Chapter 103

Blue Star, Fang family.

On a lawn.

A somewhat incomplete spaceship was quietly parked on the grass.

Inside the core control room.

Fang Fang Fang Qingxue quietly looked at the several figures in the repair pods.

"Miss." The artificial intelligence projected a holographic figure, dressed like a butler.

A mechanical lord's artificial intelligence life form was indeed playing the role of a butler.

It involves every aspect of life, combat, and trade; a Mechanical Lord can hardly function without it.

"Uncle Yang." Fang Fang Fang Qingxue also looked at this artificial intelligence lifeform. It had been created a long time ago; in terms of age, it was much older than her. "Report the situation."

Although she was very busy every day after returning home, and there was almost no chance of a miracle for her father and eldest brother.

Fang Fang Fang Qingxue still made time to come and check on them every day.

"Miss, the Master and your eldest brother's life force is nearing a state of dormancy."

"Only the core life imprint, protected by the origin of their internal worlds, remains stubbornly alive."

"It is very, very difficult for them to wake up naturally," the artificial intelligence lifeform reported.

"Unless, Miss, you can obtain the heart of an Imperial-grade Life Tree, and it must be a ten-thousand-year-old one."

"Or, obtain two grams of Wood Spirit, which would allow their life cores to recover."

Hearing this news, Fang Fang Fang Qingxue's eyes dimmed.

Both of these items were strategic resources of the Empire!

Among them, the Life Tree was an Imperial-grade lifeform.

It could continuously bear expensive Life Fruits!

Generally, only powerful Plant Lords who had joined the military possessed them.

Moreover, if a Life Tree cultivated to an Imperial-grade mature state had its heart dug out, it would be ruined!

This was not permitted!

Besides, who would be willing to do that?

If one wanted to buy more, they could only do so through the black market; Blue Star did not even have such a channel.

One could only search in the virtual world.

Even if found, the price would be unimaginably expensive.

Wood Spirit, on the other hand, was slightly more realistic.

However, the price was also astronomical; one gram of Wood Spirit could significantly shorten the growth cycle of ten Imperial-grade lifeforms!

If one wanted to buy two grams, it would cost hundreds of billions of Star Coins!

The Fang family did have that kind of wealth; they could just sell off those assets.

But the problem was, she could not access them.

Because her father and brother were still alive.

It was not her turn to touch those assets.

But if they died, those assets would have no meaning anyway.

As for borrowing money... given the Fang family's situation, the amount they could borrow was limited.

It would be good if they weren't swindled.

"Ding!"

Suddenly, Fang Fang Fang Qingxue received a notification from her smart optical computer.

It was a notification of a change in her account balance.

"100 billion Star Coins, Senior Brother Lieutenant Helian Lie?"

Fang Fang Fang Qingxue was stunned.

Of course, she knew Lieutenant Helian Lie.

But they had no real friendship; at most, they were from the same academy.

Why would he suddenly transfer 100 billion to her?

Fang Fang Fang Qingxue immediately entered the virtual world to contact Lieutenant Helian Lie.

"Junior Sister Fang," Lieutenant Helian Lie said, "I know what you want to ask, about that money, right?"

"Yes." Fang Fang Fang Qingxue nodded. "I don't understand why you would do this, Senior Brother."

"Don't be nervous." Lieutenant Helian Lie smiled slightly. "This isn't money I'm giving you; someone entrusted me to give it to you."

"As for who it is, don't ask; I am also just acting on someone's behalf."

"Additionally, I will gradually purchase some assets from your Fang family."

"But in reality, it's just an exchange; you won't lose a single cent."

"At the same time, I will send military mechanical troops to protect your Fang family's mineral planet territories in the Blue Star sector in the name of cooperation."

"This..." Fang Fang Fang Qingxue was stunned.

She had originally thought Lieutenant Helian Lie might be trying to take advantage of their plight.

But as she listened, she understood completely.

This was Lieutenant Helian Lie protecting their Fang family.

Doing it so openly was meant for the outside world to see.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Lieutenant Helian," Fang Fang Fang Qingxue said.

"Don't thank me." Lieutenant Helian Lie waved his hand with a smile. "I said I was just entrusted by someone."

"If you want to thank someone, wait until you understand, then go thank him."

Lieutenant Helian Lie naturally couldn't take the credit; it was enough for him to owe Zhao Xing a favor.

After finishing the discussion with Fang Fang Fang Qingxue, he left.

And Fang Fang Fang Qingxue, while feeling relieved, had some doubts in her heart.

Who exactly was the person behind this?

Someone who could make even Lieutenant Helian Lie willingly help?

In the cosmic starry sky, at the center of the Beihe star system, there was an SSS-grade base.

According to the Red Star Empire's ranking of defense bases.

An A-grade base's defense system could withstand the attacks of a Star-level Lord and generally had Star-level combat power stationed there.

S and SS-grade bases corresponded to the Silver Moon and Sun-level Lord ranks.

Generally speaking, S-grade bases could block Sun-level Lords, but there were exceptions.

After all, some Sun-level Lords were freakishly powerful and could potentially break through the energy defenses.

The recent incident on Blue Star was an example.

However, during that Sun-level Lord's attack, among the three bases.

The SS-grade base had very few casualties; it didn't break the defense at all, only killing those who were entering or leaving the base due to the shockwaves.

Casualties were mainly concentrated in the other two S-grade bases.

As for the SSS-grade base, its defensive range was extremely vast, almost exceeding the projection range of a Sun-level Lord.

The energy circulated back and forth, completely flawless.

Once a Sun-level Lord arrived, they would be discovered from millions of miles away, and once they approached, they could be obliterated.

As for the higher-level Void-grade bases, they were rarely set up outside the Empire's territory.

Because it was the strongest defense system among 'war bases'.

No matter how many Void-level Lords there were, they could hardly break through it at all!

Because it was directly controlled by the Red Star Emperor.

They basically only appeared in first-class star systems within the Empire.

The total number in the entire Empire was only a little over one hundred Void-grade bases.

The Beihe star system was not a first-class star system, so it was only an SSS-grade base.

But within the Empire's territory.

An SSS-grade base was completely sufficient to defend against Void-level Lords!

In the entire Beihe star system, there was only this one SSS-grade war base.

The radius of the base was measured in light-years!

At this moment, inside this SSS-grade 'Beihe Base'.

Near the central area, there was a city covering tens of billions of square kilometers.

Here lived the wealthiest and most powerful Lords of the Beihe star system.

The Beihe star system had over 100,000 life planets.

But ordinary Star-level Lords could barely afford to buy a place to live in this central area.

As for Transcendence-level? Don't even think about it.