Lou Miao'an initially thought the other party was deceiving him, but then he realized that there were too many remote stars in the Empire, so it was normal for them to have languages ​​he had never heard before.

He wasn't a talkative person, so after asking about that conversation, he fell silent again, even feeling a little annoyed that he had ended up sitting with Chi Jiazhen.

Soon they reached the point for the next space jump, and the ghost ship followed them at a distance that was neither too close nor too far.

...

Sang Huaizhou naturally saw the Mante Tourism Company's spaceship as well. After he and Lan Yao were assigned to the same camp, they simply teamed up. Since they had the same destination, the three spaceships of the Imperial Military Academy were not too far apart, so they could see the red spaceship.

"Mante Travel Company?" Lan Yao looked at Sang Huaizhou. "Isn't this a prank?"

As people who grew up in Xingdu, they had all heard the legend of Mante Travel Company, but they all knew that it was just a prank and that the travel company did not actually exist.

“Brother Sang,” Sang Huaizhou’s underling, sitting in the back, couldn’t help but speak up, “I’ve heard a legend.”

"What legend?" Sang Huaizhou asked, not particularly interested.

"People who are lost and dying in space will always encounter spaceships from the Mant Travel Company. They say there is no one on board, not even in the cockpit, and these spaceships always wander around the universe. They will appear wherever the victims need them."

This man seemed to read few urban legends, and then, as if struck by a thought, he looked at the red spaceship and said, "He's with us now...?"

"Don't you know that some people deliberately drive cars painted like this to play pranks?" Sang Huaizhou was very suspicious of what this person was thinking every day.

Moreover, landing on any planet is not a matter of chance; a starport on a planet requires the Empire's permission.

The mysterious spaceship, completely deserted, would not be allowed to enter any starport unless it chose to land on a junk planet.

Lan Yao had heard the legends of this travel company when he was a child, but he knew it was all fake when he grew up. There was a special feature on the StarNet about people impersonating the travel company and making funny videos... He glanced at the red spaceship outside the porthole. In 90 hours, they would enter the third space jump point.

“No spaceship will go near Nott,” he said. “If it’s a prank, it should stop here.”

After entering the third space jump point, the place is almost in the Empire's no-man's-land... Because of the rampage of the Zerg and space pirates, few personal or tourist ships go to that area. Unless your ship has heavy firepower or you are a mercenary, no one will go there to die.

...

When Cen Yu learned that it would take another 90 hours to reach the third space jump point, he had his first vague understanding of the location of Planet Nott.

The spaceship only provides basic life-sustaining supplements, which they will also need to take to maintain their daily diet during the subsequent combat exercises.

After the Golden Iris finally left the gray fog zone, the broadcast informed everyone that they were free to move around or enter the sleep pods to rest. There were still 90 hours before they could reach the third space jump point, giving them plenty of time to recuperate.

The sleeping pods on the Golden Iris were set up somewhat like the dormitories on a submarine... When Cen Yu and Jiang Yan went in, they found Li Chonghe in the same dormitory. Their other roommate was not there, and they didn't know who he was.

Li Chonghe sat in the narrow sleeping pod, which, when not completely sealed, looked similar to a regular single dormitory bed.

He was flipping through some things in his hands when he realized someone had entered the dormitory. He looked up and saw Cen Yu and Jiang Yan.

"Second Prince?!" Jiang Yan seemed surprised to see Li Chonghe here; he had assumed the dormitories were assigned according to seat numbers.

Li Chonghe ignored Jiang Yan's exclamation. He looked at Cen Yu and saw him plop down on the lower bunk.

Once aboard the Iris, they could no longer access the StarNet, and their communicators could only be used to contact people of the same faction.

"They'll just leave them there?" Cen Yu sat on the lower bunk and looked at Li Chonghe on the other side.

He was asking about the poor people who were still unconscious due to the gray fog.

“After they wake up, they will see the room assignments on the communicator,” Li Chonghe said.

Cen Yu nodded, then simply lay down on the makeshift bed... He was thinking about something, perhaps the haunting ghost ship, or perhaps the planet Nott, which was even more distant than he had imagined. Everything gave him a strange feeling.

Planet Nott is so far away, and there are space pirates and insectoids all around. Even if they wanted to put them to the test early, it seems unnecessary to go to such a long distance.

Li Chonghe quietly observed Cen Yu's profile.

His communicator could naturally see more information, and just half an hour ago, he finally received an interesting message.

The eldest prince has awakened.

There's a problem with the pheromones.

The message was encrypted and conveyed to him using a code that only Li Chonghe could understand.

[...He seems to have turned into an Omega...]

Li Chonghe didn't need to think to know how lively it would be, while he was far away on the spaceship heading to Planet Nott, completely unaware of everything.

He guessed that his sister would definitely not let such an opportunity pass by, but he didn't know what she planned to do.

...

Chi Jiazhen recognized the dormitory number, and even without pushing open the door, he knew Cen Yu was inside.

To him, Cen Yu was like a honeycomb. Even after taking strong inhibitors and spraying countless odor blockers, he could still find Cen Yu's location as long as he closed his eyes.

His bride, he thought.

He eagerly pushed open the door, only to be met with an unpleasant odor.

It was a scent almost identical to theirs. His gaze lingered on Cen Yu for a moment before slowly turning towards the direction of the scent... only to find that there was the empire's gentle second prince.

He carefully observed Li Chonghe and confirmed that he was not mistaken; the annoying smell was indeed coming from Li Chonghe.

"How ridiculous!" Chi Jiazhen suddenly thought.

He looked at Li Chonghe and noticed that Li Chonghe had also noticed his gaze. The other man looked at him as if he were some kind of bug, but he quickly suppressed his hostility and showed a warm smile. "Are you the one who's left?"

Chi Jiazhen also laughed.

"Yes." He reached up and touched the back of his neck, where the glands were supposedly located. "Xiao Yu, the back of my neck is a little itchy. Could you help me see if something bit me?"