Ninth class citizen

Chapter 349 Reassurance

Inside the bridge, the captain and several subordinates were chatting idly.

“I really don’t understand what those people are thinking.” The vice-captain leaned back in his leather chair and unbuttoned the top button of his uniform. “They are all servants who have served the imperial family for generations, and the head of the family is currently at the height of his power—how come some of them are so foolish as to insist on betraying their master?”

"I wonder how the investigation is going over there," said the energy engineer with graying temples. "I really want to see who has the audacity to lay a hand on the patriarch's fiancée!"

"Is it possible that they just find this fiancée's arrival too suspicious?" the communications officer, who hadn't left his seat, interjected.

"I think Miss Tiffany is more suitable to be the head of the family's wife, whether in terms of appearance or other aspects."

"I bet you're the one secretly infatuated with Miss Tiffany, aren't you?" the navigator sitting opposite him chuckled. "These things aren't our concern; we just need to obey the patriarch's orders!"

"Anyway, I hope the journey will be safe and sound," the captain said. "Everyone, be on your best behavior and make sure nothing goes wrong—"

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly jumped up and rushed to Nan Rong's side, standing ramrod straight: "Ms. Nan, Colonel Yuan, what brings you here?"

Before he finished speaking, a squad of soldiers rushed in, stood in a circle on the bridge, and glared menacingly at everyone.

"What happened?" Captain Tang's heart jumped. His gaze swept over the vice-captain and the others, and seeing that they were all calm and composed, he asked, "Did those people confess something?"

Nan Rong chuckled softly without saying a word, but Yuan Hong stepped out from behind her and said coldly, "Captain Tang, please conduct a comprehensive inspection of the spacecraft immediately—focusing on the warp exit mode settings!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone on the bridge changed their expressions.

Everyone knows that Yuan Hong wouldn't make baseless accusations.

"Captain, no abnormalities have been detected in the voyage," the navigator reported after a quick operation.

The others, in accordance with their duties, reported one after another: "The warp drive is running well."

"The intelligent brain system self-test showed no abnormalities."

"No abnormalities were found in the communication system. We can connect to the Star Network after leaving the curvature space."

Captain Tang's expression softened slightly. He turned to look at Yuan Hong and Nan Rong, only to find that both of them wore indifferent sneers, clearly unimpressed by the outcome.

Although he trusted his subordinates, there was no such thing as a trivial matter when it came to navigational safety, so Captain Tang simply used his captain's authority to access the data and check it on the spot.

Upon seeing this, he broke out in a cold sweat.

"What's going on!" He turned his head sharply and glared at the navigator who had just stood up: "Why is the jump exit set to fixed mode?"

Everyone present understood the seriousness of the situation, their faces instantly tightened, and their gazes toward the navigator were filled with complex emotions.

Normally, the exit of each warp drive is fixed.

The Heavenly Kingdom has its own exclusive shipping lanes, and naturally, it also has its own fixed exits.

For safety reasons, when warp jump begins, players usually activate the random exit mode and pop up at any location within a range of hundreds of light-years around the exit to avoid being precisely intercepted by the enemy.

Everyone knows that ships that have just emerged from curved space have no time to activate their protective shields and are completely undefended.

If attacked at this time, a single round of attacks would be enough to bring annihilation.

Although the C101 high-energy warp drive spaceship specially designed by the Tian family is more powerful than other similar spaceships in terms of its outer shell and performance, it still cannot escape a malicious ambush when unprotected.

The problem is that they discovered it too late. The exit mode can only be selected when initiating a jump, and once confirmed, it cannot be changed.

A fierce glint flashed in Yuan Hong's eyes. He made a slight gesture, and the soldiers rushed forward, pinned the unresisting navigator to the ground, and roughly bound him.

Captain Tang rushed to him in three strides, and said angrily, "You, you're really foolish!"

The navigator, however, had regained his composure. He struggled to lift his head and gave a wan smile, saying, "I'm sorry. I also want to be loyal to the patriarch, but my wife and children are in their hands, and I have no choice at all."

"Don't blame me. Who wants to die when they can live? Blame her instead." He looked at Nan Rong, his eyes filled with deep resentment.

"Are you trying to say?" Nan Rong walked over, "If I had died from the poison just now, you wouldn't have had to go through all this. The jump would still have maintained its random mode and wouldn't have encountered the ambushers guarding the fixed exits."

"So what if it is?" The navigator looked away and looked up at Captain Tang and the soldiers: "But you still have a chance. You don't necessarily have to die with her."

Yuan Hong chuckled and said loudly, "You don't actually think that as long as you kill Ms. Nan, those scheming guys will let the others off the hook, do you?"

“Isn’t that the best way?” the navigator said. “We can use those fools from before as scapegoats—as long as everyone is on the same page, the patriarch won’t do anything to us.”

Nan Rong's expression remained unchanged, and he stood with his hands clasped together, observing from the sidelines.

Yuan Hong laughed at his foolishness. He looked around and asked, "What about you? Do you think this makes any sense?"

The soldiers were fine; their eyes were stern and fearless, and they did not waver in the slightest.

However, the vice-captain and the communications officer showed a hint of hesitation in their eyes.

Captain Tang saw it clearly and was furious: "Idiot!"

He kicked the vice-captain and communications officer away, one after the other:

“If anything happens to Ms. Nan, the head of the family will definitely investigate thoroughly and retaliate in full force—whoever did this would be eager to destroy all the evidence and would definitely blast the entire spaceship to smithereens. How could they possibly show any mercy?”

That makes sense; those who had just been misled all came to their senses.

"In that case, let's die together," the navigator said with a cold laugh.

Colonel Yuan waved his hand, and the soldiers dragged him out like a dead dog.

"I'm so sorry, Ms. Nan." Captain Tang's face was pale. "It's all my fault for misjudging people and causing you trouble this time."

On the ground not far away, the vice-captain and communications officer slowly struggled to their feet.

Captain Tang's kick was extremely vicious; blood trickled from their lips, but it made them even more lucid.

Thinking of the ruthless methods of that family head, both of them felt a sense of unease.

Fortunately, soon everyone will perish together, and then their families should no longer be implicated.

Nan Rong smiled faintly. She conjured two Level 1 C gene repair agents out of thin air and gestured for Captain Tang to take them and use them on them.

This level of gene repair agent is somewhat overkill for mild internal injuries.

The two quickly recovered and felt even more ashamed of their previous wavering.

“Everyone has a natural desire to live and a fear of death; this is not shameful, and I will not blame you for it,” Nan Rong said.
"And I can also reassure everyone—the people who are going to die today will definitely not be you."