After refurbishing the Collector base, the main goal of their trip was accomplished. While it's still some time before they actually use the station to transfer people in large numbers, that doesn't mean they don't have anything else to do. After arranging a trip to the Collector space station, they resumed their journey to conclude their trip to the Mass Effect plane.

After leaving this galaxy, they first went back to several different places to put down a few of Sister Xue's teammates, so that they could follow Sister Xue's plan to fight for the highest possible leadership position within their own race.

Garras is reluctantly sent back to his home planet of Paraven, Lex returns to Tuzenka with a slew of weapons and nostalgia, and Tari returns to the migrant fleet with his teammates seeing him off. Of course, Sister Xue didn't do this to ignore them.

On the contrary, in order to allow these teammates of her to smoothly ascend to the high position after returning to the society of their respective races, Sister Xue had to take a very important thing from Shen Chao, that is, the identity of a shadow agent.

Instead of getting the latest information of the Shadow Broker as before, we will transfer this identity to her along with all the relevant resources! Shen Chao did not argue or bargain with her on this issue, and simply agreed to this request.

Because of what the Shadow Broker's intelligence network can provide, he has found most of the alternatives, and he doesn't particularly need the ones he doesn't need now. Nowadays, the burden of running this identity is sometimes greater than the benefits it brings.

Since Sister Xue wanted to, he also wanted Sister Xue to take over the operation of the expedition team in this plane, so he happily handed over this identity. Anyway, the more things you give to Sister Xue, the more the other party owes him, and in the end, she will have to work harder for him!

After receiving all the equipment and materials needed to play the shadow agent from Shen Chao, Sister Xue handed over all the qiē to her girlfriend Liala. Let her take over the shadow broker on the Normandy. This can also be regarded as "the return of things to their original owners" in a certain way.

After all, in the original plot, Liara will also get a Qiē from Shadow Economist more than a year later. Liara will be responsible for using the Shadow Broker's resources to support the few teammates they have sent out before, helping them to connect with various relationships, and providing intelligence and resource support...... Eventually, they will be sent to the decision-making level of their respective races.

Of course, this process can't be effective in days or months, and it takes a lot of time to prepare, so after this branch task begins. They moved on to the next target, to meet the most important target of their trip.

After a few days of sailing, they arrive at a galaxy mentioned in the game's Gen 3 story, where they quickly find their goal, a planet completely covered by oceans.

This is the hideout of a very important race, known as the "Leviathan", a very large sea creature (in fact, it can also live on land), and they were the original creators of the Reaper. Also the first victims of the Reapers.

The shape of the Reaper battleship is a very large imitation of their appearance. After being almost wiped out by the Reaper, Leviathan chose to hide himself in time, and then watched as the reincarnated organic intelligent races were destroyed because of the mistakes committed by their own race.

There are at least 3 Leviathan individuals on the planet. The exact number of their population is still unknown at this time, but they do have some general idea of the Leviathan's abilities. As the creator of the Reaper, there are two main reasons why Leviathan has been able to keep its population from being wiped out in so many cycles.

One is that they are very good at hiding their location, no matter where they are in the galaxy. No matter how long the last harvest has been going on, they will be very careful to hide on the planet they have prepared. Sit back and watch a qiē happen.

In addition, they also have a great magic weapon for survival, that is, the ability to resist indoctrination! As the creators of the Reaper, the ability to educate is itself a racial talent that the Reaper learns from them.

Speaking of which, the expression of this educational ability is very similar to the half-plant, half-animal magical creature Sorian they found before. This racial talent was also the weapon that allowed the Leviathan to become the original dominant race in the galaxy.

Although they live in the deep sea, they have very large brain capacity and intelligence, but they do not have the dexterous limbs to construct complex devices. For this. In their time, these Leviathans, as the dominant race, used their indoctrination abilities to manipulate other petite and agile sapient beings to work for themselves.

It is precisely for this reason that they have the illusion of their own race transcendence. When they discovered that their vassal race would always create dangerous mechanical creatures to destroy themselves, the Leviathans were distressed.

The reason why they are distressed is not that the machines threaten their existence, but because their slave race is equivalent to their hands and feet, and one servant at a time is genocidal or reduced in number to a certain point. It will affect their quality of life.

