Just when Yuka Nishikawa was entangled in various problems and never made up her mind to shoot herself, several guys wearing power armor and holding large guns appeared from outside the torn hole in the hull.

Yuka Nishikawa's mind went blank for a moment, and her body suddenly softened.

Not out of fear, but she made a decision - whatever happened, go to the pirate's hometown to see what was going on. As soon as I relaxed, the side effects of the adrenaline rush just now became apparent.

Only a few minutes passed, and Yuka Nishikawa came out of her low mood, and for the first time, she was looking at the charm of the starry sky from a completely transparent object.

The MR241 nebula is not a completely dark environment, and the nebula dust reflects the light of the stars, giving the nebula a twilight-like background color, and this dusk is different from the ground, and the brightness of each object in the field of vision is significantly higher than the ambient color, just like a starry sky with a background color.

There was silence in my ears, and I could almost hear the sound of blood flowing - of course it was impossible. The Second World deliberately blocks out certain things that can be simulated in order to avoid creating more undesirable diseases.

Turning her head by chance, the girl's mood immediately deteriorated again.

The bandits used to capture her was a multi-purpose engineering ship, and the two mechanical arms of the engineering ship next to her each grabbed a ball, as if she was not a captive but a shipwreck, and it was being recovered.

During the move, the first thing she saw was a large ship with the port number "Sanitation One", this behemoth seemed to be an armed merchant ship, but unfortunately, before she could study it carefully, she and her crew were included in the hangar by a medium-sized patrol ship.

No technicians have released them since, except for a few Power-armored Marines guarding the hangar, seemingly fearing that they will have some means to get out of the orb on their own.

After all the orbs on her ship that housed the crew had been moved to the hangar, the hangar was closed. It illustrates the obvious fact that the pirates had not captured anyone alive but her and her crew, and if she had been conceited enough, she would have been annoyed by now.

The hangar was not pressurized after the patrol ship recovered the pellets. This is easy to judge, just listen to whether there is sound outside, after all, the protection device is not a rescue cabin, and the measures for sound insulation and light protection are much worse.

Dozens of minutes later, a dozen spherical protective shields were transferred to the hangar of a frigate, where the technician sitting in the maintenance mecha could finally be seen. At the same time, it also means that they are about to become prisoners.

Close the hangar, pressurize.

When the bulbous protective cover was opened one by one by the maintenance mecha, Yuka Nishikawa noticed one thing, the technicians and crew members moving in the huge hangar seemed to be women!

"You are now our captive, and we will treat you and your companions in the same way as captives under international conventions, but please also remain conscious of being a captive, otherwise we will not guarantee that you will leave alive."

The protective shield was opened, and the marines in power armor who were guarding the side began to speak and collect their weapons, and the voice turned out to be a woman!

Yuka Nishikawa looked up, and there seemed to be a woman in the translucent cockpit of the maintenance mecha, and she suddenly had a thought: Could it be that the fleet of the Florin Republic is disguised as pirates?

Although she wasted some time after the second world entered the era of the galaxy, there is still a concept of the things that must be understood by the surrounding forces, and the feminist empire is easy to impress.

Wrong!

The Republic of Florin is proficient in small machine and mecha technology, and even if you disguise yourself as a pirate, you will not completely abandon your superiority in combat.

Before she could think about it, she and the crew were escorted to the upper cabin.

Well, it's not a cell or any weird place.

The only connection to the upper cabins is the dining room, which was originally designed for visitors or prisoners. There are no really useful weapons to obtain in the cafeteria, the field of vision is wide, and there is surveillance everywhere, as long as there are two Marines at the door of the cafeteria, all the prisoners can be watched, even if there is a real accident, the moment the Marines are attacked, the two sides of the corridor outside will be immediately closed.

Thinking back on the process of coming in, Yuka Nishikawa immediately understood that there was no hope of escaping from prison.

At this point, she could use the prison break to get the guards to kill her, and she would be resurrected in her own house. However, after realizing that almost all of the people on the ship were women, she lost her thoughts, and a trace of curiosity made her want to know more about this strange pirate fleet.

The opportunity soon came, and on the fourth day of captivity, the other party canceled the delivery of food, allowing her and her crew to eat in the dining room, at a staggered time from the crew.

In space, people's view of time will become dull, coupled with shifts and other factors, this frigate will have more or less a few crew members in the restaurant to eat some snacks or something during non-specified hours. Yuka, who has a "bad heart", spends all the three time periods allowed by the other party for a total of six hours in the dining room, and makes contact with the crew little by little.

She was a little cautious at first, but after observing the reaction of the guards for two days, she realized that as long as she was far away from the exit, people didn't bother to look at her most of the time. Also, as a captive, she has several magnetic rings on her hands and feet, and no one needs to do anything if there is any situation, and her hands and feet will be locked together when she presses the switch.

