Chapter 1277 Gray Area

The wind whistled across the white arched bridge, messing up Lucy's hair, but not messing with the firm look in her eyes.

Franco no longer had a smile on his face. According to his plan, once Lucy refused to accept his proposal, he would use force to have a relationship with the stubborn princess. Admittedly, it's a crazy idea. But because of the madness, no one would think of it, so there may be a lot of chances of success. If the plan goes well, even if Orfascis pursues it later, in order to take into account the face of the royal family, he will only compromise and marry Lucy to him in the end.

Their family can use the identity of Lucy to enter the royal court and get in touch with the royal family, which will bring great benefits and more opportunities to the family. When Alyssa told Franco of Lucy's whereabouts, he quickly formulated the plan and gained his father's support.

However, Franco did all his calculations, but he didn't consider that Lucy had already awakened the second stage of Golden Rose, and besides was a killing machine like Blade Runner. According to the information he got, Lucy probably hasn't broken through level 20 yet. If he knew that Lucy already had the strength at this moment, Franco would never dare to act rashly. After all, facing Golden Rose and Blade Runner in the second stage, it is still unknown whether he can take down Lucy with his strength. What's more, Jin Qiangwei's source of strength has the opportunity to attract Orfascis' attention, and every second that passes, he will be disadvantaged by one more point.

Suddenly, he knew he had lost.

"Haha..." Franco laughed dryly, shook his head and stepped back, "I'm sorry, sorry, I was just joking with His Highness."

"A joke?" Lucy still pointed at the man with the golden rose: "Then tell me, Lord Franco, should I believe it?"

"Of course, but my joke was a little too big. So see if you allow me to leave, Your Highness, and I will make up for it later."

Lucy nodded: "Then I'll wait."

She just put down Jin Qiangwei, and Franco looked at her, his eyes still hesitating. In the end, he gave up his plan to take a risk, because this is in the City of Gold, if it fails. Not only him, but even his father, and even the whole family will be implicated. The bet was too big, and he, who was always crazy, didn't dare to bet lightly. He bowed with a smile, and stepped back away from the white arch bridge. After a while, it completely disappeared from Lucy's sight.

Only then did Lucy breathe a sigh of relief. She put away the golden rose and stared at the distant palace.

Today is just the beginning, troubles like this will come one after another in the future. In fact, Franco was right, she lacked a strong backer in the palace. Now Orfascius' eyes are on her, and even if others have any ideas, they have to consider them carefully. But if the King of Justice ignores her, she will be alone and helpless in this palace. At that time, there will only be more and more people like Franco, with dirty means.

but,

She is no longer the noble daughter of the royal family who can only make trouble in the past. She also learned a lot during her adventures with Allen, including patience, limited compromise, and using interests to gain some allies.

This is growth.

In the universe, everything is always relative. Where there is a prosperous star field, there is a desolate space. The Gart star field where Idahua star is located is no different from prosperity, so this space is deserted. Looking around, apart from a few sporadic planets, there are no other stars. And on these few planets, either there is no life, or it is not suitable for habitation. The color of these planets is gray, so even this piece of space looks lifeless.

But in such a lifeless space, streamers flashed from time to time. That is not a natural landscape, but a starship traveling between the stars. If you look closely, it is not difficult to see that they are all heading for a gray-white planet. This gray star is not habitable, it may have had a glorious era. But now, it's dying. The internal energy of the planet is almost completely exhausted, without the protection of the atmosphere, the matter of the planet keeps breaking away from the body, turning into dust and flying into space.

The strange thing is that even so, there are still starships entering and leaving it.

This green starship is one of them. It is a small ship, and it is the smallest one. Usually this kind of starship can only hold three or five people, or even less. Anyone who can use this kind of starship is either a strong player in the vertical or horizontal side, or a solo traveler. Their identities are also varied, they may be notorious interstellar pirates, or they may be bounty hunters.

The blue starship flew towards the gray star, and the star continued to expand on the screen, and a pair of eyes completely took in the picture. The alien was wearing a dark personal combat uniform with tan leather armor on the outside. There are many pockets in the leather armor. I don't know what he uses to hold things, but he needs so many pockets. He has light green skin with dark brown patches, like the skin of frogs on Earth. There are blue tentacles growing on both sides of this humanoid alien's head, protruding from his dark yellow hair, trembling slightly in the air from time to time.

