Xia Chujian let Seven Lù take over the Mechanical Intelligence driving of this Starship so that it could follow behind that Star Cruiser.
After settling things here, Xia Chujian quietly left and returned to the top deck above.
There, she switched her Mecha to close-fitting mode, making it less than three meters tall, and then activated its stealth function.
She quietly asked Seven Lù, "How much longer until you can completely scan the Starship?"
Seven Lù said, "It may take another half an hour."
Xia Chujian was a little bored, walking around the deck, and asked Seven Lù, "Where is the most suspicious place? Have you found any clues?"
Seven Lù said, "The most suspicious place right now is the fourth level, which is the Material Warehouse at the very bottom of this Starship."
Xia Chujian: "...Hidden in the Material Warehouse?! These Star Pirates really have experts!"
Hiding the valuable treasures they plundered in the warehouse where they store their daily supplies is like hiding a drop of water in the ocean.
It's not easy to find.
Xia Chujian's heart stirred. "I'll go take a look at the fourth level."
She returned to the interior of the Starship and took the elevator directly to the fourth level.
In the huge Starship, the elevator seemed to be unmanned and automatic, which looked a bit strange.
But because the area here was very large, and there was no one else around, and the monitoring and control systems on the Starship were all under Seven Lù's control.
Just like on Xia Chujian's Falcon-class Star Cruiser, she rode the elevator up and down, and no one knew.
Xia Chujian quickly arrived at the fourth level of the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates' Starship Number Eighteen.
This was the most spacious place in the entire Starship.
Various Interstellar Spaceships, Airships, aircraft, and Flying Vehicles that the Star Pirates had plundered, and even some scrapped Starry Sky Fighters, were piled up in a mess on this level.
And the Material Warehouse was in the middle of this mess.
Five circular buildings stood side by side. The building materials inside and outside the warehouse were composite metals that were fireproof, waterproof, and resistant to chemical corrosion.
This kind of metal was a product of smelting Conventional Metal and Special Metal in a certain proportion.
Xia Chujian walked around these five large circular warehouses.
Seven Lù opened the door of the middle circular warehouse and said, "They all have the same structure here. There is nothing special found for the time being."
"What do you mean?" Xia Chujian said as she walked in.
Seven Lù said, "The exteriors are all the same circular warehouses, and the interiors are all Conventional Materials."
"Then why do you think this place is the most suspicious?"
Seven Lù hesitated for a moment before saying, "According to their volume and building materials, Seven Lù can estimate the capacity of these five circular warehouses. But based on this capacity, one of the warehouses is different from the others. Its pressure on the floor is the greatest."
"What do you mean by pressure on the floor?"
"...It's weight. The weight of this warehouse."
"Warehouses have weight? Isn't it just a place to put things?"
"Yes, the entire warehouse is full of things, so it has weight. And the floor of the Starship has a load-bearing capacity."
"Seven Lù's scan found that the Starship floor's load-bearing capacity for the other four warehouses is consistent, except for the middle one, which is almost pressing the Starship floor into a concave arc..."
Xia Chujian suddenly understood: "Are you saying that there is something inside that is different from the other four warehouses?"
Seven Lù said, "Yes, Master, that's right. However, Seven Lù did not find anything inside that was different from the other four warehouses."
Xia Chujian said, "Then I'll take a look at each one."
She first walked around the middle warehouse.
Inside were some ordinary living supplies, such as clothes, shoes, and socks, as well as cotton quilts and bed sheets, various household items, home appliances, and many consumables, such as toilet paper, plastic wrap, and so on.
They all looked brand new, and the clothes and supplies still had their tags on, sealed in packaging bags.
Then she went to the other four warehouses, and they were still the same living supplies, just with different colors and styles.
What exactly made the weight of this central warehouse different from the four warehouses next to it?
Xia Chujian returned to the central warehouse and asked Seven Lù, "Is there a hidden room here?"
Seven Lù said, "The scanned volume inside is consistent with the scanned volume outside. There is no hidden room."
Xia Chujian looked at the warehouse and frowned, "Really consistent? There's nowhere to hide a secret room?"
Seven Lù said, "No, Seven Lù has scanned it several times."
"Show me the specific dimensions..." Xia Chujian didn't give up. Although she knew that Seven Lù, as a Mechanical Intelligence, couldn't make mistakes in calculations.
Unless its calculation direction was wrong, then it was a matter of logic, not calculation.
Seven Lù displayed the data it scanned and measured on Xia Chujian's eyepiece display screen.
Xia Chujian looked at Seven Lù's calculation formula, stroked her chin, and said, "Seven Lù, that's not right. How can you say that the scanned volume inside is the same as the volume outside? It's obviously different! Look at how much difference there is!"
Xia Chujian became excited.
Seven Lù said, "That's after subtracting the volume of the warehouse walls. If you add back the volume of the walls, the inside and outside are the same."
"Walls?"
Xia Chujian looked at the curvature of the wall in front of her and tapped it with her finger.
With this tap, Seven Lù heard the difference.
Its slightly excited little boy's voice rang out: "Ahhh! Master is so smart! There's something wrong with this wall!"
Xia Chujian: "...You didn't scan the outer wall?"
"I scanned it, but these buildings are the same inside and out. There is no hidden room inside the warehouse, and the building materials of the outer wall have the characteristic of shielding electromagnetic waves, so Seven Lù didn't notice it."
Seven Lù sincerely apologized, "If I hadn't knocked on it, Seven Lù wouldn't have heard the difference in sound. I'm sorry, Master, Seven Lù was careless. There should be a problem in the middle of the warehouse wall, not in the space inside the warehouse."
Xia Chujian said with great interest, "It's not your fault! You don't have hands, so you can't knock—then scan it quickly!"
Seven Lù: "..."
Its little boy's voice was a little dejected: "Master, Seven Lù will not have hands, never..."
Xia Chujian: "..."
Was it feeling wronged?
She said seriously, "It's okay, Seven Lù, I don't mind that you don't have hands."
Seven Lù's little boy's voice immediately cheered up: "It's good that Master doesn't mind! Although Seven Lù doesn't have hands, Seven Lù's brain is better than that of humans with hands! Seven Lù will definitely not let Master down!"
It even implied something about all humans with hands...
Xia Chujian smiled, "Yes, yes, yes, Seven Lù, keep up the detection!"
Seven Lù said in a cute and milky voice, "Master, the outer wall building materials of this warehouse can shield electromagnetic waves. Just scanning, Seven Lù can't detect the situation inside the wall."
"What should we do?"
Seven Lù said, "Master, use the Mecha's mechanical arm."
Xia Chujian immediately put the mechanical arm of her Mecha on the outer wall for Seven Lù to operate.
Five minutes later, Seven Lù didn't know what means it used, but it peeled off a small piece of the wall skin on the seemingly very hard and dense alloy wall.
The material inside the wall was displayed in front of Xia Chujian, it was a golden light! "Gold! The outer wall of this entire warehouse, so thick! So high! Is it all made of gold?!" Xia Chujian was pleasantly surprised.
She looked affectionately at the thick outer wall in front of her, which was at least five meters high, half a meter thick, and had an inner diameter of ten meters, as if she was looking at the love of her life...
Seven Lù didn't quite understand humans' enthusiasm for these precious metals.
It objectively said, "In addition to gold, Seven Lù also detected a lot of cash and jewelry inside. - Should we dismantle it?"
Because Seven Lù peeled a hole in the wall skin, its electromagnetic signal could detect the inside.
Otherwise, it wouldn't know what was inside, but if the entire wall was to be dismantled, the workload would be too large and unrealistic.
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered. After a long while, she took a deep breath and said regretfully, "If it was only a few million, I would have made the decision and distributed it to Chang Shengnan and the others. Now, the gold of an entire wall, as well as jewelry and cash, I dare not..."
What she meant was probably to hand it over.
Seven Lù didn't make a sound.
In this regard, it couldn't help Xia Chujian make a decision.
And its underlying logic didn't include this kind of behavioral judgment.
...
Xia Chujian returned to her Falcon-Class D1 Starry Sky Cruiser with deep regret.
At this time, the one hundred and ninety-one student warplanes and ten interstellar airships had already entered the cruiser's hold.
Sun Jiahao and the others handled everything in an orderly manner, not allowing the students and instructors to leave the warplane warehouse, let alone leave the fifth-level hold.
His reason was that everything on the cruiser was under the captain's command.
Since the captain hadn't spoken, they couldn't do anything.
Most of the students and instructors expressed understanding, but a few were still being sarcastic.
One of them was Lü Luyu's good friend, who immediately said, "Where's Xia Chujian? Why is she hiding and not seeing us?"
Sun Jiahao said with a simple and honest face, "She's the captain, who do you think you are? Why would she come to see you?"
The girl exclaimed, "She's the captain?! How is that possible! This is a Starry Sky Cruiser!"
Most of the students and instructors burst into laughter.
Chen Yansheng immediately said, "My Sister Xia led the Fourth Interstellar Fleet's Starry Sky Cruiser to rescue us, of course she's the captain! What are you thinking? How did you become an elite pilot with such a dumb brain?!"
His words left the girl speechless.
In fact, not everyone who came to this Flying Base for training was a true elite pilot.
Some earned the title through skill, some through family connections, and some through flattery, gift-giving, and bribery...
Everyone was tacitly aware of this "mismatch between name and reality," but they usually wouldn't say it so bluntly and harshly.
But this time, these people shamelessly looked down on Xia Chujian, and those who felt wronged and remained silent didn't want to indulge them anymore.
Everyone chimed in, and the girl only managed to escape by hiding in her Starry Sky Fighter.
The rest of the people strolled around the hall of the fifth-level warplane warehouse.
They had been in their respective Starry Sky Fighters for three days and three nights, and had been in a state of tension, their bones almost stiff.
After Xia Chujian returned from Starship Number 18, she saw the message Sun Jiahao had left for her.
Xia Chujian connected to the intercom in the captain's room, and Sun Jiahao immediately reported the situation in the fifth-level hold, and asked Xia Chujian, "Captain, should we let them come up?"
Xia Chujian said, "No, we'll be back soon, don't let them run around. They can only stay in the warplane warehouse on the fifth level, and can't go anywhere else on the fifth level."
The fifth level had weapons and ammunition reserves, how could she let them out to wander around? It was even more impossible to go to the upper levels.
Xia Chujian directly opened the virtual display screen in the fifth-level warplane warehouse and spoke to everyone.
She had already taken off her Mecha helmet, and was only wearing the Fourth Starship Fleet's military uniform, sitting in the captain's room, smiling and saying, "Hello, everyone, students and instructors. It's not that I'm deliberately not letting you out, there are special reasons."
This is the second update. There will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
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