Unknown Star Core

Scan the code, add on WeChat, send the money.

Little Fat Dragon made the transfer with a resentful look. As he entered his password, his short, thick fingers jabbed at the phone as if he were trying to stab someone to death through it.

That earned Fang Yuan another wave of rage points.

After receiving the money, Fang Yuan counted the digits on his phone.

16,000 yuan. He had actually gotten it so easily.

Sure enough, abandoning his principles and selling himself was the quickest way to make money.

Although Little Fat Dragon was somewhat reluctant, he found the information in the notebook surprisingly detailed. It even included the serial numbers of the superpower traits.

Although he had to split the money, it had not taken much effort, so he could just about accept it.

"Remember to come to me next time you get business this good." After counting the money, Fang Yuan patted his shoulder with a look that said they could make money together.

Come to you, my ass!

Little Fat Dragon grumbled inwardly, then chuckled. "Can I go now?"

Fang Yuan waved him off, then hurried home himself.

Although he had toyed with Little Fat Dragon, this business clearly was not that simple.

The information Fang Yuan had written for Little Fat Dragon was indeed detailed. He had even included his attribute values.

However, everything he wrote was safe to disclose, and it would not be hard to find this information by checking at the school.

He had not even figured out his real secret himself, so there was even less chance anyone else would know.

When he arrived home.

Fang Zhenguo was watching television in the living room.

"Where's Mom?" Not seeing his mother, Fang Yuan asked casually.

"She went to stay with Xiaozhu at the hospital. She won't be back tonight."

Fang Zhenguo jiggled his leg and continued, "I'm hungry. Make some late-night snacks."

"Can't you cook for yourself?" Fang Yuan shot back.

"Can't you see my arm's broken?" Fang Zhenguo raised his left arm in its cast.

"Don't you still have your right hand?" Fang Yuan retorted again.

This time, Fang Zhenguo really got angry.

"Fine, I'll cook for myself. All those years raising you were wasted." As he spoke, he pushed against the sofa's armrest and stood up.

Seeing his rage points increase by twenty, Fang Yuan quit while he was ahead. He pressed him back onto the sofa and said, "All right, I'll cook. Sit down and call the hospital to check on Mom and Xiaozhu."

"She's only staying at the hospital with her. What's there to call about?"

Fang Zhenguo grumbled. His mouth said no, but his body was honest: he reached for the landline and pressed a family speed-dial button.

While cooking noodles in the kitchen, Fang Yuan listened to Fang Zhenguo talking on the phone outside. Once he confirmed that nothing had happened at the hospital, he felt reassured for the moment.

Once the noodles were ready, he divided them into two bowls and carried them out.

Fang Zhenguo rubbed his thighs and said smugly, "Never thought I'd get to eat noodles you cooked. What a rare treat."

"Hurry up and eat. I have something to ask you afterward." Fang Yuan picked up his own bowl and started slurping.

After finishing, Fang Yuan folded his arms, leaned back on the sofa, and watched Fang Zhenguo eat.

With his left arm in a cast, he had to bend over and lower his head to eat the noodles.

Fang Yuan brought over a speaker and used it to raise the bowl so he would not have to bend so low.

After he finished eating.

Only then did Fang Yuan ask solemnly, "How did you hurt your arm?"

Fang Zhenguo's cheerful expression froze.

He was no fool. Since Fang Yuan was asking this, he knew he must have already spoken to the people at the martial arts school.

"I was just out and accidentally..."

"Enough. Stop hiding it. An awakened with an invisibility ability followed me today. Someone's investigating me, and not just me-our whole family. You've got a thick hide, so it doesn't matter if you take a beating. But if something happens to Mom or Xiaozhu, you won't even have a chance to regret it!" Fang Yuan's tone was deadly serious.

Fang Zhenguo's face went white, and he hurriedly asked, "They really followed you?"

"It was a job posted on Bar Street. Someone's paying for our whole family's whereabouts." Fang Yuan's tone was extremely serious.

Fang Zhenguo's expression shifted uncertainly before he forced himself to calm down. "Don't panic yet. Those people don't dare enter Donghai City. That's why they're getting local forces to act."

"Who are they? How did you get mixed up with them?" Fang Yuan pressed.

Fang Zhenguo did not answer immediately. He looked Fang Yuan up and down.

"Stop looking and tell me already. Want to fight so I can prove I'm stronger than you now?" Fang Yuan rolled his eyes.

After weighing it over and over, Fang Zhenguo finally made his decision. "All right. Since those people have already come looking, it's time you knew."

As he spoke, he got up and went to his room, retrieving a combination safe from a hidden compartment in the wall.

Fang Zhenguo set the combination safe on the coffee table and asked, "You remember this safe, don't you?"

Fang Yuan did remember.

Five years ago, when he was in middle school.

One summer vacation, he had been home alone looking after his little sister.

He had played hide-and-seek and treasure hunting with her at home.

Then he had dug this safe out of the hidden wall compartment.

At the time, Fang Yuan had wanted to show off, so he started trying to crack the safe's combination.

He tried everyone's birthdays without success, then noticed an old newspaper Fang Zhenguo had always kept in his drawer.

Using the date on that old newspaper, he opened the safe.

Inside the safe was something shaped like a triangular pyramid, with some strange patterns on its surface.

Fang Xiaozhu had only been four or five then and knew nothing. She picked it up and tried to take a bite.

It was too hard for her to bite into, so she held it and started crying. As she cried, she fainted.

Fang Yuan hurriedly carried his sister to the hospital on his back, where they managed to bring her around.

Fang Yuan got a severe whipping over it.

At the time, Fang Yuan had stood there and taken it without resisting, because the thought of his sister fainting filled him with guilt.

A year or two passed afterward without anything else happening.

Fang Yuan gradually forgot about it.

Until last year, when Xiaozhu fainted again. It happened more and more frequently, even threatening her life, until she finally had to be hospitalized.

Now, seeing this safe, Fang Yuan suddenly thought of a possibility.

Could Xiaozhu's illness be connected to the thing inside the safe?

"Open it!" Fang Yuan urged.

"No! You can't touch what's inside." Fang Zhenguo's expression was extremely serious.

"Open it already! Xiaozhu and I both touched it that year in middle school. I suspect her frequent fainting has something to do with it," Fang Yuan said solemnly.

Fang Zhenguo frowned. Only after weighing it over and over did he enter the combination and open the safe.

Inside the safe was an alloy case. When he opened it, the ocean-blue triangular pyramid came into view.

Fang Yuan reached out to take it out.

"Don't touch it. This thing is extremely dangerous." Fang Zhenguo hurriedly stopped him and asked, "You said Xiaozhu's illness has something to do with it?"

"It was so long ago that I didn't remember before. Xiaozhu tried to bite it back then, then fainted. Thinking about it now, it was a lot like what's happening to her now," Fang Yuan replied.

As he spoke.

Fang Yuan guided star power into his eyes and began examining the ocean-blue triangular pyramid.

Soon, an attribute panel appeared over it.

[Unknown Star Core: energy remaining 33.33%]