Chapter 44

Mingmei knew that Yan Hui and Ruan Xun didn't walk the beaten path.

As for what kind of stuff could be sent by the dead to Central Star, only to be held up at the port and unable to be brought in, she could probably guess if she carefully read the special articles on Central Star in the Imperial Interstellar Transportation Management Regulations.

Well, that's what she thought.

Until she discovered that the Central Star's control over items prohibited from directly entering the star was probably tens of thousands of words long, Mingmei felt she was ignorant _(:3」∠)_

So many things in this interstellar space aren't allowed into Central Star casually?

As a result, Mingmei, who fell asleep reading, opened her eyes the next day and it was already afternoon.

The first thing Mingmei did when she arrived was open her optical brain, which contained Mu Chen's good morning and good afternoon messages, as well as the final location for their dinner date.

He really understood her, she slept so long, it was time to wake up.

A top-tier hotel on the Imperial Central Star, the 99th-floor open-air garden restaurant.

The atmosphere was directly maxed out.

But before that, Mingmei called Mu Chen on the video call, asking him to accompany her to the starport to pick up her goods in the afternoon.

"Mr. Yan Hui bought you a gift?"

When the two were sitting in Mu Chen's reserved autonomous two-person starship, Mingmei told Mu Chen about what happened last night.

"Mr. Yan Hui went to the Federation to dissect again..."

When Mu Chen heard Mingmei mention Yan Hui's dissection, his brow furrowed slightly. "For Mr. Yan Hui to go, it seems to be something related to the Zerg. The Zerg are becoming more and more frequent in their movements. Even though the Federation and the Empire are strictly investigating the Zerg, they still won't stop. It seems something has changed within the Zerg, accelerating their desire to expand further."

"That's true, but the entanglement between humans and the Zerg has been going on for who knows how many years. Everyone has gone from fierce battles to the death in the past to the turbulent waves hidden under the calm now. I don't know how long it will be before it erupts again..."

"It shouldn't be too slow." Since Mu Chen came into this world, although he could only exist in the game for a long time, he had the most contact with Yan Hui and Ruan Xun.

He knew a lot about what these two did, but because of the different eras and the asynchrony of much information and knowledge, there were some things he couldn't understand.

But as he lived in this world again as Mu Chen, constantly absorbing all the knowledge of this world, he had a general guess about what Yan Hui and Ruan Xun were doing.

But—.oΓg

Mu Chen looked at Mingmei and smiled gently, saying, "If you really want to know, find a way to go back to Hua Lan Star when you're a sophomore. Following Commander Mei Qiu's team might give you answers faster."

Among Mingmei's two older brothers, her second brother, Mei Qiu, was the boldest and most decisive person.

Many of the things Yan Hui and Ruan Xun did were actually Mei Qiu's intentions.

However, Mu Chen thought that Mingmei's image of Mei Qiu was unreliable, and he thought it was good for Mingmei to stay like this.

Don't learn bad things from her second brother.

"Central Starport is arriving."

Mu Chen interrupted Mingmei's thoughts. The two left the starship and went directly to the place where items were registered and picked up according to the navigation.

After verifying their personal information with the starport's working robot, Mingmei and Mu Chen didn't wait for the robot's next instructions. Instead, they were taken away by a group of staff wearing uniforms and carrying unassuming but extremely lethal weapons.

Mingmei: 0.0??!!

Mu Chen: "…?"

"Well, it really is Mingmei."

Sitting in a special cell of less than one square meter, Mingmei watched the staff, who were only separated from her by a faintly glowing "film," using a special machine to confirm her identity information over and over again. Only then did they remove the "film" that could instantly cut off any part of her that dared to cross the line.

"Impersonating a student of the Central Military Academy on Central Star, isn't that impossible?"

Mingmei sat there without moving, her dark eyes glaring at the staff in front of her with obvious grievances, and the resentment emanating from her involuntarily made the staff member's face flash with embarrassment.

There was no way, the Zerg were too cunning, the things were too valuable _(：3」∠)_

"So, what exactly is it that makes you confirm whether I'm a real person like this?"

The staff members looked at each other at this question, then turned to Mingmei and showed her an awkward but polite smile...

"Is it a mecha?"

By the time Mingmei and Mu Chen came out, it was completely dark. They were more than an hour late for Mu Chen's reserved dinner time. If they went now, it would take another half an hour, and the reservation would have been canceled by the hotel long ago.

Fortunately, Mu Chen had a plan B.

A DIY private kitchen with plenty of ingredients for guests to use freely.

Because he had exchanged ideas with his "future father-in-law" for a long time during the Chinese New Year, Mu Chen had secretly practiced again at school, and this was a place he had recently discovered.

He had originally thought about waiting a little longer.

But there was no time like the present. Mu Chen was cooking there, and Mingmei was sitting next to him, telling him about what she had brought back.

It was an S-class mecha.

An S-class mecha!

Hu Yue had even thrown herself at Li Yuan for this, although her motives were impure, the end result was good, and the two of them really got together.

Mingmei was stunned.

Mingmei now felt that the mecha space button her uncle gave her was too hot to handle.

She hadn't thought about going through hell and high water for her uncle _(：3」∠)_

But an S-class mecha alone wouldn't have caused such a big commotion tonight.

Besides the fact that it was a mecha, a weapon with extremely strong offensive power, it was also handmade by a mecha master from the Federation.

Moreover, her uncles had added some extremely lethal weapons that even the research institutes hadn't announced.

S-class mecha.

Made in the Federation.

Unannounced weapons with extremely strong lethality.

None of these three phrases could pass the Central Star's starport inspection normally.

If it fell into the hands of an unknown person and was brought into the Central Star, they couldn't imagine the consequences.

Even Mingmei herself had to sign a pile of documents when she came out, and a mini-alarm was installed on the mecha space button. Even if she took it back, she couldn't just "run wild" with it on Central Star.

She was a "foreigner" without a Central Star household registration and could only rent starships for daily travel instead of buying them. She might as well take out her mecha directly at the starport during her summer vacation and drive it home.

Oh.

No, if she directly flew back to Hua Lan Star with it, she might be caught by the Hua Lan Star army on the way _(：3」∠)_

Therefore, she would have to go back to Hua Lan Star to register her mecha first.

But when she thought of what the staff at the Imperial Starport had reminded her, because of the special weapons on her mecha, it was likely that her mecha's transit permit would only be valid in a very small area.

For the sake of some data that couldn't be leaked for the time being, her mecha would most likely have a flight ban.

This mecha, she had it, but it was as if she didn't have it.