After flattering this well-mannered assailant, Chi Yun Su, seeing that he had no further instructions for her, went back down to the basement. Soon, she returned carrying a machine about half a person’s height.
Pressing the start button, the machine began to whir and clatter, moving methodically around the first floor, sucking up all the debris scattered across the floor from the earlier cutting.
With the cleaning work now fully automated, Chi Yun Su opened the energy port in the wall that powered the laser, removed the depleted energy block inside, and took a new one from her pocket to replace it.
Watching Chi Yun Su act as if nothing had happened and proceed to clean the house, the assailant grew curious about the various devices in her home. However, after feeling around the walls, he couldn’t locate any of the mechanisms that Chi Yun Su had so easily activated earlier.
“Did you make all of these?” the assailant asked thoughtfully after studying them for a while without success.
“Just a few self-defense measures,” Chi Yun Su replied, having already reset all the mechanisms she had activated earlier. She removed the collected trash from the half-height machine, tossed it outside the door, and took out a stack of White Cards from her pocket. Selecting one, she placed it on top of the garbage bag.
Taking in Chi Yun Su’s actions, the assailant fell silent as he clearly saw the stack of Cards.
The assailant hadn’t noticed Chi Yun Su inserting a Card when she first entered, so this was his first time seeing her Cards—and in bulk, no less.
Not hiding his curiosity, the assailant made a second demand without hesitation: “Give me one of those Cards.”
Adapting remarkably well to her role as a captive, Chi Yun Su immediately took out all the Cards from her pocket and offered them to the assailant, as if inviting him to choose.
Faced with such an enthusiastic captive, the assailant seemed momentarily thrown off. After a pause, he casually picked one Card from the pile. Before he could even ask anything, Chi Yun Su eagerly explained, “The Card I placed on the garbage bag earlier is payment. Someone will come to take it away and dispose of it.”
The assailant examined the unfamiliar, intricate Circuit pattern on the White Card. “What is this?”
Chi Yun Su glanced at it and quickly replied, “It’s an air conditioner Card. You insert it into a machine to adjust the indoor temperature. This one lasts for ten days.” She even looked somewhat proud as she said this.
Upon hearing this answer, the assailant seemed to want to say something but ultimately held back. With a hint of boredom, he stuffed the Card back into Chi Yun Su’s pile.
“In half a month, I need to leave Black Port,” the assailant finally said to Chi Yun Su.
Chi Yun Su understood that this wasn’t just him sharing his plans—it was a demand he was making of her.
Undoubtedly, this was the ultimate reason he had infiltrated her home and taken her captive.
In response to this demand, Chi Yun Su replied as if discussing something entirely unrelated: “I made all these Cards myself. I also built all the mechanisms in this house, and I extracted the poison earlier.”
“As the only person in District D of F171 Port who can make weapons, I’m also restricted from leaving Black Port,” Chi Yun Su added with a tone of resignation.The assailant raised his eyes without making any other movement. Chi Yun Su immediately felt a sharp pain in her neck, and her own sticky blood flowed down, staining the torn cloth wrapped around her neck.
“You just need to answer whether you can do it or not,” the assailant said coldly.
The pain in her neck stimulated Chi Yun Su’s nerves. Her originally relaxed and casual expression faded as she lowered her gaze, reached out to touch the now slightly damp torn cloth, and replied calmly and succinctly, “I can.”
Faced with Chi Yun Su’s compliance, the assailant showed little trust. He opened his mouth and said, “You come with me.”
“That, I can’t do,” Chi Yun Su’s tone remained calm. “It’s impossible. Even if you cut off my head, it still can’t be done.”
The assailant did not act on Chi Yun Su’s words. Her earlier behavior clearly showed she was both clever and ruthless. Without a doubt, the escape plan she had arranged for herself would be filled with deadly traps.
Chi Yun Su had to move with him.
After confirming this core point, the assailant asked indifferently, “What do you need?”
Since Chi Yun Su knew she was restricted from leaving Black Port, one thing must have happened—she had once tried to leave Black Port.
Having regained the initiative, Chi Yun Su still kept her gaze lowered, though the corners of her mouth curled slightly. “A legal, normal citizen identity.”
The assailant looked at Chi Yun Su for a few seconds before finally pulling a ‘wristwatch’ from his waist pouch and tossing it to her. “Input your blood information to bind it.”
Catching the ‘wristwatch,’ Chi Yun Su was instead stunned.
Something she had longed for over a decade but could never obtain had suddenly fallen into her hands.
