DDT - Chapter 127
Chapter 127: Interstellar ABO (12)
Immersed in the world of the Star Network, Chi Junluo stared blankly at the information popping up on the light screen.
The Blue Star Alliance's youngest admiral to date, an Alpha with unfathomably strong super S-class mental power and an SSS-class physique, the strongest in the Alliance. In her ten years of service fighting the Zerg, she had never known defeat. She was the ultimate Zerg-killer, a rare Alliance member with a single-character name—Chi.
Chi Junluo looked at the heroic face floating in the air and found it somewhat familiar. Connecting it to the admiral's unique name, she reached out and turned off the light screen.
The projection still hovered in the air. Chi Junluo lowered her head and saw the reflection of this body's face on the black screen. The left side of her face was mostly destroyed, but her nose bridge and the right half of her head were perfectly intact. She raised a hand to cover the unsightly scars on her left cheek. A beautiful woman with a cold, indifferent expression appeared on the black screen. Looking at this face alone, Chi Junluo even had the illusion of seeing her own face from her original world. So much time had passed that she was gradually forgetting what she originally looked like.
She had traveled to different worlds, lived in different bodies. Perhaps the versions of Chi Junluo in these worlds shared some similarities, but ultimately, they were not her.
Chi Junluo shook off the distracting thoughts and looked up again to compare it with the woman's face floating in the air. The two faces were remarkably similar, as if carved from the same mold, except the one in the projection looked like a frigid, passionless person.
Chi Junluo scrolled through the comments below, feeling as if she had returned to the celebrity-chasing scene on Weibo in her original world.
The people of the Blue Star Alliance seemed to adore this young, beautiful Alpha admiral. Hiding behind their Star Network aliases, people of unknown status—be they Omegas, Betas, or fellow Alphas—were fawning, professing their love, and acting cute under the post. Some admired the admiral's looks, others her formidable strength, and some even openly declared they were thirsting for the admiral's body.
Because this young admiral had almost never appeared in public, the only images the people of the Alliance could get were of her boarding her mecha before a live combat broadcast or long-distance shots secretly taken by fans within the military. The only clear, high-definition frontal photo was the profile picture uploaded when the military created her personal Star Network account. Yet, such a young person had already become the most sought-after marriage partner in the Alliance. Countless Omegas and Betas dreamed of pairing up with this powerful and handsome Alpha.
So now that Admiral Chi was missing, and with malicious parties pushing public opinion from behind the scenes, rumors were flying everywhere. The young Alpha admiral's fans were furious, forming powerful factions on the Star Network and using their overwhelming numbers to pressure the military or the major families to provide an explanation.
As for the footage and testimony provided by the so-called soldier who had escaped, hardly anyone believed it. Only the petty individuals who were secretly jealous of Admiral Chi eagerly reposted the video and statements. The eyes of the masses are sharp—this old saying was not false at all. Just after a few people from the entertainment and military circles reposted that video and those claims, Admiral Chi's vast fanbase followed the clues and actually uncovered many shady underground dealings and the networks behind those few pop idols. It turned out they all had significant ties to the major families on the Main Star.
Seeing that the netizens' fury was about to drown these few pop idols and military personnel, the higher-ups had no choice but to abandon them and throw them out as scapegoats. They were just a few lovers, after all. The entertainment industry was so large, was there any shortage of distractions?
Thus, after trending twice, the self-proclaimed escaped soldier and those few pop idols vanished from the Alliance. The Star Network's netizens only cared about Admiral Chi's whereabouts, and this matter was quickly forgotten as an insignificant interlude.
What a joke. No sane person in the Alliance would believe such propaganda. Admiral Chi was doing perfectly well in the military. As the youngest and most promising admiral in the Alliance, why would she betray it when her future was so bright? The Alliance's only enemy was the Zerg. From the very beginning, the relationship between humans and the Zerg had been one of life and death. It was impossible to negotiate, impossible to coexist peacefully with the mindless Zerg, who only knew how to reproduce infinitely. It was even more impossible that someone would be crazy enough to betray humanity for those beasts.
