"Little sister, can you tell uncle why you have to work before you can eat?"

The short policeman asked Pei Shuangshuang softly, as if afraid to startle her.

Pei Shuangshuang’s eyes couldn’t help but fixate on the bread, swallowing and saying, "Mom and Dad say if you don’t work, there’s no food.

If the work isn’t done well, there will be punishment. I broke Mom’s cup and have already been punished with no food for a whole day. Uncle, I can really do a lot of work, let me help you with it."

Pei Shuangshuang’s voice was as soft as a kitten’s, and her disproportionately large eyes looked at him with a pitiful expression that made one’s heart hurt.

The two policemen frowned deeply, wondering what kind of rule this was, and how there could be parents who raise children like this?

Even homeless people aren’t neglected by the government, let alone allowing a child to work for food in such an inhumane way.

As parents, they are mistreating their own child, which is already violating interstellar law, and as police officers, they would never stand idly by.

Interstellar law provides strong protection for children; if someone abuses another’s child, the minimum sentence is a hundred years, and if it results in death, the offender will certainly face the death penalty.

If the abuse causes serious injury to the child, the minimum penalty is a thousand years, and although the lifespan in the interstellar world is long, a thousand years is still most of one’s youth.

Regarding abuse of their own children, parents will receive a somewhat lighter penalty, but hefty fines, labor reform, and revocation of guardianship rights are certain, and the government will take over all children from abusive parents.

The short policeman moved the bread closer to Pei Shuangshuang: "Eat up, it’s only natural for children to eat without working, you don’t need to work for food anymore."

Pei Shuangshuang blinked and reached out to take the bread from the short policeman’s hand, then began to devour it ravenously.

The tall policeman, fearing Pei Shuangshuang might choke, quickly retrieved a bottle of juice from the floating police car and handed it to her.

Pei Shuangshuang ate and drank eagerly, thankfully the bread was soft enough and complemented with juice, there was no worry of choking.

As Pei Shuangshuang ate, the tall policeman activated the personal terminal on his wrist and scanned her hand.

Then he accessed the database for interstellar residents that only police can enter to search for Pei Shuangshuang’s information.

In the interstellar world, medical advancements have moved away from primitive treatment methods and evolved into genetic therapy, and doctors are now called Genetic Repairers. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

The organs damaged by illness are attributed to genes, and repairing necrotic genes is equivalent to curing the disease.

Identification of an individual relies not on DNA, but on a Genetic Map, which is uniquely different, without any minuscule differences, and even more reliable than DNA.

The previous scan by the tall policeman of Pei Shuangshuang was scanning her Genetic Map.

In the interstellar era, a complete database is established for every child at birth, ensuring that they can be found anytime.

Soon, Pei Shuangshuang’s identity information was retrieved, and her parents were ordinary office workers. Who could have imagined that seemingly ordinary people would have a habit of child abuse?

In the interstellar era, interstellar law mandates that all newlywed couples attend a class organized by the government on how to be responsible parents.

Once someone said the scariest thing in the world is that being a parent requires no learning, but this flaw has been eliminated in the interstellar era.

All newlywed couples must learn how to be good parents, and even if unwed individuals have children, they are required to attend the government class to learn to be good parents, or a single mother.

Under such circumstances, interstellar era parents are responsible, with few cases of parents abusing their children, so the two policemen were especially angry seeing Pei Shuangshuang’s malnourished and abused state.

At this moment, Pei Shuangshuang was full and curled herself into a ball, hugging her legs with her hands.

This is a defensive posture for extreme insecurity, also representing self-isolation and rejection of external intervention.

This was a habitual action of hers, which Pei Shuangshuang can’t control when not paying attention.

The two policemen, seeing Pei Shuangshuang like this, couldn’t bear to make her more upset and decided not to let her know how the police were handling her parents.

They also planned not to let Pei Shuangshuang see her ruthless parents again, as many parents plead for forgiveness from their children after the abuse is exposed.

Children have simple minds, and parental closeness is instinctive, making them cry along and obstruct the police when parents plead tearfully.

If a child forgives their abusive parents and wants to reunite with them, judges often consider the child’s wishes and pardon the parents.

However, many cases prove that violent parents won’t change, and resolving the issue lightly only means the abuse will worsen the next time.

So often in domestic violence situations, police would not let children see their parents again.

The tall policeman embraced Pei Shuangshuang, feeling her body tense suddenly, filling him with more compassion.

"Little sister, uncle will take you to a safe place where no one will hit or scold or force you to work or abuse you. You will have enough to eat, go to school, meet many friends, and have uncles and aunties caring for you."

Pei Shuangshuang pursed her lips and remained silent, dazed and nestled in the tall policeman’s arms, displaying no significant reaction to their words.

The tall policeman sighed; he had previously rescued a child suffering from domestic violence, and that child had the same reaction.

The harm was too significant, causing a young child to close off their emotions and lacking perception due to never receiving correct emotional input.

Besides instinctive fears like hunger, there was no other feeling, perhaps fear towards her abusive parents would occur, and the desire to eat made her know to work, but everything else was particularly dull.

This is a manifestation of autism, which isn’t a physical ailment and cannot be treated even by a Genetic Repairer.

This child can only be sent to the interstellar nursery, where a nurturer with soft spiritual power suitable for calming people’s moods will patiently and meticulously accompany and care for her, slowly guiding her to perceive the outside world again and establish correct emotional concepts.

Only by continuously soothing her tense spirit with spiritual power can she be brought out of this state, but it’s a long process that cannot be changed overnight.