Qu Jianlei and the others encountered a little trouble on the way back to Paradise Planet.
The accident did not occur on the ominous ship, but on the 3344 ship following it.
After they entered the Canopy Galaxy, Qu Jianlei decided to go to the Lost Star and take a look at it from a distance to see if the military was still watching.
However, the Lost Star was still far away, so Xiaohu told Qu Jianlei that something had happened.
The 3344th ship behind actually triggered the passive space early warning device.
In such a vast space, there are actually people setting up early warning devices, which is really unexpected.
Ship 3344 turned on its stealth and did not take the initiative to explore other situations - not far ahead, there was its own starship exploring the way.
Unexpectedly, I triggered an early warning device that came from nowhere.
To make matters worse, the signal sent out by the early warning device was very strong and encrypted.
"Ninety-nine percent of it was set up by the military," the big-headed butterfly turned, "Boss, what should I do?"
"Let 3344 continue to jump," Qu Jianlei issued the command, "The target... I hope the star field is healed."
High imitation warships don't appear often, but the last time they were nearby, they encountered a melee between the Stepford Adventure Group and Tufuzi.
For this reason, the Stepford family also specifically contacted Paradise Star and wanted to issue a reward, but they failed to do so.
However, Qu Jianlei thought again, this jump might alarm the military, and that ominous ship... would not be suitable to return to the paradise in the short term.
Regardless of whether there is an iron snake in the bag, as long as someone is suspected of being involved, there may be some trouble in the future.
"Forget it, let's go to the Hope Star Territory too. We haven't been back for a long time."
Shortly after the two starships jumped, two warships actually came over, and the ones painted on them were "Military Police".
"The other party immediately implemented interference, but it can be seen that it should be a standard warship type."
In order to conceal its presence, passive early warning devices usually do not issue active detection. They will only detect when an alarm is triggered.
The person controlling 3344 is Xiao Hu, so his reaction speed is certainly no problem, but the other party still managed to spy a little bit.
"Is there really something wrong with the military here? Or... is it a counterfeit warship?"
It seems that the military also knows that someone is messing around under their banner, such as a certain archaeological organization.
"Anyway, there must be something wrong, otherwise they wouldn't have escaped through the jump. Can they lock their whereabouts?"
"How is that possible...it's not an official standard jump channel. It's a pity that the other party is too alert."
"Then the surrounding inspections will be more rigorous. Let's bring in some more starships."
The two starships jumped to the Hope Star Field one after the other, and it took half a day to establish contact.
Qu Jianlei really wants to go to the four habitable stars to see what the Hope Star Field looks like now.
But it is a pity that even if the ominous ship is registered here, it is not suitable for landing casually.
"Let's wander around for a while first," Mrs. Jia suggested, "to see if there are any suitable landing opportunities."
Anyway, it is not suitable for them to go back to the paradise in the short term, so it would be good to find something to kill time.
Don't tell me, the old lady's mouth seemed to have been opened. Five days later, they really found an opportunity.
It was a cheap passenger starship that encountered a malfunction and frantically sent out distress signals to all around.
The starship is not completely unusable, but the situation is still dangerous and failures are spreading.
There is no doubt that there are no high-level maintenance technicians on this flight.
But this is not a huge problem. The signal they send will reach the headquarters sooner or later.
The headquarters will definitely send someone to rescue him, but it will take some time on the way.
After the ominous ship discovered the signal, it drove directly over and said straightforwardly, "How to calculate the maintenance cost?"
The person on the other side really said that it is hard to give up good money, and said that our maintenance costs are limited, so let's see where the fault is first, okay?
Qu Jianlei drove the starship close to the opponent, and actually boarded the passenger ship to take a look.
The fault is not too big but not too small. For another person, even if there are enough spare parts, it is not that difficult to fix it in space!
Qu Jianlei directly offered a sky-high price: I will provide the spare parts, and I guarantee that the repair will be completed with 20 million!
He indeed quoted a high salary. Four to five million is enough for this kind of work and materials - this is after taking into account the difficulty of space operations.
But Qu Jianlei didn't even think about repairing it, so he quoted a sky-high price.
Sure enough, the other person said that he was too shady - he could have done it for a million or so!
These people run space passenger transport all year round. Although they are not good at maintenance, they still know the approximate prices of common faults.
They hope that Qu Jianlei can charge a reasonable fee, and also said that the company's annual maintenance budget is limited.
"Cultivation or not!" Qu Jianlei turned around and left, "How much does it cost to send someone from your company for one visit?"
"How much money did you make less while you were waiting?"
Anyway, he just looks like a philistine, trying to make excess profits by "presenting facts and reasoning."
However, the crew members were also hard-pressed to part with their good fortune and resolutely refused to agree to such blackmail, and eventually the two families broke up on bad terms.
