Chapter 146 The Night Before the Game

Mu Baixing leaned sideways and looked at the young man lying beside him. He lowered his eyes and looked at Mingyu's sweet sleeping face for a while.

Fortunately, the young man hadn't seen anything yet.

"...Brother Mu?"

While sleeping, Mingyu felt someone pulling his fingers and gently pressing somewhere as if stamping something.

He was very familiar with every inch of Mu Boxing's body. In a state of half-awakeness, he pinched the man's finger bones, closed his eyes, and said drowsily, "Stop messing around... We have a competition tomorrow, Brother Mu, don't bother."

"Yeah." The man responded without making any other movements. He just touched his hair lightly, withdrew his arm, turned around and left.

Mingyu: ...You left so easily? Without asking for any interest?

Most likely I'm dreaming.

Mingyu thought so and turned over to continue sleeping.

Before falling asleep again, he felt uneasy. He subconsciously stretched out his arm and touched it, wanting to hug his own Mu Baixing brand human-shaped pillow, but he didn't touch the familiar body.

Mingyu: “…”

Mingyu woke up suddenly.

He sat up dazedly, put on his slippers, and raised his voice with a little hoarseness from just waking up, "Brother Mu?"

No one answered.

Mingyu couldn't find anyone in the entire suite, so he opened the door and walked into the corridor.

"Hey! Hey! Hey-hoo! Hey!"

As soon as he opened the door, he heard a burst of uniform shouts coming from the terrace at the end of the corridor.

The young man took a look and found a row of muscular men doing one-handed weighted push-ups on the terrace. They were sweating profusely, with serious faces and bulging muscles, as if they were about to engage in a fight at any moment.

Mingyu: “…”

The Killer Team of the Southeast Star Region is indeed a real gathering of tough guys.

Mingyu turned around again and saw a tall young man in bright yellow plush duck pajamas drifting down the aisle with lifeless eyes, like a wandering spirit. This captain, whose avatar was a duck, clearly had a special liking for the creature. Upon seeing Mingyu, he gave a soulless hello and, observing for his Lucé fanboy, said, "Lucé, another autograph?"

Mingyu: “…”

Everyone was staying in the same hotel, so they saw each other every day. These days, whenever Mingyu saw the young man in school uniform who was so eager, he would stop him and ask him to sign autographs. By tonight, he had already signed nearly ten autographs.

"Here." The eager captain of the Big Yellow Duck handed over the notebook and pen he was carrying with him. Mingyu signed one for him and continued walking forward.

In the stairwell going down, several girls were telling stories in the dark stairwell with lighted electronic candles.

Captain Qiehua is of small stature. She places an electronic light under her chin, and her entire face looks extremely scary under the light. Her long hair is disheveled, and she looks eerie and sinister.

"Xiao Ming turned around and found that it was his mother following behind him! But if that's the case... who is the woman walking in front of him, holding his arm?!"

“Pah.”

Mingyu pushed open the stairwell door with a soft click. The girls sitting in a circle around him turned around at the same time, looking at Mingyu expressionlessly.

Mingyu stepped into the stairwell and saw that there were a few "oddballs" among the group of girls.

Cui Xiaoduo, wearing squirrel-print pajamas, waited excitedly for Qiehua's next story. Mulian sat beside him, expressionless, as if in a daze. Ranger observers Vincent and Yang Haoyun sat shoulder to shoulder, listening intently and with a look of terror on their faces.

Mingyu: “…”

"...Sorry." He quickly took a step back, not wanting to intrude on this midnight ghost story stress relief gathering at all.

"Brother LU!" Cui Xiaoduo's eyes lit up and he stretched out his hand to greet him.

Captain Qiehua, however, remembered to maintain the atmosphere. Her long hair swirling, she waved an electric candle and said grimly, "Hey, are you looking for your boyfriend?"

Mingyu: “…”

"……right."

"He's upstairs, go get him," Qiehua said vaguely, "Be careful. Anyone who walks onto the rooftop at midnight might see something terrifying..."

Mingyu: “…”

Mingyu took two steps at a time and quickened his pace.