The only plausible betrayal scenario involved Star Pirates—interstellar thieves, disorganized criminals and fugitives operating outside the Alliance. They were often desperate people who had committed grave crimes and had the means to escape. Why would Admiral Chi give up her prestigious position as an admiral to become a Star Pirate, living hand-to-mouth with no hope for the future?
Influenced by the initial smear campaign from that soldier and the results of their own digging on the Star Network, netizens became certain that someone was pulling the strings behind the scenes! The major families of the Main Star almost all had artists or soldiers under them who had participated in guiding the public opinion to slander Admiral Chi. Soon, the netizens discovered something amiss. Indeed, the major families of the Main Star, especially the Oschalavsky, Kimura, and Derian families, held significant power in the military. These three families were known as the three great admiral families, each with an admiral at its head. For years, they had been incredibly influential in the Blue Star Alliance. To use an old Blue Star saying, they could walk sideways in the Alliance. Several second-tier families also participated in pushing the narrative. But soon, the netizens sensed something was wrong. Their fervent investigation had been far too smooth. These were the great families of the Main Star! Their word was law in the Alliance, so how could they be investigated so easily? The accounts of those artists, celebrities, and military personnel were all encrypted for protection, so how were they exposed so effortlessly?
When the netizens went back to look for the Star Network accounts that had originally doxxed these people, they were all gone, as if they had vanished into thin air. And all this happened in just one or two days. Soon, the netizens of the Star Network began to discuss it heatedly online. Led and organized by a few major Star Network influencers, the netizens discovered a shocking fact: the Alliance's largest family—the Yi Family—had not said a single word so far. Among all the artists, celebrities, and military personnel who had been exposed, not a single one was from the Yi Family!
The internet instantly exploded. All sorts of conspiracy theories emerged. Under the self-proclaimed "vanguard" leadership of the Star Network influencers, the tide of public opinion on the Star Network instantly changed direction. Countless netizens flooded the Yi Family's official account page. Some were asking questions, some were cursing, some were demanding an explanation, and some were even posting funeral portraits of the Yi Family's head. Guided through layer after layer of events, the netizens' anger accumulated bit by bit, and soon the Yi Family's official account was restricted due to a massive number of complaints and reports.
The Yi Family had originally paid no mind to the matter and had no intention of getting involved. In fact, most members of the Yi Family were just watching the drama unfold. But they never expected the direction of public opinion to shift so quickly. From the moment the influencers "exposed" the "unreasonable aspects" of the incident to the netizens, under their leadership, getting the Yi Family's account suspended, less than an hour had passed. With the fall of the Yi Family's official account and no response from them, the netizens grew even more furious, and the scope of their attacks widened. Soon, netizens dug up what was suspected to be the Star Network account of the Yi Family's head, and tens of thousands of users flooded in. The principle that the law does not punish the masses proved to have some feasibility in any era.
Besides the account of the Yi Family's head, the accounts of many other prominent figures from the main and branch families also suffered. The netizens started with demanding accountability and explanations, but upon seeing the Yi Family's continued silence, they gradually grew more audacious. Goaded on by the influencers, many quickly lost their reason. Despite having no evidence, it was as if they had already convicted the Yi Family. A portion of rational netizens tried to point out the even more unreasonable aspects of the situation, but they were drowned out by the furious curses of the fans who had been led astray by malicious parties. The situation online gradually became one-sided. Most netizens, based solely on their own speculation, began hurling insults at the top-tier Yi Family, whom they normally wouldn't dare to speak ill of. In truth, they were just using this opportunity to expose their jealous and true faces.
The Yi Family members in charge of Star Network operations quickly disabled the comment sections on all Yi Family accounts from the backend and removed all trending topics related to them. When the Star Network netizens noticed the Yi Family's actions, they calmed down slightly, but the curses on the public forums continued. Few noticed that the influencers who had been frantically stirring the pot at the beginning had gradually fallen silent.
In the Yi Family's main family meeting hall, members from the main family and various branches from all over had gathered. The main family's meeting hall was not used unless something major happened. In the eyes of many in the Yi Family, this incident was an absolute calamity that had fallen from the sky!
