Kang Shanxing was in full flow, "And then, within thirteen hours, she not only successfully located the lost base warplanes and airships, but also conveniently annihilated the entire Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates organization."
"Our Special Security Bureau verified her meritorious service and confirmed it to be true, and has reported it to the high-level Military."
"The military honors should be coming down in a few days."
"Congratulations again, Chief Instructor Pei, for bringing out such a good student, hahaha!"
He laughed especially happily, not blushing at all for piling all the credit on Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian was embarrassed.
If she were to brag herself, she wouldn't pile all the credit on herself. For example, those five hundred Starry Sky Marines, she would definitely mention them...
But in Kang Shanxing's performance, it was as if she had done so much single-handedly!
Pei Zijing's mouth hung open as he listened.
After a long while, he said with difficulty, "...Flew across the Asteroid Belt in twelve hours?"
"Most of our base's warplanes and airships lost contact?"
"...And encountered the notorious Star Pirates organization, Bodhi Leaf?!"
Xia Chujian added at this time, "Also, Chief Instructor Pei, you fell into a coma as soon as you got on the airship."
"A young instructor who was taking care of you became a host for a Son of Forrest."
"But now he's dead... the Son of Forrest ran away..."
"Oh, the Son of Forrest is a rare monster of the Remnant Species that looks like a crocodile, a lizard, and a viper!"
"In addition, three other instructors also died unexpectedly in their own airships. The cause of death has not yet been determined."
Pei Zijing then came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "Son of Forrest, is it really a monster that looks like a crocodile, a lizard, and a viper?!"
Xia Chujian nodded, "Yes! Chief Instructor Pei, do you also know about this thing?!"
Pei Zijing smiled wryly and said, "I thought I was dreaming!"
"I felt sleepy soon after I got on the airship, and then I fell asleep."
"After falling asleep, I kept having a dream."
"The dream kept repeating my experiences from childhood to adulthood."
"Especially the most important stages in my life."
"The past was vivid in my mind, and everything was like a replay of my life."
"But when I looked in the mirror in my dream, I found that the person in the mirror was not me!"
"But a monster that could walk upright!"
"It looked like a crocodile, a lizard, and a long snake, as if they were a monster fused together!"
"At that time, I knew something was wrong, and I tried desperately to wake up."
"I am a Rank A peak Gene Evolver, I shouldn't have this feeling..."
"But my thinking was disturbed, and even my body seemed to be out of control."
"So I used all my Mental Strength, almost draining my potential, to drive away that terrifying image in the mirror."
"But after my image in the mirror returned, I found that I couldn't wake up."
"I knew I was in a coma, and I had a sense of everything around me, but that sense was very vague, as if I was in a thick glass cover..."
After listening to Pei Zijing, Kang Shanxing frowned and said, "In that case, Chief Instructor Pei, the Mental Strength Spores of the Mother of Forrest were the first to attempt to parasitize you."
"But your Mental Strength is too high, or that Mental Strength Spore, for some reason, has been weakened many times, so it did not parasitize successfully."
Xia Chujian interjected, "Chief Instructor Pei, what were the Mental Strength levels of the two young instructors on the same airship as you?"
Pei Zijing said, "One was Rank B early stage, and the other was Rank B peak stage."
Xia Chujian said, "The young instructor who was successfully parasitized was most likely the one with a Mental Strength level of Rank B early stage."
If an individual's Mental Strength level can resist the parasitism of the Mother of Forrest's Mental Strength Spores, then only those with a lower Mental Strength level are easily infected successfully.
Xia Chujian then thought that the vast majority of people in this world were ordinary people without Mental Strength or the ability to evolve their genes, like her.
She felt that Heaven still had the virtue of cherishing life, which was why the Mother of Forrest had such difficulty reproducing.
Otherwise, the whole world would be full of her descendants. Just imagining such a world…
I'm tired, let's just destroy it, quickly!
Pei Zijing, now aware of everything that had happened, felt incredibly sad.
He covered his face, tears streaming down between his fingers.
Kang Shanxing looked at him sympathetically, "Chief Instructor Pei, my condolences."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She felt a little uncomfortable watching this scene, especially with Pei Zijing, a grown man, crying in front of a young girl like her.
She coughed awkwardly and said, "Colonel Kang, I want to go see Ms. Chang and the others."
"Ms. Chang?"
"Yes, the group of victims who were rescued."
Kang Shanxing said, "I'll go with you."
He nodded to the nurse taking care of Pei Zijing and said, "Take good care of Chief Instructor Pei and transfer him to a convalescent ward."
Pei Zijing's condition seemed to have recovered, so there was no need to continue consuming resources in the special care ward of the emergency room.
...
Kang Shanxing took Xia Chujian to the other side of the emergency room.
That part also belonged to the emergency room, but it was much smaller, and the medical equipment inside was a grade lower than the previous area.
Xia Chujian hesitated.
Kang Shanxing said directly, "This is where ordinary people whose genes cannot evolve are treated."
