Chapter 2

“Drip.” The electronic shackle emitted a piercing sound.

Yun Chi came to his senses and placed his thumb on the display screen.

“Information verified.” A prompt sounded, and the shackle automatically tightened, adhering to Ye Ping’s ankle.

All of her personal information was stored in this electronic shackle, and outsiders could also confirm her status through it.

Ye Ping was frightened by her actions, but seeing her transfer the electronic shackle to her own body, she roughly guessed what Yun Chi wanted to do.

But under the influence of drugs, she couldn’t do anything and could only watch Yun Chi escape.

Unexpectedly, after Yun Chi verified the information of the electronic shackle, she didn’t rush to leave.

She squatted in front of Ye Ping, curled up into a small ball due to extreme weakness.

But just this seemingly harmless person raised her hand and skillfully pulled out the needle inserted in Ye Ping’s hand.

As soon as the needle was pulled out, the overwhelming pain disappeared.

But before Ye Ping could catch her breath, Yun Chi nonchalantly inserted the needle deep into her vein again.

“Ah!!!” Ye Ping’s vision went black, on the verge of collapse.

As the drugs dripped back into her body, she was in so much pain that she was forced to stop breathing.

But she heard a soft voice next to her ask, “Who instructed you to do these things?”

Ye Ping looked at Yun Chi numbly, she was in so much pain that she couldn’t even speak.

But when she saw Yun Chi’s hand still on the needle, she forgot everything else and could only hastily open her mouth, “An, An…”

“An Xu?” Yun Chi’s mind quickly filtered through the core members related to the prison system.

Ye Ping whimpered incoherently.

“An Zaiyang?” When this name came out, Ye Ping quieted down.

She looked at Yun Chi in panic, only to see Yun Chi standing up understandingly.

Long-term malnutrition, coupled with the torture of drugs, made it difficult for Yun Chi to even stand.

She was so hungry that she hadn’t forgotten to pick up the two discarded bottles of poor-quality nutrient solution from the trash can.

Just taking a few steps exhausted all her strength.

Looking up, she saw the whole world spinning in front of her.

Yun Chi tilted her head back and drank the nutrient solution without hesitation.

Then, with her last bit of strength, she removed the complex black instrument attached to her wrist.

After the instrument fell off, a black wristwatch hidden underneath was revealed.

Looking at the extremely rough material, without even a basic display screen, Ye Ping recognized it at a glance. The material used to make this wristwatch came from the pile of rotten beast meat she had thrown to Yun Chi half a month ago.

Those were all low-level alien beasts, even if they died on the road, few people would dare to pick up such interstellar trash for fear of being contaminated by residual alien crystals.

But the person in front of her used that pile of trash to create such a controller and manipulated the unmanned drone troops of the highest prison.

Trembling, Ye Ping looked at Yun Chi, and suddenly saw Yun Chi press on the wristwatch.

In this empty prison, two loud noises suddenly rang out.

The two huge mechanical locks on the wall fell off with a bang.

“Ka-chunk, Ka-chunk.” The mechanical locks automatically disassembled and assembled. In Ye Ping’s incredible gaze, they formed into a half-human-sized, all-black mechanical dog.

“Beep, Beep!”

“The system is activated.” The lock eyes of the mechanical lock became the eyes of this mechanical dog, flashing red light.

When the red light scanned Ye Ping, she felt chills all over her body. Ignoring the excruciating pain all over her body, she shouted towards Yun Chi, “Save, save me!”

Meanwhile, Yun Chi was already feeling dizzy, her body unstable, about to faint on the ground, but was steadily caught by the mechanical dog behind her.

Yun Chi lay on the mechanical dog, barely able to speak, “Yan Yan, you have to run faster.”

“This place is about to explode.” She smiled, “If you run too slowly, your master will have to explain here, understand?”

“Order received.” The mechanical voice replied.

On the ground, Ye Ping was shocked by her words, her three souls scattered and seven souls lost. She stared wide-eyed at Yun Chi, continuously making incomprehensible sounds, drooling uncontrollably, completely oblivious.

She struggled to crawl towards Yun Chi, but the needle inserted in her arm was like a sharp sword, pinning her to the ground.

Yun Chi glanced back at her, softly saying, “How much time did you give me before?”

“Three months, right.” She nodded slightly. “I’ll give you an hour. I believe you can escape from this junk star.”

Under Ye Ping’s despairing gaze, the mechanical dog carried Yun Chi, broke open the prison gate, and quickly disappeared from sight.

When that loud noise rang out, Ye Ping was still struggling on the ground, her expression anxious and fierce, on the brink of collapse.

Yan Yan carried Yun Chi, and its speed was not fast.

Mechanical dogs are not starships and do not possess the ability to shuttle quickly between galaxies.

Before Yun Chi fell into a coma, it did not designate a destination for it.

After leaving the abandoned planet, the mechanical dog tried to call its master three times in a row without success.

The execution program terminated, and it only brought Yun Chi to the remote planet X-1477 not far from the abandoned planet.

“Unstable life signs detected, need to find emergency equipment.”

