Chapter 203
Time goes back ten minutes.
When Kurita Yu was blown into a bloody mist in the conference room on the 18th floor, and when Lloyd suddenly shot and killed Aphra who was pretending to be an attendant, Edie was leisurely drinking tea in the tea restaurant of the aristocratic school on the 17th floor.
Around him, there were many children of high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen, but as the only son of Lloyd, the owner of the 17th floor, Edie was undoubtedly the most distinguished one among them. Everyone surrounded him, but did not dare to disturb him. It seemed that they were all chatting and laughing among themselves, but in fact, most people always kept some of their attention on Edie.
Edie knew that today was the day when the top management held a general meeting, but this meeting had no special meaning to him in the past. At most, his father would be away from home for half a day or a whole day.
But today was different. Today…his girlfriend, whom he had finally caught up with, also followed him secretly.
He himself always thought that the General Directorate Meeting was nothing special. After all, those ship owners and general directors who were feared by everyone were elders who had watched Edie grow up. But Aphra was very curious about this, and he actually came up with such a bold idea. She looked at him pitifully with her big, clear eyes. Edie didn't know why he got excited, and actually ran to beg his father to take Aphra to the 18th floor to see it.
Thinking back now, the look in his father's eyes was so scary! Edie still felt his scalp tingling when he recalled it now. He always felt that his eyes, which were always calm and melancholy, were like a volcano about to erupt, containing extremely terrifying anger. He thought he would be kicked out at that time, but he didn't expect that his father would be silent for a while, and finally agreed unexpectedly.
But now, Edie feels deep regret.
What if Aphra was discovered? Would she be considered a spy with bad intentions? What if she accidentally angered Master Map or Todd? Her father would protect her for his own sake, right?
No...that's not right...
A new worry suddenly arose in Edie's mind.
He had always known how mature and charming his father was. He had seen too many women vying to marry his father since he was a child, such as Orizhi from the logistics department... and the female classmate in middle school who had always liked him. After meeting his father once when she came to his house to play, she was determined to be his stepmother...
Of course, he never let that girl step into his house again after that, because he didn't like her very much anyway.
But Aphra... Aphra was different. She was the only woman Edie wanted to spend the rest of her life with. If... if she fell in love with her father too...
When he thought about it, Edie felt that everything was dark before his eyes. But the more he thought about it, the greater the possibility became.
After all, his father Lloyd was one of the most powerful men in Liukasao; and among all the men in power, Lloyd was undoubtedly the best looking, most elegant, and most charismatic. If he could take better care of Aphra, then...
Aphra is a girl who is a bit vain, and Edie has always known this. He thinks this real side of the girl is very cute, and he has used this to defeat many competitors without hesitation. But...if Aphra abandons him and falls in love with his father, it is very likely...Compared to his father, Edie knows that his only advantage is youth. But youth is not necessarily an advantage, it can also be a disadvantage. After all, most young girls like mature men.
"What are you thinking about? Why do you look so unhappy?"
A man came to sit in front of Edie with a plate, looked at him and said with a smile. This man was the second son of the Director General of the Construction Department, Bedes, and one of Edie's friends since childhood.
Edie sighed. Even if he was a friend, he couldn't tell him what he was thinking. He just said, "The paper test is coming soon. Are you ready?"
"Haha, for such a small matter, I found one of my father's staff members to handle it." Bedes sneered, "Why? Are you still writing it yourself?"
Edie rolled her eyes.
His paper... Of course, he didn't write it entirely by himself. But his father required him to make all the arguments in the paper clear, read through at least one side of the relevant reference materials, and do the experiments several times by himself to answer any questions in it. The effort he spent was even more than that of an average student writing an essay by hand, and it was more tiring. But he couldn't talk about this with Bedes. Because the other party was a pure playboy, and knowing that he spent so much energy on his studies, he would not only not understand him, but also laugh at him.
