Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Anyway, he had already gotten enough compensation from Hu Yi’s apology; whatever was left of the payment Hu Yi took from Zuo Jing would just be used later as additional compensation for Chen Ming.

”There’s a third reason, but I’m not telling you that one. In short, with Xiao Ming involved in this, I have to at least look like I’m taking a stance, but I can’t actually interfere.”

”Because there are already several heavyweights involved in this. If I squeeze myself in for no reason, it’s bad for everyone.”

”Isn’t one more person helping out a good thing?”

”With enough people in already, is having one more person share the final spoils a good thing for you?”

Hu Yi shrugged and didn’t keep talking.

Wu An was already used to Hu Yi’s near-total lack of big-picture thinking.

Otherwise, Hu Yi wouldn’t have gone running to Zuo Jing for a bit of profit back then, helping them stir things up.

”So at the very least, there has to be something the Empire really can’t handle and that’s suitable for me to deal with before I can step in. If I go early, I’ll only make things worse.”

”But you can go have a look, see what kind of big shot that Psychic is, the one who drew away the attention Zuo Jing was supposed to be giving you.”

”Anyway, you’re listed as a missing person right now, and you’re wanted. If people mistake you for Zuo Jing, it doesn’t really matter.”

Hu Yi said awkwardly, ”But there’s also a chance I get killed as a Zuo Jing member, and I feel like you’re calling me weak between the lines.”

”If you were really that weak, you wouldn’t be sitting at the same table as me.”

”Since Zuo Jing has shifted their attention to that new Psychic, you just go and leech off the attraction Zuo Jing has on him.”

”You’re already wearing Zuo Jing’s skin and can’t peel it off. You have to do something to make other people believe you, right?”

”You just asked where to start taking the initiative in looking for Zuo Jing... start from this.”

While Wu An and Hu Yi were discussing their plan—

Chen Ming finally entered the Prosperous Star Realm as well.

The ship he’d picked up from the Space Station earlier was in poor condition, and fuel and supply stocks were already running low.

So he temporarily docked at a port in one of the Prosperous Star Realm’s colonies for maintenance.

And once he actually arrived, he finally discovered that the Prosperous Star Realm was a bit different from how he’d imagined it.

The Prosperous Star Realm’s colonies weren’t necessarily highly urbanized settlements with the hectic pace of a big metropolis.

Many times, ”Prosperous Star Realm” was just a general label, representing the overall level of economic development.

The real prosperity was more about how prosperous each individual’s life was.

Like right now.

The colony Chen Ming was in was a comprehensive-type colony, its main specialty industry being the mass of unique flowers native to this habitable Planet and the associated cultivation and breeding technologies.

Along with seas of flowers with different characteristics in every season, spread across the entire Planet.

Because of this, the Planet was known as the Garden Planet.

After entering the port, Chen Ming arranged maintenance and resupply for his ship, paid the deposit, and rented a sightseeing Shuttle Boat that could freely cruise above the city.

So now, when he went out, he could see the flower seas beyond the city from the air, and also the artificial flowerbeds that almost covered the entire city.

The feeling this environment gave him was completely different from the crowded, savage atmosphere of the Pirate Space Station he’d stayed in before,

this was a prosperity on the level of day-to-day life.

Leisure, enjoyment, calm.

It relaxed Chen Ming’s nerves, which had just recently been soaked in scenes of blood and flying flesh, maybe even relaxed them a bit too much.

Even though his life had gradually stabilized by now, in this kind of environment he still felt a little out of place.

But what interested Chen Ming most in the Prosperous Star Realm was still the scientific research side of things.

Even research into flowers like this was something he could say he was interested in.

It was just that high-level research institutes were beyond the reach of a fake identity like An Wuping’s.

So on this colonial Planet, Chen Ming only wandered around a bit and was already getting ready to leave.

Not only because he was heading to the Cai Mo Star Realm next, but also because after two days his identity info would definitely have become a highly sensitive piece of data in the nearby Star Realms, and it wouldn’t be long before someone started watching him.

Even if the government of the Audan Star Realm couldn’t share his identity information with other Star Realms within these two days, he still had to be wary.

After he’d seen enough of the flower seas, Chen Ming ordered the sightseeing Shuttle Boat to prepare for landing.

A small screen on the Shuttle Boat was currently playing a news segment.

It was reporting on the Zuo Jing Space Station that Chen Ming had wiped out two days ago.

Chen Ming switched channels with some interest and found that it wasn’t just about the Space Station he’d taken out.

There were also many reports about Zuo Jing members being captured in nearby Star Realms.

These news reports had actually already existed for a while; it was just that in the two days since Chen Ming took down that Space Station, they’d been appearing more frequently.

After all, there was a mountain of Zuo Jing-related data in the Space Station’s database; as long as it was cleaned up properly, the Audan Star Realm could definitely call itself the area with the least Zuo Jing presence, at least for a while.

This also showed that the Empire was going all out in punishing Zuo Jing, piling on the pressure in public opinion.

After this wave of aggressive hype, the Empire would probably launch some big move soon.

The sightseeing Shuttle Boat quickly descended back to the port.

Chen Ming’s ship had already been serviced, with supplies fully restocked.