Chapter 447: Insect Disaster Remains

Really gone?

And this is all you've got in your database?

They said so, but the things in her mind are indeed all good stuff, and there's a lot of them—just not as many as Zhang Jie imagined.

Really... not even a bit left...

I'm just a scout-type ship life, not a technical type....

Qiong looked completely drained, speaking weakly,

Then fine.

Zhang Jie clicked his tongue, forget it—greed leads to indigestion; although it's from six hundred years ago, it's still usable.

Is there... anything I need to do?

Since I promised to work for Zhang Jie, I must honor the agreement; it probably isn't anything that requires special skill.

Hey! You hit the nail on the head.

This is the knowledge you'll need for your work from now on; you can load it in.

Zhang Jie pulled out the crystal core carrying the garbage scavenger's knowledge, having previously drained Qiong's mind of knowledge, and now he will completely fill her up!

Make her take the form of a garbage scavenger!

?

Don't laugh like that, I'm scared.

Qiong eventually took the crystal core from Zhang Jie's hand, inserting it behind her ear; the massive data instantly made her lose consciousness.

Exactly, to keep the ship girl from bursting out in front of him, Zhang Jie simply made her pass out—a very useful method, right?

Soon after.....

You awake?

Congratulations, you're now a ship girl.

Qiong:?

What a crazy human?

Qiong was speechless, she slightly regretted her rash decision.

She should have, upon first getting her ship body, punched Zhang Jie into a folding screen, then unfolded her ship body and fled.

But she decided against it; she is a ship girl who keeps her promises.

Feeling the new knowledge in her mind, Qiong searched carefully, but the more she searched, the stranger her expression became.

Is this so-called knowledge?

You... you want me, a ship life, to pick up trash?!!

What are you thinking?

This old grandmother ship girl could no longer maintain her calm, aloof persona, and loudly questioned Zhang Jie.

To her, this is utterly unreasonable.

Then what happened?

Zhang Jie spoke confidently.

In this universe, only those with ability deserve to choose their own way of survival.

Just like the Star Alliance, which treats this entertainment competition as a trend, enjoying ship battles, isn't it also taking ships everywhere to cause chaos?

Well, what you said actually makes sense; after all that talk, it's really just that she herself doesn't really want to go scavenging.

Okay.... I'll do my best.

The other party was quite helpless, letting a precious ship life pick up trash—truly a neurotic human.

That day she was assigned by Zhang Jie to go to Scrap Star; she and Xiao Jiu agreed that each would take one day, with rest on Sundays.

And that very day, she gave Zhang Jie a huge task.

She brought back an Insect Disaster corpse from underground on the neighboring Garbage Star!

What is this, where did you find it?

Just underground on this planet, I sensed it.

I'm a soldier who's fought the Insect Disaster for over fifty years, so of course I can sense this.

6, it's really impressive that you could dig it out from underground.

Then I'll go rest first.

Go ahead, just split your pocket money with Xiao Jiu; hers is endless.

Hey! How can this be!

Xiao Jiu protested unhappily, her little money is all useful, yet now they want her to split it out!

Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Well, it's not impossible....

Xiao Jiu gave Qiong a fierce look, aggrievedly taking out her little money and giving half to the other party.

Thank you.

The provocation of the immature ship girl is just like acting cute; it can't harm a mature ship girl at all, only able to watch helplessly as her little money is taken by the other party.

After Qiong left, seeing Xiao Jiu's aggrieved expression, Zhang Jie couldn't resist and handed over another stack of money to the other party.

Hehe~

Go play.

Xiao Jiu pitter-pattered away, and Zhang Jie watched the other's retreating back, couldn't help but sigh, "It's still best to have a Ship Girl I raised myself."

Hmm.....

"Insect Disaster remains, this is indeed a very tempting research topic."

"Then let me, a talent monster, study it thoroughly!"

"You, who unexpectedly obtained the Insect Disaster remains, began to analyze its various parts; whether at the genetic level or in terms of physical mechanics, you studied them eagerly."

"I have to say, your actions are extremely dangerous and bold, but a single little insect can't do anything to you."

"Xiao Jiu and Qiong Ye occasionally bring you all kinds of good stuff you could never imagine, and the neighboring Garbage Star is no longer as it was; people are constantly recycling them."

"So, for you all, this is a vast, unexplored buried-treasure site!"

"Who knows? Being a garbage collector is simply too happy!"

"Of course, the project researching insect corpses has made progress; the vitality of the insect's carcass is extraordinarily strong, and this one in your hand is, in a sense, actually alive."

"Perhaps you could artificially create an insect?"

"Cough, better not for now; if it really caused trouble, Zhang Jie couldn't bear it, so let's not consider it for now."

"But you have still studied many valuable things from this insect."

"For example, the structure mimicking the insect carapace, the ship hull made from it, the Insect Disaster compound-eye camera, the Insect Disaster wing-flight device, and so on."

"As Xiao Jiu, the Ship Girl I raised myself, any fun experiment must definitely be tried on her first."

"Humans...."

"Are you sure you want me to move around wearing something like a fly's wing?"

Xiao Jiu disdainfully tugged at the thing on her back that resembled a fly's wing, waited a long time, but saw no response from Zhang Jie.

"Humans?"

"?"

Turning around, I saw Zhang Jie's face already purple from holding back; the instant Xiao Jiu turned, I couldn't hold back.

"!!!"

"What are you laughing at, you idiot!!!"

"Hahaha... Xiao Jiu... don't you feel... you're just like a big fly right now? Haha!"

Xiao Jiu：?

"Pfft..."

Qiong Ye couldn't help laughing, though she tried to restrain herself, but Xiao Jiu still noticed.

Only see Xiao Jiu's little face turning from white to red, then to black, and finally back to red.....

"The former is the red of shyness, the latter is the red of flushed heat...."

"I'll mess you two up!"

Xiao Jiu bared her teeth and lashed out violently.

In the scuffle, nobody noticed that the Insect Disaster in the culture tank behind them twitched slightly....