"Oh dear! Look at what Old Zhou is saying! We are just ordinary Vis people, where do we have the potential to become captains?" Grace responded modestly.
"Ah? Miss Grace can't say that. You know, it's not just Captain Tim and me, old guy, even our Captain Ann, who has seen countless people, has seen that you two little guys are malleable talents!" Old Zhou said.
"Hey, Old Zhou, you are really too kind to us! What level we are, don't we know ourselves? It's already very difficult for us to become members of the Express Vanguard. So we should be content, work hard to do our own jobs well. As for future development, let it go with the flow!" Yungo said shyly.
"Right, right, right! You can't force things! By keeping the initial heart and striving for progress, letting things develop naturally often leads to good results. But - but speaking of which, Old Zhou, I think the relationship between you two little guys has developed very well naturally! So, it's time for you to break through that layer of window paper and become a real couple! In this way, the offspring you have together may better carry forward the advantages of both of you and then achieve a more astonishing career! Hahaha!" After speaking, Old Zhou laughed with a meaningful tone, making Yungo and Grace's faces turn red instantly, not knowing how to respond for a while.
"Ah! Old Zhou, don't talk nonsense! Who would like him such a waste?! Even if I want to find a boyfriend, I will find a big guy with a bigger brain and a big handsome guy!" After quickly sorting out her shy emotions, Grace glared at Yungo, who was giggling there, and scolded.
As the heavy atmosphere eased a bit in the three people's chat, Yungo and Grace finally didn't say goodbye to Old Zhou as sadly as they did at the beginning. So, Yungo also said in a relaxed tone: "Old Zhou, you can stay here to accompany Aileen! As long as we can return to the Planet Alliance smoothly, I will definitely find a way to come back here and bring all your bodies back for proper burial, and guide your souls to return to the Vis people's world again! Your spirit will always be with us! We will never forget you!"
Old Zhou said very seriously: "It's not that we can return to the Planet Alliance, but you must return to the Planet Alliance smoothly! Remember, no matter what happens next, you must overcome all difficulties and return to the Vis people's world! You must tell the Vis people what happened here and help the Vis scientists find out the problem to prevent more people from being taken away by this epilepsy! Otherwise, this unknown epilepsy will definitely restrict our Vis people's vision of conquering the universe and become a serious obstacle on our Vis people's development path! So, you bear the historical mission of allowing the Vis people to explore the universe more safely in the future, you must return to our home smoothly! You are only allowed to succeed, not allowed to fail!"
"Understood! Please believe us! We will return smoothly! We will not live up to your expectations and let you give your precious lives in vain!" Grace responded firmly.
"Hmm, very good! I also believe that you will not disappoint us! From now on, everything depends on you! Remember! You are our future hope, you must return to the Vis people's world smoothly!" Old Zhou instructed again.
As a series of familiar system alarm sounds rang out, the Express Vanguard finally entered the final launch state. Then, at the same time when the countdown of the spaceship's takeoff auxiliary system and the dock's launch auxiliary system ended, the eight electromagnetic rail supports in the dock immediately provided an indescribable thrust for the huge Express Vanguard, and soon assisted the spaceship to quickly merge into the ultra-navigational orbit, disappearing into the sky of Planet E in the blink of an eye.
After the spaceship quickly left Planet E along the ultra-navigational orbit, Yungo, who saw the whole picture of Planet E, saw how serious the geological disasters had damaged Planet E. Now, even with the naked eye, he can clearly see that many places on the surface of Planet E have been covered by dense lava tributaries. Moreover, due to the high rise of the heat from some places on Planet E, these heat gradually spread into the space around Planet E. It can be seen that many places on Planet E are experiencing serious geological disasters.
Thinking of this, Yungo and Grace couldn't help but gasp, and at the same time showed a trace of desolation. Because they know that if the natural disasters on Planet E continue to develop in this way, Planet E will sooner or later be completely covered by hot magma in collapse. So, do they still have the opportunity to come back here to pick up the bodies of Old Zhou and others and take them home? I'm afraid they will never be able to fulfill this promise they made.
Farewell, Old Zhou! Farewell, the brave men of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force! We will always remember you! You will always be the heroes that the Vis people are proud of!
As Planet E gradually disappeared from the view of the Express Vanguard, the crew also gradually came out of their sad emotions and devoted themselves to the spaceship's navigation mission to ensure that the spaceship quickly locks the course in the early stage of entering the ultra-navigational orbit and safely sends everyone back to the Vis Planet Alliance.
Under the professional operation of the crew, the Express Vanguard quickly entered a normal navigation state. So, considering that everyone's nerves have been highly tense during this period. So, after confirming that the spaceship entered the automatic navigation's trustee mode, Captain Tim ordered only one team of crew members to stay in the control center for duty, and then let the majority of the crew return to their respective rest cabins for rest. After the crew members were all rested, they would be reassigned the following navigation tasks.
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Although the special bodies of the crew members allowed them to cope with the recent high-intensity work, when everyone lay down in their familiar rest cabins, they still felt a sense of fatigue from deep inside, causing the crew members to fall into a short dream not long after returning to the rest cabins.
The reason why the crew members entered a short dream is that the semi-intelligent mechanized body of the Vis people, with the help of the ultra-concentrated energy source, can do without rest for a long time. Moreover, when sleeping to relieve the fatigue of the organic body, the sleep time can be greatly reduced to three to five hours to ensure that the Vis people stay awake for a long period of time.
