The artist pulls out a weeping willow tree

When Jixiang woke up again, the transaction was almost over. As a product that looked of rather poor quality, Jixiang felt that he was lucky to be bought by an old man who had a good reputation locally.

Under the complicated looks of other children, Jixiang was roughly pulled out of the metal cage where children were imprisoned by the trafficker Liu Da. "Old Ji, I'll sell this girl to you at a low price. There is no after-sales service, and you have to bear the risk yourself."

The old man called Old Man Ji responded and stretched out his wrist. A silver-gray optical brain like a watch was ringed on his shriveled wrist.

Jixiang looked at Old Man Ji and Liu Da's smart computers with a sharp gaze, and the transaction was completed.

The daytime of low-magnitude stars is gray and foggy, like the smog days in the 21st century, but it does not affect visibility.

Jixiang staggered along with Old Man Ji with difficulty. Long-term malnutrition and hunger made her thin and weak, like a gray and dirty little mouse.

Jixiang was transformed into this six-year-old little mouse without any warning a week ago. Jixiang is her own name.

The extra memories in her brain told her that the child was originally wandering on another, lower-level planet. He had no memory before the age of six and only vaguely remembered that he was six years old. He was an orphan and an illegal resident with no name.

The child survived by hiding in the slums by picking up garbage. Half a month ago, he was accidentally captured by Liu Da, a professional human trafficker.

The black flight originally scheduled to go to the mid-level star was forced to be postponed due to the recent military's regular route search operation. Liu Da had to temporarily change his itinerary and chose to stay at the nearby low-level star 2756.

Because of half a year of wandering at the bottom of society, the child was extremely malnourished and hungry. The youngest and weakest among the children, he died of hunger and malnutrition a week ago.

Because his original body was in such a poor condition, even though there was an adult soul living in his body when he woke up again, he could only barely survive in the cage.

Old man Ji came here once a few days ago. From the conversations of the people around him, Jixiang learned that this old man had a surname Ji that no one had ever heard of. Although he was a strange old man, he was a peaceful and kind person.

To sum up, the reason why Old Man Ji came here was to buy a child to take care of him in his old age.

Jixiang thought about it for a whole night and felt that this was a good opportunity. In this strange interstellar world and under such circumstances, this was the only life-saving straw that Jixiang could grasp at present.

If she stayed any longer, she might starve to death. As a traditional Chinese painting artist who grew up in a peaceful country, she suddenly came to an environment where the strong prey on the weak, and with such a body, she really could not continue to follow Liu Da to the next planet.

In the inherent thinking of the lower-level interstellar people, higher-level planets are the paradise they dream of, but Jixiang is not an interstellar person, nor is he an ignorant child. Instead of looking forward to an uncertain and illusory future, it is better to choose the visible and stable present.

As a pragmatic adult, when Old Man Ji came over again, Jixiang took the initiative to recommend himself to Old Man Ji amidst the other children's looks of "Are you crazy?"

It might be the bonus of her surname, or it might be that the other children avoided her like the plague. Jixiang thought it was because she was the cheapest.

But in the end, it still took a long bargaining battle. During the period, Jixiang couldn't hold on and dozed off for a while. When he woke up, both parties ended the battle at a price of 500 star coins.

Jixiang is not very clear about the purchasing power of interstellar currency, but it seems that old man Ji is quite satisfied.

An old man and a child were walking silently on the road. Various vehicles were flying in the sky, and colorful signs could be vaguely seen on the towering metallic high-rise buildings.

"This is the largest trading market in the northern area of ​​Planet 2756. Everyone calls it the North Trade Market." Old Man Ji suddenly introduced.

Seeing Jixiang's questioning look, Old Man Ji paused and continued, "I'll take you to buy some clothes and daily necessities first."

Jixiang was wearing the clothes that her original body wore when she was wandering. The clothes were so tattered and dirty that the original color could not be seen. Liu Da's plan was to go to the underground black market of the intermediate star to trade people, so he did not let the so-called "goods" clean uniformly. Jixiang stayed in this shell for a week. The pressure of survival and the unknown and fear of the future made her exhausted, and she didn't have the mind to be dirty and smelly.

When Old Man Ji pointed it out, Jixiang couldn't help but blush, but his face was already so dirty that it couldn't be seen. Jixiang: ...

Jixiang followed Old Man Ji in the market and got a tube of original nutrient solution. It was the first time for Jixiang to have a complete tube of nutrient solution. He drank a sip of it with care and was moved to tears by the familiar strange taste of the nutrient solution: This taste is really damn abnormal...

After drinking a whole tube of nutrient solution, I felt the good fortune of being full for the first time since the time travel, just like the wilted grass that finally felt energetic after a long drought.

Jixiang, who had regained some energy, began to tentatively talk to Old Man Ji. As a non-blood-related granddaughter who was about to take up the job, Jixiang felt that she should show her professionalism and firm determination.

As a native of the low-level planet 2756, Old Man Ji lives a life comparable to that of an ordinary person, except that he lives near the slums.

Not long after Old Man Ji graduated from college, his parents were killed by pirates during an interstellar journey. After dealing with his parents' funeral, Old Man Ji decided to stay on Planet 2756.

His wife was his childhood sweetheart, the daughter of a neighbor, but she died in an accident decades ago. Old Man Ji’s relatives thought that he was too unlucky and gradually stopped associating with him.

To put it in auspicious terms, it means that you will have bad luck with your relatives. I didn't expect that even the star system cannot escape this terrible superstitious behavior.

In short, Old Man Ji became a widower, and later he got used to it and continued to live that lonely life.

The orphan Jixiang sighed inwardly. As an orphan abandoned by his parents, it was difficult for Jixiang to empathize with others because he had no kinship with his parents.

The orphan Jixiang opened his mouth, not knowing how to comfort old man Ji. It was easy to comfort him with false words, but that was too hypocritical. Jixiang always felt that she might be born heartless, and as an orphan, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Occasionally, he would wonder what it would be like if she lived in a normal family, but that was just a hypothesis after all.

Old man Ji smiled soothingly, and the old man and the child fell silent again.

After Old Man Ji took Jixiang to buy some necessities, the two of them walked to the high-speed energy station sign at Beimao Market to wait for the bus. Not all areas have city flying car routes.

Poor and remote areas are generally driven by high-speed energy vehicles, which are actually interstellar buses, except that they are faster in the interstellar era and use different energy sources.

This was very novel to Jixiang. The charge was 10 star coins for children and 20 star coins for adults.

Ji·500 Star Coins·Xiang:……