Chapter 599 New Job, New Environment

Luo realized that she was always unlucky whenever she was associated with Yu Sheng, but given that she had already signed a contract with this new boss to sell her soul (that's how she viewed the blood-donation ceremony), it was too late for any regrets or remorse. For now, she could only accept her fate.

This is what it means to abandon darkness and embrace the light. A legal license is a one-way street; once you get it, you can only go down that dark path... But once you reach the depths of the light, an even brighter future awaits you, which is far more exciting than the Dark Space and the Dark Spirit.

Master Alvin's team of Star Scholars will stay at Blackrock Station for a while longer. In addition to continuing some detailed handover work, they will also continue to complete the repair work on the space station system under Law's guidance. After all, the original technical team is gone, and although the guards who remain with her can undertake some space station maintenance work, they are not real technicians. Law is now almost a commander without troops and is very short of manpower.

The engineering immortals sent by Mo Ran to Black Stone Station are unaffected by Luo. They will continue to assist Yu Sheng in completing the welding and repair of the main body of the space station. However, the technical routes of Feiyu Starfield and Alglade are different. After the main body is repaired, these weapon-refining masters will find it difficult to help much more. According to the current progress, these garrison personnel will probably withdraw within half a month.

Yu Sheng took Luo on a tour of the core module near the Rift Laboratory, allowing her to see for herself the current operational status of the space station.

In summary, the operational status can be summarized in one sentence: At this stage, the main force maintaining the operation of the core area of ​​the space station is not the so-called control system, but the life-saving and thinking power.

“The main system is currently offline, and I’m basically maintaining the stable environment inside the space station,” Yu Sheng explained to the blonde elf beside him in a rest area near the Rift Laboratory. In front of them was a huge ecological curtain wall, filled with liquid made of high-strength polymer, with lush aquatic plants slowly releasing bubbles within the wall. “I’ve marked a few areas for you, on the station’s navigation map.”

"The green zone is a habitable area, the yellow zone has a harsher environment, but you should be able to handle it. The red zone currently requires protective gear—except for those immortals from Shuji, who just cast a Five Elements Protection Spell and went in to weld the plates..."

"The reactor is in good condition; Alvin's team fixed it. However, one of the mass couplers or something is still unstable. Ask them about it later."

"The high-level orbits here in Shuji can be used for long-term docking of Blackstone Station. Supplies will be provided by cargo ships sent from 'Lingquetai' – Lingquetai is the 'Orbital Palace' you just saw from the observation window, and it is one of the high-level orbital stations in Shuji. I will send you the contact information of the person in charge later."

Yu Sheng went on and on about many things, and Luo listened quietly for a long time before slowly nodding and saying, "I've remembered it all."

Then she paused and added, "Don't worry, I'm very familiar with this space station—after all, I designed it, so no matter how much it changes, I know how to deal with it."

Yu Sheng thought for a moment. Actually, he had a lot more to say, but in the end, he swallowed most of his words.

"Is there anything else you need?" he asked.

Luo's eyes clearly showed that she wanted to say something, but her attitude was hesitant. After hesitating several times, she finally spoke: "Actually, I... am thinking of going back to take a look again. Do you think that's okay?"

"Go back?" Yu Sheng didn't react at first, but then he quickly realized something. "Ah, you mean the place where we stayed at Blackstone Station before?"

He vaguely remembered that Black Rock Station was originally anchored above a desolate rocky planet, which was probably a secret base of the Black Dot Group—or perhaps Luo's private territory.

Luo nodded slowly.

"What are you planning to do when you get back?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.

“Anyway, it’s definitely not about running away—I can’t run away either,” Luo sighed. “I just want to go back and see if I can gather some more manpower, mainly technical personnel—Alvin’s team comes from the Algérida Astrological Society, and they will go back sooner or later. I still need to find a way to rebuild my own laboratory team. Recruiting from other channels will take time and adjustment. If I can find some key technical personnel, the situation will be much better.”

Yu Sheng blinked: "...I wanted to say this before. I thought that apart from those few dozen loyalist guards, all of your men had been wiped out in the previous incident."

Luo raised his eyelids and looked at Yu Sheng as if he were an idiot.

"I'm known as a 'black spot warlord,' do you think I only have one laboratory under my command? And even if we only consider Blackrock Station, aren't there plenty of my employees who are on vacation, on leave, or slacking off? You may have messed with my space station, but I still have two orbital platforms, a shipyard, and three ground mining stations at my base..."