She hadn’t actually expected to get it when she made this demand.
Chi Yun Su had intended to first propose something impossible to crush the assailant’s seemingly omnipotent arrogance, then follow up with another impossible demand. Only when the assailant was frustrated and self-doubting would she propose something relatively easier to accomplish.
It was a simple trick for taming people.
Yet, completely unexpectedly, this thing had effortlessly landed in her palm.
Chi Yun Su couldn’t hold back, her expression turning complex for a moment.
Sometimes fate played such tricks.
Without saying another word to the assailant, Chi Yun Su silently pricked her finger and pressed her blood into the identity document.
Soon, the identity document was activated, briefly displaying the identity information.
Name: Rune Mountain
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August, Star Calendar 3766
…
Chi Yun Su stared at the word ‘Male’ for a few seconds in silence.
Well, that made sense.
After all, the assailant was male. With such mysterious skills, he seemed accustomed to doing shady work, so the identity was naturally prepared for himself. The information naturally matched the assailant’s situation.
However, the identity photo could be taken on the spot.
To better fit the male image, she would likely need to change her hairstyle. Chi Yun Su ran her fingers through her not-so-long hair, hesitating for a moment.She wasn’t reluctant to change it; it was just that if she altered her hairstyle now, it would definitely draw attention when she went out later.
Anyway, there was no rush.
Chi Yun Su forcibly suppressed her impatience, but these actions carried a different meaning in the eyes of the assailant.
“Hairstyle isn’t important. They shouldn’t assume your gender based on your appearance,” the assailant said, still in a cold tone.
Chi Yun Su fell silent again, offering no explanation for herself, and closed the identity information.
After obtaining what she had long dreamed of, even with the deadly Neck Ring still around her neck, Chi Yun Su couldn’t help but warm up to the assailant. “Since we have a legal identity, we can leave from the simplest and safest place. Give me your name.”
“Guo Ruofan,” the assailant replied simply.
Since the other party could casually toss her a legal identity to use freely, it was obvious that the name he was using now wasn’t his real one either. Whether it was his real name or not didn’t matter to Chi Yun Su.
In Black Port, after all, there was no such thing as a real name.
“F171 Port Cleaning Company is hiring long-term. We can apply directly. They rotate shifts once a week, and the personnel on rotation leave Black Port on the specialized garbage disposal spacecraft, heading to other cities on Yuanfeng Star,” Chi Yun Su briefly explained the situation before asking the assailant, ‘Guo Ruofan,’ “What are you good at?”
“Killing,” ‘Guo Ruofan’ said without any change in tone.
Chi Yun Su didn’t react to this answer either, nodding calmly. “Hmm, sharp-eyed and quick to react, able to identify targets immediately, patient and steady in work, not rushed or flustered. Then I’ll sign you up as a Garbage Sorter.”
‘Guo Ruofan’: “…”
“You arrange it,” ‘Guo Ruofan’ said after a brief moment of speechlessness, not objecting to Chi Yun Su’s arrangement. However, he had a question about the job of Garbage Sorter. “Doesn’t F171 Port Cleaning Company have artificial intelligence?”
“You mean artificial stupidity?” Chi Yun Su smiled. “Yes, they do have that, but anything with a recognition rate below 60% requires a Sorter to reclassify.”
‘Guo Ruofan’ nodded, confirming that Chi Yun Su was indeed very familiar with the Cleaning Company.
Before the two could say more, a rhythmic knocking sound came from the door.
Hearing this, Chi Yun Su’s eyes flickered slightly, and she looked apologetically at ‘Guo Ruofan.’ “You’ll need to step aside for a moment.”
‘Guo Ruofan’ said nothing, disappearing from sight once again.
Unable to detect any trace of him, Chi Yun Su observed curiously for a couple of seconds before walking to the door.
After checking the situation outside through the display on the wall, Chi Yun Su opened the door. Seeing the visitor, she put on a cheerful smile and called out brightly, “Brother Hong!”
The one Chi Yun Su called Brother Hong wasn’t actually very old, his face still carrying a hint of youthfulness, likely not yet twenty. His full name was Hong Guang. Hearing Chi Yun Su call him, he instinctively wanted to smile, but his gaze quickly fell on the torn cloth wrapped around Chi Yun Su’s neck, and his expression darkened.”Lu Wei, what happened?” Hong Guang reached out and touched the bloodstains on the torn cloth, which were clearly seeping from within, then warily surveyed Chi Yun Su’s empty living room. “There’s no body in the trash you cleaned out.”