“Searching—”

“Abnormal energy fluctuations detected, distance to energy fluctuation location is 473 meters, activating emergency plan, approaching energy area, reducing straight-line distance…”

The noisy mechanical sounds echoed in her ears incessantly.

When Yun Chi created this mechanical dog, she incorporated an intelligent system she had made when she was just learning mechanical principles.

Most of what she did later was confiscated or destroyed by the Alliance, with hardly anything left.

This intelligent system was spared because it was stored online.

She managed to activate the system smoothly by accessing the website where it was stored using electronic shackles.

…There were still many shortcomings in her early work.

For example, the design of human care.

Yun Chi was awakened by a series of mechanical noises, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw a F-grade spike beast opening its blood-filled mouth towards her.

Damn.

Sure enough, another alias for artificial intelligence is artificial stupidity.

Fortunately, the target of this spiked beast’s attack was not her, but a cute girl with twin ponytails and a floral dress who looked particularly adorable.

The girl’s eyes were filled with tears, looking on the verge of crying, as if she had been frightened.

The next moment, she picked up a kitchen knife nearby and swung it towards the spike beast’s head while crying out, “Help! Waaah! Is there anyone to save me! Ahhh, go to hell!”

Yun Chi: …

The kitchen knife she held was obviously made of exotic beast materials. F-grade spike beasts were originally relatively gentle exotic beasts, but now, being randomly hacked by her, covered in blood, it went berserk successfully.

Under the beast’s rage, it turned vicious.

This creature, with spikes on its back and nearly two meters tall, roared as it tore towards the top of the girl’s head.

The girl was young and obviously seeing such a scene for the first time.

Stunned by the spike beast’s frenzy charging towards her, she stood there dumbfounded.

Holding the large kitchen knife in her hand, she just stood there motionless.

Seeing that she was about to be swallowed by the spiked beast, a female voice suddenly came from beside her.

“Get down!”

Being chased by this spiked beast all the way, Wan Die had already been terrified, but when she suddenly heard someone speak, she subconsciously followed the instructions.

She screamed and crouched down, but caught sight of a half-human-height black dog not far away from her corner of the eye. Its eyes were glowing red. At that glance, it almost scared her heart out.

Fortunately, she noticed a person on the dog’s back.

A girl who looked only a few years older than her, wearing a hospital gown, with her black hair disheveled.

Her face was terribly pale, and she weakly raised her right hand towards the direction of the spike beast.

Right hand?

What was she doing raising her right hand?

Wan Die was slightly stunned.

The next moment, she saw a black lump on the girl’s wrist, like a wristwatch, suddenly assembling and rotating rapidly, erecting a small cannon.

Boom!

With a loud bang, the spike beast’s head was directly blown off.

Wan Die crouched on the spot, watching the F-grade spike beast, which had just threatened to eat her, collapse to the ground.

The beast’s blood stained her floral dress.

At first, she was stunned, then she couldn’t believe it, and finally tears and snot flowed down together. While crying, she didn’t forget to give a thumbs-up to Yun Chi:

“Sister, you’re awesome!”

Yun Chi: …

This shot made her hand numb, and she wasn’t interested in talking to Wan Die. She patted Yan Yan’s back and was about to leave when Yan Yan said:

“A large number of unidentified individuals are approaching, 323 meters away.”

Yun Chi: ?

Did it have to wait until everyone was gone to say that?

“Miss, over here!”

“Ah! Miss, what happened to you!”

“Quick, inform the young master, we’ve found the Miss.”

Suddenly, a group of people emerged, surrounding Wan Die.

Wan Die was crying, out of breath, but she still remembered her savior. She breathed a sigh of relief and pointed towards Yun Chi not far away.

Among the crowd, Wan Feng furrowed his brows lightly and looked towards Yun Chi.

Wan Die had run away from home, and as soon as she left, he received the news. He led people to search all the way, but was still a step slower.

This was a remote and seldom-visited planet, but a spike beast appeared, one that Wan Die definitely couldn’t handle with her current abilities, yet she was saved by someone.

With so many coincidences put together, it was really hard not to think deeply about it.

When he looked up and saw the mechanical dog, his expression became even more alert.

It wasn’t a mech, nor was it a drone. The one who saved Wan Die was a mechanical dog?

“Young Master, something seems off. Should we call for the interstellar patrol warship?” the steward beside him asked softly.

Wan Feng hesitated for a moment. “No need.”

He walked towards Yun Chi.

The young man wore a neat black suit, with a black bow tie at the collar. He had a handsome face, like a nobleman in a painting.

But behind Yun Chi’s back, he held a silver pistol in his right hand.

“Beep, beep, beep.” Before Wan Feng approached Yun Chi, the light brain on his body emitted an urgent sound.

Wan Feng paused, not opening his light brain to check the information.

However, this message was of too high a level, and without needing confirmation, it had already been broadcasted to all interstellar individuals wearing light brains:

“Emergency broadcast! Yun Chi, ranked first on the Sky List as a mechanical engineer, has died.”

“Emergency broadcast! Yun Chi, ranked first on the Sky List as a mechanical engineer, has died.”

“Repeat the broadcast…”

At the same time, within the Interstellar Alliance, the highest level alarm was sounded.