What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

The head of the Sheffield family pondered for a moment, then gave Noah a meaningful look. Besides, just as his own insectoid son had said, could Noah truly have dedicated himself wholeheartedly to the family after spending so much time on that planet?

Moreover, he will be traveling to that planet, and when the time comes, he will surely find a way to obtain the black crystals needed for advancement.

However, if he were given a share of the family's resources, even if he obtained more Black Crystal Stones, he would not use them for the family's purposes. With this in mind, the head of the Sheffield family made a judgment.

"Noah, your previous mission failure brought shame to the family, but considering your young age and the fact that you have been transporting supplies back to the family for ten years, your merits and demerits are offset."

He sensed Noah's dissatisfaction but offered no further explanation. He had his reasons; he couldn't favor one of his grandsons, and he needed to balance the power within the family.

Noah left in a huff, but once outside, the anger on his face vanished, and he accepted the potion Cecil brought with a blank expression.

"Noah, it seems you didn't get the Black Crystal either."

Cecil said this with a gloating malice in his eyes, but this malice was not directed at Noah, but at those insects who had also rejected him.

"They're really funny. They treat us like this and even try to fob us off with star coins. It's ridiculous. Fifty million star coins can't even buy a gram of black crystal."

Cecil hated those hypocritical insects in his family, but like the Sheffield family to which Noah belonged, what a noble family lacked least was money, resources, and powerful figures who could suppress them.

Otherwise, they would have long since defected from the family, just like Riva, and wouldn't necessarily be worse off than them.

What are your plans next?

Cecil watched as Noah drank the potion and the wounds he had deliberately inflicted on his body healed. He had intentionally made himself look disheveled at home in order to avoid some unnecessary trouble.

Noah burned the potion, glanced in the direction of the Insect Queen, then looked away. "Go find Riva."

Riva was resting at home, her injuries not yet fully healed. The pain made her resentful once again. Damn it, when would she have enough star coins to buy herself a healing pod?

She was so poor. As a commoner insect, she was really poor. Advancing required a lot of resources and medicine, as well as the cost of learning to build a mecha. Buying them also required star coins. All these expenses added up, and Riva was practically penniless.

"Why isn't there a Star Coin that's more sensible and jumps into my arms?"

Riva lay on the bed complaining, but before she could finish speaking, there was a knock on the door. For a moment, Riva's mind went blank. Holy crap, was she really going to run into this damn bad luck?!

Ignoring her injuries, she got up and cheerfully opened the door. However, the moment she saw Cecil's face, Riva's smile vanished, and she slammed the door shut without a word.

She resented the rich and couldn't stand seeing these privileged people strutting around in front of her; seeing them reminded her of her own poverty and made her feel miserable.

But Cecil, whether he was out of his mind or something, kept banging on the door frantically, muttering lines from TV shows created by those inferior humans.

"Riva, open the door, it's your father."

Neuropathy!

Riva limped open the door abruptly, but before she could speak, she found Noah standing behind Cecil. Riva frowned. It didn't matter; if one came, she'd scold one pair; if two came, she'd scold two pairs.

Just as she was about to unleash a torrent of abuse after being disturbed from her rest, she heard Noah say, “Do us a favor, and we’ll pay you a billion stars.”

The words of cursing the insects that were about to spill out caught in Riva's throat. Riva's morning grumpiness, which had been aroused by being woken up, was suddenly soothed in a strange way, and even the two extremely stupid insects in front of her looked handsome.

Excessive wealth suddenly elevated her already precarious moral character. Actually, well, they're all former colleagues; there's no need for such a confrontational tone.

"What kind of help?" Riva wasn't blinded by the star coins; a sliver of reason still clung to her.

"It's very simple. You just need to use your spatial abilities to connect the two places, and we'll take care of the rest."

Cecil went up to Riva and told her what she needed to do. After Riva finished, she was indeed impressed, "It's that simple?"

“Yes, it’s that simple.” Cecil finished speaking and then sincerely took out a card containing two hundred million star coins.

“This is the deposit.” After saying that, Cecil took out a brand new treatment pod from his spatial storage and said sincerely, “I think you can use this too.”

Seeing the latest treatment pod and two hundred million star coins, Riva's eyes lit up. She wasn't easily swayed by money, but what they were offering was simply too much...

If Riva weren't bold, she wouldn't have been able to climb from the garbage planet to where she is now. Although she doesn't know what Noah and Cecil are planning to do, she doesn't care about anything else as long as she gets the money.

Seeing that Riva agreed, the two insects told her the specific time for the operation and then did not stay any longer.

After they went outside, Cecil asked, puzzled, "Noah, doesn't your ability also allow you to teleport? And you're even stronger than Riva, so why do you need her help?"

Although neither of them lacked Star Coins, Cecil still couldn't quite understand this eagerness to give away a billion Star Coins for nothing.

“My family members are more wary of me than they are of thieves outside.”

Hearing Noah's words, Cecil felt a little sympathy for him. "Well, you're not wrong either."

Not to mention Noah, even he is in the same situation. It is estimated that the family has special tricks to deal with their special abilities, just to prevent them from losing control one day, so that they can deal with them easily and make them have no chance to recover.

However, compared to Cecil's ability, it is clear that Noah's ability is more variable, and therefore his family imposes more restrictions on him.

In comparison, Riva's abilities are much more unfamiliar to them, and Noah will take this opportunity to use her strength against her and reclaim what rightfully belongs to him.

That night, the head of the Sheffield family opened his eyes with a displeased expression. Noah had actually tried to take the black crystal that did not belong to him, an act that clearly challenged the authority of the family head.

The fluctuating supernatural power destroyed the spatial vortex that was trying to connect to the family treasure. The Sheffield family head snorted coldly and closed his eyes to cultivate again.

However, he failed to notice that the force generated at the moment the spatial vortex was destroyed happened to cover up another small spatial vortex. Different superpowers dissolved in the collision and were conveniently hidden within it.

Riva had exhausted most of her powers and even coughed up blood due to the impact. With a fierce look in her eyes, she said, "I need to pay more."