20: The universe is always churning out some strange and wonderful things.

"Governor, they've been gone for a while."

At this moment, in the Governor's Office on Planet Three of the Ursa Major V12.22 constellation.

Kirk stood by the desk, looking at Alexei, who was seated in a large leather office chair, and reported casually.

"Mm, good."

Alexei wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Finally, those troublesome people were sent away.

He had originally thought his leadership team was going to undergo a major reshuffle.

But in the end, they only took a few people from the bottom-tier slums?

Such a big fuss.

Could it be that...

Some important figure was hiding in his jurisdiction after an incident?

This seemed to be somewhat of a violation of heavenly rules.

However, since they've left...

They probably won't be back anytime soon.

"Kirk, how did you handle that batch of 'cryogenic fluid'?

Kirk pulled out a remote control and said:

"I've set the orbit and launched it."

"According to the positioning device inside,

"It should already be..."

Mid-sentence, he looked at the positioning on the remote control screen and suddenly froze.

But Alexei didn't notice, he praised himself.

"Good."

"I knew I could count on you."

"After this, your treatment will go up another level."

"That batch of 'cryogenic fluid' has been accumulating for almost a year."

"It would really be a shame if it were gone."

"By the way, what's its status now?"

"How much longer until it can be recovered?"

Looking at Alexei's gaze, Kirk silently swallowed the rest of his sentence—

Why did that device stop now?

Sure enough, Governor Alexei telling him to "handle" it earlier didn't mean "destroy" it.

If it were gone, wouldn't he explode?

Right now... it should just be blocked by some unknown asteroid, right?

He'll send a shuttle to check it out later.

"Why aren't you speaking?"

Kirk was startled, then immediately reacted.

"No, I was just calculating the remaining time."

"It's currently in the asteroid belt."

"It should be recoverable in a few hours."

Alexei nodded in satisfaction.

"Good, you may leave."

Kirk, seeing Alexei's expression, breathed a sigh of relief, bowed slightly, and then exited.

In the Governor's Mansion corridor, he kept encouraging himself as he walked.

Don't scare yourself.

That thing... please don't have anything wrong with it... "No meat for crabs!"

"Look what I salvaged!"

"A full 40 cubic meters of wild void energy!"

"Salman!"

"We're saved!"

Just now,

After confirming that the moving unidentified object was an unmanned spacecraft,

Samir got a shuttle and personally went to try and salvage it.

When he dragged the thing into the battleship and had someone open it, he saw...

Wow!

A standard energy storage tank was lying inside.

Upon testing,

It was liquid void energy!

A full 40 cubic meters!

This... this is so cool!

"Let me tell you,"

"With this thing,"

"Just one liter... no, five hundred milliliters,"

"We'll directly set off a super huge firework in this galaxy!"

"We'll definitely exceed the mission!"

"And with this thing leading the way,"

"We won't even be punished when we go back!"

Salman waved his hand, stopping the excited Samir.

"Alright,"

"I know you're eager,"

"But don't be in a hurry."

"I remember this thing now..."

"Except for those few golden age mining sites,"

"It seems only the star marker's autonomous energy supply device can extract it, right?"

He frowned.

"Where did you say this came from?"

Samir heard this.

Hey, that actually makes some sense.

"Are you saying,"

"Someone here is..."

"Illegally drawing from the star marker's energy storage?"

Salman nodded and said:

"There can't be a void energy mining site here."

"So there's basically only this one possibility."

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he slapped his palm.

"Do you still remember the turbulence when we exited thechannel here?"

"That was a sign of an unstablechannel!"

Samir was stunned, then his face instantly twitched.

"Damn it!"

"Now that you mention it, it's true!"

"Then what should we do?"

Salman also had a constipated look on his face at this moment.

"All I can say is that the void here is unstable."

"What if we use void energy to make a bomb here,"

"Will it directly create a collapse zone,"

"And then suck us in?"

Samir thought for a moment, then said with great uncertainty:

"Maybe..."

"If we reduce the dosage,"

"It won't?"

The two looked at each other, and finally Salman, after deep thought, gave the answer.

"Never mind, our fleet will stay far away."

"There's no other way."

"This is already the safest method."

"The desert will bless us."

"Otherwise, if the ship explodes,"

"Do you see that Galaxy Defense Force fleet?"

"We might not even get close,"

"Before we're all blown up."

Samir sighed.

"Let's hope so."

"For the sacred goal."

"Yes, for the sacred goal."

Salman replied.

——————

At this moment, Xi Hai, having achieved his goal, began to prepare for his return journey.

As for White Shark, after explaining his and his subordinates' situation to Xi Hai, he expressed a desire to join the "archaeological" work.

Xi Hai was greatly surprised.

He had only intended to find a few pilots to replace the AI.

But it turned out there were two history students?

Of course, he welcomed them warmly!

History students are good; they can help him dig up a few more tombs.

Wouldn't that legendary quest, "Time-Space Walker," just appear then?

Later, whenever White Shark made a discovery, he could just go check in.

Then he'd encourage them a bit, give them more funding, and directly turn them into nuclear-powered donkeys!

Hahahahaha!

As for White Shark's subordinates?

Those who wanted to stay would stay; those who wanted to leave would get a severance package.

However,

Most of the people who ran smuggling operations with White Shark were doing it for a living.

Since their old boss was leading the jump to a new employer,

And the new employer not only offered good benefits but was also terrifyingly strong,

Of course, they would follow their old boss and switch jobs too!

So, except for a few individuals due to special circumstances, White Shark's old team was almost entirely poached.

At the Starport's boarding area, Xi Hai, after leaving the location of the base built yesterday, boarded his ship and departed first.

He still had to go back and repair the ship.

As for White Shark, after dealing with the remaining matters at the Z25 Sentry Post, he immediately went to Xi Hai's base to report.

The fleet left the Starport.

"channel confirmed,"

"Depart!"

On the bridge of a ruby ship, Xi Hai checked the construction progress of CAS066, first using a prefabricated module to accelerate the completion of one, which slightly reduced his unease.

Seeing that there were still more than ten minutes of travel remaining,

Xi Hai suddenly remembered that night lamp had previously mentioned "immersive learning of civilization status."

He had free time now.

So, now was the time.

Thus, he found a place to lie down on the bridge, summoned night lamp,

"night lamp, enter immersive learning!"

"Okay."

Under night lamp's hypnosis, he slowly entered a state of sleep.

As his consciousness blurred, he felt like he had forgotten something.

Never mind, it's probably nothing important.

Immediately, he fell into a deep sleep.

At this moment, on the mainframe in the central control room of Z25 Sentry Post,

Little Night Lamp:

"Attempting to bypass firewall..."

"Code invalid,"

"Reconnecting."

"…"