Star Hunter.

Chapter 293 The Rental Car Driver

Chapter 293 The Rental Car Driver

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Whether Gleason Dodge had discovered that Sirin and the Grey Cat were the ones who had been monitoring him that day, Sirin didn't know, but one thing was certain: Gleason Dodge had begun to pay attention to Sirin and the Grey Cat. (This chapter is now available.)

This boy, not yet fifteen, had such keen intuition that Xilin had to make some preparations in advance.

After the young master of the Gleason family left with his entourage, the atmosphere around them began to relax again. However, the conversation then revolved around this teenage nobleman, while Sirin had long been forgotten by everyone around him.

Luna excitedly told Xilin about this legendary young genius, Dodge. He didn't attend any educational school; he was self-taught from primary to advanced education. While his peers were starting primary education, Dodge had already begun intermediate education courses, and soon after, he directly started studying advanced education courses. Sometimes, he would also attend guest lectures by senior academicians invited by the Royal Academy of Sciences at some prestigious universities. This wasn't just for show; he genuinely understood the lectures.

Luna talked a lot about the young genius Gleason Dodge. It's hard to say how much of it is true, but there's always a reason behind rumors. The fact that such rumors exist means that similar things have happened to some extent.

People kept coming and going at this self-service rest stop. As soon as they heard that Gleeson Dodge had just been there, the newcomers started talking amongst themselves and joined the conversation.

Suddenly, Xilin saw a familiar face walking towards him from not far away.

"Libero!" Sirin called out.

The person who was slowly strolling over with his head down and looking very listless was one of Xilin's roommates when he took the fifth entrance exam for the affiliated school before entering the affiliated school. He was Li Bello, a half-human and half-human hybrid.

At that time, Ribello didn't reveal his background, but now it seems his father held a high position, given that Ribello was wearing the Lor family crest.

Libero, who was lost in thought, looked up in the direction of the sound when she heard her name called. She saw Xilin sitting there waving. Libero's previously listless expression brightened, and she smiled and quickly ran towards Xilin.

Others nearby also saw Ribero running over. These people would first look at the family crest on the person's body and decide whether to greet them based on the family crest.

Upon seeing the Lor family crest on Ribello's body, someone prepared to approach and strike up a conversation. However, before they could even take a step, they were pulled back by someone nearby who whispered a few words. The person who was about to speak with Ribello then withdrew, their gaze towards him no longer friendly and amicable. It even carried a hint of disdain. If it weren't for the Lor family crest on Ribello, or if the place and setting were different, they would certainly have openly displayed this disdain. After all, this was Lor family property. Shouldn't they give the Lor family some face?

Libero was used to the attitude of those around him and didn't care. He walked straight over to Xilin and sat down.

"Hey, what brings you here? I never expected to run into you here!" Ribero was delighted to see Xilin. After all, Xilin was one of the few people who didn't discriminate against people of other races, and they were also roommates who had taken the entrance exam for the same school in the past. This was the first time Ribero had seen Xilin since they went their separate ways.

"A friend gave me a pass and I've been freeloading here. I don't really know anyone here," Xilin said.

"You still say you don't know her? Who is this young lady? Aren't you going to introduce her?" Li Bello winked, glancing at Lunani and then at Xilin, his eyes seeming to say: "Bro, not bad. She's still a tender flower."

"Don't talk nonsense. It's not what you think." Xilin introduced Lunani and also introduced Libero to Lunani, but when introducing Libero, Xilin said that they were former roommates and didn't mention much else.

"Speaking of which, I never expected you to be from the Lor family," Xilin said.

Li Bello smiled helplessly. "If I hadn't been accepted into the Second Affiliated High School, I really wouldn't be qualified to be here."

"Second Affiliated School?! The First Affiliated Higher Education School of the Royal Academy of Sciences?!" Lunan exclaimed. It was incredibly difficult for them to get into affiliated schools. The Third Affiliated School was only accessible to the upper echelons of power and influence; without strong connections, entry was nearly impossible. As for the First and Second Affiliated Schools, they were even more difficult, rumored to be the gathering places for geniuses throughout the entire empire.

  

"Yeah, didn't Xilin tell you?" Li Bello asked, and seeing Lunan's expression, she continued, "Xilin and I were roommates when we took the test at the preparatory campus of the First Affiliated School. In the end, I got into the Second Affiliated School, and Xilin got into the First Affiliated School."

Lunani's eyes were filled with envy and admiration. She never expected that the person in front of her would be a genius from the First and Second Affiliated Schools! These two affiliated schools were not places that one could enter simply by having the status of a noble family; it was all based on genuine talent and learning!

Looking at Lunani with such admiration, Libero felt a little embarrassed. He scratched his head, coughed, and looked at Xilin to change the subject, "Have you been busy lately?"

"We just had a large-scale phase test, and things are going well so far. My advisor doesn't have much work to do either. How about you?"

"Me too, but my mentor knows my current tutor at the Second Affiliated Hospital. I was originally assigned a task, but because of this wedding, my tutor gave me an early leave."

