Ch64.1 - Special Interests (Part One)

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“You’re kidding… Hey, don’t touch me. Boss Cui must be kidding.” Brady was dragged away by several betas to the open space outside the space station. Someone also moved the life capsule he had used when he landed here to the same location.

Cui QiChao sat on the ground without looking at Brady.

Brady shouted, “You’re just trying to teach me a lesson, right? I’ve been taught a lesson. I know I’m wrong!”

His face was bruised black and blue, his handsome face was stained with blood, and his eyes couldn’t open. This was the result of Cui QiChao and Cui Ting’s beating. He didn’t manage to take advantage of Cui QiChao at all. It was as if the height difference of half a head was meaningless when facing off against Cui QiChao. 

In reality, Cui QiChao’s physical prowess was just average compared with Brady. He normally didn’t train much, unlike Brady, who had almost fully recovered and insisted on doing recovery training.

But it was different when one party was armed. Brady had to weigh his options no matter how fierce he was.

After Cui QiChao was done beating Brady to the ground, he sent someone over to tell Brady that he was truly going to release him into the wild this time.

“I didn’t expect his courage to go above the skies. To actually flirt with our Younger Bro Chao.” Cui Ting’s expression revealed that it wasn’t like she didn’t expect this. She said with a smile, “We shouldn’t have released him to the wild. We should have released him on a kite.”

Cui Hu also said, “I think so too. It’s a pity that no tasks need to be done right now. Otherwise, we could have let him plow two mu of land before we released him to the wild. What about Pythagoras? Did you get it?”

Just then, someone dragged the robots over with XiaoBai stepping on Square’s head. Square wanted to run, but the cat prevented it from doing so.

It merely looked away for one moment when the shameless Brady came to harass Cui QiChao. If it was around when that happened, it would have scratched Brady’s entire face. What kind of alpha was this? He didn’t do much work but still liked to eat a lot of food. It was as if he didn’t have the slightest sense of self-awareness.

Pythagoras shouted, “I don’t—I don’t want to leave my master! No, don’t do this to me!” 

“What the fuck are you shouting about! Your master sexually harassed Cui QiChao, and you’re the compensation for what he did.” This was Cui Hu’s proposal. They decided to keep one of the three home robots for cleaning and doing housework. He was afraid that with the shortage of manpower right now, Cui QiChao would make dual-purpose robots that could go out to pick up feces and then come back to make tea for him every day.

This wasn’t Cui Hu making a shocking claim to attract attention. The chances of this happening were highly likely.

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With Brady present, they quickly unlocked the biological lock of the mainframe without needing to use any hacking technology and modified the permissions.

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Pythagoras yelled, “Square! Round! Master!!” 

Cui Hu coldly shut down Pythagoras’ program. Pythagoras’ ownership had now been reset. Therefore, when Cui Hu closed its program, Pythagoras couldn’t voice out anything anymore.

Brady was stuffed into the life capsule, whose escape route had been set. He would be ejected to another planet.

Cui QiChao walked over. Due to humanitarian reasons, he instructed his men, “Put some supplies for him.”

Brady stared at him with wide eyes. “Are you really going to drive me away?” 

Cui QiChao looked at him coldly.

Brady found it very hard to accept this situation, mainly because he had never received such treatment in his life. Seeing Cui QiChao about to make someone close the hatch, he quickly reported to the others in anger, “In the first place, he didn’t shoo me away because I sexually harassed him. It’s because I don’t do much work!”

“And you eat a lot,” said Cui Ting, giggling as she leaned against the side of the life capsule.

Brady: “……” 

Cui QiChao flashed a casual smile. People who arrived much earlier in this space station would have long realized the reason without making guesses.

Brady took a deep breath and gritted his teeth at Cui QiChao. “…Come here. I have something to tell you.”

Cui QiChao looked down at him. “Just say it like this.”

“I can only tell you,” Brady said grimly. 

Cui QiChao closed the hatch.

Brady: “……”

“And this is why we can’t spoil him!” Cui Hu said from nearby.

Brady tried to say something inside, but because the hatch was closed, no one could hear a word at all. After watching him talk for a long time, Cui Ting said with a smile, “Should we open it again to listen to what he has to say?” 

Afterward, she opened the hatch again.

Brady stared at them and took a deep breath before saying, “I’m the Fourth Prince of the Principality of Linton. Someone schemed against me, which is why I ended up landing here. If you help me, I can repay you. What do you want? People? Land? Money? Or even for me to marry you…”

Hearing this, Cui QiChao didn’t want to continue listening.

“There are still remnants of feudal imperial power?” he asked, closing the hatch again with his feet. 

All they could now see was Brady talking angrily about something with his eyes wide open.

