Chapter 384: Star Gold Framed and Imprisoned (32)
Chapter 384: Star Gold Framed and Imprisoned (32)
"Xing Lu?"
The city lord was a little surprised.
"Why, do you know him?" The subordinate following Zong Yu showed him the photo in the file.
The city lord took a look and realized that this was someone he knew!
"I know her." The city lord nodded quickly. "She was originally the nutritionist hired by my wife. I've met her a few times. But... she was already in jail for stealing my wife's jewelry necklace."
Zong Yu looked at the city lord.
The city lord tensed up under his gaze, and his words stuttered a bit: "Uh, my wife is familiar with her... How about I call my wife over?"
The city lord's secretary then projected the virtual screen of the operating panel in his hand in front of the prince, which displayed Xing Lu's resident file.
"Your Highness, the query system shows that this person is dead."
"She changed it herself. Now let's quickly check where she is now." said the prince's subordinate.
The city lord's secretary immediately asked his subordinates to check it out.
Zong Yu frowned as he browsed Xing Lu's resident file.
The more he looked, the more his brows furrowed.
The information shows that Xing Lu was sent by the Xing family on the main planet to be raised by a branch of the Samuel planet, which was equivalent to direct exile.
She attended boarding school since she was a child and worked as a private nutritionist after graduating from university.
The main star Xing family...
Zong Yu seemed to be lost in thought.
Not long after, the city lord's wife, who was laughing and chatting happily at the card table, was brought before the prince.
When she heard that the Crown Prince of the Empire wanted to see her, the City Lord's wife came over half nervously and half happily. Unexpectedly, when she was in front of the distinguished guest, she was almost frightened to the point of losing her legs by the Crown Prince's majesty.
The city lord patted his wife's shoulder and asked, "Didn't our family hire a personal nutritionist named Xing Lu before?"
The city lord's wife thought that someone was here to cause trouble for her family, so she took a deep breath and nodded.
Zong Yu looked at her and asked calmly, "You said she stole a necklace from you?"
The city lord's wife looked a little guilty, her eyes darting around.
"Madam, I suggest you tell the truth." The Crown Prince's subordinate spoke in the same cold and indifferent voice as his superior. "Why was he imprisoned in Moristo, the highest prison, for stealing a necklace? He even killed Moristo's warden and escaped back to Samuel Planet this morning on His Royal Highness's spaceship."
When the city lord's wife heard the news, she rolled her eyes and almost fainted.
The city lord supported her in time: "What on earth did you do! Tell me now!!"
The City Lord's wife was on the verge of tears: "I, I... I didn't do anything! Your Highness, please understand!"
"Yes, someone asked me to frame her!"
The city lord's wife explained the whole story.
The City Lord's Mansion held a banquet that day, and the City Lord's wife specially invited Xing Lu to come and teach the chefs of the City Lord's Mansion how to make some pastries.
As a result, the necklace she was going to wear that day suddenly disappeared.
Someone in the kitchen said that they saw Xing Lu leave for a while and suspected that she stole it.
The city lord's wife called the police on the spot, and Xing Lu was also taken to the police station for investigation and questioning.
The next day, the servant who was cleaning the room found the necklace under the bed.
The city lord's wife then realized that she had wronged Xing Lu. She was about to send someone to the police station to drop the case, but she was threatened by an encrypted message.
"That person threatened me with my little son and told me not to drop the case or tell anyone!"
The city lord's face turned grim: "Threatening you? Who did Xing Lu offend?"
The city lord's wife cried and said, "How should I know? I just came to ask her for a job!"
The expression on Zong Yu's face didn't reveal what he was thinking.
The city lord's wife suddenly thought of something and said quickly, "Mrs. Akutagawa introduced her to me. She said she has good skills and is honest and hardworking. She might know more."
"How about...how about I contact her?"
The city lord waved his hand: "Go quickly."
The city lord's wife quickly turned on her computer and made a voice call to Mrs. Akutagawa.
"Hey, Madam City Lord, what's going on? You just rushed out and now you're calling me again."
"Mrs. Akutagawa!" The mayor's wife raised her voice. "Let me ask you something. Do you remember the nutritionist named Xing Lu you introduced to me before?"
"Remember, didn't she steal a necklace from you?"
"Um, um, she didn't steal it! I wronged her!"
"Really? Oh, I told you! She doesn't look like someone who would steal anything!"
The City Lord's wife interrupted her: "I want to ask, do you know Xing Lu? Do you know about her past?"
"I know. She used to work in an institution I invested in. I heard that she was given to the Xing family to adopt from the main planet. But the Xing family is really a piece of shit. Although they adopted her, they didn't raise her well. They sent her to boarding school when she was young and basically ignored her."
After hanging up the phone, the city lord and his wife looked at the prince angrily.
The prince remained silent, which made the two men a little frightened.
Zong Yu lowered his eyelids, and his expression did not reveal what he was thinking about.
Whether it was what was in the files or what these people said, Zong Yu felt unfamiliar.
Not like the person he came into contact with.
The city lord then tentatively asked, "Your Highness, should I deploy troops to capture them now...?"
"Your Highness! We found it!"
The city lord's secretary ran over, not daring to look at Zong Yu, his voice trembling.
"Half an hour ago, she boarded the spacecraft bound for the main planet."
...
The jump time from Samuel Star to the main star was not long, but it took nearly two hours to go through security checks.
Through the window of the spacecraft, one can see a vast and magnificent space station, with countless spacecraft suspended in the universe lined up in long queues waiting for inspection.
Below the space station is a beautiful blue and white planet.
After passing through layers of checkpoints, the spacecraft finally landed at a large airport on the edge of the capital.
Compared with the chaotic Samuel Planet, the main planet definitely gave people the feeling of scenes from those science fiction movies that Xing Lu had seen before, white, vast, and spotless.
As the main star of the Interstellar Federation Empire, Olvera is known as the Dazzling City and a perfect example of interstellar civilization.
The brochure reads, "Here, even dust is a blasphemy."
Unlike the darkness, chaos and struggle of Samuel Planet, Olvera is like a perfect utopian world, composed of warm sunshine and elegant order.
Even in the crowded airport, the people coming and going were all well-dressed, and the service staff were smiling. Everything was completely different from Samuel Star.
Xing Lu bought a ticket to the city center, which was shockingly expensive, ten times the price of Samuel Star.
Sitting in the hover car, Xing Lu took a good look at the beautiful city.
Everywhere you look, the buildings are almost all made of self-repairing nano-alloys, and the exterior is covered with optical glass that automatically adjusts the light. It can adjust the refractive index according to the angle of sunlight, so that the outer shell will not cause glaring light pollution, allowing the entire city to always be bathed in soft warm light.
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