Shepard's new ship, the Normandy, which was hacked into the system of the Star Union by Cerberus, stole the design drawings of the original "Normandy" and upgraded the latest cutting-edge technology, this "SR-2" infiltration fast assault cruiser, at this time, is silently jumping into the orbit of the planet AN-5367 in a silent posture of stealth.

Then, after it had carefully adjusted to its synchronous orbit, it quietly turned off its main engine, as if it did not exist, silently hovering high in the orbit of this barren mining planet that had been temporarily abandoned by the Star Federation, silently scanning the huge planet.

"The track has been set up, no anomalies have been found!"

“……”

"The scanning of the surrounding star field has been completed, and no hostile or unidentified ships have been found!"

“……”

"Planetary scanning continues, no threatening targets have been found!"

"No jumps of other ships have been found around......"

"The IES stealth system is working fine...... Because the heat generated by the blue shift is slowly discharged, ......"

"The Tantalus Modified Drive Core is working fine!"

"The lithium heat dissipation system is normal, and the time that our ship can continue to be stealthy is ...... Six hours! ”

“……”

"Report to the captain! Everything is normal on our ship and the surrounding star fields, please instruct!! ”

When the data reported by the crew of all the important positions in the bridge was collected on the holographic interface of the first mate of the Normandy No. 2, he immediately walked up to Captain Shepard, who was wearing an N7 gray and black armor and standing straight.

"Keep watching!"

Shepard didn't say anything, just waved his hand with a cold face, and let him continue to go back to his post.

Ever since the last time Shepard's Normandy One jumped out and was attacked and killed, she had a lot of shadows about jumping or flying with a mass repeater, always making the ship invisible before starting to move and jump, for fear that when her new ship jumped to the other end of the destination, there would be those guys who ran out to fight her ambush.

However, for the time being, the things she feared most had not happened, and they did not find anything wrong here! It doesn't seem like there's a trap here on this planet specifically for her Shepard or other human ships.

“……”

Standing here on the bridge, he frowned at the huge tawny planet outside the Xuan window.

This planet is not the same as the blue and beautiful earth of mankind, this yellow-brown ball, which always looks gray, and the air is full of suspended dust, so it fills the atmosphere of the whole planet...... Then, a whirlpool of storms, large and small, kept raging, stirring the thick clouds of the planet like mud......

In the orbit of the planet, if you rely on the naked eye alone, you will not be able to see anything on the surface of the planet!

So, Shepard didn't continue to speak, she just waited silently, waiting for the Normandy's intelligence officer and the other CICs to use the chaotic holographic displays connected to various detection instruments to analyze and receive the intermittent distress signals so that they could lock on to each other's exact location.

"Miranda, what do you think about that distress signal?"

Because the other party's distress signal has disappeared for a while, the Normandy that just jumped out cannot be located, so the technicians have to wait, waiting for the other party's next delivery to capture the other party's accurate location!

Therefore, she, Shepard, can only wait patiently now......

After thinking about it for a while, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, so she turned to look at her companion next to her, Miranda, a big beauty with black hair and black eyes in a black and white tight-fitting cosmic light clothes, and asked out loud.

"Shepard, I've been thinking about it just now......"

"This planet AN-5367 must have been swept by the collectors a year ago...... Just now I specially checked the information of the Star Federation, which shows that this planet, except for those remnants of half-life and half-mechanical modified monsters with no self-consciousness, there should be no living people! ”

Miranda, like Shepard, was silently staring at the huge tawny planet outside the Xuan window.

She herself is a little uneasy now...... Because, after watching the video calling for help before, she also agreed that Shepard came here to rescue at the time, but now that she thinks about it, she feels incredible!

Herself...... When did it suddenly become so sympathetic? She would agree with Shepard not to carry out the important and arduous recruitment task, but instead come to this barren and broken planet as a little girl she never knew?!

"About a year ago, a small rescue fleet from the Star Alliance came here."

"According to the mission logs, they had scanned the entire planet, and when they found that the colonies above had no life and no worthy enemy targets, they had to temporarily declare the rescue over and abandon the place."

