Chapter 90: That thing burrowed into ......

Discovery has gone from being a difficult and rusty experience at the beginning of the meteorite swarm to being a relaxed one, in a matter of ten minutes.

"It's curious how Old Tang manages to teach such awesome drivers." One teacher watching the live stream exclaimed, "It all catches up with the military drivers."

"Something to do with talent, I guess." Another teacher whispered, "I can't believe that with such a good talent, we let him be held back for so many years in those vase schools ......"

In the game, everyone could not help but sigh with relief when Tang Bai finally left the meteorite cluster after half an hour of driving.

Lu En glanced at Xie Ruhang, "Want to play cards to celebrate?"

Xie Ruhang looked at Lu En's dishevelled look, not expecting this NPC to take the initiative to invite him, he had gained a bit of goodwill from Lu En when he told the oo love story, he gained another bit in this quest, would he be docked backwards if he refused?

"I'm not very good at playing cards." Xie Ruhang hesitates for a moment and walks towards Lu En .

"I'll teach you." Lu En leads Xie Ruhang into the lounge, where he expertly pulls out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth, then sits down on the floor and pulls out a pack of cards and shuffles them slowly.

Xie Ruhang listened to Lu En's vague explanation of the rules of poker, and after he and Lu En had played a game, Xie Ruhang suddenly heard the system beep: "You have learned a new skill to play poker, +1 point."

Xie Ruhang: "???" That's okay?

Xie Ruhang opened the leaderboard and found that he was in first place with 10 points, five of which he had earned from killing insects, two from his mission through the meteorite swarm, and three from cooking, telling stories and playing cards, among other strange things.

Also looking at the standings was Tang Bai, who found himself tied for second place with Gu Tunan, both with five points.

In addition to the three points he gained from the mission, Tang Bai also gained a little bit of goodwill from the captain, so far Tang Bai has accumulated five points of goodwill from the captain, and by now the old captain's attitude towards Tang Bai has changed completely.

"That's good, that's good, you're doing a great job!" The captain was so impressed with Tang Bai that he started to teach him his skills.

"Do you know how we find the energy stars?" The captain asked.

Tang Bai: "!" Is this the benefit you can get by brushing up on your npc's goodwill?

Tang Bai shook his head with a thirst for knowledge written all over his face.

"Whenever we find a new star or a planet that has the potential to be energy-rich, we form an isolated system by releasing multiple quantum spheres that excite quantum entanglement between plasma or specific orbital particles, forming plasma walls that temporarily prevent the planet from exchanging energy, thus calculating the planet's entropy or particles and inferring the planet's energy status and lifetime condition."

"Let me give you a virtual demonstration."

Tiny quantum spheres appear on the projection of the light brain, with specific metal sheets on its exterior, each blocking the different radiations of the quantum sphere.

When a quantum sphere is released, it separates from a single sphere into a number of very small spheres, each of which emits a very small amount of special radiation.

These quantum spheres are scattered in all directions of the planet, and they emit a slender light that intertwines in a dreamy nebula-like beauty.

"What you have to learn is how to build an isolated system with the most energy savings ......"

One is patiently explaining and the other is listening intently, the picture is incredibly harmonious.

[So that's how it is. I'm ruined]

[Tang Bai seemed to really listen and I cried, is this the difference between people?

[Kneeling for the big man]

After a series of teachings, Old Kang said, "There is a star in front of you that meets the criteria, so you can practice."

It was an earthy planet, it looked barren and cold.

Tang Bai pressed the launch button for the Quantum Sphere and four of them floated above the ship, a hazy shimmer of light faintly coming through the gaps in the metal blocks that encased them.

The four quantum spheres flew towards the planet, separating into more tiny spheres as they flew, the densely packed and neatly arranged pieces of metal scattering in all directions.

These small spheres wrap around the planet like pixies, the hazy light intertwining and staggering, and as far as the eye can see, the vastness of the starry sky is paved in purple as a base colour, with clear, translucent jewel green accents and tiny wisps of gold showing around the edges ......

As Tang Bai gazed at the view, he could feel the planet breathing, like a silent heavenly music.

"You have learnt a new skill to detect energy stars, +1 point." the system beep sounded, while at the same time Tang Bai's ears were ringing with the captain's voice: "Sure enough ...... This is not the energy star we are looking for."

Tang Bai looks over at the captain, an elderly alpha who, at this moment, is showing a similar decadence to Lu En, indifferent to the magnificent view before him, for the captain has seen this too many times, from the initial anticipation, to the disappointment, to the numbness of today.

With a mission to find an energy star and a dull life day in and day out on a ship with few entertainment facilities to save energy, it was almost a foregone conclusion that they would suffer from voyage blues.

The other side.

On the ship Gu Tunan is on, the captain looks down at the stars with an expressionless face, his gaze dead silent, unsure of what he is thinking.

And on the sofa in the lounge sat the alpha's who had just finished killing the insects.

