A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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Officer Wang used iris recognition to open the secure cabinet and took out an encrypted USB drive with a chip: "Your military files and personal assets have been entered into the security system. To unseal them, we need to verify a few biometric information."

He gestured for Gao Tian to place his thumb on the scanner, where a red light grid could be seen in the fingerprint grooves.

Gao Tian pressed the button, the scanning system activated, and the touch screen on the wall lit up with a 3D model, beginning to scan Gao Tian's entire body for information.

Fingerprints, pupils, bone age, constitution, blood type, genes, carbon-14 dating...

All known testing items that cannot be changed in a short period of time must be verified.

Different project data are suspended and rotated in a semi-transparent state.

Officer Wang brought up the data transmission interface, where encrypted data streams were displayed on the projector. All the results had to be uploaded to the military headquarters.

The data stream keeps changing.

The tests are randomly selected, one after another.

All items are connected to an alarm system. If any item is not working properly, the detector will directly connect to high voltage, electrocuting the person being tested until they lose the ability to move and then dragging them out.

The test took more than two hours.

The last result was submitted, and Officer Wang came to help Gao Tian remove the testing device from his body: "All the testing items have been completed."

The efficiency of interstellar work is very fast. Not long after, Officer Wang received the confirmation document from the military system and pressed the confirmation button on the test results.

"Major General Gao Tian, ​​there are no problems. You may come down now."

The results have been approved, and the sealed files are being unlocked layer by layer in different systems.

The previously sealed "High Heaven" file has been changed from gray to color again.

Gao Tian stared at his portrait on the rotating file on the floating screen; the 8K display showed a very clear image.

...It turns out he really did have a bitter and resentful expression before.

Ouch.

Everyone has moments of immense pressure.

It is born by heart.

Now when he looks in the mirror, he feels that he is different from before.

"This is an electronic signature screen. Please sign here."

Officer Wang handed over the electromagnetic stylus, and the screen automatically displayed a confirmation document with a national emblem watermark.

The anti-counterfeiting pattern changes color slightly under the pressure of the pen tip, and Gao Tian's signature looks just like the handwriting he left in all his previous signatures.

A "ding-dong" sound.

The handwriting verification has also been passed.

The military's electronic seal and the emblem of the Federation of Humanity appeared on the screen, while the central broadcasting system broadcast a solemn, mechanically synthesized message to the entire military district office:

[Broken halberds and sunken sands, souls returned to the mountains and rivers;]

Having overcome life and death, we return to camp in triumph.

The mountains and rivers once concealed the shadows of warring souls, but now you break through the fog and embark on your journey home!

The passion remains undiminished; let us forge new achievements!

As soon as the central broadcast came on, everyone knew that a soldier who had been presumed dead had returned and his file had been unsealed.

This is truly a joyous occasion.

Everyone who heard the broadcast started clapping enthusiastically.

Officer Wang placed Gao Tian's military terminal onto the verification device.

The military server has reported that the unblocking was successful.

All of Gao Tian's assets have been unfrozen and returned to his personal account.

Officer Wang handed Gao Tian's terminal back to him with both hands: "Congratulations, Major General Gao Tian."

"Thank you." Gao Tian and he bowed slightly to each other.

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After the files are unsealed, we'll be heading back.

Gao Tian took his terminal and walked out, but before he even left the archives room, the terminal rang, and he received another communication from the instructor.

What is it now?

"Hello?" Gao Tian answered the call.

"Is your file decrypted?" the instructor asked on the other end of the communication.

"It's done." Gao Tian, ​​still puzzled, answered truthfully.

"That's great," Instructor Chen Feng said. "Since you've come all this way, don't waste it. You might as well collect Gao Xing and Qin Qin's inheritance while you're at it."

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Gao Tian is an orphan; both his parents have passed away.

When he was only three years old and had no capacity for independent action, he was almost killed by his relatives because of his inheritance.

A three-year-old child carrying a large sum of money in a busy market will be murdered for his money.

This chaotic situation was only exposed after it was later revealed.

The military took the initiative to seal up his parents' inheritance and sent him to the military region's orphanage.

Most of the children raised in the military region's orphanages will join the army, which can be considered as cultivating future forces for the military region.

Orphans from military regions who have no parents will have their basic living and education expenses covered by the military region. Once they reach adulthood and have the capacity for independent action, they can apply to have their inheritance unsealed.

Gao Tian entered later, and he knew clearly that the original child had frozen to death on a snowy night when he was three years old.

