In countless reincarnations for countless years, almost all new civilizations will eventually choose the Citadel Space Station as the center of civilization and the seat of government - think of a new civilization that has just stepped into the universe, and is cautiously and full of danger along the route provided by the Mass Effect repeater to explore the unknown galaxy.

They don't know who built these massive, unimaginable repeater buildings, or where the next repeater will lead...... Friend or foe, to survive or to ruin?

Then, in the midst of this anxious journey, they finally followed the route of the repeater and discovered the Citadel space station - a self-sustaining (the Citadel is maintained by a large number of synthetic guards), well-equipped (it can provide tens of millions of people with supplies and living conditions), and indestructible (no warship can break through the hull after it is closed). PS: Excluding the BT of Dawn) but empty (after the Reaper kills, the nurse automatically cleans up the debris) artificial celestial body, just floating alone in the brilliant Giant Serpent Nebula!

On top of that, this Citadel space station is capable of controlling many of the key Mass Effect repeaters! What could be more perfect? It's a gift from the gods!

However, as countless predecessors and big brothers have said - "If pie falls from the sky, it must be drugged". Therefore, despite the fact that generations of stupid aliens have been fooled one after another, we always firmly believe that if we change to earthlings, we will definitely be able to see through this trick! Anyway, since the "Trojan Horse", we have not been fooled by this (really...... ）。

The Citadel is actually a pit.

The space station is actually a large, offbeat Mass Effect repeater. It connects the dark space, the void beyond the galaxy - and now the people of the whole galaxy have been brainwashed by The History of the Planet... Ahem... After popularizing science, everyone knows where the huge fleet of Reapers is hiding. Come back every 50,000 years.

Almost every cycle is the same process: when the mainstream civilization of the galaxy has developed to a certain stage (usually the robot qì people who create artificial intelligence on a large scale), the Reaper warships lurking inside the galaxy are activated, such as the "Overlord". After the "overlord" reaper woke up, he began to educate some key characters, use false lies to co-opt synthetic AI, provoke galactic wars, and so on......

When it deems preparations complete, the Overlord Reaper enters the Serpent Nebula. Tell the caretakers to activate the Citadel repeater - yes, the real killer is the one that can be found everywhere in the Citadel. Forever dead, docile and lovely, diligent and diligent work of the caretaker machine qì people...... I'm desperate for the world, these years. There really isn't much to believe anymore!

And then, of course, "a cloud-piercing arrow." Thousands of troops come to see each other". On the one hand, thousands of unrivaled Reaper warships have slaughtered into civilization; On the other side, the leader was assassinated, the tribes were at war, communications and communications were cut off, all repeaters were suddenly shut down, galaxies were cut off, and fleets were cut to pieces......

The end result speaks for itself! There was no surrender, no mercy, only simple, system-in-star slaughter. And since the Citadel is the center of the galaxy, all the geographical data, population information, intelligence collection, etc., are all stored here. As long as the fortress is captured, the reaper is equivalent to mastering a qiē.

However, the four-eyed and eight-eyed Proxian people have long seen through this qiē!

In the centuries-old war against the Reapers, they have continued to develop technology against the Reapers. Eventually, the Protheus cracked and created a small Mass Effect repeater that could go directly into the Citadel's interior - the Holy Path.

In the end, the Prothean did something very great! A feat that is enough to change the Reaper's infinite loop.

When the Reapers have finished harvesting the Protheus and finally retreated. A dozen or so scientists who survived by the Protheus entered the empty Citadel space station through the "Holy Path". They spent the last hours of their lives. Studied and modified the core code of the Guardian Machines in the Citadel, and turned off their ability to activate the Citadel Repeater! This time, even if the "overlord" reaper shouted at his throat, the Guardian would not pay attention to him.

As a result, as the only sentinel of the Reaper in the galaxy, the "Overlord" had to find the problem alone.

Fortunately, the huge repeater of the Citadel space station will definitely not start in the same way as a space capsule, there is only one way to open it. With the help of Salen, the "Overlord" Reaper finally found the problem. Therefore, it is ready to lead the geth fleet to directly capture the Citadel, and then manually open the passage to the dark universe......

