"Don't make any mistakes for a while. The inspectors usually won't check the trunk of the cleaning truck. As long as you don't make any noise, passing the customs will be a piece of cake for me."
After inspecting the goods, Nadine agreed to Hakak's request with satisfaction. Later, with his "strong help", the other party's tall body, which had already put on a cleaner's uniform, was finally stuffed into the narrow trunk of the cleaning truck.
After covering Hakak with an opaque tarpaulin, Nadine, who felt that everything was safe, drove into the car and followed the previous route to the command area outside the ring multi-functional area.
"Nadine, is it your turn to clean the command area today?"
When the car drove to the entrance of the command area, the guard in charge of security came forward, looked at Nadine who was pretending to be relaxed, and then asked doubtfully: "How do I remember that you were here a few days ago?"
"Haha, look at you, you know how to joke. Let me show you, this is the schedule of our cleaning staff. I was indeed one of the people who came to clean the command area a few days ago. And let me tell you, the stationmaster has to Recruit more cleaners to cover shifts, otherwise I will be overwhelmed!”
After a few glances at the schedule, the guard who noticed that Nadine was not lying nodded. He was about to wave him over, but feeling something was wrong, the guard suddenly lowered his hands and raised some of his hands, staring at Nadine and asking. He said: "You didn't talk that much before. What happened today? You suddenly feel like you have nothing to say."
"No, I always talk a lot."
Although she was extremely nervous, Nadine still pretended to be calm and smiled: "Maybe you confused me with someone else. Can I, an honest person like me, still lie to you?"
The guard shook his head and said that he would not accept this trick. He was just about to let the other person get out of the car for inspection. Suddenly, the communicators in his and other guards' ears rang, and an order issued by the command room came from inside.
"The people in the reconnaissance section just reported that they detected the fluctuations of the hyperspace jump, but the nebula interference is too serious and the specific direction and scale cannot be judged. Now I need a group of spacecraft pilots to patrol outside the station to see if it is If there are unsighted space bandits or smuggling ships, those who voluntarily sign up should come and gather at the door of the command room immediately!"
The guard was overjoyed after hearing this order. He was quite confident in his spaceship piloting skills and ignored Nadine. Instead, he turned around and ran towards the command room - rather than inspecting a structure. As a cleaner who is not a threat, appearing in front of the senior management of the refining station is obviously the option that he should consider more.
The guard sitting next to him didn't want to get up because he was looking at something, so he waved his hand to indicate that Nadine could go over. He didn't expect that there would be a man over 1.8 meters tall and weighing more than 200 kilograms in the trunk of the cleaning truck. The big man.
After arriving at the room where the cleaning tools were stored without any danger, Nadine carefully put Hakak out of the trunk and whispered: "Follow me with the tools, and just show off when you see someone." If we clean it twice, the people in the command section won't look at us seriously."
After learning that Hakak wanted to go to a room with a porthole window, Nadine took him with him, and the two of them entered a small lounge exclusively for command area personnel, because there was not only what he wanted here The portholes are still huge floor-to-ceiling windows.
Seeing the cleaners coming to clean, a senior executive who was listening to music with a wine glass in the lounge cursed secretly, put down the glass and quickly left the lounge. Instead, he created an environment for Hakak to concentrate on staring at the stars.
The scenery outside the window was exactly what he expected. Except for the thick stardust clouds that reflected the orange-red psychedelic light under the stars, there was almost nothing worth watching, let alone the gorgeous starry sky.
Gu: "How about the floor-to-ceiling windows you exchanged for Miss Paula? I don't think there's anything interesting anyway, and I don't know why you are so interested in Nebula."
After locking the door of the lounge, Nadine, who was obviously not doing this for the first time, sat down on the soft sofa, picked up the glass of blood wine that the senior management had not finished drinking, and took a sip without hesitation. Then he laughed and said: "These guys didn't let us drink, but they drank happily in a place where we couldn't see. It's really, alas."
As she spoke, Nadine sighed, looking at Hakak's back with a bit of envy.
"It would be great if I could abandon worldly desires like you. At least I don't have to take such a big risk for a copy of 'Miss Paula'."
After drinking the rare wine at the refining station, Nadine smacked her lips while walking to her friend who was looking at the nebula, and asked in a low voice: "You know so much about the nebula, tell me about it. What a mystery! Maybe while you are talking about it, I will suddenly realize that I don’t like Miss Paula anymore, and I like Stardust Air Balls instead.”
Upon hearing this, Haqak glanced at Nadine in surprise, and then focused his attention again on the stardust sediment ring that seemed not far away, but was at least several hundred kilometers away, and slowly said: "I I'm not an astronomer, at most I know more about nebulae than you do. If you want to hear it, I'll tell you."
"Before we talk about refining, we have to mention the composition of the nebula."
Hakak, who entered the role of teacher, stretched out his big hand covered with gray scales, pointed to the "cloud" outside the window, which may not be bright, but the color was indeed very dreamy, and explained: "Stardust air mass, as the name suggests, is a mix of stardust and It is composed of air masses. Stardust is the dust scattered in the universe after the disintegration of celestial bodies in nebulae, and air masses are ordinary gases. But if you are lucky, occasionally there will be air masses composed of alien natural gas."
Seeing a little confusion in Nadine's eyes, Hakak pondered for a moment and then asked: "Have you ever smoked tobacco, Nadine?"
When the other party nodded, he smiled and explained: "Then this should not be difficult for you to understand. For example, stars will continue to eject matter outwards, which is one of the important ways of forming nebulae. And you When you smoke, do you spit out the smoke you inhale into your body? At that time, you are the star and the smoke is the nebula."
"If you put it that way, I seem to understand."
After Haqak felt that Nadine should really understand, he continued what he said before: "The purpose of the Nebula Refining Station is to collect the 'smoke rings' spit out by stars through complex procedures, and then use the It is the matter of dust and gas that is reunited to form various minerals and rare resources.”
"The efficiency of this method may not be as high as the designers imagined when designing the refining station, but it is indeed a completely different mining method from ordinary mines. If the lower limit of the mining station is very high, then Nebula Refining The upper limit of the station is as high as the lower limit of the planetary mine."
"By increasing the working area and positions in the section, and expanding the scale of the refining station, there is almost no upper limit to the efficiency of nebula mining, because within a few hundred light-years there are all stardust and air masses that can be collected. Compared with ordinary ones within the empire, Compared with the planetary mines, the Cross Nebula is the truly inexhaustible mineral resource!"
Hakak, who was getting excited with the explanation, coughed twice, glanced at the wine cabinet with a combination lock next to him, and swallowed helplessly to relieve the thirst in his throat, and then continued to feel something different starting to appear in his eyes. Nadine, who was so radiant, talked about several steps of the work of the Nebula Refining Station - this was the part he really liked.
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