The family head had not yet arrived, and the members who had come for the meeting were chattering in their seats. Most of them wore expressions of anger. Although there were always frictions, big and small, between the main and branch families, complaining about the Yi Family themselves was completely different from being cursed at by irrelevant outsiders.
Before the meeting, the Yi Family head, Yi Jun, had gathered a few high-ranking elders for a small preliminary meeting. Discussing the incident, the old-timers and Yi Jun all felt that the other families in the Alliance had grown increasingly rampant over the years. This incident was clearly a case of those families being jealous of the Yi Family's wealth and power. As the Alliance had developed, the Alliance Parliament had become a mere figurehead, its members long turned into puppets of the great families. Now, these families clearly wanted to use the matter of Admiral Chi's demise to pull the Yi Family from its divine pedestal for good.
A cold smile touched the corners of the Yi Family head's mouth. It seemed that these kittens in the cage had been fed too well over the years, to the point of developing ambitions they shouldn't have. So what if they sharpened their little claws on the bars of the cage that imprisoned them? At most, they could leave a scratch on their master's hand. But the Yi Family, as the true masters of the Alliance, could chop off their impudent paws at any time, just to teach the other little pets a lesson!
On the distant Main Star, the head of the Yi Family began to hold his meeting. Meanwhile, in a high-class ward on Moon Star, Chi Junluo had just finished browsing through the highly popular posts. The public forums were filled with a uniform chorus of curses and questions directed at the Yi Family, making her sigh with some emotion.
Then, she heard a faint sound from the bedroom doorway.
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Chi Junluo pulled her attention away from the bustling Star Network and looked toward the bedroom door where the faint noise had come from. She saw the Omega girl named Yi Huai staring at her in shock.
Their eyes met, and they both blinked. Yi Shuhan, wrapped in a bath towel, had only poked her head out for two seconds. She hadn't expected that Chi Chi, who had been staring so intently at the light screen, would notice her movement so quickly. Could it be that after a night of passionate battle, Chi Chi was starting to recover on her own?
But clearly, whether her sensory acuity had recovered was not the most pressing issue at the moment. The Chi Chi staring back at her obviously still had no reaction to her being unclothed. Thankfully, Chi Chi hadn't wandered off after waking up first. If her Chi Chi had gone out like this…
Yi Shuhan immediately stopped that line of thought. If her Chi Chi's body was seen by outsiders, she would be very angry!
It seemed she had only lost function in her memory area and had amnesia, but to think she had forgotten even the most basic sense of shame!
Chi Junluo watched with a baffled expression as the Omega, her face a picture of indescribable complexity, turned and went back into the bedroom. Before she could figure out what was wrong, she saw Yi Huai emerge, one hand clutching the bath towel around her body, the other holding a long, thick bathrobe-like garment. She then placed the bathrobe on her lap.
"Chi Chi, even if you have amnesia, you must remember not to run around naked after getting up. Wearing clothes after waking up is common sense. You absolutely, absolutely must not forget this!" Yi Shuhan finished her worried instructions to the clearly still-confused Chi Junluo and then hurried into the bathroom to clean herself up. She had to get herself ready quickly so she could come out and teach her Chi Chi some of the most basic common sense an adult human should know!
Watching Yi Huai rush back inside, Chi Junluo's brain still hadn't processed what had just happened. She lowered her head and saw the bathrobe piled on her two fair, bare legs.
Hmm… wait, bare legs?
Chi Junluo belatedly realized something was wrong. Then, the words that girl had just said seemed to drift into her brain: "naked," "running around"…
She shifted her gaze inward from the bathrobe and saw her own fair stomach, with its beautiful but not exaggerated abdominal lines, and the forest area below.
Chi Junluo quickly looked away, her face flushing red as she stood up and swiftly put on the bathrobe.
Heavens! Her brain might have really broken after transmigrating into this world.
She never thought she would have a "streaking" day.
Listening to the sound of rushing water from the bathroom in the bedroom, Chi Junluo opened her mouth to explain but couldn't make a sound. She felt that this time, she truly couldn't explain her way out of this!
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