*****

The shape of the Citadel space station resembles a blooming five-petal flower. The petals are called the Guardian Zone, the standard gravity area, which is the main urban location. And the ring of the core part, called the ring area, is the core area of the citadel. The central part of the "flower" is empty, with only a long, narrow passage that extends to the very center of the flower. And then in this very central position, there stands the tallest and most special building in the entire Citadel - it looks like a steel needle with the tip upwards - and this is the Citadel Tower, the seat of the Citadel Council that governs the entire galaxy.

"Slow down, give the idiots a little bit of time to react, they have a long reflex arc." Salen, who was standing in front of the platform, said sarcastically. "If you rush too much, God knows what stupid things they'll do."

The subject of his words, "they", refers to the Citadel Council - as a veteran "ghost agent" who has served for more than three decades, Saren knows all too well how the large and bloated institution of the Citadel Council operates, and he has great contempt for this head-to-toe institution. It's just that in the past, he had always hidden his contempt for bureaucracy well under the fear of power, and now he doesn't need to continue to hide it.

Entrenched on the fifty-sixth floor of the Citadel's Tower, Saren watched the jesters' performances happily as if he were a king sitting on a throne......

Under his baton, the geth concentrated his forces. They stuff themselves into the elevator like cargo until there are no gaps left in the elevator compartment! Then two exclusive elevators drove towards the top floor of the Citadel Tower.

Salen manipulated the control platform. A new command from his fingertips quietly converged into the Citadel's chain of command bus. The order was examined and distributed, turned into a normal command, and was broadcast outward. Immediately, at the edge of the Giant Serpent Nebula, the Serpent Mass Effect Repeater, which was more than a dozen light minutes away from the Citadel Space Station, received this order.

Its ring began to turn, and a zero-mass channel was established between it and another unfamiliar master repeater. A huge number of geth ships and "overlord" Reaper warships. Enter the channel at one time and transmit at the same time. Because the mass of the object teleported at once is so huge that it even exceeds the "design parameters" on the surface of the Mass Effect repeater, it is the "core mode" known only to the Reaper and the Mothermother Dawn!

The blue mass core is choppy. Running at peak power that had never been seen before, it immediately attracted the attention of the nearby caretaker fleet.

"What happened to the repeater? As if you're going to transport an extremely massive object? But I don't seem to have found an appointment......" The observer of the fleet was the first to notice the anomaly, and he checked the electronic board in his hand to confirm that the anomaly was not in the record. Just as he was about to send the anomaly back to the Citadel. A crisp gunshot rang out from behind...... His eyes darkened instantly. A hole was opened in his forehead, and the electronic version fell from his hand.

His superior, who was also the captain of the entire repeater guard fleet, inserted the gun back into the holster with a cold look in his eyes. Immediately, before the others could wake up, the captain had already piloted the flagship and slammed into the frigate on the side!

Just when the two colliding frigates exploded one after another, an extremely large-scale mass disturbance was detected in the entire space! Immediately, thousands of geth warships were teleported into the Serpent Nebula! The leading behemoth. Giant claws are twisted, like ancient beasts!

"Tremble. Bugs! "Seeing that there were red alerts everywhere on the control platform, the huge fleet that had just appeared made the entire fortress fall into a panic. Saren clenched his fists hard and laughed maniacally. Saren didn't notice that his tone was becoming more and more like a reaper at the moment. "Now, start attacking!"

With his order, two special elevators opened on the top floor, and the geth infantry poured into the high council headquarters like a tidal wave, shooting at every moving object! The council, which was caught off guard, chose to run away almost immediately!

……

In fact, the Grand Fleet, the main force of Salen, has just entered the Serpent Nebula through the Guò repeater at the moment. And he teleported into the armed forces of the Divine Citadel through the "Holy Path" of Guò Proxian and scattered towards various strategic points of the Divine Citadel, and at present he did not have the strength to completely occupy the entire Divine Citadel Tower.

But like he said, Saren knows these big shots! In their minds, the Citadel is just a space station, and the fleet is as much as they want to build - only they are the most important and indispensable people in the entire galaxy! When there is even the slightest threat to their lives, the first thing they think of is to turn in......

"With only 10% of the risk, we can organize resistance on the spot. As long as all the guards are sent out, they will definitely be able to repel those fighters! ”

――10%！？ So high! You're kidding me!

"I'm wrong, maybe only 5% ......"

