Since Mu Xing left the Gagarin space station that day, no one has seen their siblings again.

Due to Mu Xing's sudden departure, Starlink immediately faced the dilemma of needing to pay sky-high licensing fees for her various patents - not that Starlink couldn't afford it, but that there was no such expense in the annual budget - but if they didn't pay, they could only look at the drawings in a daze! Under the watchful eyes of the whole audience of Asari "Brown Flower" Law Firm, if Starlink dares to touch even a finger of Muxing's patent, it will receive a sky-high penalty compensation lawyer's letter!

The departure of the genius scientist Mu Xing, and the overspending of a large amount of money, finally led to the continuous shaking of the political structure of the Star Alliance, and finally seemed to have an earthquake-like collapse. Countless black transactions about Mu Xing have been turned out, more and more senior officials of Starlink have been involved, and the news is refreshing people's perception of politicians every day! Even in the end, even Asari and the council races such as Turui and Serari were involved in this storm!

The public seems to have only now known that there were so many dirty deals and conspiracies surrounding that genius girl!

They showed sympathy and solidarity with that gifted child, and then poured out their anger on the head of the council! However, the real bigwigs understood that the whole struggle had nothing to do with the public, and with the genius scientist who had left—there was an invisible black hand behind it.

In the end, when the dust settled, the Weidi Party, which benefited the most, became the largest opposition party in the Star Alliance Council. In the shortest possible time, they pushed for a large grant to Muxing in parliament and actively promoted the interim budget for the construction of warships. This time, although the "Phantom Man" did not write the somewhat stupid announcement letter again, Cerberus, an extremely inclined human organization, still began to be known to all the upper echelons.

The Cerberus organization finally had a foot in the forefront.

And in the military. Hackett and General Young, who messed things up, were excluded from the latest batch of promotion lists and lost the possibility of wearing the rank of general in the short term. And it's not just a little bit. The actual situation is stricter.

There are some messy rumors that Admiral Hackett has a "good reputation" here at the Naval Institute. So much so that most of the real rooms will deliberately avoid the Fifth Fleet when choosing a partner to work with. After all, most ordinary people have their own families and have their own lives. They work for a career and to make money, and if there is an opportunity to serve their country, most of them want to be able to balance public and private affairs.

Therefore, a person who is said to always "sell his teammates with righteousness" is not liked by everyone.

In the past five years, the speed of Starlink's technological progress has come to a standstill, and the progress of the development of new warships has also been like a turtle speed - especially the frigate research and development project that cooperated with Turui! It was found after evaluation. This ship has not yet been produced, and its performance is already a lot worse than Muxing's frigate plan! Maybe it's not appropriate to use a big metaphor, it's a scheme that is backward in performance in addition to stealth!

However, it was clearly stated in Mu Xing's plan that it was forbidden to use her design for the sneak frigate cooperation plan of "the one that refused me to participate". In the end, Starlink could only pinch its nose and produce this large toy with a total of 2 billion star yuan in R&D + manufacturing, the "Normandy" SR1! In the follow-up shipbuilding plan, the so-called "Normandy"-class frigates are planned to be built only five......

At this time, countless people finally remembered the benefits of Muxing. However, with the exception of the occasional new paper that appears in a scientific journal. Mu Xing completely disappeared from people's field of vision, and has not appeared in front of the public since.

It is good to promise a relaxed environment, or to keep the original appearance of the "Gagarin" space station to show sincerity. Mu Xing was like an iron heart after all, and he never appeared again. Perhaps those hints on TV shows, those full-page calls for "the return of the stars" published in magazines, the girl had never seen at all......

Just like many people's impression of Mu Xing - she always chooses a comfortable place, and then stays at home completely, completely ignoring the outside world. She doesn't like to change unless the environment starts to make her uncomfortable.

Mu Xing deleted the contact numbers of almost everyone on Starlink's side - except for Miranda, who was able to contact her occasionally. Even when Xu Zhengze and General Hackett called Mu Xing's communication, they could only receive a rejection prompt.

Gradually. The story about Muxing has become a good memory of Starlink. People think back to that short period of two or three years. It is always called that period a "golden age", it is just too short.

As for whether General Hackett has begun to regret it?

I'm afraid only he knows......

*****

Falcon ETA constellation, Thorne system, brown dwarf Monemosine.

A shuttle leaps into the galaxy and heads for the brown dwarf with a clear purpose.

Brown dwarfs are massive planets that fail to ignite, and they fail to become new stars, so they become brown dwarfs in a transitional state. This kind of planet has a solid hard core, and in this sense, it belongs to the planet. But it has a thick, hot layer of gas wrapped around it. This layer of gas, which is usually several thousand kilometers thick, is entirely an extension of the planet and cannot be considered an appendage like an atmosphere.

