Maria shuddered and subconsciously asked, "Does anyone here know I'm here?"

Kamos looked at her in confusion, as if he was a little puzzled by her reaction.

"Of course. This is Li Shu's planet. I brought someone here, especially someone as risky as you. I definitely had to tell him."

"Otherwise, it would be very troublesome for me to handle the port's security and the spacecraft myself."

Maria looked at Kamos seriously for a few more times, as if she had just met him. After a long while, she muttered, "I originally thought you didn't care about these things."

"When you were on the Imperial Star and the Trash Star, you acted blatantly and recklessly every time you entered and exited, not caring about the Emperor and the Planetary Governor's opinions at all."

Lin Qi next to him suddenly spoke calmly: "Because Li Shu is a good person, we want to settle down here for a long time, so we must abide by the rules that belong here."

Maria's expression became even stranger, and she even seemed reluctant to go inside while standing at the port.

Kamos gave her a questioning look. "What are you doing? Going?"

Maria was silent for a long time before she spoke with a bit of grievance: "Why did you rescue me?"

Kamos scratched his hair and looked around, "Isn't the environment on Azure Planet pretty good? Let me tell you, here, scientific researchers have a very high status, and there won't be any messy things going on."

"Besides, the people here don't know me, nor do they know you. You can survive well here."

Maria paused: "He won't let me go."

Kamos tutted his words lightly: "He will be gone soon. You don't have to worry about such things at all."

Maria still seemed a little uneasy, but she quickly turned her head away and changed the subject.

"What are you doing here?"

Kamos rubbed his chin, thinking as he led Maria towards the car: "I seem to do everything and nothing at all."

"I'm still pretty free now. Even if I want to go out and sweep the streets, no one will stop me and tell me I can't do this or that."

"And there's a lot of experimental data for me to study, so I'm pretty happy."

He narrowed his eyes slightly and whistled. Maria beside him looked a little worried: "Are you still doing experimental research?"

Kamos turned to look at her and said, "Don't worry, Li Shu is a good person and will not allow me to conduct experiments that would hurt people."

He shrugged, opened the back door and motioned Maria to get in.

Maria paused for a moment, her eyes subconsciously looking at the passenger seat, but without saying anything, she got into the parking space at the back.

Then she saw Kamos run over and open the passenger door for Lin Qi.

There were more than just these two things that caused Maria to have a heart attack. She could tell that the two people were not deliberately acting for her, but that this was how they interacted on a daily basis.

This made her think of the time when she first met Kamos in the research institute. The two of them had such a tacit understanding that no one could interfere.

Has Kamos found a more compatible partner now?

Lin Qi didn’t know what the former queen behind her was thinking, she was just thinking about what would happen next.

"Kamos, where do you think it would be appropriate to place the former queen?"

"The research institute definitely won't do. The people there are too noisy and chaotic. Although they are all passionate about research, they are also clumsy when it comes to socializing. It wouldn't be good if we bumped into each other."

Maria clenched her fingers a little tighter. Hearing Lin Qi calling Kamos's name so bluntly, and Kamos not showing any sign of annoyance or unhappiness, she felt like her heart was burning.

While driving, Kamos asked Maria indifferently: "Maria, what are you going to do here?"

"If you simply want to avoid the Imperial Star and live a normal life, then I'll ask Li Shu to arrange a house for you that's a little closer to the city."

"If you want to come to the institute, I'll apply for an apartment or a single-family house for you that's a little closer to the institute."

Maria froze for a moment, then asked in a low voice: "I don't know anyone here. I just asked what you were doing here because I wanted to know where you were."

"I'm afraid that after being locked up for so many years, I've become disconnected from society."

Her eyes fell on the scenery passing by outside, and her expression became more lonely.

Kamos smacked his lips and said, "I'm just simply putting my name on the research institute and calling myself Li Shu's partner."

"I'm called a partner, but actually, I feel like a subordinate. Tsk tsk, I don't have such a good life. Now I can't go crazy."

Lin Qi turned around and glared at him: "What do you want to do now?"

Kamos rolled his eyes: "Why, do you want to go to Li Shu to complain?"

Lin Qi didn't say anything, but the cold snort in his voice didn't sound like he was fine.

Maria, who was behind, sometimes felt as uneasy as if she was sitting on pins and needles, and her eyes subconsciously looked out the window, as if trying to divert her attention.

After a long time, the car drove into the vicinity of the research institute. After finding a suitable parking place, Kamos took the lead in opening the passenger door.

Then he turned around and opened the door for Maria.

The contrast of these details made Maria feel really uncomfortable.

She didn't necessarily want to have an intimate relationship with Kamose. The ambiguous past between the two of them was completely cut off when she married Louis.

But when she saw the person who once only favored her and treated her specially was now concentrating on looking at another person, she still felt suffocated in her heart.

"Kamos, am I going to lose you too?"

She spoke in an extremely low voice, and thought that the two people in front of her didn't hear her.

But Maria didn't see that Kamos and Lin Qi's movements froze for a moment at the same time, and then returned to normal in the next moment.

The researchers on the road didn't even bother to greet Kamos and the others, and were hurriedly running around with the experimental data.

Or maybe his eyes were fixed on the experimental results in front of him and he didn't care about the existence of other people at all.

Maria looked around at the surroundings, her brows tightening and loosening. "This kind of environment is indeed... quite comfortable and not awkward."

Kamos showed a row of white teeth: "Hehe, I knew you would like the environment here."

"You clearly loved scientific research back then, but you were confined to that place. Now that you're out, you can naturally choose everything you once loved."