Somewhere in the Shattered Star Ring, three small warships with the Black Star Legion emblem are cruising through the star space, and the ships are all Blitzkrieg-class shuttles, known for their speed.

The task of this unit is to track down suspicious transport fleets, and now the Black Star Legion has deployed such tracking teams in multiple systems of the Shattered Star Ring, laying a wide net.

In the command room of the ship, the captain carefully stared at the star map in front of him, which marked the patrol route of the team, and once a suspicious force was found in the jurisdiction, or a new mission was assigned to it, it would be displayed on the star map.

"I heard that two days ago, the next star sector seems to have found the traces of a suspicious transport fleet, the clues are intermittent, it seems to be lost, do you think it will run to our jurisdiction?" An adjutant next to him opened up a small talk with his colleagues.

"It's great to really run here, as long as you track down the suspicious fleet, it's a credit, we've been patrolling here for a few months, and we haven't carried out a mission yet, if we're unlucky, I don't know when we'll be able to make a meritorious service."

The other spoke with envy.

The patrol mission was boring, and the captain didn't stop his subordinates from chatting, which he thought in his heart. Although he is only a grassroots member of the legion, he has a heart to work hard, as long as he accumulates enough merits, he can exchange for the elite training qualification of the legion, and invest in himself, which is conducive to promotion.

Dudu –

At this moment, a corrugating red point of light suddenly appeared on the star map, and a prompt sounded simultaneously, which was a field investigation mission issued by the monitoring department, which generally represented that the space buoy had monitored suspicious troops.

"It's time for a mission!"

The captain's eyes lit up, and the secret passage opportunity came, and he immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and sail to this marked coordinate.

The three ships immediately turned, and the engines spewed rainbow light, shooting towards the depths of the starry sky.

After sailing for a while, the team came to the target location, and turned on the detection device with ease, and thirty or forty spatial folds appeared on the radar view.

This is the trace left by the high-speed jump, each one represents a spaceship, this trace will disappear with time, but at this time it has not completely dissipated, and it has been extended for a long time, pointing out the course of these dozens of spaceships in disguise.

"A total of forty-one jump tracks, it is a small and medium-sized fleet, follow the traces, catch up!" The captain did not hesitate.

The team drove full momentum and followed the trail of the jump, and soon after two hours of tracking, a barren asteroid came into view.

The trail is broken here, which means that the target is out of jump mode here.

"Report, the target's trail has disappeared, it is possible to stay on this planet for the time being to collect resources, or it is possible to hide on the far side of the planet and ambush, please indicate the next action." The adjutant looked at the radar without warning and spoke.

The captain pondered for two seconds and said, "The second ship scans the planet's surface, the third ship goes around the far side of the planet, and the first ship I am on standby, keeping the engine started to ensure that it can be evacuated at any time." ”

"Roger."

The three ships immediately split up, and it didn't take long for the results to be there.

A docked fleet was found in a vein somewhere on the planet, and the outer armor of the power symbol represented a local business consortium that was collecting gas resources underground, the size of which was exactly the same as the number of jump traces, and was exactly the target of the team's tracking.

"Publish a wide-area newsletter asking for their identification code." The captain said.

The transport fleet of the Super Star Cluster Alliance uses various methods to hide from the sky and seas, and disguising as troops from other organizations is one of the most common methods, if the tracking team of the Legion catches up with the suspicious fleet, it will generally ask to check the identity of the other party first, and if it is misunderstood, it will be released.

Generally speaking, it is the duty of the Civilized Security Force to check the identity of the transit fleet, and the Black Star Legion, as a private armed organization, does not have this authority.

However, fist is power, and now that the Black Star Legion is tracking down the transport fleet of the Modo civilization all over the star field, normal organizations will give face and are unwilling to ask for trouble, and most of the civilization of the broken star ring will not have any opinions, and turn a blind eye.

Occasionally, when the tracking team encounters the real thing, it will happen that the enemy strikes first, but this is an unavoidable risk. Therefore, the tracking team generally does not fight, and at the same time maintains communication with the intelligence department at all times, so that even if the tracking team is killed and disconnected, it can still send back the message and let the monitoring department confirm the identity of the target enemy.

