Hearing Captain Tim's tone of voice, Yungo immediately realized that he and Grace were not just ordinary crew members of the Express Vanguard. It seemed that Captain Tim had been entrusted by a Dr. Hu to ensure their personal safety while leading their work. So, who exactly was this Dr. Hu? What was his relationship with Dr. Hu? Judging by the tone Captain Tim used when mentioning Dr. Hu, their relationship must be quite good, right? Yungo, who still couldn't remember anything due to memory issues, could only ponder silently in his heart.

Old Zhou explained innocently, "Hey! You can't completely blame me for this, can you? I also saw that they two have been quite unsociable lately and didn't like to eat. I thought it was because our hospitality was lacking, so I deliberately brought them here to check on the repair progress to soothe their urgent desire to return. I didn't expect that you guys would dare to gather and eat together during work time? Ah! I've told Aileen many times! Although the repair work is very hard, we can't always let the chefs prepare big meals for them, right? She should only prepare convenient working meals for the maintenance personnel, so as not to affect work efficiency!"

Yungo felt quite apologetic when he saw Old Zhou taking the initiative to reflect, because if it weren't for appeasing himself and Grace, he wouldn't have led the two of them into the spaceship, thus causing this embarrassment. So, Yungo hurriedly said to Old Zhou, "Old Zhou, you mustn't say that. Sister Aileen did that out of kindness, it's just that these guys have too poor self-control, which led them to dare to occupy working time to eat!"

After everyone had their say, the small conflict caused by occupying working time for meals was finally resolved. However, since Yungo and Grace had already arrived, and the two, although not wanting to continue questioning, still had doubts about the work attitude and efficiency of the maintenance personnel. Therefore, Captain Tim, who was a bit guilty, proposed to personally show the two around the damage and repair progress of the spaceship, in order to completely dispel their concerns and let the two return to the town to wait for the spaceship and dock to be repaired.

As navigation operators of the Express Vanguard, Yungo and Grace were naturally very concerned about the specific damage and repair situation of the spaceship. So, upon hearing Captain Tim's proposal, the two naturally had no objections. However, before the four could leave the command center of the spaceship, a sudden situation arose again.

With a sudden violent vibration of the Express Vanguard's hull, the spaceship's emergency alarm system immediately broadcasted: "Warning! Warning! Abnormal surface environment detected! The spaceship is under attack by seismic waves! Please evacuate to a safe area as soon as possible, please evacuate to a safe area as soon as possible!"

Upon hearing the automatic alarm of the spaceship, everyone inside was shocked. However, since everyone had received professional training to deal with sudden natural disasters, they immediately reacted after knowing what was about to happen and quickly hid in various corners of the command center to deal with the earthquake attack. As the shaking inside the spaceship became more intense, the control panels that had been disassembled also emitted a series of ear-piercing metal friction sounds. The disassembled parts also scattered around due to the violent shaking of the spaceship. The people hiding in the corners of the command center also lost their balance and fell to the ground because the spaceship was shaking too violently.

Fortunately, the duration of the earthquake was not long, and the Vis people now have super strength and impact resistance in both design and materials when building spaceships and buildings. So, even though the earthquake came very suddenly, it still did not cause any damage to the Express Vanguard and the huge dock that was not yet completed.

However, for safety reasons, Captain Tim still confirmed the situation of the maintenance personnel inside the spaceship and the dock, and finally let out a long sigh of relief after determining that the earthquake had not caused any casualties. But Captain Tim only relaxed a bit before sighing again with a wry face.

"Ah! What bad luck! Why did we have to encounter an earthquake at this time? Now it's great, we have to check the spaceship's circuit system, and we also have to spend some extra time tidying up the parts that were scattered by the earthquake! You know, if a part accidentally fell into the precision circuit system during the earthquake just now, it could seriously affect the safe navigation of the spaceship! Ah! Look at us, our workload has increased!" Captain Tim said with a wry smile, stroking his beard towards Yungo and the others.

Then, Captain Tim turned his head and looked at the temporary rest room where the food was almost all spilled, and said in an even more disappointed tone: "Ah! Unlucky! Really unlucky! A good table of food was ruined by the earthquake! Forget it! Since this is the case, let's focus on the repair work first! When we finish our work as soon as possible, we can enjoy the delicious food during the break! Old Zhou, please go back and tell Aileen, tell her not to prepare food for us for the time being! In case the next earthquake destroys a new table of delicious food!"

"Understood! I'll work hard here with Captain Tim! I'll go back and tell Aileen. Oh! I don't know how the restaurant is doing? I guess the earthquake also destroyed a lot of food there? It seems that we really need to strengthen our defenses! To avoid the next earthquake bringing us such a painful loss again!" Old Zhou replied worriedly, while not forgetting to look at the delicious dishes scattered all over the rest room with regrettable eyes.

Seeing this, Yungo and Grace couldn't help but roll their eyes. Good guy! Compared with all kinds of facilities and buildings here, these two guys care the most about the food?! Ah! It seems that the temptation of delicious food to Vis people is really fatal!

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However, Yungo and Grace did not make a mockery of Captain Tim and Old Zhou on this issue. Because both of them detected something from the conversation between Captain Tim and Old Zhou, that is, Captain Tim and Old Zhou seem to be very calm about this sudden earthquake. Moreover, Yungo and Grace felt that Captain Tim and Old Zhou are so calm at this time, which has nothing to do with their professional training to deal with sudden natural disasters and having certain experience in dealing with sudden natural disasters.