Yu Sheng was shocked when he heard this: "...You also have an orbital platform, a shipyard, and a mining station?"

His words caused a moment of silence. Luo's eyes widened, and he took two steps back in a flash: "...What do you want to do?"

"What kind of person do you take me for?" Yu Sheng knew what she was thinking as soon as he saw her reaction, and immediately waved his hand with a righteous expression. "I don't steal everything. I usually only bring back local specialties when I go out to fight..."

Luo didn't believe it either, and kept a safe distance of three meters from him, watching them as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

“Alright, alright, let’s not discuss this for now,” Yu Sheng raised his hand. “I don’t object to you going back to gather your men; after all, it’s strengthening the inn’s power, but we need to consider the risks beforehand—the Jieqiao incident caused quite a stir, and the Black Dot Group is well-informed. Now that so much time has passed, if you go back to check the situation…”

“The company must already know about my failure,” Luo nodded calmly, clearly agreeing with Yu Sheng’s considerations. “Blowing up one or two pioneer labs is nothing to the entire Black Dot Group, but this incident has brought out the Dark Angels, which is a different matter altogether—they will probably send someone to my base to investigate.”

"So I plan to sneak back—I've left a backdoor in the local interstellar network there. Once I'm within a light-year of the broadcasting device, I can access the corporation's network in ghost mode. I also have a list of my trusted core members, some corporation employees I have leverage over, and some targets I can bribe or win over..."

"I also plan to go to the black market. I have a few informants there who can help me find out what's going on with the group. If everything goes smoothly, I might even have time to transfer assets from several secret accounts to several shell companies under my name, and then I can use that channel to buy assets from the legal market..."

Perhaps influenced by the "blood transfusion," Luo Yue became increasingly excited as she spoke, even unconsciously revealing many secrets she had never told anyone before. A series of plans lit up her mind, and the gloom brought by a lot of bad luck recently seemed to have faded from her heart.

Yu Sheng, who was standing opposite her, gradually revealed a somewhat surprised look.

Yu Sheng was genuinely a little surprised.

From the day he met Luo, this "space-eared girl" had been constantly unlucky, always looking like she'd been battered and bruised by fate, then collapsed in despair. So much so that the best Luo seemed to be in recently was when she was lying in a patch of grass, munching on psionic mushrooms—

He had never seen her so radiant and confident, and it was even harder to connect what she had just mentioned with the blond, useless man in the grass who was completely mesmerized by the mushrooms.

"...Why are you so quiet?" Luo suddenly stopped, looking at Yu Sheng with some confusion, a hint of nervousness creeping into her expression. "Um, these are just plans, and I know there are risks. If you want a detailed report..."

"No, I was just thinking about something else," Yu Sheng suddenly snapped out of his reverie, quickly waved his hand, and then seemed to ponder, "So, from what you're saying, you weren't exactly 'loyal' to the Black Dot Group before?"

Leaving backdoors in the group's network, creating secret lists among group employees, using leverage to threaten, bribe, and win them over, setting up separate factions, and even having secret accounts for transferring assets—what kind of good employee would do this?

What's more, she's not just an ordinary employee; she's already a project supervisor... It seems that Black Dot Group isn't as united as outsiders imagine.

Luo felt a little embarrassed listening to Yu Sheng's words. Only then did she belatedly realize that she had revealed quite a few secrets, but she couldn't take them back. In front of her new boss, she could only smile awkwardly: "Who doesn't think about their own future... especially in a high-pressure and harsh environment like Black Dot Group? Everyone has some little secrets to some extent—and the board of directors doesn't really care that much about it. As long as the results are there, results are everything. As long as the profits can cover the costs, there are also life-and-death struggles among the Black Dot warlords. This is the 'corporate culture' of Black Dot Group."

She paused suddenly, then quickly added, "But I'm absolutely loyal to you now, boss! You can rest assured, my dealings with the Black Dot Group were purely because I saw through their dark truth, it was all out of a conscience..."

Yu Sheng waved his hand before the other person could finish speaking, not seeming to care much: "Hey, it's nothing, it's nothing. Anyway, your soul is entrusted to me, so I'm not worried..."

Luo's expression froze, and the corners of her mouth twitched involuntarily.

Is this what it means to abandon darkness and embrace the light...?

Yu Sheng, on the other hand, didn't think much when he spoke—because he was thinking about something else at the time.

He stroked his chin, pondering for a long time, and only when Luo's gaze grew increasingly curious did he finally speak:

"I mean... your company probably doesn't know that you've already switched sides, right?"

(End of this chapter)