Because he felt it was strange to take his parents' inheritance, Gao Tian had never applied to the military to unfreeze Gao Xing and Qin Qin's inheritance, even after so many years of adulthood.

But actually, lifting the lockdown isn't necessarily a bad thing.

He doesn't lack money; that inheritance is for that child, and he can't take that money.

But he could quietly erect a nameless tombstone, put the items inside, and place the belongings of his family of three in the grave, thus arranging a joint burial for Gao Xing and his family.

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Gao Xing and Qin Qin's estate was actually quite small; the majority of it consisted of compensation.

After his background was verified, Gao Tian inherited the estate of Gao Xing and his wife.

The military's sealed archives contain a clear record of every income and expenditure, ensuring there are no errors.

After retiring from the military, Gao Xing became just an ordinary non-commissioned officer on a remote planet, earning only a few thousand yuan a month. Qin Qin was a civilian employee in the military, and her salary wasn't particularly high either, not much different from Gao Xing's.

They also have to raise children. In the interstellar era, natural food is very expensive, and children are money-devouring beasts, spending money like water. They can't save much money at the end of the year.

Fortunately, they own a house on satellite 78; otherwise, with their savings, they might not even be able to afford to rent a house.

The house was left to Qinqin by her parents.

There are very few residents on Satellite 78. The land is vast and sparsely populated, and houses are not valuable, so basically every family can live in a small villa.

Gao Xing's family home isn't big; it's a two-story villa, only about 150 square meters, with a small yard.

They weren't exactly poor, nor were they wealthy; they lived an ordinary life, but they could still be described as a happy family.

The archives contain old images of that house.

It's a small house with flowers in the yard, which perfectly matches Gao Tian's impression of home.

But that house is gone now.

In June 3294, a low-level insectoid race invaded the 78th satellite of the Human Federation of the Solar System.

In the face of the global insect plague, Satellite 78, being a peripheral non-military satellite without a military base and insufficient military defenses, was caught off guard and directly wiped out by the insect swarm.

—The entire Satellite 78 was bitten into ruins, almost all the guards were killed in the line of duty, and only one in ten of the satellite's inhabitants survived.

All organic matter was swept away and devoured by the swarm of insects, and the remains of the victims could not be recovered.

The children on the satellite were the first to be evacuated. Apart from a few particularly important research ships, almost all the spacecraft were used to evacuate these children.

A massive swarm of black insects swept towards Satellite 78, while the spacecraft carrying the planet's children escaped this hell from the other side.

In the end, almost only these children were evacuated.

Xiao Gaotian is one of them.

Initially, the assets that could be traced were directly distributed to the children. That period was an era of interstellar turmoil, with too many people losing their only child, and the military did not have the resources to arrange resettlement for each one individually.

Those with relatives were sent to relatives; those without relatives were sent to orphanages.

Gao Xing is an orphan, but Qin Qin has other relatives. Xiao Gao Tian was entrusted to their care while his relatives were still alive.

At first, the relatives were nice to Xiao Gaotian, but raising a child is such a troublesome thing.

It's like a precious gem for a day or two, and can be endured for ten or eight days, but not for a hundred or eighty days.

Six months later, the relatives took Gao Xing's inheritance for themselves, and Xiao Gaotian was regarded as a burden and thrown into a snowdrift outside the orphanage wall.

He could have anonymously sent Xiao Gaotian to an orphanage, just like any other abandoned child, where Xiao Gaotian could have survived.

However, fearing that Xiao Gaotian was already old enough to remember things and would come back when he grew up to expose his embezzlement of the inheritance, he decided to go all the way and kill Xiao Gaotian directly.

Prior to this, the military did not have a procedure for managing the estates of military personnel. It was a time of war and chaos, and the military did not have the extra resources to find out what happened to the war orphans who were sent to their relatives.

Later, the orphanage teacher helped three-year-old Gao Tian to report the murder to the police. When the incident was exposed, the military investigated and found that he was not an isolated case.

The survival rate of orphans of soldiers who were given up for adoption by relatives is alarming.

A number of people were executed during that period.

Later, the military added regulations regarding estate management.

All inheritance must be claimed by the heir upon reaching adulthood. In the event of the heir's death, the inheritance will be permanently sealed, and the relatives will be held accountable, even in the case of accidental death.

At the same time, we should strengthen the consideration of the orphans' own wishes when sending them for adoption, and allow the orphans to choose whether to go to a relative's home or an orphanage.

Only with the constraints of both law and bullets can the situation of killing children because of soldiers' deaths and relatives' greed for inheritance be fundamentally prevented.