"Alert! ～”

Upon receiving the warning signal from Zolo, Robin immediately commanded his team to form a defensive formation and protect the incapable Martha, while he himself rushed in the direction of Zolo, preparing to meet Zolo, who had already launched a pursuit of the unknown creature.

Following the marker left by Zoro to enter the fork in the road, Robin immediately noticed that there were traces left by the movement of objects on the outer wall of the ice cave, and there was strong signal interference in the tunnel, making it impossible for him to communicate with Zolo in front of him.

"Damn, there won't be any monsters......

Looking at the depths of the black hole, Robin couldn't help but feel a little hairy. In the sci-fi movies of the old days, there was no shortage of horror scenes like this, and some scary-looking monsters would often hide in them, playing some thrilling hunting games with rash intruders.

Robin adjusted the radio wave transmitter and tried to contact Zhuo Luo, but the signal interference in this corridor was extremely strong, Robin tried several times but failed to contact Zhuo Luo, and in desperation, he could only stubbornly follow the traces left around the corridor, and slowly walked to the depths of the corridor that flashed with faint green fluorescence from time to time.

Compared to the huge ice cave before, this cave-like Xiaoice cave is much narrower. Equipped with Skywalker 2 armor, Robin can only stand up straight, and it will be difficult to turn around in this ice crystal tunnel if he encounters a battle.

In the face of this unfavorable terrain, Robin vigilantly paid attention to the biological detection radar that came with the aviation armor on the one hand, and on the other hand, he fully mobilized his perception ability and was ready to deal with unexpected situations at any time.

Robin experienced a second genetic mutation in the Battle of Pluto, and the most direct gain of this genetic mutation was to further develop perception, which is one of the four basic abilities of the brain domain, to break through to the second order.

Compared with the four basic physical abilities that can give people intuitive feelings, the effect of brain domain abilities is much more ambiguous. Perception, on the other hand, is considered to be the most unpredictable of the four basic abilities in the brain domain.

But in fact, this seemingly mysterious basic brain domain ability is actually an instinct that creatures are born with. Not only humans, but most intelligent species with brains are able to predict unknown factors such as natural disasters and environmental changes in advance. The reason for this phenomenon is actually the biomagnetic field of the organism itself.

The strength of the biomagnetic field varies from person to person, but regardless of the strength, the biomagnetic field of any living thing can react with the large magnetic field of the universe or the magnetic field of the planet. Due to the weakness of their own biomagnetic field and the lack of an information processing center of the brain, non-sapient organisms are unable to obtain the information fed back by their own magnetic field sensing the large magnetic field outside. As highly intelligent beings, the structure of the human brain can be said to be the most complex of all intelligent species, so the new humans who have developed the ability to perceive can not only sense the changes of the external large magnetic field, but also sense the magnetic fields of other organisms that are also moving in the large magnetic field range in close range, and predict the possible dangers in advance through a similar intuitive way.

Robin's current second-order perception ability is not comparable to radar in terms of accuracy, but his knee-jerk reaction ability and prediction ability to deal with unexpected situations are far better than before the perception breakthrough. Therefore, after judging that there were no creatures around him that could pose a threat to him, Robin immediately quickened his pace and quickly went deep into the depths of the tunnel.

After walking a short distance, Robin noticed that the narrow corridor began to widen, and the dark green fluorescence emitted by microorganisms began to grow stronger on the crystal-like ice crystal rock walls around him.

Through these fluorescences released by microorganisms, Robin vaguely saw that there seemed to be a shadow shaking around the corner, so he hurriedly rushed out with a gun.

"Huh? Zhuoluo? ”

When Robin sprang around the corner, he found that it was actually Zoro who appeared in front of him, and the seven people wearing the Republic spacesuit were blocked in this dead end by Zorlo.

Zhuo Luo, who had already controlled the situation, seemed to have known that Robin would chase after him, he ignored Robin behind him, snatched the instrument from the hand of one of them, and after crushing it in his hand, the communication that had been seriously disturbed was suddenly restored.

Robin debugged the communication channel and walked over to Zoro and shouted to the dejected men, "Are you stowaways?" ”

“……”

After a moment of silence, one of them saw that there was nowhere to run, so he reluctantly admitted that they were stowaways.

According to the constitution of the Nine-Star Republic, any republican [***] has the obligation and right to arrest stowaways, and if the stowaways dare to arrest them, Robin can even shoot them directly. However, the seven stowaways in front of them were not armed, and there was obviously no possibility of resisting arrest, so after confirming their identities, the seven stowaways became prisoners of Robin and Zolo.