In such an environment, Yuuka gradually became familiar with some of the crew members who couldn't keep up with the pace of the team, and extracted some information from them that was not confidential.

This fleet comes from Segeis, the legendary pirate paradise, a huge man-made celestial body with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers and inhabited by millions of pirates and merchants. The fleet has not been formed for a long time, and the ship with the ship number "Scalpel" at the foot has only been in the fleet for half a month, and the head of the fleet is named Pan Wen.

Unclassified information like this fell on Yuka Nishikawa's ears, but it made her very uneasy.

The Scalpel has only stayed in the harbor for more than 30 hours in the past half a month, indicating that this is a fairly active fleet, and the guy named Pan Wen is probably very keen on expanding his strength, and is in a stage of rapid development of "making money" -- buying ships. And after all these days, she and her crew didn't even notice any acceleration of the ship, and it was clear that the wreckage of the eight patrol ships was far from satisfying the appetite of the pirates, and they were still waiting for the next prey.

It's a pity that from the crew of the Scalpel alone, she can't know how arrogant Pan Wen's range of activities is, otherwise she should be frightened.

After she continued to inquire about some common sense information about Segeis, she and her crew were forcibly taken back to the upper cabin by several marines one day, as if they were going to fight.

Disappointingly, an hour later she regained her freedom of movement from the upper cabin to the dining room, without any vibrations in the hull. If the fight is really over, it can only mean that the strength of the two sides is not on the same level at all.

It soon became clear to her that she was right, as the ship then entered a noticeably long acceleration period, a stage that all ships must go through before they could make a hyperspace jump. If the pirates want to go home, it only means that they have made enough benefits, otherwise there is not much room for the minerals dug up in just seven or eight days.

Dozens of hours later, Yuka Nishikawa set foot on Segeis's turf for the first time, and before she could feel the atmosphere completely different from the normal port, she was taken to the detention center by a team of guys in dark red uniforms.

…… Well, the detention center.

"Corpse River...... Ms. Yuuka? "The person who came to talk was also a woman, looking at the condition of the other transparent compartments, taking care of her own gender.

"Nishikawa, you can also pronounce it as にしかわ." The modern language is not quite the same as the Earth-Age composition, but Yuka likes the ancient pronunciation - although it may be wrong to put it in ancient times.

"Oh, Ms. Yuka Nishikawa, your current location is the second branch of the port office of the Segeis Security Administration of the MR242 system." The women's affairs officer put the tablet in her hand on the table between the two of them and began to introduce the situation to the other party, "Segeis may not have a good reputation among the surrounding forces, but we also pay attention to human rights, and we will strictly abide by the convention when it comes to prisoners. ”

Yuka opened her eyes and looked directly into the clerk's eyes, for fear that she would laugh when she blinked, and then anger the other party who looked like that was actually a pirate. Saigeis's reputation is not very good, it is simply synonymous with otherworldly demons in the mouths of various media in the Isis Empire!

"According to the Segeis Safety Management Regulations, what you will face next will be determined by your own will, and until then, allow me to give an introduction." The female clerk continued to speak as if she didn't see Yuka's rude gaze, "Segeis is the largest freeport in the MR235 to MR247 system, with a daily material throughput of more than 20 million tons, and this figure does not include food and water. Three additional non-residential annexes are nearing completion, which will enable Segeis to call more than 14,000 ships of all types at the same time, as well as provide repair and maintenance services for 1,000 ships of medium and higher classes. There are plenty of job and adventure opportunities, and if you choose to join Segeis, we can guarantee that your funds will be spent directly in Segeis. ”

…… I really never thought that when the captives were caught, they would have the opportunity to become pirates!

Yuka Nishikawa suddenly said that it was not worth it for some radical players, those who tried to join the pirate group flew to MR242 and were killed before they could even find the location of Segeis, no one thought that the truth was so simple!

"What will you do to me if I refuse?" She asked tentatively.

"If you refuse to join, you will be repatriated in accordance with the extradition treaty for prisoners of war signed between our Segeys Security Administration and the Islamic Empire, and the most recent repatriation flight is expected to depart within five days. You will have to pay a bill upon your return to your home country, which includes, but is not limited to, the cost of food, accommodation, security, etc., that you incur in Segeis. The clerk avoided the official payment of the ransom for the captives, and whether the money would be recovered by the Empire would be out of the hands of Segeis, and she emphasized another thing, "It must be said that Segeis only welcomes those who truly yearn for freedom, and you will not go through the current procedure if you are captured here in other forms in the future." ”

This means that if you refuse at this time, the door to becoming a pirate will be completely closed!

"I see, what do I have to sign to join Segeis and protect my rights?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, but until then, you'll have to choose to join a guild, and we offer three options - the Star Brotherhood, the Interstellar Trade Friendship Alliance, and the Segeis Grand Alliance."