Sang, Little Liu, and the others walked slowly through the city. Unable to bear the sight of scene after scene, they could only deliberately turn their heads away.
They were interstellar police.
Everything they did was to save the Kepler Residents.
Span suddenly heard a low growl coming from an inconspicuous building.
It was the voice of a Ghost Tribe member, but it seemed to lack some of its usual ferocity.
Curious, she walked toward the house.
She gently pushed open the door.
Inside, she saw a two-meter-tall Ghost Tribe member standing blankly in a pink room.
Before developing Split Personality, this Ghost Tribe member seemed to have been a teenager.
Span could see that the shirt stretched full of tears on his body had once been a black school uniform styled like a suit, with a bronze school badge pinned to the chest.
He... should have been a high school or college student.
He seemed not to have noticed Span's arrival.
So Span quietly observed him.
The Ghost Tribe youth stared blankly at a photograph on the wall.
It showed a youthful female student in a plaid skirt standing in the suburbs, smiling brightly.
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