Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 829: Chapter 244: Public Opinion (3)

Bai Quan opened the terminal and pointed out a location on the star map to Chen Ming, saying, ”Here.”

Chen Ming glanced at the star map and asked, ”Military district?”

”Of course it’s a military district, not a problem, I’ve already arranged it in advance, just go straight there.”

”Alright.”

Without wasting words, Chen Ming confirmed the coordinates and directly activated the Stardust Level Teleportation Engine.

A minute later, the Stardust Level appeared within the star system at the destination.

However, it was no use just arriving; Chen Ming continued to linger in this place for a few hours to complete the damage assessment.

It was only after Bai Quan received a damage report that he could finally repair the Stardust Level and set out again for the destination.

He initially wanted to teleport directly there, but Bai Quan stopped him.

Bai Quan must have had a reason for this, so Chen Ming didn’t say anything and continued to let the Stardust fly slowly along the Superspace Channel.

Time came to the next morning.

Chen Ming had just finished washing up when he discovered that Bai Quan was already sitting energetically on the sofa next to the repaired engine, looking at the report that was delivered regularly come rain or shine.

Upon noticing Chen Ming’s arrival, Bai Quan immediately handed him a copied version of the report as well.

When Chen Ming saw the contents of the report, he immediately understood the reason why Bai Quan didn’t let him teleport directly yesterday.

The contents of the report were very clear.

Mainly it was about the impact of the attack they encountered yesterday.

After all, initially, Chen Ming and Bai Quan were supposed to undertake a secret mission to submit research data and verify Chen Ming’s capability to manage a colony with Lou Wei.

But now, with an unexpected incident, Bai Quan naturally chose to leak the matter.

He even went so far as to send the official damage report and most of the recordings of the entire incident to the oversight department at headquarters to involve them.

The reason stated was that Lou Wei’s side tried to obstruct Chen Ming’s verification of his colony management abilities once again.

Meanwhile, Bai Quan utilized some minor tricks to discreetly release the damage report and some recordings that wouldn’t reveal Chen Ming’s spiritual energy effects to validate that it wasn’t fake news.

According to today’s report, public opinion on the outside naturally erupted.

No wonder Old Wu urgently contacted him last night with some questions, and the director also called to check on how things were.

Even though the news involved the real Psychic displaying Spiritual Energy, ordinary people didn’t get the detailed content in the public opinion.

Similar to the previous gamble agreement incident, most people only had a basic understanding of Bai Quan due to prior negative public opinion, and then had some knowledge of the gamble agreement after Bai Quan’s public opinion reversal. The specifics of the gamble were not widely known.

But even this was sufficient because Bai Quan was a Vice Admiral among those attacked by Zuo Jing.

Zuo Jing, attack, Vice Admiral.

With these three keywords together, the matter couldn’t possibly be small.

Although external reports claimed Zuo Jing was swiftly handled, leaving no personnel casualties other than Zuo Jing, with Zuo Jing’s personnel death exceeding three hundred and the fleet completely annihilated,

this small fleet from Zuo Jing performing a suicidal attack on military mission warships was a slap in the face to the Fourteenth Legion.

Although it tarnished the whole Fourteenth Legion’s reputation externally,

internally within the Fourteenth Legion, Bai Quan’s reputation was certainly untouchable.

The reason stemmed from the conversations Bai Quan had with Chen Ming beforehand.

After their departure, only the two of them and Lou Wei’s people knew their entire route of operation.

An ordinary person like Bai Quan wouldn’t risk encountering a Psychic.

Many people knew about Chen Ming’s grudge with Zuo Jing, knowing that Zuo Jing wished to eliminate Chen Ming quickly, and Chen Ming was less likely to lure a threat under such circumstances.

Thus, many people surely had an answer in mind about who leaked Chen Ming and Bai Quan’s intel.

However, there were still skeptical voices.

Some said Chen Ming staged the incident out of fear for the upcoming practical test at the colony.

But whether it was staged or not, the recordings released by Bai Quan made it clear.

Those with capabilities can naturally see the entire recording.

Therefore, they can comprehend that Chen Ming genuinely fought for his life.

And Bai Quan dared to bring the matter to the oversight department, so the incident couldn’t have been orchestrated by Bai Quan.

With all these factors combined, the situation suddenly became one-sided.

Just leveraging two documents and a recording pressured Lou Wei’s side to issue a statement overnight, explicitly stating it wasn’t them and that they would certainly cooperate in the investigation to find out who leaked the information.

Lou Wei conceded, but seemingly kicked the ball back.

That was about everything regarding yesterday; further developments would depend on today’s situation.

Bai Quan’s intention for not letting Chen Ming directly teleport to the destination yesterday was evidently to let the matter continue fermenting for a few days—if handled poorly, the pressure would grow each day.

Now, who is the most anxious?

Certainly, it’s not Chen Ming and Bai Quan.

Understanding the situation completely, Chen Ming asked Bai Quan beside him, ”So how should we handle this matter afterwards?”