Interstellar boss, she doesn't talk about martial arts

Chapter 1770 Big and Small Matters (Second Update, Seeking Monthly Tickets)
A myriad of thoughts flashed through my mind.

Empress Tantai Zijun suddenly felt that Zong Ruoan should be added to the list of potential consorts.

He has the Zong family as his backing, but he won't get their full support.

People like that are easier to control.

She felt more at ease.

No need to worry about him stabbing you in bed at night...

Empress Tantai Zijun thought this, but on the surface, there was no change.

She said casually, "Really? Aren't you worried about their safety?"

"After all, Guiyuan Star only has a space fortress, and doesn't even have an interstellar fleet."

Of the five interstellar fleets of the Beichen Empire, the Fifth Interstellar Fleet has been destroyed and its designation has been lost. The remaining starships and personnel have been incorporated into the First Interstellar Fleet and returned to the skies above Beichen Star for garrison duty.

The Fourth Starfleet is currently stationed on the front lines of Shaofu Star.

The First Star Fleet was originally stationed above the North Star.

The Second Starfleet is stationed above Kanli Star.

The Third Starfleet is stationed above Zanggo.

On Guiyuan Star, there is no interstellar fleet stationed there, only a space fortress.

In terms of safety, it is indeed the least safe of the remaining four habitable planets.

However, in terms of distance, it is the farthest from the Southern Cross star system.

Therefore, all things considered, its safety level is actually similar to that of other habitable planets.

Zong Ruoan frowned upon hearing this and said, "I had forgotten about that."

"I will immediately send messages to my grandfather, uncle, and cousin, asking them to come back as soon as possible."

Empress Tantai Zijun smiled and said, "Actually, it doesn't matter."

"Although there is no interstellar fleet stationed above Guiyuan Star, it is located in the northernmost part of the Beichen Star System and is the farthest from the Southern Cross Star Field."

"Even if the Zerg attack, we must break through the four major defense lines of Shaofu Star, Kanli Star, Beichen Star, and Zangge Star before we can finally attack Guiyuan Star."

"So, it's not actually that unsafe."

Zong Ruoan suddenly realized and said, "Your Majesty is truly knowledgeable in military affairs. I have never attended a military academy and know nothing about this."

"Since Your Majesty believes that Guiyuan Star is the safest, then it is the safest."

"No wonder my grandfather wanted to build a manor on Guiyuan Star."

Empress Tantai Zijun was somewhat surprised: "Oh? Elder Zong is going to build a manor on Guiyuan Star?"

"Is your uncle going to be stationed on Guiyuan Star permanently from now on?"

Zong Ruoan said, "Uncle is in poor health and needs to rest."

"The area around the Beast Forest has the freshest air in the entire Beichen Star System."

"My family's manor is located on the edge of the Beast Forest."

Empress Tantai narrowed her eyes thoughtfully: "...The edge of the Beast Forest?"

"I recall that the Quan and Su families also built manors on the edge of the Beast Forest, didn't they?"

"Is Xia Chujian's family manor also there?"

Zong Ruoan smiled and said, "Your Majesty is so busy with state affairs, yet you still remember these small things. It is truly admirable."

Empress Tantai Zijun said calmly, "Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish."

"I remember the important matters, and I also remember the minor ones."

……

It's another early morning.

Guiyuan Star, Space Fortress.

As dawn breaks, the darkness here is instantly transformed into light.

Because the space fortress is outside the atmosphere of the distant planet, its day and night do not have the natural transitions that planets do, nor do they have the colors of the sky such as pale white, fish belly white, light white, and deep white.

The space fortress on Guiyuan Star is located at the Lagrange point between Guiyuan Star and the Sun.

This means that, relative to Guiyuan Star, its position is fixed and it is always above Mulan City.

Its day and night cycles are only related to its revolution around the star Guiyuan, and have nothing to do with its rotation.

And its one day and one night is equivalent to a year for Guiyuan Star.

Today happens to be the time when night turns into day on the space fortress.

Unfortunately, at this vantage point in the starry sky, the daytime on the space fortress, that is, the period of daylight, is not bright daylight, but rather somewhat dim, like an eternal twilight, the end of the gods.

In a single dormitory room inside the space fortress, as the reveille sounded, Chen Yanjun sprang up from the bed and rubbed his eyes.

After washing up, he left his dormitory and went to the cafeteria in the space fortress for breakfast.

Although a day and night in this space fortress is equivalent to a year on Guiyuan Star, the soldiers stationed there still live and work according to a 24-hour schedule.

Keep the time consistent with that of the distant star.

After finishing his meal, Chen Yanjun released his second-generation mecha and walked from the inner layer of the space fortress to the outer layer.

……

The outer layer of the space fortress, the maintenance station. Dim sunlight streamed through the transparent alloy windows in the roof, casting shadows onto the greasy alloy floor of the maintenance station.

The repair station is a closed space.

The air is perpetually filled with the sour chemical smell of engine oil, sweat, and inferior synthetic beverages.

