Xingtie, the lazy girl wants to rebel

"Okay, I understand, Master..."

As soon as Heita finished speaking, Qingque opened an ether passage with ease, and then under Heita's gaze, he instantly came from the apartment to the cave in Xingxing Port.

At this point, the two officially began their separate operations to hijack the ship and escape from Luofu...

132

Chapter 132 Haunted Urban Legend.

However, the Huixing Port in Luofu was originally an important place for the manufacturing and outfitting of star rafts.

Although the Star Rafts manufactured here weren't made by piecing together materials in the traditional sense of a galactic ship, they were instead created through biotechnology, using genetically edited "seeds" that grew and developed in a culture fluid...

But this doesn't actually prevent the Starship Dock in Star Harbor from performing some maintenance work on spacecraft that have reached their maintenance period...

As for Qingque, because she had the route map that the Black Tower had sent to her Jade Sign in advance, Qingque directly chose a secluded corner near Dock No. 5 where the Qingqiu was located as her destination after coming out of the etheric passage.

As soon as Qingque emerged from the etheric channel, he immediately found a cover for himself and hid his body, just like the tracking mission in the game's side quest.

Although Qingque chose a location where no staff would normally look at him, there were also no surveillance cameras or anything like that.

Logically speaking, Qingque didn't need to be so nervous...

But Qingque still chose to pay tribute to a certain star core spirit out of mischievous humor, as if she really treated this action as a side quest, wanting to give herself a greater sense of immersion...

In this way, after Qingque sneaked to a fork in the road, she stopped behind a Xingcha culture medium.

From this position, one can already see the entirety of Qingqiu:

Different from the commercial star raft manufactured by the Tianbosi, the Qingqiu looks more slender overall. Under the sunlight, the paint on it flashes with a light blue fluorescence.

According to the intelligence gathered by the Black Tower, this Star Raft was once a specially designed speed-focused version, and was originally intended to be mass-produced like other models.

However, after the first ship of this type was officially delivered to the Tianbo Division, it received a lot of negative feedback from the subordinate caravans...

The reason is that during actual use, there is a big discrepancy between the designed cargo capacity and the actual cargo capacity.

Although the volume is indeed as large as designed on the drawings, the actual utilization rate is somewhat below standard because its hull is too compact.

Therefore, after receiving these feedbacks, Tong immediately ordered the technicians at Star Port to stop the production of subsequent batches, and Qingqiu itself became the only product of this model.

Gradually, it was assigned by the Tianbosi to fly some unimportant trade routes with smaller trade throughput.

Come to think of it, it's a bit of a waste for the high speed it was designed for...

Qingque poked his head over the cover, sizing up the Qingqiu ship's hull and nodded slightly.

"Come to think of it, although it's a merchant ship, its appearance is quite beautiful..."

Although with a series of technologies derived from ether editing, Qingque can teleport himself directly to the interior of Qingqiu, while also saving the trouble of breaking through external security.

But whether it was a spur of the moment or something, Qingque still wanted to take a comprehensive look at the entire ship.

After all, she and this ship would be accomplices for a while in their subsequent interstellar journey, so it was necessary for her to have an impression of the Qingqiu's overall outline in her mind...

After a brief look, Qingque's gaze fell on the entrance of Qingqiu.

There, several security guards were standing there chatting idly, seemingly without any alertness.

However, although objectively speaking, these people are indeed derelict in their duties, this situation is actually normal.

As a ship that is not valued in the Tianbo Division, it is natural that daily security work has gradually become a formality.

Who in their right mind would have thought that a ship of low value would be targeted by someone with ulterior motives like Qingque? ...

Although Qingque could hear the security guards' chatting clearly at this time, he didn't care at all what they were talking about.

It just so happened that she was tired of playing house in this hidden side quest, so next, it was time to get rid of all these troublesome guys!

The next second, guided by their sight and following the flow of Qingque's thoughts, an ether passage leading to Suiyuan suddenly opened under the feet of these people.

However, these security personnel seemed to be still immersed in their conversation and were completely unaware of the abnormality under their feet.

Just as they continued chatting about insignificant trivia, the first security guard suddenly stopped and was instantly sucked into the etheric passage.

"Shh!"

Before the second security guard could react, he was dragged into the passage at his feet with a confused look on his face.

Next, the third, fourth, and all the security personnel who stepped onto the passage were instantly teleported to another cave without even being able to let out a final scream.

As time went by, fewer and fewer people stood at the entrance, until only one person was left standing there. He finally realized that something was amiss.

He stopped pacing suspiciously, frowned, and muttered to himself:

"Eh? Where are they? The ones who were here just now?!"

"Could it be that they skipped work and didn't invite me?"

He subconsciously picked up the walkie-talkie and tried to contact the other missing people.

But just as he was about to speak, a circle of hollows opened up beneath his feet. As if gently pulled by some force, his body fell uncontrollably into the etheric passage...

Qingque had already made clear arrangements for how to deal with this group of people.

They will first enter an ethereal space filled with anesthetic gas, ensuring that they are unable to move for a period of time.

Then when the time comes, they will be teleported to Suiyuan at night again.

Although the rumor that Suiyuan was haunted would only gradually spread after a few decades when the Suiyang people escaped in large numbers.

But after what Qingque did today, this haunted urban legend would probably have spread throughout the Immortal Boat decades in advance...

"Huh... the obstacle outside is taken care of!"

Seeing that the entrance to Qingqiu was no longer blocked, Qingque stood in a secluded corner and clapped his hands in relief.

"Next, let's go see what's going on inside..."

"Besides the engineer, there shouldn't be anyone else on the Qingqiu right now, right?..."

133

Chapter 133: The greedy woman hides her sleeves and seduces the master with her coquettishness.

