Star Rank Hunter - Chapter 218

Chapter 218
Chapter 218: Imperial Capital Accent? [Part 2]


The scene before Cillin reminded him of his old room at Planet Brown Earth .

It was a very simple and crude room . The word ‘wretched’ might even fit this place .

A worn out robot with exposed circuits sat quietly at the corner . Judging from the coat of dust that was covering its body, it had probably been there for a very long time .

Cillin tried moving his fingers . So far so good .

Trying to sit up cost Cillin a huge amount of energy and pain, however . Every muscle in his body felt like they were branded by hot iron . He never had the time to recover from the terrible wounds inflicted by Oskulos before he was thrown into a painful trip inside the time vortex . The double injuries hurt Cillin so much that he gasped once for air .

A while later, he finally came to and exhaled . Then, he saw the gray cat clinging to his arm like an octopus .

The gray cat wasn’t moving though . In fact, it was completely stiff and not breathing .

Cillin could feel the life inside the gray cat even though it had no heartbeat or breathing . It was still alive .

Cillin flicked the gray cat’s ears .

No reaction .

He poked its stomach once .

Still no reaction .

Cillin frowned . Did it experience a system crash or something?

Cillin was still wearing the same clothes as he did before, but his protective suit was hung on a nearby hanger . The suit looked tattered and worn .

Cillin suddenly noticed something and turned around to look . The peepers shrank back into their hiding spots, but not for long .

One head, two heads, three heads .

Three little kids who looked very similar to each other poked out from behind the door and stared at him with great curiosity . They looked like they wanted to come over, but were too afraid to do so .

They were kids alright . Every piece of their emotions were reflected directly on their faces .

Cillin shot them a smile, but said nothing to them . He wasn’t sure what kind of situation he was in right now, and he didn’t want to say something wrong due to his ignorance . A smile was enough to express goodwill, not to mention that many kids get encouraged by smiles .

Seeing Cillin’s smile, the three kids were given just enough encouragement to return their own .

The fact that the room was a little shabby proved that the master of this place wasn’t financially sound, but all three kids had chubby cheeks and displayed no signs of undernourishment whatsoever . This showed that the master of this place valued his children’s growth a lot .

One of the children withdrew out of view and ran away, shouting something while doing so . Cillin couldn’t understand him .

He was definitely in a strange place alright . He knew every Sector language that existed in all GAL regions, but the one used by the kid was completely unfamiliar to him .

One of the two remaining kids was a little bolder than the other . He slowly walked over and leaned against the bed, looking at Cillin and saying something . Unfortunately, Cillin still couldn’t understand him .


The kid tried again, and Cillin made a puzzled expression to express his inability to understand his words . But he was just a kid, so he didn’t realize that Cillin couldn’t understand his words . He even turned around to speak a few lines with the other kid who was still looking around from behind the door .



Footsteps rang from outside the door while the two kids were speaking . He knew immediately that it belonged to an adult .

The kid who ran away earlier dragged an elderly person wearing a kind smile on his face into the room . He was old and slightly hunchbacked, but he was also pretty healthy and in high spirits . His hands looked very rough and was covered in callus .

He said something to Cillin after seeing that he had sat up, and Cillin returned him a puzzled look to indicate his inability to understand their words .

By now the remaining two kids had pounced towards the old man too and said a lot of things that Cillin didn’t understand while pointing at him .

Old Chang was fixing some machines before his grandson ran over . He told him that the person they brought home had already woken up, and that he was smiling at the three of them . Therefore, Old Chang put down his work temporarily and allowed his grandson to pull him to Cillin’s room by the finger .

It was the triplets’ birthday, and Old Chang had once promised his kids that he would take them around the planet during their birthday . Therefore, he did just that and took them on a twirl around the planet on his shabby little spaceplane a few days ago .

However, people of their circumstances had no right to talk about piloting quality spaceplanes, or conducting long-range or warp travel . This was because they couldn’t afford even the energy needed to fly the spaceplane . It was impressive already that a family like theirs was able to keep up with the maintenance fee of even a shabby spaceplane, which was why their trip was possible only because Old Chang had spent many years accumulating the funds to do so . Moreover, their spaceplane was so terrible that they couldn’t stray far away from the planet at all . The so-called spaceflight was really just spaceflight in name . If his grandson didn’t have sharp eyes, he would’ve missed the stranded person floating in space .

Since Cillin was wearing a protective suit at the time, Old Chang automatically assumed that he was a space engineer . Space missions were very dangerous, and one tiny misstep could result in being tossed into space and left for dead . Old Chang had heard a lot of cases like this in his life . He knew that a lot of space engineers had perished in space like this . Wealthy people would just use maintenance robots for such tasks, but the not wealthy could neither afford nor risk purchasing cheap maintenance robots for the tasks they demanded of them . Therefore, they had no choice but to employ space engineers to perform them .

