The First Analyst of the Interstellar Era

Chapter 164 : Post-War - Transition

The father-son feud between Xie Liuyun and Xie Chunshi was the most thorny problem for Song Baining.

She would rather engage in three days and nights of verbal warfare with the old aristocratic families in military court than be caught between father and son.

Xie Liuyun's actions were indeed wrong.

Forcing an underage, unawakened child into a high-risk energy field for forced awakening, just for that momentary blood resonance—a few words couldn't summarize everything Xie Chunshi had experienced, the countless brushes with death he had narrowly escaped.

But Song Baining was the person with the least right to criticize Xie Liuyun, after all, this little madman was raised by her own hands, and everything was done to find her.

But did her son deserve to experience all this?

Before Song Baining's disappearance, Xie Chunshi was a very obedient and well-behaved soft child, a little boy who would purse his lips and smile for half a day when called "Little Chun."

And now, he had become a young Commander who could stand before her for half a day, only managing to call her "Director Song."

Song Baining was helpless.

She watched the Zhu Jing Fu group leading Xie Chunshi away like a treasure, trying to use her eyes to signal Chen Sui to help take care of Xie Chunshi's emotions. But that military student hadn't awakened yet, and even she could see that, in the current state of these two children, it was still her son making the one-sided effort.

Chen Sui didn't understand why Song Baining kept staring at her. She followed the other's gaze to the nutritional fluid in her hand, then looked at Xie Chunshi, whose arm was being supported by Zhou Chen, his face dark and condition very poor. She instantly understood.

Oh, Director Song is concerned about Xie Chunshi but can't approach him directly!

"Commander, can you hold it? Or should I pour it for you?"

Song Baining heard from a distance. Chen Sui didn't even say "I'll feed you," but rather "I'll pour it for you."

She really...

Xie Chunshi didn't care about the difference in wording. He had only one thought in his mind.

Chen Sui would help him?

"Thank you," Xie Chunshi nodded very reservedly, already bending down to make it easier for Chen Sui to bring it to his mouth.

The footsteps of those around stopped. Chen Sui tore open the nutritional fluid seal, carefully pouring it into the young man's pale red lips.

Xie Chunshi's eyes seemed to focus on the test tube of nutritional fluid, but Chen Sui felt her fingers getting a bit hot.

Watching this scene from a distance, Xie Liuyun gritted his back teeth, silently cursing: "Learning fast, aren't you, damn green tea!"

Song Baining withdrew her gaze and glanced at him. Xie Liuyun's expression changed as he reached for her arm, his gesture practiced.

Song Baining looked at his actions and expressions, then glanced in the other direction, instantly understanding—

It had to be said, they truly were father and son.

Chen Sui knew nothing of this. After feeding Xie Chunshi the nutritional fluid, she watched him naturally straighten up and suddenly doubted: Was it really that serious?

The Commander probably hadn't trained enough!

With high-level spirit bodies assisting in the energy field, he had neglected the importance of physical fitness and combat skills. This wouldn't do—after the energy riot settled, other academies were all progressing, yet the Zhu Jing Fu Commander was becoming weaker? She needed to train Xie Chunshi—having such poor injury resistance wasn't in the style of Zhu Jing Fu at all.

Chen Sui silently planned the school team's training program in her mind, not noticing that as they approached the Medical Ward, Xie Chunshi had already resumed his normal posture, walking extremely healthily with no sign of injury.

Zhou Chen, who had been very worried earlier, looked at him walking toward the Medical Ward in bewilderment.

The remaining clever people had already understood something. Zhang Yingjie and Xin Ming exchanged knowing smiles.

Jing Yao silently looked at Song Yuan and quietly asked: "Has Commander Xie always been like this?"

"No," Song Yuan shook her head, her expression very speechless. "Absolutely not."

"It must be the Xie family genes," she confirmed.

Xie You heard this and defended himself: "Don't spray bullets everywhere. We Xie family members would never pretend to be pitiful to gain sympathy. That's so embarrassing."

The Ink Hills Commander, putting his jacket on Xin Ming, heard this and made a rare aggressive comment: "No wonder you're single. Makes sense."