After Qu Jianlei boarded the ominous ship, he left without any intention of bargaining.
So much so that some passengers on the ship complained, "This guy is trying to cut down the price. Does he have a grudge against money?"
Qu Jianlei had no grudge against Qian, but he came forward to negotiate the price mainly because he wanted to send Mrs. Jia into the starship.
The old lady's own concealment ability was very strong, and it was not difficult for him to apply a little magic to cover the old lady's entry into the cabin.
Anyway, if he doesn't accept the order, it means that he is just a profit-seeking person.
Are there few such people? There are really quite a few of them. You can encounter them casually on the street, and many passengers won’t find them strange.
Seriously, if he repairs the starship, it will attract more attention from everyone, and the level of repairing the starship is clearly visible.
Kind-hearted people are too rare, let alone capable kind-hearted people?
We have all seen so many people who are fussy and fussy about things, but we don’t take them to heart.
If you don’t pay attention to me, that’s the best! The ominous ship just sailed away.
Three days later, maintenance engineers arrived with other starships and spent half a day temporarily solving the starship's problem.
"You can drive it to a location first and then repair it thoroughly."
No one noticed that a vague shadow appeared in the cargo hold of the passenger starship.
The destination of the passenger starship is the Hope Star, and the old lady left two teleportation disks on the Hope Star.
Then she went to Star 4 and Star 2 - Star 3 was still quite tense at the moment, so there was no rush to go.
Qu Jianlei and others also came to Star No. 2. It was really a different feeling to revisit the old place.
Fortunately, he actually saw Sophia on the street.
The former commercial tour guide has become a little plumper and has an automatic stroller by his side.
And her lower abdomen also showed an obviously abnormal bulge-it should be that she had given birth to new life.
Qu Jianlei smiled subconsciously and shook his head. This probably meant "you have your life, and I have my journey."
However, the reality did not make him sad for too long. Mrs. Jia came over with a dark face and said, "Jiu Xian has been taken away."
"Take it away?" Qu Jianlei raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Take him to where?"
"The Abnormal Object Observation Team," Mrs. Jia sighed softly, "She is very capable of doing research, and... she has a good family background."
"The origin of family education?" Qu Jianlei repeated, and then asked with a strange expression, "Did you influence me?"
"This... there should be a little bit of it," Mrs. Jia nodded hesitantly, "but mainly archeology is more popular recently."
The trigger for the popularity of archeology is the ghost cultivator incident in the Blade Star Territory, but there are deeper reasons.
Listening to the words of the middle-aged young master Qianhe, you can know that the empire has accumulated too many things.
Ran Bingluan's tribulation thunder, Rhodiola rosea's spiritual magic, the theft of the super gas gathering array...
This was only related to him. When old dean Lushui began to study divine inscriptions, it would be difficult to stop this trend.
But the empire has always emphasized that it is strictly forbidden to study divine texts in private - I may not pursue it, but this does not mean that you are legal!
Because there are so many pent-up grievances, all kinds of conflicts are now beginning to break out.
"Isn't this too short-sighted?" Qu Jianlei's eyes flashed coldly, "Are you going to mess with them?"
"It's okay so far. We're on Star 3," Mrs. Jia replied calmly, "It's not convenient for us to go there for the time being."
I have to admit that the people of the Empire are really big-hearted, and she didn’t hesitate when her great-granddaughter encountered such a thing.
"That's okay," Qu Jianlei nodded. Even the sufferer said there was no need to worry. It was useless for him to worry alone, right?
"Anyway, just keep in touch with them. Just let them know if you need anything."
"I hope it won't come to that day," Mrs. Jia's eyes flashed with coldness, "By the way, now the boss of the second star is Kerian."
"Ke Ruian?" Qu Jianlei frowned, "This person...should I know him?"
Mrs. Jia said calmly, "Hoyle, the second-in-command of Star 4, do you remember, the one who caused you to be wanted?"
"Of course," Qu Jianlei replied without hesitation. It was a completely innocent disaster. How could he forget it?
At that time, he had already planned to integrate into the imperial society and become a normal person.
But it was this incident that allowed him to completely see the basic logic of the operation of imperial society, which led him to escape to this day.
By now, his mind has gone wild and he can't even go back.
Of course, from another perspective, maybe he should be grateful for this change, which allowed him to live a more sober life.
But who can tell clearly what is right and wrong here?
Mrs. Jia spoke leisurely, "Ke Ruian was the biggest driving force in bringing down Hoyle, even though he was not in the Hope Star Territory at the time."
Qu Jianlei raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "The people who are embarrassing Hoyle should be people from the Divine Literary Society, right?"
"Ke Ruian is from the Divine Literary Society," the old lady said with certainty.
"Hoyle's mother's grandfather was tricked by him."
"Of course, there are others in their group, but Corian is definitely the main person involved!"
