Immediately after liftoff, the spacecraft accelerated, and the thrusters dragged a long tail flame into the sky, and the scenery outside the porthole gradually darkened, and after a few minutes the bright starry sky could already be seen. In the extreme distance, space ports, military bases, various luxury space hotels, villas, and so on in low-earth orbit are clearly visible.

After leaving the atmosphere, the spacecraft did not stop, accelerating all the way, heading straight for the vast void.

In the cabin, a group of technicians sat honestly, most of them at a loss, and they were told that they were not allowed to get up and move around at will, and they were not allowed to use the communication light brain. I don't even know where to go or what to do. Several black-clothed men with a faint smell of blood around them watched over them.

Xiao Junling sat in the middle of the crowd, pretending to close his eyes to recuperate, his spiritual power extended out, and quietly communicated with Zhou Meng beside him:

"What the hell are these guys up to? It doesn't look like it's engaging in smuggling and kidnapping, but is there a more lucrative secret business? ”

Zhou Meng's beautiful eyes hidden behind sunglasses glanced at him, and secretly responded: "The most profitable business, in addition to arms smuggling, is human trafficking!" Of course, in the eyes of the Slave Chamber of Commerce, our goods are not very valuable! I guess it's the former, right? ”

Yes, our goods are worthless, but you're an exception! Xiao Junling thought silently in his heart, and continued to ask:

"Arms smuggling? Then why do you have to gather these people? They don't know how to make weapons, are they ......?"

Zhou Meng gently pinched his wrist and groaned, "Perhaps, I have already guessed their purpose!" I remember the year I first joined the Imperial Ministry of Security. I once followed my boss to take over a case! ”

"A few rich kids. Collusion with relatives in the army. Remove some important parts of old warships, secretly take them outside to sell, and then report normal damage to them, with this method, they got tens of millions of energy points in more than a year! ”

Xiao Junling asked in surprise, "You mean to say that they specially gathered these people to do this?" Then their destination should be the military's warship recycling base, right? ”

Places such as the scrapped warship recovery base are also military centers with a high enough level of secrecy. Ordinary people just have a way, and it is not so easy to get in, let alone bring so many people into "Taobao" at once?

Of course, if this is the case, it means that there is a big problem within the army, or the management team of the entire battleship recovery base is "rotten"!

Zhou Meng frowned and said, "It should be possible!" However, after this matter was discovered by the people of the Imperial Security Department, it became a major case that caused a sensation in the imperial capital that year, and hundreds of officers and soldiers, including several general-level officers, were all imprisoned. ”

"So since. It's not easy to make up your mind and get oil and water from this aspect! I just don't know what kind of way these guys have to go to the sky, and they can still commit crimes against the wind! ”

Xiao Junling smiled: "So to speak. I'm afraid we've really caught a big fish this time, I don't know which guy is stupid, when this case is solved, you will be 100% promoted after you go back! ”

"People don't care about that!" Zhou Meng snorted,

"Shall I give you the credit for this? Anyway, you found out about it! Although you are not yet a minor and cannot be awarded a military rank, material rewards are indispensable! ”

"Forget it! We're not bad for that thing, so it's better to give you more credit for it! Xiao Junling said.

Zhou Meng no longer insisted, and the two waited quietly for the spacecraft to arrive at its destination, and only at that time, perhaps the truth of the matter would be revealed to them. Of course, that was also the moment of a complete showdown between them and each other.

After the spacecraft left the synchronous orbit of the fifth planet, it flew straight towards the large stargate group more than ten light-seconds away, which was six silver ring-shaped gates with a diameter of tens of kilometers.

Through these gates, the ship can instantly reach the sixth planet, or the outer planet, to the edge of the imperial capital star system.

At present, the Empire's stargate technique, which can achieve instantaneous teleportation within a distance of one light year, is an efficient means of transportation specially used within the star system. And ultra-long-distance transportation beyond the star system requires the use of wormhole teleportation techniques.

When a piece of extraterrestrial ore with practical value is transported back to Earth through the wormhole, it means that human civilization has truly got rid of the shackles of the home planet and become a veritable interstellar civilization, and has opened a history of conquest and expansion for thousands of years!

It is with the help of them that human civilization has truly reached the other side of the starry sky, and has discovered the "first pot of gold" of interstellar expansion, and has the qualifications to compete with other alien civilizations!

