In the "Desolate Star Territory", a spacecraft that traveled thousands of light years across mountains and rivers started its hyperspace engine again.

In the spaceship, a team of about four or five people was also silent at this time.

After a long time, one of the members said:

"... Starting from our home star, we have passed through 25 star fields and explored 2,330 planets in 156 star systems."

"Excluding the planets that we think have no value, there are at least 1,500 planets..."

"...So Cowper, where are your so-called 'ancient ruins'?"

The atmosphere of the entire team seemed to have become colder because of this person's words. Several other members also looked at the protagonist in this paragraph expressionlessly - a man with a green body, strong muscles, but huge eyes.

Strange creatures.

All characteristics indicate that he comes from an emerging interstellar race - the Raborn people.

But the team members obviously would not give him preferential treatment just because he was different from their own species, and the Laborn man named Cowper still had to give them an explanation.

After a period of silence, Cowper slowly expressed his thoughts:

"I know you are dissatisfied, but you have all read my father's research manuscript. At that time, everyone thought it was okay to try it. Now that we are not even halfway through the exploration journey, we have decided to go home?"

"But you have to have some hope? Let alone hope in the past two years, not even a hair has been found. How can we explain this when we go back?"

"...Ha, you don't even have any patience, I really don't know how you got into United University..."

"What did you say?!"

Seeing that the quarrel was getting worse, the person who seemed to be the leader of the team suddenly said: "Okay! Everyone, please be quiet!"

The entire conference room fell silent for an instant, but judging from their obviously unconvinced expressions, the peace was only temporary.

Seeing this situation, the leader also rubbed his brows and said helplessly:

"We voted unanimously at that time, and it is indeed too early to go back now."

Hearing these words, Cowper's big eyes were suddenly filled with hope.

But the next sentence poured cold water on him.

"But we can't waste time searching endlessly. Let's go back after exploring all the star systems in this star field."

"Professor! This-"

"Cowper." The professor leading the team said tiredly:

"I'm already old and don't have much time to study new things. Looking at your father's face, I am willing to drive this scientific research ship to accompany you to explore planet after planet."

"But I still have my own things to study. It would be fine if I could really find the 'ancient ruins' in your father's manuscript, but from a probability theory point of view, you also know that the chance is infinitely close to zero percent."

"So just listen to me this time, okay?"

Looking at the old man in front of him who was almost equivalent to his other father, Cowper opened his mouth, but in the end he could only nod silently.

The young man who had an argument with him before also showed a sarcastic smile, as if he would be extremely happy as long as he saw Cowper being defeated.

At this time, the spacecraft's hyperspace engine has completed charging, propelling the spacecraft to the next galaxy at super-light speed.

…………

"Lillian! Where are your daily prayers?"

"Hug, sorry, Lord Guardian... I, I overslept..."

In the artificial forest, Li Wenyuan controlled a synthetic human, holding a picked branch, and preached to Lilian, who was addicted to the game.

This artificial forest is Lillian's residence. According to her, it is because "the environment here is very similar to that of her hometown, and I like it very much."

There are also synthetic fruits and clean water produced regularly in the artificial forest every day, so there is no need to worry about Lilian's survival, so Li Wenyuan simply left her alone.

But the game console I gave her before was really good, or rather too good.

When Li Wenyuan discovered that the daily Zero income had decreased, he sent people to find Lilian, the only Zero producer in the artificial forest, to find out what happened.

——Then he saw Lillian sleeping in a tree hole.

"...So, you are so absorbed in playing games that you don't get enough sleep every day, so you just use your prayer time to catch up on sleep?"

"Yes, yes..." Lilian knew she couldn't hide it from the guardian, so she nodded sincerely.

Li Wenyuan, with a black face on his face, took out the game console she had hidden in the tree hole, then pointed her head with a branch and said:

"Want to play?"

"……think……"

"Do you know why I play with you?"

"...Because Lilian can provide that purple gas..." At this moment, Lilian suddenly remembered that this "Guardian" was a murderous being.

If she has no use value, then what will happen to her...

The more she thought about it, the more scared she felt, and then she fell to her knees and said tremblingly:

"Yes, I'm sorry! Lilian will never make a mistake again! Please, don't kill me..."

This scene was beyond Li Wenyuan's expectations. He originally just wanted to clarify the supply and demand relationship between them with Lillian, so that Lillian could understand that she could play games, but at least she had to ensure that the prayers continued normally.

Unexpectedly, Lilian immediately thought that he was going to clean up the house, and she was completely frightened.

"It seems that I used too much force before..." Li Wenyuan looked at the trembling beast girl in front of him with a headache, so he had to squat down and stroke the top of her head with his synthetic hand.

He had never considered taking action against Lillian, the only living creature on the planet, not only because she could produce Zero, but also because her biological form was very similar to humans, which aroused his attention and intimacy.

In fact, even if Lilian is unable to produce Zero, Li Wenyuan will still protect her until she is able to set foot in the interstellar world.

He did not believe that there could be a second fish in this galaxy that walked on land, survived mass extinctions, and went through rounds of life-and-death battles, evolved flexible limbs, evolved an appearance consistent with humans, and finally climbed to the top of the food chain.

to the top, and then create a civilization.

In Li Wenyuan's heart, he always believed that Lilian and her race were the products of humans. No matter how bad things were, they would have a close relationship with humans. Sooner or later, he would come to Lilian's home planet and look for traces of humans there.

When the time comes, Lilian will be the best guide.

So he knelt down and softly comforted Lillian.

Perhaps because of the comfort, Lilian finally raised her head, but her cat ears were drooped on her hair, looking pitiful.

Li Wenyuan also sighed and handed a new game console to Lilian.

"This is a new game console. It has more games and richer types. You can play with it. Just pray when you think about it later. It doesn't matter if you don't want to pray. Zero is enough for the time being. Maomao doesn't have to go to work.

What are you doing living so tiredly all day long?"

As he spoke, he remembered something again and warned:

"Don't leave this forest if you have nothing to do in the future. Anyway, there is enough food and drink inside. I haven't even figured out the defense systems in some ancient ruins outside. If you accidentally run in and die, I won't even have anyone to talk to.

have to."

"So be it."

Maybe it was because the kindness in his words was too obvious, or maybe it was because the sense of alienation made Lillian very uneasy.

Just when Li Wenyuan was about to leave, Lilian suddenly stood up and stopped the synthesizer.

"Well, Lord Guardian! Lilian will work hard! So, so... don't drive Lilian away, okay?"

Lilian's pleading words made Li Wenyuan stunned for a moment, and then he felt dumbfounded.

She looked scared to death just now, why wasn't she scared now? And when did he say he wanted her to leave?

"When did I say that... forget it, don't worry, as long as you are still on this planet, I will never let you go."

"And remember not to lose the earmuffs on your head, otherwise I won't be able to contact you. Sigh... It's a bit troublesome for primitive people not to speak. Let's arrange for a synthetic person to give her lessons sometime..."

Although Lillian didn't understand the meaning of the class, she thought it should be a good thing, so she also laughed.

Little did she know that this would be her nightmare for a long time to come.

At this time, at the edge of the solar system, a spacecraft suddenly appeared here.

There were only a few people on the boat, but when they noticed the scene inside this galaxy, they all widened their eyes in unison.

"here it is……"

A raging fire suddenly ignited in the eyes of the Labern man named Cowper, and his intuition told him that he had found the right place.


Chapter completed!