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Chapter 487, Section 487: The Past of a Late Journey (1)

Chi Piao was slightly taken aback when she heard that familiar name.

Her former boss passed away more than a year ago, and she has started a new life.

The Rose Group's compensation was many times better than that of Black Eye Pharmaceuticals, and she found the work in the finance department easy.

For Chi Piao, his career path is on the rise.

The new phase of life brings an easy and respectable job with a good income, friendly colleagues, and a generous new financier boss.

She found new value within the war giant at Rose Group and gained more social recognition and positive feedback.

The current Chi Piao is definitely not the same emo girl she used to be.

She gained the trust of the financier and was mentored by this rising star strategist, which helped her mature considerably. She developed a normal sense of aesthetics and fashion sense, and in her new workplace, no one knew that she had once been illiterate.

Her colleagues thought she was knowledgeable and spoke calmly, and that she was a refined person in a war where everyone was rough and uncouth.

Looking back on the journey so far, Chi Piao's feelings are complicated.

Because at the beginning of her life, she had no idea that she would have such a bright future.

She was born into a poor but talented family. Her older sister, Chi Ling, was a genius strategist whom her parents had painstakingly cultivated.

Her birth was initially solely for the purpose of obtaining umbilical cord blood to save her older sister's life.

After the blood sample was taken, her parents regarded her as a burden and treated her harshly.

Her world consisted of the smell of spoiled food and the stains that could never be washed off the corners of the walls.

The best taste she had ever experienced was fried chicken she found in a garbage bag, already bitten by someone, its fat frozen solid and stained with the saliva of a stranger.

She squatted by the trash can, carefully tearing off the pitiful bits of meat one by one.

The parents had no money and didn't want to support this unwanted child's education any longer.

In a society where there is no such thing as compulsory education, and her parents were unwilling to send her to the cultural popularization classes offered by Radiant Academy, Chi Piao could only sneak away to the gate of a junior high school in ordinary society, where she would spend a long time huddled outside the wall, listening to the faint sounds of reading coming from inside.

Those syllables were like colorful bubbles seen through thick glass—beautiful, but fragile and easily shattered, having nothing to do with her.

Days passed by like this, until her genius older sister, who was studying at Radiant Academy, returned.

Chi Ling stood in the dimly lit living room, like a beam of light suddenly shining into the dust, illuminating Chi Piao's dirty little face huddled in the shadows.

Her eyes first showed astonishment, then surged with shock and pain that Chi Piao couldn't understand.

That night, the parents' argument was unusually shrill.

Chi Ling's clear, cold, and firm voice rang out:

I will pay for her tuition.

Her response was a resounding slap from her father and her mother's devastating sobs and curses:
"She's just a burden. You should focus on your studies and stop worrying about her!"

That night, Chi Ling made a bold decision. She secretly bought two train tickets and, under the cover of darkness, dragged her crying sister onto a train bound for an unfamiliar city.

The wheels rolled over the rails, leaving home far behind. Only then did Chi Ling release her grip, her fingertips and voice trembling slightly.
"It's alright, little sister... I'll take care of you."

That's what they said, but at first, Chi Piao only felt hatred towards this older sister.

Although she was young, she was old enough to understand things. From the playful discussions of her relatives and neighbors, she realized the awkward position she held at home.

In Xiao Chi Piao's eyes, it was her older sister who stole all the family affection.

Therefore, the initial trip to the academy was not smooth.

Chi Ling applied for a family dormitory for Chi Piao to live in, and bought her new clothes and toys, but little Chi Piao was not grateful and always tore the clothes and toys to shreds.

The war faction has great strength and power, and Chi Piao's ability is gravity. If things really get out of hand, Chi Ling really can't do anything about her.

She could only silently earn money to buy her sister a new one, and then gently persuade her, hoping that her sister could understand her feelings and live a good life in the new city.

The familial bond between the two was gradually repaired thanks to Chi Ling's efforts.

But before they could truly reconcile, Chi Ling suddenly fell ill.

She already had a pre-existing condition that could only be treated with umbilical cord blood, but this time the flare-up was even more severe.

This brilliant strategist, with his refined and insightful character, ultimately succumbed to illness and passed away one day.

When she received the message, Chi Piao stood there stunned in her apartment in the family building.

Looking at the clothes her sister had bought for her and the pile of new books she had brought, she suddenly realized that she might never see her best friend again.

