Chapter 85: Preparing for the Journey

Back in the Real World, Lei Yaotian found Wangcai and told him about his thoughts.

After listening to Lei Yaotian, Wangcai said, “Young Master, you are overthinking. The matter is actually not as complicated as you think.” Lei Yaotian heard this and asked, “What do you mean?”

Wangcai put down the instrument in his hand and said to Lei Yaotian, “Actually, you don’t have to build the base strictly according to the blueprint given by Mr. Bruce. We can construct the base however we like. Moreover, we still need to choose the terrain and survey the surrounding geography before making a decision. So, even without the blueprint, it’s not a big deal.”

After hearing Wangcai’s words, Lei Yaotian patted his forehead.

“Indeed, I overthought it. I made something simple into something complicated.”

Wangcai continued to tell Lei Yaotian, “Also, Young Master, we haven’t fully grasped the situation within this star system yet. We don’t know if there are intelligent life forms on other planets. These are all factors we need to consider.”

Has the satellite not sent back any messages yet?

Lei Yaotian remembered that he had Wangcai launch a long-range detection satellite.

“Not yet, Young Master. It will take some time,” Wangcai replied.

“So, Young Master, when do you plan to go to that planet?”

Lei Yaotian thought for a moment and said, “All the materials are ready now. If possible, I want to set off this afternoon.”

Wangcai did not expect his Master to plan to depart so soon. He suggested to Lei Yaotian, “If it’s alright, I would like to temporarily pause my current research. I want to accompany you there to handle some miscellaneous matters.”

To put it plainly, Wangcai was still worried about his Master’s safety.

Lei Yaotian fell silent for a moment and finally thought that having Wangcai by his side would indeed be better than going alone.

So he agreed to Wangcai’s request.

“Then let’s go activate the Engineering Robots now and load all the materials I bought onto the spaceship.”

“I can handle these tasks,” Wangcai said to Lei Yaotian.

“I’ll go inform Monica and have her prepare to go with us.” Lei Yaotian turned and left Wangcai’s Laboratory.

Wangcai also called out to the Artificial Human Soldiers at the Laboratory door, instructing them to start dismantling, packing, and storing some equipment from the Laboratory.

Wangcai knew that once construction started over there, his Laboratory would definitely need to be moved there.

And there would be no need to return to this Asteroid. After all, one hundred thousand Artificial Human Soldiers were stationed here, and artillery and assault vehicles were left behind. That was enough to handle any unexpected incidents, and Wangcai was very confident about that.

“Notify the Commanders of each fortress to come to the meeting room.”

After leaving the research lab, Wangcai felt he should prepare for the upcoming matters.

“Yes! Commander!” The Artificial Human Soldiers accepted the order and left.

Before going to the meeting room, Wangcai had the spaceship land outside the fortress. He also activated the Engineering Robots and had them start moving the materials Lei Yaotian bought outside into the spaceship.

“Young Master, really… if you want a spaceship, you can build one yourself. Why must you buy one from Bruce?” Wangcai thought to himself. “I need to find an opportunity to persuade this Master. In the future, we should just build our own Warships. At most, we’ll spend a few more Credit Points buying those machines.”

On his way to the meeting room, Wangcai quickly calculated in his mind. He concluded that building spaceships ourselves would definitely be much more cost-effective than buying them.

However, the Credit Points required for a Heavy Warship construction factory were quite substantial.

Thinking of this, Wangcai also felt a bit troubled.

…

“Are the food and water all loaded?”

Standing in front of the ordinary Transport Spaceship, Lei Yaotian watched the Artificial Human Soldiers neatly marching into the spaceship and asked Wangcai beside him.

“Don’t worry, Young Master. I had the Engineering Robots prepare the food and water as the first priority.”

Lei Yaotian felt quite assured about Wangcai’s work.

“Young Master, are we really leaving this place soon?” Monica, wearing a military uniform and standing beside Lei Yaotian, asked quietly.

Lei Yaotian, also dressed in a well-fitted military uniform with shiny black long leather boots, nodded.

“I plan to develop this place into a planting base in the future. But because the area here is too small, it’s not suitable for developing our defense Base. So we must leave here and go to that Planet.”

Lei Yaotian raised his hand and pointed towards the blue Planet showing half its ‘body’ on the horizon.

“I’m actually a bit reluctant to leave. After Mother released me from the Biological Battleship, I landed on this Planet. You could say I spent my entire childhood on this Planet. Suddenly having to leave makes me feel a bit uncomfortable inside.”

Monica felt somewhat sad.

