Pegasus galaxy space, unnumbered spider-class tugboat, inside the cockpit. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The cockpit, which had been deliberately remodeled to increase the interior space, was still crowded, with Fowe and Sinkara sitting in the driver's seat, behind the cockpit chairs, Jeffs, Zorro and Arlene, huddled together.

"God, Jeffs, you really smell—" Arlene, a skinny woman, was squeezed between Zorro and Jeffs, two big-shouldered and round-waisted men, and it was really miserable.

"Arlene, come over here." Zorro said to Arlene, and the two laboriously swapped places, squeezing Arlene against the hard cockpit wall.

Arlene skewered to the other side, and Jeffs, who had been trying to hold his breath, breathed a sigh of relief, and his big belly protruded, making Sinkara's chair tremble.

"Jeffs, get your damn belly back!" Sinkara grumbled.

Still nervous about his escape, Jeffs took a deep breath, retracted his stomach, and said as if holding his breath, "Starry sky... On the... Let's run away..."

The Spider-class tug was piloted by Sinkara, her piloting skills were top-notch, and she was obviously an experienced starship pilot, because of this, Fowei didn't need to use the power of the Origin Touch to control the tug, he was just under the command of Sinkara, the 'captain', as a co-pilot, and he was just a master.

The tugboat didn't have any shipboard weapons, and it would be a live target in the event of Star Wars, but fortunately, the escape of the five felons was very smooth, and it had been a long time since they had been away from the Pegasus prison planet, and not a single naval warship had chased them.

Sinkara's slender fingers twitched across the tugboat's control screen, and the starship aimed at the nearest planet except for Pegasus Prison in a relatively safe environment, activated the LDS drive, and entered LDS sailing mode.

The target is not 'Ifrit Star Gate Harbor Point L', but 'Black Rock Star Orbit Point L'. The ship automatically adjusts its bow direction, and it needs to correct its course slightly, so as not to rush out of the LDS course during the next light-speed jump.

Because the fuel was not enough to fly to the port of Ifrit Stargate, and this spider-class tugboat did not have a registered ship number, it would cause a lot of trouble to fly to Stargate Port rashly, and at Zorro's suggestion, everyone decided to go to Black Rock Star to settle down first, and first find the friend of life and death who had helped Zorro install a mechanical prosthetic.

"Hope Claude. Krypton is still on Black Rock Star. Zorro said to the people:

"I'll never forget his kindness, I have the impression that he is the most gifted hacker and mechanical engineer technician that Black Rock has ever seen, and if you meet him later, you will find that he is always wearing a data mask, holding a welding torch and a screwdriver, always ready to fix something."

"I think he's going to fix you." Sinkara pouted and said, "That's the territory of the Bounty Hunters Guild, and the first stop after the five fugitives escaped from prison chose to settle on Black Rock Star, which is really the worst advice I've ever heard." ”

"Do you have any other tricks? Sinkara! Zorro asked, holding up his arms.

"Not really."

"Isn't that the end of it?"

The people in the cockpit were clamoring and shouting, the Spider-class tugboat had entered LDS sailing mode, and the Pegasus Prison Planet was rapidly becoming smaller and disappearing, and the crowded trip didn't last long—the Pegasus Prison Planet was only 25 minutes away from Black Rock at the time.

At the end of the voyage, the unnumbered Spider-class tugboat began to emerge from LDS mode, and the giant Black Rock Star came into view.

As its name suggests, Black Rock is a large, rigid sphere that is black and covered with mountains.

"Although Black Rock is a rocky planet, it is extremely poor in metal minerals, and the entire planet is mainly composed of carbon." Zorro said: "This makes the population of Black Rock Star very sparse, with only more than 8 million starry sky citizens. ”

"But don't underestimate this planet, it doesn't need a navy and garrison to be stationed to ensure order and stability, the Bounty Hunters Guild's force is second only to the Pegasus naval force, they are a group of forces to be reckoned with."

Fowe had long heard of the bounty hunter of the Ralph Guild, Nathan. Alexander spoke quite highly of them.

But Fowei never knew that the power of the Bounty Hunters in the Pegasus Galaxy was second only to the Navy! In fact, if you think about it, this is not so shocking, after all, the bounty hunters have done most of the work of capturing the pirates of the starry sky, and they can fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of the garrison, how can the number and strength be less?

And their reputation is also above the garrison.

Most of the time, the Ralph union relied on bounties, whether it was the rescue of hostages, the recovery of stolen goods, or the simple hunting bounty, each of which was expensive, even higher than the bribes received by the sergeants of the garrison.

