165 Elegy for the Brave (4th Watch)
[That Bora! Lin Youde said to Noah.
Noah directly activated the thruster and rushed towards the Bora people who wanted to evacuate, only to melt the next moment, leaving only a piece of clothing, a helmet, and a set of breathing apparatus.
Lin Youde was shocked, he protected Freya while searching for the guy who might kill the Bora people. The bodies of the Bora do melt easily, and they can melt themselves if they want to, but it's hard to imagine that a Bora who was going to run a moment ago would cut himself, and someone must have done it next to him.
[Do you know what weapon the other party is using?] Lin Youde asked the super powerful Noah.
[It is a hybrid psionic energy of the structural system and the plastic energy system.] Noah responded with great certainty, [There are too many powerful psionic people here, I don't dare to open my psionic energy too much, so I only know the general location of the people who use psionic energy. 】
Immediately, the structure of the Qiuka space station near Lin Youde's location was projected in his mind, and Noah marked one of the areas in red.
At this time, Xia Yongzhi's communication came: "I have occupied the firing position, but it seems that there will be no fierce fighting?" ”
"Yes, I'm afraid the enemy has already fled."
Lin Youde handed Freya over to Lily Belle who rushed over for protection, and rushed to the dead waiter's side with an arrow, reaching out to touch the waiter's body.
His nanomachines are still slightly active, but they don't have a brain to coordinate them, so they can't convey any information to Lin Youde - the parts where information is stored and used are gone forever.
After making sure that he couldn't get useful information, Lin Youde turned around and returned to the table, at this time the Juka people had already swarmed in, and after a group of lowly-level humanoid Qiuka people surrounded the scene, a Juka high priest rolled over first, and rolled a few circles in front of Lin Youde, only then did he stop rolling, and the blades used to adjust the flight attitude on his body stopped. Because the distance was very close, Lin Youde could clearly see the air holes on this Qiuka person.
The Juka has a powerful jet propulsion organ that ejects carbon dioxide and water vapor from the back of the body after the combustion of the inhaled methane. The air intake at the front of this organ also acts as a "mouth". The low-level creatures used to "swallow" methane gas and the Zouca Star - even the Cycka Fellows, it is normal for the Zoucas to prey on their compatriots before the Awakening of Psionic Powers, and after the Awakening of Psionic Powers, the Upper Rank of the Psychic Beings will no longer prey on each other. But the low-level Jokka people are still their favorite food.
This habit has not been completely eradicated until now, except that the Çuka no longer use the word "predation", but instead call it "fusion", and of course they will no longer complete the process through their mouths, but in essence. With each fusion, a low-level Jukka disappears, and a high-ranking Jocka gets the substance he wants.
By the way, the Cycas have no such thing, and the prey that is sucked into the mouth by the high-velocity air stream will be sprayed with a catalyst, and then decomposed into what the Cruca need in the high temperature of methane burning, half of which is excreted by the wind and re-enters the natural circulation of the planet, and the other half is absorbed by the capillaries on the outer walls of the organ and enters the internal circulation of the eater.
High Priest Jokka opened its air intake, using the wind to create regular, undulating sounds. That's the language of Joka.
It said, "What the hell is going on, Miss Freya of Iralai. ”
Yes, I didn't ask him Lin Youde.
Simultaneous interpretation was done by a translator carried by the not-so-sphere attendant of the High Priest of the Perfect Sphere, and the synthesizer sounded as strange as ever.
Freya usually looks unreliable, but after all, she is the daughter of a diplomat's family, and now she actually talks about diplomatic rhetoric seriously with the help of a translator (actually Noah).
Lin Youde took advantage of this moment to sort out his thoughts.
Lin Youde already had doubts about this joint operation, and the biggest question was that since it was decided that they were going to go to Sethley Planet to hand over the goods, why did they arrange a contact before this? Even if the informant doesn't show up in person, it's very dangerous, isn't it?
This part is unreasonable.
Right now. The hospitality's death made Lin Youde feel as if he had grasped the key to explaining everything.
[This hostel has been here for eight years, and the informant must have only recently arrived.] Noah reminded.
[That's right, I think this reception may be a lurking intelligence agent, and this café is a goddamn traffic stop.] Lin Youde responded to Noah while carefully observing the food brought by the usher.
The enemy's purpose in killing the hostess. It was nothing more than to stop the joint, and they didn't do anything to the other human employees in the coffee shop, indicating that they could achieve their goal by killing this reception, so this entertainment could be a single intelligence agent lurking here, and he was the only member of the entire traffic station. Such a structure is justified because of the high capacity of modern human intelligence information processing. One person can make a huge difference and reduce the risk of leaks and betrayal.
[Makes sense.] Noah had been using her logic to examine Lin Youde's thinking, and now that she said this, it showed that Lin Youde's thinking was logical.
