Picking Up An Alpha On Garbage Star - Chapter 33.2

Others were also looking for their parents, but no one could bring their parents back to them.

“Take me to find my dad, please,” Pei An pleaded as he grasped onto Hedun tightly.

Hedun, with numerous wounds on his body, hastily bandaged himself. He organized the survivors to take these children to the lab.

Along the way, there were bodies and splattered blood everywhere. The silver warship had turned into a hell on earth. They walked a long way, overcoming countless obstacles.

When they finally reached the lab, they saw people in white lab coats lying in pools of blood, holding guns, crazily weeping. The scene was chaotic, and everyone was going mad, trying to lift up the fallen.

Pei An knelt weakly beside Pei Ruyu, took the gun from Pei Ruyu’s hand, and threw it aside.

Compared to others, Pei An, who had experienced too many deaths in the apocalypse, seemed much calmer. He didn’t make a scene but knelt silently beside Pei Ruyu, tears streaming down silently.

Silent people erupting was even more terrifying. The abilities Pei An had kept dormant since his rebirth now burst forth unstoppably. His psychic power, once intangible, became tangible, tearing apart the bodies of the rebels among the corpses, obliterating them into nothingness.

Amidst the countless cries and mourning, Pei An suggested arranging the deceased.

The warship had a place for cremating bodies. It used a form of energy similar to fire, burning fiercely. As the ship often stayed in space for extended periods, a place was needed to deal with the bodies of those who died in battle. Therefore, this cremation area was established. The ship’s structure could also detach, taking the cremated ashes with it.

The number of dead was too overwhelming. Even with their rapid pace, they couldn’t keep up. In the process, Pei An felt the unstoppable eruption of his abilities once again. His psychic power turned the fallen into ashes, and the ashes were dispersed and annihilated.

The process continued for a full ten days.

In the span of these ten days, Pei An, along with Li Chengrui and others, severed all communication between the Goddess of Light and the Empire.

If the enemy could bypass the Empire and infiltrate the Goddess of Light, it meant there were insiders within the Empire. Whoever could orchestrate an attack on them once could certainly do it again. Moreover, if they returned to Central Star, their pursuers wouldn’t let them off easily. Armed with the power they possessed, attempting to seek justice on Central Star, a place where even raising one’s foot was considered a privilege, would only result in a silent death.

Therefore, they couldn’t send any communication back. The Goddess of Light was considered dead from this point on.

After cutting off contact with the Empire, they began unlocking the encrypted data. The extensive and advanced information covered various research fields. They inherited their parents’ roles and initiated their own research.

Li Chengrui was very capable. In less than a month, he redesigned all the systems’ keys on the Goddess of Light. No one could secretly plot against them again.

They could no longer return to Central Star, nor could they contact relatives and friends. They could only eke out a living in this world.

However, nobody accepted this fate willingly. Why did their parents, relatives, and friends die so tragically, while those responsible for it continued to enjoy their authority in the prosperous world of Central Star?

“We must seek revenge,” Pei An was the first to propose, “for ten years, twenty years, thirty years, even a lifetime. As long as we don’t give up, we will surely get our revenge.”

Moreover, during conversations with Pei Ruyu, Pei An had heard many things, including the reason why Pei Ruyu took the child and fled.

So Pei An knew clearly who was behind the massacre of thousands on the Goddess of Light.

The ruling class sitting atop the fame and fortune stage, disregarding human life to this extent, deserved death.

At that time, Pei An, wearing the shell of a twelve-year-old body, drew a line for the survivors – a line that could lead them to bravely survive.

Since they wanted revenge, they had to plan for the long term. It wasn’t safe to approach Central Star. Therefore, they went to the farthest edge of the Lyte Empire’s star system, the Moran Star System, and stayed there for fourteen years.

In these fourteen years, they transformed from fugitives into a disciplined and organized organization. Their goals no longer revolved around avenging the dead but had become more ambitious and difficult to achieve.

“The name ‘Goddess of Light’ feels too ironic to me, so I changed it to ‘Blaze Origin,'” Pei An stated, looking once again at the electronic photos of the thousands of people. He had deeply engraved each and every one of them in his heart.

“Xie Yu, fourteen years ago, when the tragedy of the Goddess of Light occurred, you probably only knew that rebels attacked and the Goddess of Light disappeared. You weren’t aware of who led the rebels to the Goddess of Light.”

Xie Yu tightened his fists. “It’s Clovis Mondray, the current head of the Mondray family, right?” Or your alpha father.

Clovis Mondray, who could even harm his own omega and child, was worse than a beast.

No wonder Pei An had such a strong reaction to the name “Mondray.” For him, those three words were synonymous with a nightmare.