He pushed open the door to the upper rooftop and didn't see any scary ghosts that he shouldn't have seen. He only saw Mu Baixing in the dark night.

The man was leaning against the outer railing and communicating with someone.

His dark, emerald eyes were cold and sharp, as if frost had formed in the bottom of his eyes, and he unconsciously exuded the oppressive aura of a superior.

"Thank you for your understanding, Mr. Director. I will make the official announcement tomorrow morning." His words were polite and his tone was calm.

"My condition is simple: please ask your security minister to stop maliciously manipulating public opinion."

"Hold the Minister of Security accountable for all current and past misconduct."

"The North Star Region of the past can be destroyed, and it can also be rebuilt."

"The Free Star Region has been reorganized, and a large amount of resource mining stars have been recovered. This will provide sufficient material accumulation for the development of the star region."

"Also, the transaction voucher stored in the King Ring has been reactivated. The Central Star Region's debt of 300 billion star coins, totaling principal and interest, for the purchase of ore sixty years ago is about to mature. The Northern Star Region has the right to decide whether to accept the repayment in installments. If the Central Star Region defaults, the Human Interstellar Bank will significantly reduce the Central Star Region's credit rating."

Credit value involves various types of buying and selling transactions between star fields, as well as various issues such as whether civilian exploration teams are willing to register in the central star field.

Mr. Director, the highest leader of the Central Star Region, is riddled with lawsuits.

Of course, the Ministry of Finance couldn't suddenly come up with 1.3 billion star coins to repay the debt. It wasn't that they didn't have the money, but suddenly withdrawing so much would affect the normal operation of the star field.

He was woken up in the middle of the night by an urgent call from his secretary. Although he spoke gracefully, his mind was filled with confusion.

The Celtic King of the Northern Star Region is the most powerful fighter in human history. If he gets angry, he can bombard several space cities in the Central Star Region with a single shot.

This person may appear to be alone, but the truth is far from that. His appearance, his claim to identity, and his initiation of official talks with him mean that the Second Legion, the military's most powerful force, is about to be reshuffled.

It's not just Musa. As long as his statement is released, most of the immigrants in the Northern Star Region, no matter what position they are in, will respond to him.

This person is not someone who can be easily fooled.

The Director has been in power in the Central Star Region for a hundred years, and he certainly hasn't forgotten Lando Celt's previous reputation in the Northern Star Region.

He looked at the return statement with the King's Ring Seal in front of him and was speechless.

Lando Celt has been secretly "resurrected" for several months without any trouble. Although he has regained the heart of his battleship and started to reintegrate his forces, it seems that he has no plans to rush to regain power and return to the public eye, at least for the time being.

But an urgent communication was sent tonight, requesting a government meeting with him.

The re-establishment of the North Star Region and the redistribution of population resources between the two star regions is a major event that requires a gradual transition under official guidance.

The highest authority in the North Star Region was negotiating with him at this time regarding the separation and the distribution of benefits after the separation.

But on this serious negotiating table, there is an item that is out of tune with the other terms and is ridiculously simple.

Mu Boxing asked him to thoroughly investigate the Security Minister Wang Xi's behavior of maliciously guiding public opinion and insulting starship designer LUCE, and to punish him.

The highest director of the Central Star Region: "..."

While dealing with Mu Baixing, he asked his secretary to help him look up information urgently, and figure out at a glance who LUCE was and what Wang Xi had done. In the end, he endured it again and again and did not show an indescribable expression.

...It seemed as if the Celtic king had accidentally noticed the overwhelming rumors outside, so he was furious and confronted him at night.

But the director understood the other party's anger. In fact, after reading the whole story, he was also quite angry.

In the Cosmic Age, interstellar navigation is a guarantee of human safety and a crucial means of acquiring resources. Excellent interstellar navigators are highly sought after and crucial to every human star region.

Although the threat of the Kuroshio Tide has led to cooperative relationships between several human star regions, competition for resources hasn't ceased. Starship designers and observers like Yu, who are in the central star region, are already vying for them. How could they be pushed outward so quickly?!

No matter where Mingyu goes in the future, whether it is the Star Navigation Department, the military, or even a civilian exploration team, it will make a big difference whether he settles in the central star field or other star fields.

