Chapter 824
Chapter 824: Mouse Bai
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
"Ladies and gentlemen in front of the light beam, this is 'Across the Heaven's Origin Sector', a special live segment hosted by the Flying Star TV . The most thrilling moment is about to come . The first echelon of Cultivators to go to the Heaven's Origin Sector has boarded on their starships!
"Ten thousand years! We've lost contact with our brother worlds for ten thousand years after the Star Ocean Imperium collapsed .
"For the ten thousand years, we've been resisting the extraterrestrial devils, the demon beasts, and the apocalypse in the cold, bleak universe all by ourselves .
"But everything will be different from now on . We are about to fight side by side with another Sector!
"Let's congratulate the return home of Li Yao, Mo Xuan, and the other friends from the Heaven's Origin Sector and pray that the Cultivators of the Flying Star Sector will have a safe journey and bring the greetings of the Flying Star Sector to our brothers in the Heaven's Origin Sector!"
At this moment, the Flying Star Sector was silent . The ordinary people closed their eyes and prayed in silence, while the Cultivators made hundreds of different gestures and sent telepathic thoughts of bliss into the universe .
At the periphery of the Spider Den Space Zone, on a ragged carrier, dozens of thickheaded, brutal-looking crew members crowded in a stinky cabin . Their muscles were so tight that their clothes were almost being ripped apart, and their fists, which were the size of a pot, were twisted so hard that sweat seemed to be dropping, while they prayed for the travelers in a way that did not seem praying at all .
Puchi!
While those rude and yet kind men were praying quietly, an inharmonious noise came from a corner . Somebody laughed in a shrieking voice .
"Mouse Bai, you are asking for trouble again!"
A muscular man with a long beard opened his eyes, only to see an extremely ugly young man whose head was disproportionally huge .
The young man was wearing an expression of easiness . He was actually yawning at such an exciting moment . Instead of praying with everybody else, he had taken out a bag of peanuts from god knew where and was enjoying himself . For some reason, his appearance made people want to beat him .
The young man was really ugly .
He seemed congenitally deficient and malnourished after he was born . He was only around 1 . 3 meters all . His pinky skin was wrinkled . His ears were larger than fans . His nose was long and red . Two of his big incisors protruded out, but his eyes were as small as needle tips, and the freckles that surrounded his eyes were as dense as the stars in a night sky, making him wear a natural eye-patch all the time . He did not seem to be a good person at all but fitted every description of a thief .
The young man's surname was Bai . Since he looked like a mouse, and he kept two weird white mice as his pets, everybody called him 'Mouse Bai' .
Mouse Bai had boarded the carrier three months ago .
At that time, Spider Den was being developed heatedly . The demand on carriers and engineering starships was very high . The carrier that belonged to a private company joined the gold rush and worked for half a year on Spider Den .
When they left Spider Den, the young man somehow got himself on board .
Other than space pirates, there were many civilians on Spider Den, too, who were the victims kidnapped by the space pirates, the posterity of the victims, or the family of the space pirates . Not all of them had committed crimes . Many of them were even slaves who had been oppressed for a long time .
After Spider Den was taken over, naturally, the victims could not be all killed . After rigorous identification and lie-testing, the residents of Spider Den who were innocent were asked to join the construction of Spider Den if they were eighteen or older and go to temporary school if they were not .
Even so, many people were plagued by their bad habits . They hated working as much as they hated school, and they simply horsed around and made trouble every day .
Mouse Bai was exactly such a man .
When he just got on board, his situation was much worse . He was essentially a skeleton, and he had a giant hole that basically incrusted on his head . The doctor on the starship said after examination that his skull had been bashed into several pieces . 99 . 9% of the people would have died of such injury, but the young man was tough enough to survive .
His injury somehow triggered the sympathy of the captain of the starship, who sent his photo and his fingerprint to Spider Den to check, only to find that the young man was an orphan who roamed the streets every day . A few days ago, he accidentally fell into a mining pit . Everybody thought that he was killed, but he somehow ended up on the carrier .
He was not a space pirate, nor did he ever commit any crimes . He looked rather pitiful for a teenager . Therefore, the captain took him in .
The young man's vitality was tougher than that of a cockroach . It took him less than a month to be fully recovered, but because of his indolence, which he developed on Spider Den, he was the first to come for dinner and the last to go to work .
The captain was kind enough to ask him to take several courses through the crystal processor, but he fell asleep every time a book was opened .
Seeing that he was not interested in books, several crew members meant to teach him martial arts, but he only laughed and refused them .
After several days, everybody on the carrier was pissed . They only regretted that they could not open the ventilation tube and throw the slug into space .
The only shining point about the scalawag was that he was good-tempered and smiling all day . He was never angry when other people cursed him or pulled his ears . Even when other people snapped his head in outrage, he would act like it was nothing . There was no telling whether he was broad-minded or simply shameless .
Mouse Bai was still enjoying his peanuts although dozens of muscular men were glaring at him . He even picked his teeth with his little finger now and then, utterly satisfied .
"Hey!" One of the muscular man held his ears and pulled him up, his saliva darting to the young man's face like nails . "Mouse Bai . It's fine that you are lazy and sleazy normally . But how can you be so indifferent when we are all praying for Li Yao and the other travelers?"
Mouse Bao simply allowed his ears to be pulled and continued enjoying his peanuts . He said with a smile, "I knew that my boy Li Yao is an unbelievably lucky man and that I could trust him to do anything nicely and smoothly .
"If so, why do I have to waste my time with a useless prayer?"
"Huh?" Brother Hong was even more furious . He pinched Mouse Bai's ear hard . "You have a tongue disproportional to your size, wrinkly Mouse Bai . Li Yao is the top-tier super experts of the Flying Star Sector, and a formidable man who slayed Xiao Xuance? You are no match even for his booger . How did you dare to call him 'my boy'?"
"Hiss…" Mouse Bai pretended that he was in pain . But the smile on his face told everyone that the pain was actually nothing for him . "Brother Hong, as I have repeated carefully to everybody three thousand two hundred and twenty-five times, you can beat me or curse me at your will, but can you please stop calling me… Mouse Bai?"
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