- You're kidding me, for the second time! 1% can't stand it! We must be guaranteed absolute safety! Remember, yes! Right! Quiet! Whole!

When a large fleet appears outside the Citadel, the Council can still sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai and show its courage and grace to its subordinates by the way. But when the geth assault suddenly appeared in close proximity, the councillors panicked - perhaps the turian councillors had the courage to fight back, but the minority obeyed the majority, you know- and any resistance on the spot seemed foolish when there were enemy forces in the towers of the Citadel, and they were clearly in league with the fleets outside.

Given Salen's familiarity with the Citadel and the Council, they didn't think it would be safe to hide inside the Citadel.

Oh, by the way, and the most important thing is - the council believes that the main goal of Salen's attack on the Citadel must be to capture them, and while I don't know what these people think, they do think of themselves as the most important people in the entire galaxy...... As long as Saren catches them, it looks like he'll get a qiē! It's like a coup d'état, and as long as they fall into Salen's hands, it's a victory.

So when Saren showed enough strength to attack the Council, and used a sudden blow to catch the Citadel Council off guard. As Saren expected, the council followed the emergency passage at the first time, abandoned the giant tower in a gray manner, and retreated to the largest flagship of the fortress escort fleet, Tian Ming fried rice... No... It's the "Destiny Transcendental" super dreadnought!

And also "smartly" switched the command system of the fleet and the control system of the Divine Fortress.

"Fire, terrorist attack alarm...... Open them all! Now let's start evicting everyone, I want this tower to be completely emptied! "Saleen was overjoyed to hear that the council had indeed left according to his baton! Because he was very smooth, he ordered loudly, and the geth and asari commandos behind him began to launch feints on all levels of the giant tower.

Saren never wanted the council, but the towers of the Citadel! The Council didn't understand the importance of the Citadel, they only thought of it as a building with a special location, but they never realized that the Citadel Tower was the center of the entire space station!

Saren has the tools to hack into the Citadel's control system, and that's not all—when the Overlord" Reaper merges with the Citadel Tower, he can open a passage to the Dark Universe - and that's the real way to open it manually.

*****

Inside the giant tower of the fortress, there is a room where "zài never exists".

The main god "Catalyst" stood in front of the transparent wall, watching with relish the qiē that happened in front of him. The arrangement of Salen, the battles of the various strategic points, the retreat of the wolves of the council...... It's all happening under his watchful eye.

"Is that good?" The main god Xing Yan stood behind him and reminded with some worry. "Salen's fleet is too large to really open the dark passage, and the chance of failure is less than one percent! If we don't intervene, the process of world initialization will fail......"

"Shhh The catalyst stared intently at the scene in front of him, and let out an impatient boo, interrupting Xing Yan's words. "Nope! Don't touch it, don't interfere with anything...... You don't understand, this qiē happening now is the most exciting part! ”

Xing Yan was stunned at first, and then when she saw the eyes of "Catalyst" that kept flashing for several times and her fanatical expression, her body trembled violently!

At this time, she really realized that the catalyst may not really care about the power consumed, nor does it care very much about whether the world can really be initialized! Even if this is the world he created...... He cares about the wonderful! It's like the high/high part of the opera that keeps him engaged! As for whether the final ending of the opera was a tragedy or a happy reunion, he didn't really care at all, because perhaps by that time, the catalyst had lost interest......

That's a madman!

Xing Yan only then understood that for people like the main god "Catalyst" and Lu Yuan, she had never figured it out! Most of the time, she and Alona are only at the same level, they are equally simple, and their plans are straightforward...... The qiē that is happening now is not their game at all!

At this moment, Xing Yan finally made up his mind. When she noticed that the massive Reaper ship had begun to rush towards the Citadel, she immediately said to the catalyst, "I want to leave for a while and come back later." ”

The catalyst nodded without looking back.

However, when Xing Yan's hand was on the door, the main god "Catalyst" suddenly stopped her. "Xing Yan ......"

"What...... What's the matter? Xing Yan's body stiffened suddenly, her voice was very dry, and she said with some trembling.

"Just wanted to say goodbye to you."

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PS: Continuing with the big chapter.

PS2: The plane of the military exercise flew in front of my window (in fact, there is still some distance) first, and then it arrived at Tiananmen Square, happiness. (To be continued......)