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Chapter 61, Plan 2 Begins

Alina's words shattered Pollard's sympathy for Makachi—yes, Makachi's childhood was pitiful, but he also genuinely wanted to kill Maria Elisa.

Makachi cursed Alina in his heart for being a nuisance, opened his mouth, and was about to say something to salvage his image in Pollalid's mind.

Unexpectedly, a gunshot rang out behind him, and Makachi felt a sharp pain in his left knee. He then let out a wail, lost his balance, and knelt on the ground.

Maria Elisa's hand, which was about to reach for her gun, froze in mid-air—it wasn't her who had just fired—and then a person emerged from the woods. That person was none other than Ancadis.

That shot was fired by Ancadis.

Ankadis's expression was not good at this moment. He lowered his eyes and looked down at Makachi, who was lying on the ground. Then he raised his gun and fired a shot at Makachi's other intact leg.

The shot hit Makachi's right foot, and he let out another painful scream.

Upon seeing Ankadis, Pollalid took a step back with a hint of fear.

Ankadis didn't notice Polalid's subtle movements. He simply nodded politely to Polalid, then walked up to Maria Elisa, knelt down on one knee, and turned his head to check on Maria Elisa's injuries.

Alina explained in a timely manner: "We were lucky. The pinching didn't last too long, and I guess that person didn't use much force. Lisa only has a little bruising on her neck, and she doesn't have any breathing difficulties or other problems."

Hearing what Alina said, Ankadis breathed a sigh of relief, then tapped Maria Elisa on the forehead with a look of exasperation: "Lisa, I remember you promised me you wouldn't be so reckless again, right?"

"Hahaha." Maria Elisa laughed—she couldn't very well say that she had a mission to help Pollard complete his personality transformation!

At this moment, within the consciousness space, the system WQBYRZM was somewhat excited: "This move is dangerous, but it really works! Look at the progress bar for the personality transformation, it's soaring to 60%!"

“But let’s choose a safer method next time.” Lu Renkui touched her chest with lingering fear—when Makaqi grabbed Maria Elisa’s neck just now, she felt her own neck being grabbed as well. Luckily, Makaqi didn’t use much force, otherwise they would be on their way to the hospital right now.

Lu Renkui is quite afraid of dying.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, but after this is over, I don't think I'll do anything so dangerous again." Maria Elisa was still helped onto the spaceship by Ancadis and Alina to go to the hospital for a checkup. On the way to the hospital, she pretended to be asleep, and as soon as she entered her consciousness space, she heard Lu Renkui's words.

"How is Pollalid's personality transformation going now?" Maria Elisa asked a question she was particularly interested in.

"It's reached 60%." System WQBYRZM hummed a little tune.

“If another event were to impact Pollard, his personality transformation would be complete,” Lu Renkui answered Maria Elisa’s question.

"This incident with Makachi taught Pollalid that things should be handled one by one. No matter how pitiful a person may have been before, if they have made a mistake, then they are wrong," said System WQBYRZM.

"Also, he'll probably be more cautious when making close friends in the future," Lu Renkui added.

"Really? That sounds good. You said if you increase the progress bar a little more, you can complete your mission, right?" Maria Elisa rested her chin on her hand and began to think.

At this moment, Maria Elisa was unaware of how silent and tense the atmosphere became among the four people on the spaceship after she fell asleep.

Ankadis sat in the pilot's seat, piloting the spaceship.

Maria Elisa sat side by side with Alina behind Ankadis, curled up with her head resting on Alina's lap as she slept.

Pollalid sat behind the three, feeling uneasy.

The wounds inflicted on Makachi by Ankadis were given a quick treatment by Alina, and then he was tied up and left on the floor, where no one paid him any attention.

“Let’s go to the hospital first, then we’ll dump that guy at the Polande’s house,” Ankadis said, announcing the next steps.

"Actually, we could have just sent that guy Makachi to the Polande family first. I think I'm fine."

Maria Elisa left the consciousness space and opened her eyes to hear Ankadis speaking. After listening, she casually added, "I'd rather go to the Poland family's house and have some fun than go to the hospital."

Alina covered Maria Elisa's mouth with her hand and said, "Go to the hospital first. If you want to go see some fun, you have to wait until your physical examination is over."

Maria Elisa was unable to speak because her mouth was covered. After making two muffled protests, she closed her eyes and went back to sleep.