Chen Yanjun was covered in sweat as he tightened the last stubborn bolt on the hydraulic line. His hand brushed against his cheek, leaving a noticeable black stain.

He spat at a data panel screen covered in grease on the control panel next to him.

"Damn it! It's stuck again! This space fortress's water circulation system is even more outdated than your old nervous system, Old Zhao!"

In the corner, Old Zhao was hunched over, carefully adjusting the coolant valve of the miniature nuclear fusion reactor with a polished metal probe.

Without even looking up, his gray eyebrows furrowed into a knot on his wrinkled forehead: "Kid, will complaining fix the valve?"

"Follow the procedure! Starting from page 58, line 4, the Space Fortress coolant pressure anomaly troubleshooting process—read it from the beginning! Safety first, safety… cough… first!"

A sudden cough interrupted his rambling, and he pounded his chest with the back of his hand, which was covered in age spots.

On the other side, Lin Nian'en, who had become a medic, was meticulously checking the list of items in the medical kit.

With delicate tweezers, a piece of insect-like membrane wing, as thin as a cicada's wing, was precisely placed back in its original position.

She pushed up the frameless glasses with crystalline lenses that always slipped off her nose.

The gaze behind the lens was clear and focused, as if what lay before him was not a pile of insectoid membranous wings, but a high-level insectoid entity awaiting dissection.

Signalman Wu Hang was huddled in a creaky old swivel chair in the corner of the maintenance station, his fingers flying across the projection keyboard, where a waterfall of encrypted data streamed across the holographic screen.

With a piece of high-grade nutrient solution dangling from his mouth, he mumbled indistinctly, "...The signal attenuation of the relay tower is still a bit too great. The StarNet has been having problems lately, so we need to adjust the transmission power again."

"Chen Yanjun, have you got things sorted out yet? Don't let me delay my trip back to the city for vacation this afternoon..."

The "return to the city for vacation" he mentioned refers to going to the Guiyuan Star Magnolia City below.

"Almost there, almost there, you're urging me on!" Chen Yanjun replied impatiently.

Just as I was about to complain a few more words, a piercing alarm, so loud it seemed to tear my eardrums apart, as if it would uproot the entire space fortress from the depths of space, suddenly erupted without warning!

The sound wasn't the monotonous siren of an ambulance, but rather like countless alloys scraping against a rough stone slab, resembling the mournful howl of a dying beast.

Moreover, the alarm sound is not static.

It grew louder and louder, forming a sharp, high-frequency howl that human consciousness could not get used to, and finally settled into a terrifying torrent of noise that exploded in the mind.

The lights on the roof of the repair shop started flashing wildly.

In an instant, the lights changed from white to a blinding red, brutally splashing onto every astonished face that looked up, turning those frozen expressions of shock into a hellish crimson.

"Combat alert! Highest level!"

Wu Hang was the first to jump up from his chair, completely unaware that the high-grade nutrient solution had fallen to the ground.

His voice was distorted and off-key due to extreme horror, sounding rough like sandpaper rubbing against each other.

"All units! High alert!"

"Relay station detected a large-scale unidentified organism that has breached the near-stellar orbit defense perimeter!"

"The quantity...the quantity is incalculable! My God..."

"The Zerg! It's the Zerg!"

"Holy crap! How did the Zerg suddenly break through the first four lines of defense and arrive above Guiyuan Star?!"

The holographic data screen in front of him went completely black.

Immediately, lines of huge, scarlet characters appeared.

"Space Fortress Defense Platform Control System Offline".

"The Space Fortress Command Center has lost signal."

"Space Fortress Air Defense Array, destroy."

One after another, a cold and cruel stream of information proclaims a shocking despair.

Just one second!

The Beichen Empire's once-proud, costly, and multi-layered space fortress outer orbit and ground defense system proved as fragile as a sheet of paper in the face of the Zerg's sudden attack, and was instantly torn to shreds!
"impossible!"

The probe in Old Zhao's hand clattered to the ground, and his wrinkled face instantly lost all color.

His lips trembled, and for the first time, pure fear and the elderly man's special attachment to life were clearly reflected in his cloudy eyes.

"Get down!" Lin Nian'en's scream tore through the blaring alarm and echoed through everyone's mech helmets.

Acting entirely on her medic instincts, like a mother animal protecting her cubs, she instinctively lunged at Chen Yanjun and Old Man Zhao, who were closest to her, and pinned their heads down.

At the same time, the second-generation mech's defense system activated, trapping the three of them together. Boom! Boom! Boom!
This was not a single explosion, but a series of devastating impacts compounded together.

The sound was so loud that the entire space fortress seemed to tremble, enough to shatter everyone's soul.

The entire repair shop felt as if it had been roughly kneaded by an invisible giant hand and then slammed to the ground!

The sturdy alloy wall twisted and tore instantly.

The ceiling of the repair shop suddenly collapsed.

Broken metal panels and pipes from the roof crashed down with a clatter, mingling with choking dust and the acrid smell of burning electrical circuits.

The shock was so intense that Chen Yanjun felt as if his internal organs were about to jump out of his throat.

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　　(End of this chapter)