He stared intently at the screen on the front of the console.

On the screen, the gray star continued to expand in his eyes. Since there was no atmosphere, entering the interior of the planet became an easy task. Soon he saw the surface of the planet. There were many complex ridges on the surface of the gray star, and there were huge cracks on the ground. They criss-crossed and criss-crossed, like wounds on the planet. From those wounds, gray dust columns rise up. They are fragments that have broken away from the planet itself, and rise up under the action of space gravity, like tornadoes. The starship must carefully avoid these gray dragons, even though they are only insignificant fragments to the planet itself, but to the starship, especially this small ship. A multi-ton piece of debris could have caused fatal damage, and he steered the starship around several dust pillars. The joystick was suddenly pressed down, and the hull sank, piercing the ground.

The starship directly drilled through a huge crack that was only nearly as wide as it was long. A row of beams of light lit up at the front of the ship, illuminating the darkness in the gap so that there was nowhere to hide. It can be seen from the screen that this is a deep and wide space, and it seems that the interior of the planet has been hollowed out. This is not the case, it's just that this is a dull world, so it looks broad. In fact, after a few kilometers deep into the crack, a complex cave area will appear, which is like a honeycomb magnified countless times. The starship drilled into the cave, and under his control, the starship nimbly moved through these complicated passages inside the planet. A moment later, a bright light appeared in front of the hull!

In the blink of an eye, the blue starship had flown out of the cave, and below was the center of the planet, where the environment was more complicated. There are smooth cliffs rising into the sky, and countless mountain ridges criss-crossing. Occasionally, a bottomless ground sting looms with fire. However, in this vast inner earth world, there is one thing that can never appear on this dying planet.

City!

A city is located deep in the center of the earth, and a layer of source force shield covers the sky above the city. Meanwhile, the gravitational device located deep in the city provided the city with gravity. As for those steeple-like buildings, they were actually oxygen generators, and they provided the entire city with the oxygen that life depended on.

It can be seen that there are starships haunting the city from time to time. In stark contrast to the dead silence of Gray Star, the city was unexpectedly full of vitality.

About this city, it has many names.

The Bazaar of Urgarth, the Gray Gate, the Lost City, and more. And no matter which name it is, it points out its neutral nature. It is one of the few neutral zones in the universe. Neither the Congregation of Order headed by Idahua nor the chaotic races in the Jotun star field can affect the operation of this city. Therefore, it has become a gathering place for interstellar pirates, bounty hunters, merchants, slave traders, criminals and other people of all kinds.

This is heaven.

It can be hell here too.

He took a deep breath, and calmly steered the starship closer to the city. After a series of formalities, he was able to enter the city. After parking the starship in a temporary port that was billed by the hour, he left the starship with a bulging rucksack and walked into the city alone.

Cities are prosperous and complex. There is no so-called main road here, but only long and complex long streets and alleys. Even the best memory can get lost when first visiting the city, for the city itself is a gigantic maze. Of course, there was no such trouble for him now, he walked into a remote alley with ease. There are only a few shops in the alley, which not only buy items from all over the universe, but also sell many strange things. Apart from the shops, most of them are aliens squatting in the shadows of the alleys with malicious eyes. They watched each passerby, weighing the weight of the target. If they think you are easy to handle, then after a while, there will be an extra corpse in a corner of the alley.

There is no legal protection here, only strength can protect oneself, no matter what kind of strength it is.

He didn't care about the gazes passing over his body and his backpack, he believed in his own strength, as always. In the shadows, an alien covered in pus took two steps forward. His eyes kept falling on the green-skinned strange man's backpack when he was about to strike. Someone kicked him, and he fell to the ground. The pus from his body splashed on the ground, and even a few wisps of green smoke were burned out from the ground.

He looked angrily at a figure in the darkness, who said unhurriedly, "I'm saving you, if you know who he is?"

"Who is he?"

"Lifeplanter, Lusen."