She slept dreamlessly through the night.
The next day, Xia Chujian bid farewell to Zong Ruoning, Jing Yushi, and the others, then once again set off south.
After flying at low altitude all day, they still found no mineral deposits.
Liang Peng, who was in charge of mineral surveying, was on the verge of collapse.
He kept muttering over and over, "I'm such an idiot, really. I only knew that identical geological conditions would produce identical metal deposits."
"But I didn't know that identical geological conditions weren't sufficient conditions for metal deposits to form—they were necessary conditions!"
Everyone, driven to a headache by his rambling: "..."
On the third day, they headed north.
This time, they brought spare energy rods for the Floating Airship, so they could travel farther.
Although they still did not find any metal deposits along the way, when they were nearly ten thousand kilometers out, they encountered Huo Yushen's group.
They were also searching for something, stopping and starting along the way, so they were moving slower than Xia Chujian's group.
Xia Chujian saw that the flying vehicle ahead bore the markings of the military's Starry Sky Exploration Force. She immediately sent them a message, wanting to ask whether they had any news of "Master Chao."
Xia Chujian · Treasure Hunt 1st Squad: Fellow soldiers ahead, did you return to camp after coming out? Do you know which spacecraft Master Chao is on?
That flying vehicle was the one carrying the Earth Group Members from the Special Security Bureau Headquarters.
The teammate responsible for receiving messages saw Xia Chujian's message and hurriedly said, "Master Chao, a Military Academy student is looking for you."
Huo Yushen came over to take a look. Seeing that it was Xia Chujian, he said calmly and collectedly, "She's one of