Star Sea: Infinite Horizons
Chapter 30

No Longer an Unregistered Resident

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After arriving at the Muye Star spaceport, Jiujiu and Wei Lanshan followed Suo Feihua to the surface of Muye Star.

Suo Feihua decided to stay on Muye Star to ensure their safety and provide cover until Wei Lanshan and Jiujiu boarded the Star Shuttle to other star systems.

Jiujiu said goodbye to the members of the Feihua Group. Feng Shanshan hugged Jiujiu tightly, unwilling to let go. She was one of the young ladies who wanted to abduct Jiujiu and take her home.

"Jiujiu, give your big sister two kisses, and I'll let you go. Okay?" Feng Shanshan's voice was pitiful.

Jiujiu opened her big eyes and looked at the beautiful young lady in front of her who was addicted to acting. Who would have thought that this delicate-looking girl was actually a weapon designer and the most brutal person in the Feihua Group!

She was also reluctant to part with these people. Jiujiu looked at the sky and decided to reluctantly oblige. She planted a kiss on each of Feng Shanshan's cheeks.

Feng Shanshan felt like she was swimming in honey at that moment. It was too, too sweet. She had gotten her wish!

The other members of the Feihua Group stepped forward one by one, bending down and leaning in. Jiujiu knew this would happen. She couldn't help it, since she had set the precedent...

However, the twin brothers Xika and Ximo did not receive the same treatment. They looked confused, and even more dejected after hearing Jiujiu's explanation. Jiujiu said, "Brother Xika and Brother Ximo are... are boys..."

Jiujiu was speechless. She could kiss girls on the cheek, but not boys. After all, she was psychologically 30 years old, and it was absolutely not appropriate to have too much intimate contact with the opposite sex!

By the time Jiujiu and Wei Lanshan disembarked from the Starship, Xika and Ximo had still not recovered. They were treated differently by Jiujiu, and wondered why!

Was it just because of their gender? It wasn't too late to change their gender, they cried!

Suo Feiyue stayed behind to watch the Starship, looking helplessly at the two dejected grown men.

However, the touch of a child's soft lips on one's face could indeed heal a person's heart.

After bidding farewell to her pampered life, Jiujiu followed Wei Lanshan and left the Feihua Group. She didn't know if they would meet again in the sea of stars, but Jiujiu would remember these people, and the kindness and gentleness she received along the way.

The members of the Feihua Group gave her a chip, which recorded the moments they spent together. Their terminals had backups, and they were using their own ways to etch this brief encounter into their hearts.

Upon reaching the surface of Muye Star, Suo Feihua booked a hotel under her name.

The service was entirely by robots, and there was no record of Wei Lanshan's visit to Muye Star.

One day after arriving on Muye Star, Wei Lanshan and Jiujiu encountered a mother and daughter from the Mingzhao Star System who were living in poverty.

This mother and daughter lived in the room next to theirs. The mother intended to work short-term at the hotel where Wei Lanshan and Jiujiu were staying to earn money for Star Shuttle tickets.

Her daughter was seriously ill, emaciated, with dull eyes and sallow complexion. It was estimated that her brain had suffered permanent damage. The child looked a bit foolish and seemed to have lost much of her vitality.

Unless she underwent mechanical surgery on Yuanri Star, her daughter could not be saved. Wei Lanshan was helpless.

Wei Lanshan couldn't bear to watch and directly asked her question: "When your child's condition first started, why didn't you send her to an institute? You could have applied for relief in your situation, and her illness had a very high cure rate at the beginning."

"I no longer have the will to live. Her father abandoned us before she was born. After she was born, she fell ill. I later wanted to send her to an institute, but it was too late," the woman's mournful sobs could be heard.

Wei Lanshan looked at the woman. Her face was filled with despair and a sense of lifelessness, lacking any maternal presence.

Seeing this woman who was willing to die for a man and neglect her child, Suo Feihua and Wei Lanshan were both angry at her lack of responsibility.

In the Alliance, no matter what industry one was in, the salary was generous enough to support oneself and a young child.

Moreover, a five-year-old child could be sent to school, receiving both a good education and care.

This girl was too unfortunate to have such an irresponsible mother, facing death at an age similar to Jiujiu's.

Furthermore, this woman had a three-month holographic simulation with her husband before marriage. Didn't she realize that this man was unreliable, or did she discover it and still choose to marry him?

Wei Lanshan guessed it was the latter, and now she wanted to use her daughter to threaten that man. According to Alliance Law, the woman's actions had already violated the law.

She knew it herself, which was why she hadn't sent her daughter to an institute.

Once sent to an institute, after analyzing the girl's physical condition, the cause of her illness, and why it had worsened, the institute would derive specific data.

The data would form a report, and the Alliance's medical system would upload the relevant information to the court of the jurisdiction.

The judge would immediately send people to apprehend her, she would be sentenced to imprisonment, and her daughter would be forcibly taken away.

She knew that her negligence had caused her daughter's condition to worsen, and she wanted to use her daughter's illness to control that man.

It was her fault, but she didn't want to go to prison, so she came to Muye Star, intending to find a black market channel to Yuanri Star System to have surgery for her daughter.

However, she didn't expect her daughter's condition to suddenly worsen, and her intelligence began to decline. She couldn't raise enough Star Coins to buy a ticket to Yuanri Star at the moment, and she thought she had to give up.

Wei Lanshan didn't bother with the mother and daughter anymore. She planned to take Jiujiu to an amusement park to relax.

Although the pursuers had not appeared for over a month, Suo Feihua's strength was unquestionable, but it was still better to be careful to live longer.

Suo Feihua, Wei Lanshan, and Jiujiu went to Muye Star's largest amusement park together. There were many large-scale games, and Jiujiu was so engrossed that she forgot to go home.

These amusement rides were very similar to her favorite park in her previous life, very thrilling, the kind of thrill that could make your heart stop!

When the speed was at its fastest and the machine was operating at its highest point, Jiujiu shouted out the sadness in her heart. Afterward, she felt much better.

This world was so beautiful. Even if she had to walk alone, it was no big deal. In this life, she wanted to have her own place in this sea of stars.

After staying on Muye Star for 20 star days, Wei Lanshan took Jiujiu to the black market to buy a legal ID for Jiujiu.

Muye Star was a tourist planet, and there were many legal IDs here. When children died, their parents would sell the children's IDs to the black market to earn some money.

The black market would then operate these IDs, forging various medical records, school attendance records, community care visit records, and so on.

They would deceive the Alliance's Central Brain, making it believe that the owners of these IDs were still alive, and then sell them at a high price to those who needed them.

Wei Lanshan chose the ID of a girl of the same age as Jiujiu, Hong Xixiu from the Mingzhao Star System. The black market records indicated that this ID had recently died a few days ago, and all the necessary information was complete.

To Wei Lanshan's surprise, Hong Xixiu had not yet had her genetic information recorded, and her birth year was the same as Jiujiu's. However, for some reason, her birth date had not been recorded either. These parents were truly irresponsible. But this saved Wei Lanshan a significant amount of money.

After reviewing the detailed information for this ID, Wei Lanshan let out a long sigh in her heart.

Wei Lanshan spent a sum of money to compile the story of why Hong Xixiu came to Muye Star: how she arrived, where she intended to go, why the mother who brought her abandoned her, and what unexpected events led to her being stranded alone on Muye Star.

She also had a complete set of medical and health information redone, filling in all the missing details without a single flaw. Afterward, she had the black market upload it to the Alliance's Central Brain.

Our heroine's name is finally set, it wasn't easy!

From now on, she will be known by the name Hong Xixiu.

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