The report the secretary brought up clearly stated that, in addition to the Central Star Region, the Southeast and Southwest Star Region military headquarters had also sent friendly signals to Ming Yu. Wang Xi had his men make these remarks at the press conference...wasn't that just pushing people away?!

The director knew Wang Xi's character: he loved power and liked to use it to gain benefits.

However, because Wang Xi was indeed quite responsible in his work and had never delayed important matters, and because there were too many things to deal with in managing such a large star field, the directors had too many other things to consider, so they did not touch him for the time being.

But now, firstly, the other party has gone too far, and secondly... the Celtic King personally asked him to deal with Wang Xi.

Not only for the incident of slandering Mingyu, but also for "all" inappropriate behavior in the past, we demand accountability.

It was clear that Wang Xi would pay a heavy price.

The director knew that if all of Wang Xi's illegal and irregular behaviors were added together and settled from the beginning... he would spend the rest of his life in prison.

But compared to the large debt that was about to mature, this deal was too easy to reach. It also had little impact on the Central Star Region. The only problem was finding a suitable security minister.

"Of course." The director then waved to the secretary, telling him to start writing the investigation documents. "As you requested, the Central Star Region will provide a response before the Star Navigation Competition ends."

“It’s a pleasure to work with you.”

“It’s a pleasure to work with you.”

Mu Baixing hung up the phone.

He raised his eyes, took off his headphones, and looked at Mingyu who pushed the door open and entered the rooftop.

"Sorry." The man's cold expression softened when he touched the young man. "Did I wake you just now?"

Mingyu yawned and shook his head: "What happened?"

Mu Baixing was on privacy mode during the call. Mingyu didn't hear anything on the other end and thought he was talking to Musa Qiwei or Adeline.

"Has the situation on the Star Line changed?" He walked closer against the night breeze. "Why are you still up late at night trying to make a call?"

Mingyu didn't think that Mu Boxing would be so nervous about the Star Navigation Competition that he couldn't sleep.

Mu Baixing stretched out his hand and pulled him into his arms: "Adeline and Yuan Ze will officially begin their first long-distance space shuttle tomorrow. They will be located in the underground laboratory on the third star in the North Star Region, which is closest to the star line."

Yuan Ze is the deputy captain of the Royal Fleet of the Northern Star Domain. He was sent by Mu Boxing to the Free Star Domain to integrate the resources explored in the Free Star Domain.

The Second Legion belongs to the central star field and cannot act on its own. It only provides backup support when guarding the satellite lines.

Mu Boxing cooperated with Adeline and hired the largest exploration team in the Free Travel Area to help implement the exploration and rescue plan for the survivors in the North Star Area.

Mingyu nestled in his arms and put his hands in his pockets. "Because you can't sleep so late at night and want to go out to blow the cold wind? The space travel experiment has been successful many times. Don't worry."

"No." Mu Baixing lowered his eyes and looked at him.

"It was a dream before I died."

He was indeed awakened by a nightmare.

During the Battle of Dawn, when he completely destroyed the energy of the Black Tailed Beast King, a high-level creature that had invaded the Northern Star Region, he fell into a coma due to exhaustion and drifted into the Black Tide Star Sea with the starship...

A suffocating mass of sticky black energy corroded the hull of his starship and entered his mental realm, intending to devour him.

Different from the Black-tailed Beast King, and also different from the moth "Ming Zhuofeng".

That primitive and terrifying touch made Mu Baixing frown just by recalling it.

He remembered being forced to wake up in excruciating pain, using his last bit of strength to build a barrier in his mental realm.

His mind was in a mess at that time, and he probably touched the escape pod eject button on the control panel by accident during the extremely painful struggle.

He was not afraid of death, but he was extremely disgusted and repulsed by the disgusting feeling of being eaten.

Mingyu felt his fingertips growing colder.

The young man leaned over to kiss Mu Baixing and said slowly, "It's all in the past. You should think about tomorrow's game!"

"I've already made a promise to the host Rabbit!" The young man didn't want him to dwell on the past, so he deliberately provoked him, "You can't let me down at the last minute!"