51: Little Pu, give him some appetizers. [Thanks to 'Diao Da Xin Xi' for his generous contribution!]
Under this pressure, everyone in the dock—whether they were captives or the "cargo" locked in cages...
As long as they were human or demi-human...
They all felt their souls trembling violently!
They couldn't help but want to kneel!
They wanted to prostrate themselves and worship that small figure radiating supreme majesty!
And Wang Fu, who bore the brunt of it, felt it most intensely!
He felt as if he were facing not an Infant at all, but a Human Emperor stepped out of ancient mythology...
The blood in his body seemed frozen.
His soul was howling in agony!
"Spare... spare my life... Lord, spare my life..."
He couldn't even manage a full sentence, only able to lie on the ground like a dying dog, desperately kowtowing for mercy.
Su Jue ignored him.
He simply set off, step by step, toward the transport ship's cargo hold.
With every step he took, the golden aura on his body grew stronger.
With every step he took, the temperature in the entire dock dropped by a degree.
The combat robots blocking his path automatically parted to the sides, making a way for their king.
Su Jue walked up to the cargo hold.
He looked at the slaves locked in cages, their eyes numb, yet shivering because of the imperial majesty he radiated.
Finally, his gaze fell on the little girl curled up in the corner.
The little girl was also looking at him in terror.
She didn't understand why this little brother, who looked even younger than herself, radiated such a terrifying aura.
Su Jue didn't speak.
He simply raised his small hand and pointed lightly at the cage made of super-alloy.
*Crack!*
A crisp sound rang out.
That alloy cage, strong enough to withstand the full strike of a Gang Qi Realm martial artist, was like paper, snapping in the middle instantly!
Su Jue walked inside.
He walked up to the little girl and crouched down.
He reached out his small hand and gently brushed away the dirt on the little girl's collar, revealing the complete, though rough, still clearly visible... Su Family Crest.
"What... is your name?"
His voice was unexpectedly soft.
The little girl flinched in fright, instinctively shrinking back, and answered timidly:
"I... my name is... Su... Su Xiaoqi..."
"The people in our village all call me that..."
"Su Xiaoqi..."
Su Jue repeated the name silently.
"Where is your village?"
"In... in the Sirius Star Domain... on a trash planet called 'Planet Waste 7'..." Su Xiaoqi's voice was as faint as a mosquito's buzz.
"We... we were exiled there from a place called 'Blue Star' decades ago... I heard the village elders say that we seemed to have committed some great mistake..."
Blue Star... exile... Su Jue understood instantly.
These people were likely branch family members who had luckily escaped when the Su Family was destroyed back then!
After being caught by the Lanxia Federation, they weren't directly executed, but were instead treated like trash and exiled to the most remote and barren trash planet, left to fend for themselves!
And now, even that final right to "fend for themselves" had been stripped away.
They were snatched from the trash planet by the Wang Family and treated as livestock to be bought, sold, and disposed of at will!
An uncontrollable killing intent surged wildly from the depths of Su Jue's heart once again!
But he forcibly suppressed it.
He looked at this "clansman" before him, thin and weak from long-term malnutrition.
He reached out his hand, wanting to pat her head as a sign of comfort, just as he did in the Dragon Clan.
But he forgot that he was currently in human form.
Furthermore, the imperial majesty he hadn't fully retracted was still unbearable for an ordinary person.
His small hand had only reached halfway.
The girl named Su Xiaoqi was so frightened that she burst out crying with a "waa".
Su Jue's hand froze in mid-air.
He... was a bit at a loss.
Why... why is she crying?
In the Demon Dragon Star Domain, if he showed this kind of "kind" expression to any Dragon Clan Prince, the other party would have been moved to tears of gratitude long ago, kneeling to thank him.
Why didn't it work here with the humans?
Taking care of children... is so hard... This was the first time Su Jue felt doubt about his set of "Dragon logic."
"xiao pu."
He withdrew his hand somewhat awkwardly and called out to the xiao pu in his mind.
"I am here, my King."
"Release all these people."
"Give them food, give them clean clothes, and arrange a place for them to stay."
"Find doctors to treat their injuries."
"As you command, my King."
prometheus immediately began executing the orders.
Soon, a team of medical and logistics robots entered the cargo hold.
They opened all the cages and helped the numb, terrified slaves out one by one.
When steaming hot food and clean, warm water were placed before them,
these people, who had been treated as livestock for who knows how long, were all stunned.
They couldn't believe that all of this was real.
Until an elderly man tremblingly picked up a piece of bread and took a large bite.
The bread was coarse and hard, but to them, it was like a delicacy as it flowed down their parched throats.
Tears soon streamed down the old man's cloudy eyes.
He fell to his knees with a "thud" and kowtowed heavily in Su Jue's direction!
"Benefactor! You are our second parent!"
His action was like a switch.
All the rescued slaves, after a brief hesitation, all knelt down!
For a moment, the dock was filled with the sounds of crying and gratitude!
They didn't know who this mysterious Infant was, nor did they know where they were.
They only knew that it was this small figure who had rescued them from hell!
Su Jue felt a bit uncomfortable looking at the scene of people kneeling in a dense mass before him.
He turned around and stopped looking at them.
His gaze fell back onto Wang Fu, who was already pale with fright.
"xiao pu."
"Present."
"Hang this fellow up."
"I want to personally... interrogate him."
...Ten minutes later.
In the base's interrogation room.
Wang Fu was like a dead dog, his limbs locked by energy shackles, hanging in mid-air and shaking uncontrollably.
Su Jue sat on a high interrogation chair custom-made for him, looking down at him from above.
"Speak."
Su Jue spoke indifferently.
"Tell me everything you know about the Wang Family."
"Especially... your Wang Family's assets on Blue Star, and... a place called the 'source crystal ore vein'."
Hearing the words "source crystal ore vein," Wang Fu's pupils suddenly constricted!
But he quickly masked it and began playing dumb.
"L... Lord... I... I don't know what you're talking about..."
"I'm just an errand boy for the Wang Family... how would I know any core secrets..."
"Oh? Is that so?"
No joy or anger could be seen on Su Jue's face.
He simply snapped his fingers.
"xiao pu, give him some 'appetizers'."
"As you command, my King."