StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Chapter 302 The Birth of Loading

Shen Qingqing prides herself on being a peace-loving and freedom-loving person. No matter what earth-shattering or shocking things the other party does, she can handle them calmly and even give a reasonable judgment.

But now, she swore that if she could, she would sew up the mouth of this man named Omega, put him in a box, and throw him into the bottomless abyss so that he could talk to the darkness!

“Miss Explorer, oh, Miss Qingqing, may I call you that?”

Omega Fly rubbed his hands together, drawing collective contempt from the five pirates.

"Miss Qingqing has a rather aloof personality, but that's fine, a cool and aloof beauty is the most attractive."

"Why did you come to this place alone, Miss? It's dark and damp, not at all suitable for a distinguished and beautiful lady like you to stay here..."

"Honestly, the environment on our Golden Ship is hundreds of times better than here. Would you be interested in taking a tour?"

"Although our captain is a roughneck, he's quite kind. If you don't mind, I can reserve a seat for you..."

While praising himself and belittling the captain, Omega inwardly marveled at his own cleverness, realizing he had unknowingly influenced Miss Qingqing's thoughts.

"The Golden Ship? Tell me about it," Shen Qingqing suddenly said.

It wasn't that she was particularly interested in the so-called Golden Ship; she simply wanted to change the subject and avoid getting caught up in the discussion.

Omega snapped out of his daze. He thought he had just heard Miss Qingqing mention the Golden Ship.

Is it a hallucination?

"The Golden Ship is our captain's ship," said Seven Thousand Dollars, who was in a real bind.

Another 7,000 added: "Our captain is called Pandoshisha, a great and famous interstellar pirate with a bounty of 15,000 star coins. He owns a pirate ship that can guide you when you are lost, named the Golden."

While replenishing the bounty, they also made sure to include their captain's reward, lest the explorer lady underestimate the captain's status.

Omega was furious.

Those two who earned seven thousand dollars, all they know is how to steal credit. He clearly boarded the ship earlier and knows more than they do!

Omega then coughed twice, signaling them to shut up:

"Ahem, but our captain, Pandoshisha, obviously can't fully control this ship. After all, it's a ghost ship, and he's not strong enough to maneuver it to the place where the treasure is hidden."

“If the captain can’t control the ship, do you think you can?” one of the thousand-dollar bills said. “I trust the captain more than you.”

"I think you're confused. Does the captain look like someone who's suited to be the helmsman of a ghost ship? All he does all day is cuddle his dog that's worth five hundred star coins."

Speaking of dogs, Omega's face darkened again. That dog often pooped and peed in his boots, and he always got pooped in the morning, but Pandora's box didn't care.

“The captain’s hound is clearly of pure Scandian blood; it’s a qualified and intelligent hound. It caught my hat without any training,” said Three Thousand Five, taking the hat with a hole in the brim off his head and waving it in the air.

"Come on, Three Thousand Five, get your ripped hat out of my sight. I don't want to see that brown hat again." Omega clearly disapproved of the hat Three Thousand Five usually wore. That tattered top hat had nothing special about it, but Three Thousand Five always wore it and refused to throw it away.

'It's almost rotten,' Omega muttered softly.

"I will never throw away my hat, just as pirates will never betray their faith!" Three Thousand Five suddenly raised his voice.

Two Thousand Dollars chuckled and said to the nonchalant Omega, "Who knows, one day his hat might save your life!"

"Hehe, I will absolutely not let that day happen."

Omega chuckled twice, then turned his gaze back to Shen Qingqing, who was walking alongside them.

This woman was able to enter the 'Tower' on her own, so she must be quite skilled. If I could recruit the Golden Ship crew to be my subordinate, well... it wouldn't be impossible... We'll see. If she's strong enough, I might be able to appoint her as my first mate.

The first mate and accountant of the Goldship now began his main business—recruiting assistants for the Goldship outside of work hours who might help him bring down the captain.

“Qingqing, you don’t seem to be a local. Are you also from the Upper Star System?” While thinking, Omega suddenly remembered that in this universe, there seemed to be more than just the Lower Star System; there was also a place called the Upper Star System.

Unfortunately, they had already fled the upper star system many years ago when they went into exile, since no one would want to provoke the authorities after being wanted by them.

"Also?" Shen Qingqing's ears perked up, her seemingly indifferent exterior masking a mind brimming with inner turmoil.

'They just used the word "also," so these ragged pirates who look like they've been fleeing famine for hundreds of years are actually from the upper star system? Could they be professional pirates? No, no, the upper star system has always been strict in regulating smuggling and cracking down on piracy, it's unlikely to be an official operation...'

As her thoughts raced, she suddenly remembered that when she left the upper star system, her spaceship had been attacked by a group of pirates, which led to its unexpected forced landing on this planet called Anubis.

The thought that she might have been shot down by them made Shen Qingqing's lips twitch slightly, but considering that even if they weren't responsible, revealing her identity so early might cause unnecessary trouble, Shen Qingqing tentatively asked:

"Looks like you're space pirates from an upper star system?"

This statement, whether explicitly or implicitly, is a way of steering the conversation towards higher galaxies.

As long as they answer 'yes,' the conversation can continue, and she can then ask about their recent itinerary, since it has only been a few months since they left the upper star system.

Omega, who had already listed Shen Qingqing as a potential first mate for the Golden Ship, didn't hesitate and said directly, "Of course! Not only me, but us, the captain's five-hundred-dollar dog, and even the entire crew of the Golden Ship, all started out in the Upper Star System! Our record is renowned on the Upper Star System's pirate leaderboard, otherwise the captain's bounty wouldn't be so high..."

After rambling on for a long time, Shen Qingqing automatically ignored the boastful words and nonsense, and only got one sentence: They did come from the upper star system, and encountered a bit of an accident when entering the lower star system.

His lips curled into an even colder smile: "Oh? Space pirates really encounter so many interesting things? I don't really believe it without evidence."

Hearing this, Omega felt an urge to flip the table like he did on the Golden Ship, but the clever and cunning man refrained from slamming his fist on the table. Instead, he calmed himself and said, word by word:

“Miss Qingqing, please believe me. I can guarantee you with my personal reputation that every word, every punctuation mark I say next will be completely true.”

"A few months ago, when we were traveling from the upper star system to the lower star system, we destroyed a spaceship from the official committee of the upper star system, which is the Interstellar Alliance! I, Omega, personally pressed the launch button to destroy it!"