Chapter 25: A Thousand Miles Away
"Isn't my body strengthened?"
Shirley was holding the popcorn, and she didn't think Ethan's words could scare her at all, anyway, the people on the boat didn't have any taboos when they ate and drank, and they didn't see anyone out of shape, on the contrary, everyone's figure was getting better and better.
"If you keep eating, you can still become fat. ”
Ethan remembered Thor, who was a natural Aesir, but as soon as he became slack, it didn't take long for him to become a dead fat house.
Shirley has only received a certain degree of enhancement now, and she is still a long way from being promoted to become a god - let alone a god, she has not reached the level of a demigod!
"I don't eat all the time, and I work out all the time. ”
Shirley grabbed two popcorns and threw them at Ethan, living a relaxed life on this ship, doing whatever she wanted, and no one forcing her to do what she had to do, so she has indeed become slack off lately.
I looked down at my thighs, reached out and pinched them gently, and the meat on them seemed to have become more?
"Alas, it doesn't matter, what are you afraid of a little meat?"
Turning her head and taking another big sip of Coke, Shirley quickly turned her attention to something else.
"Haven't you already been informed? Anything else to say?"
When Ethan has nothing to do, he won't run to the cab to stay, everyone is tired of seeing the cosmic starry sky or something - no matter how beautiful and spectacular the cosmic starry sky is, it will be tired of seeing it every day.
"I'm here to find Betty. ”
"Looking for me?"
Betty has always been very low-key on the ship, and she has never asked for anything, she does her best to complete her work every day, and if anyone on the ship comes to her for help, she will do her best to help, so although Betty is low-key and inconspicuous, her popularity on the ship has always been very good.
Shirley didn't run around, in fact, she stayed specifically to accompany Betty, otherwise it would be boring to be 'on duty' alone.
"What's the matter?"
"It's about your family. ”
Ethan briefly explained the situation, that is, his current ability can easily lock the specific location of Betty's family, and then he can directly open the teleportation and teleport the Venus to that vicinity - or directly take Betty alone.
He came to Betty just to ask Betty what she decided to do?
In other words, Ethan just wanted to ask Betty if she wanted to leave, and if she was going to go back to her family and leave the Venus, then Ethan would just have to take her alone.
If she wanted to stay on the ship and just go back to see her family, Ethan would have to teleport the entire ship to the vicinity of the target location.
Of course, there is another situation, that is, Betty originally wanted to leave, but when she saw her family, she found that it was no longer her 'familiar' relative, after all, so many years have passed, even if the average life expectancy of the Empire is relatively long, there is no guarantee that some accidents will happen.
"This ......"
"Actually, you don't have to worry too much, just say what you really think. ”
Betty was hesitant, and after years of living on the ship, she had grown accustomed to the way of life here, but she did miss her loved ones.
On top of that, she has some fears about the uncertainty of the future: she doesn't know what the empire has become of now, what has become of her parents and relatives, is the environment in which they live now, and can she adapt to the new living environment?
Compared to the completely unknown future, the future on the Venus is clear.
The crew will slowly improve and strengthen themselves, and then they will move to a new world to live, although she has not seen what the new world of God is like, but she has been to that small island, how can the environment not change that small island, right?
Everyone didn't disturb Betty to think, Shirley even turned off the movie she was watching, and Ethan didn't urge, but stood quietly aside, grabbing popcorn from the bucket Shirley was holding and eating it.
There was silence in the cab for a while, and it took half an hour before Betty spoke to break the silence.
"I want to go back and see, I want to know how my parents are. ”
This sentence also gives Ethan the answer he wants to know: Betty wants to go back to see, not to say that she wants to go home, it seems that she just wants to know how her parents are doing, to know if they are doing well, not necessarily to go back to live with her loved ones, or that she prefers to stay on the ship.
"In this case, I'll let the Venus sail to the star field near your loved ones, and then I'll take you over alone. ”
"Hmm!"
Betty nodded, this was the most in line with her thoughts, if her parents were gone, then she didn't even need to show up.
Although there may be blood relatives, in real life, distant relatives are not determined by blood alone.
"Luna, I'll open the portal in front of me later, and before you enter the portal, remember to turn on the invisibility. ”
"Yes, sir!"
