The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1482: Chapter 1482: Not Stingy at All

The spaceship landed on Yangjiao Star and parked at the Dock. Time was tight. After dropping off A Ke and Granny Chen, Principal Hong, Dr. Luo, Ji You, Chu Jiaojiao and the others all stayed on the spaceship. Only the ones in charge of piloting—Yu Song, Yue Qiguang, Sheng Qingyan, and Liu Fufeng—went down to replenish some food and energy.

Standing on the spaceship ramp, Yue Qiyuan looked down at A Ke and Granny Chen below, who were waving their arms desperately toward their side. Yue Qiyuan secretly glanced at Ji You, who had been keeping a straight face the whole time, looking extremely serious, but whose eyes seemed just a little bit damp. Yue Qiyuan couldn’t help saying, ”So the gift you gave that kid... was a 20% off coupon?”

”...” Ji You’s heart was full of sorrow and sadness, but she suddenly choked, the awkwardness on her face visible to the naked eye.

Yue Qiyuan had absolutely no intention of changing the topic, nor of helping Ji You out of the embarrassment. He slanted his eyes at her with a look full of disdain and said, ”He’s still just a kid, and you’re this stingy? Being stingy is one thing, but at least give him a proper gift, okay? You give him a coupon? A coupon for some unknown shady goods? Doesn’t your conscience hurt?”

Crackle crackle!

Shua la la la~

Yue Qiyuan’s mouth was basically like a machine gun, rattling off nonstop, spraying Ji You until her whole face was so awkward she had nowhere to put it.

”Ahem...” Ji You rubbed her nose. Faced with Yue Qiyuan’s questioning and the others’ expressions that were just pure speechless, Ji You explained stiffly, ”Um, first of all—I have to clarify, what I gave him wasn’t a coupon. What I gave him was a sentence. It’s just that time was a bit tight and I didn’t have time to find suitable paper, so after digging around for a while, I finally fished out a coupon to use as letter paper instead.”

Yue Qiyuan: ”A sentence?!!!”

Even more outrageous than a coupon.

Lou, Lance and the rest all glared at Ji You in unison.

Ji You: ”...”

Ji You raised her hand, wanting to explain: ”Really, I really didn’t...” Heaven can be her witness, at the time she really wanted to give A Ke a decent gift. But unfortunately Ji You didn’t have any Soul Device on hand, and there was no time to make one. In her space, aside from some Material, there were only various weapons and some food, and all of that was the terrible-tasting low-level nutrition. She couldn’t very well give A Ke a bag of low-level nutrition, right?

What, just give him money? Giving money is nice, but Ji You was sure that with A Ke’s character, he definitely wouldn’t accept it.

So, in her anxiousness, a lightbulb went off in Ji You’s head and she decided to give A Ke a sentence. She wrote it really seriously. Ji You wanted to explain, but Yue Qiyuan waved his hand and cut her off directly, saying, ”No need to explain. Whoever gets it, gets it. In the end, it all comes down to you being stingy.”

”An Old Miser.”

”We get it.”

”We all get it.”

Chu Jiaojiao jumped over in one big bound, blocking Ji You in front of her, and shouted, ”I forbid you to talk about classmate Ji You like that! She is not stingy at all! She’s just utterly unwilling to cough up a single cent!”

Ji You: ”...”

Ji You almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. Her hand trembled as she pointed at Chu Jiaojiao; for quite a while, she couldn’t squeeze out a single word.

After Chu Jiaojiao finished, she leaped to stand right in front of Ji You, staring at the scabbed-over wounds on Ji You’s face with an expression of heartbroken grief and indignation. ”Look, classmate Ji You has been walking around with this neither-human-nor-ghost face for 5 whole days! 5 days! I really can’t take it anymore ahhhh!!! Classmate Ji You, I’m begging you, just spend a few thousand credit points and go find Dr. Luo to fix your face!”

Ji You’s mouth twitched.

Yue Qiyuan raised his hand in extreme disgust to cover his eyes and said, ”To be honest, I kind of can’t take it either. Every morning when I wake up and see this face, I think I’m still trapped in a nightmare.”

Lance opened his mouth, carefully avoiding Ji You’s eyes and face the whole time. ”Right now, when I talk to classmate Ji You, I don’t even dare make direct eye contact with her. I’m afraid I won’t be able to eat.”

Lou opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but when he noticed how scary Ji You’s gaze was, he shut it again.

...

”Just give up,” listening to this bunch of plastic friends all roasting her face, the bit of farewell emotion in Ji You’s heart was instantly washed away.

She raised her hand and shouted loudly toward A Ke and Granny Chen, who were still standing below the spaceship and hadn’t left, ”A Ke, see you on Lanyue Star!”

A Ke heard his sister’s voice, his eyes full of laughter, and shouted back, ”Sister, see you on Lanyue Star!”

Ji You: ”Go back now.”

A Ke: ”Okay.”

After saying that, A Ke turned around and left. In his heart, he silently told himself that he had to be strong, and also brave enough, decisive enough. When doing things, he absolutely couldn’t drag things out.

Sticky and clingy, not willing to leave—maybe Sister doesn’t like that kind of him.

As A Ke walked, he tried hard to control his body, forcing himself not to look back.

Then.

He got into the Floating Car heading for the resettlement area and left the Dock. Behind him, the sound of a spaceship starting up suddenly rang out. A Ke finally couldn’t help it; he turned his head to look toward the source of the sound, only to see that the spaceship was silver-white, not the one his sister and the others were on.

For a moment, A Ke felt a bit happy, but all of a sudden, he also felt a bit ashamed. He’d originally decided not to look back, yet in the end he still couldn’t do it.

...

On the other side.

Being the main pilot of the spaceship doesn’t just mean flying the spaceship around. He also needed to arrange all sorts of matters on board. Yu Song took advantage of the brief stop at Yangjiao Star’s Dock to carry out some collecting work, which mainly fell into two categories: food and energy.

Interstellar navigation involves extremely long journeys, and unexpected situations may occur at any time, so food and energy are the most important; you must stock up as much as possible.

After he finished purchasing these two items, Yu Song didn’t rush back to the spaceship right away. He had Sheng Qingyan, Yue Qiguang, and Liu Fufeng haul everything into the spaceship warehouse, while he himself sat in the Dock’s passenger hall, quietly listening to the travelers’ chatter.

There were many people in the hall: some engaged in heated discussions, some quietly reading, some on the Star Network, and some sitting and enjoying food. All kinds of sounds flowed into Yu Song’s ears. He listened carefully the whole time, hoping to find, in this jumble of noise, some information that might negatively affect their voyage.

For example, which route had Star Beasts appearing.

Or which route had a Cosmic Storm.

Or, which planet’s vicinity had roaming interstellar pirates.

...

Every one of these pieces of information was extremely important. If the places their route passed through happened to be nearby, then they would have to be extra careful.

Most of these travelers were either about to set out or had just returned from a trip. Their information was the real first-hand stuff.

After listening all around, Yu Song didn’t hear anything unfavorable, and only then did he feel relieved. He was just a bit regretful that he hadn’t heard a single word about those ”eyes” that had caused their group to deviate from their course.