Gavin Carter finally spoke: "But this is just a stopgap, to deal with unwelcome guests. I wouldn't dare jeopardize Miss Brooks's future."

Emily Brooks pouted and said nothing. Although this proved that this guy was as annoyingly straight as ever and didn't take the opportunity to cling on... but why did it still sound so irritating?

On the other hand, Lucas Reed seemed even more relaxed after hearing this, looking at Gavin Carter for quite a while before suddenly smiling and saying, "What's with his old-fashioned way of speaking?"

Emily Brooks replied with a straight face, "Raised in secret since childhood, hasn't seen much of the world. Just ignore him."

"A child husband, huh..."

"Screw you."

Lucas Reed joked with her mouth, but actually understood well—Emily Brooks was just making things up. This man was almost certainly a divine-blooded—though there was no trace of it in his aura, as if his cultivation was extremely low. But that didn't matter; the value of intelligent life wasn't just in cultivation.

Ever since the humans and the divine-blooded fell out back then, even someone as high-ranking and powerful as her, a half-blood, had been strongly ostracized. Life was tough, let alone for pure-blooded divine ones—if they weren't caught for research, they were already lucky.

Back then, it was precisely because Lucas Reed noticed Emily Brooks was divine-blooded that she looked out for her a bit, and over time, they became friends. But even so, Emily Brooks never dared to openly speak as a divine-blooded in front of her.

After all, Lucas Reed represented the human military. As long as everyone got along as humans, it avoided awkward positions.

"Alright then." Lucas Reed didn't say more, took out her watch, and pointed it at Gavin Carter several times: "Open your mouth slowly, turn your head left and right..."

Gavin Carter: "?"

Emily Brooks nudged him: "Just do it, they're recording your data."

Gavin Carter mechanically followed the instructions, but suddenly a soul transmission sounded in his mind: "Your file will be classified as high-risk. Don't let me catch any act of espionage or sabotage, or force me to personally kill a divine-blooded."

Gavin Carter looked at Lucas Reed, who seemed to be nonchalantly taking photos.

This woman wasn't as hot-tempered and impulsive as she appeared... Maybe her coming here in person wasn't because Emily Brooks had that much influence, but to see for herself this inexplicable newcomer. Even the data entry into the system might not be a favor, but rather that such "hidden individuals" should be dealt with—either brought into the system, or captured or expelled.

Of course, it was still a favor—at least she didn't choose to capture or expel him, nor did she subject him to strict interrogation, which was already giving Emily Brooks a lot of face.

Gavin Carter didn't care about her wariness. To be honest, at this moment, he was much more interested in Lucas Reed than in Emily Brooks.

It had nothing to do with gender, but with strength.

Before this, he had never thought he would meet such a powerful human so soon.

Strictly speaking, she was a human-divine hybrid, with a quarter of her bloodline coming from a divine race similar to a fire phoenix. Maybe that was the main reason she and Emily Brooks could become friends?

In Gavin Carter's cultivation system, Lucas Reed was at the early Qianyuan stage, and the next major realm would allow her to glimpse the Yang God, which was what tradition called a true immortal, the kind that glimpsed at immortality.

Such immortals and gods were common in the multiverse, but on a single planet, they were extremely rare—ordinary people couldn't even dream of it. Lucas Reed's level was already the highest a normal person could hope to reach; maybe she could still improve in minor realms, but being a general of a nation was already a huge honor for that country.

Of course, Lucas Reed wasn't part of a true immortal cultivation system. She seemed to have reached this level due to her fire phoenix hybrid traits, plus some strange genetic modifications. In fact, she was somewhat similar to the bat people, except she relied on her own talent and cultivation, while the bat people seemed to have forcibly fused or even stitched themselves together in a rush for power.

Who knew how the taboos around such modified people were defined.

In any case, humans had only been on Canglong Star for just over two hundred years, and yet someone had already reached the Qianyuan level. This truly shocked Gavin Carter. Back then, it had taken him eight hundred years to reach this realm, and he was already hailed as a peerless genius...

Over there, Emily Brooks clearly didn't know the two had exchanged a soul transmission. Seeing Lucas Reed finish recording the data, she smiled and said, "Sis, have lunch here today, it's been so long since I last saw you..."

Lucas Reed said in surprise, "You're in the mood for that? Are you confident you'll pass the reagent test next time?"

Emily Brooks replied with a forced smile, "Well, that's because I have your help..."

Lucas Reed was exasperated: "Did you forget? It's not your family that needs the reagent, it's me! I've already covered for your messes so many times. If you give me another 'laughing in your sleep' potion next time, never mind your family beating you up, I'll do it myself!"

"Emmmm..." Emily Brooks's eyes went blank for a moment, then she said awkwardly, "Well, I'll study it some more and work harder..."

Lucas Reed turned to Gavin Carter: "Don't say I'm doing the same as Yin Ping, because I don't want my friend to be completely bewitched by some useless guy's face, either. I don't expect you to make a huge contribution to Xiaoru's reagent research, nor do I demand that the next potion must pass, but I want to see some progress. Even if you just help pull this silly woman back on track, that'll count as your credit."

Gavin Carter found it amusing and casually replied, "No problem."