F171 Port, the designated garbage disposal port of Yuanfeng Star, was also one of the many Black Ports in this star system.
The “black” in Black Port didn’t refer to a lack of light, but to something on another level—where the White Order’s reach did not extend, the Black Order naturally held sway.
F171 Port was in its usual state of chaos. Chi Yun Su walked through a narrow alley, carrying a few bottles of drinking water. She could faintly hear snippets of discussion, likely about someone finding something good at the garbage dump again.
The garbage heaps were never short of good things. After all, the upper class’s definition of trash was different from most people’s, and it was indeed not uncommon for someone to find a valuable item.
Chi Yun Su listened for a moment. After confirming it wasn’t what she was looking for, she continued toward her house without pausing, her footsteps occasionally making a sound as she stepped on debris on the ground.
A few loiterers wandering by the roadside heard the noise and glanced at Chi Yun Su. Upon recognizing her, they looked away.
This was the daily routine of the Black Port. Chi Yun Su, long accustomed to it, ignored them in turn. It had been over a decade since she had transmigrated to this world, and she had long since grown used to the chaos here. One could even say she was now a part of the Black Port’s current order.
Chi Yun Su arrived at her front door.
It was a rather respectable building in the Black Port—a clean, two-story structure. The first floor was completely sealed off, while the second floor had bright, transparent windows reinforced with steel mesh. One could vaguely see white, patterned curtains, a unique touch of refinement in the Black Port.
Chi Yun Su looked down at the lock on the main door. Her gaze hardened, and after a few seconds of thought, she placed the water she was carrying by the entrance and took a card from her pocket, pressing it against the lock.
The lock clicked open. Chi Yun Su walked in as usual and slowly closed the door behind her.
The familiar sight of her living room greeted her, with nothing out of the ordinary. Chi Yun Su let out a soft breath, seemingly relaxing, and inserted the card she had just used to open the door into a hidden slot in a crack in the wall.
In an instant, lasers of various colors shot down, seemingly cutting through every visible object in the room in a chaotic fashion.
The lasers seemed to be blocked when they hit Chi Yun Su, and the same thing was happening in a corner of the living room.
Chi Yun Su stared at that corner, but she still couldn’t see anything unusual there.
This was big trouble.
The reason she was unharmed by the lasers was that she was wearing an Energy Absorption Device. The other party clearly had one as well.
The opponent had come prepared.
Chi Yun Su instantly realized her situation was extremely dangerous. Without a half-second’s hesitation, she reacted with lightning speed, pulling a crossbow-like weapon from a hidden compartment in the wall and firing it toward that corner.
The opponent reacted even faster than Chi Yun Su!
Under the reflection of countless lasers, a seemingly transparent figure moved like lightning, like a snake, instantly dodging the sharp bolt. It charged straight for Chi Yun Su’s face, the silvery-white blade in its hand reflecting in her eyes.
Her first shot missed. Facing the threat, Chi Yun Su’s gaze was calm as she imprinted all the information about her opponent’s movements into her mind and made an instant judgment.
This person was strong, stronger than anyone she had ever seen—even stronger than the highly valued bodyguard of F171 Port’s boss, who was said to be from the Southern Prefecture.
She was definitely no match in a direct confrontation!
Chi Yun Su immediately rolled on the ground without any regard for her image, escaping the attacker’s range. With a backhand motion, she grabbed various materials on the floor that had been sliced into pieces by the lasers and flung them at the attacker.
Under the effect of her skillful throw, the materials seemed to turn into countless sharp blades, striking like a Storm of Pear Blossoms, completely enveloping the attacker. Chi Yun Su clearly saw a splash of blood fly out.
Physical attacks were effective!
Chi Yun Su confirmed this, but the attacker didn’t pause at all due to her action. The silvery-white blade was now only an arm’s length away from her.
But for Chi Yun Su, that no longer mattered.
Having rolled to her intended position, Chi Yun Su pressed a hidden switch. A volley of sharp bolts, even denser than the lasers, shot out from the surrounding walls. At the same time, the floor beneath Chi Yun Su gave way.
During the brief fall, Chi Yun Su turned around and silently raised her weapon, her gaze calm as she fired the last bolt from her weapon without any hesitation.
It was aimed at the only spot where the attacker could escape the rain of bolts, an opening just one person wide, leaving the attacker no room to dodge.
This was a death trap of her own design.
Chi Yun Su completed her final strike, but what met her eyes was that haunting, silvery-white blade.
With a buzzing sound, Chi Yun Su saw the bolt strike the blade and get instantly sliced in two. One half, carried by its remaining momentum, grazed the attacker’s cheek, leaving a very shallow bloody mark.
This was the most damage she had managed to inflict.
Chi Yun Su let out a muffled grunt as she fell heavily to the ground. In a daze, she watched the blade come to rest on her neck.
A sharp pain, and Chi Yun Su felt sticky blood trickling down her neck.
“Behave,” Chi Yun Su heard a slightly deep male voice say to her.
Chi Yun Su didn’t make a sound or struggle; such actions would only cause the blade already embedded in her skin to do more harm. She just quietly focused her gaze on the drops of blood dripping in the air, demonstrating her compliance with her actions.
But Chi Yun Su’s wide array of tricks had clearly left a deep impression on the attacker. He did not release his hold on her just because she was being docile. Chi Yun Su saw a green card appear out of thin air, instantly transforming into a Neck Ring that replaced the blade in restraining her vital point.
“If you make any sudden moves, it will blow your head off,” the attacker said succinctly. After speaking, he deactivated his invisibility, and a cold-faced young man in his early twenties appeared before Chi Yun Su.
