"She still can't trust you?" After seeing Shepard leave, Custer asked, according to Shen Chao's previous report, he thought that Shepard should have had basic trust in him.

"She wanted to believe me, or she wouldn't have come running over here and asking me these questions." Shen Chao confirmed at the door that the door was locked, and then turned around.

"Do we need to avoid it?" Custer asked, he was worried that their meeting with Shepard might have a negative impact on their future plans, so he asked Shen Chao if they needed to end this crossing first and wait for the next opportunity before the whole team came over.

"No, we'll do today's task as planned, and then decide on the next action. Shen Chao vetoed his proposal, he had just brought his expedition team over, although there was a little accident, but this was a controllable situation.

Shepard's move today, though very sudden, was not entirely unexpected. Shen Chao knew that since Shepard took control of Normandy, this thoughtful female warrior had been collecting background information about all the marines under her command.

She was so secretive that some people with no experience in intelligence would think that she didn't have any intention of investigating the background of her crew. From this, it can also be seen how cautious and sophisticated she is in doing things.

It's no wonder that she was able to lead such a small team to overthrow Saren in the original plot, and her combat effectiveness, strategy, and leadership skills ...... It's all impeccable. Worthy of her reputation as the perfect warrior.

Shen Chao noticed that during the previous two weeks of the voyage, Shepard seemed to be indifferent to the things on the ship, although he had ostensibly been in his cabin or communication room all day, and then he had spent all day in Liara's cabin.

However, whenever something happens on the ship, no matter how big or small, she, the captain, can know the cause and effect of the incident at the first time. This shows that she has a much faster and stronger grip on the last thing in Normandy than Anderson. The entire ship was under her complete control.

Usually, Shepard would also take a short stroll around the various areas of the ship from time to time. It seems that she unintentionally accosted some of the crew, but these are actually the crew members who are investigating her. All this shows that she is a very mature and very serious battleship commander.

Shen Chao watched her during the voyage, and she completed the investigation of the vast majority of the crew without most of the crew noticing. She was so sophisticated, just like some experienced full-time agents that Shen Chao had seen.

Therefore, to sum up, it is not surprising that Shepard chose this time to test him so much this time, after all, he did have too many secrets and doubts left before. And a leader as good as Shepard would not be completely reassured by uncertainties like him.

She had to test it like this, because she wanted to see if Shen Chao was someone or force behind it. However, through today's temptation, Shen Chao was sure that Shepard should understand that their positions were the same.

As long as she can understand this, Shen Chao is not worried about the cooperative relationship between herself and her. Shepard is now in the stage where he needs help the most, and he will never refuse any reinforcements.

"Will she look up our backgrounds?" After looking down for a moment, Custer moved on to the final and most important question. He still wasn't very relieved about Shen Chao's estimation.

"Absolutely, he's a Citadel ghost now, and she'll have access to a lot of investigative channels. We don't need to worry too much, though.

She's a straight-up military man, if there's anything wrong with her. She would ask me directly first. Only when she can't get a satisfactory answer from me, she will use other means......" Shen Chao said as he picked up his backpack again, while motioning for his teammates to follow. …,

They need to move quickly. There are about 20 more hours. Normandy will be departing, so they will have to complete as many of the purposes of the crossing as possible before then.

A few minutes later, they left the hotel together, and Shen Chao led them out of the Circle District and arrived at a distribution market in the Divine Fortress District to get ready to shop.

This is a legitimate marketplace for defense supplies. The construction is very perfect, and all kinds of light weapons, security machines, and boulder security systems are designed...... Everything related to personal defense.

To put it simply, this is a civilian-grade arms market. Almost all of the personal defense weapons and security systems in the entire Citadel are from the shops and companies on this street.

Shen Chao came over with his expedition team to buy some things that were urgently needed in their base, weapons, equipment, and some necessary auxiliary equipment.

As they stay longer. The shortcomings of the daily maintenance of their second base are becoming increasingly apparent, and the runway, towers, oil depots and other facilities need to be maintained, but they do not have enough manpower.

In addition to maintenance issues, as they enter a higher stage of development. The security level of the base also needs to be upgraded, especially Dr. Neville's real yàn building, which will need a lot of helpers to complete the large-scale real yàn in future trials.