"If Tang Bai had handled the worm meat, he would have made it look delicious." Mo Zheng exclaims.

"Yeah, it's been a long time since I've had a bento made for me by Tang Bai himself." Gu Tunan said wistfully, pretending not to think about it.

Bai Li snorted, "What's so rare about that, Tang Bai often treats our class to snacks that I don't even want to eat."

Mo Zheng glanced at Bai Li lightly, "Oh? Then the next time Tang Bai sends us dim sum, I'll tell him for you, you're welcome."

Bai Li's face suddenly sank, scaring not Mo Zheng, but an innocent passerby teammate.

The non-existent roadie teammate weakly said, "That, should we ask Qin Jun not to take the bug meat back to the airship? He smells bad with all the bug odour and the npc's don't seem happy about it."

Gu Tunan frowned, Qin Jun played a good supporting role in the process of killing the insects, the only complaint was that he had to bring back more and more insect corpses each time, and the npc's wouldn't eat the insect meat that was made.

I don't blame the NPCs for not eating it, Gu Tunan tried Qin Jun's worm meat once.

To be honest, Gu Tunan has never eaten anything so bad in his life.

"I'll go talk to him." Gu Tunan stood up, and he had barely reached the kitchen when he smelt the sickeningly foul smell.

A slimy, disgusting, offensive smell like rotting entrails spewing into your face.

The sound of Gu Tunan's walk is so soft that Qin Jun, who is cutting into the flesh of the worm with a knife in one hand and a pocket in the other, does not notice Gu Tunan's approach.

Strange.

Why do you have to put your hands in your pockets when cooking?

Without making a sound, Gu Tunan slowly walked up behind Qin Jun and, like a prostrate cheetah, reached out in a flash of lightning and strangled Qin Jun's pocketed hand.

"Ah!" Qin Jun's eyes widened in horror as his mind went blank after seeing his hand being forcibly yanked out of his pocket by Gu Tunan.

That thing ......

Gu Tunan stared at Qin Jun's palm, which was only covered in a sticky green slime, obviously the bug's body fluids, which were sticking to Qin Jun's hand like thick spittle, while Qin Jun's pockets were empty except for traces of green fluid.

That thing drilled into ......

Gu Tunan's brow furrowed... was it really just a case of simply sticking your pocket in? It is not surprising that Qin Jun handles worm flesh with such liquid.

"It's a game, but you take care of your personal hygiene, and you get rid of the piles of worm meat here sooner rather than later."

Yes, yes, it's just a game!

Qin Jun's eyes suddenly lit up as he tried to ignore the discomfort of having a foreign object in his body and threw the chopped worm meat into a rubbish bag under the watchful eye of Gu Tunan.

He keeps so much worm meat in the kitchen, a whole freezer full of it, that Qin Jun would have been disgusted by the sight of it, but now he suddenly feels ......

The flesh of these worms looks delicious.

Gu Tunan stepped out of the kitchen as he prepared to discuss the mech modification with Mo Zheng, when he heard a sharp alarm: "Warning! A star is collapsing on itself ahead!"

"New mission: escape the danger zone!"

"Mission Summary: Ideal Encounter dangers in the universe beyond roaming insects and the vagaries of a treacherous environment! The self-collapse of a star will create a black hole, and the matter surrounding it will release gamma-ray currents and high-energy particle streams! We ask you to help the Captain through this crisis! Each of you will receive points for your contribution to the success of the mission!"

"Note: A single gamma ray burst may radiate a large amount of energy over several minutes and the radiation has the potential to cause biological mutations."

Upon hearing of the new mission, the three alpha's in the lounge rushed out to join Gu Tunan.

"What's going on? Why aren't there any npc's coming out to tell us what to do?"

"It seems like the npc's have refused to communicate with us ever since we forced the captain to go to the Bug."

"They don't come to us, so let's take the initiative and go to the NPCs."

The group burst into the cockpit in great numbers, the captain in the cockpit wearing his helmet, his eyes calm with a glint of desperate madness.

The second-in-command stepped in front of the captain and said in a cold voice, "You must not disturb the captain in piloting the ship, if the captain misses, the current energy reserves on our ship will not be able to withstand this gamma ray burst!"

Mo Zheng showed a smiling face, "Sir Deputy, we mean no harm, is there anything we can do to help in this crisis?"

"Go guard the shields on the ship." The deputy grimaced, "Six positions, I'll guard with five of you, don't let the gamma rays break through the shields!"

The crowd who had finally received their assignment rushed out of the cab.

" Where is Qin Jun? Why isn't he out guarding?"

"He's not still in the kitchen, is he?!"

"I'll go and find him."

Gu Tunan rushed to the kitchen to get Qin Jun out, but when he saw the scene before him, he forgot what he was going to say.

Qin Jun crouches on the ground, one hand holding a rubbish bag full of worm meat and the other stuffing his mouth with unprocessed worm meat, which smells so badly of green worm meat that Qin Jun looks like he is eating it.