Chapter 31
The moment Shu Ci stepped onto it, a pale blue beam of light, originating from the black crystal as its center, shot straight into the sky, enveloping him.
Lu Wanqing took a step back and tilted his head.
Along the coastline of Longji Island, eight beams of light, equidistant from each other, lit up one after another. They traced elegant arcs in the air, converging at the center of the beam surrounding Shu Ci.
The camellia necklace around his neck was illuminated, flashing with a faint purple light.
Lu Wanqing frowned slightly.
The camellia necklace seemed to be more than just an accessory to help Shu Ci suppress his pheromone disorder; its subtle energy fluctuations resonated almost harmoniously with the beam.
Soon, the scene before him proved his guess.
The light beam above reflected on the necklace, forming a pale barrier on the empty ground between them. Countless characters were projected onto it, rapidly scanned by the beam.
Lu Wanqing couldn’t see the specific content from his angle.
But undoubtedly, the camellia necklace held Shu Ci’s inheritance qualifications.
At this moment, Shu Ci and the necklace together initiated the inheritance ceremony of Longji Island. Countless beams of light, filled with complex energy, simultaneously verified the authenticity of the heir’s identity and transferred the island’s authority.
Lu Wanqing watched the brilliant lights above the island, lost in thought.
Shu Ci stood in the center of the beam, his arms tensely at his sides.
Through the beam, he could see Lu Wanqing’s tall and straight, hazy figure, which slightly eased his anxiety.
However, after watching for a while, he suddenly noticed a few wisps of black energy faintly emanating from Lu Wanqing, scattered all over his body.
Shu Ci blinked, trying to see more clearly, but the beam enveloping him began to dissipate, gradually forming a wave pattern. It flickered a few times, forming a string of light characters before him:
——Inheritance confirmed. Please have the new owner enter the main building to restart the system.
After he nodded, all the light instantly disappeared. Rubbing his eyes again, the black energy on Lu Wanqing had also vanished.
“The main building, is it that building behind us?” Shu Ci turned his head, his thoughtful gaze falling on the places where he had just seen the black energy, though they were hidden perfectly under Lu Wanqing’s dark blue uniform.
“Mm.” Lu Wanqing caught up in a single step, walking beside him, maintaining a perfectly appropriate distance. “Do you know what your father did for a living after he left home?”
Shu Ci was stunned, remembering the secrets he had exchanged with Lu Wanqing during his heat cycle. Lu Wanqing already knew he wasn’t the person who originally married him, so he wasn’t asking about the original owner, but about him.
“I don’t know.” He looked at the technologically advanced main building in the distance. “He must have been a significant figure.”
“A pity. From the time he left home to the time he brought you back, it’s almost impossible to find Shu Changze’s name.” Lu Wanqing shook his head. If he was a significant figure, he must have been living under an assumed name. “The island inheritance ceremony just now was a bio-information inheritance.”
“What’s that?” Shu Ci said, placing his palm on the main building’s identification lock. The door opened.
The lights inside the building were heat-sensitive, turning on one by one as he entered.
“The simplest inheritance ceremonies are agreement inheritance and legal inheritance. As long as you meet the legal inheritance conditions or have signed an agreement with the property owner, you can directly handle the inheritance procedures with a lawyer. A bit stricter is pheromone inheritance, where the heir’s pheromones are verified during the inheritance process before they can obtain the right to control the inheritance.”
“And what about the bio-information inheritance you mentioned?”
“It’s the highest and strictest of all inheritance methods. When selecting an heir, all their biological information characteristics are stored. During the inheritance, they are matched one by one. If any one part doesn’t match, the inheritance will fail.”
Shu Ci stopped in the main hall of the main building: “Is that why they chose this method because of my pheromone disorder? Leaving a will might be discovered by the Shu family, but there’s no guarantee that my pheromones would be the same after death, so this inheritance method is the safest.”
“But this method requires extremely confidential technology.” Lu Wanqing looked at him deeply. “As far as I know, it has never been used in property inheritance. Only when a ruler needs to pass the highest power to another candidate would they use this method.”
A draft blew in from the main building’s entrance, and Shu Ci shivered.
The history books and magazines he had read since his arrival now came in handy. He almost didn’t need Lu Wanqing’s explanation to understand the meaning of his words.
Before the establishment of the parliamentary and electoral systems, the concentration of power was more like an animal society, with Alphas competing for power in a survival-of-the-fittest mode. Only the strongest Alpha was qualified to stand at the peak.
But they were ultimately human, and humans have varying degrees of closeness and distance.
Regulations gradually restricted Alphas from freely fighting each other in public, and life gradually moved away from bloodshed and violence, becoming more peaceful. The consideration of strength during the transfer of power gradually became secondary, and whether the successor could continue to provide benefits and protection to the descendants of the family became a new consideration. Even the various families in the current parliament still have shadows of ancient political factions.
To ensure that the successor was their chosen candidate, the inheritance method for the highest power became increasingly strict.
Under this model, there were only two paths for those who were not chosen as heirs but coveted power.
