Chapter 34: We Have A Mission (2/2)

“Are you asking me to sponge off him?” Cillin answered with a smile while still jotting on his report.

Ling Lung stared at Cillin and blinked, “It’s not like it’s our first time; last time the communications institute had a treat, we sponged off them as well, didn’t we? C’mon, let’s go.” While saying she even bumped Cillin a little with her elbow.

Just as Cillin was about to answer, his communicator suddenly rang.

“Sorry, excuse me for a moment.”

Cillin walked into a rest bay next to the workshop. No one would be able to hear him from the outside.

The one who called him was Knight. Usually, Knight would not call Cillin on his work time, but after seeing the ITE (T/N: 伊特图形暗号. Don’t ask me what this means; I can’t find it anywhere as well so I’m assuming that it’s a name of sorts) pictographic signal on the display, Cillin immediately shied away from Ling Long and connected at the rest bay. The signal meant ‘Urgent’.

“What is it?” Cillin asked.

“Cillin, we’ve got a job to do!!” Knight appeared very excited on the display. After holding back for such a long time, he could finally unleash himself.

“Tell me.” Cillin knew that the mission must not be simple for Knight to react so intensely.

Knight straightened his face and asked, “Do you know about Seven Lights’ asteroid experimental stations?”

“I do.”

There were a few asteroids not far away from Planet Seven Lights, and Seven Lights’ experimental stations were built on top of them. There was a station on each asteroid, so one might see exactly how grand Seven Lights was.

The reason for their locations was because certain experiments were too dangerous to conduct on Seven Lights, such as wide range communication interference, high risk bio-virus experiments, wide range radioactive weapons research and so on. That was why the extraterrestrial experimental stations were built. Ci JIncheng was performing research on one such communications station on an asteroid right now.

“Something happened at the bio-virus station. Uncle Huo did not explain the exact details; these are Seven Lights’ confidential secrets. This time, those people from the army allocated at the police and security division have joined the operation team as well. At first, Uncle Huo wasn’t ready to allow a student to participate, but there were some students who applied multiple times to join in the operation, so now it was changed to allow only the top performing students to join. Everyone else is out of the question.”

There were only four grades in the military, and there was no fifth, sixth or seventh grade. If a student performed excellently within these four years, then they would be recommended into the military. Normally speaking, such people were few and far between.

“In total, there were two second grade students, and three each for third and fourth grade. Originally none of us first grades were allowed to join – I couldn’t change Uncle Huo’s mind even though I blocked his room entrance for a whole day – but after I contacted my grandpa, he finally added my name into the operation team. But that Pride brat, hehe, he’s not allowed to join in; his family wouldn’t allow him to. Still, I figured that he definitely won’t give up this easily. He should be persuading his second oldest brother Ji Feihang or thinking of a way to contact his grandpa right now. They are the only ones who might agree to this.” Knight said gloatingly.

As the Chief of Training Division, Huo Neil knew both Knight and Pride’s identities very well. If the mission wasn’t dangerous to a certain level, he would not have acted so firmly.

“So, what do you think Cillin? Are you interested to join in?” Knight asked.

“Yeah, sure, I look forward to it.” Cillin smiled and answered. His hands were getting a little itchy from underuse.

“Alright, I’ll talk to Uncle Huo directly. Come over now, we have to prep before the operation starts.”

After he hung up, Cillin came out and smiled apologetically at Ling Long, “Something came up. I can’t go sponge off the table with you.”

Ling Long’s delicate nose twitched while she drew lines across the floor, “Fine, I’ll go eat two portions on my own! Buh-bye!”

After Ling Long left, Cillin swiftly finished his almost completed report and began tidying up the mess inside the workshop. Five minutes later, he picked up his backpack and left on his hoverboard.

in a room inside the research division, Ling Long watched Cillin’s back hurriedly leaving on a hoverboard in a monitor and frowned. She flipped open the communicator in her hands and called a number. The person on the other side had connected swiftly.

Ling Long’s eyebrows tightened deeper and deeper as she listened to the report from the other side.