"Dear viewers in front of the light beam, this is the live stream of 'Flight to Heaven's Origin', a special program jointly launched by the Flying Star Light Channel and the Heavenly Saint Light Channel. The most exciting moment is about to arrive. The first batch of Cultivators heading for the Tian Yuan Realm has boarded the starships!
"Ten thousand years! We have been separated from our brother worlds for ten thousand years since the Star Ocean Imperium was disintegrated!
"For ten thousand years, we have been fighting against extraterrestrial devils, demon beasts, and apocalypses by ourselves in the cold, dark universe!
"However, after today, everything will change. We are going to live and die together with another brother world, fighting side by side!"
"Let's pray that Li Yao, Mo Xuan, and other friends from the Tian Yuan Realm return home. We also wish that the Cultivators of the Flying Star Sector will have a safe journey and that we will bring greetings from the Flying Star Sector to our brothers in the Tian Yuan Realm!"
At this moment, the entire Flying Star Sector was silent. The ordinary people were making different gestures and praying in silence with their eyes closed. The Cultivators, on the other hand, were making all kinds of hand gestures and sending the blessing telepathic thoughts into the universe with the secret techniques of their sects that they had never told anyone else.
At the edge of the Spider Den Space Zone, on a ragged carrier.
Dozens of brawny, ferocious crew members were gathered in the cabin that was filled with the stench of sweat. Their muscles were so tight that their clothes were almost torn apart. Their fists were clenched so hard that water was almost dripping out of them. They gritted their teeth and prayed 'ferociously'.
"Puchi!"
While the rude and kind men were praying in silence, discordant noises echoed from a corner. A high-pitched voice could not help but laugh.
"Mouse Bai, you brat! You're here to make trouble again!"
A muscular man with whiskers opened his eyes, only to discover that it was a hideous young man with a huge head in the corner.
The young man's face was full of disdain. At such an exciting moment, he was yawning nonstop. Instead of praying with the rest of the people, he took out a bag of greasy peanuts from somewhere. He tossed them into his mouth one after another. His appearance was so wretched that other people's fists were all itching to punch him.
The young man was truly hideous.
He was like a congenital deficiency. She was also malnourished, so she was less than 1.3 meters tall. Her pink skin was wrinkled, her ears were bigger than fans, and her nose was sharp and red. His two front teeth were protruding out of his mouth, and his eyes were as small as the tip of a needle. In addition, the densely packed freckles that surrounded his eye sockets were like a sky full of stars. It was as if he was wearing a natural eye patch. No matter how one looked at him, he did not look like a good person. He was like a thief with three hands.
The young man's surname was Bai because he looked like a mouse, and he had two very strange white mice as pets. Therefore, everyone called him "Mouse Bai".
Mouse Bai got on the carrier three months ago.
At that time, Spider Den had been greatly developed. The demand for carriers and engineering ships had been very high. The carrier that belonged to a private company had participated in the development and worked on Spider Den for half a year.
But when they left Spider Den, the boy somehow got on board.
Other than the space pirates, there were a lot of civilians on Spider Den, too. They were either the victims of the space pirates, the descendants of the victims, or the family members of the space pirates. Not everybody had blood debts. Many of them were slaves of the space pirates and suffered all kinds of oppression.
After Spider Den was conquered, naturally, the victims could not be killed. After strict identification and lie detection, for the original residents of Spider Den who had not committed any crimes, those who were over eighteen years old would participate in the local construction on Spider Den, and those who were below eighteen years old would be sent to temporary schools to study. They contributed to the construction of the newborn Flying Star Sector.
Even so, many people had been caught in the bad habit of idleness in the past. They were unwilling to work or go to school. They had nothing better to do, and they often caused trouble.
Mouse Bai was one such fish that escaped the net.
When he got on board, his situation was even worse than right now. Not only was he so skinny that his bones looked like matchsticks, there was also a giant hole on his head that had just scabbed over. After the examination, the doctors on board all said that his head had been seriously wounded, and his skull had been broken into several pieces. 9% of the people would have been killed by such wounds. It was unknown how the boy had survived.
Such wounds stirred the compassion of the captain of the starship. He took a picture of the boy, printed his fingerprints, and sent it to Spider Den. However, the result of investigation was that the boy was an orphan who had no parents and had been eating and drinking on the street all day long. A few days ago, he had somehow fallen into a mine. Everybody thought that he was dead, but somehow, he had found his way to the carrier.
