Source Star

A minute or two later, Su You jumped out of the sand pit carrying the corpse of Beiyuan Gang, casually tossing the headless body aside.

Zhang Yue, standing beside the sand pit, pointed at the corpse: "Is he the guy who just attacked us?"

Su You nodded. "I suspect he might have been sent by the Wang Family. We should hurry back to the departure point!"

"Su You." Zhang Yue's lips trembled as if she wanted to say something, but she suppressed the urge and remained silent.

Seeing Zhang Yue's hesitant expression, Su You couldn't help but pat her on the buttocks through her combat suit. "We'll talk after we get back to the training camp."

Zhang Yue shivered and glared at Su You, her eyes filled with shame and annoyance.

Su You acted thick-skinned and pretended not to notice, pulling the fuming Zhang Yue along as they sprinted toward the departure point.

Having experienced the previous encounter, both of them naturally heightened their vigilance on the way back, but no one came to attack them.

On the other hand, the fact that the two of them had teamed up was likely already known to the Wang Family, so they didn't make a point of traveling separately on the way back.

Seven or eight kilometers away from the spot where Su You and Zhang Yue had encountered Beiyuan Gang, a group of fourteen people watched as the pair ran toward the departure point.

"Mr. Franz, are we not going to make a move?" an advanced Warlord asked.

"Hmph." Franz let out a cold snort. "Beiyuan Gang, a mid-level Warlord, died right there, and Clark couldn't make it in time. Even if we all go together, we might not be able to stop them."

It was just a mission; it wasn't worth risking their lives. The worst that could happen was receiving some punishment upon returning.

Once Su You and the girl were out of sight, Franz led the group toward the sand pit, clearly intending to retrieve Beiyuan Gang's body.

It was past 9:00 AM when Su You and Zhang Yue returned to the departure point. Most of the trainees who had been adventuring in the desert had already returned and were now gathered in small groups, chatting while waiting for the arrival of the training camp's Passenger Aircraft.

The fact that Su You and Zhang Yue returned together clearly surprised many trainees, and Li Zhong and the others who lived in the Kyoto Courtyard even made a few suggestive jokes.

Time passed, and at 11:50 AM, the training camp's Passenger Aircraft landed on the oasis. Once the cabin doors opened, the trainees boarded one by one, officially bringing their August life-and-death adventure to an end.

The Passenger Aircraft didn't take off until 2:00 PM, slowly ascending and heading toward Hongning Base City. At the same time, the large screens in every cabin of the aircraft displayed the image of a God of War instructor.

Twenty-eight days of life-and-death adventure: 186 trainees had set out, but only 181 returned, and several of them were missing limbs. Fortunately, trainees at the camp were generally not short on money, and purchasing a bottle of Life Water through the camp's channels was not a difficult task.

In the upper cabin of the aircraft, Su You lay half-reclined in his seat with his eyes closed, the chattering voice of a little girl echoing in his mind from time to time.

"Translation program between Universal Language and the local language of this planet, Chinese, has been established."

A sentence in standard Chinese suddenly rang out in Su You's mind, startling him so much he nearly jumped out of his seat.

"Hey, little native." The little girl's voice sounded in Su You's mind, but this time she was speaking Chinese.

Su You steadied himself and glanced at the surrounding trainees, unsure of how to communicate with this little girl.

The little girl seemed to guess Su You's thoughts and snapped her fingers. Su You suddenly found himself in front of an incredibly luxurious castle, with the little girl standing right beside him.

"Is this a virtual space?"

"Not bad, a little native at the apprentice level actually knows about virtual space."

Su You was slightly stunned and asked, "Who are you?"

The little girl held her head high and said, "My name is XXxx... Translated into your Earth Chinese, you can call me Lady You Meng. From today on, I am your master, understand?"

"???" Three question marks flashed in Su You's mind. Did she get the master-servant relationship backward? Shouldn't an AI normally recognize a human as its master?

"Hmph, being my servant is your honor. Back when I was alive, I wouldn't even have glanced at an apprentice-level person like you."

"What? You're already dead?" Su You was shocked, his confusion spilling out: "Aren't you an intelligent life form?"

As soon as he said it, Su You regretted it. Given his current status, he shouldn't have known about intelligent life forms.

"Hm? You little native are quite knowledgeable, actually knowing about intelligent life forms."

The little girl looked at Su You with surprise, but she didn't dwell on it and instead explained:

"During that great war over eight hundred thousand epochs ago, at the moment I was about to die, I relied on a special secret technique and the treasures my father had prepared to transform into an intelligent life form. So, saying I am an intelligent life form is correct."

"Do you know what an epoch is? It's a unit of time in the universe. One epoch is equivalent to ten thousand years of your Earth time."

"Over eight hundred thousand epochs?" Su You was stunned, thinking to himself, Isn't that over eight billion years? Earth isn't even that old, is it? The lifespan of a human Domain Lord seems to be only one thousand epochs.

Su You blinked and asked deliberately, "You aren't pulling my leg, are you? How could anyone live that long?"

The little girl raised an eyebrow. "Tch, you natives are so shallow. Let me tell you, the immortal powerhouses in the universe are eternal and possess infinite lifespans."

"Immortal?" Su You feigned confusion.

The little girl sighed and spoke with the air of an elder:

"I'll give you a crash course in common knowledge first. Strength in the universe is generally divided starting from the Planetary level. Someone at your apprentice level isn't even qualified to be called a warrior. Only by becoming a Planetary level can you obtain citizenship in a cosmic kingdom, so the Planetary level is just an ordinary person."

"After the Planetary level, there is the Stellar level, Universe level, Domain Lord, and World Lord. Only after the World Lord level are there immortal powerhouses who can possess eternal life."

Su You nodded, pretending to be deeply impacted, and asked in a daze, "So, were you an immortal powerhouse before?"

The little girl paused. "Ahem, although I was only a Domain Lord at the time, that was because my cultivation time was too short. With my talent, if I hadn't transformed into an intelligent life form, becoming an immortal would have been a certainty."

"Oh!" Su You nodded to show he understood. As long as the intelligent core of an intelligent life form wasn't destroyed, it could be considered to have an eternal lifespan.

The little girl stared at Su You. "Well? Are you willing to be my servant now?"

Seeing Su You's troubled expression, the little girl said urgently, "Don't worry, I won't make you a servant forever. If you perform well in the future, I might even take it upon myself to accept you as a disciple of Source Star."