Wanting Something for Nothing

The deputy captain knew how cruel their enemies were. After dealing with these star pirates for so many years, they had long since lost their humanity.

Otherwise, how could they commit such atrocities?

The Alliance's benefits were already excellent. As long as one worked hard, one could survive anywhere and live well.

Yet there were always people who wanted something for nothing.

The shipboard medical scientists had also uncovered some clues about the drugs injected into those children.

However, they had yet to find the source of the drugs. They could only confirm the harm caused by all their ingredients.

Judging from the ingredients alone, the drugs were lethal. And if the victims failed to pull through, they would die in unbearable agony.

It was evident from the bodies of the children they had found. The children had been curled into balls, their hands and legs locked in spasms, long since distorted beyond recognition.

Their facial features had twisted together as well. Before dying, they had suffered horrific torment.

"How could there be people so cruel?" The deputy captain's grief was beyond words as the innocent, adorable faces of those children rose before his eyes.

In the photos and recordings, the children had been carefree, studying, training, and spending happy days with their parents.

Yet in the blink of an eye, they had lost their lives.

"In a sense, Xi He is no longer human. It is merely the consciousness that remained after his death." Long Xingxue did not believe that consciousnesses loaded into mechanical bodies could still be called "human."

Those things had long since lost their humanity.

Many of those consciousnesses likely no longer knew how they had been born, who they had been before, what they had done, or who had mattered in their lives.

They had