CHAPTER 695: CHAPTER 699: INTERSTELLAR HEARTTHROB (18)

Old Chang was an interstellar merchant and also the twenty-first ranked pirate on the Federation Wanted List.

Others often found this name amusing, but he didn’t see it that way.

The deeds he now indulged in were, in ancient times, exactly what one would call such behavior.

Although the name pirate might sound silly, it was memorable enough, and Old Chang was quite proud of his naming abilities.

Having such a name in the interstellar era might seem strange, but Old Chang was no laughing matter.

Once, a merchant who mocked the nickname he had given himself was laughing one second and had his throat slit by Old Chang the next.

Murder and plunder were his expertise.

If you wondered how he had managed to evade capture for so many years, there was a reason.

Not only did he have an additional disguised identity, but most importantly, he possessed the ancestral Face-Changing Secret Technique.

He firmly believed that his ancestors were pirates too, and for this, he was shamelessly proud of his actions.

Now, with the population explosion in the universe, his part in "cleaning up" could even be seen as a good deed.

From a certain perspective, Old Chang was a psychopath with an antisocial personality.

He could seamlessly switch between his normal and pirate identities.

There had once been a little girl, who just minutes earlier had bought a lollipop from a merchant at an amusement park.

He seemed like such a nice man, kind and easy to speak with. When the girl’s shoelace came undone, he even bent down to tie it for her, and after standing up, he gave her a head pat.

This exchanged her sweet, soft, innocent, and radiant smile.

Everyone thought this merchant was a good person, seeing an obvious affection for the little girl in his eyes.

But merely minutes later, during a brief separation from her parents, she was brutally murdered by the elusive pirate.

Nobody knew why the pirate targeted the girl, as his crimes seemed whimsical without any discernible pattern.

Even in an era of advanced interstellar surveillance, the pirate managed to elude capture.

Only Old Chang knew that the little girl was killed merely because her smile was too beautiful—such beauty couldn’t coexist in this world.

Heh, heh, heh...

So, it’s clear that Old Chang was indeed a terrifying psychopath.

He frequently committed such inexplicable acts, and many who encountered him could only pray they weren’t unfortunate enough to meet him on one of his deranged days.

And now, Old Chang’s annoyance had started again.

Displayed on his Light Computer screen was the ranking list of the Federation Wanted List.

He scrolled down the list, then back up again, his gaze constantly wandering between himself and Su Li.

Unhappy, very unhappy.

Before this "weakling" appeared, he had been in the top twenty. Now... he had to flip to the third page to find the scant details about himself.

What made Old Chang unusually irritable was truly unpredictable.

After all, what was there to fight over about a position on a Wanted List? Was he treating it like some sort of honor roll?

He simply couldn’t stand the pretty boy ranked ahead of him.

So, Old Chang decided, he needed to take matters into his own hands, eliminate the man, and reclaim his position.

According to Su Li, this man, seemingly crazy and reckless, was actually quite perceptive of the times.

Knowing very well how to pick on the soft ones.

Even before Su Li rose to prominence, with nineteen others standing in his way, he had never been annoyed nor had he plotted to kill someone.

Of course, he knew full well that he couldn’t actually kill those ahead of him. The most likely outcome was that he’d end up losing his own life.

Now, well...

It was because the pretty boy from garbage star seemed easy to bully.

After all, Old Chang had spent a good deal of money early on at the black market to buy Su Li’s complete information set.

Now, by a stroke of luck, according to the analysis of the information, the person was probably heading in the direction of Mercury.

Although Old Chang had prepared thoroughly during the initial stage, even if he looked down on the other party, he still made sure to understand everything he needed to early.

His conclusion was that this man was not the type to pretend to be a pig to eat a tiger; apart from being a bit clever, he was just an ordinary person with some basic Martial Arts skills.

Now he could go ahead with his plan with confidence...

By the way, Old Chang had also taken on a kidnapping job.

Originally, according to his plan, he would have killed the kidnapped girl this afternoon, but he hadn’t had the chance yet when his real-time detector received suspicious information.

As an interstellar merchant, there are various channels for detection.

Almost the moment Su Li’s spaceship passed through the surface of Mercury, inevitably leaking a trace of its presence, Old Chang received the news.

After thinking it over, he threw the girl, whose eyes and limbs were bound, behind some rocks, then concealed himself and hid nearby, like a Poison Snake ready to strike, closely watching the spaceship that had lost its trace in an instant.

Watching Su Li, utterly oblivious of any need to be wary as he descended from the spaceship, Old Chang’s lips formed a cold smirk.

This man really had no idea what was coming, did he think no one could catch him?

Sadly for him, he met Old Chang today, who would most certainly accommodate his fate.

Old Chang’s face showed a clear disdain but still, his movements were subconsciously cautious and vigilant.

Licking life off the blade all these years, his body’s alertness had still reached an instinctual level.

Just when the other party was not paying attention, Old Chang’s laser knife had already touched the other person’s body.

"Don’t worry, pretty boy, I’ll be gentle. I won’t hurt you; I’m very experienced in this area," Old Chang said in a sinister tone right next to the other’s ear.

He loved seeing the look of despair and panic on the faces of his prey—it excited him more than hallucinogens.

At this moment, Old Chang was smug, already visualizing in his mind whether the other would kneel to beg for mercy or resist bravely.

But no matter how the other struggled, the outcome was predetermined.

Hehehe...

Thinking this, Old Chang’s fingers trembled with excitement.

"Did you brush your teeth?"

A phrase completely unrelated to the current scenario found its way onto the dramatic stage.

Old Chang visibly flinched and reflexively asked, "What? What are you on about?"

Su Li, pinching his nose as if he couldn’t bear it, disdainfully gestured at a robot, "What are you staring at? Get rid of the cesspit. It’s suffocating me."

"Robot, you are truly the worst non-human assistant I’ve ever had."

"If you don’t work hard to upgrade, then just wait to be sent to the recycling depot, using up so much of my energy body, such a waste..."

Su Li still held a grudge against the robot for consuming a lot of energy and seized every opportunity to lecture it.

Robot: "Master, you look just like an ancient maternal figure from our home planet."