Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 639: Infiltration
Mingyue leaned in slightly. "So his goal is this rare soul material>"
"The material is precious, but I doubt these is the only reason," Alex replied. "To pull something like this, he will need something better."
He pulled up the last thirty days of shipment logs and compared them to production.
The numbers didn’t match.
The metal ore loss could be explained by the Hive.
Cargo got intercepted, routes got cut.
The crystal loss was smaller, but it still existed.
The real problem was Spirit Ash.
The logs showed the station "produced" enough Spirit Ash for two arrays a week, yet the depot receipts showed less than half that arriving.
The missing amount were hidden in bunch of numbers.
Mingyue’s eyes narrowed. "He is taking it."
"Or someone is taking it through him," Alex said.
He opened another file, this one about restricted sectors.
The refinery spine had an inner vault, sealed under a dual-key rune lock.
One key belonged to the station’s chief engineer. The other belonged to the governor.
Alex leaned back and exhaled slowly. "The chief engineer should be able to give us more info, but I suspect this missing spirit ash is given to the insect queen."
Mingyue looked at him. "Because of the Spirit Ash."
"That’s right, the soul insect princess doesn’t give us full information." Alex said.
He saved the files, then pulled up the personnel list.
Names, ranks, transfer dates. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
One entry caught his eye. The chief engineer should have rotated out two months ago, but never left.
Another entry showed a security captain transferred in from a different sector, directly under the governor’s authority.
Alex closed the file and glanced at Mingyue.
"Should we pay him a visit?"
Mingyue’s tone stayed cold. "If you want might as well. We will not have time for this tomorrow."
Alex looked back at the battlefield map.
"Let’s go."
The two of the move to their appointed room, but form there they moved silently leaving the base back to the mining station.
Mingyue leaned in slightly. "So his goal is this rare soul material?"
"The material is precious, but I doubt that’s the only reason," Alex replied. "To pull something like this, he needs something bigger."
He pulled up the last thirty days of shipment logs and compared them to production.
The numbers didn’t match.
The metal ore loss could be explained by the Hive. Cargo got intercepted, routes got cut.
The crystal loss was smaller, but it still existed.
The real problem was Spirit Ash.
The logs showed the station "produced" enough Spirit Ash for two arrays a week, yet the depot receipts showed less than half that arriving. The missing amount was buried inside the numbers.
Mingyue’s eyes narrowed. "He is taking it."
"Or someone is taking it through him," Alex said.
He opened another file, this one about restricted sectors. The refinery spine had an inner vault, sealed under a dual-key rune lock.
One key belonged to the station’s chief engineer. The other belonged to the governor.
Alex leaned back and exhaled slowly. "The chief engineer should know more. But I suspect the missing Spirit Ash is being fed to the insect queen."
Mingyue looked at him. "Because of the Spirit Ash."
"That’s right. The Soul Insect Princess didn’t tell us everything," Alex said.
He saved the files, then pulled up the personnel list.
Names, ranks, transfer dates.
One entry caught his eye. The chief engineer should have rotated out two months ago, but he never left.
Another entry showed a security captain transferred in from a different sector, directly under the governor’s authority.
Alex closed the file and glanced at Mingyue. "Should we pay him a visit?"
Mingyue’s tone stayed cold. "If you want, might as well. We won’t have time for this tomorrow."
Alex looked back at the battlefield map. "Let’s go."
They returned to their assigned room, but once the door sealed, they moved again.
They slipped out of the command bay and back into the station corridors.
Alex led Mingyue back to the mining facility toward the refinery spine.
The public corridors were secure, but the service line were different.
The path were left unguarded on purpose by the governor.
It doesn’t take long for them to reach the maintenance hatch.
Alex pressed his palm to the lock and let a thin thread of qi slip into the formation.
The hatch opened without a sound.
Inside was a vertical shaft with ladder and cable lines.
They went down.
The air changed as they descended. It become hotter and drier.
Mingyue frowned. "This place feels weird."
Alex didn’t answer. He already felt it too.
It wasn’t just the climate. It’s like they were entering another world.
The sensation is like moving to different planet.
They reached a lower access walkway and moved along it, passing sealed doors marked with warning.
AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY.
Alex hide between two pipe stacks and looked through a narrow gap.
A huge chamber spread out below.
Weird machines lined the floor in a ring, each one shaped like a black drill tower with rotating braces.
Between them, rune formation were embedded into the metal, glowing in green light.
At the center, a pit opened down into the asteroid core.
The mining shaft didn’t look like normal operation.
Chains of light ran down the shaft walls, locking the space in place.
The deeper it went, the more those lights thickened, like they were sealing something.
Cargo lifts rose from the shaft, carrying sealed containers the size of coffins.
Each container had formation lines stamped over the surface, with warning tags and tamper seals.
Alex watched one lift reach the surface bay.
A crane arm grabbed the container and placed it onto a conveyor that moved toward a sealed furnace line.
Mingyue’s eyes sharpened. "That is not ore."
"Whatever it’s... that thing is what turned into spirit ash."
Even at their level of strength both Alex and MingYue could feel danger coming from deep of the tunnel.
"Seem this is not a normal asteroid.
