The red-haired beauty stared at Brian Carter for quite a while, making Ethan Cooper feel a bit uneasy. Suddenly, she covered her mouth and laughed. Brian Carter noticed that when she smiled, there was a mischievous dimple on her left cheek. “So this is the Ghost Shadow you caught?”

Ghost Shadow, the most mysterious assassin in the universe, and also the unluckiest. It’s said he only committed one crime in his life, yet became one of the universe’s few super-wanted criminals because of it.

The chubby Noah Bennett blushed and stammered, “We… we thought…”

“What you thought, I don’t know, and I don’t want to know.” The red-haired beauty scolded them as if they were children. “You secret police really are something—actually bringing in a primitive who hasn’t even opened his seventh brain region to impersonate Ghost Shadow. Come on, can’t you be a bit more professional? If you’re going to find a stand-in, at least pick someone who looks the part.”

Sweat began to bead on Noah Bennett’s forehead. He pulled out a handkerchief and wiped his brow. “We happened to patrol Earth by chance and found he was carrying a Mohr stone pendant exactly like Ghost Shadow’s.”

After speaking, he took a red pendant from his pocket and handed it to the red-haired beauty. The pendant looked like a drop of bright red blood about to fall, with a yellow tag attached. The two large characters on the tag, Evidence, were particularly eye-catching.

The red-haired beauty glanced at it briefly, flicked her wrist, and tossed the pendant back to Brian Carter. Brian Carter caught it in one hand, thinking, “Brother, you’ve really gotten me into trouble this time. When I picked you up, I thought I’d found a treasure, but instead, I ended up spending half a month in wrongful imprisonment—for aliens, no less.”

Without thinking much more, Brian Carter tore off the tag and put the pendant back around his neck.

“Those pendants go for fifty star coins each on the open market—you can get as many as you want. Does that mean everyone wearing one is Ghost Shadow?” the red-haired beauty said disdainfully. “Besides, Ghost Shadow wearing a blood-drop-shaped Mohr stone pendant is just a legend. In reality, no one knows what he actually looks like.”

“But he’s just a primitive—how could he have a Mohr stone pendant? Isn’t that suspicious?” Noah Bennett was still trying to defend himself.

The red-haired beauty was getting annoyed. She said coldly, “So what if a primitive has a Mohr stone pendant? Have you investigated their planet? Maybe their planet produces Mohr stones.”

Noah Bennett fell silent, wiping his sweaty face with his handkerchief, so nervous it seemed the red-haired beauty might eat him alive at any moment.

Brian Carter frowned slightly and said firmly, “Sorry, miss, I have to interrupt you. My name is Brian Carter, I’m an Earthling, not some primitive.”

The red-haired beauty turned her head, looking at Brian Carter in surprise. “Miss? I like that title, but unfortunately, in my eyes, you’re still a primitive. That’s an unchangeable fact.”

Her gaze was like a human observing a monkey, making Brian Carter very uncomfortable.

“Miss,” Brian Carter flashed a bright, sunny smile, “I really am a human, not a primitive who hunts with stone tools.”

The red-haired beauty laughed. “Oh? You think not hunting with stone tools means you’re not a primitive?” As she spoke, she pulled a palm-sized microcomputer from her pocket and pressed a button.

Whoosh!

A light screen suddenly appeared. The red-haired beauty quickly typed in the word “Earth.”

“Earth, discovered three years ago by the cosmic explorer Maidoff. Its civilization level is between a primitive planet and a level-one civilized planet. Seventy billion Earthlings are actually divided into 224 countries.”

“The probability of an Earthling opening the seventh brain region is one in a hundred million. Defined by the Pan-Human Alliance as a level 0.5 civilized planet.” The red-haired beauty read the information about Earth from the light screen, her tone full of mockery.

“Sorry, but Earth is only a level 0.5 civilized planet, so in the eyes of most cosmic civilizations, you’re just a bunch of primitives who’ve only just learned to look up at the stars.”

Noah Bennett laughed along, his huge beer belly jiggling.

The red-haired beauty shot Noah Bennett a cold glance. “You think you have the right to laugh? If you ask me, you secret police from Hailan Star are even worse than primitives—a bunch of idiots!”

Noah Bennett awkwardly stopped laughing, scratching his fat head, not daring to talk back at all.

Brian Carter was speechless. For the first time in his life, he realized how hard it was to prove he was human.

“First, Earth has already formed a planetary federation as required by the Pan-Human Alliance. Second, our current probability of opening the brain region has reached one in a million. Third…”

Brian Carter paused for a moment, then sighed, “Forget it, what’s the point of arguing with you? What does it matter to me whether Earth is a civilized planet or not?”

The red-haired beauty smiled playfully. “How can you say it doesn’t matter? After all, Earth is your home planet, even if it is a bit primitive and backward.”

Brian Carter stood up and stretched lazily. “So what if Earth is a high-level civilization? No matter how rich the government is, they won’t give me any money. I still have to work every day, pay my taxes and my rent on time.”