After solving the energy supply problem, the frequency of the Budapest's main guns and the strength of the shield have been greatly improved. If the confrontation between them and the "Collector Battleship" just now was still evenly matched, then now the balance of battle is undoubtedly slowly beginning to tilt in favor of the Budapest.

The ships of the two sides were also constantly narrowing the distance between each other in round after round of exchange of artillery fire, and dazzling lights continued to flash on the outer shields of the two sides with such fierce blows.

A few minutes later, a high-velocity cannonball fired from the main cannon of the Budapest finally broke through the Collector's unusually powerful and extremely fast shield, breaking one of the opponent's front legs. At this stage of the battle, both sides have exchanged more than 10 rounds of fire.

The distance between the two sides has also been shortened from the initial hundreds of thousands of kilometers to a short 800 kilometers. The "Collector Battleship" was undoubtedly in a situation of defeat at this time, and two more rounds of artillery fire at this distance would definitely explode.

So, as it was about to rush up to the Budapest, it turned its head in a dashing and nimble turn, and then jumped near the repeater in the distance with a short jump. In the interval between the Budapest turning its head and attacking it, it had already turned on the repeater, and jumped to the Omega system through the channel formed by the repeater.

：“XXX……！ Seeing that he was about to destroy the enemy but was run away by the other party, Shen Chao couldn't help but burst out with two foul words.

The battle just now was very dangerous, and the other side's supply side and even the ability to escape far exceeded their previous expectations. If it weren't for his decision to overload the Budapest's Mass Effect Core shortly after the battle began, it's hard to say if they would have won.

Although the opponent was unable to remove the shield of the Budapest until the end, it was obvious that it wanted to rush over and fight the Budapest in the final stage. Once the opponent is really rushed up to hand-to-hand combat, then the Budapest is basically bound to lose.

After seeing that scene, Shen Chao was already very soberly aware. The other side could not be just a collector warship that looked like a reaper, but a real reaper. As for why there's a Reaper ship here in the Collector base, that's the question.

"Should we go after it?" Vincent, who was on the sidelines to perform the duties of the first mate, asked, who, like many of the crew, was now relieved, but had just been frightened by the treacherous battle. It was the first time the Budapest had encountered such a formidable opponent in a full-fledged battle.

"No, they've already passed through the repeater first, and if we follow like this, we can easily be ambushed by them!" Shen Chao denied. Although the Budapest was capable of defeating the opposing warships, it was still a little reluctant to fight.

What's more, the opponent can hold the exit and wait for Budapest to chase after passing through the repeater, and even the Budapest will take a few seconds to restore the shield to full capacity when it passes through the repeater. And in this period of weakness, they were lambs to the slaughter, and with the firepower of that Reaper battleship, it was enough to sink them during this period of weakness.

Fortunately. Soon after they defeated the Reaper cruiser of unknown origin, there was good news from Sister Xue. While the Budapest and the Reaper battleship were fighting, the Normandy took the opportunity to approach the vicinity of the Collector base as planned.

Sister Xue led a handful of her own marines and an entire squadron of expedition members that Shen Chao had given her command to attack the Collector Base. They were well prepared, and they brought a whole bunch of targeted weapons and equipment with them, but once they entered the Collector's base space station, they did not encounter the fierce resistance they expected.

Although they encountered some Collector ground forces as they pushed inward, the number of opponents was small, only about one-twentieth of what they had expected. They barely met any noteworthy resistance before they stormed the central control room of the Collector base.

In the central control room. They found the bodies of some collectors and a large control platform, without a doubt. This is the control center of the entire space station, and if they want to find out the origin of that Reaper battleship, this is the most promising place.

After confirming that several important locations on the space station were occupied, Shen Chao first arranged for the Budapest to wait in place and defend, and then he flew to the space station by shuttle to check the latest search results together.

He was in a good hurry, when he arrived at the central control room. The cracking of the control platform was nearing completion, and he had just set up several other space-time gates on the road, so that the large troops in the rear could pass through and quickly clear the entire Collector space station.

I don't know for what reason, the encryption of this key control station is not very tight. Moreover, the previous operator appeared to have been dead for several days, and should have nothing to do with the expedition's actions.

