"When" "when" "when"...
The bell suddenly broke the early morning tranquility of the town, and the clear and high-pitched final toll penetrated the sky and echoed over the entire gray star, one after another, continuously.
The boss behind the counter suddenly opened his eyes, and the guests who were lying on the tavern table all night jumped up and ran outside one after another. As they ran, they opened the rings and asked each other what the big deal was.
Almost immediately, the news was confirmed. A bearded man shouted: "An escape boat that was forced to land was found in the gray swamp in the northwest. There was a little brat in the oasis who first discovered it during training. He didn't report it. Instead, he took the opportunity to escape and was intercepted. !”
"What a fucking little brat!"
"You kid who doesn't know how high the sky is!"
"You deserve a beating!"
The drunkards immediately cursed and disappeared at the door of the tavern. The little boy clearing the table dropped what he was holding and ran into the counter. The tavern owner behind the counter picked up the little boy and raised his voice to David: "Hey, young man, why don't you leave?"
"Just leave!" David held Gu Hanhan's hand with one hand, and placed his and Gu Hanhan's two empty wine glasses on the counter with the other hand.
"What happened?" he asked.
The tavern owner looked at them: "New here?"
"New here." David nodded.
"Am I wrong? How old are you and you have already reached the advanced level? I haven't heard of any geniuses in Oasis recently..." The boss muttered to himself, and then said while taking back the wine glass. : "We're going to search the streets. You'd better go back quickly. This kind of thing won't happen once in hundreds of years, but it's very annoying once it happens. There was a kid running around in the oasis. When he should be arrested, he fled to us in a panic. The town is here, and the troops are out at the base. So go home quickly, young man, we are closing too. If that kid happens to hide in your house, it will be terrible."
"Thank you, boss." David said sincerely, and then they left the tavern.
The streets were in chaos and no longer peaceful as in the early morning. Groups of security soldiers carrying energy weapons ran past, going door to door to check. Everyone got up, the servants were busy in the courtyard room, and they themselves conducted a big search first. Occasionally, some houses are enveloped by energy field fluctuations, and the ability users who have returned home are searching for them personally.
"found it!"
There was a commotion at the corner of the street, only ten meters away from them. A teenage boy with black hair was dug out of the soil in the flower garden by the soldiers. More than a dozen energy suppressors were aimed at the boy. The soldier lifted the boy up by his collar. He opened his big hand and slapped the boy twice, then threw him to the ground and spat.
The boy was beaten until his face was covered with blood and he was curled up on the ground, but his eyes still looked as ferocious as a wolf. A soldier kicked the boy in the head with the toe of his boot, then put energy-suppressing handcuffs on him and dragged him all the way to the armed combat boat.
Gu Hanhan turned to look at David. There was no expression on David's handsome face, but his eyes fell gently on the spire in the center of the base in the distance.
A black spot appeared on the edge of the Tower of Babel near the bottom of the clouds. The black spot drew a trajectory in the sky and shot toward the town. It soon became clear that it was a large luxury airship. Almost immediately, a dozen combat boats took off from the direction of the military camp at the same time, forming a cluster and following the large airship.
The airship group landed in the center of the town's widest crossroads. The guards in gorgeous military uniforms rushed out from the combat boats first, quickly cleared the streets, set up cordons and formed ceremonial guards. Their leader, a guard general who was at least a senior guard, strode over. He first waved and saluted David, then knelt down and half-knelt on the side of the array to wait. Immediately afterwards, the door of the airship opened, and a large wave of well-dressed people rushed down in a hurry. When they were only a dozen steps away from David, they all knelt down and prostrated themselves on the ground. Only the leader, a young man, knelt down at David's feet, bowed his head and called "Master."
Gu Hanhan didn't know this person, but he estimated that he must be a high-status attendant, maybe one of David's deputy chief attendants. Because the position of his salute to David is very close, almost exactly the same as that of Gal. Moreover, his kneeling posture is very tall and handsome. It's not like the others where they get down on all fours unsightly and put their head and face on the ground. David's attitude towards him was obviously familiar and casual, and he would call him by his name.
"I have only arrived at Gray Star a few hours ago, Mr. Chiyo," he said. "You are chasing us too fast."
"Master, forgive me." Deputy Attendant Qianyo smiled very handsomely. He said, "Originally, I couldn't have come so quickly, but there happened to be some small things happening among the family vassals. I went to their territory to deal with it. It's only a few meters away from Gray Star. Less than a hundred light years away. After receiving the urgent communication from the chief attendant, I immediately set off to serve my master."
David nodded. Although it was inevitably disappointing, he thoughtfully did not ask what happened in the vassal family's territory that required the dignified Deputy Attendant Qianyo to come and deal with it in person.