He was not a space pirate, nor did he have blood debts. He was only ten years old and looked quite pitiful. Therefore, the captain took him in.
The boy's vitality was indeed more tenacious than that of a cockroach or a mouse. It took him less than one month to fully recover. But he had developed the habit of idleness and idleness on Spider Den. He was asked to eat faster than anybody else, but when he was asked to do work, he tried to avoid it as much as he could.
The captain was kind enough to let him learn some cultural knowledge through the crystal processor, but he would feel dizzy whenever he read a book and sleepy whenever he did a question.
Seeing that he was unwilling to study, several crew members who were strong and had learned martial arts for a few days offered to teach him combat skills. He was even more amused and did not care about them at all.
After a while, everyone on the ship was so angry that their teeth itched. They couldn't wait to open the vacuum tube and suck this slug into the universe.
The only good thing about this little patsy was that he had a good temper and was always smiling. When people scolded him, he didn't get angry. When people pulled his ear, he didn't get angry. Even when people knocked on his head, he didn't get angry. Even if people were to say that he didn't live up to expectations, he still acted as if nothing had happened.
Although dozens of muscular men were glaring at him, Mouse Bai was still eating peanuts unhurriedly. Now and then, he would pick his teeth with his little finger, as if he were quite comfortable.
"Brat!"
A muscular man with whiskers grabbed his ears and lifted him up, his saliva darting to his face like nails. "Mouse Bai, it's fine that you are lazy and slack in the past, but why are you so indifferent to such an important event today? Everybody is praying for Li Yao and the rest of them, but you are eating peanuts here!"
Mouse Bai was still throwing peanuts into his mouth despite his ears being pulled. He grinned and said, "I knew that Li Yao was a lucky guy and that he would be able to take care of everything. I'm sure that everything will be handled well and smoothly.
"If that's the case, why are you wasting my saliva and praying for nothing?"
"What!"
Brother Hong was even more infuriated. He grabbed Mouse Bai's ears and twisted them hard. "You are a wrinkled Mouse Bai. You are too arrogant for your age. Li Yao is one of the best super experts of the Flying Star Sector who killed Xiao Xuance! You! You can't even compare to his booger, and you are bold enough to call him a 'brat'? "
"Hiss …"
Mouse Bai pretended that he was in pain, but the smile beaming out of his eyes told everybody that he did not care about the pain at all. "Brother Hong, I've reiterated to you 3,225 times that you can beat me and curse me, but can you please stop calling me … Mouse Bai?"
Brother Hong laughed. "Look at yourself in the mirror. You are not Mouse Bai. What are you? "
Mouse Bai blinked and said, "Please call me Brother … Bai."
All the tough men burst into laughter. Brother Hong snorted. "You are such a slick brat. You can't carry anything with your hands or your shoulders. You always find all kinds of excuses when we ask you to do some chores. You even mocked that our combat skills are stupid cows. Now, you are calling us brothers?"
Mouse Bai yawned. He said, "I've explained it many times. I was born to do great things. How are you going to repair the exhaust rune arrays? Of course, I'm not interested in such trivial things as cleaning toilets or dredging the sewers. "
Brother Hong sneered, "What do you mean by 'great things', Brother … Bai?"
Mouse Bai tilted his head and thought carefully for a moment. "For example, being caught in a cosmic storm or being attacked by space pirates. Being attacked by extraterrestrial devils … When I run into such things, I will naturally step forward and take care of everything neatly without leaving anything behind in order to repay you for saving my life. "
Everybody laughed even harder. Brother Hong was even more amused. He curled his fingers that were thicker than Mouse Bai's wrist and knocked Mouse Bai's head hard. "Stop bragging. If you really want to repay us for saving your life, you'd better get the hell out of here and stop showing up in front of us. Not only are you wasting the food on the starship, you are also annoying us!"
"Rest assured."
Mouse Bai smiled. He tapped the rusty secondhand crystal processor on his wrist hard and projected a mottled light beam.
What was displayed on the light beam was a virtual registration form.
"I'm a little embarrassed to have disturbed everyone for so long. What's more, it's so peaceful here. It's really too boring. I've rested enough. I'm thinking of finding something interesting to do that I've never done before."