——Become the new core confidant, or seize power before the new successor selects a next-generation candidate.
Bloody apex turnovers once again surged.
Winning over, sowing discord, scheming, overt strategies… the evil of human nature intensified without constraints. After countless generations of sacrifices and explorations, several families ultimately stood at the top of power in a state of mutual check and balance.
After the people and parliament elected leaders, the extremely strict bio-information inheritance ceremony gradually faded from people’s sight along with the burial of the old system.
Shu Ci listened to Lu Wanqing’s supplementary details, his heart heavy as he looked up at the intricately designed ceiling of the main building.
Shu Changze was a significant figure in every sense.
“Please have the new owner proceed to the top-floor system control room, and please have the guest proceed to the rest room.” Two robots rolled out from a corner, moving in front of the two men.
Shu Ci hesitated, meeting Lu Wanqing’s calm gaze. He nodded slightly to himself, Shu Ci smiled faintly, then followed the robot to the stairwell.
Lu Wanqing wasn’t worried. Just looking at the defense system on the borders of Longji Island’s waters, he knew that Shu Ci was not in danger here. But he didn’t go to the rest room; he simply walked to a corner, leaned against the wall, and took out his communication device.
He connected to the internal network database, logged into the sub-database of the Far Region ore mining, and found the number of the black crystal. The destination of each extracted item was tracked.
There were nine extracts in total. Four were acquired and stored by domestic and foreign official organizations; three were initially obtained by entrepreneurs and constantly transferred in subsequent auctions, now under the names of Gu’s Group, the Shen family, and an overseas company.
The last two’s ownership was listed as: “Individual, Unknown Name.”
Lu Wanqing stared at the words for a while, closed the internal network, and leaned against the wall.
His whole person was shrouded in shadow.
In the system control room, Shu Ci followed the instructions on the screen.
The whole process wasn’t difficult. Only when he signed his name with a stylus on the display screen, his signature flowing across the screen, and the control room’s lights changed to multicolored to welcome the island’s new owner, did he realize that he truly owned an entire island!
The signature he signed was one he designed himself, the final stroke ending with a flourish.
The writing seemed more unrestrained than he was.
Shu Ci adjusted the island’s defense system back to its pre-inheritance state, preparing to leave, when the large screen in the control room suddenly flickered, and a video suddenly appeared.
A gentle man in a white coat stood in the center of the screen.
The scene behind him was clearly the same as the control room.
Shu Ci stared at him without blinking. The man’s handsome eyebrows held a faint shadow beneath them, and his hair and eye color were similar to that of a Shu family elder, but this man was brighter, more striking.
Undoubtedly, this was his unseen father, Shu Changze.
“Ahem.” The man on the screen straightened his collar. “If you can see this video, it means you have come of age and successfully inherited Longji Island. First of all, congratulations on growing up successfully!”
Shu Changze paused, his expression hesitant.
“I’m not going to guess why you came to the island; the scenarios I envisioned are not very optimistic.” He pulled the corner of his mouth. “Originally, I let you inherit it in the hope that this island could be your last shield. You must have had some bad luck getting here.”
Shu Ci couldn’t help but chuckle.
Indeed, being kidnapped by Gu Lan, escaping in the middle of it all and arriving here, certainly couldn’t be called optimistic.
“You can use this island freely, for profit or as a private island, but the main building cannot be entered by anyone you don’t trust.” Shu Changze slowly instructed him. “This island contains some of my research, including the research on your disorder. I’m not quite sure about the current situation in academia, I don’t know whether it is suitable to be made public, so I’ve set up some Q&A.”
Shu Changze succinctly taught Shu Ci how to enter the room and system where he stored his research results.
“Only those who pass my Q&A are qualified to inherit these results—don’t worry, it certainly won’t be you; your mind is always on acting, and your dad has never had any hope for your academic abilities—at least it has to be a medical school graduate.”
“…” Shu Ci listened to Shu Changze’s interjected criticism, feeling that both he and the original owner had been subtly insulted.
“That’s all I have to say. I have to go make you some food.” Shu Changze looked at his watch in the video; there was more haste in his expression. “Ah, right, the last thing isn’t important.”
Shu Changze took off his lab coat and tidied his brown hair in front of the camera.
“You’re not my biological son, you know? So don’t be too weak in front of my family, you don’t have to pay back their debts for me, you never owed them anything.”
Shu Ci stood frozen in place, the sound of the sea wind whistling in his ears.
Volume 1 – Complete
Author’s Note:
Volume 1: Gold and Silver Fill the Shelves, Fragrance Abounds (taken from (Qing Dynasty, Cai Chun’s “Honeysuckle”: “Gold and silver are earned, the world is busy, flowers bloom gold and silver full shelves, fragrance abounds”)
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Little Yuanbao needs to update to the latest system; the IOS version seems not to be available yet (:з」∠)
1% of the solution is not achieved overnight. I feel that I am making progress every chapter; my love, it will happen, hugs will be given, everything will be alright, don’t worry~