Since Ribero was admitted to the Second Affiliated School, although many in the Lor family still discriminated against him, most no longer dared to show it openly. The affiliated school's reputation was renowned throughout the empire, especially since it was the Second Affiliated School, which required merit for admission. Because of this, Ribero received a pass from the family, effectively acknowledging him as a member of the Lorga. As a member of the Lorga, he was obligated to attend such an important wedding. The groom was Lorga's half-brother. Although this brother hadn't been very kind to Ribero since childhood, he was still branded with the Lorga family crest. Internal strife was one thing, but he had to behave well in front of other nobles.

Many nobles familiar with the Lor family knew Ribero; he had once been a laughingstock in the Lor family, and if it weren't for his mentor's help, Ribero would have been silenced as a child. Therefore, Ribero's desperate desire to enter the affiliated school wasn't solely for the Lor family's recognition, but primarily for his mentor.

As the three were talking, Xilin's communicator rang. It wasn't a video call, but an audio message from Yuan Xingming. It seemed that this guy was too "busy" to make video calls right now.

Just as Xilin had expected, Yuan Xingming urged him to hurry.

After reading it, Xilin replied: I ran into two acquaintances, I'll talk to them for a while before I go over.

Yuan Xingming: What acquaintances? Men or women? Just bring anyone who's not from the older generation. They're all young people anyway, what's there to hide? My great-grandfather said that young people should know how to have fun, relationships are built through fun, blah blah blah…

Xilin was certain that Yuan Xingming was already quite drunk, and judging from the noisy laughter behind the voice, the scene over there must be quite lively.

Xilin replied, "I'll be right there," and then disconnected.

Lunani and Libero didn't recognize Yuan Xingming. Therefore, they couldn't recognize his voice, and as for the others around them, they were too far away to hear them at all.

"A friend invited me over. Do you two have plans? If not, let's go together," Xilin said to Lunani and Libero.

Lunan was somewhat shy. Or rather, she was afraid of being scorned by too many nobles. But this place was too unfamiliar, and having finally met a reliable acquaintance, Lunan didn't want to leave just like that. Since he was Xilin's friend, they should be easy to get along with, right? Rather than trusting Xilin, Lunan trusted Chang Xiaosi more. After briefly informing her father, Lunan left with Xilin amidst her father's displeasure.

As for Ribero, he thought the same as Lunani. Since they were all friends of Sirin, they should be easy to get along with.

"Do you guys have a flying car?" Since the three of them are going together, relying solely on Xilin's flying glider won't be enough; they need to get a flying car.

Lunan shook her head. She had come in her father's flying vehicle, not her own. Libero hadn't driven either; he hadn't even arrived in his own car, but rather in a service vehicle from the planet.

Without a flying car, the only option was to rent one from a car rental point set up by the Lor family. Xilin rented one using his pass at the rental point. The flying car's specifications weren't top-notch, but they weren't bad either; nobles valued their reputation. Leaving behind a low-quality car would be a disgrace.

Xilin sat in the driver's seat, Lunani and Libero sat in the back seat, and the gray cat was munching on a biscuit in the passenger seat.

After looking at the coordinates given by Yuan Xingming, Xilin drove his flying car towards that direction at a slow speed. During the flight, he also took in the scenery below. Lunani was very fascinated by all of this, after all, every little girl has a dream of becoming a bride.

Libero wasn't particularly interested in the surrounding scenery; some of the things here were actually arranged by him. He'd eagerly come back to do the hard work, and just thinking about it made his stomach ache.

Whoosh whoosh—

Just as Xilin was slowly driving his flying car towards the target point, several flying cars sped past. One of them almost grazed the outer shell of Xilin's flying car. After these flying cars passed by, several bullets hit the rear of the car. Fortunately, the flying car had good protective measures; otherwise, a less capable flying car would have been severely affected.

Lunan was startled by this series of events, and Ribero wasn't much better off, looking out the window angrily and saying, "These noble kids are insane!"

"Who are they?" Xilin asked, stabilizing the flying car.

"I don't know, but I've been seeing these people racing a lot lately. If they were skilled, I wouldn't say anything, but the problem is, what skill do they have? The Lor family's cleaning robots have to clean up dozens of cars that have been wrecked due to racing every day, and they've also accidentally injured some people. But since the people injured weren't important, everyone just keeps quiet." Li Bello got angry whenever he mentioned this. Sure enough, apart from nobles, everyone else's lives are worthless. These people have money to burn, and they're still excited to smash luxury cars into scrap metal.

Seeing the flying cars that were firing at each other and wobbling as they flew past, Xilin changed his flight path to avoid them. He figured he could just take a longer route. Xilin was right to think that way, but those people really did have their eyes on them. They flew over here again, accompanied by frantic shouts as they flew over.

The gray cat, munching on a biscuit, said, "Should we teach them a lesson?"

At this distance, the gray cat could easily interfere with the control systems of those flying cars.

Xilin shook his head. Of those noble children, few of them had real strength. You could tell how capable they were just by looking at the trajectory of their flying cars.

