Chapter 95 Extra - Qiao Shan
10-year-old Qiao Shan strolled in the courtyard of his villa holding his sister's hand.
His sister is a fourth-year student at the Wanluo Empire Battleship Commander Academy.
This weekend, Qiao Lan, who finally went home, played with her 14-year-old brother instead of the servants at home.
"Shan Shan, what are you going to do when you grow up?" Qiao Lan stopped and looked at her brother with a smile.
Qiao Shan said in a baby voice: "I will drive a big warship in the future..."
"Wow... Shan Shan wants to be a battleship commander?"
"Yeah..." Qiao Shan nodded his little head vigorously.
"Then Shan Shan must study hard. Battleship command is not something that a naughty child can do." Qiao Lan stretched out her finger and touched Qiao Shan's nose.
"But... but those teachers are so strict, I don't like them."
"Shan Shan, those teachers are mysterious awakeners, and their knowledge is not available in our era."
"Awakeners are all old monsters... hehe..." Qiao Shan stuck out his tongue and made a face at his sister.
"Little clever guy..."
Qiao Lan wanted to say something, but a beautiful middle-aged woman walked into the courtyard and said loudly to the two of them: "Lan Lan, Shan Shan should eat..."
Qiao Lan agreed and pulled little Qiao Shan out of the courtyard.
Qiao Shan's father was a nobleman in the northern star region of the Wanluo Empire. He had many retainers, three of whom were the awakened ones mentioned by Qiao Lan.
The atmosphere at the Qiao family dinner table today was a little off.
Qiao Shan's father, Qiao Xiong, was always absent-minded while eating, and from time to time he looked at the door outside the restaurant window, as if waiting for someone.
"Dad, what are you looking at? The soup is spilled..." Qiao Lan picked up the napkin on the table and wiped his father's clothes that were wet with soup.
"Oh... nothing!" Qiao Xiong tried his best to hide his embarrassment, but his eyes still did not leave the door outside the window.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open.
The three people hurriedly walked into the villa in the courtyard.
After seeing who was coming, Qiao Xiong immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks and said casually: "I'm done...you continue eating."
Qiao Lan watched his father shake hands with the people who came in a hurry, and then went into the study.
"What's the situation?" Qiao Xiong asked before they sat down.
"Old Mo was arrested, and it's not good!" One of the three young men spoke first.
"Didn't you say it was foolproof?" Qiao Xiong was a little hysterical, but he was worried that the noise would alert the enemies hiding in the dark.
"What are these people going to do? We just want to go back to the Human Federation to take a look." The young man was also a little excited, but he also lowered his voice.
"Xiao Wu, don't be excited. We old antiques want to go back, but it doesn't mean that the current humans want to go back." An old man with a vicissitudes of life and a head full of silver hair slowly spoke.
"General..." Wu Xiaofeng glanced at the old man anxiously.
"You have to move... It's not safe here anymore." Qiao Xiong was silent for a while and suddenly stood up and said.
"What will happen to your family after we leave?" The old man looked at Qiao Xiong with a worried look.
"I am a noble, they dare not do anything to me." Qiao Xiong patted the noble badge on his left chest.
Just as Qiao Xiong and others were discussing matters in their own study, Qiao Shan took his sister into the open space behind the villa.
Little Qiao Shan grunted and pulled a rope from the neatly trimmed lawn.
"Sister, come and help me... This lid is too heavy, I can't pull it!"
With the help of his sister, little Qiao Shan pulled open a stone lid covered with grass.
A ladder appeared under the lid, leading directly to the ground.
"This is my little fortress below. I asked the housekeeper uncle to secretly help me dig it. Come, I'll take you down to see it." Qiao Shan showed off his secret to his sister as if he was offering a treasure.
Going down to the secret room, it was filled with various toys and a small bed.
The temperature in the secret room was neither high nor low, and the exhaust system was very complete.
Qiao Lan knew at a glance that this was Wei Feng's style of doing things, either don't do it, or do it to the best of your ability.
Qiao Lan pretended to be surprised and said to Qiao Shan: "Wow... your place is great! Can I stay here for one night?"
Qiao Shan immediately protected the small bed behind him, pouted and said: "My sister never returned the things she borrowed from me before! I can't lend it to you this time..."
Qiao Lan covered her mouth and laughed softly.
Suddenly, Qiao Lan signaled little Qiao Shan to be quiet.
She seemed to hear gunshots...
The secret room suddenly became quiet, and Qiao Lan clearly heard the gunshots coming from the outside world.
Qiao Lan thought of her father's abnormality today and the nervous expressions of the three awakened people, and seemed to guess something.