The glittering word 'Burning Prairie' on the light beam dazed all the crew members. They looked at each other in bewilderment for a moment. A moment later, their laughter almost blew up the tiny carrier!
"The Burning Prairie Fleet?"
"You, a wrinkled Mouse Bai, want to join the Burning Prairie Fleet?"
The Burning Prairie Fleet was a new fleet that was being built in the Flying Star Sector. Its purpose was to break the old framework of sects and Exo Societies and gather the young elites of the Flying Star Sector. They would be retrained from blank pieces of paper and grow into the strongest force of the Flying Star Sector decades later.
When the expedition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings arrived at the Flying Star Sector, the Burning Prairie Fleet would give them a head-on blow!
In short, it was a fleet specifically established to deal with the expedition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings. It was a future fleet that was built for the war a hundred years later!
The name 'Burning Prairie' was derived from 'a single spark can set a prairie ablaze'. It meant that the Flying Star Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector, two tiny sparks, were bound to raise a furious fire of the civilization of mankind in the dark forest!
The Burning Prairie Fleet might decide the fate of the Flying Star Sector.
Therefore, the major sects had devoted tremendous resources and sent their most excellent disciples to the fleet.
The Burning Prairie Fleet was also recruiting military school students in the entire Flying Star Sector. All the young people between six and fourteen years old were eligible to sign up regardless of their identity.
A hundred years later, those people would be a little more than a hundred years old. For Cultivators, it was the best balance of spiritual energy and experience. They would be in their peak state and would be the mainstay of the Flying Star Sector.
The Flying Star Sector was shocked when the news was released. All the disciples of the noble families were rushing to sign up for the fleet.
Because of the rising tide, the elimination rate of the preliminary test alone had reached a cruel one in thirteen thousand. It was an out-and-out one in ten thousand!
The entrance examination of the Burning Prairie Fleet was extremely rigorous. Even the military school students had high standards. It was said that even one of Luoxingzi's great-grandsons was rejected when he applied for it.
The wrinkled Mouse Bai applied for it, too?
How could they not laugh their heads off?
Brother Hong laughed so hard that he was burping. "You want to apply for the military school of the Burning Prairie Fleet? Ha. You've even changed your name to … Bai Xingjian? It's quite an awesome name, but it does not match your appearance at all! "
Mouse Bai smiled and shook his head. "Wrong. I'm not applying for the Burning Prairie Fleet. I'm going to … command the Burning Prairie Fleet."
After hearing that, everybody was rolling on the ground in laughter. Holding his stomach, Brother Hong laughed out of breath. "Hahahaha. This is hilarious. Since when did you become so righteous, Mouse Bai? Do you want to be the commander-in-chief of the Burning Prairie Fleet and defeat the expedition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings one day?"
Mouse Bai opened his mouth and was about to defend himself when he thought for a moment and simply shut his mouth in self-mockery. He crouched in a corner again and sucked the shell of a peanut carefully. His facial expression was changing rapidly, as if he were tasting the liver of a dragon.
"Dear audience, the countdown begins now. In the last ten seconds, our warriors are about to set off!"
The host on the light beam shouted at the top of his voice, attracting the attention of all the crew members. Nobody cared about the shameless Mouse Bai anymore.
Mouse Bai narrowed his eyes. Light and shadow interweaved on his face. In the middle of the mottled face, the glimmer that had been polished for hundreds of years was flowing out of the eyes of the ugly young man.
Two bumps suddenly bulged on the back of Mouse Bai's neck. After wriggling for a moment, two tiny mice crawled out.
The two mice had smooth skin and looked even more pleasing to the eyes than he did. Wisdom was beaming out of their eyes, indicating that they understood human nature. One of the mice even had a vague gold color on its tail.
Mouse Bai snapped his fingers. Two peanuts flew into the air, only to be caught by a mouse with its tail and shared with the mother mouse.
"If it's you, you must understand me, right?"
Mouse Bai said to the mouse with a gold tail with a smile.
Weird brilliance was beaming out of the mouse's eyes, as if it could really understand what he said.
Mouse Bai threw another peanut into the mouse's mouth and said casually, "You must know why I'm going to command the Burning Prairie Fleet and compete with the expedition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings, right?
"Of course, it's not for the Flying Star Sector or the future of the civilization of mankind. It's not for such a crappy reason.
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