Chapter 344: The Days When the Dragon Is Away

Morabis Star, the Viceroy's residence.

Lu Ke was recording the message his father had just sent over, and without looking up asked, "When do you all say Li Ang will be back?"

"No idea."

Danika, with heavy dark circles under her eyes, lay in a rattan chair and replied weakly.

Although Li Ang had offered her excellent terms when recruiting her, as R&D supervisor she had no way at all to keep normal working hours.

Sigh, wage-slaves are just like that, with no control over their own lives; meanwhile the young master beside her seemed to be rather enjoying himself.

As someone who had always been a marginal figure, looked down upon within his family, he had never imagined that one day he would be on brotherly terms with a Fourth Energy Level powerhouse.

'Perhaps this is my eye for people.'

With this thought, Lu Ke put on a deliberately solemn look and sighed, then continued recording the information in the communication device.

He kept Li Ang's instructions firmly in mind: whenever he encountered something he didn't understand, he would send a message to ask his father.

After a while, Lu Ke seemed to recall something, turned his head, and looked at Papachi floating in the water tank: "Speaking of which, what's the situation with Secret Blood Company lately?"

"Same old, same old." Papachi swayed her tendrils slightly. "Those vampires are still trying to win Mother over."

"Tch."

Hearing this, Lu Ke clicked his tongue in displeasure.

Not long after his good brother had left, the vampires of Secret Blood Company somehow got hold of information on the Qinglie Type-1, and then sales reps came to Morabis Star trying to get their hands on Qinglie Fruits.

Lu Ke alone knew of five or six batches of sales reps, though they had all been sent away by Lady Hedi.

At that moment, Danika, who had been resting with her eyes closed, suddenly spoke up: "You two don't need to worry so much; clearly those guys don't see us as real opponents."

"Otherwise it wouldn't be this kind of lineup."

As a former employee of Secret Blood Company, the Dali corporate drone had standing to speak on this matter.

For an ultra-small enterprise like the Plant Union, which was still confined to a single planet, Secret Blood Company clearly hadn't taken it to heart at all.

So they had only sent a few sales reps to discuss cooperation.

For instance, directly acquiring the Plant Union, or secretly contacting the Qinglie Tree Clan to try cutting off the raw materials at the source.

But no matter how you looked at it, these were still normal commercial competition.

And the abnormal—

Danika could only say that in the past there was no shortage of enterprises that had tried to challenge Secret Blood Company's position in this star domain, but the outcome—well, anyone in the know understands.

However, Secret Blood Company only resorted to such measures when its own core business was involved, and combined with the Shihou Society's subsequent backroom dealings, certain people had simply turned a blind eye to this kind of unfair competition.

Of course, part of the reason was also that their clan's Sovereign, my lord, possessed truly terrifying strength.

Hearing Danika's words, Lu Ke shrugged and didn't keep pressing the topic, instead bringing up another matter: "Right, those alchemists from 【Taiyi Miracle】 haven't left yet?"

"They haven't, and they even went to see Mother." At the mention of this, Papachi immediately floated up out of the water. "These people actually want the alchemical items that Lord Li Ang made for us."

She seemed rather indignant.

Seeing this, Lu Ke had just been about to say something when a sense of threat, coming from he knew not where, suddenly swept over his entire body.

Before he could react, Danika, who had been lying in the rattan chair, had already leapt up.

She hoisted the water tank onto one shoulder, grabbed the still-dazed young master with her other hand, and vanished into the darkness in an instant.

Boom—!

Accompanied by a deafening roar of collapse that shook the heavens, countless clouds of dust surged skyward, blotting out the sky in the blink of an eye.

Lu Ke stood at a high spot, his gaze blankly fixed on the massive earth-and-rock structure in the distance that had crushed the metal palace, as countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

Oh my god! Someone's come to make trouble for the planet's Viceroy again!

Could there be something wrong with the feng shui of Morabis Star?

Otherwise, how could two Viceroys in a row have been attacked?

Meanwhile, Danika, looking at the scene, couldn't help but furrow her brow tightly.

With Li Ang absent, the few of them—mere Second Energy Level small fries—couldn't do anything at all.

Thinking of this, she immediately wanted Papachi to notify Lady Hedi: "Papachi—"

Before the Dali corporate drone could finish speaking, a voice suddenly rang out: "Calm down, it's me."

Hearing this voice, the human, the vampire, and the plant all froze for a moment, then couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Lu Ke turned his head and saw his good brother, who had been gone for a long time, now looking somewhat helplessly at the massive earth-and-rock structure in the distance: "Li Ang... you're finally back!"

"Mm, you've all worked hard during this period."

Li Ang gave a slight nod in response, then turned his attention toward the distance.

Good news: the 【Alchemy Kingdom】 had indeed been brought back.

Bad news: it had crushed his house.

'Well, out with the old, in with the new; from now on the 【Alchemy Kingdom】 will be the new home.'

After briefly collecting himself, Li Ang prepared to bury this earth-and-rock structure underground.

That's right, this time he had no intention of placing it in outer space; after all, as a transit hub, Morabis Star had quite a few space lanes around it, and given the 【Alchemy Kingdom】's volume, it would be far too easy to interfere with those lanes.