At this point, the tracking team sent a communication request to the transport fleet, but it was lost, and the other party did not respond.

The captain immediately became vigilant, "The situation is not right, immediately prepare to evacuate, report the situation......"

But before he finished speaking, his brain suddenly became confused, and his vision suddenly became chaotic, and he continued in this state for a moment before he regained his clear thinking.

However, when he saw the scene in front of him again, his whole body froze, and a terrifying fear erupted from his heart, destroying his reason in an instant.

I saw that the surrounding area had become a prison, and my body was firmly fixed in a prison cabin, unable to move.

He was shocked.

One second I was in the command room of the shuttle ship, and the next second why did I suddenly get here?!

Before he could figure it out, his head was dizzy again, and the surrounding environment changed again, and he was in a transparent glass room, next to which was a group of huge black beetles, and there was a commotion.

Looking through the transparent walls of the room, he was terrified to see giants walking around the room, and he couldn't even see how tall they were.

As far as the eye could see, it was as if everything had become countless times larger.

"What the hell is this ......"

The captain subconsciously muttered to himself, but instead of his own voice, a subtle hissing sounded in his ears.

He was slightly stunned, looked down at himself, and a cool breath suddenly rushed to his mind, and the whole person was frightened and couldn't believe it.

His body turned into a black beetle, exactly like the insects around him!

Suddenly, he understood something.

It's not that the world has gotten bigger, it's that I've shrunk!

At this moment, orange-red flames fell from the sky, filling the entire glass room, and his mind was frozen in a blazing white expanse.

Boom –

With a single breath, all black beetles were burned to ashes.

An operator in a white lab coat removed the experimental flamespray gun, glanced at the debris inside the glass box, and made an "OK" gesture to the team leader not far away.

The team leader nodded and reported to the communication screen: "Report to the commander, the target has been eliminated." ”

"Hmm."

In the main ship, the commander of this fleet nodded, and turned his head to look out the porthole.

I saw that two of the three shuttle ships in outer space had been blown up by their sudden fire and turned into fireworks in the universe, leaving only the No. 1 ship that served as the command ship to escape from the scene by jumping underwater under their deliberate release.

And the spaceship that escaped, all the members of the ship have a soul under their shells!

"The plan went well."

Nodding slightly, the commander turned his head to look to the side, only to see an inky crystal mirror suspended in the air, about fifty centimeters in diameter and no more than three centimeters thick.

At this time, the Soul Turning Twins stood in front of the mirror, their palms sinking into the mirror, reaching their wrists, as if they had been swallowed, and the mirror rippled.

This mirror is a wonder-like cosmic treasure called the Soul Turning Instrument!

"It's okay, stop me!"

The commander shouted.

Hearing this, the Soul Turning Twins slowly withdrew their palms, and the soldiers around them immediately stepped forward, removed the Soul Turning Instrument, and put it into an extremely sophisticated safe, away from the Soul Turning Twins.

Seeing this, the Soul Twins casually glanced at the mechanical turrets around them that were sticking out of the walls and turf to aim at them, and let out a casual laugh.

These turrets are meant to be safety devices to prevent them from moving, and are remotely intelligently controlled, and the Soul Transient only works on the souls of living beings. It is useless for mechanical intelligence.

Only then did the commander retract his gaze, looked in the direction of the shuttle's escape, and said in a low voice:

"The dead soldiers prepared in advance have already penetrated the enemy, and with our bait, it should be enough to fish people out......"

……

"A tracking team in the Thousand Light Galaxy was ambushed on the way to track a suspicious fleet, two ships were destroyed on the spot, and only one ship escaped......"

At the headquarters of the Black Star Legion in the Shattered Star Ring, Nilo read the report in a low voice, looked up at several cadres in the room, and said:

"Guys, what do you think?"

Mia's tone was decisive: "The situation is obvious, this transport fleet has made a move, and it can basically be the people of the Super Star Cluster Alliance, and immediately dispatch troops around the incident site to track the target." ”

"I think it's a bit weird, the troops of the Super Star Cluster Alliance generally don't take hands-on measures, because once they fight, their identities are exposed, and most of the time they try to get rid of the pursuers, and the reason for encounters is generally that they don't find the pursuers and are accidentally caught up...... But since they did it, they shouldn't have left a living speech, as has been the case in the past. ”

Tomar muttered.