However, Chi Yun Su wasn’t concerned about that. She reached up and touched the new object on her neck, her eyes bright as she asked the attacker, “What is this? It can even transform?”
The attacker fell into a subtle silence, seemingly surprised that the hostage was questioning him before he had even interrogated her.
“Give me the antidote,” the attacker said, ignoring Chi Yun Su’s question in a cold tone.
Seeing that the bead of blood re-forming on the attacker’s face was already faintly turning black, Chi Yun Su answered very frankly and brazenly, “There is none.” Without giving the attacker time to react, she quickly explained, “That was my final attack. It was meant to be either I live or we die together. I never planned on leaving a way out for anyone, so of course I wouldn’t prepare an antidote.”
The attacker’s brow furrowed, clearly displeased with her words, but he said nothing. He quickly took a syringe from his waist pouch and injected it into his wound without any hesitation.
Soon, that faint blackness disappeared from Chi Yun Su’s sight.
“Is the feeling of being poisoned very obvious?” Chi Yun Su once again asked the attacker, full of a researcher’s spirit.
The previous times Chi Yun Su had used these methods, the attackers had died too quickly to satisfy her curiosity on this question.
But thinking about it now, it must be. For such a tiny wound, this man was able to feel that he was poisoned so quickly. The sensation brought on by this potent poison must not be pleasant.
The attacker still didn’t answer Chi Yun Su’s question, but instead made a comment about her with an unreadable emotion, “You’re very bold.”
Chi Yun Su understood the hidden meaning behind this comment and explained her boldness in a relaxed tone, “You didn’t kill me just now, but chose to control me instead. It’s clear I’m useful to you, so it’s not like you’re going to blow this thing up just because I ask a few questions.”
Chi Yun Su calmly tapped the new Neck Ring on her neck.
“You’re very smart,” the attacker said again, finally showing a hint of satisfaction. To him, capturing a smart person was more useful than capturing a fool. He quickly made his first demand, “Handle the situation upstairs. Don’t let anyone sense there’s a problem.”
Chi Yun Su agreed, pulled a ladder out from the side of the wall, and quickly returned to the first floor from the basement.
The lasers that had filled the first floor had stopped, leaving the scene in a complete mess. Apart from the specially treated walls, no object larger than half a cubic meter remained intact.
Ignoring the chaotic scene, Chi Yun Su casually picked up a few scraps of cloth from the floor to cover the Neck Ring, walked straight to the main door, and opened it. She gave a faint glance at her neighbors who seemed very ‘concerned’ about her situation, then calmly brought the few bottles of drinking water she had left at the door inside.
“It’s handled,” Chi Yun Su reported simply to the attacker.
In the Black Port, occasional violent conflicts were normal. To walk out of one’s house alive time and again was a form of deterrence to the outside world; it wouldn’t make anyone feel like something was wrong.
The attacker, who had also come up to the first floor and had seen everything Chi Yun Su did, said nothing. He glanced at the re-closed main door and asked her, “How did you know someone was here?”
“You’re very skilled at opening doors, but I also placed a fiber on the door,” Chi Yun Su said. She had forgotten where she’d seen it; the original version used a hair, but Chi Yun Su treasured her hair, so she used a fiber instead.
“My door isn’t actually that hard to open.” This was why Chi Yun Su had experienced this sort of thing more than once. Since the second floor was her resting place, she didn’t want anyone getting in that way, so she simply made it a little more convenient for interested parties to enter through the main door.
As for those who couldn’t even open the main door, they weren’t within the scope of her precautions in the first place. It was just that this time, Chi Yun Su had failed.
Then again, against an attacker of this caliber, it wouldn’t have mattered how sturdy she made the door; it wouldn’t have stopped him.
The attacker’s eyes held a contemplative look, clearly digesting her words.
Chi Yun Su took the opportunity to carefully observe the attacker. His face wasn’t particularly memorable, but he stood very straight, and his posture looked excellent. He had clearly received a good education.
In fact, this could be seen from his previous words and actions. For example, Chi Yun Su had deliberately acted rather insolent, asking him all sorts of random questions, but he had never once interrupted her.
She liked people with quality and good breeding.
Seeing that the other party had finished thinking, Chi Yun Su shamelessly asked the attacker for the third time, “Hey, big bro, why did you choose my place to capture someone?”
After confirming that Chi Yun Su was indeed cooperating obediently, and perhaps because he hadn’t answered her first two questions, the attacker satisfied her curiosity this time. “It’s relatively clean. It looks like the person here has a love for life.”
Chi Yun Su was speechless at this reason.
Having such a clean and tidy place in the Black Port was, in fact, a symbol of the resident’s status. Others wouldn’t easily provoke her. Besides allowing Chi Yun Su to live comfortably, it also saved a lot of trouble.
Of course, Chi Yun Su also knew that being too conspicuous in a chaotic area wasn’t a good thing. She had only built a small two-story building. Not far away was the five-story luxury villa of this area’s boss, as well as the luxurious Western-style houses of several of his capable subordinates.
In terms of being conspicuous, Chi Yun Su felt she didn’t even rank in the top ten in this area. She was at a level where small fries couldn’t afford to provoke her, and big shots wouldn’t bother with her, placing her at a subtly safe level.
She never would have thought that one day she would be targeted for her ‘love for life’.
Of course, Chi Yun Su knew that the meaning of ‘love for life’ in the other party’s words was actually ‘doesn’t want to die that much’.
“You’re right,” Chi Yun Su replied obsequiously, without any psychological burden.