Merit Book·Xinghai

Time rewinds to 10 minutes ago.

When Kurita was blown into blood in the meeting room on the [-]th floor, and when Lloyd suddenly shot and killed Aphra who was pretending to be an attendant, Edie was in the tea restaurant of the noble school on the [-]th floor. Drink tea leisurely.

In his vicinity, there are many children of high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen, but as the only son of Lloyd, the owner of the seventeenth floor, Edie is undoubtedly the most distinguished among them. Everyone surrounds him and dare not disturb him. It looked like they were all joking and laughing to themselves, but most of them were paying some attention to Edie the whole time.

Edie knew that today was the day when the upper management held a general meeting, but this meeting had no special meaning to him in the past, at most it was just that his father was away for half a day or a day.

But today is different.Today... the girlfriend he managed to catch up with also secretly followed.

He himself has always felt that the chief executive meeting is nothing special, after all, those ship owners and chief executives that everyone fears are elders who have watched him grow up to Edie.But Aphra was very curious about this, and she would come up with such a bold idea. She looked at it pitifully with her big watery and clear eyes. I ran to beg my father to take Aphra to the eighteenth floor to have a look.

Thinking about it now, the look in my father's eyes was really scary!Looking back now, Edie still feels his scalp tingling, and always feels that those eyes that were always calm and melancholy were like a volcano about to erupt at that time, containing extremely terrifying anger.At that time, he thought that he would be kicked out, but he didn't expect that after his father was silent for a while, he finally agreed unexpectedly.

But now, Edie has already felt deeply regretful.

What if Aphra is discovered?Will it be regarded as a spy with malicious intentions?What if she accidentally offends Lord Mapp or that Todd?Father should look at his own face and protect her, right?

no... not right...

A new worry suddenly popped up in Edie's heart.

He has always known how mature and charming his father is. Since he was a child, he has seen too many women vying to marry his father, such as Orizhi from the logistics department... And that female classmate who always liked him when he was in middle school, since she met his father when she came to play at his house, she has determined to be his stepmother...

Of course, he never let that girl into his house since then, anyway, he didn't like that girl very much.

But Aphra... Aphra is different.She was the only woman Edie wanted to spend the rest of her life with.If...if she also fell in love with her father...

Thinking of this, Edie felt that there was darkness in front of him.But the more he thought about it, the greater the possibility he felt.

After all, his father, Lloyd, is one of the most powerful men on Leucas; and among all the men in power, Lloyd is undoubtedly the best looking, the best temperament, and the best character That one, if he takes care of Afra a bit more, then...

Aphra is a vain girl, Edie has always been aware of this.He thinks the real side of the girl is very cute, and he unceremoniously uses this to defeat many competitors.But...if Aphra abandons him and turns to his father, it's very possible... Compared with her father, Edie knows that her only advantage is that she is young.But being young is not necessarily an advantage, it may also be a disadvantage. After all, most young girls like mature men.

"What are you thinking? You look so ugly?"

A man sat in front of Edie with a plate, looked at him and said with a smile.This person is Bieders, the second son of the General Director of the Construction Department, and one of Edie's friends since she was a child.

Edie sighed.Even if he is a friend, he can't say what he thinks in his heart. He just said: "The paper will be assessed soon, are you ready?"

"Haha, for such a trivial matter, I can find a staff member of my father to handle it." Peters sneered, "Why? Are you still writing it yourself?"

Edie rolled her eyes.

His thesis... certainly wasn't entirely his own.But his father asked him to clarify all the arguments in the whole thesis, read through at least one side of the relevant reference materials, and do the experiment several times by himself, so that he can answer any of the questions, and it takes more effort than ordinary students to write by themselves Writing an article is more and more tiring, but there is no way to talk to Peters about this.Because the other party is a pure dandy, knowing that he has spent so much energy on his studies, not only will he not understand him, but he will also laugh at him.

Therefore, this so-called friend is actually just a superficial friend, because of their father's identity and occupation, they have only played together since childhood.In fact, they neither have common hobbies and topics, nor can they understand each other.

Thinking of this, Edie looked even more sad.

Peters leaned over, put Edie's shoulders on his shoulders, and said with a smile, "I made an appointment with some friends to play beast fighting this afternoon, do you want to..."

"puff!"

Just as Edie was about to refuse, he heard a muffled soft sound, and then a few drops of warm liquid splashed on his face and hands.

He looked up in a daze, and saw that Peters, who was joking just now, had a blood hole between his brows.There was still a bit of a smile on his face, but his eyes had become hollow and loose.

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, slid down slowly, and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Ahhhh-"

There was a burst of screams all around.The students in the tea restaurant ran away in a hurry, but one after another fell under the bullets coming from nowhere.

Edie scrambled and ran to hide behind the counter, listening to the bursts of screams, begging for mercy, and pain in the campus.He was trembling all over, not knowing how all of this happened, his mind was in chaos, he just opened his bracelet tremblingly, contacted his father Lloyd...contacted Aphra...contacted the Ministry of Armed Forces...

He clicked on the virtual screen in front of him over and over again, but got no response from anyone, and was so anxious that he was about to cry.Suddenly, a sound of heavy footsteps came from downstairs, and Edie froze all over, feeling cold hands and feet.

He looked out through the gap, and saw a masked man wearing a blue-black exoskeleton armor coming from downstairs.He was holding a long gun that was almost touching the ground, and he glanced casually, seeing that there were still people on the ground struggling, moaning and crying, so he added another shot.

Edie covered her mouth with her hands, afraid that she would scream if she wasn't careful.

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, with a cruel smile in his eyes.

Edie knew that his armor was probably equipped with a life-scanning system, hiding here was as conspicuous as a torch.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 all over his face, and said with a smile, "Hello, brat."

Edie's mind went blank with horror.

Seeing his appearance, the man suddenly frowned and said, "You are..."

Edie's brain has turned into a mess, full of fear of death, and he has no idea what he is talking about.

But at this moment, the man's eyes suddenly became indifferent, as if he had completely lost interest in him, he turned and left.In a daze, Edie heard him seem to be saying to someone: "It's nothing, a crying brat...the Lloyd's... well, it's on the white list..."

At this time, Edie saw a not-so-obvious pattern of a black beast on the man's back. He vaguely felt that he had seen this pattern before, but now he couldn't remember anything.

The footsteps became farther and farther away, and gradually disappeared.Edie sat down on the ground, sweating profusely all over his body. Looking at the corpses all over the ground, he lost all his strength.

Edie didn't know that at this very moment, the same scene was happening in almost all the layers of the ship in Leucasao. Countless high-ranking officials and their family members fell in the sudden attack, and the wealth accumulated over the years was looted empty.Some survivors also saw the pattern on the assailant, and they all exclaimed: "Singer Star Bandits!"

A moment later, the sharp siren of the star thief's attack resounded throughout Leucas'ao.

Outside the spaceship, a ghostly black fleet is approaching rapidly.The black beast that symbolized blood, death, and killing seemed to be showing a ferocious smile towards Leucasao.

At the same time, Lao Xia, who had received the secret order, pressed the button, and Leucasao behind him burst into flame-red flowers one after another in the dark space, and the No.18 floor was shaken violently. Separated from other ship layers, it flew crookedly to the side.

In the flames 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 bandit group that was getting closer.