Trading Cosmic Battleship From The Start
Chapter 213 - 147: Comprehensive Deployment of Trap Points

Chapter 213: Chapter 147: Comprehensive Deployment of Trap Points

Ever since Zhou Rui successfully became a member of the Star Hunter Squad, Yu Wenhua started calling this youngest subordinate "Old Zhou" instead of "Xiaozhou."

This was a recognition of his effort and ability.

After all, Zhou Rui had now become one of the most elite soldiers in the entire human force.

However, at this moment, Old Zhou had a gloomy face.

He really hadn’t anticipated that as a "propaganda model," he would still have to carry out such tasks on the warship.

However, a task is a task.

Zhou Rui quickly adjusted his state of mind, emerging from the external armor of the Star Hunter, but contrary to what his captain said, he didn’t show any "signature smile" and instead wore a rather serious expression.

"It’s Zhou Rui!"

Thousands of engineering and logistics personnel already gathered on the warship’s open space immediately noticed this familiar guy.

For a moment, various voices rose from the crowd.

"Call him Lieutenant Zhou!"

"Truly handsome!"

"Keep it up, young man, I’ve watched every one of your training matches!"

"Dear Zhou, I’m your fan, hope you can sign something for me later."

"..."

Zhou Rui completely ignored the last request for an autograph from what seemed like a thirty-something, blonde, foreign male elite, as he broadly surveyed the scene.

After a year and a half of training, his current Primordial Energy Mastery was already enough for him to roughly sense some ordinary people’s emotions.

So after looking around, he had a sense of understanding.

These people were already aware of their departure from the main fleet, but not many were panicking, just a bit nervous.

It seemed that the time spent traveling with the military had changed them somewhat.

Of course, the Primordial Energy Training certainly played a role in this.

The current human civilization places great importance on the popularization and promotion of Primordial Energy knowledge, viewing the mental consciousness of intelligent life as a subject of deep research, even heavily functional and weaponized in the Interstellar World. The widespread application of Primordial Energy Technology, like any other tech, would bring many benefits to the entire civilization.

Unearthing talented Strong Persons is one aspect, while another significant meaning lies in enhancing the individual average quality of thought.

For example, now.

If these people showed panic, non-cooperation, or heightened anxiety, they could only be excluded from the relevant plans, but now it seems there’s even a certain aura about them.

That simplified things a lot.

"I believe you are all aware that the entire fleet has entered the highest level of war readiness," Zhou Rui maintained a serious expression and tone, "You are the most elite personnel in human space engineering and will play a crucial role in this war. This time I bring the commander’s instructions to strictly enforce wartime management regulations, but we also promise you, even if faced with danger, before we all sacrifice, we will absolutely not let you suffer any harm..."

In strict terms, these people were already considered temporarily conscripted personnel rather than mere civilians.

They had departed along with the fleet, possessing this self-awareness internally.

However, Zhou Rui’s promise still moved them.

No one said much more because as the war approached, any words would be inferior to actual actions.

After this, Zhou Rui’s squad was directly stationed as the security team for the engineering and logistics personnel.

Two months passed after leaving the main fleet and slowing down navigation.

This small fleet finally arrived at its designated location—a small asteroid belt.

"Is it the Kuiper Belt here?" someone with some knowledge of the Solar System couldn’t help but ask.

The Kuiper Belt is a vast asteroid belt located in the outer region of Neptune, consisting of numerous debris, mainly not rock, but ice, so it looks like a vast "diamond belt" of shimmering crystals, and the scene before them seemed just like that.

However, another person who had clearly studied specialized interstellar knowledge promptly refuted this suggestion.

"The Kuiper Belt isn’t this far from Blue Star; we’re now actually at least half a light-year away from Blue Star, which is far beyond the conventional Solar System and into the range defined by gravity within the Solar System. So, this should be a place similar to the Kuiper Belt, but like them, it’s primarily composed of ice. Just not sure if there’s any orbital resonance phenomenon..."

As this person explained, more and more people gathered around.

In the entire course of the voyage, they spent most of their time learning about space engineering construction rather than witnessing the wonders of the cosmos.

Moreover, within the Curvature Bubble, not much could be seen; at high speeds, only a few celestial bodies would be absorbed into the Curvature Bubble.

So now, with the navigation slowing down, many became interested.

Judging by the continuously reducing speed, this asteroid belt was likely their objective.

"To sum up, if we are to complete our mission here, we must be careful of the movement and collisions between these asteroids, as sometimes their relative speed is extremely fast."