He lives on another planet and is majoring in Earth Science.

Nini was sitting on the ground with her legs drawn up to her chest, looking around with her eyes, drawing on the ground with one finger, and muttering to herself.

Because the prison doesn't provide dinner, most people rely on packaged food sent by family and friends to fill their stomachs.

Nini doesn't look like she has anything to eat.

Seeing Li Ji approaching, Nini quickly wiped away the graffiti on the ground.

Lee Ki handed him a brown energy bar.

Nini didn't reach out her hand, but stared blankly at Li Ji.

"It's not poisonous, eat it."

Nini took the energy bar, tore open the packaging with her mouth, and began to chew it heartily. After a long day of work, who wouldn't be hungry?

She ate without a care for her image, her mouth full of brownish, sticky stuff.

"Don't you resent me for that?"

"That thing? Oh, you mean locking me in that stinking, dark room in Egypt? It's nothing, I won't die. Besides, you've already suffered so much in prison, I'm at peace with that."

The two smiled and then remained silent.

Li Ji then asked, "Doesn't anyone bring you food?"

Nini forced a bitter smile, a smile that looked terrible.

"You'll see in a couple of days. Once you're in Dabus, you can't rely on anyone."

Li Ji felt a little uneasy after hearing what was said, but thinking about Nini's unpopularity, he realized that he was different from her.

“You have no one to rely on.” Li Ji switched to Chinese in the next sentence, “You can’t get out on your own.”

After looking around, Nini replied in Chinese, "I didn't say I wanted to go out."

Li Ji laughed: "Are you willing to spend your whole life in prison with a false accusation, never getting dinner? You're not that kind of person."

Nini said angrily, "What exactly are you trying to say?"

"You want to escape from prison."

Nini was so frightened that she immediately covered Li Ji's mouth: "Keep your voice down! You're framing me!"

Li Ji laughed and said, "Don't worry, no one can understand what we're saying. You were transferred to the third group not because you resent the principal, but because you wanted to take advantage of the spaceship repair to escape. You were just drawing a map of the maintenance center on the ground."

Nini looked around frantically: "What are you trying to do?"

“I told you, you have no one to rely on.”

"You're clearly still holding a grudge; are you going to report me?"

On the contrary, I want to help you.

Nini frowned, looking incredulous: "Why are you helping me? I've hurt you before."

"Don't always impose your 'I'll die if I don't hurt people' values ​​on others, okay? I'm a very kind person. I'm willing to save a fallen golden-bodied girl."

Nini lifted her golden feet: "I have feet."

"That's a fixed phrase. That's not important. What's important is that escaping is a complicated matter. Just getting the spaceship requires the cooperation of two people in the same group, otherwise there's no chance. To escape, you also need to make arrangements outside the planet. If you're isolated and helpless, there's no way you can do it. Even if you manage to get out, you'll be shot down."

Do you have a solution?

"Maybe I have connections, maybe I don't, but I have more connections than you, and my success rate is higher."

After a moment of contemplation, Nini asked, "Aren't you afraid I'll betray you again?"

"Don't be afraid. You're a smart man, and you understand the interests involved. If you report me, at most you'll get a few years off your sentence, from 1000 years to 900 years. It makes no difference to you; you'll just be waiting to die unjustly in prison anyway. If you betray me and run away on your own, I'm not afraid either. I can report you back. There's a vacuum zone 10 light-years outside the planet; without external help, you're just a sitting duck. You can't handle that. Right now, the best decision for you is to trust me."

The most important reason why Li Ji chose to cooperate with Nini is that Nini is a smart person.

Reasoning with a smart person is simple: just present the success rates of each option, and she will automatically choose the path with the highest probability.

In this process, as long as the other party is not swayed by emotions, they will still make rational decisions.

According to Li Ji's understanding, there are only two things that can affect Nini's emotions: hatred and jealousy.

Having just repaid evil with kindness, the hatred that was not deep to begin with has been extinguished.

As for jealousy, the two are in the same situation now, so there's nothing to be jealous of. Li Ji can't possibly be completely open with Nini either; as long as he keeps a trick up his sleeve, she won't be able to cause any trouble.

After thinking for a moment, Nini nodded in agreement: "I'll join. But I hate the way you scheme against me."

Is this considered a scheme?

"You didn't give me a choice."

"I'm just reminding you."

"Tell me your plan."

Li Ji revealed his plan.

"The first step is for the two-person team to deliberately create problems while repairing the spacecraft, causing it to remain in the port, and then quickly repair it when they try to escape. At the same time, they need to thoroughly investigate the spaceport's map and exit permissions. As for whether to escape at night or create a disturbance, we can only continue to decide based on the situation."

"The second step is to find the switch for the planet's protective shield."

"The third step is to solve the problem of escaping from the open areas outside the planet."

Nini nodded after listening: "Which step of your plan have you completed?"

"None of them are finished."

Nini laughed in exasperation: "Then what do you want me to collaborate on?"

"Take it one step at a time."

"I can't even handle this two-person team thing, I failed at the very first step. I was such an idiot to waste my time on you."

After saying that, Nini angrily went into her cell.

Li Ji didn't chase after them; he sat there and waited.

It was almost curfew time, and it was dark and cold. Lu Xingsha walked out of Jili's cell with a big smile on his face, covering his buttocks with his hands, walking unsteadily, and grinning foolishly.

Jili also came out of the house, swaying unsteadily, her two ears drooping on her shoulders, her face pale, as if she had been drained dry.

He said weakly, "Boss, it's done. This little thing was too difficult to deal with. It was a true match for him."

Li Ji was overjoyed: "I knew I hadn't misjudged you."

He pulled Jili's ear and whispered something to her. Jili nodded and said, "Understood, it's no big deal."

The next morning, Nini was eating a sticky nutritional paste in the cafeteria.

Li Ji leaned closer, but she tilted her head and walked away.

"That arrogant attitude is exactly the same as Lu's."

When it was time to start work, Land Shark announced the new groupings.

"Numbers 12400 and 12409, you two will be in a group."

Nini stared at Li Ji with wide eyes in disbelief. Li Ji simply smiled slightly: "Do you still stand by what you said yesterday?"

"Yes, that's a very good calculation."

Lu Xingsha continued, "Given the recent serious slacking off in some groups, I'm under a lot of pressure as a patrolman, and No. 11678 is with me."

He glanced at Jili and unconsciously licked his lips.

She forced a strange laugh and gave him a flirtatious wink.

The math teacher asked, "Then won't I be left with only one person?"

“You’re very capable. So what if you’re working alone? You’re the best car mechanic in the whole prison.”

The math teacher couldn't hold back his smile and even proudly puffed out his chest.

Nini whispered to Li Ji, "You flatter me. That's just how the Golden-bodied People are. I guess it's a racial inferiority."

Each group set out. Li Ji looked back at the empty assembly area and saw the warden leading a cloud of green gas aliens toward the building.

"Why doesn't he have to do any work?" (End of Chapter)