The empire is vast and vast.

How long has it been since the Empire has expanded its territory to such an extent that even the teachers of the Star History class can only give their students a hazy and inaccurate answer based on some inaccurate rumors they have heard in the higher institutions.

In essence, the size of the empire's territory can no longer be described in terms of simple coverage area, and the three northern counties located in the extreme north alone contain twenty-one large, medium, and small galaxies, and are adjacent to the desolate star fields that have not been able to be effectively explored due to many interferences.

Perhaps it is not appropriate to say that it is adjacent to each other, but judging from the star field map, the existence of the three northern counties is more like the energy arrow of a main battle starship that the empire stabbed into the desolate star field, sharp and fierce.

"Alert! A region of astral gravitational turbulence has been spotted ahead! ”

"Alert! Encountering unknown energy interference, the orientation system is out of balance! ”

"Alert! The port side dimension balancer is overloaded, decompress in time! Decompress in time! ”

"Tick! Backbite! Backbite! ”

A huge but very dilapidated intergalactic passenger starship that came from the depths of the Desolate Star Field, looking like a lost dog, approached the edge of the Desolate Star Field, and suddenly sounded an extremely shrill alarm in the cabin, causing everyone to change color.

The four pilots, who had just escaped from the pursuit of an interstellar pirate and saw the three northern counties in sight, could return to the safe and orderly empire territory as long as they found the right node and made a precise short-distance jump, and before they could let their happy and relaxed emotions be released, the poignant sirens made them instantly pounce on the operation board like vicious dogs.

"Manual mode! Switch back to manual mode! ”

"Incremental depressurization of the port side, quick!"

"Raise your head, raise your head! Bastard! Turn off the tail push! Manual lifting! ”

The driver who locked himself in the main driver's seat with a safety lock roared angrily, and quickly adjusted and distributed the energy in the energy compartment to the most reasonable power.

But it's completely useless!

In the dark and bright universe, the huge starship still kept vibrating, and it was irreversibly sliding towards the last astral gravitational turbulence region in the desolate star field bordering the three northern counties.

At the last moment, there was only one message for help that left the ship, breaking through the astral gravitational turbulence and spreading aimlessly outside the empire where there were no starships at all.

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"The empire is frighteningly large, am I right?"

"Absolutely."

"And I'm about to go to the Imperial Institute of Higher Education in half a year to further my studies, and I am the future pillar of the Empire, right?"

"Yes, yes, but ----"

"But as a glorious subject of the Empire, now you have to look at people's faces even if you eat a bite of beef! You say, is that appropriate? ”

The oil-stained boy emerged from under a small starship that had stalled on the ground, wearing a dark green military uniform, and the yellow epaulettes on his shoulders that were also stained with oil shone even more brightly in the sun's rays.

This is a special epaulette for compulsory military service before Imperial students enter institutions of higher learning for further study.

A large pile of cheap repair tools, immediately followed by him ripped out of the gap under the starship.

Next to the small starship was a strangely shaped machine, which also seemed to be some kind of flying machine, but with eight twisted weight brackets and a small main pod, so that it looked like some kind of revilian creeper.

In the rear-facing clearing between the small starship and the aircraft, in an isosceles triangle with the two machines, stood a young man in a white lab coat with a face full of disgust.

It looks like a third-rate handyman at the bottom of some evil lab.

"Qin bandit, you don't have to take an inch, the professor's attention to this experiment ----"

"I know I know, I can't imagine it, it took a full seventeen years to find such a secret and suitable planet on the edge of our three northern counties to raise, and no one can afford to go wrong! I can recite what you said backwards! ”

Qin Bandit pushed his short hair back, cutting off the man's words very indifferently, but his eyes always stayed on the dozen or so bulls not far away, risking the light of wanting to eat.

In fact, of course he knows the importance of these cows, thinking about how important those big bulls in the scientific research community are to the empire as subjects of the empire, he can know how important these cows are to the famous big bull, after all, they all have a cow character.

Otherwise, the Hanhai Military Fortress, which is a vital part of the three northern counties, would not have allowed him to come to this planet outside the imperial territory every week to carry out the regular maintenance of the external vehicle in the laboratory, and not to mention that on the other side of the jump point, an elite combat team would be prepared to be on alert for 24 hours a day.

Looking at the hand that Qin Bandit naturally stretched out, the man snorted and handed over a specially restructured information screen that could enjoy the direct signal transmission of the Imperial Communication Network.

The empire's cloud network has long been extremely mature, and it can theoretically cover any corner of the empire's territory, but the existence of the three northern counties seems to be an outlier, but they are independent of the cloud network and have no access.

