Chapter 373: Templar
Although he was skeptical of Jolu's words, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, Tosh agreed to Jolu's terms.
For Tosh, how to control these unruly ghosts through neural inhibition is his biggest secret, otherwise even if he succeeds in training the ghosts, he will only create a group of crazy people, and this is how the Tyranid Empire's ghost plan failed.
Because of this, he wasn't actually worried that Qiao Lu would cross the river and tear down the bridge after cultivating his ghost army, so he had already left a hand for himself.
"Well, if you can guarantee that you won't dictate what I'm doing, I'm not out of the question."
"Thank you for your cooperation."
Qiao Lu successfully reached an agreement with Tosh, and in the future, he could be regarded as having experience on how to train psionics.
At this time, the SCV and the Wandering Earth carrier were busy carrying the wreckage of the Star Spirit Machinery left behind by Tadarin, after all, these were precious trophies, and they might be used for research.
Seeing this, Tosh said with disdain, "What are you collecting all this junk for?" The technology of the astral spirits is all based on their powerful psionic talents, and it means nothing to us humans. ”
"That's not good."
Qiao Lu looked at the remnants of the Slayer, Pioneer Mecha and Colossus that had been brought back and said, it is true that most of these machines need to be powered by psionic energy, and like the Killer and Vanguard Infantry Mecha, they need to implant the Star Spirit into them in order to operate.
It's just that now that Qiao Lu has also seen the way to master spiritual energy, these things may not be meaningless.
Next, the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force continued to send troops to the various shrines on the planet Baisher, and at this time, Tadarin's troops had basically completed their withdrawal, and all that remained was some photon turrets, relying on the Apocalypse Tank to open the way, and directly pushed all the way over.
Jolu and Renault went back to the Hyperion first, after all, what they were most concerned about was the second keystone fragment they had snatched from Tadarin.
As the two passed by the bars aboard the Hyperion, Tykes was triumphantly boasting to the others about how heroic he had been in the assault.
In Tykes's mouth, he has become a ruthless character who stomps on a colossus, tears a fanatic with his hands, and blows the Void Glow ship out of the air with a single grenade, as if he single-handedly drove Tadarin off the planet.
Renaud couldn't help but step forward to interrupt him and said, "Okay, Tykes, stop talking nonsense, do you have the things?" ”
Tykes's boast was interrupted, and he didn't mind laughing and said, "Of course, with me personally on the horse, what else can't be done?" ”
The Marines who participated in the operation on the side also said: "The things have been placed in the laboratory, Dr. Hansen has checked it, and there is no problem." ”
"Good." Qiao Lu nodded in satisfaction, and then announced to the people in the bar:
"I invite everyone to a drink! All the drinks tonight are on my account! ”
"Yay!!"
There could be no better news for the crew of the Hubelion, whose entertainment venue was almost a bar. In particular, the Rangers have been in a state of lack of funds for a long time, and such bold people are even rarer.
As for Qiao Lu, who had just obtained a precious geozine gas mine that was comparable to a gold mountain silver mine, it was too cheap to buy people's hearts like this.
Leaving a cheering crew to party in the bar, Jory and Renault arrive at the Hyperion's laboratory. As Tykes said, a second keystone fragment was floating inside the vessel in the center of the lab.
Dr. Ariel Hansen from a remote colony was analyzing the Sarnagar artifact, and when she saw Jolu and Renaud arriving, she turned to them and said respectfully:
"Welcome back, Commander. As you can see, Tykis brought a second artifact fragment with him, and the tiny amount of radiation radiating from the inside is indeed a set. ”
"Thank you, doctor. Are there any new discoveries so far? Renault asked.
Dr. Hansen replied, "Those artifacts show no signs of working, and it seems that we can't figure out what they're used for until we've collected all the pieces. Regardless, they do contain energy that we can't imagine. ”
"I hope they'll be useful." Renault said, looking at the two keystone fragments.
Qiao Lu patted him on the shoulder and said, "It will definitely work, I promise." ”
If it weren't for that, Qiao Lu wouldn't have cooperated with Renault.
The next few days were all going well. The Wandering Earth's engineering team succeeded in setting up a refinery for the mining of diazine on the planet Bysher, and recovered many of the remnants of the astral machinery from the shrine left behind by Tadarin.
Most unexpectedly, however, there was also a prison under an altar that Tadarin used to imprison opponents, which housed a group of Templars, apparently too late to evacuate when Tadarin evacuated.
Finding that the soldiers of the expeditionary force here did not dare to let them out rashly, Qiao Lu came here with Renault.
It was a cell that looked like a transparent pyramid, with a green energy barrier holding a dozen Templars inside.
When they saw Renault coming, the first one could not help but be overjoyed and said:
"En taro Tassader, friend Renault, I didn't expect to meet you here, is it your troops outside?"
Reynolds had led the Rangers to assist in the final battle between the Star Enforcer Tadarin and the Zerg Master, so the Templars had heard of him, and he was arguably the only human to be trusted by the Astrals, so it was no wonder that the Templars were so surprised.
"It's not my troops, it's his." Renault pointed to Qiao Lu on the side and said, "But I didn't expect to see you here, Templar, why are you being locked up here by Tadarin?" ”
The Templar replied, "These abominable Tadarim have always armed themselves by stealing and plundering fleets of other Star Spirits, and our ships have fallen into disgrace by their ambushes. These Tadarin also tried to make us lose our minds to join them by using dizidine, and everyone else has already succumbed, only we have persevered until now······"
It turns out that Diazine is still a tool for Tadarin to brainwash other star spirits into joining his army, no wonder they attach so much importance to it, it is simply a drug for psionics.
Since even the Templars could be tricked into joining Tadarin by the diazine, Jolu was even more interested in other uses for this mysterious gas!