Chapter 18

“Knock knock.” Someone pushed the door open and walked in.

The last rays of the setting sun fell, and as the lights came on, the night of the Imperial Star was enveloped in countless twinkling lights.

Outside, the stars were shining, but the office was pitch black.

Wen Fang thought Fang Yanli had already left, but when he came in, he saw him leaning back in his chair, the flickering lights outside reflecting on his face.

He had his eyes tightly closed, with a deep frown on his brow.

Wen Fang hesitated for a moment, then looked at the paper documents in front of Fang Yanli.

After a moment of silence, he asked, “Regretting it?”

Upon hearing his voice, Fang Yanli opened his eyes immediately.

Wen Fang saw him with such a complex expression for the first time, but it only lasted for a moment.

Fang Yanli suppressed all the emotions in his heart and returned to his usual cold and stern demeanor.

He said in a deep voice, “Whatever the purpose, it’s not a reason for her crimes.”

He stood up and looked at the brilliant lights outside the window, his voice cold and stern. “There are over ten billion citizens in the interstellar world. Does everyone who suffers injustice have to resort to such violence to resist?”

“What do you make of order and laws?”

Wen Fang looked at his indifferent and aloof figure and shrugged lightly.

This was the Fang Yanli he knew. In that moment just now, he thought he had made a mistake.

“A person as clever as her, wouldn’t she have found a better solution?” Fang Yanli turned around, ignoring the discomfort in his heart, and said in a cold and stern voice, “Since she chose to do this, accepting judgment is also the result she should bear.”

Wen Fang didn’t comment on his words.

But there was one thing he didn’t know if Fang Yanli noticed.

That is, the previous Fang Yanli wouldn’t have made any explanations for what he considered to be self-evident matters.

After all, he was the one representing the regulations.

But Wen Fang didn’t say much. He just said, “I found Yunchi’s genes from the genetic database as you asked.”

Fang Yanli’s eyes deepened. “After handling everything tomorrow, come with me to the Interstellar Academy.”

Wen Fang agreed.

But they didn’t see Ji Fu.

When their starship landed above the Interstellar Academy, Ji Fu had already boarded a starship heading to the G-730 Nebula.

Since the end of the freshman exam, Class A had been in training.

The purpose of the training was to complete this mission.

Since the appearance of the black hole, nebula phenomena had occurred every few years.

Where nebulae appeared, exotic plants would flourish, and exotic beasts would evolve and breakthrough in a short period of time. Similarly, a large number of premium materials would appear in the nebula phenomena.

So every time a nebula phenomenon occurred, the local aristocratic families would organize a large number of people to explore it.

At the same time, invitations would be sent to capable people in the vicinity. It was because of this invitation system that this event was also called the Nebula Summit.

“Those who are invited can take away most of the materials obtained inside once the nebula phenomenon begins,” the teacher who led them explained softly.

“Most of them?” Wan Die was surprised. “Are there things that can’t be taken away?”

The difficulty had been deliberately increased before, just for this Nebula Summit, so the rules were the same as the freshman exam. Those who passed the exam in Class A could bring their companions to participate.

Wanfeng still brought Wan Die, while Ji Fu brought Jiang Wei.

Every time a nebula phenomenon occurred, the Interstellar Academy would allocate the invitation quota for that event to the team with the highest score in the current exam.

Although Ji Fu didn’t team up with Class A during the freshman exam, she still scored high. And because of the exam, three students were eliminated from Class A. In the absence of enough people, she joined Class A exceptionally and thus had the opportunity to participate in the Nebula Summit.

She remained as calm as ever, while Jiang Wei beside her was particularly nervous.

Because of the complicated situation this year, this team had people of all talent levels.

In previous years, almost all those who could participate in the Nebula Summit were A-level talents.

Jiang Wei knew about this because she had looked it up online.

The Nebula Summit was also called the All-A Summit.

But this opportunity was too rare, so when Ji Fu asked her, she didn’t hesitate to come along.

Just before the end, she was still nervous.

“…Of course, the places where nebula phenomena occur are small asteroids owned by various aristocratic families. Since they have control, they naturally have priority over certain materials.”

“But don’t worry, the organizers will only take a maximum of 15% of the materials obtained inside.”

“Tsk, what else do they want? People risk their lives in there, and they just take away 15% when they come out.” Sun Yiming complained softly.

“Reasonable.” Wan Die agreed inwardly. She said directly, “Then let’s not give them any!”

The leading teacher was choked by his own saliva and coughed several times before hastily saying, “Don’t mess around.”

Zhou Lu Hai, who was beside him, said lightly, “This time the organizers are one of the Four Minors.”

The current recognized major aristocratic families in the interstellar world were the so-called ‘Three Majors and Four Minors.’

The Three Majors were currently the three major aristocratic families that controlled the Alliance, with the largest influence and the broadest scope, almost controlling all the major powers in the interstellar world.

Zhou Lu Hai came from one of the Three Majors, the Zhou Family.

