Chapter 17

On the square of the Interstellar Academy, it was quiet. If you didn’t know, you might think there wasn’t a single person here.

It wasn’t until a student in the crowd suddenly realized and incredulously exclaimed, “What!?”

C level!?

Wasn’t she an F? How did she become a C in just a few days?

Could it be that talents can still improve?

“Could it be a problem with the talent detector?”

“If you’re talking about something else, maybe, but the talent detector hardly ever makes mistakes, right?”

“Then what could it be?”

Everyone present wanted to know why.

Not to mention Cheng Hao and the others who came from the highest office, even the teacher responsible for recording students’ talents was stunned. After a long silence, he asked Ji Fu to test again.

“Ji Fu, C level,” the talent detector still gave this result.

Now everyone present was in an uproar.

Cheng Hao was especially slow to react. After all, before this, they were still guessing whether Ji Fu was concealing her talent. Suddenly, she burst out with a C level, which they never expected.

Only Ji Fu remained calm amidst the countless shocked and questioning gazes.

That day, in An Zaiyang’s place, she found the medication that Ye Ping injected into her during her time in the highest monitoring.

After getting the medication, she had an idea.

Her current talent appeared after injecting this medication. So, if she wanted to treat this talent, shouldn’t she inject the medication again and then proceed with the treatment?

The pain caused by the medication was almost unbearable for an ordinary person.

But she still used it. This was also the fundamental reason why the medical warehouse was flooded with red that night.

On that day, Fang Yanli only flipped through the treatment records, not the experimental content.

In fact, she conducted thirteen repeated experiments with her own body, injecting the medication in small amounts multiple times, recording the changes in her entire body cells and talents.

With the medication in her hands, she endured intense pain and experimented for several hours until she passed out from exhaustion.

Before losing consciousness, she drank the last dose of the medication she had obtained from the experiments.

When she woke up again, she heard them talking outside.

But what she noticed first wasn’t the people outside, but the talent mark on her right wrist.

In the originally misty mark, a faint golden color appeared.

Although faint and dim, it was indeed there.

Even her body didn’t seem as easily fatigued as before.

At that moment, she knew that the experiment was successful, and she temporarily extended her life for herself.

Yesterday, during class, Du Ming also affirmed this point.

“…I didn’t expect the Pan Yuntian Star Formula to really work,” Du Ming exclaimed with surprise on his face. “Originally, according to pathological analysis, you could only live for a little over a month at most. After the potion took effect, all indicators of your body changed.”

“Of course, it’s still quite difficult to directly restore your health, but for now, your vital signs can support you for at least six months.”

Six months.

Although this time was a success, within six months, she still had to find a way to save herself.

She didn’t know where the extracted talent had been sent, and currently, she had no idea what the other party wanted by extracting her talent. The hope of retrieving it was slim.

And even if she could retrieve it, it was probably no longer the same as the original talent extracted from her.

With things having come to this point, self-rescue was the only option.

The medication taken from An Zaiyang was basically used up this time, but before using the medication, she specifically extracted a sample from it because she was afraid of affecting its efficacy, only using a few milliliters.

But as a sample for analysis, it was enough.

However, the composition of the medication was too complex, and no conclusion had been drawn yet.

On the playground, astonishment and discussion continued.

The teacher responsible for recording talents at the Interstellar Academy had never seen such a situation before. After a moment of silence, he still asked, “Ji Fu, what’s the matter with your talent?”

Under the bright sunlight, Ji Fu smiled lightly. “Teacher, I have a defective talent.”

She said it lightly, but many people, including the recording teacher, were stunned.

Tan Xi heard a student behind her sigh, “Ah, so it’s not the legendary upgradable talent?”

“But isn’t it said that defective talents can’t be cured? She…”

Li Yunyi beside Tan Xi raised an eyebrow lightly. “What’s even more unexpected is that after curing the defective talent, it actually upgraded.”

“So, is this why she chose to become an apothecary?”

Tan Xi didn’t know, but she felt that the girl on the playground who spoke calmly about her own defect was particularly dazzling.

Regardless of whether it was defective or not, a student with an upgraded talent appearing in the academy was an extremely rare occurrence.

It didn’t take long for the news to reach Fang Yanli.

This time, what happened in An Zaiyang’s place was very complicated, involving internal corruption in prison management, which made many citizens dissatisfied, and the Alliance Bureau has been restless these days.

Sitting behind his desk, Fang Yanli’s eyes flickered when he heard about the C level. He lowered his eyes and looked at the paper documents in his hand.

Since the rapid development of interstellar technology, the form of paper documents had long been obsolete.

But the one he held in his hand was different.