"Ah - Ha -!" Yungo made a series of lazy voices from his mouth and stretched from his dream. Due to the high sleep quality of Yungo's sleep, he immediately felt refreshed and full of strength after waking up.
Yungo sat up from the bed and checked the time, only to find that he had just slept for eight hours. You know, eight hours of sleep is an excessive sleep for today's Vis people. Not to mention that Yungo is in a shift-off state, and he has slept for such a long time, which also has the problem of affecting work efficiency. So, Yungo was surprised at his eight-hour sleep and quickly jumped out of bed and ran to the control center.
"Hey? You are finally awake? If you don't wake up, we are ready to break in and rescue you!" Looking at Yungo who rushed into the control center, Grace couldn't help but joke.
"Ah! I'm really sorry, I overslept!" Yungo hurriedly sat down at his position and apologized to Grace and other crew members.
"Don't worry! The spaceship has now entered a stable navigation state, so our duty here is just to supervise. However, considering that in order to evacuate from Planet E as soon as possible, the maintenance personnel only concentrated on repairing the power system of the spaceship and the systems necessary for navigation, and many non-important equipment lines have not been repaired. So now we can only supervise the navigation state of the spaceship, but we cannot monitor many other things inside the spaceship."
"So Captain Tim now orders us to supervise the spaceship's automatic navigation while sitting here, and we also need to regularly inspect the spaceship manually to ensure that we can find and deal with the sudden failures in some parts of the spaceship in time. You know, after all, the Express Vanguard can only navigate now, as for the damaged circuits in other equipment, no one dares to guarantee that they will not have a short circuit during the spaceship's navigation." Grace pointed to the many extinguished monitors on the big screen of the control center and briefly introduced the current situation.
Then, Grace couldn't help but complain: "Ah! In the final analysis, it is still because our Vis people's technical strength in spaceship manufacturing is far from reaching the same height as the field of bionic intelligent mechanical life, which restricts our efficiency in repairing the spaceship under special conditions. So, we really allocate more energy to the development of other technologies. Otherwise, we will definitely be unable to keep up with the pace of development in the field of bionic intelligent mechanical life due to the lag in technological development in other fields, which will seriously affect our process of conquering the universe."
"Ah! That's the truth, but the people who make development plans are not us, we can only follow the instructions above! We can only hope that the top can use the loss of Planet E this time to carry out a comprehensive technical upgrade of the spaceship's structure again. I think, since we can design such a powerful spaceship, we should at least design a more mature safety guarantee plan for the spaceship. Because a damage in one place can cause the entire ship's circuit to fail, thus paralyzing such an advanced spaceship, which should not happen!" Yungo also followed the complaint, and got the unanimous approval of other crew members present.
Complaining or not, work still needs to continue. So after Yungo vented, he changed his tone and asked, "So, when do we start to inspect the whole ship?"
Grace pointed to a few empty positions in the distance and replied, "Maggie and they are already inspecting, let's go next time! But to be honest, although we all have certain knowledge reserves and are familiar with the Express Vanguard. But if we want to truly improve the efficiency of inspecting spaceship problems, we still have to rely on the maintenance personnel. So, what we need to do in the inspection now is to ensure that we can find the faults on the spaceship in time. Once the maintenance personnel repair all the autonomous monitoring equipment of the spaceship, we will no longer need to walk hard in the spaceship."
Since there is no need to perform the inspection task for the time being, Yungo naturally concentrates on the current console and monitors the navigation status of the spaceship with the on-duty crew members. But not long after, Yungo still couldn't help asking Grace beside him, "By the way, have we contacted Old Zhou and them since we left Planet E?"
Hearing this question, Grace replied with a somewhat low look, "No. During our rest in the rest cabin, Captain Tim ordered the last shift of crew members to contact the Broadsword Expeditionary Force. But no matter how they tried, they could not get a reply from the Broadsword Expeditionary Force. So Captain Tim thinks that Planet E must have had a serious geological disaster not long after we left, which seriously damaged the town on Planet E, leading to Old Zhou and them unable to receive our signals, or unable to reply after receiving our messages."
"Or, not long after we left, Old Zhou and they were all killed by that fatal epilepsy -, ah!" After a pause, Grace added, but she only said half and couldn't bear to continue. Yungo heard this, of course, he didn't want Grace to continue either. So after a short silence, Yungo casually found a topic to skip the matter on Planet E and continued to discuss with Grace about the current situation of the spaceship.
Since the Express Vanguard is running very smoothly in automatic navigation, it makes Yungo's supervision work extremely easy. Later, it even made him feel a bit boring for the long on-duty time. Of course, although sitting in front of the console for a long time watching the spaceship navigate automatically is very boring. But after Yungo experienced the high-pressure life on Planet E that was always shrouded in death, he thought the dull work in front of him was even more precious.
After the long work was over, Yungo was able to get time off again. So, he chatted with Grace and returned to their respective rest cabins to prepare for a rest.
"Remember not to oversleep this time! Otherwise, if you affect work again, I won't plead for you with Captain Tim! Of course, if you don't oversleep this time, you can come to find me after waking up." Before entering the rest cabin, Grace instructed.