After Maria Elisa's medical check-up revealed she was unharmed, everyone except Macaqi and Maria Elisa breathed a sigh of relief—Maria Elisa felt nothing because she already knew she was alright. Macaqi, however, had reached the peak of his resentment towards Maria Elisa; he desperately wanted something to happen to her.

After leaving the hospital, Ankadis piloted his spaceship and took Makachi to the planet where the Polande family lived.

The spacecraft stopped at the designated location as directed by ground personnel.

As soon as the spaceship hatch opened, Balja Poland, the eldest grandson of the current patriarch of the Poland family, came to greet them.

"Welcome to my humble abode," said Baria Polande with a smile on his round face to Ankadis. "I'm so sorry that kid Macachi caused you trouble."

Ankadis didn't speak, but instead looked at Maria Elisa, who was standing to the side and curiously observing Balia Polande.

When Balja Poland saw that Ankadis didn't reply to him, he instead looked at a woman named B beside him.

After a moment of stunned silence, Balja Polande noticed the bruises on Maria Elisa's neck and vaguely guessed that Makachi might have injured this woman.

It's not hard to guess who this woman B is—of the two children Mr. Ottolai publicly announced, one is an adopted daughter. Ankadis doesn't have any rumored romantic relationships yet, but he spoils his adopted daughter a lot.

Judging from Ankadis's attitude towards this woman, one can probably guess that she is Maria Elisa Otolay, the adopted daughter of the Otolay family.

Once he realized who he really needed to apologize to, Baria Polande immediately gave Maria Elisa an even more apologetic smile and said, "I'm so sorry, Miss Otolay, that guy Macachi has caused you trouble."

When Maria Elisa said she didn't care much about it, Baria Polandra breathed a sigh of relief, then began to list Makachi's crimes from childhood: "This guy has been ruthless since he was a child. Because he felt that his own mother no longer loved him, he cruelly murdered her. Isn't that terrifying? And also..."

As Balja Polande recounted Makachi's crimes from childhood, Maria Elisa noticed that Pollalid's face was gradually turning pale.

Pollalid knew that Makachi might lie to him, but he didn't expect that Makachi had been lying to him all along—it turned out that the things Makachi told were all embellished to gain his sympathy.

After hearing Balja Poland say that before Makachi, he had cut off a finger of a female Omega he couldn't win over, preventing her from continuing her beloved music career, Pollalid closed her eyes, no longer wanting to listen.

Although Balja Poland said that the Poland family later compensated the female O with money so that she could get a new bionic finger, Pollalid still felt a lingering fear.

"Wow, the progress bar has gone up again!" System WQBYRZM exclaimed in surprise.

“Makachi is truly terrifying.” Lu Renkui listened to what Baria Polande was saying, although he couldn’t rule out the possibility that there might be some exaggeration in what he said. But the original text did describe exactly what Makachi had done—it was true that he killed his own mother, and it was also true that he cut off the fingers of the female Omega he couldn’t win over.

"If you really encounter a yandere in real life, you have no choice but to call the police," Lu Renkui said.

"Would very few people choose a psychologically twisted person to accompany them in real life?" System WQBYRZM casually chimed in after hearing what Lu Renkui said.

After leaving Makachi at the Poland family's house, Ankadis piloted his spaceship back to Ithanar with the rest of the crew.

Along the way, Ankadis and Alina kept thinking about a question they couldn't understand—with Maria Elisa's abilities, dodging Macaqi would have been no problem at all, so why was Maria Elisa still choked by Macaqi?

Pollalid felt guilty, resentful, and remorseful.

He felt guilty for not noticing Makachi's strange behavior earlier. He even felt a little sympathy for Makachi when Makachi clearly wanted to kill Maria and Elisa, despite Makachi's attempts to gain sympathy.

He was unwilling to accept that he was not strong enough, because if Makachi had any intention of attacking him, he would be completely outmatched.

Maria Elisa felt guilty because she was perfectly fine, yet she was repeatedly hurt because of her own actions.

Maria Elisa, on the other hand, was thinking about how to make up for the remaining 40% of Pollard's progress bar.

Taking Pollard to Cladda should have been impactful enough, right? Speaking of which, did my brother bring any guards? Maybe I should take them all to Cladda in a couple of days. Maria Elisa thought to herself, adding a few more details to her previous plan.