Just as people need to practice skillfully using their limbs, it takes a lot of time for the Leviathans to get used to operating their particular minion race, allowing them to act exactly as they want while maintaining a certain amount of creative power to serve themselves......

The frequent deaths of their own minion races made these Leviathans, who never had to do their own work, very worried, so they decided to die with their own minions! Wait, I'm talking about finding a solution to the minions' deaths!

These pretentious Leviathans think that they are so smart, far higher than the intelligence of their own servant race, so naturally the intelligent machines they design will not be like those made by their servants who have strict flaws and always rebel against their own creators......

So, they devised the Reapers, who used this unprecedentedly powerful mechanical creature to exterminate any other race of minions that created the powerful AI, along with the strong AI they created, in order to serve as an example.

It has to be said that arrogance is the closest quality to self-destruction, and in the beginning, the reapers they created were very obedient to carry out their wishes, eliminating a group of servant races that they did not like, and the demonstration role did work.

However, the reapers they created were not static, and in the process of carrying out the will of their own creator, the reapers also evolved and developed their own consciousness. They realized that in order to fulfill the will imposed on them by their Creator, they had to destroy their Creator......

Thus, the Leviathans were tragic. It's not just their tragedy, but also the countless other backward intelligent races in the galaxy. The harvest of the intelligent race by the Reapers has now gone through hundreds of reincarnations, and they have been watching and waiting.

Now, their wait seems to have come to fruition. For the first time in so many reincarnations, the Reaper was discovered in advance and blocked outside the galaxy. The Leviathans scattered in different corners of the galaxy were excited by this new news, but the long-standing fear of the Reapers kept them from stepping out to help.

Now, the initiative of whether to intervene is about to get out of their control, Shen Chao has already made Sister Xue ready to meet with the Leviathans, more than a dozen orbital delivery Titan Atlas mechs are already ready in the airport of the Budapest, and when they reach the target, they will send Sister Xue and the 102 team to Guò in this way.

It is said that it is an orbital airborne mecha, in fact, it is a multi-stage deceleration device mounted on the body mechanism of an ordinary mecha, and in the process of landing, these 5-meter-high engineering mecha will be decelerated graded, and finally land quite steadily on the "ground", here is the sea surface! After that, their mission is to dive into the depths of the sea to find the Leviathans.

As they nervously prepared to meet the Leviathan, an ancient race, thousands of light-years away, in another galaxy, a Reaper warship that had completed its repair was attacking a civilian ship on a busy interstellar trade route.

Although it was only a remote-controlled battleship, the appearance of this Reaper battleship undoubtedly frightened the attacked and other civilian ships passing by, and soon, the Citadel fleet received a report that a brand-new Reaper battleship had appeared in the space of the Citadel! Although it doesn't look as big as the Overlord, you can see that it's definitely a Reaper when you look at the appearance.

The news frightened many people, and everyone didn't know if it was just an isolated case like the Overlord's attack, or if the vanguard of the Reapers' troops had returned to the galaxy! The latter possibility is undoubtedly the worst, since no one thinks that the galaxy at this time is ready to deal with the Reaper.

Although taken aback, the Citadel Combined Fleet, as the nearest large fleet, put down its attack plan against Jace first, sent a vanguard fleet to check on the situation, and quickly exchanged fire with the Reaper battleship.

The results of their first engagement were satisfactory, and although several ships were damaged, the fleet did not suffer significant casualties in the midst of the group fight, and the Reaper ships escaped with heavy damage.

However, after the battle, when they cleaned the battlefield, they found some unexpected things, such as the corpses of a small number of collectors who had been remodeled in the attacked merchant ships, and the traces of some cargo being dragged away from the merchant ships.

In short, the scene looks more like an ordinary interstellar pirate robbery scene than a prelude to a mechanical race's massive invasion of the galaxy. The corpses of the collectors looked like they had been dumped after a failed robbery. These strange phenomena made the field commander a little confused. (To be continued......)

PS:First of all, thank you for the "rhyme dance" and the "valky" of the reward after the update of the previous chapter.,Even if there is a second chapter tonight, it's going to be late.,If you can't stay up late, go to sleep.