Chiyo secretly breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the guards had completed the cleaning process, and the carpet was spread from the steps of the airship to David's feet. So he quickly asked David to get on the airship.
David's eyes fell on the black-haired boy outside the security net - the group of security soldiers who arrested the black-haired boy were unlucky enough to be in the middle of the guard's cleaning circle, so they were the first to be crushed. Go outside and kneel on the ground. The security soldiers had never encountered such a battle before, so they buried their heads on the ground in panic. On the contrary, it was the black-haired boy who was captured by them. He probably knew that he could not escape. He had a fearless and heroic spirit. Even though he was curled up on the ground with bruises all over his body, he still stared at David with a pair of dark eyes.
So David asked, "What mistake did this boy make?"
Deputy Chief Chiyo followed David's line of sight and saw the black-haired boy, and was immediately speechless. How could he know about such a trivial matter? So the supervisory attendant of the top person in charge of Gray Star answered.
The supervisory attendant had never seen such a supreme figure as the family leader, let alone spoke in front of him. He lay prone on the ground, trembling with fear and nervousness, and stammered that the boy had committed the crime of defection. Moreover, he also attempted to steal his master's airship, which was an even more heinous crime.
David didn't think there was anything sinful about stealing the escape boat he stole from Gordon's house, but it was impossible to refute a mere supervisory attendant and just laugh it off.
"Really," he said, "Bring it here and let me see it."
The boy was immediately dragged in front of David and forced to kneel on the ground. A guard grabbed his hair and forced him to raise his face so that David could see clearly. However, David didn't even look at it. He took Gu Hanhan's hand and boarded the airship directly.
The only person with enough status to get on the same airship as David was Deputy Attendant Chiyo. The guard's combat boats could follow behind as a convoy formation, while the rest of the people kept kneeling on the ground and did not dare to raise their heads until the airship took off and moved away.
"Let this little guy go." The supervisory attendant said after getting up. "He is a big shot now and cannot be touched by your cheap hands."
The guards released the boy and turned on his energy-suppression bracelet.
The supervisory attendant walked up to the boy with a smile and wiped the blood and dirt from his face with his high-end linen handkerchief.
"You are so lucky, boy, that you have to ask the master himself." He said enviously, "Do you still understand? Idiot! You are going to enter the Acropolis! You will serve the master from now on!"
The black-haired boy was stunned, obviously not understanding what the supervisory attendant was saying.
"Don't be so stupid. This is a great thing for your ancestral graves to be smoking! I have to say, boy, if you planned your escape, then you are really a talented person with a bright future!" the supervisor said enthusiastically , "When you become successful in the future, you must support your old friends in the training camp!"
The boy understood, and suddenly his face turned blue with anger, and a wave of energy struck him.
Naturally, there were guards who stopped him, but the supervisory attendant was still startled. He took two steps back and said to himself: "It's too wild! There are no rules at all. This is not okay..."
"This is not okay!" His voice suddenly rose, and then he turned his head and yelled back, "Correctional Officer! Where is the Chief Correctional Officer!"
The chief training officer of Gray Star Training Camp hurried over. The supervisory attendant pointed at the black-haired boy and said to him: "We can't send a slave who is like a wild dog to his master. I'm afraid we have to make great efforts to tame him before sending him away. Abort him and make him well-educated. Time is running out, Chief Correctional Officer, you have to come up with an immediate plan and start immediately."
The chief correctional officer looked at the black-haired boy again and again, and then hesitated: "I think it might be better to be completely untameable. Maybe it is the wild and untamable nature that the master is interested in. Maybe the master wants to tame him himself. If we If you act rashly, you might be self-defeating and make your master unhappy, sir!"
"Well, that makes sense!" After hearing this, the supervisory attendant suddenly understood and nodded in agreement, "Then hurry up, put the handcuffs, leg irons, and neck rings on him, and take him away now."
After being found, David didn't stay much longer in Gray Star. He just had breakfast with Gu Hanhan in the palace-like room at the top of the tower. Two hours later, the spacecraft staying in the planet's orbit was ready to depart, and they immediately set off on their way back to the lighthouse star.
Before boarding the spaceship, David suddenly remembered the bar owner in the slave town, so he told Chiyo: "That bar owner, I owe him a drink, go and ask him what he wants."
After the spaceship took off, Chiyo reported back to David and told him that the owner of the bar had nothing more to ask for than to serve his master with his humble body. Since he was a level 7 superpower, he was quite useful, so Chiyo took him on board.
This was actually what David expected. He thought he would want freedom. He was already prepared to relieve him of his status as a slave and grant him the status of an independent vassal. However, he did not think of asking for freedom at all. Instead, he prayed for the Acropolis. Gift. David was very disenchanted because of this, and with a glum wave of his hand, he agreed to this prayer.