In short, Yungo and Grace think the calmness shown by the two people in front of them is a bit abrupt and very unusual. More importantly, through the conversation between Captain Tim and Old Zhou, Yungo and Grace always feel that they seem to know when the next earthquake will come.

Thinking of this, Yungo and Grace couldn't help but look at each other, and then Grace stopped Captain Tim and Old Zhou who were about to enter the temporary rest room to check how much food can be used, and asked, "Wait a minute! Why do you emphasize 'the next earthquake'? Do you already know that there will be an earthquake here?"

After hearing Grace's question, Captain Tim first looked at Old Zhou and after getting Old Zhou's nod, he called Grace and Yungo to the corner, and said in a voice that could not be heard by other maintenance personnel in the command center: "Shh -! Keep your voice down! You must not let others know about this in advance, otherwise, once it causes a large area of panic among everyone, it may affect our evacuation work!"

"Why would it cause panic? Why don't we know about any evacuation work?" Grace asked with a frown.

This time, it was Old Zhou's turn to make a shushing gesture to Grace, and then he replied, "Well, actually, it's like this. Shortly after you arrived on Planet E, a team from our Broadsword Expeditionary Force that was sent to the western hemisphere of Planet E for exploration encountered a severe earthquake. Shortly after the earthquake, a large mountain not far from the exploration team's base suddenly erupted with tremendous energy, causing huge damage to the environment within a radius of nearly a hundred kilometers."

Old Zhou took a deep breath and continued, "Although the volcanic eruption led to the loss of many personnel and equipment in our exploration, our exploration team still withstood the pressure to survive and did their best to complete an important survey of the crust near the volcano and the surrounding crust. As a result, the exploration team found that the crust under the volcano is extremely unstable. Moreover, a large amount of extremely unstable abnormal energy is trying to gush out from the depths of the crust through the volcano. And according to the research of the exploration team, those abnormal energies seem to all come from the core of Planet E."

"After this incident, we immediately notified the exploration teams that were still carrying out exploration tasks on various parts of Planet E to pay attention to safety. Since then, many exploration teams have also encountered strong earthquakes and sudden volcanic eruptions. Even more so, some exploration teams have encountered terrifying disasters such as the ground cracking into a deep abyss for no reason, and a large amount of magma gushing out from the abyss. All of this seems to indicate that there may be some kind of anomaly deep in the core of Planet E, leading this huge planet to enter an extremely unstable state. This is not a good sign!"

Captain Tim continued, "That's right. Due to the huge volume of Planet E, and during this period, many crew members no longer leave the town on Planet E to wander around, everyone naturally doesn't know about the various anomalies and disasters happening on Planet E. In addition, in order to ensure that everyone will not produce unnecessary panic, the exploration team did not announce this matter to the public. Our crew members and other members of the Broadsword Expeditionary Force can continue to live here with a relaxed attitude."

"For us, the most important task at hand is to repair the spaceship as soon as possible and ensure that the repaired dock can assist the spaceship to take off smoothly. In this way, everyone here can take the Express Vanguard and return to the Vis Planet Alliance before a larger geological disaster occurs on Planet E."

Saying this, Captain Tim spread his hands to Yungo and Grace, and continued, "So, we have really been working hard to repair the spaceship and the dock. We really haven't been lazy! You guys really misunderstood us just now!"

At this point, Yungo and Grace naturally had no reason to question Captain Tim and Old Zhou's words and deeds anymore. So, Yungo made a gesture to express his apology for his previous doubt about the two, and then asked, "You mean to say that Planet E may erupt into a large-scale disaster at any time? Uh, how big can this disaster be?"

Old Zhou looked around the command center, and after confirming that the few maintenance personnel were working diligently in the distance and had not heard the content of the four people's conversation, he replied in a low voice with a heavy face, "It's hard to say. According to our recent surveys, the unstable energy spreading from the core of Planet E to the crust is still increasing. If it weren't for the thickness and density of the rock layers in the crust of Planet E far exceeding those of ordinary planets, these energies would have already broken through the crust of various places on Planet E and erupted. At that time, even if Planet E is not completely destroyed, the surface of Planet E is likely to be completely covered by magma formed by that kind of abnormal energy, turning this planet into a fireball, and for a long period of time it will no longer be suitable for Vis people to settle."

"So, how long can the high-density rock layers in the crust of Planet E hold on?" Grace asked worriedly.

"From the current situation, the rock layers of Planet E can still act as a barrier to prevent those abnormal energies for a while. However, as more and more areas frequently experience earthquakes, which lead to volcanic eruptions and other disasters, the rock layers of Planet E will become more and more fragile. So, we must accelerate the repair of the spaceship and the dock to evacuate this planet before the abnormal energy inside Planet E erupts completely! However, since our exploration technology also cannot accurately determine when the energy inside Planet E will erupt completely. So, we also have to gamble on our luck and see if we can leave here before the disaster strikes!" Old Zhou replied solemnly.

"Since the current situation is so urgent, why don't we evacuate from Planet E while nothing has happened yet? Don't you have your own fleet of spaceships? We can take those spaceships and leave here as soon as possible, right? Why are we still wasting time repairing this spaceship?" Yungo asked in confusion.

"The Express Vanguard must be repaired! I will never abandon the Express Vanguard here, watching her be swallowed by the disaster on Planet E! The ship is where I am! If I can't sail the Express Vanguard away from Planet E, then as the captain of the Express Vanguard, I will stay on the ship and perish with her!" Captain Tim clenched his teeth, forced to lower his angry tone, and said angrily in a voice that came from his throat.