Xie You: ?

The military students resumed their intense preparation period training, and such confrontational situations between Xie Chunshi and Xie Liuyun didn't occur again.

Both had no time to find fault with each other.

Xie Chunshi was gifted with a new training plan jointly created by Chen Sui and Seven Academy's school team teachers. The entire Zhu Jing Fu team felt like they were dead after each day's training, unable to move a muscle.

As for Xie Liuyun.

The entire council was set in motion, uncovering many instances of corruption and favoritism by the Gu family through the artificial eye incident.

After resuming her position, Song Baining received an email from a sender named Leng Qiuchan, containing evidence of numerous old aristocratic family wrongdoings. She submitted it all to the military court, fully confident in completely purging all the old aristocratic families, with related Border Army members also under investigation.

In comparison, the news of the military school league matches resuming didn't attract as much attention amid the great political changes and reconstruction of the entire Star Alliance.

The only thing that maintained its pre-riot popularity was the league match forum.

Zhu Jing Fu's points had tripled three times, currently far ahead. After the Star Alliance energy riot, energy fields large and small had all transformed, with energy bodies and resource distributions completely reset. This meant that mining areas that had been completely cleared quickly grew and gathered new resources under the strong energy concentration.

Because of this, calls for Chen Sui on the forum reached a peak, all urging her to produce new materials.

Upon learning this news, the five schools immediately arranged material courses, determined to engrave the four characters "pluck the goose's feathers" into their school motto.

This led to military students in the subsequent league matches being less eager to place instruments at the main base station, instead wandering throughout the energy field, scavenging resources everywhere, causing Mo Qiu'an to take blood pressure medication and heart-saving pills repeatedly.

Director Mo's suffering didn't last long.

In the last match of the interstellar league, Ink Hills claimed the fifth multiplier match, advancing to become the third-place winner.

The entire interstellar league ended in twists and turns.

"What next?"

The five school teams sat in a circle around the highest building in Zone Eleven, the Observatory Tower. Noya glanced at everyone, his expression somewhat reluctant.

"Although you're a bit violent, inconsiderate, always backstabbing, and setting traps..."

Hearing this, Xie You felt it was pointed: "Why spray bullets? Why not just directly name Zhu Jing Fu?"

Chi Buyu had been tricked by Chen Sui and Zhou Chen in the league match arena, buried alive in a huge hole in the ground, his lightning insulated and buried, leaving him with no escape. He had been trapped until the end of the league match. Now, hearing these words, he still felt an inescapable smell of soil in his breath.

"Report Chen Sui's student number! Report Chen Sui's student number!"

When he said this, people strangely visualized the expression package 'reporting to central authorities,' his whole demeanor somewhat exasperated yet helpless and pitiful.

Chen Sui was unexpectedly mentioned, still looking at her light brain, not having time to change her expression before receiving gazes from around her.

Seeing her expression, Noya immediately sat up, sensing something had happened: "Sister Chen Sui, why that expression? Is there something funny? Share, share!"

Named by Noya, Chen Sui turned her light brain toward them: "Nothing major, just that with the recent plant explosion, the biology department has developed many new species and found an excellent substitute for excrement, planning to make it into bio-bombs."

"Huh?"

Noya didn't understand why this matter specifically needed to be told to Chen Sui.

"Then what?"

Chen Sui suppressed her laughter: "Then, they want to throw these bio-bombs at the Gu family."

Hearing this, Gu Qinxue raised an eyebrow and silently added: "Oh, I can provide you with an excellent route map, ensuring no corner is missed."

Zhou Chen's movements paused as he said quietly: "I can too!"

"Are you sure?" Xie You glanced at him, very straightforwardly: "You've been caught once already, not very trustworthy."

Zhou Chen immediately exploded. Xie You's words were too blunt.

"You can't deny me because of one failure. My sniping route was very accurate. Last time was an issue with the quantum gun. With any other weapon, that old Gu Haichuan would have died for sure."

Zhou Chen was about to defend his shooting route from that year.

Meanwhile, Xie You glanced at Chen Sui. After her artificial eye was removed, her eyeball had completely changed to a transparent color, looking very strange.