As for the Four Minors, they were only ranked below the Three Majors, but their relationships within the Alliance and the interstellar world were still complex.

When they heard that the organizers were one of the Four Minors, many people in the starship changed their expressions.

Except for Ji Fu and Jiang Wei, almost everyone in this team came from major families. But there was still a big gap between families.

For example, the Wan family where Wan Feng and Wan Die were from, and the Sun family behind Sun Yiming, were dominant families in their own star systems, but they were completely insignificant compared to the Three Majors and Four Minors.

Ji Fu calmly sipped her milk tea and heard Sun Yiming say, “So what if it’s one of the Four Minors? Weren’t two of them wiped out by Yunchi in the first place?”

She sucked on a pearl in her mouth and casually looked out the window.

Liu Can glanced at him coldly. “We’re about to enter the Nebula Summit. Can you control your mouth?”

Sun Yiming was unhappy. “What’s wrong? Did I say something wrong? Besides the Four Minors, isn’t there one family in the Three Majors that…” He suddenly realized and quickly shut up.

There were still people from the Three Major families on this starship.

Zhou Lu Hai didn’t have much emotion. The one that was almost wiped out by Yun Chi wasn’t his family.

And the people here didn’t know the inside story.

The current Three Major families, to be honest, had become two and a half.

It was also because of this that the internal strife within the Alliance had been very serious in recent years. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have come to the Interstellar Academy.

Most of those from the Three Major families attended the Imperial Military Academy.

“Alright.” Wan Feng raised his eyes and reminded them, “The starship is about to land.”

Wan Die heard this and hurriedly looked out the window.

With just one glance, she couldn’t help but exclaim, “So many people?”

Indeed, this planet was unusually bustling. Even before the starship had fully landed, the noisy voices outside could be heard.

Liu Can furrowed his brows lightly. “Why were so many invitations sent out this time?”

Although the Nebula Summit was usually lively, scenes like this were almost impossible due to the high threshold.

Ji Fu, who had been sitting quietly, opened the screen on the starship at the sound of this.

The starship had already landed smoothly, and everyone present didn’t understand why she opened the screen at this time.

The leading teacher was about to ask her when he saw a news flash on the screen.

“…Due to the severe impact of this malicious prison break incident, the Interstellar Prison has decided to execute all the fugitives in the Iris Star System, G-730, on March 9th (this Tuesday).”

Execution of fugitives.

The people on the starship all had slightly changed expressions.

“Click.” Ji Fu grabbed a piece of potato chip.

After she took the medicine and left after An Zaiyang’s death, the people behind An Zaiyang would definitely know. Whether they knew it was her or not, they would definitely try to find her after the medicine disappeared. The matter involved too many secrets, and it was inevitable that they would take action.

But she had anticipated that they might investigate the residue of the strong nutrient solution she broke on the scene, or carefully check the starship that landed on the Dahe Star for those few days, or even associate it with Qin Chu Yue.

But she didn’t expect that the other party would take the easiest and most direct way.

On that day, she invaded the prison system and released the prisoners. Almost all of them were ordinary people oppressed and framed by An Zaiyang through his authority. Except for Qin Chu Yue, there were only three real criminals.

In order to save face, the star-level prison would definitely catch all the fugitives.

Those three criminals were released last to confuse the situation. As long as the prison management wasn’t stupid, they would definitely catch them.

What was unexpected was that not only those three, but most of the escaped prisoners were caught back.

And they used these prisoners as bait to set up today’s trap.

The people behind An Zaiyang believed that her main purpose in killing An Zaiyang was to release these prisoners.

So, by announcing the news of the on-site execution of these prisoners, they forced her to show up.

In her earpiece came Qin Chu Yue’s indifferent voice, “It’s been three years, and the people of the Alliance are still as cruel and arrogant as ever.”

As for who took away Ji Fu’s talents, it was still unknown.

But from the highest prison management to what happened today, it all proved that this person had intricate ties to the Alliance.

Ji Fu remained silent and followed the people on the starship out of the hatch.

Since the other party had set up this trap, how could she ruin their fun?

“There are too many people.” Qin Chu Yue held a bag and squeezed into the crowd, frowning. “How are we supposed to confirm the other party’s identity like this?”

She arrived here two hours earlier than Ji Fu and encountered many people from the Alliance along the way, but she still couldn’t determine who was the mastermind.

Meanwhile, Ji Fu had already arrived at the entrance of the Nebula Summit with the people from the Interstellar Academy.

Ji Fu paused for a moment and looked up at the security device at the entrance.

Since the incident with the two families from the Four Minors, many aristocratic families in the interstellar world had installed these high-end security devices mainly to prevent anyone from infiltrating.

She paused and smiled lightly. “We should be able to confirm soon.”

Just as half of Class A had passed through, the leading teacher stood at the security checkpoint and called out to her, “Ji Fu.”

She walked slowly towards the huge security device.

As soon as she stepped into the device, a piercing alarm sounded, echoing throughout the planet.

Beep, beep, beep.

The red light on the security device flashed violently.

“High-level alert! High-level alert!”