Initially, Pei An’s response to the trauma wasn’t so severe. After all, he was an adult soul and had witnessed many deaths. Moreover, he wasn’t Clovis Mondray’s child, so he only felt anger, not disappointment.

However, many of the survivors were underage, experiencing severe psychological trauma. Pei An had to play the role of a makeshift psychologist, providing psychological counseling. It was his perseverance that prevented Li Chengrui and others from developing severe psychological shadows.

However, Pei An received too much negative emotional input, coupled with his significantly higher mental strength than others. Once he started to overthink, the consequences were much more severe than for others. Pei An didn’t want to show weakness in front of everyone; he intended to remain the spiritual benchmark for all. Over time, Pei An’s issues accumulated and became more serious.

Initially, Pei An didn’t notice this problem. Later, he invested in building a welfare institution and invited Shu Mingya to serve as the director. Shu Mingya was responsible for running the welfare institution, and she invited Pei An to make cookies for the children together. Pei An agreed confidently, mentioning that he had experience.

However, as Pei An entered the kitchen wearing an apron, preparing to bake cookies, scenes from the massacre of corpses and blood from many years ago flashed into his mind. He couldn’t chase them away, no matter how hard he tried.

He remembered that day when Pei Ruyu was supposed to bake egg tarts with him. He had even added beef to the tarts, intending to share them with everyone once they were done.

Pei An trembled all over; he realized he couldn’t enter the kitchen anymore. Whenever he attempted to cook, he couldn’t control the cold sweat that broke out, and he would become mentally distracted, mixing up salt with sugar or soy sauce with vinegar.

He had no choice but to stop trying to cook by himself.

“Mr. Pei, your current condition is not good. You need to move past the painful memories; you can’t stay trapped in the past,” Shu Mingya, being very professional, quickly identified the symptoms in Pei An.

“What should I do?” Pei An sought a solution from Shu Mingya. He wanted to break free from those dark memories.

Shu Mingya said, “Desensitization.”

Pei An understood this term; in simpler terms, it meant overcoming the psychological fear of certain things.

“Past grievances cannot be changed, Mr. Pei. You have to look forward,” Shu Mingya advised him.

Perhaps because Shu Mingya gave off a very comforting vibe, Pei An immediately agreed to undergo desensitization. The process was painful; he had to torture himself repeatedly in the kitchen, and that process had persisted until now.

“Xie Yu, I didn’t intend to poison you that day,” Pei An said. “I just can’t cook.”

Whenever he tried to cook, he subconsciously misplaced or added the wrong seasonings. He couldn’t realize it himself. For several years, he could only bake burnt cookies and dared not bring them to the children in the welfare institution.

Xie Yu suddenly grabbed Pei An’s wrist through their clothes. “Come with me,” he said, pulling Pei An outside.

Pei An asked, “Where are you taking me?” It was his territory, and Xie Yu didn’t know the way.

Xie Yu said, “I placed something in the fighter jet, and I want to give it to you now.”

Pei An: “???” When did you sneakily hide something on the fighter jet without me knowing? But it seemed that Xie Yu didn’t want to reveal it prematurely, so Pei An had to follow him back to the runway.

When they arrived at the fighter jet, Xie Yu climbed into the pilot’s seat. He retrieved a box from underneath the pilot’s seat and jumped down, handing the box to Pei An. “Here, this is a gift for you.”

Pei An glanced at Xie Yu. The box was quite large, and he wondered what was inside.

“Well, I won’t stand on ceremony then?” Pei An took the box with both hands, expressing his gratitude to Xie Yu.

“Open it and take a look. You might like it,” Xie Yu said, looking forward to Pei An’s reaction upon receiving the gift.

Following Xie Yu’s suggestion, Pei An opened the box. Inside, there was a large, snow-white, somewhat translucent stone, about the size of a fist. It was crystal clear and beautiful.

However, this stone seemed somewhat familiar…?

Xie Yu said, “This stone is a type of gemstone that has gained popularity in recent years, called Starfire Stone. Many wealthy people like it, and it does look quite nice.”

Pei An’s emotions were now complicated.

He remembered this Starfire Stone because, due to its rare color and texture, he had instructed someone to sell it on the black market at a high price. It did indeed fetch a high price, but he never expected that he would one day receive this stone from someone he had come to know so well.

Xie Yu hadn’t noticed Pei An’s unusual expression yet and continued, “I thought this stone was large enough, so you can use it for anything you like. Rings, bracelets, or even a necklace. If you find wearing it on your hand inconvenient, it can also be made into a necklace.”

He emphasized the necklace.

Pei An’s emotions became even more complicated. Could it be that Xie Yu noticed the necklace around his neck and decided to give him this stone because of it?

Author’s note: Okay, the flashback ends here. Let’s move on to the sweet stage!