But those in the know understood this was Chen Sui's core crystal, the space energy crystal repairing her body, with Chen Sui in a state of assimilation by the energy body.

Regarding her assimilation, it was also a matter still being debated by the council.

Cases of energy body assimilation in the Star Alliance weren't limited to Chen Sui. Before his death, Master Lalnuo had transmitted all information regarding assimilation to Zone Eleven, making everyone aware that the only survivor among cases of energy body assimilation was Chen Sui, which was also evidence of her successful assimilation.

This meant that Chen Sui had now merged with the Wood-Born Flower. Her body existed in human form but possessed all the characteristics of an energy body, including regeneration.

The council believed her current identity posed an extremely serious security risk to the Star Alliance.

But more people believed that Chen Sui's assimilation was not voluntary, and she played an extremely important role during the Star Alliance riot. Her identity as a Star Alliance citizen couldn't be denied simply based on energy body assimilation.

Moreover, the Border Army, led by Song Baining, firmly defended Chen Sui's personal freedom and civil rights. A very important point was that, as the main energy body of an SSS-level energy field capable of resonating with the fracture—the only such energy body—if Chen Sui left the Star Alliance, it could cause energy loss of control, triggering a more serious energy riot.

Xie You: "Has Director Song mentioned how to handle Chen Sui's situation?"

"What do you mean 'how to handle'?" Zhou Chen turned to target Xie You. "Little Sui is Zhu Jing Fu's analyst, not some energy body. Just a bunch of idiots think she's a threat. What f*cking threat? Did they forget who risked her life to face the Wood-Born Flower during the Star Alliance riot? Now they're targeting our analyst. I'll fight anyone who tries to touch my analyst."

Xie You was hit with this uninterrupted tirade, his expression somewhat wooden, but he quickly recovered: "I didn't say to 'handle' her. I just asked if the council would let her leave Zone Eleven to return to Zhu Jing Fu."

While Chen Sui's situation wasn't fully determined, she remained under strict surveillance.

Zhang Yingjie understood Xie You's meaning. He looked at Xie Chunshi: "I heard the old aristocratic families are biting everywhere now, determined to drag Zhu Jing Fu down with them?"

Xie Chunshi's peripheral vision fell on Chen Sui. The analyst's expression hadn't changed at all; she even smiled when she heard this.

"We haven't settled the artificial eye account with these idiots, and now they're asking for trouble again?"

Zhou Chen sometimes wasn't intellectually on point, but sometimes he was very sharp, hitting the nail on the head.

Mentioning the artificial eye made everyone somewhat indignant.

"Who's still holding onto this?"

Gu Qinxue asked.

Zhang Yingjie glanced at her meaningfully: "Who else could it be?"

All the Zhu Jing Fu members' expressions turned cold. Zhou Chen gritted his teeth: "How despicable."

"Why don't we use those biochemical bombs after all," Puluo, who hadn't spoken for a long time, couldn't help saying, looking at Chen Sui.

The analyst looked at her teammates. Since the Commander didn't stop her, Chen Sui understood: "Then I'll have Cheng Wei and He Lanxi send a batch over."

Zhou Chen's anger subsided, and he immediately perked up: "If we're bombing, let's make it bigger. Can you swallow this grudge?"

He looked at Xie Chunshi excitedly. The Commander revealed a cold smile, his sharp gaze falling on the ground as he nodded: "Makes sense. Since we're helping, let's help all the way."

The Gu family wanted to use Chen Sui's identity to divert attention? Well, now they would give the Gu family a big news story to divert attention to.

"You can't leave me out, right?" Noya asked quietly, a ball of lightning faintly visible in his hand. "My spirit body is very aggressive."

Chen Sui looked at his lightning ball thoughtfully.

"I think that might work."

Get a conductive sack, more exciting.

With Noya on board, others couldn't resist either. Suddenly all kinds of suggestions emerged. Chen Sui looked at the messages appearing in the chat box and quietly thought.

Given your determination to finish off the Gu family, these bio-bombs won't be enough. We might as well use the dung balls too.