After picking up Cen Yu and the others on the garbage planet, they will immediately return to rendezvous with the starship.
"That's good," Cen Yu thought.
It's easier for him to secretly log off on a garbage planet.
So he agreed with both hands.
Wen Zhen is just a "burden" to begin with, so her opinion is unimportant.
Li Chonghe then looked at Chi Jiazhen, "What are your thoughts?"
“Of course I agree,” Chi Jiazhen said. “But you, Second Prince, should reconsider.”
Li Chonghe's half-human, half-insect identity is practically an open secret here; "be careful Huo Shen doesn't get suspicious."
Chi Jiazhen's tone sounded very sincere, but neither Li Chonghe nor Wen Zhen felt that he was giving advice out of kindness.
Li Chonghe nodded. "I will consider it."
After finishing the nutritional supplement, Wen Zhen threw it into the trash can in the corner. "So, can we leave now?"
He glanced at Li Chonghe, then at Chi Jiazhen, and finally at Cen Yu. He realized that Cen Yu was the one who could truly make decisions in this team.
Cen Yu finished drinking the peach-flavored nutritional supplement that Wen Zhen had thrown to him, and then threw it into the trash can as well.
“Let’s go now,” he said.
As the four left the semi-basement where Wen Zhen was temporarily staying, the owner of Liangliang Nutritional Solution Shop glanced at them and asked, "Get out?"
"Hmm," Wen Zhen said.
"Will you give it back?"
"I'm not coming back."
The boss nodded. "Goodbye."
Although they both knew they would never see each other again.
...
The garbage planet is like a giant waste recycling center.
The items dumped here were all unrecyclable. Wen Zhen, piloting a standard mecha, landed on this garbage planet with Cen Yu.
According to his original plan, all he had to do was get into that red spaceship—
However, considering that the entire process was being broadcast live from inside the spaceship and that a fixed flight path had been set, Wen Zhen gave up the idea.
He knew that the person who had sabotaged the operation would definitely be lying in ambush halfway through the journey, so the better option was to follow Huo Shen's spaceship and then contact his subordinates.
“There’s an abandoned base nearby,” Wen Zhen said through the mecha’s communicator.
Even garbage planets weren't always garbage planets.
"We can go in there and wait."
To prevent their fuel and other reserves from running out even faster, they'd better find a place to hide before Huo Shen arrives.
“Lead the way,” Cen Yu replied immediately.
Wen Zhen piloted the mecha toward the base he knew. "That place has been abandoned for a long time. People used to come and inspect it."
"But no one has come here for the past 20 years."
"Why?" Cen Yu asked, whether out of genuine curiosity or politeness, it was unclear.
“Because this place has become a complete garbage planet,” Wen Zhen said. “A place that even people don’t want to come here to dump their garbage.”
Previously, Federation ships would come here to dump some difficult-to-handle garbage, but since the area was occupied by the Zerg, no Federation cleaning company has been willing to risk being captured by the Zerg to transport the garbage.
Soon after passing a small hill about 20 meters high, made of compressed metal, Wen Zhen saw the base.
It was a semi-circular base.
The area isn't very large, since it was originally used as a garbage dump, and the outside world is completely unsuitable for human habitation.
The password was clearly written at the entrance, using a common federal code. After entering the password, Wen Zhen opened the base gate and went inside with Cen Yu and the others.
Cen Yu raised his arm, and the mecha automatically began to measure the air quality inside the base to determine if it was safe to leave the mecha.
After all the green lights came on, he decided to climb out of the mech.
He didn't buy much fuel from Lily, so he had to use it sparingly.
Wen Zhen also put away his mecha.
The four stood in this makeshift base.
"How much longer will Huo Shen be?" Cen Yu asked Li Chonghe.
“Soon,” Li Chonghe said.
Before they set off, they specifically explained Wen Zhen's situation to Huo Shen.
When Huo Shen heard that Wen Zhen was also on Hailan Planet, his expression didn't change much. After confirming some information with Li Chonghe, the other end of the communication ended.
The base is very old, and even though the circulation system is always working, you can still feel the decay.
In about a few decades, this base will be completely decommissioned.
Having found the old lounge, Cen Yu dragged a folding chair down and sat down.
"Xiao Yu," Chi Jiazhen suddenly said, "Has Brother Cen not contacted you?"
Cen Yu opened the communicator and checked it, only to find that Cen Shen hadn't sent him a single message.
—Are the brothers' feelings really that weak?!
Cen Yu thought to himself, then said to Chi Jiazhen, "No."
Chi Jiazhen nodded, as if she had only asked casually.
"Have Wenxi and the others sent any messages?" Li Chonghe asked upon seeing this.
"They just said they were researching things in the underground lab, the competition was suspended, and I shouldn't worry about the results." Cen Yu's expression was subtle.
At this point, you're still worried about your grades!
Wen Zhen sat a distance away from them, observing their conversation silently without saying a word.
Then I looked out at the garbage mountain through the base's window.
"Huo Shen is here," Li Chonghe said suddenly after glancing at the message.
“I told him that we were in an abandoned base on a junk planet, and he needed us to send him the coordinates.”
After being given the coordinates, Li Chonghe returned to the original spot. He stood there, with the window behind him, Cen Yu sitting to his left and front, and Chi Jiazhen seemingly lost in thought.
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