I Am a Salted Fish in the Interstellar Era - Chapter 18

“It’s a wonder Hai Jingji believed your tall tale,” Xie Jiangsa chuckled, munching on a candy. “But then again, your [Judgment] truly is made to resemble Lancezell’s. If I hadn’t sparred with your [Judgment], it would be hard to tell the difference between the two mechas at a glance.”

Xie Yuyan glanced at him coolly.

Seeing him maintain his usual unsmiling demeanor, Xie Jiangsa boredly pursed his lips, “Are you really going to wade into these muddy waters?”

Sea Blue Star was under the jurisdiction of Marshal Feng Cen. For Xie Yuyan, as Marshal Xie Liqin’s trusted aide and biological son, to intervene in Sea Blue Star’s affairs at this time made it hard not to speculate about the backing of the First Marshal.

“My father didn’t send me here for leisure,” Xie Yuyan’s gaze remained on the virtual screen, quickly accessing the central system of Sea Blue Star’s space station with his privileges to view that few seconds of video.

His fair and slender fingers lightly danced on the virtual keyboard, and in just a few seconds, the brains controlled by the central system of Sea Blue Star’s space station automatically deleted the video.

Although Xie Jiangsa couldn’t see what he was doing, he could guess. Looking at Xie Yuyan’s serene profile, he directed his gaze into the distance and asked, “Do you know what you’re doing?”

His voice was so soft it was almost inaudible.

Xie Yuyan’s hand paused on the virtual keyboard, his voice as usual, “I have never forced you.”

Xie Jiangsa lowered his eyes, a smile returning to his face, regardless of Xie Yuyan’s reaction. He ran his hand through Xie Yuyan’s silver hair and, ignoring his warning look, placed his hand on his shoulder, “Alright, alright, since I’m your brother. Are you done? If you are, let’s go to the commander of Sea Blue Star and take over this troublesome task.”

“It’s not a troublesome task,” Xie Yuyan stated.

Seeing him remain impassive, Xie Jiangsa resignedly said, “Alright, alright, I know you, Commander Xie, care deeply for the people at dawn. We can’t stay here long, hurry up and finish.”

Meanwhile, Hai Jingji, seeing the message pop up on her brain-computer interface, slammed a cup of water onto the table in frustration.

[Judgment Legion Xie Yuyan: I’ve deleted the video in the space station. I hope the Navy Captain will also delete the video in his brain-computer interface. Thanks for cooperating!]

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Shi Yu sat in her tent, holding a crystal-clear, diamond-shaped crystal, which was the ‘energy power crystal’ she had extracted from an unknown species that day.

Previously, she had left all the energy power crystals in the [War God] mecha ring. Just now, [War God] indicated that it was fully charged and then ejected a few energy power crystals.

Yes, ejected.

This was the first time Shi Yu had seen a mecha ring, which could automatically open without a master’s mental connection.

Touching her chin, Shi Yu examined the energy power crystal, feeling that this type of crystal resembled the ones she had extracted from zombies’ heads during the apocalypse, although the energy fluctuations inside were different.

From the name, it was clear that it was a type of energy crystallization.

Since this item could charge [War God], she planned to collect more in the future. After all, [War God] was now her life-saving weapon.

Unfortunately, she got carried away yesterday and completely forgot about collecting energy power crystals. She didn’t know if Lin Xie had ordered anyone to collect these crystals.

Even if there were any, she couldn’t ask for them; otherwise, her role as the [War God] pilot would be exposed.

Shi Yu sighed. In the end, she had to be self-sufficient.

She stored the energy power crystals in her spatial bag and was about to lie down under her blanket when someone tapped on her tent.

Shi Yu opened the zipper to peek out, saw Lu Dongyan and Feng Xiao standing outside, and without hesitation, withdrew her head, intending to close the zipper. But a hand stopped her.

Shi Yu, mouth twitching, reluctantly unzipped the tent and stuck her head out again: “What do you two want?”

“The captain said our mechas are fixed. He wants us to collect them as soon as possible and then head out for a mission,” Lu Dongyan said.

Shi Yu shook the two strands of hair that fell on her forehead: “He didn’t tell me.”

Pretending she didn’t know.

But as soon as she finished speaking, Feng Xiao slammed the mission that Captain Lin Xie had sent to his brain-computer interface in front of Shi Yu.

Shi Yu rolled her eyes and reluctantly crawled out of the tent.

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“Why does our team have four little bunnies who haven’t fully grown their fur?” the burly man complained, very dissatisfied with the grouping.

One of the four little bunnies, a cold and aloof young man, glanced at the burly man with an indifferent expression.

Shi Yu yawned and retorted directly: “Big brother, otherwise you go and tell the captain not to let us join in the fun, so as not to delay your important work.”

Going out to collect supplies was considered a relatively safe mission, because if they encountered monsters, they could simply deploy their mechas and run away. Therefore, many people competed for the supply collection missions.

However, no matter how safe, there was still a significant risk. Those who wanted to complete missions for merits preferred to be assigned powerful teammates. It wasn’t just about leeching off others; it was also about ensuring their safety.

The burly man, already dissatisfied at the sight of their overly young faces, became even angrier upon hearing Shi Yu’s words: “What do you mean?”

“Ah, let’s say less. The grouping is random. Since we’ve been arranged together, it’s pointless to argue. Let’s just set off as soon as possible. The sooner we go, the sooner we return.”

Su Jianxing immediately stepped forward to mediate. As an S-class mecha pilot, he was a significant force and naturally assigned to the mission.

Although the grouping was random, each person could bind with teammates they preferred, which is why Shi Yu and her two companions ended up together.

Lu Dongyan didn’t want to start a fight at this moment and quietly pulled Shi Yu aside.

With someone mediating, the situation didn’t escalate, but the remaining four members of the ten-person group clearly shared the burly man’s sentiments, preferring not to team up with them and distancing themselves accordingly.

Shi Yu had seen her fair share of presumptuous people. She took out her mecha, ready to head to the mission location marked on the map.

After the communication on Sea Blue Star was restored, the ring satellites could monitor the surface conditions, confirming that there were no signs of unknown species activity at the mission location for the time being.

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“The captain is exploiting minors.” Shi Yu muttered as she stuffed box after box of nutritional liquid she found in the mall into her spatial bag.

Feng Xiao glanced at her speechlessly, “How many times have you muttered that today?” His ears were practically calloused from hearing it.

“You’d better hurry up instead of grumbling, so we can get back and play dead sooner.”

Having spent so many days with Shi Yu, Lu Dongyan and Feng Xiao had fully experienced her salted fish nature. If she could lie down in a tent, she absolutely wouldn’t get up, and if she could slack off for a minute, she definitely wouldn’t force herself to train for an extra minute.

“What do you mean by playing dead? A salted fish only lies flat!” Shi Yu’s spatial bag was almost full, and as she muttered, she looked around and suddenly her eyes lit up.

Wuwuwu! Little puddings! Her favorite!

She immediately opened her own spatial bag and started stuffing the little puddings inside. After only a few were in, a thick, large hand reached over and swept all the little puddings in front of her into his own spatial bag.

Shi Yu’s eyes widened, and when she turned her head, she saw that the muscular man had swept away all her little puddings.

Seeing Shi Yu look over, the muscular man snorted through his nostrils and continued to take the small snacks from the counter.

Just then, a faint click sounded.

Shi Yu was all too familiar with this sound, and she immediately became alert and was about to speak when a black spider fell from the ceiling.