In fact, at this point, the maintenance of Qingqiu has entered the final stage.

If not for this, I'm afraid that Black Tower would not have recommended this merchant ship as an option to Qingque.

However, because of this, after Qingque entered the Qingqiu ship from the entrance in the front half, he did not encounter many maintenance staff on the way to the cockpit.

Furthermore, even if they happened to encounter them, Qingque would immediately teleport them to the ether space filled with anesthetic gas, so that they could keep company with the snoring security personnel and considerately improve their sleep quality...

After attacking from behind again and shamefully teleporting a bespectacled engineer away from the equipment he was maintaining.

Qingque took out his own jade omen and began to carefully compare the records of people entering and leaving Qingqiu today:

"Well, let me see..."

"Yes! This should be the twelfth person on the list! It seems that I have already dealt with all the people who entered Qingqiu today..."

"I'm lucky I was able to take care of them all on the way to the cab. This saved me the trouble of going all the way to find them..."

After Qingque confirmed on the screen with her slender fingertips that the list of relevant personnel had been completely cleared, her tense spirit finally relaxed a little.

Afterwards, she continued to follow the internal route map provided by the Black Tower and entered the central control room of Qingqiu without any obstruction.

After the heavy metal door opened, the entire Qingqiu's cockpit came into Qingque's sight.

To be honest, when Qingque was browsing the various information provided to her by the Black Tower, she had actually seen photos of the control room here.

However, this time when she was there in person, Qingque still felt that the view here was much better than she had imagined.

Most of the walls of the control room are covered with transparent panoramic portholes. The combination of internal equipment and external environment makes the entire space appear unusually transparent and open.

Even in blind spots, the real-time images there will be displayed on several screens on the side of the console.

It seems that when this ship was originally designed, in order to match its ultra-high speed, situational awareness of the surrounding conditions must have been given a high priority...

After taking a comprehensive look, Qingque's gaze fell on an area at the highest point of the control room.

After climbing up the connecting gangway, Qingque sat down without any hesitation in a seat that was obviously reserved for the captain.

The moment he sat down, several translucent light screens automatically rose from around the seats. On the light screen facing Qingque, it clearly showed that Qingque needed to provide the captain's authority before he could perform subsequent control operations.

"Hmph, you want captain's authority?"

Qingque sneered, and with a thought, her well-tested hacking skills instantly broke through the control system of the Qingqiu, and effortlessly overwrote the original captain's personal information for Qingque.

As the words "Verification Passed" appeared on the central light screen, the star ship completely changed hands, and Qing Que officially became the captain of the Qingqiu...

After successfully completing the ship hijacking operation as planned, Qingque, who was anxious to rush to the Fanghu battlefield, almost started the spaceship's engine immediately.

But at this moment, Qingque remembered Heita's previous instructions to her and quickly stopped her actions -

[Remember to execute the charging procedure on Qingqiu...]

"Oh no! I almost forgot!"

Qingque slapped his forehead in annoyance, then quickly searched for the corresponding charging program in the control system's preset program.

Soon, Qingque, who was well versed in the logic of Luofu's human-computer interaction program, found the charging control button with almost no effort.

Unfortunately, when she saw the thoughtful reminder next to the button that said [estimated time: 7 hours], she almost jumped out of her seat in anxiety:

"The estimated charging time is 7 hours?"

"No! Isn't this too long?..."

Qingque frowned. No matter how she looked at it, such a long charging time was absolutely unacceptable to her...

However, in the next second, Qingque suddenly raised his head, as if he suddenly thought of something:

"Oh, that's not right!"

"What's displayed here should be the time required to fully charge the energy, not the time required to replenish the 30% of energy missing before flying to the square pot!"

So, Qingque hurriedly began to correct the values.

After Qingque adjusted the charging target in the system, she finally got a result of 17 minutes.

"call……"

Qingque breathed a sigh of relief, "This time is much more acceptable..."

Afterwards, Qingque quickly activated the charging process. As the charging progress bar on the light screen began to flow, the wheel at the rear of the ship also began to rotate continuously as the charging progressed...

While waiting for charging, Qingque relaxed with his legs resting on the table of the console in front of him, took out the jade sign with one hand, and made a special call to Heita.

After the Black Tower was connected, Qingque took the lead and began to synchronize the progress on her side:

"Black Tower! I've taken control of the Qingqiu, and all the people inside have been cleared out!"

"The charging process is expected to be completed in fifteen minutes. How are you doing?"

"Well, Master, things are going pretty smoothly on my end too!"

"I have successfully obtained the permission to open the Jade Realm Gate, and no one saw me during the entire process..."

In the Jade Realm Gate dispatch room where the Black Tower was located, the originally bustling environment was now so crowded that only a pin drop could be heard.

Needless to say, the people here naturally suffered the same fate as the Qingqiu.

"Ah That's good!"

Hearing that no accidents happened at the Black Tower, Qingque seemed to be more relaxed.

Then, Heita added the details of the two people's cooperation:

"Considering the distance from Star Harbor to the Jade Gate, I estimate that the Jade Gate will open in half a system hour."

"If there are no problems, please be sure to arrive on time at that point..."

"Got it! There's absolutely no problem on my end!"

Qingque answered with great certainty.

By the time the two ended their conversation, the Qingqiu had reached the minimum energy limit required to fly to Fanghu at the scheduled time.

As soon as the charging was completed, Qingque immediately started the take-off procedure without hesitation.

As the program commands were issued, the Qingqiu automatically closed all its hatches, and at the same time, it vertically rose from the dock where it was originally moored, hovered, and began to adjust its own flight angle.

Then, the Qingqiu completely ignored the speed limit regulations inside the Return Star Port, and with a whoosh, it accelerated rapidly towards the Jade Realm Gate of Luofu!