Kara Star.
"Wake up! Commander, wake up!" Catherine gently patted Nie Yun's face, calling out anxiously.
"Mm..." Nie Yun let out a soft groan and "slowly came to," then surveyed his surroundings with a somewhat "bewildered" gaze.
Inside the control room, the Winged Race crew members were waking up one after another and busily tending to their companions.
"Sir, thank goodness you're all right!" Catherine patted her chest and sighed in relief.
He was a crucial subject of her surveillance. If he died, in a sense, she would not be far behind. The Kruze Family would never let her off.
"This is... right! Where's the intruder?" Nie Yun feigned confusion, then asked in surprise.
"Uh... you don't remember, sir?" Catherine looked astonished. Then she pointed at the Silverwing Guard standing motionless beside him like an iron tower and said, still shaken, "Luckily, it drove off the intruder. Otherwise, we probably wouldn't have survived."
"Oh! All I remember is breathing in some of their poisonous mist and issuing an automatic defense command just before I lost consciousness... that was close!" Nie Yun spoke as though he had pieced everything together, looking relieved.
With that little performance, Nie Yun cleared himself of involvement in the intrusion and gave his guard robot all the credit for repelling the enemy.
In fact, the moment he realized that someone from the Kara People had invaded his spaceship, Nie Yun had more or less guessed the whole story. Then he spent three full seconds thinking...
How could I get them on board? How could I cause some trouble for the Twin Stars? How could I profit from this?
These thoughts flashed through his mind, and he remembered Zhou Dong's research report. That technology, too unappealing to use yet too valuable to discard, seemed to fit every