"So, I don't understand now, after a year, what happened to the little girl who suddenly sent a distress signal more than an hour ago?!"

"If it weren't for the fact that no enemies have been found here until now, I almost thought this was another old trap of interstellar pirates!"

In short, according to the information that Miranda herself consulted, and what she has been thinking about since jumping here, there should not be any living people on this planet, except for the remaining cyborg monsters that the collectors transformed with humans are still active on the planet!

But now, the little girl who sent a message for help, what the hell is going on with her, and how can she survive to this day? Anyway, she didn't believe that a little girl could survive so long in such a harsh planetary environment in front of her.

Therefore, she originally wanted to remind Shepard to be careful with two sentences, but now, after seeing that the other party did not seem to be confused, she also became vigilant, she didn't say more, but just said some things that she thought of and her own confusion.

"Huh!"

"Miranda, you may not believe it, I'm thinking about this interesting question now......"

"I even ...... I don't know why we gave the order to abandon our original mission and make the spaceship jump to this barren mineral star to save that little girl......"

"If I think about it now, at the time, I felt as if I had been hypnotized by the other party......

"It was a weird feeling...... Maybe it's my own intention, maybe it's not? ”

Shaking his head, Shepard said how he felt at the time.

Perhaps, this is the aftermath of her resurrection, when her sanity and judgment began to decline, and she became more emotional?

Before, she only remembered that when she saw the holographic video calling for help and the little girl crying inside, her brain suddenly became hot, and she lost the ability to think in an instant, so she just directly ordered Normandy 2 to go full speed and jump over to prepare for the rescue.

And now, when she finally calmed down, thinking about her previous behavior, she always felt a very demonic and evil feeling.

That little girl, something is very wrong......

If there is a problem here, then they are likely to have fallen into the enemy's trap by now! If that's the case, it will not be conducive to her fulfilling the difficult mission she has on her.

"You even have this strange feeling?!"

Miranda exclaimed directly, and looked at the human heroine next to her, the ghost of the former Castle. She Miranda had always thought that she had that weird feeling just now, but how could shepard, too?

"You mean 'too'?"

"Excellent! If that's how you felt just now, I think it's going to be a lot of fun today...... But anyway, since you've come here, you might as well go and investigate first! ”

Looking at the planet below, Shepard's originally tense face suddenly burst into laughter.

She felt that there must be something wrong with the video of the little girl calling for help! Perhaps, this planet is a trap laid for rescuers, and there must be some strange element of suggestion, hypnosis, or temptation in the image of the little girl crying for help that they don't know about?

"How was the video scan of the call for help, and did you find anything special?"

Shepard, who realized that he was not alone, breathed a sigh of relief, and began to look at a member of the CIC's combat information processing team on the side, and opened his mouth to ask him.

"Report sir!"

"After many scans and analyses, the distress video is all right, and neither I nor EDI have found any hints of any special bands or sounds and images that interfere with biological interference!"

"I'm sorry, sir! My verdict on that distress cry is: everything is normal! ”

Soon, one of the CIC's intelligence officers, after operating for a while, turned his chair innocently and said cautiously to Captain Shepard, who was standing in the middle of the bridge behind him.

He used all the equipment and technology to study the image in depth, and even broke it down into the most basic numerical code, filtering sound, image, and so on...... Anyway, in the end, he just didn't find anything extra!

“……”

"Sir, could it be that you're overthinking?"

The helmsman clown of the former Normandy No. 1 who was sitting idly in the helmsman's seat suddenly turned back to his old commander and asked this.

He had been eavesdropping on the conversation between his cold chief and the great beauty Miranda just now, and he had seen that video before, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with it! He thinks that a little girl like that, like that, is impossible for anyone to be ruthless and abandon after receiving the other party's crying distress signal, right?

So, the clown finally couldn't help but overstep his authority and ask a rhetorical question.

At the beginning, he was rescued by this brave and fearless commander Shepard who risked his life to successfully escape from the escape pod of Normandy No. 1. Because of this, he didn't think that there would be anything wrong with his heroic, beautiful and righteous old chief who came to this planet to rescue a little girl now, which was originally a normal thing.