She held Qiao Shan's shoulders and said: "Little Qiao Shan, how about competing with your sister?"
Qiao Shan, a 10-year-old boy, certainly didn't feel anything about those strange sounds. For a child, there are too many strange things in the world, so when he heard that his sister wanted to compete with him, he immediately shifted his attention to the game his sister mentioned.
"Sister also has a secret room. Let's compete to see whose secret room is discovered first." Then he picked up a pair of wireless call headsets in the basement and handed one to Qiao Shan, and then said: "Sister is going to hide in my secret room now, and we will use this pair of callers to communicate."
"Okay...Okay..."
Seeing Qiao Shan happily agree, Qiao Lan got up and climbed out of the basement, and covered the heavy cover again.
Hanging the headset on his ear, he said to Qiao Shan in the basement: "Don't make any sound, if you are discovered by others because of your loud voice, you are not allowed to cry."
Qiao Shan lowered his voice and said to the call headset: "I will never lose, and I will shut up after saying this!!"
Then there was really no more Qiao Shan's voice in the headset.
Qiao Lan looked around and found that there was no one on the lawn behind the villa. She hunched over and slowly walked towards the villa.
There were gunshots in the villa, and even the sound of high-explosive grenades.
Although Qiao Lan was a reserve officer, she was a girl after all.
It was her first time to encounter such a thing, so she was inevitably nervous and confused.
Qiao Lan did not stay outside the villa for long, and rushed in without even observing the internal environment.
After rushing into the door, before she could see who had invaded her home, she was knocked unconscious by a knife.
When she woke up slowly, she found that she had been tied up, and the earphones on her ears fell to the ground when she rushed into the door, and had been trampled into powder.
Qiao Lan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the broken communication earphones.
He knew that Qiao Shan should be safe now. The cover was very heavy, and it would be difficult for Qiao Shan to move the cover in a short time with his strength.
After confirming that his brother would not be discovered for a while, he had the mind to observe the situation in the room.
The three awakened people had become three corpses at this time, lying motionless in the middle of the living room of the villa.
A group of armed men, holding electromagnetic rifles, stood in front of Qiao Lan and her parents with their faces covered and staring at them.
Qiao Lan and her parents were kneeling on the ground at this time.
"Who are you? I am a noble of the empire..." Qiao Xiong was extremely angry at this time.
"Noble? Haha..." A masked big man stood in front of Qiao Xiong: "Whoever shelters the awakened people, no matter who is mysterious, should die!!"
"You..." Qiao Xiong tried to struggle to stand up, but was kicked down by the big man.
"Don't struggle." The big man pulled out a shining dagger from his tactical boots and patted Qiao Xiong on the face: "If you answer my questions obediently, maybe I will soften my heart and give your family a good time."
"What do you want me to say?" Qiao Xiong was not scared by the man's threat, staring at the big man in front of him with wide eyes.
"How many awakened people have you hidden?"
Qiao Xiong shook his head and did not answer.
"You are very dishonest..." He stabbed a dagger at the beautiful woman who was kneeling beside him and crying.
The painful and hoarse howl instantly resounded throughout the room.
Qiao Shan had been hiding in the basement waiting for others to find him. The communicator his sister gave him had long been silent.
Qiao Shan did not know how long he had been waiting. Anyway, his stomach was very hungry, but still no one came to find him.
He lowered his voice and called his sister on the communicator.
There was no response at all.
Qiao Shan began to get scared and quickly climbed up the stairs and pushed the cover open with his body.
Wei Feng had carefully calculated the weight of the cover. A child of about 10 standing on the ground could not pull it.
But it could be pushed open from the basement, but it took a little effort.
Qiao Shan climbed out of the basement with difficulty, and it was pitch black outside.
"Dad? Mom? Sister?" Qiao Shan looked at the dark courtyard and didn't dare to move forward.
He stood there for a long time. In the end, the fear brought by loneliness exceeded his fear of darkness. Qiao Shan ran towards the villa quickly.
The villa was in a mess and filled with a strange smell.
"Smart housekeeper..." Qiao Shan called in a low voice, hoping that the smart housekeeper could turn on the lights in the room.
There was no response after calling several times.
Qiao Shan had to move forward slowly along the wall.
It was difficult to turn on the lighting facilities in the villa with a manual switch. Everything in front of him made Qiao Shan stunned on the spot.
The room was full of corpses and blood was flowing everywhere.
The heads of the parents were separated, and the sister was lying naked on the ground motionless.
At this moment, Qiao Shan had lost the ability to think. He was instinctively afraid of the scene in front of him, but he wanted to go to his parents.
He felt that he seemed to understand what happened, but he didn't quite understand what happened.
