After Waking Up I Inherited the Earth [Interstellar] – CH8

Chapter 8

Afraid he’d run into that pair of weird brothers again, Xie Xingchen shut the door as soon as he found his room.

Before he even put down the fresh-keep boxes in his hands, he voice-commanded his light-brain to blacklist the Fu brothers’ contact IDs. After thinking for a moment, Xie Xingchen also mass-blacklisted the contact info of the Fu family’s relatives and friends.

Watching a full one-third of his contacts list get wiped out in an instant, Xie Xingchen felt speechless.

After putting the fresh-keep boxes into the fridge, Xie Xingchen decided to go all the way. He didn’t even sleep—he started cleaning up his contacts list.

There were many names in Xie Xingchen’s contacts list, but not a single one could truly be called a friend.

After clearing out every last “stray fish” connected to the Fu family, Xie Xingchen deleted a bunch of classmates who looked annoying just from their names. In the end, he found that his contacts list only had instructors, childhood classmates, his parents’ friends, and families who had known theirs for generations.

The list was so short he could see the end of it on a single page. Xie Xingchen sighed again, feeling even more that the original owner had been foolish.

With no friends and no family, the original owner had poured all his time and feelings into those two brothers. And now? He’d lost everything down to the last coin.

Xie Xingchen propped his chin up gloomily, his gaze empty, not knowing where to let it land.

“Beep-beep~”

A notification tone from the light-brain rose in pitch—distinctly different from the others.

Hearing that sound, Xie Xingchen couldn’t help sighing again.

It was the admin of the Advanced Academy class group @All—notification tone.

The original owner got engaged at 18, entered the Advanced Academy at 19, got married at 20, and got divorced at 22.

All higher academies in the Star Alliance used a credit system. As long as a student completed enough credits and class hours, then submitted an internship certificate showing sufficient internship time, they could graduate once the review was approved.

Last September, Xie Xingchen entered the final semester of the academy—internship term. This February, he submitted his internship report and certificate for the planting major. After more than a month of review, in early April he received his diploma, and all that was left was to attend the graduation ceremony with everyone in June to officially close out his academy life.

But… if the diploma was already in hand, then whether he attended the graduation ceremony didn’t really matter, right?

Thinking of how, after his own university graduation in his previous life, the group chat had nothing of value besides reunion notices and a few classmates showing off, Xie Xingchen felt the urge to leave the group.

After checking the original owner’s memories and seeing those classmates weren’t exactly nice to him either, Xie Xingchen immediately acted.

He first dug out every group the original owner had joined at the Advanced Academy—class group, dorm group, homework group, club group… and so on—then cleanly hit one-key batch exit. And after leaving, he still wasn’t done: he even blacklisted a few particularly annoying instructors.

Anyway, the diploma’s already in hand. If I delete you, I delete you. Do whatever you want.

Xie Xingchen felt great, but the classmates and instructors in the groups were completely baffled.

[Did Xie Xingchen just leave the group? Did he fat-finger it?]
[Holy crap, what’s wrong with him? Did he get triggered?]
[I just checked—he even left the dorm group.]
[I’m in the same club as him. Looks like he left the club group too.]
[Wait, he even left the advisor’s internship group?]
[No way—Xie Xingchen is that bold? He even dares to leave the advisor’s internship group?!]

He left too many groups at once, and it immediately sparked heated discussion.

[Honestly, he should’ve gotten his diploma already, right? If so, it doesn’t really matter whether he stays or leaves.]
[The question is whether he’ll come back in June for the graduation ceremony. Judging by how he’s leaving groups, he probably won’t?]

Every year there were people who didn’t come back for graduation—those people were either arrogant, withdrawn, or had accidents.

Xie Xingchen wasn’t arrogant, and he wasn’t withdrawn either. Quite the opposite: because the Xie family used to run planting operations, Xie Xingchen had actually been pretty attentive to his classmates in the planting major. And he was generous—often treating people, and even willing to contribute rare plants to the class. So no one expected he’d do something so blunt as leaving without a shred of face.

[Forget it. If Xie Xingchen wants to come or not, whatever. His popularity wasn’t good anyway.]
Someone said sourly.

But others felt it was because the classmates had gone too far, so Xie Xingchen did this.

[I didn’t want to say anything, but now I really can’t hold it in. Honestly, if I were Xie Xingchen, I wouldn’t come either. Look at what kind of snobs you all are? You eat his stuff, take his stuff, and then talk trash about him—what is there to miss?]

As soon as that was posted, someone immediately blew up.

[Fan Yimeng, what do you mean by that?]
[What do I mean? I mean exactly what it says. Am I wrong? Didn’t you eat his stuff? Didn’t you take his stuff? Didn’t you talk trash about him?]

The person arguing with Fan Yimeng instantly went quiet.

Fan Yimeng didn’t feel pleased—he felt extremely bored.

Even though he and Yu Cheng were friends, and even though Xie Xingchen often got snarky about Yu Cheng and occasionally cursed at him, he genuinely felt some people in the class were too much.

Even Yu Cheng—the actual “victim”—hadn’t targeted Xie Xingchen, yet these people used Yu Cheng’s name to gang up on him. Fan Yimeng was truly speechless.

