At that moment, the troublesome little girl whom Darius and Wang Qing, the local female officer from Canopy Star, were worried about and missing was busy eating and drinking her fill in a beautiful little villa with a garden and woods. The villa stood inside a huge shelter, deep underground in the Ruins Market, converted from a black market!
That's right, a villa with a garden and woods!
Having a villa with a garden and an ecological woodland hundreds of meters underground was certainly extravagant.
But on second thought, it didn't seem all that strange.
After all, this underground black market had been laid out as a lavish commercial street modeled after those above ground. It was a place where certain high-ranking officials, nobles, and wealthy, powerful people could buy and sell "scarce" goods they didn't want outsiders to know about, or have entered into the planetary database. And for those influential people, spending a little extra on the decor to carefully furnish their underground homes and offices, setting aside a residence or villa with its own ecological garden, wasn't all that hard in this interstellar age.
Of course, all of that no longer mattered when the Ruins Market, and indeed all of Canopy Star, was about to be destroyed, and everyone was living on borrowed time, unsure whether they'd see another day.
Anyway!
At a time like this, no matter how good or luxurious their living conditions were, the people staying here couldn't possibly feel comfortable. They were probably on edge every day, too anxious to eat or sleep.
Of course, there were exceptions—like a certain carefree, thick-skinned little girl who was eating and drinking her fill without acting like an outsider at all.
"Mm-mm, nom nom..."
(￣~￣) Chew!
"Ha!"
(╯▽╰) So fragrant~~
"Yummy!"
Yes, the troublesome, carefree little