184 A Secret Meeting 6yr

Translator: LonelytreeEditor: Lucas

"Yao Yuan, I heard you’re leaving the Hope for a mission."
This was the second day after Yao Yuan released his two orders, and he sat in command central waiting patiently to be peppered with opinions and criticism. However, he didn’t expect the first one to visit him to be Qi Xiao Niao.
Yao Yuan frowned and said, "You heard wrong. I’m the captain, why would I assign myself an outstation mission? I need to be here to keep the ship afloat and the government running."
"Huh? Really?" Xiao Niao said in an excessively surprised tone. "But don’t you need to evade the crowd for a while after the release of the Containment Order and Logging Order? Aren’t you afraid the parties that want to get down to the surface and the nature lovers are going to crowd your office and question your decision? What do you say, shall we go down there for a temporary reprieve?"
Yao Yuan’s frown deepened as he activated his Thinker power. He tried to tease out the underlying meaning in what Xiao Niao was saying