He was about to walk towards his father's head, and suddenly a figure stood up in the crowd of people who had fallen.
"Master..." The person who spoke had a weak voice, as if he was trying to endure the pain on his body.
"Uncle Wei... What happened to everyone? Why are you all lying on the ground?"
Wei Feng walked towards Qiao Shan tremblingly, picked up Qiao Shan and covered his eyes with his hands.
He didn't care what Qiao Shan asked and quickly left their home.
From then on, Qiao Shan and Wei Feng depended on each other.
The two had not lived well in the past few years, and Qiao Shan witnessed the miserable appearance of his parents and sister, which changed Qiao Shan's temperament.
The originally lively and cheerful child became silent.
Wei Feng tried to comfort Qiao Shan.
After finally getting a little better, Qiao Shan began to have nightmares all night long.
Wei Feng began to take Qiao Shan to seek medical treatment everywhere so that he could sleep more peacefully at night.
This situation lasted for 4 years, until Qiao Shan's nightmares improved when he was 14 years old.
But he began to self-harm.
At first, he just pinched himself with his hands, then slowly started to bang his head against the wall, and once he even cut his hands with glass shards.
Looking at his hands that were bleeding, Qiao Shan was actually laughing crazily.
From that day on, Wei Feng stayed by Qiao Shan's side 24 hours a day to prevent him from doing anything stupid again.
The two of them suddenly lost their income and their lives became tight.
In addition, Qiao Shan's condition, which was getting better and worse, made Wei Feng very anxious.
Until one night, Qiao Shan was awakened by a nightmare again, and desperately pinched his neck, trying to strangle himself to death.
When Qiao Shan went crazy, his strength was surprisingly strong, and Wei Feng was a little unable to control Qiao Shan. In desperation, he knocked Qiao Shan unconscious with a knife.
When he woke up the next day, Qiao Shan suddenly changed his temper.
"Uncle Wei... you have worked hard these years!"
"Master... you..."
Faced with Qiao Shan's sudden change, Wei Feng was a little uncomfortable.
Looking at Qiao Shan carefully: "Master, you had a nightmare again last night. I had no choice but to knock you out."
Qiao Shan just looked at the gray-haired old man in front of him without saying a word.
From that day on, although Qiao Shan still had nightmares, he no longer lost his mind and engaged in self-harm.
But he was still taciturn. This year, Qiao Shan was 16 years old.
He began to try to work outside to support himself.
Wei Feng saw Qiao Shan's sudden change, although he was puzzled, fortunately, except for not talking much, everything else seemed normal.
Seeing Qiao Shan getting better day by day, Wei Feng finally put his mind at ease and began to run around trying to let Qiao Shan inherit his father's title.
Qiao Shan also followed Wei Feng to see the warmth and coldness of the world.
It was common to be rejected, and there were many cases of being kicked out of the house.
At first, Qiao Shan just looked at him coldly, and later whenever he encountered the same thing, he smiled lightly.
However, no matter how badly Qiao Xiong lived, there were still one or two friends willing to help him, but they only proved Qiao Shan's identity so that Qiao Shan could inherit his father's private account in the Imperial Bank.
There was a lot of money in the account, enough for Qiao Shan to buy a destroyer and go out to explore.
Qiao Shan did not miss the place where he was born and grew up, and resolutely entered the starry sky.
But he never forgot the blood feud of his family.
Wei Feng was reluctant to mention that incident again, but he could not stand Qiao Shan's repeated inquiries.
Qiao Shan was 18 years old that year, and Wei Feng told the whole story of that night.
That day, when Qiao Shan entered the basement, more than a dozen people wearing exoskeleton armor broke in and killed anyone they saw.
Qiao Shan's parents and his sister were finally captured alive.
After a brutal interrogation, his parents were tortured and killed, and his sister was raped, and she eventually did not escape death.
After hearing all this, Qiao Shan got up and returned to his cabin on the battleship, and cut 15 scratches on his left arm with a dagger.
His eyes were full of hatred, staring at the dozen scratches on his arm.
He wanted revenge, and he knew that he was not facing an ordinary enemy. He had his own strength.
So with the help of Wei Feng, he contacted several surviving members of his father's organization and embarked on a difficult road of revenge.
Until he met Qi Yiming, this road of revenge was a little smoother.
Write a side story about Qiao Shan, briefly talk about Qiao Shan's past, a big chapter.
I have to plan the plot later. Otherwise, it's too tiring to think and write a little. And the plot will be very messy, plus it's a part-time job, and there is a 2-year-old beast waiting for me at home after get off work, leaving me too little time to think about the plot. In order to write smoothly, I will update a big chapter today. I may stop for a day tomorrow, or update once. Sorry...