His old commander, Captain Shepard, was originally a great hero and heroine who saved the galaxy!

"Do your job, Joker!"

Seeing that the other party still wanted to interfere with his decision, Xue Budding crossed his arms and stared at the other party expressionlessly.

"Okay, okay, your Excellency, you have the final say!"

After shrugging his shoulders and outstretching his hands in a gesture of helplessness, Joker, the helmsman, stopped pointing fingers at his beautiful savior and captain, and honestly turned back to his position, continuing to watch for any information on the orange-yellow holographic screen.

He actually doesn't have anything to do now, now that their Normandy 2 spacecraft has turned off its main engine this week, and is idling silently and stealthily flying in planetary orbit, everything naturally has artificial intelligence to carry out the most subtle manipulation, no need for him to do more, just continue to stare at the screen interface, and keep an eye on the status of the spacecraft.

"EDI!"

After waiting for a while, and finding that the intelligence officer still hadn't been able to locate the specific location of the signal source, Shepard was secretly surprised, so he simply called the artificial intelligence EDI of the Normandy 2.

The full name of AI EDI is 'Enhanced Defense Intelligence', which is an AI defense program developed by Cerberus specifically for the Normandy SR-2, which was not available in her original Normandy One.

It is said that EDI "she" is not only very helpful for the crew's day-to-day information, but also provides a lot of critical information, or the best practical course of action for each mission, etc.

'What do you command, Captain Shepard?' ’

A hologram of a stunning woman dressed in silver and gray tights appeared on the bridge in an instant, projected directly in front of Shepard, and smiled at the captain Shepard who had just called her, waiting for further orders.

"Is there any way to allow a little girl to survive in the devastated mining colony of Planet AN-5367 for more than a year in that hostile environment, while still successfully evading the raids and attacks of the Collector monsters?"

"Also, tell me your judgment on the distress image we received!"

Shepard, who always felt as if her brain was being disturbed by some unpinpointing factor, finally thought about it seriously, and could only ask for help about the artificial intelligence program that Cerberus had researched that she had always found unreliable.

Now she has no choice, if there is really some factor in that image that interferes with their judgment, then the pure artificial intelligence in front of her will definitely not be disturbed, and it will definitely be able to give her a more fair analysis.

'Of course there is, Captain Shepard! ’

According to the information I obtained, back in 2142, when the construction of the Gagarin space station, the space device called the 'Take-off Point', began to be built outside the orbit of Pluto, the humans of Earth began to develop a cryogenic hibernation device in order to be able to reach the outer solar system for colonization during the long space voyage! In order to be able to immerse human astronauts in a deep sleep state, so that in the limited life of human beings, to achieve that distant and long space travel. ’

'This was quickly developed and successfully low-temperature dormancy chamber was initially codenamed D-101, and a series of upgraded models were derived from it......

But then, in 2148, when prospectors unexpectedly discovered the Prothean ruins on the Promethean Plains of Mars: a Prothean observatory that had been in operation for 50,000 years...... In 2149, the deciphered Prothean data allowed humanity to find the Charon mass repeater in the solar system, and the Galactic Alliance began to form and coordinate the exploration, security, and colonization of extrasolar planets. ’

In 2152, the Cryogenic Hibernation Chambers program was finally abandoned after the discovery of the Charon mass repeater and many more repeaters that were found throughout the galaxy and had a faster and almost instantaneous way of traveling. ’

To this day, Starlink only retains a small number of medical life-support dormancy chambers to meet the safety of the field hospital for the seriously injured or those in certain special conditions who are too late to be rescued, when the number is very small. ’

But according to my database, Starlink should also have a cryogenic hibernation emergency life-saving hibernation capsule that was once issued to the colonies, and its code name is D-257. Although it is somewhat old, it should be able to freeze humans entering the life-support chamber at a very low temperature in an emergency, eliminating vital signs to near none, in order to sustain rescue or avoid some danger. ’