But bounty hunters are also efficient, which is incomparable to the timid garrison, so when many rich people are in trouble, they would rather hire bounty hunters than go to the Pegasus garrison.

The orbit of the Black Rock Star came into view, which was far less prosperous than the orbit of the New China Star, and near the planet was a giant space dock that resembled a "Trident", and the name shown on the contact list was "Provence Star Dock", which belonged to the Ralph Guild.

Each protruding trident is a huge four-way dock, and around this starry dock, there are several management and trading stations scattered around, and the entire circular orbit seems deserted except for this one.

However, the number of ships coming and going is very dense, with small starships and the occasional expensive medium-sized cargo ship and frigate.

"How many people does the Black Rock Star orbital station have?" Fowei asked.

"Up to 1 million people. There were 200,000 in that starry dock. Zorro replied, pointing to the Starry Sky Dock in Provence.

Fu Wei asked this question because he saw that the number of starships in orbit was huge, not much different from the New Huaxia Star, and he thought that the population of the Black Rock Star orbit would not be less than 5 million, but he didn't expect it to be so small.

"With such a small population, why are there so many starships?" Fu Wei asked again.

"Of the 1 million people, most of them are bounty hunters, almost every one of them has a ship." Zorro replied.

I see, the combat effectiveness of the Ralph Guild bounty hunters is really not covered, all the people are soldiers!

Zorro leaned forward, clicked on the star map, and chose a planetary base, or a city, on the Black Rock Star, which had a strange name, called "Underground Orion".

Targeting the city, the Spider-class tugboat bypassed the bounty hunter's starry dock and headed straight for the surface of Black Rock.

This huge rocky planet, full of black basalt, thousands of ravines, like an extremely cold hell, basalt is formed by the magma emitted by volcanoes after cooling and solidifying on the surface, it is a rock with a dense structure, which belongs to magmatic rock.

The rock is loose and brittle, and can be easily mined if it contains a lot of metal, but unfortunately, the entire planet has a very low metal content and is of no development value, which is why Black Rock is favored by bounty hunters and gathers here in large numbers - they are not bothered by the societies and merchants who flock to it at the smell of minerals.

The Spider-class tugboat entered the surface of the planet and soon approached the underground Orion City, but Fuwei could not see anything that could be called a building, and his eyes were an entire basalt plateau with a huge fissure canyon on which the tugboat was flying towards it.

"Where's the city?" Fowei asked.

Zorro pointed to the huge ravine outside the porthole and replied, "It's right down here." ”

No wonder it's called Underground Orion City, it turns out that the city was built underground.

The ships around came and went, and the further they flew, the more small starships they encountered, and the Spider-class tugboat met the connection of the Ralph Guild Bounty Hunter ship, and they didn't ask anything, and they didn't give the five escaped prisoners a chance to speak, just warned the tug, which did not have a ship number, not to cause trouble.

Soon, Fuwei discovered a huge steel passage that outcropped the surface of the canyon's rock mouth, into which the tugboat plunged headlong, wide and long, about ten kilometers in diameter, and the length of which was incalculable.

In the cockpit, Foway, Arlene, and Jeffs were all in strange amazement, the three of them had never seen such a magnificent flight passage.

"Oh roar roar!!"

Zorro was not surprised, although Sinkara had never been here, she had seen anything more magnificent than this, so there was no fluctuation on her face.

The tugboat passed through the underground steel passage and entered the plateau, and a bright and vast interior appeared before everyone's eyes, and the humans living in the city seemed to hollow out the entire basalt plateau from the inside - a huge planetary base.

The long three-dimensional rectangular complex of buildings is haphazardly connected at different angles, and they are not only the main buildings, but also the "load-bearing walls" that support the hollowed-out plateau from the inside.

The city, at first glance, resembles a nest of some kind of social insect.

"It's so peculiar, this architectural style, unheard of!" Arlene was heartily impressed: "The interior of the city is vast enough for the asteroid ships to move freely, and the architectural design seems to be chaotic, but in fact it is well arranged. ”

"You're right, Arlene." Sinkara picked up the conversation and said, "This big labyrinth is wonderful, but who can tell me where I'm going next?" ”

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The underground Orion City is really an absolute labyrinth as Sinkara said, and Zorro only reported the name of the destination - "Krypton Station", but he didn't give the specific route, he really couldn't do anything.

So, Sinkara drove the tugboat and took five penniless escaped prisoners, including herself, around the great labyrinth.

It wasn't until some passionate bounty hunter agreed to lead the way that all five in the cockpit breathed a sigh of relief.

"This is the weirdest prison I've ever escaped." Sinkara complained, "It's as strange as this labyrinth, and the name of it!" ”

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