The others were dazed for a moment before they immediately burst out laughing. Anyway, they were already in the worst predicament possible. They couldn’t care less about Brady’s identity. In the end, wouldn’t Cui QiChao still be in charge? Would serfs even worry for their masters?

Cui Hu thought about it and said, “Linton’s royalty has always had a tradition of fighting for the throne. The ruling royal family roamed around outside, and the people governing the principality now were in exile for decades before their rule was restored just a few years ago. So the country isn’t too peaceful at the moment. It’s also too rich. His so-called base here may be where he lived in exile back then.”

So, after leaving his space station, his space station would obviously become deserted. If it wasn’t because he met with danger this time, Brady probably wouldn’t have ever returned. 

Cui Ting even joked, “Could he be a scammer? Isn’t this one of those old-fashioned scams? ‘I’m the prince of Linton, and I’m currently roaming outside. If you give me a sum of money, I’ll let you be a Baron when I return’…”

Oh, that wasn’t right. In Cui QiChao’s case, it should be: “If you save me, I’ll give you a thousand mu of land.”

“Release him to the wild.” Cui QiChao ignored Brady and directly pressed the ejection button. Brady never expected that he would be driven away. With a whoosh, Brady was flown out. In an instant, he exited the atmosphere and disappeared.

After everyone looked up for two seconds, they quickly looked away. 

“Do what you should do.” Cui QiChao gave an order, and the people scattered.

Everything had happened so suddenly. Until the evening, some people still thought that Brady was still in the space station. It was after they asked around that they understood Brady was gone.

“What? Why can he go?”

“Fuck. That person’s not a captive… He was driven away because he wanted to sexually harass Boss Cui.” 

“I also heard that before he left, he said he was a prince. Maybe he wanted to use money to sweep things under the rug. But who is Boss Cui? This time, he released him to the wild… No, he sent him to the sky.”

“What the heck. These are all lies, right?”

“I don’t know. Once they were done talking, they shot him up.”

Brady was kicked out of the unmanned planet by Cui QiChao. Since then, no one simply did nothing but eat in the space station. 

After a few days, the weather would reach freezing temperatures. If one went out without protective clothing, one would definitely get frostbite. Cui QiChao, who was experiencing his estrus, arranged their new jobs for the winter season. He used the tools from the new aircraft to let everyone go mining everywhere on the planet.

For this desolate planet to be named a desolate planet of course meant that it wasn’t rich in minerals. Relatively speaking, the “rich” they were talking about meant that the planet had little mining value. For example, the liquid ore that Cui QiChao previously discovered was sufficient for personal use, but it wasn’t enough to meet the needs of large countries and companies. The mining costs would not be cost-effective.

Cui QiChao mainly asked his men to pick up calcium sulfate, limestone, and iron this time. Needless to say, the latter could be used as pesticides. They had to pick more of it next year.

In addition, agricultural machinery should also be continuously manufactured. Cui QiChao had been drawing blueprints. He also planted vegetables in every available space on the space station and aircraft. 

The working hours in winter were short. At night, Cui QiChao allowed his men to return. They worked for approximately three months in such a manner before they stopped heading out to work altogether. Afterward, they concentrated on manufacturing agricultural machinery. The length of their working hours was the same as when they worked outside. In any case, what they mainly did during this winter season was to rest.

Some of the seeds that Lisa found for him had already grown after cultivating it indoors. Cui QiChao cut a few garlic seedlings and a few stalks of chili before cutting a piece of jerky and frying a big pot of vegetables.

This cured meat was pickled with some animal that they hunted on this desolate planet. But the meat quality was very good. It contained a mixture of fat and lean meat. About one-third fat, two-thirds lean meat, and a layer of skin. It was thinly cut and fried with red chili and garlic seedlings. The meat gradually changed color, and the fatty meat gained an oily surface, turning almost transparent.

The original method to make Chinese jerky was to cure and smoke meat with a lot of salt. Therefore, there was no need to add salt anymore when cooking it. Before the cooking part, one had to soak the jerky in water first and then add more garlic to dilute the saltiness. 

“I smell jerky!!”

After a day of work, the bald serfs began to howl when they smelled the special aroma of hand-made jerky. In fact, their hairs had already grown out again over the past months. However, after experiencing baldness, many people found this hairstyle to be very convenient since it saved them from the need to wash their hair. In any case, they were not afraid of freezing their heads off since they went out with protective clothing. So, they kept their eyebrows while continuing to shave their heads.

Although the methods of making Chinese jerky and Western smoked meat were somewhat similar, the resulting flavor wasn’t the same. Fortunately, everyone on this desolate planet could appreciate the taste of Chinese jerky. Well, they had no other choice even if they didn’t appreciate the taste. Everyone, from the boss to the manager here, were pure-blooded Chinese. They had “Chinese” stomachs and cooked Chinese food every day.