The arriving starship was indeed planning to stay for a long time.
After the satellite had circled overhead for most of the day, they used the terrain to roughly pick a landing site.
Unfortunately, the location the other side chose happened to contain one of Qu Jianlei's team's hidden shelters.
Still, that was hardly surprising. On a planet, there were only so many places suitable for observation.
Qu Jianlei could pick one, and naturally the other side could too. In the space age, this was the most basic survival skill.
Xiao Hu had no choice but to shut down most of the shelter's equipment—completely shutting it down was impossible. Close observation was the proper course.
The starship deployed engineering vehicles, surveyed the geological structure, and selected a relatively stable location.
Then they found a sheltered spot and released those Transformer-like Box Trucks.
Immediately afterward, forty or fifty people moved in, and the starship's energy consumption dropped sharply.
Other than the relatively low temperature, the place was quite habitable. Operating Box Trucks cost far less than operating a starship.
This showed that this group's cost-control abilities were up to standard—at the very least, they conducted themselves in an orderly fashion.
By comparison, Qu Jianlei's team pursued efficiency more, or perhaps they simply did not care about such a small amount of money.
"This is bad," Xiao Moshan muttered quietly to Xiao Qin. "Looks like they're at least going to build a semi-permanent settlement."
Everyone present who was Supreme could understand the significance of those actions, but he knew his partner lacked experience in interstellar travel.
Hua Xiezhi was considering something else. "Why does this Armed Merchant Ship have so many people?"
Even a Large Merchant Ship, together with the crews of two Attack Ships, only needed twenty or thirty people.
Yet