Therefore, since he came to this planet for the first overhaul half a year ago, Qin Bandit found that the person who was docking with him actually had such a powerful access end, so he got the opportunity to borrow it for a short time after each overhaul.

This is very important to Qin bandits, after all, he will leave the three northern counties in half a year to study in the hinterland of the empire, and he needs to know a lot of things.

As the northern frontier of the empire, the three northern counties have always had fierce folk customs.

rushed out of the exam all the way from the three northern counties, but was ridiculed because many things were out of place, and as a result, there were a lot of lessons from the seniors who were imprisoned for their lives.

Although Qin Bandit has always felt that he can carry it clearly, there are some unnecessary troubles, and they can save it.

But today is destined to be an uneventful day.

Just when he opened the message screen and saw the news that a well-known movie star was turned into a grassland by his agent and transferred his property with his wife, he was about to click on it to take a look, when a piercing 'tick' sound suddenly appeared from his strange flying machine.

A line of emergency distress messages from the Empire's public information channel was projected directly into front of the aircraft by the aircraft.

The man in the laboratory heard the alarm of the aircraft, but he couldn't see the contents, and he looked at Qin Bandit a little blankly.

Qin Bandit was also stunned.

It's already outside the empire, and there are starships sailing here?

Thinking in his heart, out of the honor of a citizen of the Empire and the sense of responsibility of an Imperial soldier, he rushed into the cockpit as fast as he could, and launched a communication inquiry to the source of the help signal.

"This is the Imperial Border Garrison starship, after receiving a message from your ship for help, immediately report the coordinates of your ship's location and the distress it is in!"

"Repeat, immediately report the coordinates of your ship and the distress you are in!"

The beam-gathering signal wave flashed from the top of the aircraft, causing the aircraft to look at the strangely shaped eight twisted weight brackets that also shrank into the main cabin at the same time.

The whole process is fast and dazzling.

At least before the third-rate miscellaneous personnel of what seemed to be an evil laboratory could react, the ferry repair ship belonging to the Hanhai Military Fortress of the Three Northern Counties had already broken through the first gravitational interference circle of this secret asteroid.

"Can a ferryboat still drive like this?"

The man's expression of surprise hung on his face, and when he looked down and saw the dozen or so cows grazing slowly on the grassland, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly turned around and walked briskly in the direction of another one with several buildings.

The starry sky beyond the empire is cold and lonely.

The Qin bandits manipulated the ferry ship and broke through the planet's gravitational traction at the fastest speed.

However, his communication inquiries to the source of the help-seeking signal were like mud cows in the sea, and he never received a reply.

This is not normal, at least for a starship that sends an emergency call for help in the Empire's public information channel in a crisis situation.

The Empire's interstellar communication laws are very strict, and Qin bandits believe that as long as they are a citizen of the Empire with a normal IQ, they will never dare to indiscriminately activate the emergency call signal during interstellar voyages.

Then after ruling this out, there is only one possibility left.

The crisis has made it impossible for the distressed starship to respond effectively to communications inquiries.

It's a big deal!

After silently counting five numbers in his heart, the Qin bandits decisively activated the emergency plan for the border rescue of the Hanhai Military Fortress.

He pressed a yellow button at the top of the starship's operating wheel, and almost at the same time, a video from the emergency data processing center of the Hanhai military fortress was connected to the cockpit.

"The ferryship HHB9438, the private Qin bandits, the identity information is checked correctly. We have received information on coordination, reasons for reporting and requests for assistance. ”

On the other side of the video is a woman in a military uniform, in fact, similar military departments in the entire empire, basically female soldiers are responsible for the coordination of the front line.

"Our ship is on duty, and has received an emergency call for help signal from the Imperial Starship, and now it is unable to establish a communication connection with the other party, and it is guessed that the other party has lost the ability to communicate."

"Judging by the starship's own conventional communication capability, the lost starship should be within a radius of 1.4 light years from our ship."

"Please quickly hand over the monitoring information flow with a radius of 1.4 light years to the fortress master brain within ten minutes to the fortress mastermind, set the abnormal movement factor to 0.003, and then upload the abnormal coordinates to our ship."

Qin Bandit's words were clear, and he was extremely quick to tell the reason and his own requirements.

On the other side of the video, the female soldier was stunned.

She couldn't help but verify the information of the other party she had seen again, and made sure that it was indeed just a ferry ship that made this request, and her brows furrowed slightly.

It's not pretty, though.