"Boss, match successful! Miss Yao Xue's system fluctuations are at the edge of the C-19 star sector!"
Su Tian's voice echoed in the control room, filled with barely contained excitement.
Qin Yu strode over to the holographic star map.
The green light point representing Yao Xue was flickering extremely faintly at the edge of the screen.
"How far?" Qin Yu asked without turning his head.
"Very far! It spans three spatial faults!"
Su Tian's hands frantically calculated on the console.
"At our current full-load cruising speed, even if we don't encounter any spacetime turbulence along the way, it will take a full ten hours!"
Qin Yu's eyes were cold and hard.
"Send the route map to the main console, switch to auto-cruise."
"Lock engine thrust at one hundred percent, not a single second of deceleration allowed."
"Yes!" Su Tian immediately complied.
After handling the trivial matters, Qin Yu turned to look at Yao Qian beside him.
The little girl had been sitting obediently on the rest chair, hugging her knees with both hands, like a frightened little rabbit.
"Let's go." Qin Yu walked over and extended his hand.
"Where to?" Yao Qian looked up, her big eyes still glistening with tears.
"Back to the room."
Qin Yu pulled her up in one motion and directly scooped her up in his arms.
"Your clothes are all sour, I'll take you to wash up."
Yao Qian gasped in surprise, instinctively wrapping her arms around Qin Yu's neck, her small face instantly flushing crimson.
"I... I can walk myself..."
"Shut up. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll throw you back." Qin Yu deliberately put on a stern face.
Yao Qian immediately clamped her mouth shut, burying her head deep into Qin Yu's broad chest, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl upward.
Even if the outside world had become a living hell.
As long as she was in this man's embrace, this was an absolute safe zone.
Qin Yu carried Yao Qian through the long metal corridor.
Emergency lights on both sides of the corridor flickered with a cold white light.
Outside the porthole was the vast, boundless, yet perilous deep starry sky.
Arriving at the captain's private quarters.
The airtight door slid open with a "hiss."
This was the most luxurious place on the entire spacecraft.
A two-meter-wide large bed, an independent thermostat-controlled bathroom, and even a small holographic projector.
Qin Yu placed Yao Qian on the large bed.
"Go take a shower. The thermostat system is already on."
Yao Qian looked at the bathroom, then at her own dirty sailor uniform and torn White Silk Stockings.
She bit her lip, suddenly reaching out to grab the hem of Qin Yu's clothes.
"Brother Qin Yu..."
"What's wrong? Afraid there are raiders inside?" Qin Yu raised an eyebrow.
Yao Qian shook her head, her voice as faint as a mosquito's hum.
"I... I'm afraid to close my eyes."
"During this time drifting outside, whenever I close my eyes, I see those Skull flags and man-eating monsters..."
"Could you... take a shower with me?"
By the last few words, Yao Qian's face was so red it seemed about to drip blood.
Qin Yu looked at this pitiful, delicate otaku wife before him.
He knew these past few days had terrified her.
"Alright."
Without further ado, Qin Yu directly took off his black trench coat and casually tossed it onto the sofa.
The frosted glass door of the bathroom closed.
Warm water sprayed down from the showerhead, instantly washing away the smell of gunpowder and blood from both of them.
Yao Qian clung tightly to Qin Yu, as if trying to melt herself into his body.
Amidst the swirling mist.
Qin Yu's rough hand brushed over Yao Qian's smooth back, feeling the slight tremble of her body.
"It's alright now."
He lowered his head and kissed her forehead.
"As long as I'm here, no one can touch you."
Yao Qian tilted her head back, letting the water soak her long eyelashes.
Suddenly, she stood on tiptoe and kissed Qin Yu's lips.
It was a kiss without reservation.
Filled with the relief of surviving a disaster, and an extreme dependence on this man.
Qin Yu took control, his large hand cupping the back of her head, deepening the kiss.
In the cramped bathroom, the temperature rose sharply.
Ten minutes later.
Qin Yu, wrapped in a bathrobe, stepped out of the bathroom and sat on the edge of the bed, lighting a cigar.
Yao Qian, draped in a large towel, slipped out of the bathroom like a little kitten.
