Chapter 62: Arrival

Later, Carlo suspected he had logged into some private group chat, and only after asking did he learn of the horrifying news hidden beneath the surface.

A mere handful of rebels were certainly not worth making such a massive fuss over. However, those few rebels had somehow managed to steal a piece of classified imperial data from the main brain system that managed the entire interstellar realm.

Though they had no way of knowing what kind of data it was, judging by this massive array of force, it was clearly no trivial matter.

Although the Third Legion had captured the culprits yesterday, the encryption key carrying that confidential data was nowhere to be found.

Furthermore, the military had no idea when this item had been transferred, nor where it had been moved to.

The suspects had all died suddenly while being escorted—despite the various security precautions taken by the Third Legion along the way, they still failed to prevent it.

In short, while the matter now appeared to be over on the surface, the hidden dangers had actually grown even greater. Consequently, life recently on Planet 732, and indeed throughout the entire resident star system, would not be very stable.

Therefore, that close friend advising him to temporarily reside in the Capital Star was also doing it for his own good. The friend presumably knew that people in their line of work had sensitive identities and were somewhat prone to getting entangled in such affairs.

Yet Carlo was currently entirely unwilling to leave the resident star system. Back then, when he returned from the Capital Star to the resident star system that had nurtured him, he had done so with a lingering grievance, and for this reason, he had patiently spent over a dozen years educating the youth at Wanhe Middle School.

He never expected that even after returning here, he would still encounter such an event. What, then, was the point of him being driven back here in anger from the Capital Star system in the first place?

Carlo began to feel some doubt regarding his own choices. He was somewhat at a loss as to what he should do next.

It seemed he could no longer continue staying at Wanhe Middle School, and returning to the Capital Star system for the time being was likely out of the question—at least, not by slinking back in defeat. So how should he proceed down his path?

Carlo let out a long sigh, his head aching intensely.

A comms call came through on his optical brain, but he didn't even bother to look at it, directly tapping to reject and hang up.

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Over on Jiang Hui's side, after eating her fill, she began another day of studying.

In the end, she couldn't resist the temptation and purchased several popular miniature mecha models on the interstellar network, and impulsively splurged on a few beginner's guide books on mechas as well.

Well, truth be told, she didn't quite know what she was doing either. She was a liberal arts student... Ah, why on earth would a liberal arts student develop an interest in this? She really couldn't quite explain it. But humans truly could never escape the law of "true fragrance"—ultimately yielding to things they once dismissed.

Jiang Hui swore to herself that she just wanted to play around with mecha toys because this stuff was honestly beyond compare—it was simply immensely interesting. She could assemble a few more and bring them into her spiritual space just to pass the time. How fitting...

Jiang Hui was struggling to convince herself that spending tens of thousands of interstellar coins on these models was seemingly a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Interstellar cargo delivery services were quite fast after all. Aside from certain special commodities that required transfer from elsewhere, regular goods could basically arrive within an hour.

The miniature mecha models Jiang Hui purchased fell under the category of light-luxury educational goods. Apart from many young children heading down this career path who bought them as teaching tools, there were also some ordinary adults lacking spiritual power conditions who purchased them as decorations.

Such items were quite popular, so there were quite a few specialty shops on the planet, allowing goods to be delivered directly in no time.

In less than a star-hour, the items arrived downstairs at her apartment.

Upon receiving the notification from the apartment's intelligent robot, Jiang Hui checked the option asking the delivery robot to send it directly upstairs.

As a result, when the delivery robot knocked on her door and Jiang Hui opened it, she was met with a large package standing one and a half times her height, pushed in front of the vacant area outside her door.

Uh... did she buy this many things? Jiang Hui had checked the dimensions when purchasing; although there were some large items, those models combined were probably not even a tenth of this size. Could something have gone wrong in the middle?

The delivery service here was handled by an intelligent robot, which had no concept of reading human expressions. It mechanically asked Jiang Hui whether she wanted the item unloaded right now.

Seeing that it was about to unload this massive contraption from the cart, Jiang Hui quickly stopped it and asked the robot what kind of item this was.

Hearing the other party's reply, Jiang Hui finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Oh, so the intelligent system had arrived. That explained why the model box was so huge.

Sure enough, shortly afterward, two more delivery robots arrived successively, one large and one small. One was presumably the holographic capsule, while the other was dragging several small boxes—these were the miniature mecha models she had just ordered.

Jiang Hui finally understood why such a large, open, vacant area was established right in front of these apartment residences. Every household had one, enclosed together with the living space, yet residents were strictly prohibited from piling any sundries there or making modifications.

So this was what such public services were used for.

Looking at the delivery robots that had briskly unloaded the cargo and zipped away with a buzzing sound, Jiang Hui wore a complicated expression, and her mood was even more complicated.

How on earth was she supposed to unpack this pile of things? And once unpacked... was she expected to install them herself as well?

Jiang Hui looked at her own visibly frail arms, then glanced at the packaging towering several heads taller than her, and finally dialed the merchant's optical brain customer service.

Having obtained a guarantee from the other side that specialized personnel would come up later to help her install these items, Jiang Hui finally set her mind at ease, scooped up a few smaller items she could manage to carry, and returned to the living room.

As for the remaining two large pieces, she would wait for the staff to arrive and deal with them then.

Indeed, whether on Blue Star or in the interstellar era, unboxing courier packages was an incomparably joyful process.

Looking at the brightly packaged, exquisitely textured model boxes as they were unboxed one by one, Jiang Hui could no longer control her hands, dying to tear open every single one right then and there and assemble them immediately.

Then, the very next moment, another optical brain comms call came through—it turned out to be the people for the installation system and the holographic capsule.

So fast?!

The apartment reception's intelligent robot had already verified their identities and then asked Jiang Hui whether she permitted these people to enter her apartment.

Although Jiang Hui was actually rather reluctant to let strangers enter her living space, especially since she hadn't yet fully figured out this interstellar world, while the holographic capsule could barely be operated and installed by herself, the intelligent system certainly could not be.

If she didn't let anyone in today, this intelligent system probably couldn't be successfully installed. Wouldn't that mean she bought it in vain?

Jiang Hui had no choice but to contact the merchant once more via optical brain, verify the identities of the two staff members who had arrived today, and only then notify the reception robot to grant permission and let them up.

Fortunately, the entire installation process went smoothly. In less than two star-hours, Jiang Hui possessed a brand-new intelligent system and a holographic capsule.

A new day was about to begin.