The shuttle flew through such a high-pressure and high-temperature atmosphere, and soon the entire shell began to reddened and burned, and the cabin was filled with red lights and sirens.

"It seems that we will have to walk next." Among the passengers in the shuttle, there are only two non-humans, Lu Yuan and Kazami Yuka. Lu Yuan piloted the boat, while Yuxiang wore a full set of personal armor, quietly looking at the crimson flame-like atmosphere outside the porthole.

"My rod is eternal!" With Lu Yuan's announcement, a crooked staff appeared in his hand. Lu Yuan handed the Eternal Staff to his left hand, and stretched out his right hand towards Youxiang. Feng saw Yuka hesitate slightly, and reached out to hold Lu Yuan's outstretched palm.

The light gate flipped over, and the two of them left the shuttle in an instant, teleporting hundreds of kilometers away! Behind them, the shuttle finally exploded into a bright spark in the scorching atmosphere. Just before the hot breath was about to engulf the two of them, Lu Yuan hugged Kazami Yuxiang's waist and hid in the second world. For the two non-humans, the heat and pressure of the outside world were nothing to fear - only that it would burn out their armor, and Kazami Yuka said that she didn't like to be disheveled (apparently some people had burst their shirts every time they fought in the past).

So Lao Lu had to find a way to solve it......

Yuxiang glared at Lu Yuan, who was inch by inch, and finally did not punch him away, but turned his gaze away. A dark shadow appeared in front of the two of them. Seeing the appearance of the target in Lu Yuan's prediction, Youxiang's eyes leaked some excitement.

"Let's go!" After Lu Yuan positioned himself slightly, while pulling Youxiang out of the second world, another light gate appeared, covering the two of them.

In the next second, the two men disappeared again.

Like a meteor, the light gate flickered in the crimson breath and stretched into a faint line. The two of them jumped short distances again and again, quickly approaching the wide shadow. When the distance between the two sides was less than 100 kilometers, Yuka Kazami finally recognized that this object floating in the breath of a brown dwarf, but never crashed, was a super large battleship!

In addition to a few large claws in front of the battleship, there are two rows of thin claws along the hull, which look like insects. The material of the shell is more like metal and organic matter. It's just that this two-kilometer-long bug may not be found in the entire galaxy. In the center of the battleship, a huge hole appeared, which seemed to have been pierced by an unknown mass effect cannon!

It caused the complete paralysis of the battleship, and then it was captured by the gravitational pull of the brown dwarf and crashed into the atmosphere.

The next time the two of them flashed and teleported, they had already appeared in that deep hole. Up close, the wound caused by the shelling resembles a large cavern, the inside of which is black, and only a few hundred meters away at the end can be seen a little red light penetrating.

Although there were no battleships at the opening, looking at the traces of artificial widening around it, and even a broken battleship landing trestle, it was obvious that the two men were not the first guests to visit.

This paralyzed Reaper battleship was one of the last harvests from the pirate base. Lu Yuan knew more about this battleship, and he knew that this battleship was a "Overlord-class" Reaper dreadnought. It was hit and paralyzed 37 million years ago, and has been drifting here ever since. If it weren't for the fact that its Mass Effect core was still functioning, I'm afraid that the Reaper battleship would have crashed into the atmosphere of the brown dwarf and burned up.

And one thing he also knew was that although the cannon was extremely damaging to the battleship, not only did it completely penetrate the hull, but it also showed a shattered glass hull, almost cutting the entire battleship to the brink of disintegration. But even after 37 million years, the Reaper is still alive and well...... Its ability to "educate" is still there.

Between 37 million years, the Quarians were definitely not the first discoverers. It's just that those who found and boarded the ship for inspection were eventually "indoctrinated" and controlled, and it was impossible to leave again...... These creatures may have been transformed into Reaper creatures, hidden inside the ship.

"You say this place will increase my strength?!" Kazami asked eagerly, she looked into the depths of the cave, and the creatures lurking in the darkness could not escape Yuka's gaze. "It seems a little weak...... But that's okay, I'll start first! ”

Kazami Yuka clenched her fist excitedly, and the sound of anger exploded, and the next moment she rushed out of Lu Yuan's arms!

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ps: The five-year journey from 2179 to 2183 at the beginning of the plot will be titled a series of "Five Years.xxx" to tell the story of all aspects of the Dawn's development in these five years. When this stage is over, you will go directly to the main plot line. (To be continued)