On the USS Freespace, in the captain's lounge.

Feng Yuan sat in his chair, looking at the darkness outside the mirror, and fell into deep thought.

The Freespace is traveling between the stars and will fly out of Area 18 in ten days.

Ai Yuan walked into the room with an anti-microlistening device. "What are you feeling sad about?" She asked frankly that they no longer needed to hide their identities in a place where no outsiders were disturbing.

"Just thinking about the future." Feng Yuan slowly turned his head.

"Wasn't the future planned by you a long time ago?" Prior to this, Feng Hara had broadcast her idea to the crew of the Liberty Space: to build a land of freedom where the Empire could not restrain her, where everyone was equal, everyone was free, there was no war, no hunger...... It's a distant future, but everyone is convinced. They urgently need a faith that they can hold on to, and the future described by Feng Yuan is undoubtedly their best faith.

"Planned?" Feng Yuan smiled bitterly, "But I always feel that I have used everyone's trust in me to pursue the freedom I want, I am so selfish, I know that there must be people who are unwilling to ......"

"When you are free, everyone will be free, this is the hope you give to everyone. If you doubt yourself now, what do you let everyone do? Ai Yuan understood that Feng Yuan was thinking too much.

"I want to save more people and bring hope to those who are suffering." Feng Yuan said slowly. In this way, I will have peace of mind.

"We are limited in what we can do." Ai Yuan said truthfully. After all, all we have is this one starship for the time being.

"The Freespace can carry another eight hundred and thirty-six people, and I intend to get some of them on board this voyage."

"It's dangerous for the Freespace!" Because people's hearts are unpredictable, and there is such a thing as a galaxy wanted warrant, I really can't say...... While this may improve Freespace's demographic situation, Freespace's male-to-female ratio is severely imbalanced, with 456 males and 150 females, which clearly does not constitute a stable small society. But the consequences of letting strangers on board are clearly worse than the imbalance between men and women.

"The Freespace will not give up on anyone she meets who yearns for freedom and equality!" Feng Yuan insisted, "Rest assured, I have made a decision to avoid the terrible consequences as much as possible." ”

"There's no way to take you, don't be in the dark when sympathy is used and kept in the dark." Ai Yuan said.

"The future should not belong to just a few." Feng Yuan said sonorously.

Through the crack in the door, a stream of photons squeezed in.

"Personal letters?" Both were surprised.

Feng Yuan clicked in the center of the point of light. The photon information unfolds into a single light screen.

"Thea!" The two were amazed. But the light screen is only a video, not a real-time connection.

Thea on the video says something like this:

"Fengya, let's call you that, you used my sister's body, and it's normal to use her name. I want to remind you that you should know about the Galaxy Wanted, but it's not the biggest threat to us. My mother sent a fleet to capture us again, and this time, she made my cousin Julian, a sinister and terrible man who had a lot of tricks and liked to play with people. He has already set off, I hope you will be more careful, it is better not to run into this man. The light screen flashed a few times and then disappeared.

What kind of vicious cousin could make his cousin so cautious? Ai Yuan couldn't help but think.

Julian, Thea's cousin, Fengya's cousin. Feng Yuan felt that this image kept coming to his mind: a girl hiding in the corner and crying sadly, and a boy laughing as if he had succeeded in mischief...... The girl is Fengya, and the boy is Julian.

It turns out that the princess also had a villain who bullied her all the time in her childhood.

If he dares to come, I will teach him a lesson for you. Feng Yuan said firmly to the weak person in the virtual mirror. Freedom is never compromised.

This scene, Ai Yuan watched a little intoxicated.

"Princess, six starships have been found at the back of the course that have entered the curvature! We seem to have been discovered!" An emergency report came from the control module.

"Are you sure it's the enemy?" Feng Yuan asked the information processing personnel.

"The routes of those six starships are almost exactly the same as ours, and considering that this is the fastest route to the additional zone, there is a seventy percent certainty that they are the enemy." This is the result of a supercomputer analysis. Because, no one will want to go to the additional area anymore.

"Can you get specific images?"

"Yes, princess. The unmanned reconnaissance ship that remained behind has obtained information about the enemy ship. The stereoscopic image of the starry sky on the console disappeared, and the physical images of the six ships immediately appeared.

"These seem to be Ocledo's ships." Dekai recognized the semi-circular markings on the ship.

"That's my uncle's ship!" Kodak's words silenced everyone.

He really won't give up easily. Feng Yuan remembered Lu Xida's greedy eyes, disgusted and helpless. It was so merciful then.

"But how did he know where the Freespace was?" Everyone can't help but wonder. Once a starship enters the curvature, outsiders have no idea where it will go unless it does sail on the route it uploaded to the management center. Because the curvature is too fast, it cannot be captured. There is also the possibility that the starship broadcasts its position to the outside world during the curvature voyage. In other words, at this time, there are ghosts on the Freespace!

Thinking of this situation almost at the same time, everyone invariably looked at Kodak. Feeling the naked gaze of everyone, Kodak was so frightened that he almost didn't hold the drink, he only glanced at it and understood that everyone was treating him as an internal ghost, and the relationship between uncle and nephew was in it, all of which seemed reasonable. "No, I'm not an inner ghost! My uncle and I are not the same kind of people! He was mercenary, and my dad sent me here to keep me away from him. ”

It seems unlikely that a few words will convince everyone of him.

"Perhaps, it was planned by your father and him!"

"After all, Ocledo is a neutral venue, not suitable for war, so he ......"

"It's all for that bounty......"

"Chris is also a hypocrisy......"

……

"That's enough!" Dekai stopped everyone's speculation, "Don't doubt it casually until you have evidence!" He looked at Feng Yuan, who had been silent, "Princess, what do you think?" ”

Feng Yuan looked at Kodak, she believed that Kodak was innocent, which could be seen from his eyes that were not worldly. She held him behind her apologetically, "It's okay, I trust you." She smiled.

The boy felt her trust and warmth, and was relieved.

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Feng Yuan turned to Dekai and said, "Send someone to carefully inspect the No. 1 lifeboat!" "It's not that it's not impossible.

Members of the starship maintenance team immediately rushed to the aft compartment to inspect the No. 1 lifeboat from the inside out, and the inspection results were sent back to the control console in the control module.

On the image, there is a faint red dot on the stern of the No. 1 lifeboat, which cannot be distinguished by the naked eye without magnification.

"What is this?" Ai Yuan stared at the red dot curiously, it was clear that it was not a part of a lifeboat, but a sticky object.

"Neutrino Low Frequency Signal Tracking Device!" The leader of the mechanical team sighed, "This thing is so small that it can't be seen by the naked eye, and it can only be scanned with a new school imager." Although small, it emits an amazingly strong low-frequency tracking signal, capable of traveling hundreds of light-years in a short period of time, and can only be picked up by a specific neutrino receiver. This kind of tracking device and receiver are produced in pairs, and one signal tracking device can only be paired with one receiver, so the signal agreement is very good, and the information is very detailed. ”

"Quite high-end equipment and expensive too!"

"It looks like someone has made a lot of money." Dekai said with a smile.