The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1523: Chapter 1523: A Ray of Light in Desperation

What ticket?

Jona didn’t understand, but she felt inexplicably happy because she hadn’t seen her brother so full of life and vigor for a long time. For years, a heavy sense of twilight seemed to shroud her brother, as if it could never be swept away.

The vigorous and spirited voice of cursing made Jona pause.

Her brother was originally a passionate, lively, and cheerful young man. If it weren’t for the incident that left him spiritually crippled, unable to heal without a Soul Device, with his personality and determination, he’d be fighting on the front line now, wouldn’t he?

Jona felt a slight sourness in her heart.

It’s all my fault.

All because of me, if it hadn’t been to save me, Mom and Dad wouldn’t have died, and her brother wouldn’t be crippled.

It’s all my fault.

If I had died back then, how good that would have been.

Jona clenched her fists, the deep regret inside her made her sink into self-blame, unable to pull herself out.

”Who?”

Qiao Yan, who was half sunk in the sofa chair, suddenly jumped up. When he saw his sister’s slender figure, he opened his mouth in surprise: ”Nana, why are you back?”

Speaking.

He turned his head and glanced at the clock on the wall, realizing that it was work time now, and if his sister were to return, it would be at least half a year later.

Jona looked at her brother and tucked all the heartache and self-blame into her heart, smiling, ”Master Micky’s experiment ran into a small problem, the materials haven’t arrived, so I can take a few days off, so I came back immediately.”

Qiao Yan was very happy to see his sister, but he appeared very restrained, saying, ”You should stay on the Main Star to rest. Running back and forth like this isn’t good for your health.” His sister’s work was heavy, and she hardly had time to rest. Whenever there was a small gap, she would return once, which made Qiao Yan feel very guilty.

Moreover, he was now a cripple, the kind who couldn’t even make 2 credit points a day doing grunt work on the Star Network due to his spiritual power disability.

He needed his sister to support him, everything relied on her.

This shouldn’t be the case.

As the elder brother, he was supposed to be the one bearing all the responsibility and duty.

So, the desire to die had never stopped.

Die, then he wouldn’t be a burden to his sister anymore.

In this way, his sister could find a job she likes, marry someone she likes, he doesn’t need to be too capable or have a strong family background, just an ordinary person, and they could have a few children, living an ordinary life.

...

Thinking about this, Qiao Yan felt very painful, with a straight face, not showing the slightest emotion. He looked at Jona for a long time before suddenly saying, ”What do you want to eat? I’ll cook for you.”

Jona pursed her lips and said, ”Tomato scrambled eggs.”

Qiao Yan stood up, his movements a bit urgent, and fell back down again. Then his sister held him up, Qiao Yan stiffened all over because he met her tear-filled eyes.

Qiao Yan panicked inside, ”Wh...what’s wrong?”

Could it be that she was bullied at the lab again? That bastard Mickey Dodge never treated people as people, probably found something to trouble his sister again.

Jona’s tears rolled down: ”Bro...brother... you haven’t cared about what I wanted to eat for a long time, you didn’t ask me, or take the initiative to talk about cooking for me. Bro...”

Too long.

Long enough that Jona thought her brother from the past had completely left her.

Qiao Yan listened, was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand to gently wipe the tears from sister’s face, saying softly, ”Nana don’t cry, don’t cry...”

Jona wiped away her tears, quickly changed her expression, those uncontrollable emotions also disappeared instantly, she looked serious and asked, ”Brother, what ticket are you trying to get?”

The family was this poor, and to save money, her brother was even reluctant to step out of the door. Now he even thought of buying tickets from a scalper?

What ticket?

Could it be—

Jona blinked.

Facing his sister’s icy, serious eyes, Qiao Yan tried hard to squeeze out a smile, ”It’s a ticket for a Soul Artifact Master’s event.”

As expected? Jona’s heart moved, she asked, ”Was it this ticket that changed you?” Her brother changed from being lifeless to lively.

Qiao Yan was a bit embarrassed, said, ”I...I didn’t tell you, I spent 20,000 credit points to buy a scalper ticket...” He paused slightly, and his voice unconsciously got louder, ”...outrageously, the scalper raised the price to 100,000 credit points each now! It’s outrageous! Interstellar pirates aren’t as heartless as them. No! Interstellar pirates are kinder than them!”

”Pfft—” Listening to her brother’s indignant voice, Jona couldn’t help but laugh, ”Brother, I’ll sell you one, no charge, just need you to make me a bowl of tomato scrambled eggs.”

Qiao Yan: ”!!!”

Jona smiled, ”Didn’t I tell you? I bought tickets to Green Glaze Master’s event, bought 100.”

Qiao Yan: ”!!!”

...

After a round of conversation between the siblings, Jona looked extremely serious, ”So, after watching the Array Diagram from Green Glaze Master, did you feel your spiritual power recovered somewhat?”

Qiao Yan nodded, ”Yes, it wasn’t obvious at first. When I woke up after sleeping for a whole day, I felt much better, just like a person who hasn’t slept well for years suddenly has a full night’s sleep, and wakes up energetic. I felt like I came back to life, and that day I managed to eat two sticks of low-level nutrition.”

Upon hearing this, Jona was silent again after feeling the joy.

The spiritual damage suffered by her brother was completely ineffective with physical therapy, perhaps only a Soul Device could slowly repair it. That’s why Jona put so much effort into getting into Mickey Dodge Laboratory, hoping someday Master Micky would suddenly show mercy and create a Soul Device for her brother.

And now, her brother’s spiritual damage, which seemed almost permanent, beyond healing or repair, tormenting her brother over the years, now had the hope of recovery?

Jona’s heart raced!

Qiao Yan looked at his excited sister, feeling a pang of sadness inside, ”Nana, it’s true. I feel much better these days, at least I can now consistently stay online for 3 hours every day.”

Yes, such serious spiritual trauma not only caused constant pain, making Qiao Yan suffer terribly, he couldn’t even go online for long periods.

Entering the Star Network, although it required very little spiritual power, it wasn’t like it required none, so once, could the former Qiao Yan only stay on the Star Network for about half an hour a day?

Going to Star Network to do grunt work, to share some burden with sister?

Forget it!

Unable to do grunt work in the Star Network, nor could he indulge in online games, he didn’t want to socialize outside at all, his daily life consisted only of sitting alone at home, facing an empty house, with only two activities elapsing—spacing out and waiting for his sister to come home.

Now, the Array Diagram from Green Glaze Master, seemed like a beam of light in despair, giving Qiao Yan the courage to live again.

He thought, his spiritual problem now had hope again.

Life also had a direction.

Qiao Yan looked at his sister, although her face was thinning, her eye bags prominent, but her eyes were bright, very bright, ”Nana, when brother gets better, brother will take care of you.”