Lin Youde observed the usher's corpse out of the corner of his eye, recalling the scene when he delivered food to himself just now.
Suddenly, his head struck.
This guy knows he's going to die today.
[How can I see it?] 】
[Intuition. Lin Youde's gaze turned to the things on the table, [Scan the food on him, as well as the plates and cups, there may be things that can store information. 】
The next moment, a cookie was marked.
Lin Youde glanced at Freya, who was still talking to the high priest, pretended to be bored, stepped forward, and directly grabbed the marked cookie and threw it into his mouth.
No matter how you look at it, his behavior is just that he feels bored waiting and deserts, nothing more.
But the memory had been recovered into Lin Youde's mouth, and his nanomachinery took it out of the cookie powder ground by his teeth and hid it between his teeth with the help of his tongue. Lin Youde also used nanomachinery to make a groove in the tooth, and the memory was just stuck in it and couldn't get out.
Lily Belle's disdain immediately came: "Do you still have the leisure to eat cookies in this situation?" Hmph, I'll apply to stay away from you as soon as I go back! And I'm going to write a very long report on your dereliction of duty. ”
As soon as Lin Youde wanted to explain by radio, Noah reported: [Our communications have been tapped. 】
[Can it be countered?] 】
[Yes, but it's not sure how long it will take for the enemy to crack our new key.] 】
[Wait, don't fight back.] Lin Youde stopped Noah.
He felt as if he understood the informant's purpose in arranging it all.
[Noah, use your nanomachinery to read the contents of the memory, and crack any encryption. 】
The next moment, all the things in the memory were displayed in Lin Youde's mind.
[Looks like some kind of blueprint?] Lin Youde tried to speculate.
[Hmm.] Part of the blueprint of a mass interferometric device that inserts a coefficient into Newton's laws of motion to achieve instantaneous acceleration of a massive object to a very high velocity. 】
[Do you have a similar device?] 】
[I don't need this device to accelerate a star-level object to nearly the speed of light, but that would release a hundred or so psionic energy.] The energy released can blow up a galaxy. This thing is like a toy in front of me. I think it comes from the same race as your Prometheus fire. 】
In other words, what is going to be handed over this time is actually a fragment of the design of this super-civilization equipment?
No, it must be so.
The handover is complete, but the game with the enemy has just begun. The enemy has laid a net and vowed to take back the blueprint - no, it's likely just a copy, and it's more likely that the enemy's goal is to make the blueprint and the people who come into contact with it disappear from the world to prevent information leakage.
And the so-called joint is just a bureau laid out by the informant, and the purpose is to help Lin Youde, who has already got the map, get out of danger smoothly.
To achieve this, an intelligence agent has volunteered to die.
Lin Youde had a very strong urge to salute the corpse of this intelligence officer. He died alone as a human being, thousands of light-years away from his homeland, and he was the undoubted hero.
That informant might also die for Lin Youde and their escape, Lin Youde didn't know what race he was, let alone why he wanted to help humans like this.
[By the way, there is also a photo in the memory, which looks like Mr. Hospitality and his wife, or girlfriend, or ex-girlfriend.] 】
Lin Youde looked at the photo in his mind, and the usher was smiling happily in the photo. Hugging with his beautiful girlfriend.
There is also a line on the photo: ONEPIECE exists.
What the heck! Is this still a fan of ancient comics?
But...... Lin Youde frowned slightly, unconsciously showing a confused expression. In the memory entrusted with life, will it be just a joke to leave such a child's play?
At this time, High Priest Joka interrupted Lin Youde's thoughts with a sharp howl. Lin Youde was stunned for a moment before remembering that this long howl meant the end of the conversation, and it was also a farewell word for the Qiuka people.
Then the high priest rolled away, and the Miscellaneous Fish Juka began to clean up the scene.
Sure enough, as mentioned in the mission background note, the Juka people didn't care about the life or death of low-spirited lives, and they didn't even bother to do such things as investigating the case and finding the murderer.
"What now?" Xia Yongzhi asked with communication.
Lin Youde was just about to answer, and Freya stood beside Xia Yongzhi. Unfold your palms.
Xia Yongzhi couldn't see Freya's palm.
- Natsu's mind was spied on.
[Noah.] 】
"I just wanted to tell you. By the way, your mind should also be being spied on, but I've disguised it so it's fine. 】
[Can you help Xia Yongzhi disguise? 】
[Yes, but it is possible that the opponent's psychic psychics will be aware that there is a powerful psychic psychic energy holder interfering.] In fact, you humans are all masters who are good at controlling superficial thinking, as long as you tell Xia Yongzhi to pay attention, the other party will not be able to peep into anything. 】
And they will know that we are aware of their presence. (To be continued.) )