35: Do you know what a legendary tanky champion is?

"No?"

"Are you saying this guy is that... that Governor of Planet Three?"

Baili Ying stood on the control tower,

listening to the call coming from her personal terminal,

and swallowed with difficulty, asking in a dumbfounded manner.

For her, today was truly surreal:

First, she encountered a large-scale spatial tremor, a once-in-a-century event.

After finally recovering, a quick check revealed,

good heavens,

a super-large cleavage void with a diameter of 6 AU had appeared right on her doorstep,

swallowing two planets directly!

And now,

Planet Three, which was swallowed first,

its Governor,

was standing perfectly intact inside her space station!

bu hao! She's run into something dirty!

As if to embolden herself, she shouted into her personal terminal;

"Drive him away!"

"He must be fake!"

"A Governor of a planet that was just swallowed by a cleavage void,"

"How could he be here!"

She shook her head desperately, impossible!

Cyber Ghosts, Quantum Beings, they must all be rumors!

The greeter on the other end was silent for a moment,

then, sounds of an argument came from their side.

After a few seconds of calm,

the voice from the other side came again,

this time, it was an unfamiliar man's voice:

"Wait, bro, don't drive me away yet,"

"As long as you help me resupply and repair my Shuttle,"

"I can immediately transfer three times the credit points to you!"

"I can also pay with Order Alliance energy currency,"

"The kind that goes directly into a secure account!"

Baili Ying was silent for a moment after hearing this,

only the person themselves could transfer money immediately,

could it be that,

the person opposite was really the Governor?

This... a miraculous Shuttle outrunning the expanding boundary of the cleavage void?

Forget it, don't think too much about it,

as long as he's a person, it's fine.

It's free money, no reason not to earn it.

So, she brought up the screen of the Starport docking area,

outside the screen was a Shuttle with more than half of its tail cut off,

and the man standing next to the greeter, dressed in black clothes,

should be the one who claimed to be the Governor.

Not young, and with a considerable stomach,

his head wasn't pointy, but it was slightly reflective.

His attire and demeanor were special—

she estimated that if he reined it in a bit, he could probably act in 'In the Name of the People'.

She focused on his face, took a screenshot,

and compared it online,

Holy crap!

No!

It really was that Governor!

That Alexei Silete!

[pink hair cursing]

Which means... he really escaped from the cleavage void with just a Shuttle?

No! Buddy!

Did the Shuttle really get MVP?

No... she was a little curious, she had to keep that Shuttle to check it out.

After thinking about it,

she dialed the Starport greeter's communication again.

"Tell that guy who claims to be the Governor that his Shuttle is too severely damaged,"

"We can't fix it."

"Arrange a new Shuttle for him,"

"and have him pay with energy currency."

...After negotiations, Alexei, eager to escape, naturally accepted with pleasure,

as for the old ship that leaked with just a touch? (not really)

Whoever wants it can have it.

After leaving the old ship and the account,

he patted his butt and left.

In Alexei's eyes,

the permanent fortifications of the Defense Force on Planet Five,

were definitely the safest place in this star system,

once he got there, someone would arrange things for him.

As for Baili Ying, after Alexei left,

she couldn't wait to run out of the control tower, found a Shuttle,

and flew straight to the Starport—

(Fly)

(Fly)

(Fly...)

("Slap!")

(Someone slapped the author's butt and cursed:)

("Stop padding the word count you love, hurry up!")

So, the Shuttle flew over with a "whoosh",

and steadily docked at the Starport's connecting area.

Before it had even stopped steadily,

Baili Ying eagerly rushed out—

Although she had dropped out of school due to some irresistible factors and hadn't completed her studies,

she had also spent three years in the history department of United University!

The appeal of this Shuttle, which was suspected to contain some unknown relic,

was undeniably great to her.

However,

when Baili Ying excitedly rushed into that dilapidated Shuttle,

she was splashed with a basin of cold water:

Due to the tearing from the spatial tremor and the cleavage void, the Shuttle's interior was already riddled with holes,

with chaotic wiring, fuel leaks,

and the main body was covered in torn cracks and small holes from meteorite impacts.

She had no doubt that if this thing were flown out,

it would fall apart in less than ten minutes.

These fragmented parts... did she have to assemble them herself after all that?

How did this thing even fly here?

Unbelievable, sigh.

After a rough inspection of the Shuttle from top to bottom,

Baili Ying confirmed a fact:

This thing was basically beyond repair.

No wonder that guy left so decisively.

(The foolish pink hair never thought)

(Alexei's appearance here was a complete coincidence)

(After all, except for promotions and transfers)

(a planetary Governor would basically not leave their jurisdiction)

She walked out of the gangway speechlessly,

really,

a waste of time.

She hadn't even finished learning tower dispatch yet... "Boom!"

Her right foot, which she had just stepped out with, had not yet landed,

when the outpost beneath her suddenly let out another loud bang,

and then began to shake violently and incessantly,

Baili Ying, caught off guard, directly lunged forward,

fortunately, because there was almost no reactive armor in front of her,

she did not suffer counterattack damage.

"Ah!"

The greeter next to her wasn't much better off,

but he landed on his back.

But thankfully, both of them had some common sense,

the moment they fell,

they immediately covered their heads with both hands and curled up,

to avoid being hit by any strange falling objects.

'No way?'

'A spatial tremor at this time?'

'Didn't the explosion already pass?'

Before Baili Ying could figure it out,

the Radar Operator's hysterical roar echoed through the broadcast:

"Alarm!"

"Under attack!"

Baili Ying's pupils constricted,

enemies were coming?

She took out her personal terminal, connected to the central control panel,

and quickly brought up the external view,

then—

She saw an incredibly shocking scene that she would never forget in her life:

A dense Swarm of glowing blue and black Swarm,

like a tide washing over the coast,

using the method of a tornado destroying a parking lot or an old lady ransacking a discount supermarket,

fiercely impacting the outer wall of the outpost... "How much further..."

"How much further..."

"How much further!!!"

"Damn!!!"

Looking at the "Remaining Distance 7.9 AU" on the dial,

and the increasingly close unknown units on the radar,

Alexei screamed and yelled frantically in the Shuttle's cockpit,

laughing and raging hysterically.

Unfortunately, no matter what noise he made,

it left no trace in the cold, silent universe.

When the first giant bug appeared within his line of sight,

Alexei finally gave up—

There was no escape.

It was the last moment... Thinking this, he subconsciously walked towards the cabinet where his private Shuttle's liquor was stored,

then thought again, no,

this wasn't his previous ship.

Nothing to drink.

Shrugging, Alexei tidied his appearance—

Of course, it would soon be his posthumous appearance.

After buttoning his collar,

he stood quietly by the window,

watching the constantly growing bug,

and sneered at himself:

"Hmph,"

"I saved money my whole life in fear and trepidation,"

"and in the end, I didn't spend a single cent!"

"Finally, I can't even have a sip of wine..."

Thinking of the hundreds of millions of credit points and millions of energy currency,

Alexei was unwilling, yet helpless.

The bug got closer and closer,

finally, it was almost right before his eyes—

"Whoosh—"

He fumbled in his pocket, pulled out a pack of cigarettes,

lit one, took a deep drag, then turned around—

to meet his end.

"Bang!"

"Screech—"

An unknown object crashed into the Shuttle, and the metal of the outer shell let out a cry of deformation,

but Alexei did not lose consciousness for a long time.

Inadvertently, when he glanced back,

he only saw—

The bug had exploded in mid-air,

leaving only blue blood and flesh floating and suspended in mid-air,

like a blooming flower.