"Sit tight!" Xilin said to Lunani and Libero before adjusting some settings on the flying car's control panel. To Xilin's surprise, even though it was just a public rental car, it was fully equipped with scanning devices and monitoring alarm systems, although few people would make full use of these things.

While the cars rented at the rental point may be inferior to those custom-made vehicles in terms of configuration, as long as there is a good driver, such a difference is not a problem.

Several noble scions were driving flying cars that surrounded Xilin and his companion's vehicle, as if observing them. They were watching the pitiful creature trapped inside, waiting for it to beg for mercy. But before they could be arrogant for long, the poor thing seemed to have been injected with adrenaline and darted out through a gap in the encirclement.

"This is outrageous! He dares to escape?!"

"Damn it! Chase after them!"

People who drive rental cars have no scruples, which is why they act so recklessly. They've done similar things many times in recent days, and they feel a great sense of accomplishment every time they see the people in the car come out and beg for mercy.

However, gradually, these aristocratic scions driving luxury cars discovered that this poor creature seemed to have suddenly grown several pairs of wings, speeding away incredibly fast. Not only was it fast, but its flight path was also unpredictable, and even a group of people working together couldn't contain it.

Some people had already started firing at Xilin's car with weapons from the flying vehicle. But Xilin dodged them all while driving the flying car. The rental car did not have any weapons. As for the tracking bullets that were fired at him, Xilin lured them to the side of the woods and made several quick flips, causing the tracking bullets to miss and hit the trees or rocks instead.

"Damn, is that guy driving the rental car a fighter pilot?! Driving that fast, isn't he afraid of crashing into a mountain?!" someone complained.

"I don't care if he's a fighter pilot or not, we have to shoot him down. Otherwise, how are we supposed to face our families when we get back? Losing to a rental car driver?!"

"That's true."

However, some hesitated, after all, this wasn't their territory, and causing too much trouble wouldn't be good. The flying car only had some basic weapons and equipment. The rest of the equipment had been removed by their families for safety reasons. Judging from this, it seemed that the meager weapons left on the flying car would hardly be enough to shoot down the rental car.

The surrounding cars were in hot pursuit, and Xilin maintained the high speed of the rental car almost at all times. Even if the surrounding cars could match its speed, they were like headless flies, wasting such a high-end configuration under Xilin's winding route.

With a near-vertical 90-degree turn, the pursuing flying car crashed into the dense forest and never followed again. Xilin didn't check on the car that had crashed into the woods. In any case, the protective features on those noble children's flying cars were more than enough to save their lives; at most, they would suffer a little.

Xilin sometimes finds it strange. Even if the descendants of the three kings, like Yuan Xingming, Ulagano, and Pele, went wild, they wouldn't go this far, forcibly imposing their twisted pleasure on unrelated people. If it's just the upper-class nobles, what about Naimi and the others?

A young man who doesn't go crazy is wasting his youth, but this kind of madness is already considered twisted.

Xilin absolutely did not believe that these people had a much better background than Naimi and his Szer family. They were also nobles, and people with even stronger backgrounds would not be so twisted and crazy. What were these people relying on?

Bang bang!

Two more flying cars were shaken into the woods by Xilin. He had no interest in lingering with the remaining flying cars, which could no longer form an encirclement. It would be easy for Xilin to make a quick getaway.

Thus, the rented flying car, positioned as "poor thing," easily bypassed the obstacles of buildings and trees ahead, flying away like the wind, leaving the flying car behind, which was still bumping and stumbling while dodging obstacles, further and further away until it could no longer be seen.

After making sure he had shaken off those annoying flying cars behind him, Xilin checked the direction and flew towards his target. Sensing the strange atmosphere inside the car, Xilin looked at Lunani and Libero through the rearview camera. The two were sitting there, pale-faced and dazed, gripping the safety handles tightly. Libero's legs were still trembling.

"Hey, you two, are you alright?" Xilin asked.

After a long pause, they finally heard Libero's response: "I'm... alright... right...?"

Xilin: "..."

The flying car was stopped in a grassy area to give Ribello and Lunani a moment to recover. As soon as the flying car stopped, Lunani and Ribello, who had regained their senses, rushed out to vomit.

Xilin touched his nose, realizing he'd gone a bit too far. He glanced at the gray cat beside him, who was still leisurely munching on a biscuit and about to speak. Xilin reached out and covered its mouth, which was covered in crumbs of biscuit, otherwise the cat would say something like, "You're really in poor health," which would be discouraging.

After Xilin drove the flying car away, the other flying cars also stopped. After reuniting with the people who had crashed into the woods, one of the noblemen took out a communicator and contacted several people, asking them to find the serial number of the rental car's parking space.

He had just given the order when his communicator rang.

"Hey, when are you guys coming?"

"Don't mention it, I've run into some trouble."

"Don't be ridiculous, who are you trying to fool? Who would dare to cause you trouble?" The other party seemed unconvinced.

"Damn! There really is one, just a rental car driver!"