After escorting the seven stowaways to Marsha, the group returned to the TR-735 in a space shuttle piloted by Angus.

The seven stowaways were electronically handcuffed and placed in a spare cargo storage room on TR-735, and Robin, as the Marine Corps commander, began interrogating the stowaways who had encountered them by accident.

After some interrogation, Robin learns that they are staff members of a remote space station near Pluto, and that they belong to the military's logistics department. Their work on the space station is to build fixed signal towers on large individual meteorites with orbits around them in small vehicles within a fixed area.

In contrast to signal satellites, which can change their course on their own, the area covered by such fixed signal towers is fixed. However, compared with expensive signal satellites, it is cheaper to build signal towers on meteorites, and it can also maintain the electronic signal strength in this area stably, so that the space station and ships operating in this area can keep the signal unobstructed.

In addition, these signal towers built on meteorites also have extremely high secret surnames, so most of them have additional surveillance and reconnaissance functions. For the Marseille Space Fortress and the entire Pluto region, the large number of signal towers will help to increase the Republic's control over this marginal area, so that this frontier land can be truly integrated into the territory of the Republic.

In the Republic's expansion plan, a large number of citizens of the Republic are placed in various temporary space stations, carrying out this boring work day after day. Moreover, the long-term isolation of these workers makes these workers have to endure the loneliness brought about by this boring life, and over time, some young people who are not willing to be lonely will have the idea of taking risks.

The seven stowaways in front of him, who were accidentally captured by Robin, obviously chose to take the risk for this reason. The eldest of the seven is only 25 years old, and the youngest is only 19 years old.

After graduating from the academy and leaving the hustle and bustle of the city, they have been working on the space station for more than a year. Facing the dark starry sky and bare meteorites, these young people inevitably became bored. After the Republic won the July War and took in a large number of prisoners, more and more rumors about the way of life of the Raymond Federation and the fame and fortune of the Federation began to fill the ears of the citizens of the Republic, which made the young people who were unwilling to be lonely began to stir up, taking advantage of the convenience of flying aircraft for regular work, these seven bold young men secretly prepared enough fuel, and resolutely flew to this dangerous Kuiper region with a short-range aircraft.

Originally, they planned to stay on the IS9132 object in the Kuiper Belt for a period of time, and use the entrained equipment to secretly build a surveillance signal tower at the Kuiper Belt fault channel, and then find an opportunity to venture through the R-N black hole after figuring out the handover pattern of the patrol fleet.

Unfortunately, when Robin was choosing an exploration target, he happened to choose this large IS9132 object. When Robin and the others landed, these seven people happened to be hiding in the ice cave where Angus landed, and they were discovered and captured by Zhuo Luo.

After recording the seven stowaways' accounts and verifying their identities with their electronic cards, Robin transferred the record to a database connected to a central computer via his personal computer. After asking Angus to leave the seven people on the IS9132 spacecraft and equipment back, Robin looked at the seven young men with regretful eyes.

According to the Constitution of the Republic, smuggling is a fourth-degree offence punishable by hard labour ranging from three to five years. And the place of service is roughly Mercury, Venus, and other resource stars with extremely harsh conditions.

Remembering what his father had said to him when he visited him, Robin couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for the seven young men. These young people have made a bad decision just because they are lonely, but they have to pay a heavy price for this wrong decision.

Thinking about it, Robin himself didn't dare to guarantee that if he hadn't joined the army and became one of them, he would have made a similar decision on the spur of the moment.

Sighing helplessly, Robin put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, and said in a heavy tone: "You have violated many regulations of the Republic, on behalf of the Seventh Integrated Fleet of the Marseille Space Fortress, I announce your detention, and you will return to the Marseille Space Fortress with us after the completion of the TR-735 formation mission, and accept the official verdict." ”

"Sir! ~We ......" Hearing Robin's words, one of them immediately got up with a 'pout' and wanted to argue with emotion.

"Don't argue with me, your verdict will be executed directly by a central computer. Also, you should probably be thankful for your good fortune......" Robin interrupted him, shaking his head with a wry smile: "Don't underestimate the Tomahawk missile of the patrol ship, it will definitely destroy your little flying machine before you enter the black hole, so you should be glad that you are still sitting here, at least you are still alive and have not turned into cosmic dust." ”

……

(To be continued)