Just as she said, her mother, in order to preserve the continuation of their race and not let the newborn children starve to death inside the Biological Battleship, released all the newborn ‘Hives’ into the Universe, hoping some would survive.

It was under such circumstances that Monica landed on this Planet and survived.

From the moment she had memories, everything was connected to this Planet.

She had come to regard this place as her hometown, her ‘home’. So when Lei Yaotian said he was taking her away from here, Monica felt particularly sad.

After spending some time together, Lei Yaotian was not so resistant to this girl who transformed from a Hive anymore.

During this period, Lei Yaotian had actually realized that Monica wasn’t much different from the girls in his original World. She could feel fear, she could cry. She had the same emotions and ways of thinking. It was just that her original form looked different from humans.

Lei Yaotian, who looked like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, raised his hand and stroked Monica’s head.

He comforted Monica, saying, “Don’t be sad. After we go to that Planet, you can still see this Planet. Besides, when our conditions improve, I will buy lots and lots of spaceships. Then you can come back to visit anytime.”

Looking at Monica, who had the appearance of a young girl but the heart of a Lolita, Lei Yaotian’s heart softened.

“Really?”

She lifted her head, her big azure blue eyes looking at Lei Yaotian.

“Don’t be so moe all the time!” Lei Yaotian’s heart fluttered.

“Really!”

“Yay!” Monica jumped for joy, clapping her hands and shouting loudly. Originally, she looked quite pitiful with tears in her eyes, but now she became cheerful and excited.

“Really, such an unpredictable person.”

Lei Pang curled his lips, but the corners of his eyes held a smile as he looked at Monica.

“Muah!”

Suddenly, Monica hugged Lei Yaotian and kissed his cheek.

Then Monica’s face turned as red as a monkey’s bottom, but she still tried hard to lift her head and looked seriously at the stunned Lei Yaotian.

“Young Master, you must mean what you said. You mustn’t lie to Monica!”

Lei Yaotian was stunned by this sudden ‘kiss’.

He didn’t know why Monica did such a thing, although he quite liked it in his heart.

“Mm, definitely.”

Lei Yaotian nodded stupidly and answered Monica seriously.

“If Young Master lies to Monica, Monica won’t work seriously anymore. And I’ll never do your laundry again~~”

To strengthen her resolve, the little Hive actually threatened Lei Yaotian.

“So laughable, using this to threaten me.” Lei Yaotian laughed inwardly, but he was also charmed by Monica’s cuteness.

“Okay, okay, I definitely won’t lie to you.”

They were about to leave this Planet ravaged by Yellow Sand storms and go to that Planet with green vegetation, which seemed more normal to him, to build the Base. Lei Yaotian was in a good mood, so he didn’t mind joking with the cute Monica.

“Lord Butler was right. Young Master is actually a good person. And the tricks Lord Butler taught are really effective. It seems Young Master likes Monica like this. It seems Young Master likes silly Monica. Monica isn’t completely useless after all.”

…

In fact, Lei Yaotian had no idea that Monica’s behavior was entirely the result of Wangcai’s teaching.

Every night when Lei Yaotian rested, Wangcai, the Intelligent Butler, would find Monica, take her to a secret room, and give her some special lessons.

Don’t get the wrong idea. As an Intelligent Lifeform, Steward Wangcai had no needs in certain aspects.

“Monica, you must remember. Young Master is a man, and men absolutely do not like women who are too strong.”

Nobody knew where Wangcai got a small blackboard. He wrote all over it, regardless of whether Monica could understand or not.

Wangcai, wearing glasses and pretending to be a professor, was lecturing his only student, Monica, on the subject of how to be a cute girl.

Sitting in front of Wangcai, listening respectfully and attentively, Monica’s big azure blue eyes were full of curiosity.

“I want to be a cute girl. I want Young Master to like me.” This was Monica’s heartfelt thought.

“You need to be a cute girl. You need to make Young Master like you. In the future, Young Master will need you to help relieve some negative emotions.” This was Lord Butler’s objective.

Such lessons were conducted every day, but Lei Yaotian himself was unaware of it.

…

“Hehe~ Hehe~”

Stroking his kissed cheek, Lei Yaotian laughed foolishly.

“Young Master looks so silly,” Monica thought to herself, looking at Lei Yaotian’s expression. “But Monica also really likes Young Master’s silly look. What a strange feeling.”

The pure and innocent little Hive Monica looked at Lei Yaotian with her big, almost watery azure blue eyes, while a vague, indescribable feeling arose in her heart…