In Wei Lanshan's description, there were thousands of affiliated planets like Tianning Star. Wei Lanshan had chosen to come here because Tianning Star Second Guard had an interstellar spaceport.
They could take Star Shuttles to other star systems here. More importantly, there was an all-powerful underground trading city here—the fringe territory of the Alliance.
Many people did not know the secret of the Underground City beneath Tianning Star Second Guard, but Wei Lanshan had her own channels.
Wei Lanshan disguised herself, putting on a hood to hide her face. She also altered her voice and various physical characteristics.
Wu Yuan changed form and was now merely a button on Wei Lanshan's clothing.
99 stared at Wu Yuan. Such a huge square shell had shrunk into a button no bigger than a women's wristwatch. It was just... just... just too incredible...
Every day of their escape had rewritten her worldview and expanded her knowledge.
She felt like a complete newbie, the purest kind. She had studied for more than a decade in her previous life, after all. Her qualifications might not have been especially high, but she had earned a master's degree.
Yet everything before her kept overturning what she knew. In this world, she truly was nothing more than a curious newborn baby!
She followed beside Wei Lanshan, her hand held by Wei Lanshan as she secretly looked around.
This was the Underground City five hundred meters beneath Tianning Star Second Guard, a chaotic place where all kinds of creatures mingled. It was packed with countless shops, and strange, dazzling holographic projections stood outside them.
The projections were lifelike: beautiful young women, handsome men. They constantly moved and spoke in all kinds of languages. There were even floating houses and bizarrely shaped buildings...
Was this the "Cyberpunk" setting described in the movies from her previous life?
All kinds of languages blended together, each one declaring that this was a magical world. It was millions of times more wonderful than the world Sixi had described to her.
A massive luminous object hung over the Underground City. The light it emitted shone down onto the ground, and when it touched her skin, it felt strangely warm.
It was much like the warm winter sunlight from her previous life, making her want to lazily sit on a park bench and rest. A cup of coffee would probably make it even more pleasant.
Everywhere the light reached was brightly illuminated. This object was apparently used to light the Underground City.
This truly was a strange place.
Previously, Wei Lanshan had only told her about the Alliance's distribution and structure, along with some basic matters concerning Mental Power, physical ability, and levels.
She had not explained things in much detail, so seeing the real lives of Alliance citizens so suddenly caught 99 completely off guard. It was far too shocking.
Amid the stream of passing creatures, a tall woman in a hood that hid her face held the hand of a yellow-skinned little girl around five years old. They were especially conspicuous in this Underground City filled with countless species.
Those two were none other than the disguised Wei Lanshan and 99.
99's eyes were clear as she looked everywhere, her little mouth slightly open. She was clearly in a state of extreme shock.
The Underground City was filled with creatures of all shapes and appearances.
Some were enormous, some were tiny, and some even left trails of water wherever they walked.
What they had in common was that they could all walk upright, speak, and communicate with one another.
Some had exceptionally beautiful faces, while others looked rough and rugged. Yet all of them could drive "flying cars"—vehicles that hovered through the air above the Underground City.
Wei Lanshan led 99 to an energy shop in the Underground City and exchanged a coded phrase with the person guarding it.
99, meanwhile, watched everything around her without blinking. She heard Wei Lanshan communicate with the shopkeeper in another language.
Before long, a large box rose from the floor of the shop. Wei Lanshan led 99 inside and had her stand still. A few seconds later, the box carried them away to a place that looked somewhat dark.
Several creatures with different appearances were there. Wei Lanshan altered her voice as she spoke with them, and the one receiving her seemed to be the boss of this place.
Wei Lanshan said, "I want eight sets of devices, two tickets on the earliest flight to Aura, and two clean IDs. The relationship is mother and son, and the purpose is travel to Aura. I also need eight sets of clothes."
The dark-skinned boss said, "One hundred and fifty thousand Star Coins. No bargaining."
Wei Lanshan did not hesitate. She directly made an anonymous transfer using her backup communicator. The boss gave her a small box, two tickets, and two chips.
After receiving the items, Wei Lanshan led 99 into the box, which took them directly to the exit.
Wei Lanshan took the items and quickly left. Before long, they vanished from the Underground City's exit.
She took 99 to a secluded place, activated an isolation Protective Shield, and put one of the devices from the box on 99. When she pressed the button, 99 instantly turned into a boy.
Wei Lanshan herself became someone else, looking utterly ordinary—the kind of person who would disappear into a crowd and never be found again.
99 was endlessly astonished. What... what kind of black technology was this?
Could she get another dozen of them? But then she remembered that she had no currency here. In other words, she was so poor that she did not have a single cent!
She had thought everything in the laboratory, along with what Sixi and Wei Lanshan had told her during the journey, was already astonishing enough.
But after arriving on the surface, she realized that the years in the underground laboratory and all the things Wei Lanshan had told her had been child's play.
This place was infinitely vast. This was only one corner of the universe, a world she had never imagined.
After getting off the airship, Wei Lanshan had brought her straight here. This was her first time coming into contact with the world outside the experimental space. Before this, only the robot Sixi had kept her company inside that space.
99 clenched her hands tightly. In her palm was a silver Main Chip.
Once everything was ready, Wei Lanshan held the boyish 99's hand and took a ground Hovercar to the starship port of Tianning Star Second Guard.
After they got out, the tide-like crowd instantly swallowed their figures.
The starship bound for Aola Star would depart in ten minutes.
As Wei Lanshan walked, she observed the situation around them. She found nothing unusual. It seemed no one had caught up with them yet.
The starship port of Tianning Star Second Guard was brightly lit. Outside the port, five enormous vessels hovered in space.
Three were shaped like silver-white discs. The other two were shuttle-shaped like the airship 99 had ridden before, their exteriors pitch-black and oppressive.
There were many different species at the starship port: residents from other star systems who had come to Tianning Star to travel, as well as local residents of the Tianning Star system preparing to leave for travel or official business.
They looked just as Sixi had described.
Ever since leaving the room, 99 had remained in a state of shock. The scenes Sixi had usually described to her were materializing one after another before her eyes, and the impact on her was indescribable.
Countless questions filled her heart. To her, this was a world far too novel.
99, who had been marveling nonstop since coming to the surface, was already completely overwhelmed.
She decided to restrain her curiosity and slowly observe this world, understand this world, study it, and then work hard to become stronger.
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