This was a document that was delivered to him three years late, and even the subordinate who originally went to investigate this matter had already died.

After many twists and turns, this document was finally handed to him by a friend.

But after carefully reading it, his mood became particularly heavy.

The document recorded all the experiences of Yun Chi before launching the black mecha to destroy the Alliance planet.

It involved confidential issues and was particularly difficult to investigate.

And the contents recorded above far exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.

Yun Chi was born in a remote star in a distant galaxy, where both parents were untalented low-level species, and the people on that remote star were similar to their family.

Because of poverty and lack of talent, the people on their planet depended on the aristocratic families in the galaxy to make a living by extracting crystal veins for them.

Crystal veins were a precious material with properties related to kinship.

But precisely because of this kinship property, machines couldn’t mine them, so they had to be manually excavated. That’s why the aristocratic families at that time had them do a lot of mining.

It’s just that they didn’t expect the crystal vein business to grow so big, leading to constant conflicts between the two major aristocratic families, even resorting to firepower.

These two major families were both in the middle level of the alliance, and in order to prevent the other from profiting, they jointly introduced a new alliance regulation.

The new regulation stipulated that private mining of crystal veins was illegal, and almost all those involved in mining were convicted.

At that time, Yun Chi was six years old. The aristocratic family they relied on had everyone on the planet undergo talent testing.

Those with talent could avoid charges and enter the aristocratic family’s schools.

Unfortunately, Yun Chi was also a low-level species.

Because of the conflict between the two families, they became second-class citizens.

What does it mean to be a second-class citizen?

It’s no different from the old-time servants, deprived of human rights, and exiled to a wasteland to become mechanical workers, doing nothing but tedious assembly work every day.

Yet, Yun Chi showed unprecedented mechanical talent on that wasteland.

The heavy machinery she modified and redesigned had extremely high productivity, and even once liberated all the labor on the wasteland.

But the good times didn’t last long. The heavy machinery she designed caught the attention of the aristocratic families and, after mass production, brought them huge profits. However, they plotted against her after making profits and even intended to confine her to produce more heavy machinery for them.

The records showed that Yunchi’s several years of confinement by the aristocratic family were blank.

But in the Alliance year 764, when Yun Chi was only sixteen years old, she left the planet named Hell by that aristocratic family and returned to the wasteland.

But she found that while she was away for a few years, her father had suddenly passed away from exhaustion in the first year she left, and her mother, who was injured while mining crystal veins, became paralyzed.

After her father’s death, her mother had no one to take care of her… and she was starved to death in this era of rapid technological advancement.

Moreover, in order to silence rumors, the people living on the wasteland were treated inhumanely. When Yun Chi returned home, many people there had died, and only a few remained.

From that day on, Yun Chi used all the machinery on the wasteland to build a machine.

She alone, with that machine, returned to the remote star where she used to mine crystal veins.

Three days.

Within three days, she alone drained all the crystal veins on dozens of planets, cast exquisite crystal stones, and created the first giant weapon in her hand.

With the machine, she returned to Hell and killed twenty-one people, including the head of the family.

Since then, she became a wanted criminal in the interstellar world.

In the following year, she killed the two aristocratic families that had fought for crystal veins, and destroyed thirty-three planets including the Alliance headquarters.

She became the most threatening 3S-class criminal since the establishment of the Alliance…

When Yun Ch iwas an enemy of the entire alliance, they had analyzed her motives.

But in the end, it was all dismissed by the highest bureau of the Alliance, saying that people like Yun Chi were born with antisocial personalities.

Her actions were just provocations or manifestations of expansion, not worth excessive analysis.

And when she first became a wanted criminal, her rank wasn’t high, so the entire Alliance didn’t pay much attention to her, even defining her as a clown because she was a low-level species.

But no one expected it to develop into what it is now.

Especially with the appearance of the black mecha, it had reached a point where even the top of the Alliance couldn’t handle it.

This task fell into the hands of Fang Yanli.

Until now, Yun Chi remained the most formidable opponent Fang Yanli had encountered in his many years as an executive.

And he was also clear that the main reason he was able to capture Yun Chi smoothly in the first place was because she was a low-level species.

And his talent was extremely high, almost unparalleled in recent years in the Alliance.

To this day, he still remembers what Yun Chi said in the final battle years ago.

“Fang Yanli, do you know what I hate most about you?”

“It’s your lofty sense of justice.” In the vast starry sky, she sat on the shoulder of the black mecha, tilting her head to look at him.

“How should I put it? It’s both ridiculous and laughable.”

At that time, he only felt that she was trying to provoke him and make him make mistakes.

But he didn’t expect that, three years later, this sentence would become a thorn stuck in his heart.

Deep into his heart.