Chi Yun Su seemed to remember only then, sheepishly hiding the bloodstains on her neck. “Just a minor accident during research, nothing serious.” Her expression quickly turned excited as she pulled a blue card from another pocket. “Brother Hong, I finally made the card you mentioned for precise weapon targeting!”
After saying this, Chi Yun Su took two steps inside and waved to Hong Guang. “Brother Hong, come in. I’ll show you.”
Hong Guang, who had been standing at the doorway all along without taking a single step inside, smiled helplessly. “Forget it, Lu Wei. Just give me the card directly. I was just worried something had happened to you and came to check on your safety. I have a lot of things to do and can’t stay to play with you.”
Chi Yun Su pouted, acting like a displeased child. “I know, I know. Brother Hong, you’re always busy.” Despite her complaint, Chi Yun Su obediently walked back to the doorway and handed the blue card to Hong Guang.
Hong Guang reached out to take it but felt something was off. Upon closer inspection, he realized there were two cards in his hand.
The other was a Green Card with a familiar pattern, beneath which were two elegantly written characters: “Absorption.”
Hong Guang was stunned.
This was the card Chi Yun Su had activated earlier to absorb the laser damage in the room. In a society where energy-based attacks were the primary means of harm, this Absorption Card was an exceptionally rare defensive card.
Chi Yun Su had only one of these cards and had always carried it with her, refusing to give it to anyone, citing the unpredictable dangers that often arose during research.
But now, Chi Yun Su had given this card to him.
“Lu Wei…” Hong Guang couldn’t help but call out Chi Yun Su’s name, his tone filled with complex emotions.
Faced with Hong Guang’s apparent gratitude, Chi Yun Su wore a cheerful expression and said in a lighthearted tone, “My research has reached a temporary conclusion. Once your boss gets this card, he’ll likely start conflicts with other factions soon. At that time, you’ll be in more danger than I am.”
“Tiger died for you, Brother Hong. Remember, your life isn’t just your own. Keep this card with you, and don’t let your boss know.”
Hearing Chi Yun Su’s words, Hong Guang said nothing. He took a deep breath, carefully stored the two cards, and promised, “Don’t worry, I won’t let anything happen to me.”
“Mm.” Chi Yun Su responded with a satisfied smile.
Watching Hong Guang leave, Chi Yun Su slowly closed the door. The previously invisible “Guo Ruofan” reappeared, his voice still cold and tinged with displeasure.
“Were you just trying to get me to kill him?”
“Mm.” Chi Yun Su replied with the same cheerful smile, unsurprised that the other had seen through her intentions.
Chi Yun Su knew this great killer was nearby. Under such circumstances, not explaining her injury and persistently trying to lure someone into the room—such intentions would be glaringly obvious to “Guo Ruofan,” the “blade” Chi Yun Su was attempting to wield for murder.”You handle it yourself.” ‘Guo Ruofan’ clearly had little interest in being the ‘knife,’ but he wasn’t particularly angry either. He just mulled over Chi Yun Su’s name for a moment. “Lu Wei…”
“Mm, I’ve already taken care of it,” Chi Yun Su replied cheerfully. “That Positioning Card for weapons—I set its target as that Absorption Card.”
Hearing this, ‘Guo Ruofan’ fell silent for a few seconds, suppressing the thoughts that had surfaced upon realizing from their conversation that Chi Yun Su seemed to know card crafting.
The rule that one must never offend a card maker etched itself even deeper into ‘Guo Ruofan’s’ mind.
“Also, please don’t call me Lu Wei,” Chi Yun Su said indifferently, paying no attention to what ‘Guo Ruofan’ was thinking as she unwrapped the cloth from around her neck. “Lu Wei isn’t my name—it sounds disgusting.”
Lu Wei was actually the name of a traitor among the children who grew up in F171 Port.
As the only one from that group still alive in Black Port, Chi Yun Su didn’t want to recall the moment when Hong Guang returned with the body of her last companion, ‘Tiger,’ and called her ‘Lu Wei’ with a face full of sorrow, saying ‘Tiger’ had entrusted her to his care.
To the outside world, Chi Yun Su had never had a name. The only reason Hong Guang would call her that was because ‘Tiger’ must have told him.
Though she didn’t know exactly what had happened back then, the fact that Hong Guang had never dared to step into her house all these years spoke volumes.
Now, it was all over.
“If you want to call me by a name, just call me Dashan,” Chi Yun Su said casually, pulling a character from her identification card.