Retaliation I

Unknown Star Territory.

A pale blue planet slowly revolved around two suns. The two dazzling golden stars radiated terrifying heat at every moment.

In the pitch-black starry sky, a battered black spacecraft drifted slowly. It remained motionless, while the side jets intermittently spat out faint specks of blue light.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Inside the main control room, Mi Guang Ying crawled out with blood all over her face. She shook her head and looked around.

"To think that I, the Mi Family's foremost genius, would end up in such a state. Lu Sheng, Lu Sheng—if you don't compensate me properly when we get back, I won't let this go!"

Panting heavily, she shoved aside a silver cabinet that had pinned her down and struggled to her feet.

Ever since childhood, she had been clothed in silk and fed on delicacies, living a life like that of a princess—or rather, a life countless times better than a princess's.

But after being framed by her younger brother and sealed away by that person, the experience of that seal had worn away her former pride, complacency, and arrogance. Even much of her princess syndrome had been ground away completely.

Mi Guang Ying spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, dragged her leg—which had been broken by the impact—and leaned back against the spacecraft's icy wall.

"This doesn't look good..." She raised one finger and lightly tapped the air.

A flash of icy blue light passed over her fingertip, but nothing happened in the void.

"Damn it!" Mi Guang Ying's expression changed slightly. A blue Divine Rune emerged between her brows, only to rapidly dim the instant it appeared.

"You've got to be kidding me?" She gritted her teeth and looked around.

"Ansha? Are you there?!"

Her voice echoed through the surrounding cockpit, but