After so many years of development, thanks to the perseverance and perseverance of countless scientists, the artificial wormhole technology of the Chinese Empire has been developed from scratch and gradually developed and improved.

When it comes to key data indicators such as construction costs, teleportation distances, energy consumption, stability in the process of spatial teleportation, and the service life of wormholes, the techniques of the Chinese Empire are already very advanced.

Other human nations, and even some alien civilizations that are close to the Empire, pay a high price every year to hire qualified construction companies in the Empire to build a network of wormhole passages for them.

However, the role of natural wormholes cannot be ignored, especially those ancient wormholes discovered by human exploration fleets, which often bring many unexpected changes to the Anthropocene world.

Ancient wormholes, refers to those structures are unusually stable, exist for more than tens of millions of years, such wormholes are usually very large, the distance of communication is also beyond imagination, the general wormhole, whether it is naturally formed or created by the wisdom of civilization, the communication distance is only hundreds of light years at most, this is not only a matter of technology, cost, but also military security considerations.

The communication distance of the ancient wormhole is often tens of thousands of light years, and the farthest is even hundreds of thousands of light years! Their end often communicates directly with one or more distant and unfamiliar galaxies! There are not many such wormholes discovered by humans at present, but each ancient wormhole is an important help for human beings to expand outward!

Whenever a new ancient wormhole is discovered, it basically means that a new wave of expansion has arrived! All countries and major consortia will compete to send huge fleets to find rare resources, energy veins, and planets suitable for immigration and development! If you encounter a new intelligent civilization, it will formulate a response strategy according to the development level and civilization characteristics of the other party, or make friends, or conquer, or suppress, or slaughter, and the core purpose is only one, that is, the maximization of human civilization's own interests!

At present, most of the natural wormhole coordinates of the Anthropocene Continent are in the hands of the Huaxia Empire, among which there are many super wormholes that are quite ancient, the communication distance is beyond imagination, and even out of the scope of the known Star Sea Realm, as for what exists on the other side of these wormholes, no one can know the Dao, which is one of the most core secrets of the Empire!

There are unreliable rumors that a considerable part of the empire's high-end strategic power is to go to the distant exotic starry sky to fight against some unknown powerful enemies through these top-secret wormhole passages, in order to compete for some special resources that are indispensable for the development of human civilization.

Of course, such high-level confidential information, even Xiao Junling in his previous life didn't know much, let alone the current him, maybe when he grew up to have a high enough strength and status, he would be qualified to receive such information.

The spaceship galloped all the way at high speed, and after passing through several star gates one after another, it had already left the range of the imperial capital star system, and on the light brain screen, the network of wormhole channels leading to the major star fields of the empire in the distance was already in sight.

"It seems that it is going to the Black Water Star Domain near the imperial capital...... Zhou Meng said with some doubts,

"I don't remember that there is an Imperial warship recovery base in that star field, could it be that these guys still have their own secret stronghold over there?"

Half an hour later, the spacecraft approached the wormhole, and several flying saucers with the imperial dragon's tooth military insignia immediately leaned over to inspect, and under the scanning of a special large neutrino detector, all suspicious objects in the spacecraft could not escape its detection.

The ship did not receive any special attention due to the prior greeting, and after a routine inspection, it was allowed to enter the waiting teleportation area, and was carried into the wormhole by the huge traction field for more than ten seconds, and then disappeared.

After three teleportations in a row, the spacecraft entered the depths of the Black Water Domain, and far avoided the main channel transportation network, and flew towards an uninhabited planet.

On the far side of the desolate rocky planet, a rudimentary makeshift stargate had been erected and commissioned, and two small, old warships were nervously guarding it.

When they saw the spaceship coming, they didn't stop it, and immediately activated the stargate to let the spacecraft in, and then closed it.

When the stargate is open, the disturbance of the space energy that escapes is easily perceived by the empire's ubiquitous monitoring network, so this is a necessary precaution.

After a few hours, and after many hidden routes, the ship finally approached a huge planet with a liquid surface, and in its synchronous orbit, a secret base disguised as a giant meteorite finally appeared.

A team of old space fighters came out, and after going through the necessary verification procedures, the gate of the base was opened, and the spacecraft was put inside.

All of them were ordered to step off the ship and head deeper into the base under the guidance of several masked gray men.

There, Xiao Junling finally discovered the truth of the matter. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )