Facing the sudden bad news, Ou Zhanpeng's mind was in a turmoil, and he always felt that alien warships would attack the next moment.
Xu Qing was no better, biting her lip tightly, lost in thought, as if she were about to cry.
After a while, she adjusted her mood: "Fat Ou, am I too useless?"
"What?" Ou Zhanpeng's thoughts were still on the aliens, and he was stunned by her question.
Xu Qing lowered her head sadly: "Once there's an accident, I have to rely on you to solve it. I can only make things worse and be a burden."
Ou Zhanpeng's mind went blank again, thinking, what is this girl thinking?
But no matter how dense he was, he had been influenced by Ling Xiao for so many years. He pondered his words and said, "This is a different division of revolutionary labor, and it has nothing to do with being useful or not..."
Halfway through his sentence, his attention shifted to Xu Qing, and he realized her attire was a bit... well, revealing!
Although he hadn't seen anything, Ou Zhanpeng's heart suddenly sped up.
Xu Qing was still immersed in her despair: "Fat Ou, I don't want to be like this anymore. Can you teach me how to fly a fighter jet... Where are you looking!"
Noticing his gaze was off, she quickly raised her arm to cover her chest, her cheeks flushed like a freshly steamed crab.
Ou Zhanpeng quickly averted his gaze, his flushed face full of awkwardness: "Uh, okay, sure, no problem!"
Caught red-handed, he suddenly understood what it felt like to want to find a hole to crawl into.
"Ou, Zhan, Peng!" Xu Qing gritted out the three words, her large eyes glaring fiercely at him.
However, although her face was fierce, she wasn't really angry. The reason she put on a show of anger was just a habit.
Girls had to show their fierce side. No matter what they thought, they had to express their dislike and anger clearly on the surface. Only then could they prevent unwanted thoughts from arising.
Women must know how to protect themselves. If they choose to escape due to shyness, timidity, or even cowardice, the result will inevitably be them being taken advantage of.
"I apologize!" Ou Zhanpeng immediately admitted defeat.
"That's more like it!" Xu Qing mumbled, and the matter was dropped.
Ou Zhanpeng calmed himself, turned the fighter jet around, and prepared to go back to find an external pod. Unexpectedly, the alarm sounded again, filling the fighter jet.
Several complex trajectories appeared on the radar. Ou Zhanpeng's voice deepened: "Enemy aircraft!"
The target still appeared in the direction of Phobos. Young Master Ou repeated his trick, firing eight missiles in succession, and successfully destroyed the target moments later.
But there was no joy on Ou Zhanpeng's face: "This is troublesome, they've really targeted us!"
Xu Qing felt a little flustered: "What should we do?"
As soon as she spoke, her face flushed slightly.
She was also from a disciplined military background, someone whom a few ordinary people couldn't get close to. In the past, she would never have said such a spineless thing. But since when did she start to rely on the man beside her?
Ou Zhanpeng said without hesitation: "The enemy aircraft have appeared near Phobos twice. This satellite must be extraordinary. It's better to strike first than be struck later. You stay and defend the base, I'll go deal with the aliens!"
Xu Qing, who had just composed herself, immediately glared, her eyebrows furrowed: "Are you looking down on me? Why should you go and I stay? If you go, I go; if you stay, I stay!"
Ou Zhanpeng's head began to ache: "I'm not looking down on you, it's just that we're different..."
"How are we different?" Xu Qing retorted immediately: "Besides you and me, everyone else here is an alien. Is staying in the fighter jet completely safe? Since nowhere is safe, why don't we go together? At least we'll have company if we die."
Ou Zhanpeng was speechless, but still refused to agree.
Xu Qing became anxious: "I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of?"
Young Master Ou made up his mind: "Then, together!"
Without delay, the two immediately began to prepare, putting on their power armor as quickly as possible and checking their weapons and equipment.
Ou Zhanpeng deliberately observed and found that Xu Qing was very skilled, which made him believe she wasn't bragging.
With everything ready, they gave up on finding an external pod. The fighter jet suddenly accelerated and dived, heading straight for Phobos.
This small satellite had a diameter of over twenty kilometers, making it easy to dig a few holes and hide a few fighter jets.
The fighter jet circled directly to the underside of Phobos. Xu Qing didn't notice anything unusual, but Ou Zhanpeng immediately spotted an abnormal indentation on the surface of Phobos.
"It must be here!" Ou Zhanpeng didn't waste any words, pressed a button, and the fighter jet immediately fired two missiles, hitting the indentation precisely.
A flash of fire appeared, and a deep pit was immediately blown open.
"This is it, prepare to depart!"
The fighter jet flew directly towards Phobos. As it passed over the pit, it suddenly decelerated, and the two leaped out of the aircraft.
Next, the two entered the pit one after another, while the fighter jet, controlled by its automatic pilot program, moved away from Phobos, maintaining a safe distance.
Ou Zhanpeng did not want to find that his fighter jet had been destroyed by the aliens after destroying their base.
He did not rush into the pit but first set up several smart mines at the entrance, blocking the only way in. Then, he floated into the pit first.
The light outside was already dim, and it was even darker inside. Young Master Ou released two specially made space drones to scout ahead, while he and Xu Qing followed behind, checking for any overlooked gaps.
The cave was much rougher than expected, showing none of the neatness and order of the alien warships. Instead, it was dull and oppressive.
But it didn't matter, they weren't here to sightsee.
Phobos was too small for its gravity to be significant. The two followed the drones, twisting and turning through the cave. They didn't fly far before an emergency door suddenly closed behind them. The air pressure began to normalize, but there were no lights, and no other facilities were found. It was just a very ordinary dirt cave.
More accurately, it was a cave!
If it weren't for that emergency hatch, Ou Zhanpeng would have thought they had found the wrong place.
After the air pressure returned to normal, Ou Zhanpeng pulled off his helmet and listened intently. Suddenly, he pointed forward: "This way!"
They continued to fly forward for a while, and a spacious cavern appeared ahead. On the walls were embedded more than a dozen large cultivation tanks, as well as some unfamiliar alien equipment.
Among them were several simplified alien space fighters.
But as his gaze swept across, they didn't find any aliens.
Ou Zhanpeng suddenly felt uneasy. Based on the situation in the cave, the total number of aliens hiding here shouldn't be too large. But had all of them been killed, or were they quietly hidden deeper in the cave?