Interstellar cremation can trace back eighteen generations.
Although Mu Yu didn't care about these matters after death, there was no guarantee that someone else wouldn't. When instructing his subordinates to investigate, they must respect the wishes of the deceased's family. If they were unwilling to undergo an examination, then no examination should be conducted; instead, they should find those who were willing.
The first family they visited was met with disapproving parents who felt that since their child was already dead, they shouldn't disturb him anymore. But his older brother agreed: "Xiao Yi clearly told me that morning that he wanted to change schools and start over. How could he have committed suicide that night? I don't believe he committed suicide!"
Everyone believed his younger brother committed suicide, but the older brother couldn't argue with them. However, he had been quietly investigating the matter for many years.
The final result was unexpected yet quite reasonable: the contents of the urn were not even plant ash, but rather bone ash.
Xiao Yi's parents and brother were both angry and happy. Was this not Xiao Yi? Could it be that he was still alive somewhere?
Shepherds can't guarantee it, but if he's still alive, they'll bring him back!
After this case, other families who had feelings for their children were willing to let them examine the remains. The final conclusion was that the dozens of jars contained the ashes of some plants.
The angry parents banded together and filed a complaint with the court. Due to the appalling nature of the incident, the court established a special task force to investigate and gather evidence.
Mu Yu made a phone call to his mother, and the special operations team and his men then helped each other.
If Ye Lele hadn't brought this upon herself by trying to harm Ruan Mingchu out of jealousy, perhaps he could have lived a carefree life for a while longer.
Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs".
The special operations team found a variety of prohibited substances in Ye Lele's bedroom, including triggers, disfiguring agents, pheromone disruptors, paralyzing agents, and poison. After recovering his terminal information box, they also found his communications on several occasions plotting to persecute others, as well as a booklet containing information about each victim.
Ye Lele's guilt is undeniable. Although there is no death penalty in interstellar society, Ye Lele's fate will definitely be more painful than death.
Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu also gained a lot from Ye Lele.
The paper used for Ye Lele's booklet was the same as the paper used by Liu San, both containing hidden mermaid patterns. Ye Lele believed that the origin of this paper was a deity that changed his fate.
Ye Lele was always overshadowed by her younger brother, never receiving a ray of sunshine. It was her god who appeared and saved her, giving her beauty, money, and power. All he had to do was bring some people over, and whatever happened to them was none of his business.
Perhaps it was Ye Lele's deep infatuation and admiration for that person that made him feel that Ye Lele could be trusted, and that Ye Lele knew quite a lot.
The man, known as Mr. Yang, called himself a biologist whose research focused on human enhancement. Perhaps to put it more clearly, he researched enhancing the human body through the fusion of star beasts and humans.
He has sample repositories all over the universe, and Ye Lele's is one of them. Feng Rong's place on Mineral Planet 188 can also be considered a sample repository. They are responsible for providing samples to Mr. Yang, and the samples provided by each sample repository have their own characteristics.
Everything Ye Lele had was provided by Mr. Yang, including the drug he gave Ruan Mingchu during the military training.
At this point, some things can be connected.
Mr. Yang used to belong to an abandoned research institute on Military Training Star, and the medicine Ye Lele obtained from him was even more attractive to the star beasts in the institute.
The research institute studies star beasts and human experiments. They attempted to achieve this goal through mermaids, so they must have an unusual fondness for mermaids and liked to incorporate mermaid elements into everything around them. This is probably how booklets and notebooks came about.
This Mr. Yang is now a special employee of the Aurora Pirates, and it's unknown where he is conducting research.
So, to figure out what happened at the Military Training Star Research Institute, we have to start with Mr. Yang and the Aurora Star Pirate Gang.
The real-life merman who appeared at the night market auction is still in a state of confusion. Does the auction house know that he is a real-life merman? Who is the seller? And what is the role of the wealthy buyer?
As time goes by and with everyone's efforts, all the mysteries will be unraveled and exposed to the light of day.
The investigation should be left to the professionals, since Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu are still military academy students and their studies should be their priority!
In reality, the teams were only notified of the team competition in December after they were formed. The captain of the team ranked last among all teams had to write a reflection summary of more than 100,000 words. Moreover, before the competition, each team captain also had to submit a team plan of at least 10,000 words.
Upon receiving the notification, Ruan Mingchu stared at Mu Yu with a resentful look in his eyes, saying nothing. He strongly suspected that Mu Yu had given him the captaincy because he knew all this.
Mu Yu felt uneasy under his gaze and emphasized, "It was because you needed to be the team leader back then!"
Ruan Mingchu chuckled, cracking his knuckles. "Did I say that? Are you feeling guilty for bringing it up?"
Mu Yu stiffened: "What do I have to be ashamed of?"
Ruan Mingchu threw a punch, which was caught by Mu Yu.
He kicked upwards, sweeping across the air, and Mu Yu, unable to dodge, fell to the ground. But he wasn't going to take it lying down; he grabbed Ruan Mingchu and threw him to the ground as well.
The two wrestled, neither wanting to admit defeat, yet they were evenly matched, one moment you were on top of me, the next I was on top of you.
While fighting, they only felt good; it was only during the truce that they realized how intimate their positions were.
Their breaths mingled, spraying onto each other's faces.
Flesh to flesh, passing through their clothes, their body heat was transferred to each other.
Mu Yu was pinned down by Ruan Mingchu, and all he could see were Ruan Mingchu's smiling eyes. For some reason, he felt his face burning and he felt like he couldn't breathe.
He nudged Ruan Mingchu, about to speak, when he heard Gong Zhushen's gruff voice: "What are you doing?!"
Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu turned around in unison and saw Gong Zhushen and a group of people behind him looking at them meaningfully.
Mu Yu quickly stood up and separated from Ruan Mingchu, creating a distance that seemed like an attempt to cover up their true intentions in the eyes of others.
"What are you doing here?" Mu Yu asked Gong Zhushen expressionlessly.
Gong Zhushen exaggeratedly took two steps back to look at the door sign, and said dramatically, "Oh my god, isn't this the conference room? Did I go to the wrong place?"
After the team was formed, the school allocated a building for them to use as their base, and this place was the largest conference room in the base. Since it was on the first floor, Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu were used to discussing things here.
Ruan Mingchu & Mu Yu: ...
Mu Yu's expression was calm, but his eyes were ferocious: "That's right, you use it, let's go."
Gong Zhushen wouldn't let them leave: "No, no, no, I can't make all the decisions for the team. You guys should also talk to these qualified people. Consider it an interview."
Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu could only sit down for the interview, enduring Gong Zhushen's occasional glances at them with a strange, aunt-like smile.
An hour later, the interview ended, and Mu Yu dragged the still-smiling Gong Zhushen to the training room for a friendly sparring session.
Gong Zhushen covered his face: "Waaah, you hit me without hitting my face."
Mu Yu clenched his fist: "Heh."
After Mu Yu and Ruan Mingchu left, Gong Zhushen immediately stopped crying, chuckled lewdly, and shared the pictures he had just taken with Hao Youyou.
Hao Youyou: !!!
Hao Youyou: This is so exciting, is it something I can watch?
This picture is none other than the one that Gong Zhushen snapped with lightning speed: Mu Yu and Ruan Mingchu entangled together, gazing at each other with deep affection (not really).
Hao Youyou's focus was on Ruan Ge pressing down on Mu Yu: As expected of Ruan Ge, their first encounter was so sweet!
Miyazaki Shin couldn't accept this. What kind of Alpha is the bottom? Alphas are all tops! Not to mention that his brother Mu is a fighting Alpha among Alphas!
Gong Zhushen: It has to be Yuming!
Hao Youyou: First Encounter!
Yuming!
First encounter!
...
Two people with conflicting values temporarily cooperated because of Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu's marriage, but before the dawn of victory could shine on the earth, the two split up due to their conflict over superiors and subordinates.
Hao Youyou and Gong Zhushen each developed their own alliances, established themselves as the legitimate rulers, and defeated each other.
At first, the two sides were evenly matched in their verbal battles, with wins and losses. However, due to the historical trend of Alpha being the dominant partner and Omega being the submissive partner, Hao Youyou's camp developed extremely slowly, while Gong Zhushen expanded rapidly, quickly amassing a large force that could almost completely overwhelm Hao Youyou's camp.
Hao Youyou: Clearly, Brother Ruan is more charismatic than Mu Yu! These foolish humans will eventually change their minds!
Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu were unaware that before their budding romance had even fully blossomed, the "CP" (couple) label had already been raised.
Without an adjutant or secretary by his side, Ruan Mingchu struggled to write the 10,000-word team plan.
He only wrote 5,000 words in the first draft, and that included the team members' plans for the next three years. In the end, he managed to reach 10,001 words by adding filler text.
Nguyen Minh Thu: Pain Mask.jpg
Why make things so difficult for each other when we could have just kept things simple and clear?!
The team's planning requires approval from the team's guarantor and mentor, Vice Principal Li Bingcang.
After Ruan Mingchu finished writing, he printed it out and went to find Li Bingcang.
When he arrived, Li Bingcang had guests. Ruan Mingchu originally intended to wait outside, but Li Bingcang beckoned him in.
Li Bingcang pointed to the single sofa to his right: "Sit."
Ruan Mingchu sat down and looked up to see Li Bingcang's guests looking him up or down, or rather scrutinizing him.
But it didn't feel like a teacher scrutinizing a student; rather, it was a strange, indescribable feeling.
As Ruan Mingchu was pondering who he was, feeling that he looked somewhat familiar, he saw a hand reach out from across the way:
"Nice to meet you, I am Mu Yu's father."
Ruan Mingchu: !
Caught off guard.
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Author's Note:
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25. Why is he so unreserved in the group photo!
Ruan Mingchu felt that Mu Bing was pretending not to know him, so he pretended to be neither humble nor arrogant, and shook hands with Mu Bing lightly: "Hello, I am Ruan Mingchu."
Ruan Mingchu had wondered why Mu Yu knew his true identity, but then he realized that Mu Yu was Mu Bing's son, so there was no problem at all.
His current physique and appearance are very different from before his injury, but he has not become a completely different person; rather, he has regressed to the appearance he had in his youth.
When he was a teenager, Mu Bing was a rising general who was deeply trusted by his father, the emperor, so the two had naturally met.
For top-tier Alphas, photographic memory is a basic requirement, and Mu Bing could not possibly forget it.
This unexpected meeting made Ruan Mingchu feel that Mu Bing had come to see him. Ruan Mingchu's mind was already racing, thinking about how to gain the upper hand in his cooperation with Mu Bing.
The soldier did indeed come to see Nguyen Minh Thu.
But it wasn't because of any imagined collaboration by Ruan Mingchu. He genuinely didn't recognize Ruan Mingchu as the missing Crown Prince, and even though they shared the same name, Mu Bing didn't consider that possibility at all.
The reason is simple: Mu Bing is face-blind.
If it's someone he knows well, he can recognize them by feel. But if it's someone he's only met once or twice, he can only remember their build.
When Mu Bing happened to see the Crown Prince on the news, he was already 1.99 meters tall. In Mu Bing's mental database, the Crown Prince was equal to 1.99 meters.