He has been learning magic from Rakki for decades, although the teacher is salted, but his talent is too good, and now he has become a high-level cadre, and he has a good relationship with Nilo, and now he is Nilo's team.

"Maybe the surviving spaceship escaped in time, and the troops of the Super Star Cluster knew that the information must be leaked, so they didn't want to waste their energy on pursuit, and would rather spend their time on escaping." Mia guessed.

"It makes sense." Tomar didn't doubt him.

"Let's ask the survivors first."

Nilo thought for a moment and instructed his assistant to contact the captain of the surviving ship, and after a while, the communication screen was connected, and the person in the screen was the captain of the tracking team.

"Recount what happened to you as it is, and I want to know the full details."

The captain in the picture flashed his eyes, nodded, put on a palpitating and angry expression, and told his experience.

The soul under this body has been replaced by the dead prepared by the Modo civilization, and the effect of the soul transfer instrument is not simply to transfer the souls of the two bodies, and the soul of the "snatch" can also inherit most of the target's memories, after all, the brain of the body is also a memory memory, just like a library.

However, this memory will not naturally merge with the new soul, but will need to be sorted out and read slowly, and there will be some deletions, generally speaking, the older the memory, the more likely it is to be missing, and the most recent memory is basically complete.

There is rejection between different souls and bodies, and operations such as rebirth and seizure can also be done by some telekinesis or psychic abilities, but the success rate is extremely low, as exemplified by Ferding and Morning Star.

The Soul Transmutation Instrument can greatly increase the success rate of soul transfer, which is close to 100% under normal circumstances, but it will be affected by the strength of the target and the strength of the user. At the same time, the soul transfer completed by using the soul transfer instrument will greatly reduce the rejection of the body and soul, and there will be no strong rejection.

And soul transfer is only one of the functions of the soul transfer instrument, this thing is very strange, and there are other effects.

After listening to the report, Nilo gave two words of encouragement and was about to end the communication.

At this time, the "survivor" flashed his eyes, pretended to be sad and angry, and said loudly:

"We are now the closest unit to the enemy, and I hope to continue this mission, continue the pursuit, and avenge my fellows!"

“…… OK. ”

The request was reasonable, and Nilo had no reason to refuse.

He hung up the communication, and Tomar spoke again:

"Nilo, since the target knows that his whereabouts have been exposed, he will definitely change his plan and no longer go to the transportation line, but flee separately, I suggest the second option."

This is not the first time this has happened, and if the transport force is exposed, it will basically be treated as an outcast, and even if they continue to track, they will not be able to find the secret stronghold of the Super Star Cluster Alliance.

"That's right." Nilo turned his head to look at Aesop next to him, and his tone was embarrassed, "This...... Lord Aesop, I'm going to trouble you again this time. ”

"It's fine." Aesop waved her hand, unimpressed.

The so-called second plan is to borrow Aesop's ability to let him go to the location of the incident, use relevant clues as a medium, make on-the-spot predictions, predict a variety of future possibilities, and grasp more clues.

The clearer the prophecy, the more media were needed, and this method worked in practice, and over the past few months, Isolt had not only stayed at headquarters, but had conducted many field trips under heavy protection, using this method to find many targets for the Black Star Legion.

Nilo nodded, and said loudly:

"Without further ado, prepare the spacecraft immediately and send His Excellency Aesop and the escort to the location of the incident."

……

The other side.

A certain star field, a certain planet, a certain base.

McNison stood in front of a virtual screen with his hands in his hands, squinting at what's going on.

This is secret information from the old Star River Base Camp, from the eyes he planted inside the Modo civilization many years ago.

There is only one short message written on it:

- The Soul Turning Twins have been transferred out of the base, and the Soul Turning Instrument has been taken from the warehouse by the army, and the destination is unknown!

"Soul Recarator...... If I'm not mistaken, the Modo civilization used this cosmic treasure to deal with him, maybe I can ......"

McNison muttered to himself, an inexplicable glint flashing in his eyes.