“What’s wrong? Did Hua Lanxing explode?”

Ming Qi was speechless at his mother's "warm greeting" the moment he answered the video call.

“No.”

“Then what is it? Your father and I are on our way, don’t delay my rescuing you.”

Ming Qi: “…”

For a moment, Ming Qi, who hadn’t even asked a question, was so shut down by his mother that he began to doubt if he was really so useless that he needed his parents to bail him out.

Wait.

Ming Qi remembered that this was exactly what he wanted to ask about!

“The Queen Bug… she’s asking our family for the crystal core.”

“Whose crystal core?”

“If I’m not mistaken, it’s the one the Main Brain gave you to restore the Blue Star of that other dimension?”

After Ming Qi finished speaking, he was met with a long silence on the other end.

“Mom?”

“No, tell her to come fight me directly. No, wait, this was given to me by the Main Brain! Tell her to go find the Main Brain!”

When Mei Shi immediately said no, Ming Qi sighed to himself, thinking, "Just as I thought." When she mentioned going to the Main Brain, Ming Qi said, “They said they already asked the Main Brain, and the Main Brain said it gave it to you.”

Mei Shi: ???

Is that even human language?

…

The damage to Ming Mei's mecha was so severe that the ground mecha repairmen were shaking their heads.

They risked so much to stay behind to escort the frontline soldiers.

But no one expected this to be such a test of skill.

“The materials used to make your mecha are not particularly common, and it also has a special alloy. It was repaired once before, but we used up everything that could be used.”

The repairman didn’t expect to see this mecha twice in one day. The last time he repaired it, he marveled that it was lucky it could be fixed in such a short amount of time. Now, well, they had luck once, but the second time, it was gone.

“So, if there are materials, it can be repaired?” Ming Mei asked calmly.

“Yes. As long as there are materials.” The mecha repairman patted his chest and said, “We’re all familiar faces, don’t you trust my skills?”

Mei Shi, who was practically face-blind: ?

“Um… then I’ll provide the materials myself…” Ming Mei nodded hesitantly, and under the surprised gazes of everyone, she slowly took out a spatial buckle from her arms, which contained the repair materials her uncle had prepared when he gave her the mecha.

It was as if he foresaw that she would face this one day.

“This, this…”

Now it was the other party's turn to be somewhat incoherent. He roughly scanned the repair materials and types in the spatial buckle. There were enough to make several more of these mechas.

They couldn’t describe their feelings with mere shock. Even the way they looked at Ming Mei was as if they were looking at a walking gold mine!

So, there was such a big tycoon in their team?

While they were busy repairing the mecha, Ming Mei drank nutrient solution and looked around. Just like the mecha repairman said, many people had already been transferred to the underground fortifications.

But even so, Ming Mei still saw some very unfamiliar people in the crowd nearby, or rather, people who shouldn’t be on the surface.

Why hadn’t the Federation people gone down?

Ming Mei shouldn’t be mistaken.

Even though they were wearing casual clothes, Ming Mei could still tell that their temperament was different from ordinary people.

Plus, when they gathered earlier, she had glanced at Julian a couple of times.

She was quite familiar with the Federation soldiers around Julian.

At this moment, in Ming Mei’s sight, several Federation soldiers stood there, their eyes filled with seriousness and anxiety.

Ming Mei clearly saw them occasionally looking up at the sky.

Logically speaking, shouldn’t they have transferred to the underground office with Julian?

Speaking of which, Ming Mei naturally observed more.

She didn’t see Julian, nor the middle-aged man who seemed extraordinary by Julian's side.

“Aren’t those people over there from the Federation? Why are they here?”

Ming Mei chatted with the repairman as if in casual conversation.

“Them? We don’t know. Anyway, they didn’t go down. Maybe they’re planning to run away if the situation gets bad. Who knows?”

The repairmen weren’t clear about what was going on with the Federation people.

When they transferred underground, the Empire gave priority to the Federation to leave first. Who knew what these people were going crazy about? Not only didn’t they go down, they just stood there guarding the surface.

“If you didn’t know better, you’d think they were worried about some ambush underneath, worried that we’d bury them.”

It was really like biting the hand that feeds you, not appreciating their good intentions.

“Then… that young man, the president’s son? He didn’t transfer down either? I didn’t see him?”

Ming Mei continued to ask, and then she heard the other party answer, “Who knows? Maybe he went down first, and these soldiers are on top. But if you say so… wouldn’t they want to come up and help us?”

Ming Mei wondered if the mecha repairman's thought process was different from others. She didn’t think she had said too much.

Why did their attitude towards the Federation change so much before and after?

Was it all based on imagination?

Ming Mei didn’t know whether to continue talking to them to understand the situation. She already sensed that something was wrong.

Wherever Julian was, these people were definitely there.

How could they possibly arrange for some people to be here? Unless—

Ming Mei suddenly thought of another possibility. Could Julian have rushed back up?

Thinking about it, Ming Mei couldn’t stay calm. She was sure that the reason he rushed out last time was most likely because of her father.

It wasn’t like he impulsively rushed out for no reason.

But this time, her parents had already left. This time it was Julian’s own behavior.

Ming Mei remembered the reason why they transferred underground, and then she thought of the situation that Lu Xiaoyao had faced before. She suddenly understood why Julian rushed out.

But all of the above were just Ming Mei’s own thoughts.

She hadn’t seen Julian appear this whole time.

But Ming Mei remembered the characteristics of Julian’s mecha: stealth.

With this kind of mecha that could hide its presence extremely well, unless Lu Xiaoyao was in trouble, it was impossible for him to be discovered by the bugs and become a concentrated live target.

Thinking like this, Ming Mei felt a lot more relieved about Lu Xiaoyao’s subsequent actions.

After feeling relieved about Lu Xiaoyao, Ming Mei became even more eager to go back to fighting.

Immediately afterward, the mecha repairman was just talking to Ming Mei, but after a while, he didn’t hear Ming Mei continue to speak. The desire to talk that was hanging in the air was making him feel restless. He still wanted to chat a bit, but then Ming Mei looked over with her cold eyes and said, “Go repair your mecha.”