It is clear that their current manpower alone will not be enough to solve these problems. However, if technicians are hired to maintain at the second base, there will be some uncontrollable impacts.

So before that. They unanimously decided to buy some auxiliary machines during the crossing. And equip these people with some special tools to help them maintain the base. Shen Chao had confirmed that the various auxiliary machines here had these abilities when he crossed over last time.

However, due to the prohibition of AI development by the Citadel Convention, although the synthesis manufacturing technology in the Mass Effect world is very developed, the IQ of the machine is generally very low. The vast majority of robots can only perform complex work under the command of humans.

However, this is an acceptable flaw. After all, this is much better than the fact that they only have a few people at the moment, and this is, Shen Chao has already brought a few of his team members to this bustling market.

It's like any market, with lots of billboards lining the streets, and all around it the sound of promotions coming from the sound of advertisements. If you close your eyes, it sounds like a grocery market on the main plane.

It is crowded with people, at least tens of thousands of light weapons are sold every day, and the streets of several hundred meters are full of similar types of military stores, with merchants on the shelves of all kinds of light weapons, constantly greeting customers from all corners of the galaxy.

Since he had been here once before, Shen Chao knew that the surface of the legal operation here was just an illusion, many shops had individual heavy weapons for sale, as long as they were regular customers, they could enter the hidden floors or secret rooms, visit and buy the heavy weapons sold by the merchants.

Shen Chao took three of his teammates to avoid the crowd and walked into a fairly ordinary-looking weapons shop. He had been to the shop before, and the Salari owner of the shop knew him, and as soon as he entered, he was greeted warmly.

Shen Chao had spent more than 100,000 star coins in this store before, so the other party naturally regarded him as an important customer, and when the shopkeeper saw him, he immediately greeted him enthusiastically and introduced him to his new goods.

"I need to see your special collection, Jia Switzerland......" Shen Chao didn't have the patience to grind slowly, he first pulled the Salari shopkeeper aside, and then lowered his voice to prompt.

The reason why he chose to stop here in the first place was because it was the place in the entire fortress where he had the best chance of buying the heavy weapons he needed. His consumption here is relatively large, and he is a big customer in terms of consumption alone. …,

"Ah, second lieutenant, you know, the C-SEC has been investigating very tightly recently......" Unlike what Shen Chao thought, the Salari shopkeeper did not make a decision immediately after hearing his words, but instead started haha.

Although Shen Chao is his important customer, he spends money very happily. But after all, the other party had only bought things twice in his shop, and he was not a very familiar customer, so it was a bit risky to show the other party a heavy weapon so early.

"I have less than a day off and I'll be leaving the Citadel tomorrow. Here are 300,000 star coins, I am going to spend all this money today, just to buy heavy weapons, if you don't buy it, I will find someone else to ......" Shen Chao opened his universal tool and pulled out his capital account to show.

"Don't, don't...... I've got something for you to be happy with......" Salare's man immediately changed his attitude when he saw the series of zeros on his account, joking, 300,000 Star Coins is more than his turnover in a whole month, and such a business must not be let go. Anyway, the other party is a star alliance soldier with a broad future, and he should not sell heavy weapons to cause terrorist incidents.

In this way, Shen Chao bought a heavy weapon for the first time after entering the world of Mass Effect, although the shopkeeper asked that he was the only one who could follow him to the secret room, but in any case, it was also very smooth.

In the secret room of this arms dealer, Shen Chao saw a number of heavy weapons that he was more familiar with, such as M-100 grenade launchers and Hydra homing missiles...... All are military-standard weapons.

These are very practical battlefield equipment, simple to maintain, reliable in technology, and have been tested in actual combat, which is very suitable for their future needs of mass equipment troops.

That's right, it's a batch of equipment, their journey through the journey has reached a critical point, after completing today's procurement, the second phase of Plan M is basically completed, and they will enter a new stage of development.

After this, regardless of whether Shen Chao can obtain the ghost title or not, they will have the conditions to perform the third stage in the short term. Back to the present, Shen Chao finally spent 600,000 star coins to cover all the heavy weapons in this store.

Six M-100 grenade launchers, nine Hydra homing missiles, and a large number of heavy weapons and ammunition ...... alone would be enough to knock out all the buildings in a small city on the main plane, if you don't think about time. RQ

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