Chapter 435: A Silent Retreat (2/2)

Fei Si's eyes reddened upon his words as she burst into tears within Old Jalopy's embrace.

”Sigh...” Old Jalopy gave a gentle pat on Fei Si's back.

... (At the other spot) ...

”So, you're leaving?” asked Ye Luo softly.

Ye Chong nodded.

”Right, it is a good timing to leave in fact,” nodded Ye Pang approvingly.

Ye Luo remained silent for a moment, ”Let me show you something.” And he suddenly prompted the hologram projection in the room.

It was an intergalactic layout of He Yue galaxy, with a few red spots on it.

”It just came from our family. Did you see those red spots? Something happened...” His voice got low, ”Spatial distortion.”

Ye Chong looked at the projection in blank dismay.

”It's just a friendly reminder from me,” elaborated Ye Luo, assuming that Ye Chong received a shock of his news. ”You should not be traveling at these spots, it would be too dangerous. You probably didn't know, before the pathway was raided, we have already received several notifications on spatial distortion at different places. We wanted to send our experts to investigate but things changed, the pathway got attacked. Our family was suspecting if these anomalies were somehow related with these unknown creatures...”

Ye Luo then walked to Ye Chong, with a sharp glare into his eyes, as word by word the warning went, ”You can go wherever you want, I would not care less. But, never, ever, hit, your, path, to, these, places. They. Are. Dangerous.”

Ye Chong stared at the projection.

And as mentioned before, reformation of fleet happened and it was truly a commotion. The galaxy was Xue Lai clan's territory after all. They did not intend to fight however, as they had received orders to shift all the military forces away from the zone, to show their respect towards the return of the formidable warriors and a sign of wanting peace.

That was when one gate of Darvill opened, as a small ship flew out quietly.

The reformation involved shuffling of spaceships. So in the midst of the commotion, no one noticed the departure of the little ship.

The ship weaved in and out of the moving spaceship and soon disappeared in the boundless space. The other ships were too busy heading back to their own family to take notice of the ship.

The little ship then accelerated, all according to plan. Surely, both Ye Luo and Ye Pang had already planned an escape path for Ye Chong's references. The path was one cleared out by the Xue Lai clan as a returning route for Ye family and Xi Feng tribe after the reformation, but well Ye Chong treaded it first.

The ship was supplied with sufficient batteries. Those were part of the supplies sent by the Xue Lai clan for Darvill that Ye Pang generously took a large box of them to Ye Chong.

Ye Chong once imagined the entrance to the pathway leading to free space zone would be a remote zone as well. He never expected the three entrances to the pathway were surrounded by a lively space zone.

The few planets near Xue Lai's pathway were a collection of well-developed business zones where flocks of vessels would come for trades all the time. Ye Chong got to admit that Xue Lai clan had a pretty tight mouth on this. No one had really heard of it.

...(Meanwhile)...

”Captain, we received an SOS signal from a lifeboat nearby,” said one sailor on Risson the intergalactic long travel cruise.

”SOS signal?” frowned Captain Airi. All these years he had been working on the cruise, yet he had never heard of an actual accident of spaceship in this zone. He seriously wondered which greenhorn was leading the unlucky ship, that an SOS signal eventually arrived to his ears.

”Try contacting them. Ask them what is happening,” ordered Captain Airi.

”They claimed to be traveling at long distance the first time and seemed to have lost contact with their mothership on an unattended control.”

I knew it. Greenhorns these days... Sigh...

”Escort them into the ship. But, remind them, they would have to pay if they broke anything in the process,” said Captain Airi helplessly.

The captain would not be low on guard if he was receiving the same signal at other space zone. But really, the space zone he was traveling now was indeed a secure one, that it sounded strange to him to have received an actual SOS signal from an accident. He had been traveling at this course for 10 years, and had heard of the same story a few times, that the newbies could not handle their ship well and requested assistance.

Ships today... sigh... what happened to standards?

But I can't be merciless and turn them down, can I?

Thought the kind captain.