The man who promised to teach her to read, clumsily braid her hair, and use all his light to pull her out of the mire, turned into a cold death notice.

She no longer has a home.

After Chi Ling passed away, this house, filled with memories, became the execution ground for slow slicing.

Chi Piao packed very few belongings and left like a wandering soul.

Just as she was looking around blankly, unsure whether to wallow in the past or simply let herself rot away, Black Eyes Pharmaceuticals, which offered room and board, came into her view. Most importantly, it offered a lifetime contract, promising to never let her lose her job.

And so, having lost her loved ones and feeling utterly empty inside, Chi Piao arrived at Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals and began the second chapter of her life.

Black Eyes Pharmaceuticals only needed the sharpest knife, so after signing the contract, she was thrown into the place known as the "screening field".

The selection process is simple yet brutal: out of hundreds of applicants, only those who remain standing are truly qualified to enter Black Eye Pharmaceuticals.

Chi Piao didn't know whether she was strong or weak. She only knew that she was very strong, able to easily overturn trucks, and make anything near her heavier or lighter.

But at Black Eye Pharmaceuticals, this seems to be just the bare minimum entry ticket.

The loud crash of the iron gate slamming shut behind her shattered her last shred of illusion.

The participants from all directions had different expressions in their eyes; they were frantic, fearful, greedy, and numb, sizing each other up like wolves.

Chi Piao crossed her arms and huddled in the shadows of a corner. She didn't want to fight; she just wanted to live.

A burly man nearly two meters tall was the first to spot this seemingly weakest prey. He roared and swung his giant blade, slashing down at Chi Piao's head.

With almost no time to think, Chi Piao's body reacted before his consciousness could react.

She suddenly raised her hand upwards, and an invisible force field suddenly expanded outwards from her.

"Buzz!"

The giant blade froze half a foot above her head, as if it had cleaved into a rubber wall.

The burly man's muscles bulged and his eyes popped out, yet he couldn't move the blade down even an inch.

Chi Piao stared at him with empty eyes, then gently clenched her fists.

"Crack—Pfft!"

A sickeningly loud cracking sound.

"Bang----"

The burly man, along with his massive blade, was as if gripped and squeezed by an invisible giant hand, then violently hurled away, crashing into a distant steel frame and turning into a motionless, blurred mass of flesh and blood.

The burly man's death ignited a frenzy throughout the slaughterhouse.

"Kill her!"

"She's a high-level gravity manipulator! Take care of that woman first!"

From the shadows, several figures suddenly shot out, their blades aimed at her throat.

Chi Piao didn't see their movements clearly; she only felt an instinctive sense of threat.

Fear gripped my throat, but something deeper surged up even before fear itself—

It's the humiliation of scavenging for food in garbage bags...

It's the longing to listen to the sound of students reading aloud while hiding outside the school walls...

It was my sister's hand that gradually grew cold on the hospital bed...

These images flashed by like fragments, eventually coalescing into Chi Piao's devastating scream:
"Get away from me! Anyone who gets close, die!"

"Buzz————————————"

Centered on her, a terrifying gravitational field erupted instantly. People rushing towards her were like being smashed by an invisible mountain from the sky. Their charging postures were suddenly twisted and deformed, and the sound of bones shattering filled the air. They were sent flying back and embedded themselves hard in the surrounding walls and ground, never to be heard again.

A one-sided, crushing massacre began.

Some people were sent flying like cannonballs by her casual wave of her hand, crashing into a pile of abandoned containers.

Someone tried to launch a sneak attack from the air, but suddenly felt their body become a hundred times heavier, screaming as they crashed into the concrete ground like a meteorite.

A group of people worked together to build an energy shield, but in the next second, the shield and the raging gravitational turbulence twisted them into a pretzel.

"call……"

In the end, only heavy breathing and the sound of blood dripping remained in the warehouse.

The space, which was just moments ago filled with roars and collisions, is now deathly silent.

Chi Piao stood amidst the chaos, her feet covered in sticky, dark red flesh, surrounded by motionless bodies of various shapes.

"Slap, slap, slap."

Slow, clear applause came from the observation deck above.

The head of Black Eye Pharmaceuticals looked down at the bloody stage below:
"Universal gravitation... what an amazing talent."

"Welcome to Black Eye Pharmaceuticals, Ms. Chi Piao."

(End of this chapter)