Speaking of this, the artificial intelligence EDI of the silver short-haired beauty looked at the captain Xue Bud, and when it saw the other party's clear expression, it knew that the other party should have understood the content of his statement and the meaning he wanted to express, so it continued:

If the mining colony of Planet AN-5367 had that rare and backward dormant chamber, the little girl's success rate of evading the raids of the Collector monsters would be as high as 50%. ’

'Through my analysis of Planet AN-5367, the results show that the planet has too much atmospheric dust and extremely low visibility, although it has the minimum environmental requirements for humans to breathe directly, so that humans can breathe and survive without wearing protective gear, but that will endanger the health of the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, and I do not recommend staying in that environment without protective gear for more than three hours; In addition, infrared monitoring of the planet's surface temperature is -20 degrees Celsius, and the maximum temperature is 12 degrees Celsius, which will make humans feel very uncomfortable without protective gear, which is also in line with the little girl's description of 'very cold'! ’

'In summary......'

Although I can't analyze what caused the rescue pod to automatically unsleep and release the little girl, based on the results of my logical calculations and the polygraph of the distress image, I have come to the conclusion that the little girl's statement is 99.999% true. ’

'So, Captain Shepard, you can go to the rescue as soon as possible!' ’

I received the distress signal again, determined the specific location of the other person, and also scanned the other person's vital signs, and confirmed that it was a human being. If you set off now, you'll have a 52% chance of successfully rescuing them and completing the rescue operation! ’

'Now the mission has a twenty-minute countdown, and if you can't reach the rescue target within twenty minutes, then I suggest you cancel the rescue operation and get out of here. ’

EDI, the artificial intelligence of the hologram, stretched out her finger and manipulated the holographic 3D model of planet AN-5367 projected by it for a second, and she successfully marked a small green dot on it, and the green dot was the exact place where the little girl in the red dress sent a distress signal, in the middle of an abandoned mining colony.

As EDI zooms in on the planet's holograms, Shepard and Miranda finally succeed in spotting what appears to be a small figure huddled in the corner of a ruined room in the ruins of a colony.

“……”

Seeing that his advanced Normandy II actually scanned a living human girl hiding in the rubble, Shepard's breathing couldn't help but stagnate, and even his breathing became a little unnatural.

Although she couldn't see the specific appearance of the other party from the EDI magnified hologram, judging from the green digital figure, she was sure that the other party must be there crying helplessly and trembling now, right? It's really rare for a little girl to be able to calmly send out a distress signal and hide in that environment.

"Wait! Edie! ”

"I don't understand, why do we now only have a 52% chance of a successful rescue? Such a simple thing, why not one hundred percent?! ”

Now, Shepard has decided to go to the rescue! However, she was a little incomprehensible to this unreliable artificial intelligence saying that they only had a 52% chance of being successfully rescued.

"Report!"

At this time, without waiting for the AI EDI to answer, the clown helmsman who had just been taught a small lesson by Shepard turned his head directly and reported to the captain in doubt.

Because, at this moment, on the map in front of him, he saw three big red dots speeding towards the ruins of the colony where they had found the little green dot.

"Captain Shepard, I know that! That's because: the remnants of enemies on the planet are now pouring towards that ruined colony, and three cross-dressed Mass Effect low-flying vehicles and nearly three hundred Collector-transformed monster cyborg zombies are on their way! ”

"There are also quite a few mechanical monsters that follow......"

"Expect them to arrive at the little girl's hideout in twenty minutes! Our Normandy 2 will not be able to force a landing in this planetary environment, because that would cause massive damage to the stealth livery and engines! ”

"If you don't hurry up, the chances of a successful rescue will be zero!"

Mr. Clown, who was the helmsman but did the work of the CIC, exclaimed at this time, and shouted anxiously to his Captain Shepard and faintly urged.

He didn't want such a cute little girl to be scavenged by a group of monsters to kill and transform, that kind of thing, it feels cruel to think about it!

"Strange ......"

"Those guys, why did they spot that little girl and go around her?"

"Could it be...... Is this really a trap? ”

There are some things that it is difficult to gain absolute trust again once you start to doubt them......

So, Shepard didn't rush to make a decision right away, because they still had a lot of time. She still didn't understand why the monsters created by the collectors would go out on a large scale when they found the little girl, as if to force them to go down immediately.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong!

"Report to the captain, this is certainly not a trap!"

Mr. Clown, who was still the helmsman, spoke in a hurry, and looking at his impatience, it seemed that he wanted to land on the planet himself and get in front of the collector monsters to save the little girl?

"Speak your mind, Mr. 'Helmsman'!"

Captain Shepard was very dissatisfied with the behavior of a guy who spoke out of authority! If it weren't for the fact that Normandy No. 2 didn't need the other party's control now, she would have to reprimand the other party well!

"Because that little girl just sent a message for help with all channels without any restrictions, it will definitely be received and discovered by the enemy!"

The clown thinks that it must be caused by the little girl who is scared and helpless, and casually presses and sends a distress signal! Think about it, a little girl, in that kind of environment, can hold on until now, and can still think of sending a signal for help, that is already very remarkable.

"EDI, is that what he said?"

Shepard looked at the hologram of the AI EDI still standing in front of her, and asked.

'Yes, Captain Shepard! ’

Instead of using the encrypted band, which only our human ships and instruments can receive, as before, the other side changed to a full-band launch! ’

So, you have eighteen minutes and twenty seconds left...... Eighteen minutes and eighteen seconds ......'

The artificial intelligence program EDI confirmed with a blank face, and gave Captain Shepard a time countdown, which was the arrival time of the enemy based on the speed of the enemy.

If this time limit is exceeded, there is no need for rescue.

“……”

"Immediately let the hangar prepare a UT-47 Kodiak landing aircraft!"

"Miranda, you go to Armor and I to take a trip to this planet AN-5367 right away!"

After making sure that it was not the enemy's conspiracy, Shepard had no need to hesitate, and on the spot she walked towards the gate behind the bridge, and gave her own orders and commanded Miranda.

As for Jacob, another experienced combatant, she had no intention of taking it with her. Because, it's just to rescue a little girl, as long as you land in that colony as quickly as possible, find people, and then turn around and leave, there is no need to mobilize too many troops and send too many combat forces.

"Yes, Chief Shepard!"

Miranda didn't talk much nonsense, nodded, turned around and ran out quickly, she needed to equip her armor and weapons, and of course, her universal tools.

'Good Captain! ’

'The UT-47 drop-down shuttle landing craft Kodiak is ready, the system has been self-checked, and the shuttle landing craft is in good condition and ready to go!' ’

Behind Shepard, the sound of artificial intelligence EDI without the slightest emotion sounded......

The somewhat cramped cargo compartment of Starlink's UT-47 drop-down shuttle landing craft can usually accommodate twelve soldiers, and if you squeeze it, you can cram two more into the wheelhouse. Compared to the official name of the Star Alliance, 'Kodiak', this small shuttle landing craft is preferred to be called 'Battle Cockroach' in the Star Alliance team! Because, its appearance is very flat and as durable as cockroaches, and it is not easy to be damaged and malfunction.

The powerful and excellent environmental sealing technology and armor of this landing spaceship make it very rare to expose the fragile components inside! According to the results of Starlink's official test on Venus's sulfuric acid clouds and extreme temperatures, 'Kodiak' can force a landing in absolute vacuum, high atmospheric pressure, and temperatures ranging from near absolute zero to over 900 degrees Celsius!

In addition, the 'Kodiak' is also a true mass-effect anti-gravity vehicle, and its substantial zero-element core can even allow the ship to fly directly in the strong gravitational pull of the planet! It can also actively shield the enemy's scanning, or carry out a certain degree of electronic countermeasures with the enemy, and there is a powerful kinetic barrier system to defend against the enemy's kinetic weapons, so it is very suitable for concealing the airborne marines, and has gradually become the main equipment of the Star Alliance.

