After arriving at Muye Star's spaceport, Jiujiu and Wei Lanshan followed Suo Feihua down to the surface of Muye Star.
Suo Feihua decided to remain on Muye Star. Until Wei Lanshan and Jiujiu boarded a transfer Star Shuttle to another star system, she would be responsible for their safety and provide them cover.
Jiujiu said goodbye to everyone in the Feihua Group. Feng Shanshan held her tightly and refused to let go; she was one of the older sisters who wanted to steal Jiujiu away and take her home.
"Jiujiu, kiss your big sister twice. If you kiss me twice, I'll let you go, okay?" Feng Shanshan pleaded pitifully.
Jiujiu opened her big eyes and looked at this beautiful older sister who was addicted to acting. Who would have thought that this delicate-looking girl was a human weapon who designed weapons and ranked first in brutality within the Feihua Group?
She was reluctant to part with them too. Jiujiu looked at the sky and decided to indulge her, planting a loud kiss on each of Feng Shanshan's cheeks.
At that moment, Feng Shanshan felt as though she were soaking in honey. It was simply too, too sweet. Her wish had come true!
The other members of the Feihua Group stepped forward one by one, bending down and leaning toward her. Jiujiu knew this would happen. There was nothing she could do; she had started it just now...
However, the twin siblings Sika and Ximo did not receive the same treatment. The two stared blankly, and after hearing Jiujiu's explanation, they became even more dejected, because Jiujiu said, "Brother Sika and Brother Ximo are... boys..."
Jiujiu was speechless. Kissing girls on the cheek was fine, but boys were out of the question. Her mental age was thirty, after all. There absolutely could not be too much physical intimacy between different genders!
Even after Jiujiu and Wei Lanshan disembarked from the Starship, Sika and Ximo still had not recovered. Jiujiu had treated them differently. Why?!
Just because of their gender? Was it too late to change genders? They were crying inside!
Suo Feiyue stayed behind on the Starship to keep watch, utterly helpless as she watched the two grown men looking so crestfallen.
Still, the feeling of a child's soft lips against one's cheek truly could heal the heart.
After leaving behind her life as the group's darling, Jiujiu followed Wei Lanshan away from the Feihua Group. She did not know whether they would meet again in the sea of stars, but Jiujiu would remember these people and the kindness and tenderness they had shown her along the way.
The Feihua Group members gave her a chip containing every little moment they had shared. Their terminals all had backups. In their own way, they were engraving this brief encounter into their hearts.
After reaching the surface of Muye Star, Suo Feihua booked a hotel under her own name.
The entire process was handled by robots, leaving no record of Wei Lanshan's visit to Muye Star.
A day after arriving on Muye Star, Wei Lanshan and Jiujiu encountered a poverty-stricken mother and daughter from the Mingzhao Star System.
The mother and daughter were staying next door at the hotel. The woman intended to take on temporary work there to scrape together the fare for a Star Shuttle ticket.
Her daughter was gravely ill, little more than skin and bones, with vacant eyes and a sallow complexion. Her brain had likely suffered permanent damage. She looked somewhat foolish and seemed to have very little life left in her.
Unless she went to Yuan Ri Star for mechanized surgery, her daughter could not be saved. Even Wei Lanshan could do nothing.
Wei Lanshan could not bear to watch any longer and directly voiced her question. "Why didn't you send your child to a research institute when her illness first began? In your circumstances, you could have applied for assistance. And this disease had a very high cure rate in its early stages."
"I've already lost the desire to live. Her father abandoned us before she was even born. Then she fell ill after she was born. I wanted to send her to a research institute later, but it was already too late." The woman's grief-stricken sobs drifted over.
Wei Lanshan looked at the woman. Her face was filled with despair and deathly gloom, without the slightest trace of a mother's bearing.
Watching this woman be driven to the brink over a man while neglecting her own child, both Suo Feihua and Wei Lanshan were furious at her weakness.
