"Professor Ronan was being far too polite, giving me two options to choose from. What was there to choose? Why did I come here in the first place? Wasn't it for the Thunder Pool Experiment Field? I finally made it here—how could I forget my original purpose just because I ran into a little trouble?"
Yuan Wuwei spoke loudly and struck an exaggerated pose, practically wanting to dance with excitement to demonstrate his resolve.
"So for a while, you might not hear from me. Don't worry, I should be perfectly safe in there. Of course, if it takes especially long—I mean that kind of 'especially,' you know—then you can ask around for me."
The video call ended amid Yuan Wuwei's frantic blinking.
Receiving such a message left Songkan somewhat dazed. With his head already crammed full of information, he could not help feeling muddled and disoriented.
Seeing this, Cat's Eye offered him some comfort. "If he wants to stay inside, let him. A big boss like that won't make things difficult for him."
Songkan forced a smile, taking that as agreement, then looked upward again. At this moment, the shadow of the Space Battleship still covered the engineering camp. Beyond the impenetrable steel framework overhead lay the confrontation between Raven and Joker.
Judging solely from the Bullet Screen on the livestream, anyone would have thought a tragedy was about to unfold. In fact, up to now, Joker had merely been spouting incoherent nonsense. Raven deserved credit for having the patience to listen without changing expression.
By comparison, the atmosphere in the engineering camp below was even tenser.
It looked calm enough here, but the multiple cave-ins that had occurred several minutes earlier had damaged barracks and equipment, leaving everyone on site uneasy.
"The preliminary test results are in. The impact's