The mighty little peepstar: One night on earth and already the house of the most famous space pilot of our nation has been blown to smithereens. This peep star is worried about the safety of the national space baby who is staying with him.
The national baby came close to being a national meatball.
It seems to me like the child was safer in space than here on earth.
Does anyone else agree with me?
[National meatball! Hahaha...its wrong to laugh but I have been waiting for hours to see what you have to say about this. As expected, you chose to be funny.]
[I was so scared when I saw it on the news, this must be the act of another nation which is jealous of us. The national space baby should be sent back to space.]
[Quick question, why is the national baby living with Mr. Mo Liang? Is there something we are missing?]
[National meatball!! Peepstar, are you making fun of a child almost dying?]
[The national space baby was in the hospital at the time that house blew up. Peep star, you were misinformed today.]
[Again, we are seeing Mo Liang, national space baby and his mother together. A family of three like the peepstar said. I sense a scandal in coming.]
[Does anyone know what caused the explosion?]
That question was on the tongues of many people and also on Mo Liang's tongue. He was standing on the location of his former house, it was now an empty plot of land. All of the rubble had been cleared away an hour ago.
Mo Liang was already irritated and the wailing of his mother Mrs. Sun was not making his mood calmer. The flashing of cameras all around and their yells about what his next move was or if he knew the source of the explosion or the location of his wife and child were not helping.
He was lucky that royal agents and the police were keeping the crowd of ravenous reporters at bay or else.
"Mother, stop with the embarrassing crying. I am the CEO of Space M, a hero, if people see you on like this on television they will assume that I am broke. It's just a house, I can build another one." he declared with angst in his voice.
Even as he said the words, it pained him to utter them out loud. Building a house now was not the same as building a house thirty years ago. The best modern houses were not built with ordinary bricks and cement, they were built with materials acquired from a few planets in space whose materials had been found to be non-hazardous even though the planets themselves were uninhabitable.
Ordinary glass had been abandoned for stellarite glass capable of withstanding, explosions,radiation and temperature changes. Ordinary blocks did not cut it anymore, gravitite clay blocks had replaced them. Heating panels had been substituted with magmocrete, a lava like substance that provided heat through the entire house. Cloudfoam provided cool and fresh air in place of air conditioners.
Space business was big business, valued in trillions. Building a house using such materials could cost up to hundreds in the millions. A luxury house now was a house built with space materials.
Mo Liang did not consider himself an ordinary person, his house could not be ordinary either. If he was to build, he needed a luxury house. Even though he was feeling a pinch at the loss of the old house, it did not hit him hard because the house was not his in the first place.
Legally, on paper, it was his but Mei-Mei had been the one that acquired it so the financial loss was not his to suffer.
Tired of standing around, her turned and told his mother, "Let's go to a hotel."
Of all the hotels in the nation that he could have chosen to go to, Mo Liang went to The Phoenix Haven, a hotel owned by Phoenix group. The same group which was owned by his mother-in-law. As the first hotel in the world to be built with materials acquired from space, it was a famous hotel worldwide and a tourist hub that was always filled to the brim.
The hotel was perched atop a cliff overlooking the South sea. The design had been fashioned to mix a traditional and interstellar appearance as if the past was meeting the future. A lot of Stellarite glass had been used so it shimmered even from great distances. During the day, it reflected sunlight and at night, it glowed under moonlight.
For many celebrities, it was their goal to have holograms ads of the products they were endorsing or movies and songs they were featuring in to appear on any face of the hotel or inside it.
The lobby of the hotel seemed to float, the walls pulsed, robot butlers mixed in with guests rushing to help guests through chaotic check ins. Every amenity of the hotel was famous but it was most famous for its skydome, an observatory where guests could marvel at the stars and its terraces and swimming pools that looked like streams of blue lava.
There was a saying that booking a room at The Phoenix Haven was harder than a thread passing through the eye of a needle.
It was also no secret that one floor of the hotel was reserved and shared by the royal family, Chi and Jun families. Another floor was reserved for foreign dignitaries from the nations and other nations. There was also a floor for the rich and celebrities who paid top notch for privacy. Basically, money and connections ruled at The Phoenix Haven. The heavier your pocket was, the better the service you received.
These facts however were not helping Mo Liang, the famous space pilot. He tried to secure accommodation using Mei-Mei's name but he was thrown out immediately. He returned and tried using his famous space pilot identity and he was still rejected. His last attempt was to use the emperor's authority by calling over the royal agents protecting him and he was kicked out even faster.
He was now stranded outside the hotel with Tang Yue, a whiny Mo Hao that was complaining of hunger and His mother that was still crying over the loss of the house and all her worldly possessions.
"Let's go elsewhere." Mo Liang led them back to the flying car.
As soon as they settled inside, Tang Yue started sniveling. "I am sorry, this is all my fault. If it was not for me and Hao, Mei-Mei would not have told the hotel staff to block you from the grounds."
Mo Liang clenched his hand and gritted his teeth, cursing Mei-Mei and the Jun family silently. He would be sure to lodge a complaint with the emperor.
It skipped his mind that Mei-Mei had not been to the hotel in almost a decade and had zero influence on all of its operations. It seemed that he had also forgotten that there were thousands of other hotels that they could go to.
The Phoenix Haven was not the only hotel in the country.
"Honey, I have found sister Mei-Mei." Tang Yue who had just finished her sniveling announced while waving her phone in the air. "She has moved into a villa on old ring road. She has updated her weibo page which was untouched for seven years."
The latest update was a picture of Mei-Mei, Mingzhu, Mo Jingzhe and Feng Qi having an early dinner. She had posted the picture along with three words. "I am back."