After several days of cleaning, the combat conference room next to the bridge was finally restored. So, when the smell inside became less unbearable, First Officer Kelly took the opportunity to give Petrus to

Once invited inside, a showdown begins with the other party on a certain issue.

"Pertus!"

"do you know?"

"Your current behavior, in our opinion, is exactly the same as the prank Anne played on us here!"

Kelly, who was sitting in her seat, used the harshest possible tone and expression to reprimand the second officer, Petrus, who was standing across the table with his hands behind his back, without concealing her dissatisfaction with him at all.

"The only difference is: she only succeeded in pranking once, but you succeeded every time!"

"I see!"

"You like those cigarettes, there's nothing wrong with that, just!"

"Can you please stop smoking in public?"

"That's very bad!"

"Especially on the bridge, you don't care about our feelings at all!"

"The crew all said that you polluted the air that belonged to them, but they couldn't leave their posts and could only endure it silently, and then they all came to me to complain?"

"not to mention……"

"You also know that the air on our Orville spacecraft is circulated internally, which makes your behavior even more bad!"

To be honest, Kelly had been enduring this problem for several days, and today, after receiving more complaints and discussing it with Ed, she finally couldn't bear it anymore.

For some reasons, as the captain, Ed couldn't bear to be too harsh on Petrus on such a small issue, but she wouldn't care so much. Since Ed didn't want to make a fool of himself, it was up to her to

The first mate came and sang, and it just so happened that her first mate's duties originally included supervising and correcting some bad habits of the crew.

"But."

"Commander Kelly!"

"Smoking makes me feel good, don't you think?"

"Besides..."

"This is something that belongs to you people on earth."

After staring at the fierce-looking First Officer Kelly for a while, Petrus retorted with an innocent look and stubbornness.

"you're right!"

"But no one on earth smokes that thing anymore, at least not on the Orville. It was something from hundreds of years ago and has been eliminated!"

"Do you understand it?"

When it comes to the skill of being 'eloquent', the rigid Moklan people are obviously no match for the Earthlings. Therefore, with just a few words, Kelly made the other party speechless and couldn't utter a word for a long time.

One word.

"I do not understand."

"But I accept your protest and will try not to smoke it in public in the future."

"I only smoke in my room or at the airlock."

After thinking about it, Petrus had no choice but to speak with an innocent and unhappy expression. From his expression, it was easy to tell that he seemed to be very dissatisfied with First Officer Kelly and the others forcibly depriving him of his new hobby.

?

"very good!"

"Get back to work!"

"Remember to convey what you just said to Kelden, he has been the same as you recently."

After saying that, she waved her hand, Kelly sighed and signaled to Petrus that he could leave.

"As you command!"

"commander!"

Petrus said nothing more.

In this way, in the next two days, in addition to the aftermath of the herring cans that led Captain Ed to strictly prohibit anyone from synthesizing certain poisonous foods on the ship, cigarettes soon became once again listed on the Austrian list.

It is on the list of items that are strictly prohibited from being synthesized or smoked on board the Vail.

because…….

The second mate Petrus and his wife Kelden, who were from Maklan, soon became old smokers due to their susceptibility to nicotine, seriously endangering the health of them and others. Therefore, after getting

After taking the advice of the ship's doctor Claire, they were ordered by Captain Adler to quit smoking. At the same time, all crew members on the ship were not allowed to synthesize anything that would harm themselves or others.

However, what Captain Ed and others did not expect was that the time capsule once again caused another big problem!

That is……

Helmsman Gordon fell in love, and it even affected his work?

Of course!

It is human nature to be passionately in love. There is no problem in the first place. The Orville has never had a rule that strictly prohibited the crew from falling in love. Even Ed and Kelly have changed their sexual partners several times.

, but the problem is: the object of Gordon's passionate love is the hostess Laura stored in the four-hundred-year-old time capsule!

The reason is that when Gordon was off work one night, he accidentally allowed the quantum brain of the Orville to simulate the personality of Laura based on the data in the mobile phone. After meeting her at a party, she developed into a genius.

tidy.

For this reason, Gordon even synthesized an outdated mobile phone, just to be able to communicate and chat virtually with the non-existent ‘Laura’ around the clock?

And that kind of thing, of course, attracted the attention and concern of Captain Ed, First Officer Kelly and others, because Gordon's "online dating" matter had affected each other's work, and as commanders, they had to take care of it and correct it.

Planning to prevent things from getting worse.

because……

Ed, Kelly and John were all very worried about Gordon's condition. They believed that Laura was not a real person, and that Gordon was immersed in love with a non-existent virtual personality all day long, and then stayed in the simulation room every night.

Hanging out with a program is already considered a mental illness to them, and of course they have to take care of it.

Unfortunately, Gordon didn't think so of Ed and others' thoughts.

Anyway, after Ed, Kelly and others formally negotiated with Gordon, they found that Gordon not only resisted their help, but also became furious about it, and firmly believed that the virtual 'Laura' was real, but

Does the other party exist in another form?

For this reason, Gordon even brought up the incident between the robot Isaac and Claire.

He also said that the difference between Laura and Isaac is that they just lack a body. He is currently considering synthesizing a bionic robot body for Laura and letting the ship's brain brain convert Laura's virtual 'personality' Download into that new body?

Gordon insisted that his idea was not wrong, while Ed and others insisted that Gordon's approach was wrong, and also stubbornly believed that Laura and Isaac were completely different. Laura had no self-awareness and no self-individuality. existence, and Isaac did, so they strongly opposed Gordon's ideas and subsequent actions.

As a result, disputes and conflicts broke out between the two parties, and the negotiations broke up.

Anyway, Annie, who was eating her own food at the time, finally figured out that they all had their own opinions, and they all thought they were doing the right thing?

then!

She felt that she should do something, and at the same time, she felt a little pitiful about Uncle Gordon, so she came to the bridge early the next morning after the incident broke out.

"Wow!"

"Annie, this is really rare!"

"Let me see……"

"It's only 08:00 now, right?"

"Why did you get up?"

Seeing Annie wandering leisurely into the bridge, and then looking at the time, Ed, who felt something was wrong, exclaimed and joked.

"Isn't it?"

"Are you making another crooked idea?"

Kelly, the first mate next to Ed, also asked with a strange look on his face, and kept looking at Annie with strange eyes.

"What's the crooked idea?"

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"I'm here to help!"

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Unexpectedly, the other party would think that. Of course, Anne glared at him angrily, and then continued to wander to the side of the captain, Uncle Ed.

"??"

"??"

"help?"

"Everything is fine here on the bridge. What can I do for you?"

Both Ed and Kelly were a little confused.

Because they are all sure that there is nothing going on on the Orville, inside and out, and there is no need for Anne, a troublesome little girl who is a safeguard in dangerous moments but is the biggest danger and a time bomb in normal times. Come to the bridge.

"I'm not helping you!"

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To be continued...