Became a salted fish pretend heiress and handed over the system
Chapter 756 - 742

Chapter 756: 742

The spaceship was over a hundred meters tall, more than five hundred meters long, and also over two meters wide.

The entire open space was just filled.

"This intermediate-level spaceship is a military warship equipped with weapons and such. It requires a special kind of energy that we don’t have here, so it can’t be used," Xia Yue ran back, stood before Old Wei and the others, and said as she introduced it to them.

"Perfect, this is exactly what we need," Old Wei said excitedly, looking at the ship. If they could figure it out, their national defense power could increase many times over—no more fearing those who like to cause trouble.

"Can we go up and take a look now?" An expert’s eyes misted over with tears of excitement as he gazed upon the spacecraft and spoke.

"Yes, let’s go up. I’ll introduce you to it as we go along," Xia Yue said, looking at his excited state. She was a bit worried that he’d get too worked up and possibly faint later, which would be troublesome.

"Easy there, you old guys. Don’t pass out and scare the young lady. You’re all old enough to have seen the world," Old Wei said to them, looking at their state.

"No way, what haven’t I seen already? How could I possibly faint? Come on, young lady, hurry and take us up to have a look," an expert glared at Old Wei and said, his face breaking into a smile as he turned towards Xia Yue.

"Let’s go," Xia Yue nodded, holding the system and walking ahead.

The spaceship was a reward given to her, and as soon as it arrived, it was bound to her permissions. With just a thought, the door of the spaceship would open, releasing a ladder—not one to climb but an elevator type.

This was also very considerate for the older experts; at their age, climbing several tens of meters of stairs would be extremely exhausting.

Upon entering the spaceship, there was a huge, open space.

"Here in the middle, the upper layers are various waiting rooms, conference rooms, and archives, and so on,

Below this level are various training rooms, weapon storage, living supplies, as well as the control room," Xia Yue shared according to the information provided by the system.

"Let’s go have a look at the control room and such first," Old Wei immediately said.

"Alright, this way," Xia Yue nodded and led them to the internal elevator of the spaceship, descending to the lower floors.

As Xia Yue walked them around, she introduced them to the various buttons in the control room, how to use the system, how training room equipment functioned, and what training was available.

It took a full two hours to barely finish touring just the lower section, then she took them up to the upper levels.

By the time they settled down, it was already four or five in the afternoon.

She and Yan Mo had trained, so they didn’t feel hungry.

She couldn’t understand why these untrained old experts still had so much energy.

Upon disembarking the spaceship, the group felt not yet satisfied, eager to keep exploring the items Xia Yue had brought out.

"You should go have your meal now. You didn’t have lunch at noon, wandered around for over four hours, and aren’t you hungry? Go eat," Old Wei said, looking at them sternly and positioning himself in front of Xia Yue as he scolded them.

"It won’t delay anything; we can eat later," one expert immediately disagreed.

"Right, we can eat later," the other experts echoed quickly.

"You’re all not eating, but they haven’t eaten either. They took a two or three-hour flight here, and since arriving, they haven’t stopped to rest, leading you around for over four hours.

Can’t you show some compassion and let them rest?" Old Wei, seeing they were not listening, immediately pointed out that Xia Yue and Yan Mo had not rested and persisted in this appeal.

Old Wei had some understanding of these old guys’ temperaments.

Sure enough, as soon as he mentioned this, the older experts suddenly remembered that as soon as Xia Yue and her companion arrived, they put them to work, and now, after four hours, had not rested.

Indeed, it was unreasonable to ask them to continue without a break—they needed rest.

"All of you go eat and rest; we’ll continue tomorrow. If anyone objects, don’t blame me for forcing you to rest. When you’ve rested enough is up to me to decide. If you want to see other things and start your research sooner, just obediently listen to me," Old Wei said, threatening them as he looked at their silent reactions.

He had their Achilles’ heel firmly in his grip.

Previously, his threats weren’t very persuasive because the items had not arrived yet, but now, with the items in hand, his leverage was significant.

At these words, the experts looked at Old Wei as if they wanted to tear him to pieces, but this sort of glare was nothing to Old Wei, who had faced battlefields before—he was undaunted.

Seeing Old Wei resolute, knowing he meant business, the experts dared not truly oppose him.

Ultimately, this old bastard was serious, and all the security personnel here were his people—they could not rebel and simply had to comply, obediently going to eat and rest.

Watching them leave to dine, Old Wei gazed at their retreating backs with a triumphant smile.

"Old Wei, won’t you be complained against for this? They’re all treasures to the higher-ups," Yan Mo said, looking at the boastful Old Wei.

"The higher-ups asked me to keep an eye on them, and I’m just doing as I was told. I tried to persuade them nicely, and they wouldn’t heed me, so they can’t blame me for taking a tough stance.

Experience shows that sometimes you have to be a bit of a ruffian to get things done. Look at them now, so obedient, off to eat, to rest," Old Wei proudly shared his success with him.

"But, once the research results come out, you’ll have to ask for their help. Aren’t you afraid they’ll hold you back?" Yan Mo reminded him.

"Why should I be afraid of them holding me back? You’re my subordinate, and if you come across anything good next time, you’ll tell me first," Old Wei turned around, looking at them with a smile.

Xia Yue’s first thought was that this man was truly a sly old fox.

"Old Wei, you’re impressive," Xia Yue gave him a thumbs-up.

Old Wei had made it very clear, and Xia Yue understood right away.

If they had anything to turn in, they’d report to him first. As the liaison, he had the authority to decide who got to research or use those items, as long as it didn’t affect the big picture.

As long as those old experts still wanted to keep researching new things, they would have to submit their results to get a chance to study the next new thing, even if they were unhappy with him.

"Let’s go, I’ll take you to eat. The ingredients are still taken from your side. The higher-ups have decided that the important personnel here use ingredients from your side for their meals," Old Wei accepted her admiring gaze and walked ahead, telling them as he went.

"Sure, eating more of those vegetables is good for health. Those old experts are quite old already and still have to work hard; they really should replenish their energy well," Xia Yue agreed without hesitation, thinking about those elderly experts in their sixties and seventies still coming here to work hard, and she admired their commitment from the bottom of her heart.

Had it not been for the system, she would have planned to retire as soon as she moved out of the Xia Family’s residence.