Chapter 20 Arrival
"Grandpa, you can go to the movie......"
The four of them declined the invitation to board and lodging offered by the other party and returned to the "Hidden Dragon", Xiao Cheng couldn't help but admire.
"No, it won't work." The old man coughed lightly, "This god attendant is very powerful, I have been in the army for more than 100 years, and I can see that he is the same, just ......"
The old man sat on the chair in the bridge room and thought quietly for a moment, and everyone gathered around the old man.
"The costumes of the acolytes of the gods are generally symbolized by white robes with pale gold trim, and the emblems of the Eren Empire are embroidered on both sides of the chest, which is easily recognizable. This Casares was dressed in a gold-rimmed black robe, and there was no frills except for an unfamiliar badge on his chest, but he did wear a 'Ring of Commandment' on his finger that only a god's attendant could wear, which was a little puzzling to me. ”
"My old man has no choice but to put on a show to let him relax his vigilance against us~"
"According to rumors, the Ellen Empire has a special army that specializes in some shady things, but the existence of this force has never been officially acknowledged, but there is a lot of evidence that this army is controlled by some special god acolyte, and I suspect that this Casares is one of them." Brother Wu always speaks amazingly.
He then scanned and searched the images of Casares' chest badge that he had secretly taken, but found nothing. But this only proves that Casares is indeed a member of the secret organization of the Ellen Empire.
The air in the bridge stagnated, and they came from afar in the Desperate Domain, and there was really no support here, only the stealth function of the "Hidden Dragon" could be relied on.
"It doesn't matter, if there's something wrong, just wait until you enter the wormhole and just become invisible." The old man smiled and eased the atmosphere, "This starship has been tested in various ways and is very reliable. ”
"Now that we have the star map, we can leave alone!" Old Han said in a rough voice.
"Old Han, this is unrealistic, since the other party dares to be so honest, it is completely sure that we will not be able to leave here at will." Xiao Cheng shook his head and responded, "Listen to grandpa, just follow them in and have a look, in the wormhole space, all kinds of scanning equipment will be greatly disturbed, and after being invisible, they can't find us at all." ”
"Hmph, he's an old mother's ......" Old Han muttered and said no more.
"Well, when you went to see the god attendants just now, I had already carefully investigated all seven expeditions." Nan Xin took over the conversation, unfolded the light screen and said, "They all have one characteristic, that is, they are all like us, showing interest in the exploration of the B4-105M3 galaxy. I think this god acolyte is looking for us people, and for any purpose, it seems that he still needs our help for the time being. ”
"If so...... When the time comes, we'll be able to improvise. The bald dragon clapped his hands and said.
Everyone reached an agreement, and the atmosphere relaxed again.
……
Three days later.
Qingzhou Star Field, Candle Dragon Constellation, B4-105M3 Galaxy, Third Planet, Fifth Satellite, Stargate, Detection Room.
Wang Ping has been working in this stargate for 40 years, in this long period of time he has witnessed the process of B4-105M3 galaxy shipping from prosperity to decline, in the past, here as an important international route of a stargate, connecting the economic lifeline between the two superpowers of China and the Ellen Empire, the endless stream of starships hurried through here, full of people's hopes and wealth, although because of the existence of supergiants, and there is no habitable planet and other reasons here did not build a space station, But near the last planet, dozens of large and small buildings in outer space are anchored, including hotels, bars, supply depots, police stations...... The facilities are very sound and complete - and now, those buildings are completely deserted, all the people are gone, and probably only the intelligent robots are still tirelessly performing the lowest level of maintenance of the space buildings.
It seems that there is no starship coming over today, Wang Ping leaned back in his chair, yawned, and tapped his right index finger on the console in boredom.
More than 40 years ago, how lively it was, every time he would sigh, how many people's dreams were to work in this stargate, although there is no need to pay any fees through the stargate, but in the prosperous stargate, when the starship requests to pass through the stargate too much, it is necessary to queue, for businessmen whose time is money, they are very willing to pay some "stargate sponsorship fee" to obtain the privilege of passing through the stargate in the front, and the maintenance cost of the stargate is very small, and the rest of the money, It was distributed to the staff of Stargate as a benefit. Although the B4-105M3 galaxy was just a barren galaxy, it was in a special location at that time, separated from several nearby star systems by nearly 30 light years, almost touching the limit of the distance that the stargate could transmit, and after ordinary starships passed through such a long-distance stargate, it would often have a certain degree of impact on human physiology, and it was necessary to rest before the stargate could jump again.
Therefore, the anchored hotels, bars, and supply stations in the B4-105M3 galaxy are almost always overcrowded, and business is excellent, and even the plan to build a space station here was once put on the agenda by a large group, but the "Holy Light" war launched by the Elren Empire changed everything overnight, and the first trading partner of the Elren Empire was Huaguo, but because the shortest trade route with Huaguo was blocked by the neighboring and extremely hostile force of slavery, the Saifi Democratic State, It has always been possible to travel almost three times the distance to conduct business with China, but the merchant groups of China can export goods to the Elren Empire through the Cyberfi Democracy unimpeded, and the unequal conditions have made the Elren Empire suffer huge losses for a long time, and the Saifi Democracy was once one of the top ten powers in the world, although it did not have Titans, but its world's largest fleet of super star carriers was enough to make the Elren Empire dare not act rashly.
In 6581 AD, that is, more than 100 years ago, the 7th Fleet of the most powerful Democratic State of the Safi Democratic State combined with the 3rd Fleet of the Democratic State, and the 8th Fleet suddenly declared independence, and was secretly supported by the Elren Empire, and the Safi Democratic State fell into a civil war, after decades of war, the Safi Democratic State barely put down the rebellion, but the country as a whole was fatally damaged, and the strength was so far collapsed, coincidentally, in 6637 the Origin Calendar, a border fleet of the Safi Democratic State was "very careless" Attacked a border post on the border of the Elren Empire, 3 frigates stationed inside, 80 ten "heroic" Imperial soldiers died, the Elren Empire used the excuse of provocation, and resolutely launched a retaliatory war called "Holy Light", almost without much effort, the powerful Imperial fleet destroyed all the resistance of the Ellen Empire, and after the emergency mediation of the Interstellar Partnership Alliance, the Ellen Empire calmed down the "anger" of the Ellen Empire at the cost of a star field, in exchange for the retreat of the Ellen Empire. And the star field ceded "coincidentally" is the location of the shortest path for trade between the Elren Empire and China, and the intention of the Ellen Empire to send troops is self-evident.
But as a result, the old shipping lanes were also abandoned, and the prosperity of the B4-105M3 galaxy was gone.
The "Divine Punishment-class" cruiser suddenly jumped out of space, and a few seconds later, eight frigates appeared almost simultaneously.
A series of starship jump beacon notifications made Wang Ping suddenly wake up from his confused state, sat up straight in disbelief, carefully identified the models of these nine starships, and found that there was actually a cruiser-class modified civilian starship, as well as eight explorer frigates, Wang Ping suddenly thought of a mysterious order sent by his superiors half a year ago, if there is abnormal starship activity in the B4-105M3 galaxy, it needs to be reported immediately. Fingers slid across the console, and a message was sent by him. Breathing out softly, how many years have you not been so serious? Wang Ping chuckled, but no matter what happened, it had nothing to do with him, just a trace of curiosity.
"This is the 'Datong' frigate, damn, all 13 of our crew members have a deep space reaction and need to rest!" Captain Zhang Tong was a little helpless.