A trading ship that is slowly approaching the stargate is not 100% safe by jumping at close range, so after jumping close enough to the stargate, the trading ship sails through the stargate with regular power.

During this time, trading ships would receive security checks from the garrison forts, and the garrison would send several representatives to board the ships to inspect the cargoes, mainly carrying.

Generally speaking, this is one of the busiest stages for trading ships, and in addition, another busy time period is to pass the security check behind the stargate, which is a two-way checkpoint that allows the space security of the Weilong Unified Group to be effectively managed to ensure that there will be no space pirates and the like.

However, for some unknown reason, the captain suddenly summoned all the crew to the conference hall at this busy time.

At the podium in the conference hall, the captain looked solemnly at the crew members present and began to talk to himself.

"I think everyone is curious about why I was suddenly summoned at this point in time, why ......"

"Before I answer that question, I want to show you something."

With that, the captain uncovered the object next to him that was covered by a black cloth.

When the appearance of this object was presented to the crew, they were even more stunned.

I thought it was some rare treasure, but I never thought it was a guiding compass, although the compass was expensive, but it would not be treated like a treasure.

The crew looked at the captain's very serious face and spoke to them solemnly.

"That's right, it's a pointing compass designed to guide trade ships to jump."

"As you can see, I bought a new pointing compass, and I put a lot of money into it in order to buy this new pointing compass."

As he spoke, the captain's gaze swept over the crew like a knife and warned him.

"I solemnly warn everyone here that if you break the pointing compass for any messy reason, don't talk to me about any surprises, I don't care if the trading ship docks at the port or not, and kick the culprit off the ship as soon as possible......

"Do you understand?"

The more the captain spoke, the more excited he became, recalling that since his voyage to trade, the compass had been damaged by various accidents, so that he had to pay out of his own pocket to buy the compass after the trading ship docked.

At first, the damage to the compass was only harmless, although the guide compass was expensive, but it was only relative to the crew, and for the captain, the price of the guide compass was equivalent to a luxury for him.

The captain of the average trading ship doesn't even bother to replace the compass for such a price, but unlike other misers, he is very dedicated.

Who would have thought that the newly bought guide compass had just arrived and used it not long ago, and it could not be used normally for one reason or another.

So much so that the captain who insisted on perfectionism had to go to a new port to buy a guide compass, and then fell into a cycle of reincarnation, and the trading ship seemed to be cursed by an unknown force.

After accumulating a lot, Rao was a very wealthy captain who also felt a lot of pain.

The captain swore that this was the last guide compass he had ever bought, and if any fool accidentally damaged the guide compass, he would kick the broken compass out of the trading ship along with the fool!

Syllable!

Because the tentacles of the captain's unconscious waving slammed heavily on the guide compass, he coincidentally knocked the compass to the ground and smashed it all over the place. 020

“……”

“……”

There was silence in the audience, and the crew first stared collectively at the shattered guide compass on the ground, and then looked at the captain who was stunned and his movements were completely still.

I don't know who broke the silence with the answer, but I heard a crew member call the captain.

“…… Captain? ”

"No——! Oh my money! ”

The captain, who had come to his senses, knelt in front of the guide compass on the ground and let out a hysterical scream.

He wanted to chop off his hand now......

Neither the crew nor the captain realized at this time that the action just now was actually a hindrance by the collector in secret, and the reason why the captain became angrier and angrier the more he thought about it was because the collector in the brain adjusted the ratio of biological hormones, so the captain was more irritable than usual.

When the captain unconsciously waved his tentacles, the collectors disguised as the bioelectric signals of the brain and delivered a series of brief physical instructions to the limbs.

The tentacles knocked the guiding compass beside the captain to the ground.

And the point is that these things fell into the eyes of the people of Veron present, and they were all normal situations, and even the captain himself did not suspect that his behavior was abnormal.

However, then again, it's not that these Veronites are too careless, after all, who would have nothing to wonder if there is something wrong with them, and if it weren't for the fact that there were actually collectors who made the limbs act against the instructions of their brains, I am afraid that these Veronites would not have dreamed that they were being parasitized.

In the life field, the gatherers in each Veron body build channels and exchange information in this way.

"This captain is really a wonder, the guiding compass is broken when it is broken, isn't it just a little cumbersome to cross the star system? It's not that you can't jump without a compass, you have to use a good guide compass. ”

The gatherers were indignant at the strange behavior of the Villon captain.

Gatherers need trade ships to stay in the open space of the star system for a period of time to launch sub-light individuals into nearby star systems, so the guide compass, a tool that directly guides trade ships to jump from one gate to another in the star system, naturally does not work properly.

In fact, there are no accidents, these 'accidents' of the Veronians are just false memories made up by the collectors, but they seem to be accidents from the perspective of the Veronians.

The captains of other trading ships are too lazy to buy a new compass out of their own pockets, and wait until they return to the place of departure to report to the Chamber of Commerce, so that the Chamber of Commerce can subsidize the new compass, but this captain is very strange or overly dedicated.

"Kill him, this is the twenty-seventh, and he knows to make trouble for us."

"Don't be too obvious, if we are discovered, we will have to kill all the Veronites on this trading ship."

The gatherers have been lurking for so long, and although they have encountered hosts of intelligent creatures with various behaviors, they have basically planned well, and now this strange captain is no exception.

Through the spread of radio, and through the tiny individuals disguised as meteorites left behind by the trading ships as transit, the information of the trading ships was quickly transmitted to the territory of the Zerg.

It is not just a trading ship that transmits information, after these intelligence data are transmitted back to the territory of the Zerg, they are integrated into the star map by the collectors there, and it is clear at a glance that they are now expanding into the gate world.

"Everything is going well, and we have now expanded into the territory of the other Fifth Estates bordering the Veron Unified Formation, and thanks to the trade routes of the Sixth Estate, we can spread to the other Fifth Estates without even noticing."