With this kind of excellent landing craft, Cerberus naturally prepared four of them for Shepard's Normandy II spacecraft, even if the unit price of each of them was as high as 3 million Star Coins.

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"Uh-a-......"

(?????? `??)

Cowering in the corner of the ruined ruins, Anne first tossed the box of leftover food into the distance, and after a few sips, drank a can of the sweet and sour energy drink from the Kprostar district, then burped in satisfaction, and stretched and gasped beautifully.

?? (???? 0`??)??

After eating and drinking, she directly picked up her little bear, curled up her knees and retreated into the corner. Now, she needs to lean into this relatively clean place and digest it, if no one has come to the house, I'm afraid she'll have to release her spaceship and try to get out of here.

Because...... It's dirty, and it's not suitable for her to sleep after eating and drinking!

（…… ）

(Cute and charming little master, is it really possible that someone will fall for that useless little trick you just played and come here to 'save' you?)

⊙(??????)？

- It's been more than an hour, and Tiebs thinks that no one will come here to rescue his wretched little master! ）

"Why not?"

(￣▽￣)？

Anne was a little embarrassed, she had just eaten and drunk, and now she chatted with her little bear and talked to pass the time, and it was not too important to be idle, anyway, she was idle.

(Because you just lied!) If someone does get your signal, they will know that you are lying!

(????????????)????

- Anyway, Tiebs thinks that no one will come, so it's better to release his spaceship as soon as possible and wander around the universe casually, if it can't find a place with living people, then it will continue to encourage its little master to change the world or something)

"I didn't lie just now!"

╮(￣▽￣)╭

(Why not?!) ）

(????????)

"Tibbs, look at it....."

"Just now, I was really cold, hungry, and sleepy! Also, the sky outside is already drowsy and looks dark, where am I lying? ”

o(?? ^｀)o？

(But you're not scared at all, and you just sent a distress signal with a scared look, isn't that lying?) ）

Σ(っ°?? °; )っ！？

"I didn't!"

"I was really scared and scared just now......"

(￢?? ￢)??

(The little one doesn't see where you are scared!) ）

(，，??????????，，)

"I have it!"

"People just now...... I'm really scared that no one will come after the signal goes out! Look, isn't that scared? If there weren't earthlings, crooked stars, or monsters, they might not have fun! ”

"So, people are really scared, so they didn't lie or pretend!"

\（￣︶￣）

（…… ）

(You're really good, little one...... ）

＼(???????? ｀)／

"Huh?!"

"Aha! Tibbs, they're really here, and you've found out, right? ”

●ヽ(??????)?? ●??

Suddenly, Anne, who seemed to sense something, suddenly jumped up from the ground and began to cheer.

Because, she had just sensed that in the sky, it seemed that a landed spaceship was rapidly breaking through the atmosphere of the planet, rubbing the air towards her! On the other side, on the north side of the land, there seemed to be a group of villains with malicious intentions rushing towards her, so that she would soon have fun.

（…… ）

(●￣?? ￣●)

(Tiebs doesn't want to say anything to the little girl who wants someone to 'save' her while fiddling with those weapons on the ground.) ）

"Look, Tibbs, how about this sniper rifle?"

Holding up a long weapon that was a little taller than herself, little Anne asked her little bear excitedly.

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Starlink Weapon: M-92 Mantis Sniper Rifle, codename, Praying Mantis!

A powerful sniper rifle that is very accurate in long-range combat! However, the rate of fire is relatively slow, making it very effective against armor targets, but not very effective against shields and biobarriers.

————

(Don't you have your own ghost set and weapons, those customized for you should be better, why use these weapons?)

(????????)？

- Tibbs asked, looking at the nasty little master who was fiddling with his weapons and ammunition, putting a troublesome multi-tool on his hand, and then experimenting with putting away those ammo with the multi-tool. ）

"If you use your own weapons, how troublesome it will be to explain later, let's use these here, anyway, they are all over the ground, and there are a lot of them outside!"

(???? ˇ?? ˇ??)

Anne naturally has her own ideas about what she does, so don't Tiber bother!

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