Open the Door, Cloud Knights!

After returning to the Interastral Astronomical Society from the "Herta" Space Station, Bai Heng had successfully completed his mission, earning the opportunity to visit the Pillars of Creation at the Corporation's headquarters.

Moreover, given his outstanding contribution in successfully recruiting two members of the Genius Society, the Corporation directly promoted him four levels, from P36 to P40.

He had truly become a mid-level leader within the Corporation.

Having achieved this leap in rank, Bai Heng arrived at the Pillars of Creation.

As the Corporation publicly claimed, this was a place where one could realize their self-worth.

Without exception, everyone who lived here was an internal elite of the Interastral Peace Corporation.

They enjoyed universal honor, power, and wealth, and under the protection of the great Amber Lord and the largest economic entity in the universe, they could achieve all their material pursuits.

Palace-like executive lounges, SPA clubs with the best service, bars for thousands of people, and lava hot spring mountains were the entertainment venues these elites frequented.

However, prosperity was still just a facade.

The Pillars of Creation still had a huge class divide.

At Bai Heng's current level, he didn't have many opportunities to meet the Corporation's famous Ten Stonehearts or members of the board of directors.

However, Topaz, who had worked with Bai Heng once before, would occasionally bring a few bottles of good wine and visit him at the private villa the Corporation had arranged for him.

Time flew by, and Bai Heng spent a vacation-like period at the Pillars of Creation.

After a month-long vacation.

Bai Heng received his next job—to go to the Xianzhou Alliance.

The department he worked for was still the Interastral Astronomical Society, so the mission to the Xianzhou Alliance was naturally to collect information about the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus of "Abundance" and the "The Hunt" of the Hunt.

In particular, the Interastral Astronomical Society's document specifically pointed out intelligence about the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus.

It claimed that one could start from this aspect.

In addition, the Corporation was also preparing to send a group of subordinates to Bai Heng to assist in this project.

But Bai Heng refused the Corporation's kindness.

For this kind of mission, he felt that he still had to be low-key, so in the end, he only took Xiao Si, who was responsible for piloting the starship.

From the Pillars of Creation to the airport closest to the Xianzhou Alliance, it only took Xiao Si less than two days to drive like a madman.

Although Bai Heng almost vomited half of his life in the process.

After arriving at the starport, Bai Heng rested for a long time before boarding a Xianzhou commercial star-skiff as a foreign tourist and entering the Xianzhou Luofu, one of the six starships of the Xianzhou Alliance.

As for Xiao Si, Bai Heng asked him to stay in the starport to refuel and maintain the starship.

On the star-skiff, Bai Heng saw many Xianzhou locals buying a drink called Immortality Joy Tea from vendors on the star-skiff, adding captions to their carefully retouched photos, such as "The first cup of Immortality Joy Tea in autumn," and then sending them to their "long-distance remote sensing" Moments.

This scene always gave him the feeling that he hadn't transmigrated yet.

But to be honest, Xianzhou was indeed the place that Bai Heng knew that was most similar to his hometown.

So, looking at the various Xianzhou people on the star-skiff, he inexplicably felt homesick.

So he also bought a cup of Immortality Joy Tea made of milk, sugar, and tea from the vendor, took a photo, and sent a message to Ruan Mei:

"I'm on a business trip to Xianzhou. I'll treat you to it if I have the chance."

A few seconds later, Ruan Mei also sent a photo.

The picture was a bit hazy, with misty water vapor, steaming heat, and various flowers and leaves such as lotuses, crabapples, daffodils, and cornflowers floating in the water, the clear waves rippling gently, as warm as spring.

"Noted. I'm preparing to take a bath, I'll talk to you later."

[Bai Heng has initiated a video call with you]
[The other party has declined]

The star-skiff then traveled for another half a day.

There were only 16 hours left before reaching the Star-skiff Sea of Xianzhou Luofu.

That night.

Bai Heng was resting in the star-skiff's cabin when he suddenly heard a roar outside.

Opening his eyes, he could vaguely see flashes of fire outside the window through the gauze curtain.

"Fireworks?"

That was his first reaction, but soon, he realized something was wrong.

Because he could vaguely hear curses outside the cabin.

"That's not right."

Bai Heng raised his hand, and a small-caliber short sword Micro-Rail Orbital Cannon equipped by the Corporation appeared in his hand.

But when he rushed out of the cabin, he found that the scene before him was completely different from what he had imagined.

In Bai Heng's imagination, this star-skiff might have been hijacked by pirates or some cosmic terrorist force, and he would heroically appear and resolve the crisis.

But the reality was...

A group of Cloud Knights, clad in Xianzhou armor and wielding standard-issue longswords, stood in perfect formation, all eyes fixed on him.

On the star-skiff, many passengers were huddled on the ground, heads in their hands.

It was only after he became one of those passengers that Bai Heng understood the star-skiff was actually a black market vessel smuggling prohibited drugs. They allowed tourists like him on board purely to create confusion and mask their activities.

"Name."

"Bai Heng."

"Gender."

"Male."

"Identity."

"A visitor from off-world here for leisure."

The Cloud Knight Lieutenant in charge of screening the star-skiff passengers registered Bai Heng's information and then instructed him to wait in a designated guest room for the results of further investigation.

Bai Heng thought the Cloud Knights were being quite fair about it.

At least until they confirmed he was a criminal, they were only confining the passengers to guest rooms on the Xianzhou Loufu, instead of throwing them directly into prison.

Since his belongings were temporarily under Cloud Knight custody, Bai Heng could only sit cross-legged at the guest room's tea table, drinking cup after cup of tea.

But as he lifted his teacup, he suddenly remembered that it had been a month since his last simulation.

With a slight flick of his finger, the simulation system interface appeared before him.

[Bai Heng

Innate Talent: Alluring Youth

[Stamina: 170 Endurance: 170]

[Strength: 170 Agility: 130]

[Spirit: 300 Charisma: 700]

Note: For ordinary humans who are not Pathstriders, the average value for each stat is 100.

Current Simulation Attempts: 1, Refresh Time: 27 days]

"In that case, I might as well use this time to start my second simulation."

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