Xie Xingchen had no idea his group-leaving had made his classmates get into a fierce argument. Leaving groups was leaving groups—he’d left, and that was that.

After dealing with all that annoying stuff, Xie Xingchen went to the bathroom for a shower.

Although the model of starship he was riding was old, the first-class cabin conditions were pretty decent.

The fifty-square-meter mini suite had a comfortable master bedroom of over thirty square meters, plus a small study with a bed. 

This much space was more than enough for just him.

And for hygiene, safety, and comfort, first class also had dedicated housekeeping robots responsible for cleaning. There was even a special sleep-aid aroma set on the nightstand.

After coming out of the bathroom, Xie Xingchen poured the sleep-aid essential oil from the nightstand into the diffuser, then turned on the diffuser’s built-in sleep light.

After switching the room into sleep mode, Xie Xingchen sank into sleep beneath the diffuser’s dim yellow glow.

Earth was very far from the central planet. Even by starship, it would take three and a half days to reach. And during those three and a half days, Xie Xingchen didn’t sit idle—he spent three days learning common knowledge from the preschool channel.

By the time he arrived at Yuyang Star, Xie Xingchen felt his efforts hadn’t been wasted at all—through the preschool channel, his understanding of the Star Alliance had climbed another step.

After reaching Yuyang Star, the first thing Xie Xingchen did was look for an energy merchant.

Originally, he only wanted to buy a few crates of energy stones. But the merchant refused to sell retail. In the end, Xie Xingchen bargained for a long time, and finally got the merchant to agree to a wholesale price—on the condition that Xie Xingchen had to purchase ten million star-coins’ worth of goods.

“When you go back, you absolutely can’t tell anyone you only bought ten million worth, okay? Otherwise I’ll get pestered to death. My wholesale pricing here starts at a hundred million.”

Afraid Xie Xingchen would cause trouble, the merchant warned him again and again.

Although the price he sold Xie Xingchen was a bit higher than what he gave some other customers, he had indeed broken his own rules, and it would be bad if his old clients found out.

Xie Xingchen nodded repeatedly, grinning as he promised again and again, “Boss, don’t worry. No matter who asks, I won’t say a word. If your energy stones are good, I’ll definitely come again in the future!”

Xie Xingchen was just saying polite buyer-talk—like chatting with a shop owner after haggling and closing a deal.

And this time he definitely wasn’t losing out. With no middleman taking a cut, and because he was buying on an energy planet in a remote star system, the price of this batch of energy stones was almost half the market price!
He had to admit this wholesaler’s pricing was genuinely good!
Once he got back to Earth and installed the small wormhole receiver, he could open a shop on StarNet Mall and sell off the surplus energy stones. And if you rounded it out that way, the energy stones he used for himself would basically be free!
So even though his usable funds were down to only twenty million, Xie Xingchen was still willing to take out ten million to buy energy stones.

Don’t ask him where the remaining 16.5 billion went. About that, Xie Xingchen only wanted to say—waste! land! planets! are! a! scam!

He wouldn’t even talk about the ten billion star-coins annual fee for a wasteland planet. After all, it was basically a security fee—once it was paid, the space around Earth would have military and patrols cruising at irregular intervals, and if alien beasts were discovered, the Star Alliance would dispatch troops immediately.

But besides that hard requirement, while he was still on the starship, Xie Xingchen suddenly received another message—every planet lord had to build an interstellar port within half a year of purchasing a planet, so assisting millitary forces or the annual inspection teams would have a place to land.

And the construction standard for a small starport started at two hundred billion. Even with remote wasteland-planet subsidies and discounts, Xie Xingchen still had to pay 16.5 billion star-coins—meaning he’d spend every last bit of the money he’d kept in reserve.

He’d been down to twenty million already, and now he’d spent another ten million. Xie Xingchen was so poor he could only sigh again and again.

Mechanical Trading House, Yuyang Star branch

The sighing Xie Xingchen finally ran into something worth being happy about once he arrived.

Because he had spent a lot at the Mechanical Trading House, they could provide one free delivery.

This was perfect. Since he didn’t know how to pilot a star cruiser, Xie Xingchen had originally planned to pay someone to send him to Earth. Now he was overjoyed.

He shamelessly had the energy merchant’s people move the energy stones into his star cruiser waiting to be picked up, and he piggybacked on the Mechanical Trading House’s delivery, leaving the shop staff no choice but to let him take advantage.

A large star cruiser was pretty fast. In less than half a day, the star cruiser reached the vicinity of Earth.

When he saw that Earth again, Xie Xingchen felt a strange stirring in his heart.

Ever since realizing he’d arrived in the interstellar era, his heart had been restless. But at this moment, it finally quieted down—as if just seeing this planet, he suddenly had roots.

[Ding-dong. Detected: Player has successfully entered Earth territory sphere of influence. Bind territory?]

Xie Xingchen snapped back to himself and nodded solemnly. “Bind.”

[Ding-dong. Player “Xie Xingchen” has successfully bound terri—Earth.]

[Ding-dong. Welcome, Infrastructure Maniac System.]

[System Message: Dear player, charging complete. Game has started. Please choose a route within ten minutes. Countdown: 00:09:59]

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