Wei Lanshan smiled. "You've already memorized a lot. Digest it first. I'll store all this in the chip, and once we're safe, you can study it slowly on your own."
What a curious little thing. This test subject was unexpectedly interesting.
Wei Lanshan felt that this journey of escape with 99 would be a happy one.
99 said, "I can memorize more. This world is so beautiful, and so interesting."
Wei Lanshan said, "Mm. This starfield is vast and magnificent, but it is also filled with danger."
99 knew that these dangers were probably the interstellar wars Wei Lanshan had yet to mention.
After a full day of questions and answers, 99 lay by the spacecraft window, staring out into the blackness beyond—deep and still, like an ancient well without ripples.
Enormous celestial bodies occasionally swept past her eyes, along with meteors that brushed past their spacecraft.
Wu Yuan's spacecraft piloting skills were incredible. He could dodge incoming meteors in an instant. For that alone, 99 decided she would no longer hold his coldness against him!
99 gazed at the boundless scenery outside the window, thinking over everything Wei Lanshan had told her.
The spacetime she now inhabited was infinitely vast—so vast that it contained multiple Alliances and thousands of star systems. Yet there was no Blue Star, no sun, and no galaxy called the Milky Way.
When Wei Lanshan had explained the Alliance's structure, she had listened carefully. There was no Solar System, nor was there a Milky Way.
She did not know whether it was because that place was too far from here for any signal to reach, or because she and that place were not in the same universe.
Before she even had time to grieve, the place she came from had already become impossible to trace.
99 let out a deep sigh in her heart.
From the moment she had been born as a baby, that world had completely become the past.
In this life, she would still have to move forward alone.
Wei Lanshan had become both her first teacher and the person who had saved her life.
Although Wei Lanshan had kept her locked in a laboratory for four years solely to develop a medicinal formula to treat someone else, she had also come into this world because of her.
What kind of karmic entanglement was this? 99 no longer wanted to examine it too deeply.
What mattered was that she was still alive, alive and healthy. As for the suffering she had endured over those four years, she would treat it as the price she had needed to pay for living a second life.
Wei Lanshan took 99 with her while Wu Yuan piloted the spacecraft. They raced through deep space for five days, repeatedly changing course to throw Tang Yongyu and Ye Yunhan off their trail.
Throughout those five days, Wei Lanshan continuously filled 99's mind with all kinds of knowledge. She knew she would not be able to stay with 99 for much longer. Once she delivered 99 somewhere safe, she would leave.
So she seized every opportunity to teach her, explaining all sorts of things about the Alliance.
Five days later, after circling around in a huge loop, the spacecraft stopped at Tianning Star Second Guard.
They disembarked at the Spaceport and took a Hovercar down to the surface.
As for what identity Wei Lanshan had used to land there so smoothly, 99 had no idea.
Before leaving the spacecraft, Wei Lanshan set a destination on a different route and activated its self-destruct program.
That way, the spacecraft would vanish without a trace before reaching its destination, buying them a little time.
99 stared wide-eyed at Tianning Star Second Guard before her. She already knew that the Q68 where she had been born was merely an unnamed subordinate planet with only a number, belonging to the Tianning Star System.
Even a satellite of Tianning Star was this prosperous, and Tianning Star ranked beyond a thousandth place in the Alliance. 99 did not dare imagine what Alliance worlds must be like.
In this vast world, she would live here from now on.
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