So , this so-called friend is just a superficial friend, because of their father's identity and occupation, they have been playing together since childhood. In fact, they have no common hobbies and topics, and cannot understand each other.
Thinking of this, Edie looked even sadder.
Bedes came over, put his arm around Edie's shoulder, and said with a smile, "I have an appointment with a few friends to go to the beast fight this afternoon. Do you want to..."
"puff!"
Just as Edie was about to refuse, he heard a dull, dull sound, followed by a few drops of warm liquid splashing on his face and hands.
He looked up blankly and saw that the laughing Biddes had a bloody hole between his eyebrows. There was still a smile on his face, but his eyes had become empty and distracted.
The hand was still on Edie's shoulder, but the owner of the arm could no longer provide any strength. So he leaned on Edie, slowly slid down, and fell to the ground with a plop.
“Aaaaaa——”
Screams suddenly rang out all around. The students in the tea restaurant fled in panic, but fell one after another under bullets that came from nowhere.
Edie rolled and crawled to hide behind the counter, listening to the screams, pleas for mercy, and sounds of pain that exploded in the campus. He was trembling all over, not knowing how all this happened. His mind was in a mess, and he could only tremble and open the bracelet to contact his father Lloyd... contact Afra... contact the fighting department...
He clicked the virtual screen in front of him again and again, but got no response from anyone, and was so anxious that he was about to cry. Suddenly, a heavy sound of footsteps came from downstairs, and Edie froze, and his hands and feet felt cold.
He looked out through the gap and saw a masked man wearing a dark blue exoskeleton armor walking downstairs. He was holding a long gun that was almost touching the ground, and he glanced around carelessly. When he saw someone struggling, groaning, and crying on the ground, he fired another shot.
Edie covered her mouth with her hands, afraid that she would scream accidentally.
But after the man turned around, his eyes suddenly looked in his direction without any deviation, as if he could see Edie hiding behind the counter through the counter, and a cruel smile appeared in his eyes.
Edie knew that it was probably because his armor had a life scanning system, and he was as conspicuous as a torch hiding here. He wanted to run away, but his legs were as soft as noodles, and he couldn't even stand up.
The man came over, looked at Edie, who was hiding behind the counter with tears on her face, and said with a smile, "Hello, kid."
Edie's mind went blank with fear.
Looking at his appearance, the man suddenly frowned and said, "You are..."
Edie's brain had turned into a mess, filled with fear of death, and he had no idea what he was saying.
But at this moment, the man's eyes suddenly became indifferent, as if he had completely lost interest in him, and turned away. In a daze, Edie heard him talking to someone: "Nothing, a crying kid... Lloyd's... um, on the white list..."
At this time, Edie saw a vague pattern of a black beast on the back of the man. He vaguely felt that he had seen this pattern somewhere, but now he couldn't remember anything.
The footsteps became farther and farther away, and gradually disappeared. Edie sat down on the ground, sweating all over. He looked at the corpses on the ground and lost all his strength.
Idi didn't know that at this moment, the same scene was happening in almost all the ships on Liukasao. Countless high-ranking officials and their families fell in the sudden attack, and the wealth accumulated over the years was looted. There were also survivors who saw the pattern on the attackers, and they all exclaimed: "Singer Star Pirates!"
A moment later, the sharp alarm of incoming space pirates resounded throughout Liukasao.
Outside the spaceship, a dark fleet like a ghost was approaching rapidly. The black beast that symbolized blood, death, and killing seemed to be showing a ferocious smile towards Liukasao.
At the same time, Lao Xia, who received a secret order, pressed the button, and the Sukasao behind him bloomed with one fiery red flower after another in the dark space. The eighteenth floor was separated from the other floors in the violent vibration and flew to the side crookedly.
In the fire of the spaceship explosion, Lao Xia and the others were as small as a group of ants. Everyone silently formed an array behind Lao Xia, facing the Singer Star Pirates who were getting closer and closer.
