As soon as they entered the restaurant, the captain was the first to greet them and said with a smile: "I am Liu Yutian, the captain of this high-speed frigate. Nice to meet you two."
Li Ruobai extended his hand to shake the captain's hand, smiled warmly, and said, "Li Ruobai is only an intermediate spaceship pilot at the moment. This Xiao Shan is a good friend of mine. He is a very nice person, but he is not good at sociability. Please forgive me."
"Come on, take a seat first, time is running out."
After taking his seat, Li Ruobai looked at the dishes on the table and couldn't help but sigh and said, "This is life."
Liu Yutian smiled and said: "I just like to eat, so I recruited all the chefs on the ship privately. It's a bit cheaper than them."
All the officers laughed.
Li Ruobai also said: "If my former boss could be like this, I wouldn't end up in such a remote place."
Liu Yutian said: "Oh? Is it desolate down there?"
"It's not desolate, but it's much worse than desolate! Have you seen the storm clouds? Think about it, what equipment can operate normally in that environment? Only pure machinery! This is like returning to primitive society. There is life on the planet, but this is a planet that breathes chlorine. All living things bleed is not blood, but strong acid. If we want to find something to eat, we have to re-synthesize organic matter ourselves. You must still remember the taste of nutritional paste. Bar?"
Many officers' expressions changed and they kept saying: "I can't forget it, I can't forget it!"
When joining the army in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, no matter what position you were in, you had to undergo three months of training in the recruit camp. During recruit training, the staple food most of the time is nutritional paste. Nutrient paste can be synthesized from any organic matter and is extremely high in calories. Its taste is indescribable and unforgettable.
When they heard that Li Ruobai could only eat nutritional cream on the planet below, everyone remembered the sad past and suddenly became a lot more enthusiastic. Liu Yutian even encouraged him to eat. Li Ruobai was no longer reserved and started eating freely.
Chu Jungui was beside him in a leisurely manner and looked gentle, but in fact he kept eating and didn't eat less than Li Ruobai. In consciousness, several components were discussing Chu Jungui's question: "Is eating well really important?"
"Of course! With a good car and good oil, anyone who always takes nutritional supplements will go crazy." The political component took the lead.
"Are there still cars that use oil?" Art Component asked.
"This is a metaphor! Don't take it so seriously!" Politics was very dissatisfied.
"Your metaphor is inappropriate."
"Don't you often do retro stuff too?"
Chu Jungui directly turned off both components.
After a round of eating and drinking, Liu Yutian said, "How about I ask the chef to cook a few more dishes and bring them back to you?"
Li Ruobai sighed contentedly and said, "No need, the load is very precious."
"That's right." Liu Yutian nodded and said: "The main cargo of this supply is a Cambrian-level military master brain. To be honest, such an ancient master brain is really hard to find. In the end, it was found on a ship It was dismantled from a transport ship that had been in service for more than 200 years. The remaining half a ton of rare metals is much easier to handle, and there are plenty of them in the warehouse. Now is wartime, and the price of single crystal metallic hydrogen has risen. The current price is 70 million. Tons. You brought two tons, and after deducting the payment, there will be about 20 million left. How to deal with this money? Is it recorded in the account or converted into other materials? "
"Let's charge it to the account first. Also, what needs does the fleet have recently?" Li Ruobai asked.
Liu Yutian thought for a while and said: "The situation is relatively stable at present, but both sides are increasing their probing moves. There have been more than a dozen conflicts of various sizes this month."
Li Ruobai was startled and asked: "The conflict is still intensifying? Is this the tempo of a real fight?"
Liu Yutian smiled bitterly, "I'm worried too. Our Tang Dynasty and the Federation have had constant conflicts, large and small, in the past few decades, but there has never been a full-scale war. Every time the conflict reaches a certain level, it will stop on its own. But this time not It’s so similar, it’s already really popular.”
An officer next to him echoed: "Indeed, I have never seen such intensive conflicts. But these are not things that little people like us can control. We can just fight when the problem comes. Are we still afraid of those guys from the Federation? By the way, I heard that there are many federal troops on Planet 4, how was the fight?"
Chu Jungui hesitated for a moment and did not answer, but looked at Li Ruobai.
Li Ruobai said: "The planet is so big, how can it be so easy to encounter it? In fact, our range of activities does not exceed 200 kilometers. We only encountered a small federal force once and killed it easily."
The two parties chatted for a while before they dispersed.
Li Ruobai deliberately made friends with him, and by the time he left, he had become brothers with many officers below Liu Yutian.
After agreeing on the next handover time and place, the two returned to the transport ship and returned to the planet's surface.
"Did you see that, within just one meal, we have already become very close to each other?"
Chu Jun returned and said, "I don't see any significance."
"Why is it meaningless?" Li Ruobai asked.
Chu Jungui thought for a while and said: "The relationship you mentioned, I think it depends on the resources we have, right? If we don't have the resources, what's the use of having more relationships? If we don't have single crystal metallic hydrogen, you No matter how good your relationship is with them, they won’t come, right?”
Li Ruobai was a little surprised and said: "You have to think clearly! Indeed, for ordinary people, just eating and drinking is of no use at all."
"Then why spend time on this?"
Li Ruobai rolled his eyes at Chu Jungui, "Are you an ordinary person?"
"yes."
Li Ruobai was immediately blocked and said helplessly: "Forget it, I can't explain it to you. Don't forget, we are trading with the Tianyu Fleet, and the person who executed the transaction is the one we just met. Those people. They are not in a high position and have few resources, but they can make this deal impossible."
"Is this okay?" Chu Jungui frowned.
"Why not? There are many ways! Besides, even if they can't stop the transaction, they can prolong the time. Can you bear it?"
Chu Jun returned and said, "Are you so brave?"
"You don't need to be brave, just a few inadvertent mistakes are enough. For example, mechanical failure, or sudden navigation deviation, come back a few days later. What can you do to them? Do you not allow the spacecraft to break down?"
Political components disagreed, "They are just wasting their time and are losing their jobs. Do they still have a future?"
Chu Jungui thought it made sense, so he repeated it exactly as it was.
Li Ruobai snorted, "They have no future in the first place, so why do they still care about this?"
Chu Jungui thought about it, but even with the test subject's astonishingly high-speed thinking, he couldn't figure it out. For the first time, the test subject felt that the human heart is too complicated, or that fighting is simple. He decided to find trouble at the federal base as soon as he landed and bring back a group of prisoners.
The transport ship broke through the storm clouds, switched to a stable flight, and flew close to the ground towards the shadow of doomsday.