Money of this kind was earned by literally putting lives at stake . It was work that Old Chang himself used to do when he was younger . But age was coming down on him, and he had a bunch of kids waiting for him back home everyday . Therefore, he no longer took on such jobs and focused solely on his current work .

Old Chang sighed when he saw the gray cat wrapped tightly around Cillin’s arm . It was rare to find an animal as loyal as this, but nothing could change the fact that the gray cat was already stiff by the time they found Cillin . This meant that the gray cat had died for quite some time already .

If the gray cat knew of Old Chang’s thoughts, it absolutely would have puffed up in anger .

Old Chang had never seen the kind of protective suit Cillin was wearing before . Maybe he wasn’t a resident of their planet? But despite this, Old Chang was a former worker in the space maintenance field . The fact that Cillin worked in the same field as him gave him a good first impression immediately, and Cillin’s age only tugged at his sympathy even more . He couldn’t imagine that a lad this young would go so far as to accept a dangerous job like this . If they hadn’t ran into him by accident, or if his protective suit was damaged before they met him, the boy would’ve been dead by now .



Cillin’s protective suit was cut open after Old Chang had saved him from space . They couldn’t have provided him with medical aid or even feed him pills otherwise .

His grandsons told him that the lad was a little stupid, but Old Chang thought that maybe he just couldn’t understand their language . A moment later, Old Chang switched languages and tried to speak a somewhat shoddy version of the imperial language with a heavy accent . It was also the empire’s lingua franca .

“Do you understand this?”

Cillin did, and it shocked him greatly . The language he spoke was very similar to the one Genya had taught him when he was younger . Genya told him that it was his native language, but Cillin never found any traces of it in GAL . He didn’t think that he’d be able to hear it at this place .

Cillin said tentatively, “I can . I can understand this language somewhat . ”

Old Chang’s eyes lit up when he heard this, “Ah, you’re from the imperial capital star region!”

Cillin scratched his head embarrassedly . The truth was he had no idea what the heck ‘imperial capital star region’ meant .

Sensing no denial of his claim from Cillin, Old Chang assumed that he was a child born in the imperial capital star region who was forced to perform a dangerous task like space maintenance because of his poor family conditions .

Generally speaking, only those who lived in the imperial capital star region could intonate the language with no accent at all . Old Chang knew very few foreigner to the imperial capital star region who could do the same since it was very difficult to feign . At the very least, Old Chang never heard of anyone who could speak such perfect imperial language unless it came from media broadcast .

“Are you a mechanical engineer?”

“I guess I am . ”

Old Chang showered Cillin with a look of pity . Deriving a living in the capital wasn’t easy; the lad must have had no other choice when he came to a shabby place like theirs . Sigh, what a pitiable child .

Cillin continued to maintain a perfect smile on his face, but his mouth couldn’t stop twitching when he saw the one third tenderly and two thirds affectionate look on Old Chang’s face .

“I am Chang . Just call me grandpa Chang like the kids do,” Old Chang passed over a cup of water and a couple of pills to Cillin .

Cillin swallowed the pills immediately upon accepting . He then thanked Old Chang for his kindness .

Old Chang smiled happily seeing that Cillin had swallowed the pills he gave without any hesitation at all . If Cillin was anyone else, they would’ve doubted the pills’ authenticity and analysed them for half a day .

Old Chang had no idea that Cillin had figured out the pills’ composition the moment he accepted them . The only reason he ate the pills without hesitation was because they were just basic supplements . God knows if Old Chang’s heart would shatter if he knew about the truth .

“I am Cillin . ”

Cillin didn’t say much about himself . He only said that he was currently alone .

Old Chang chatted with Cillin for a moment, allowing Cillin to know a simple outline of their family circumstances .

The three kids Cillin saw earlier were five years old triplets . They were the sixth, seventh and eighth children of the family, so Old Chang called them Six, Seven and Eight directly . They had no other names .

The town they were in had bad standard of living . The survival rate of children in each family was terribly low, so everyone tried to give birth to as many children as they could . The children’s high mortality rate was also the reason why they weren’t given official names . They would only be given good sounding names if they grew to adulthood or encountered some special circumstances .

Old Chang’s partner passed away early, and the one capable son he had had passed away too because of an accident . His daughter-in-law did her damndest to give birth to as many children as possible while her husband was around, but she too wasted away after his son’s passing . She went after her husband after she gave birth to the triplets, leaving behind six children to Old Chang .

Why just six? That was because the eldest and the second child didn’t survive .

Thankfully, the eleven years old twins Chang Three and Chang Four didn’t fail to live up to expectations . They studied hard enough to enroll themselves into a prestigious school, and the reason they weren’t around was because they had left this region to study abroad .

Chang Five’s life was riddled with difficulties since the day he was conceived in his mother’s womb, so he was born with a poor constitution that was prone to illness . He was a pitiable child who was born to medicine his whole life .

Right now, Old Chang works in his own small repair shop and earns a basic living fee for himself and the kids everyday . Almost every family in this particular region of the planet was also doing the same thing; opening a small repair shop of their own to feed themselves .