"My clothes are dirty and unwearable..." Yao Qian whispered, her face flushed.
Qin Yu retrieved a resource blind box from his system space.
With a snap, he opened it.
A brand new JK uniform and a pair of pure white stockings appeared on the bed.
"Put these on."
Qin Yu blew out a smoke ring, his gaze intensely aggressive.
Seeing the white silk stockings, Yao Qian's face turned even redder.
But she offered no resistance, instead nodding obediently.
"Turn around... no peeking."
"I've already touched every inch of you, what's left to see?" Though Qin Yu said this, he still turned around.
The sound of rustling clothes came from behind.
Soon.
A pair of soft little hands wrapped around Qin Yu's waist from behind.
"Husband, I'm changed."
Yao Qian's voice was sickeningly sweet, even her form of address had changed.
Qin Yu turned around.
Before him, Yao Qian wore a pleated skirt, her slender legs tightly encased in the white silk stockings, creating a perfect absolute territory.
Paired with her innocent, guileless face, the effect was utterly devastating.
Qin Yu stubbed out his cigar, pulled Yao Qian into his arms, and pressed her down onto the large bed.
"Changed?"
Qin Yu's voice grew low and hoarse.
"Then it's time to get down to business."
Yao Qian didn't shy away; instead, she reached out her arms and actively wrapped them around Qin Yu's neck.
Qin Yu didn't speak, answering her directly with action.
The lights in the lounge automatically dimmed, leaving only a dim yellow bedside lamp.
The thick metal soundproof door completely isolated all sounds within from the starry sky outside.
In this Wasteland starry sky where human life was as cheap as grass.
Nothing made one feel the existence of life more than this most primal act.
"Tired?" Qin Yu stroked her smooth hair.
"Mmm..." Yao Qian nuzzled against him, her voice lazy.
"Brother Qin Yu, do you think we'll always be like this?"
"Always like what?"
"Just... always surviving, never being bullied."
Qin Yu's eyes turned cold.
He turned to look out the porthole.
Outside was the deep cosmos, a Rule Junkyard where countless shattered rules were forcibly fused together.
In this starry sky, there were those lofty Administrators.
They treated countless people like insects, placing them in a jar to fight and kill each other.
"Yes."
Qin Yu tightened his embrace around the girl in his arms.
"Not only will we survive. I'm going to smash this jar."
"Whoever dares to set the rules, I'll kill them."
"Whoever dares to touch you all, I'll wipe out their entire family."
Yao Qian didn't find these words arrogant.
In her eyes, Qin Yu was the heavens.
"I believe you."
Yao Qian forced her eyes open and planted a kiss on Qin Yu's chin.
"Then... we need to find Sister quickly."
"Sister is all alone out there; she must be scared too."
Mentioning Yao Xue, a trace of tenderness flashed in Qin Yu's eyes.
That always black silk stockings-wearing, ice-cold surgical doctor actually cared more about this younger sister than anyone else.
"Don't worry."
Qin Yu patted Yao Qian's back.
"The Radar has already locked onto her coordinates."
"Even if she's surrounded by thousands of troops right now, I'll definitely bring her back before dawn."
"Sleep."
Under Qin Yu's soothing, the utterly exhausted Yao Qian finally fell into a deep sleep.
Emitting soft, even breaths.
Qin Yu did not sleep.
He carefully withdrew his arm and tucked Yao Qian in properly.
Bare-chested, he walked to the porthole.
Within his body, the energy of the World Heart Fragment was slowly circulating.
After the earlier yin-yang harmonization, he could feel his spiritual power had solidified a bit more.
[Ding! Host has completed deep rest.]
[Spiritual power upper limit increased by 1%.]
Qin Yu glanced at the System Panel.
He raised his head, staring into the depths of the starry sky.
Twelve thousand kilometers away was Yao Xue's coordinates.
"Boom—!"
The thrusters at the bottom of the spacecraft erupted with an even more piercing, ghostly blue flame.
The massive Black Rhino-class Transport Ship was like a black dagger, silently slicing through the sea of stars.
Racing at full speed toward the unknown ahead.
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