The little female is incredibly sweet and soft, healing the five evil beasts right from the start.

Chapter 204 Thief
Jiang Mian was naturally unaware that the Jiang family from the capital had sent people to pick her up.

Even if she knew, she didn't want to wait half a month on the exile planet for the other party to come.

It will take a month to go back and forth.

However, Jiang Liang has now sent a message saying that she knows the capital has sent people to pick her up, but she has already boarded the starship.

Jiang Liang: I came all this way to pick you up, and you just left on your own?
Jiang Mian:?
Jiang Mian was surprised when she saw the message. Had she asked them to pick her up? And when they came to pick her up, they didn't even tell her. It was as if it was their decision, and she was just supposed to accept it.

Jiang Mian: Did I tell you to answer?
Jiang Liang: ?
The conversation between the two ended unhappily.

On the other side of the warship.

Jiang Liang stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the deleted notification. That guy actually deleted him?
Does she still want to go back to the Jiang family in the capital?

When Jiang Liang saw the news that Jiang Mian had already boarded the starship back to the Imperial Capital, he subconsciously assumed that Jiang Mian must want to return to the Jiang family in the Imperial Capital. Otherwise, why would she go back to the Imperial Capital instead of her home in the slums?
Land and houses are incredibly valuable in the capital city; where would she find a place to live?
She'll definitely be begging to get into the Jiang family eventually, but now that he's kindly gone to pick her up, she's just deleted him.

Jiang Liang was so angry that he kept saying "good, good, good!"

"What's wrong?" Lu Zhi looked at him in confusion.

"It's nothing." Jiang Liang composed himself and explained, "I was going to pick up my sister from the slums, but she has already taken a starship to the capital star by herself."

"We can arrange to meet her at a service area." Lu Zhi had naturally thought of this as well.

Jiang Liang had already thought of this and told Jiang Mian, but Jiang Mian ignored him and even deleted him.

He didn't mention it, but simply said, "At the next service area, drop me off. I'll take another starship back."

Hearing his words, Lu Zhi realized that he didn't seem to want to explain further, so he didn't ask any more questions and simply replied with an "okay".

Service area.

Jiang Mian took Li Yan down to forage for food.

The other beastmen drank the nutrient solution and decided not to go hunting for food anymore.

So Jiang Mian went down with Li Yan.

After all, it would be another half month before they arrived at the capital star. It wasn't like they were being exiled to a starship where they had to stay on the starship every day. Naturally, Jiang Mian couldn't stay on the starship every day, even though everyone on the starship was equipped with a sleeping pod, which was quite cozy.

Nowadays, these starships carrying passengers will stop at the service area for a day before continuing their journey the next day.

We've now stopped at a new service area.

The warship that Jiang Liang and his group were on also happened to arrive at this service area. After all, they had set off several days earlier than Jiang Mian, and it was quite a coincidence that the two starships landed in the same service area.

However, neither of them knew that the other was in this service area.

The service area was bustling with people.

This planet is habitable for normal people and doesn't have that polluted air.

Therefore, the flow of people is relatively large.

There are also quite a few thieves.

Jiang Mian had just bought a candied hawthorn and hadn't even taken a bite when she was bumped by a small body. She staggered forward a few steps, and the candied hawthorn instantly fell to the ground.

The child ran over recklessly, seemingly bumping into more than just Jiang Mian.

Many curses echoed behind Jiang Mian. The child didn't even offer an apology before running off.

However, another child secretly took the gift from her pocket.

Jiang Mian had put the gifts those two people gave her directly into her pocket last time and hadn't taken them out. She never expected that a thief would have his eye on them now.

Then someone shouted from behind, "Thief! It's that kid from before! Thief! Thief!"

After the sound rang out, everyone reacted and reached into their pockets.

Some people had their central space stolen, and others had their scattered belongings stolen as well.

Jiang Mian's hub space is the necklace she wears around her neck. However, she had put the gifts that Qi Xu and Zhou Bai gave her into her pocket before, but not into her hub space. The child bumped into her just now. Could it be that he stole her things too?
The instant the cry of "Catch the thief!" rang out, a flurry of thoughts flashed through Jiang Mian's mind. She instinctively reached for her pocket, only to find it empty. Sure enough, it was gone.

That was a gift someone gave her, and she hadn't even opened it yet, so she didn't know what it was. Now that it had been stolen, she was starting to get anxious.

Li Yan is inside the store helping her queue up to buy food.

Jiang Mian found the shop a bit crowded, so she came out first. She then casually bought a few snacks. She had just bought a candied hawthorn when someone bumped into her and knocked it to the ground before she could finish eating it. The gift someone had given her was also stolen.

A wave of heartache washed over me.

She first spoke to Li Yan on the personal terminal, then hurriedly chased after the direction in which the child had run away.

But the next second, Jiang Mian's gaze was drawn to another little girl.

She remembered the little girl who happened to walk past her after she was bumped by another little boy.

At that moment, the little girl swiftly took something out of someone's pocket and stuffed it into her own, and no one around noticed as people came and went. The little girl was clearly a repeat offender.

Jiang Mian turned and walked towards the little girl.

Her sixth sense told her that the little girl must have stolen her things.

They are likely a gang.

One person draws the victim's full attention while the other steals the item.

However, this little guy couldn't resist stealing things from others when he wasn't working with the team.

The little girl was unaware that Jiang Mian had her eye on her, and she continued walking leisurely.

She set her sights on another person, but just as she succeeded, her wrist was grabbed by another person.

"Hey, kid, give me back what you stole from me." Jiang Mian grabbed the little girl's wrist and spoke expressionlessly.

The next second, the little girl suddenly struggled and cried out, "Help! Kidnappers! Kidnappers!"

Jiang Mian was shocked. Was the reaction that quick?

A tall man standing nearby, the one whose things had just been stolen, also turned his head to look at them.

The little girl immediately cried out to the man for help: "Big brother, waah, please help me, she's not my mother!"

The man paused, his deep black eyes looking at Jiang Mian.

Everyone around also looked over.

(End of this chapter)