Just when he wondered about these visions, the cracking of the control station was finally completed, but they did not see any information immediately as they wished, and the unlocked control station automatically triggered a quantum communication channel, and then a holographic projection with a familiar shape appeared in front of them.

"You're getting more and more annoying, Shepard. First the Citadel, and now here, your desecration has been recorded......" This hologram that suddenly appeared was the appearance of an overlord-level reaper, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he spoke with an arrogant tone, and the arrogant Cheng dù was the same as the overlord they had seen in Warmel a few months ago.

"You must be a pioneer ("Brother Habing" is its homonym), this is our first time meeting, you should really teach your little brother and yourself to pay attention to politeness,......" Sister Xue was not particularly surprised when she saw this hologram, and asked in a mocking tone after seeing the other party's appearance.

Shen Chao realized the danger after seeing Brother Ha Bing's hologram, so he tried to dodge to the side to avoid attention, but this time he couldn't avoid it, and his Budapest in this battle completely shocked the reapers who were still slowly crawling back on the periphery of the galaxy, and they realized that Shen Chao had a very important role in the whole incident.

"And you, Major Shen Chao, your deceptive methods are very successful, we are almost going to ignore your deposits......" Brother Ha Bing named Shen Chao who was about to play disappearing, which made Shen Chao a little embarrassed, he had been avoiding being noticed by the Reapers at this stage, especially the Reaper leader like Brother Ha Bing, but now it seems that it is a little late.

After the battle just now, the Reapers, led by Brother Ha Bing, reviewed the process of the destruction of the previous Overlord and the various events when the last Collector battleship was captured, and they found out a previously ignored variable from these events, that is, Shen Chao.

Previously, they had focused almost all of their attention on Sister Xue, because Sister Xue was indeed the most powerful force to expose their conspiracy head-on, but now they found that Shen Chao's invisible interference and sabotage of their various plans was almost as effective as Sister Xue's direct intervention.

If it weren't for Shen Chao's intervention, Sister Xue would have been killed or captured by their minions, and the Proxian from the previous reincarnation would not have jumped out so early to warn the entire galaxy, if it weren't for these events, the Reaper would still be a legend to most people in the galaxy.

In order to make up for these changes brought about by Shen Chao and Sister Xue, they had to pass on the key techniques to their minions collectors after the last big setback, and use the flesh of these minions gatherers and the various building materials they were prepared to return to build a secondary reaper battleship from scratch.

If Yiqiē follows the Reaper's plan, then when the "Collector Battleship", which looks like a Reaper, uses a lot of Reaper technology, and is loaded with a lot of Collector infantry, is fully equipped and sails, the Reaper will use the Collector Ship to pretend to be in his own name to cause a burst of destruction, and then deliberately let the Citadel Race destroy and capture it.

Eventually, if the whole conspiracy goes smoothly, the Reapers, after which they will use their indoctrination agents in the galaxy to incite a new offensive of public opinion, relying on "new evidence" to show the public a "new truth".

The rough plan was that their indoctrination agents would use the Collector warship as evidence after it was destroyed, convincing the entire galaxy that was actively preparing for war, a huge misunderstanding.

The so-called "reaper" does not exist zài, and a qiē is just a conspiracy theory concocted by a few high-ranking officials at the top of Starlink and Touareg in order to elevate their racial status. These two militarily powerful races are trying to pull the whole galaxy into the abyss of war through this conspiracy......

If this deceptive propaganda campaign succeeds, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the enthusiasm of the entire galaxy to prepare for war, and can also be used as a basis to further provoke hostility and even war between the races of the Citadel.

But this perfect plan was once again disturbed by Shen Chao and Sister Xue, although the Reaper's battleship and the Budapest were evenly matched just now, but in fact, the whole ship was not completed, and a large number of spare equipment was not installed.

That's why, once the defense was broken by the Budapest, the Reaper ran away. If they lose the Collector Base, then the plan can go ahead, but the unfinished ship needs to find a remote place to recuperate for a few days.

But if they lose this new ship, they won't have any hard power in the Citadel space to disrupt the situation. It was also under such circumstances that the reapers noticed that Shen Chao, who had always been regarded as an unrelated person by them before, actually played an important role in every serious incident related to them. (To be continued......)