In the Alliance, no matter what industry one worked in, the pay was generous. Supporting oneself and a young child was entirely possible.
Moreover, a five-year-old child could already be sent to school, where she would receive not only a good education but also proper care.
This little girl was far too unfortunate. At nearly the same age as Jiujiu, she had encountered such an irresponsible mother and now faced death.
Besides, this woman and her husband had undergone three months of full-dive simulation before their marriage. Had she truly failed to notice that the man was unreliable, or had she noticed and married him anyway?
Wei Lanshan guessed it was the latter. Now, the woman even wanted to use her daughter to threaten that man. Under Alliance Law, her actions had already broken the law.
She knew it herself, which was why she had not sent her daughter to a research institute.
Once she sent her there, the institute would analyze the girl's condition and obtain concrete data on what had caused her illness and why it had worsened.
Once the data formed a report, the Alliance medical system would upload the relevant information to the court in her jurisdiction.
A judge would immediately send people to arrest her. She would be sentenced to imprisonment, and her daughter would be forcibly taken away.
She knew her negligence had worsened her daughter's condition, yet she also wanted to use her daughter's illness to control that man.
It was her fault, but she did not want to go to prison. So she had come to Muye Star, hoping to find a black-market route to the Yuanri Star System and get her daughter surgery.
But she had not expected her daughter's condition to suddenly worsen, with her intelligence beginning to decline as well. She could not gather enough Star Coins to buy a ticket to Yuan Ri Star for the time being. She thought she could only give up.
Wei Lanshan did not involve herself further with the mother and daughter. She planned to take Jiujiu to an amusement park and let her relax.
Although those tracking them had not appeared for over a month, and Suo Feihua's strength was beyond doubt, it was still better to be cautious. That way, they might live longer too.
Suo Feihua and Wei Lanshan took Jiujiu to the largest amusement park on Muye Star. It had many enormous attractions, and Jiujiu played until she forgot everything else.
These rides resembled the amusement parks she had loved most in her previous life. They were thrilling—the kind of thrilling that could make one's heart stop!
When Jiujiu rode the fastest attraction and the machine reached its highest point, she shouted out all the sorrow in her heart. Afterward, she felt much better.
This world was so beautiful. Even if she had to walk forward alone, it was no big deal. In this life, she wanted a place of her own in this sea of stars.
After staying on Muye Star for twenty star days, Wei Lanshan took Jiujiu to the black market to buy her a legal ID.
Muye Star was a tourist planet, and there were many legal IDs available here. Whenever children died, some parents would sell their children's IDs to the black market to make a profit.
After buying them, the black market would keep those IDs active, forging all sorts of medical records, school records, community welfare visit records, and more.
They fooled the Alliance Central Brain into believing the owners of those IDs were still alive, then sold them at high prices to those who needed them.
Wei Lanshan chose the ID of a girl Jiujiu's age: Hong Xixiu from the Mingzhao Star System. Black-market records showed that the owner of this ID had died just a few days earlier, and all the documentation was complete.
To Wei Lanshan's surprise, this Hong Xixiu had not yet had her Genetic Information recorded, and she had been born in the same year as Jiujiu. For some reason, even her birth date had not been recorded. This child's parents truly had been irresponsible. Still, this saved Wei Lanshan a great deal of paperwork.
After reviewing the ID's detailed information, Wei Lanshan let out a long sigh inwardly.
Wei Lanshan spent some money to fabricate Hong Xixiu's history on Muye Star: how she had arrived, where she had intended to go, why the mother who brought her had abandoned her, and what accident had left her stranded alone on Muye Star.
Her medical and health records were completely redone as well, filling in every missing detail without the slightest flaw. Then she had the black market upload them to the Alliance Central Brain's AI Brain.
Our heroine's name was finally settled. It hadn't been easy!
From now on, she would use the name Hong Xixiu!
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