I don't know what the situation is near the planet where Betty's relatives live, so in order to avoid trouble, it is better to hide your spaceship first.
After instructing Luna, Ethan reached out and gently scooped Betty's body, and after making a grabbing motion, the fingers of his right hand rubbed lightly a few times. As he moved, a little light appeared on Ethan's hand, slowly condensing into an arrow sign, pointing diagonally upward.
"Luna, adjust course. ”
"Yes, sir. ”
The Venus began to adjust its direction, and as the arrow turned to point straight ahead, Ethan gently reached out the arrow, and the arrow immediately turned into a streamer through the front window of the cockpit, and flew forward for a few hundred meters before suddenly exploding, turning into a huge light gate.
"Turn on stealth mode!"
Without Ethan's instructions, Luna directly turned on the stealth system on the Venus, which could not be seen by the naked eye, and the Venus's stealth system could also avoid the detection of various detection devices, ensuring that the ship would never be discovered when it did not want to be discovered.
The invisible Venus slowly passed through the portal, and Ethan was also very secretive at the other end of the portal in order to avoid attracting the attention of some people, and there was no anomaly at all, unless something happened to crash into the portal and was teleported to the other side.
Ethan and they were not so unlucky, and when Ethan opened the door, he made sure that there was no 'debris' near the exit.
When the spaceship came to a new star field, there was no need for Captain Ethan to command, Shirley, who was still holding the popcorn bucket, and Betty, who was still a little excited just now, immediately switched to the working mode, sat in front of the corresponding console to carry out a series of operations, observing and detecting the surrounding environment.
Nebula, who learns about the situation from Luna, also arrives at this time, and her participation makes the work more efficient, while Ethan quietly watches the excitement with the popcorn that Shirley throws over.
"How?"
"It's a star system with three habitable planets, and all three planets have life reactions. Nebula looked at the screen in front of him and gave a preliminary observation: "There are various facilities in the orbits of these planets, and it is obvious that there are civilizations on these three planets. ”
In terms of distance from the star, between the nearest first planet and the second planet, and closer to the position of the second planet, they can now see the cosmic harbor in that planet's orbit through the front window.
will appear in this position, proving that Betty's relatives are on the planet ahead.
"Are you going to land on a planet?"
"You're going to be attacked like an intruder, right?"
Although there is no movement on the other side now, even if such a large spaceship has a stealth system, getting close to the past will still cause some abnormal phenomena, and it will be easy to be detected by the other party, and any stealth system will be in vain at that time.
"Luna, can you hack into the other party's system?"
Ethan only waited a few seconds for Luna to give an answer.
"I'm sorry, sir, I can't hack into the system used by the other party, unless I can provide me with a sample of the system for analysis before I can try to hack. ”
It's a completely unfamiliar system, and it's a bit difficult to expect Luna to crack and hack right away, and Ethan doesn't care too much, he's just waiting for Betty to prepare mentally.
"Looks like we're going to land directly, are you ready?"
Taking a deep breath, Betty didn't hesitate, nodded directly, and Ethan ordered Nebula and Shirley: "Wait here for me to come back." After that, he teleported directly to the planet with Betty.
The Venus rested silently in the void, and Shirley and Nebula were looking for something to continue to pass the time, and when Shirley brought back the popcorn bucket on the side, she found that the popcorn had been eaten.
"Damn!"
After a brief greeting and chatting with the two of them, Immorton and Ansuna went to the world of Mordred to develop their own temple business.
The ship returned to a calm state, and Ethan and Betty were in a huge office at this time, staring at the middle-aged man behind the desk opposite.
"There are intruders!"
A shout rang out from behind Ethan, and he knew that there were two people behind him who were pulling out their weapons at the same time and preparing to aim at himself and Betty, while Betty next to him and the middle-aged man opposite him had expressions of disbelief.
"Daddy?"
"Betty?" The middle-aged man suddenly came to his senses and immediately wanted to stop his subordinates: "Don't shoot!"
But his movements were still slow, and the two people behind him had already pulled the trigger, but two deadly energy beams stopped directly behind Ethan, and this strange scene made several people in the room fall into a stupor.