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Chapter 123 Dust Star Heads to the Steam City

In the real world, there are 13 stations.

The viewers in the anime/manga world felt a pang of sadness watching Caroline, whom they hadn't seen in a long time, on the screen.

Caroline had clearly shed her youthful naiveté by now.

Moreover, his own identity has changed from that of a member of the universally hated Ember organization.

He has now become a "Genius Intelligent Machine Star Envoy" certified by the Star Envoy Association headquarters.

Moreover, he was a disciple of the Grand Master Ennet, who was hailed as the strongest Star Envoy of the contemporary era.

No matter how you look at her, she is much better than she was six years ago.

It can be described as a dazzling and unparalleled presence.

But when the viewers in the anime/manga world looked at the lonely figure in the picture, who could only drink afternoon tea alone, they were filled with a sense of desolation.

A strange pity welled up in my heart.

As viewers who followed the first season of "Stars" know, although Caroline always says, "I am just a tool of God, a shadow following him,"

But Heaven never regarded her as a tool or a subordinate.

The relationship between the two is more like that of close friends, or perhaps a special one that goes far beyond ordinary companions.

There's a sense of 'more than friends, less than lovers' between them, as they are each other's only 'exception'.

Both of them are also exceptionally good-looking, and the contrast between Tiandao's eccentricity and Caroline's rationality creates an interesting dynamic.

This has made the "Tianka Party" (天卡党) the undisputed leader in the CP (couple) battle of "Stellaris".

This pair alone is enough to easily outshine all other CP (couple) fans.

No one expected that the Stellaris production team would so ruthlessly break up this "official couple" in the hearts of viewers at the end of the first season.

Caroline is currently alone at the Star Envoy Association headquarters.

The identity of that mysterious masked man remains a mystery to this day, and no one can be sure whether he is the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao.

This makes it difficult for the once best partners, 'Tianka', to reunite in the near future.

After all, the wanted posters related to the Heavenly Dao are still hanging in every corner of the New Federation!

Sending the Heavenly Dao to the First Floating City, Star Corridor, where the Star Envoy Association headquarters is located, is no different from sending him to his death!
Upon thinking about this, the biggest CP fan in the StarCraft community, the "Tianka Party," couldn't sit still any longer.

'The production team of All Stars! I urge you to be kind!'

"Family, I smell danger. How about we team up and raid the production team's headquarters?"

'Even though your memories are temporarily sealed, you're still subconsciously guarding the 'shadow' left behind by the Heavenly Dao? Caroline, really... I'm going to cry!'

'Something's not right, this smell is way too strong! What's the production team trying to do? Are they trying to forcibly break up a couple?!'

Just as the comments section was filled with sympathy for Caroline and condemnation of the production team for their inhumane actions and underhanded manipulation,

In the video, Caroline has left her private research lab and gone to her private room within the research institute.

Contrary to what most people would expect, Caroline's room is very simple.

Besides the essential advanced quantum computing module, it contains...

The rest are some highly practical items such as workbenches and ordinary furniture.

If I had to describe what Caroline's room was decorated with...

Perhaps all that's left is an old, worn-out dolphin plush toy sitting on the bedside table.

【Dear Lady Caroline, you have a private message that you have not yet viewed. Would you like to view it now?】

As soon as Caroline returned to her room, she heard a message notification from her personal AI hub, 'White Dolphin'.

However, there are not many people that Caroline can mark as special attention.

Because apart from her master Ennet.

The only people she still keeps in touch with are her former friends, Chen Xing and Jing Liuli.

The master technician basically doesn't need to contact himself via data terminal.

Jing Liuli has been busy with her New Federation tour concert lately.

Therefore, there is only one person who would send you a message at this time.

"Open it."

【Yes.】 Shortly after, Caroline received a text message from Dust Star.

"Caroline, I've found some clues about the 'organization' you speculated was formed by intelligent star-beasts."

However, I have only caught some defective products so far, and these products all have obvious signs of human modification, so I cannot verify whether your guess is right or wrong.

I will be making a trip to the Steam City soon to investigate any intelligent interstellar beasts that may exist there. I will contact you as soon as I have any new discoveries. —Dust Star

After reading the text message Chenxing sent me.

Caroline silently shut down her data terminal.

Intelligent Star Beast, this was when Caroline completed her 'Star Core Awakening' three years ago.

An unexpected encounter.

Because Caroline's star core is 'Tianji Maoyou'.

Therefore, after completing the Star Core Awakening, she received a rather special enhancement.

That is the perception of 'star core frequency'.

And relying on this passive ability.

Caroline discovered a 'star beast' disguised as a human.

Moreover, the other party had even managed to reach the headquarters of the Star Envoy Association, becoming a high-level Star Envoy.

This discovery made Caroline feel uneasy, and she began to investigate secretly.

After a series of covert investigations, Caroline discovered that there seemed to be far more 'intelligent star beasts' hidden within the Star Envoy Association than she had imagined.

Therefore, Caroline did not alert the enemy.

Instead, after careful planning, they seized a valuable opportunity to contact President Enet.

And then he told the other party the information he had found.

To Caroline's surprise, the president seemed unsurprised by the outcome.

It could even be said that he seemed to have known this all along.

But for some special reason, he has not made this information public.

After learning that Caroline actually possessed the ability to distinguish between 'intelligent species'.

The president directly took him as his disciple.

He used his own identity to cover for her.

He then entrusted Caroline with the entire task of investigating the 'Intelligent Species'.

Caroline didn't understand why the Grand Master didn't handle these matters personally.

But being intelligent, she deeply understood one principle.

That is, the more difficult a problem is to understand, the more careful and restrained one should be.

Only in this way can one avoid getting caught up in an unknown vortex.

So even though Caroline had already obtained key evidence against several intelligent species.

But she chose not to expose any of them.

Instead, they silently suppressed these reports and assigned the specific investigation tasks to Chen Xing.

Because she knew very well that Chenxing, who had experienced the beast tide when he was a child, hated the star beasts to the core.

In addition, there is Chen Xing's own strength and her special status within the Lieyang family.

This meant that even if they found out something, those guys couldn't just take action against Chenxing.

They are excellent candidates for the investigation.

Although there is obvious suspicion of exploiting Dust Star here.

But Dust Star himself didn't have much of an opinion on this.

It could even be said that Dust Star himself would be happy to do this.

After all, combat is an indispensable part of Dust Star's 'Perfect Awakening Ritual'.

Therefore, Dust Star found joy in this.

(End of this chapter)