The scene fell silent for a brief moment.
That was probably because Colonel Fina Lee's tone had been so matter-of-fact that no one knew what expression to wear.
If everyone hadn't known about her relationship with the commander, someone might have thought she was using a knife—no, an artillery strike—to kill her husband.
Of course, some people still had their doubts. For instance, Little Gray, floating through the air on the bridge, clicked her tongue in amazement. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. If he doesn't escape in time, wouldn't that be a pretty textbook case of murdering your husband?"
Only this robotic ghost on the whole ship dared to say something like that.
Feifei replied telepathically, her face expressionless. "If I don't murder my husband, I'll murder you instead. If Aunt Gray's nanocells had been just a little slower, you'd have experienced what it feels like to be vaporized by an electric arc. Be sure to write me a paper about it."
Still, she explained to the officers, who were staring at her in confusion, "The commander set up a spatial anchor point aboard the ship. If he runs into danger, he can escape at any time."
"Escape? And return straight to the ship? We're more than twenty million kilometers from that planet," Captain Nemo exclaimed. But when Feifei nodded, all he could do was marvel.
Anne Romanova said that although she didn't understand psionicists, she trusted Feifei, of course. "So we'll get to see what an electric arc cannon does to a planet?"
"It won't destroy it. We tested it on an uninhabited dwarf planet on the way here."
"Well, a dwarf planet isn't the same as a planet... Uh, I was just saying. I'm not that curious."
Of course, Feifei had aimed the electric arc cannon at the planet just