"Don't look so indignant. Ordinary people's physical fitness is not as good as Gene Evolvers."
"If the equipment used to treat Gene Evolvers is used on ordinary people, it will cause overtreatment, which ordinary people's bodies cannot handle."
Xia Chujian: "... Oh, thank you for the explanation, Colonel Kang."
Kang Shanxing smiled, "You're welcome. Are you very familiar with those victims?"
Xia Chujian remembered something and quickly said, "Colonel Kang, could you lend me a Face Mask? I don't want them to see my real face."
"Why? Didn't you save them? It's safe now, what are you worried about?"
Xia Chujian said, "It's precisely because I saved them that I don't want things to be too awkward."
"We are all from Mulan City on Guiyuan Star, and two of the girls are my junior schoolmates."
"That's why I can't meet them with my real face."
Kang Shanxing pondered for a moment and understood Xia Chujian's meaning.
He sent a message to his adjutant, asking them to send two Face Masks.
The two of them put on the Face Masks.
They both became very ordinary-looking people.
The kind of people who would be forgotten quickly if they were dropped into a crowd.
In the emergency room in the ordinary people's medical area, doctors were still conducting tense diagnoses.
The thirty-eight women were sitting quietly in front of doctors in white coats and masks, letting them examine them.
Their faces were sallow, their eyes vacant, and they showed no joy of surviving a disaster.
Xia Chujian and Kang Shanxing walked past them one by one, then left the area and came to a room, silently watching them through the one-way glass of a half-wall.
Kang Shanxing was retrieving the doctors' examination records to find out the extent of their injuries.
When he saw the diagnosis records clearly, he fell silent, which was rare for him.
After a while, he softly asked Xia Chujian, "...When you went to save them, their situation was even worse, right?"
Xia Chujian nodded and said calmly, "Very bad. They didn't want to live anymore."
"They only sought a quick death, so they could get corresponding compensation from the insurance company, so that their parents and family could have some money for their retirement."
Kang Shanxing said, "The Special Security Bureau will help them treat their injuries, but do you have a way to handle their subsequent resettlement?"
Xia Chujian glanced at him quickly and said, "If my leader were here, he would definitely help me find a way..."
The implication was, Colonel Kang, you should also think of a way.
Kang Shanxing didn't take her bait, and said lightly, "The Special Security Bureau doesn't interfere in civil disputes."
"We can treat their injuries, and we can issue certificates proving that they were injured by Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates."
"But for insurance companies, it's still not enough."
Xia Chujian didn't understand, "The Special Security Bureau has already testified, how is that not enough?!"
"What other evidence does the insurance company want?! To have those Star Pirates admit in person that they attacked the Interstellar Spaceship?!"
Kang Shanxing said calmly, "We can only prove that they were hijacked by Star Pirates, but we cannot prove that the Interstellar Spaceship they were on was hijacked by Star Pirates."
Xia Chujian was puzzled, "They are passengers on the Interstellar Spaceship, they were hijacked by Star Pirates, and their family members were killed. Isn't that the entire Starship being attacked by Star Pirates?"
Kang Shanxing said, "No, there must be third-party eyewitness testimony to prove that the Interstellar Spaceship was indeed attacked by Star Pirates at that time. The passengers on the ship were killed by Star Pirates on the ship."
The corner of Xia Chujian's mouth twitched, "With such strict insurance terms, how many Starships that have been attacked by Star Pirates over the years have received compensation?"
Kang Shanxing pulled up the data and looked at it, and said, "This kind of insurance clause only appeared fifty years ago."
"In these fifty years, only one Starship has been confirmed to have been attacked by Star Pirates, and everyone was killed, before receiving death compensation from the insurance company."
"This was because someone at the time used a high-energy telescope to look at the galaxy from a nearby airspace, and happened to photograph the scene of the Star Pirates attacking and burning the Interstellar Spaceship, so the insurance company had no choice but to admit it."
"And in these fifty years, at least three hundred Starships have disappeared without a trace."
"All those without this kind of direct evidence are reported by the insurance company as being lost due to an irresistible Magnetic Field Storm in space..."
Xia Chujian sighed and said, "Three hundred Starships disappeared, and only one was compensated."
"A ratio of three hundred to one. So not compensating is the normal operation..."
"Let me discuss it with them and see what ideas they have."
Then she said to Kang Shanxing, "What are you going to do with that Starship seized from the Star Pirates?"
Kang Shanxing said, "That's your spoils of war, and also the spoils of war of the Fourth Interstellar Fleet and the Special Security Bureau."
"I will seal it up first and wait for Marshal Huo to come back before dealing with it."
Hearing that the Starship was spoils of war, and that she had a share, Xia Chujian finally felt a little better.
But she still confirmed, "Colonel Kang, what about my military merits?"
"I wiped out the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates organization, and also rescued the trainees and Instructors of the base. What kind of military merits can I get?"
This is the first update. The second update is at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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