However, none of these people who came to greet them expected that after the hatch of the shuttle plane opened, a whole group of strange armed men would walk out first! Liala was the first to rush in to greet Shepard after the cabin where the shuttle was docked, but when she saw these strange figures coming out of the shuttle, she froze as she was about to rush over.

For a moment, she thought of the worst possibility, that is, something happened to Sister Xue, and these were enemies in front of her. But after two seconds, she was relieved again, as one of the women in the nanoarmor took off her helmet, revealing her familiar face......

Half an hour later, on the bridge of the Normandy, several people fiercely argued about the previous actions, and a group of crew members led by the Normandy's first mate Pressley asked Shen Chao to give an explanation of the whereabouts of Kaiden and Ashley.

But on this issue, Shen Chao and Sister Xue reached a unified voice on this issue, and they all used the excuse of "confidential information" to prevaricate the past. The crew will undoubtedly continue to understand what happened when they have the opportunity in the future.

After Shen Chao takes people away, Sister Xue will gradually "reveal the truth" to these crew members! Of course, this "truth" has been processed, and the truth that these crew members will get is that those missing team members were requisitioned by Shen Chao to use their privileges to plan a bunker......

After the dispute in Cambridge subsided, Shen Chao asked the Budapest to come closer, and the two warships began to sail together, Shen Chao left the 102 team to Sister Xue, and then returned to the Budapest by shuttle.

"How's our route?" Shen Chao asked his temporary first mate when he came back. Since the Budapest's missions were almost always on an ad hoc basis, and there were frequent secondments within the Space-Time Fleet. And Shen Chao has never designated a candidate, so the first mate of the Budapest is always changing.

Now the temporary first mate of the Budapest is an astronaut professional from the high-tech plane, of course, although it is said to be a high-tech plane, but in fact it is only relative to the main plane, and his parent plane aerospace technology is not particularly developed, at least compared with the mass effect plane, it is much worse.

This young man named Vincent from the 045 plane of "One Shot" looks less than 30 years old, and he looks very creamy on the outside, but he is indeed the best of the latest batch of ship control and command personnel to graduate.

It was brought back by the expedition team while on a small branch mission. At that time, the expedition was carrying out the mission to gather eugenics technology and talent for its subordinate government agencies in order to ensure that the new generation of babies would be born healthy.

This quest may sound out of place with the expedition's regular mission type. However, it can directly reflect the actual state of the expedition now. Many expedition squads seem busy, but there are never casualties for this reason.

Many teams carry out such low-risk missions in high-tech planes, with the purpose of only perfecting the technical details of some livelihood projects, and there are many such operations. All of them are improving the social development process under the rule of the Space-Time Council little by little.

"We're on a very steady course. But the No. 4 auxiliary engine failed again...... Vincent gave a very detailed update on the ship's condition. The No. 4 auxiliary engine he said was overstressed on some of the power lines due to the previous round of modifications. Failures occur from time to time.

This auxiliary engine is used to power the ship's emergency shield generator, which is completely useless during non-combat hours, and must be kept on all the time. Otherwise, the emergency shield would not have worked, but the engine life in this position was extremely low due to the long start-up, and they only changed it once a few days before they came, and now it is broken again!

"Don't be nervous, Vincent, we have time to replace it, the first stop we are going to doesn't need to fight, but it needs wisdom......" Shen Chao persuaded this newcomer, he was in a relaxed mood now, and a lot of it was because this mission was more like a vacation for him.

The protagonist of the mission is Sister Xue, who came with him a long way to find a reason to break away from the invasion of the Wen Jiàn Sea of the Space-Time Council. As the head of a qiē, as long as he stayed on the empty space station or any of the expeditions' planes that were completely under his control, a large number of his assistants would constantly bring all kinds of texts to ask him what to do.

And if he is in the middle of a mission, then only authorized people can find him through the time gate, and other "unrelated people" can only jump and wait for him to return and make a decision on the re-event. Although he also knew that he was suspected of evading responsibility by doing so, Shen Chao still felt that he needed to rest.

Recently, all the main characters of the expedition have been busy, with Alice and Custer each "saving the world" in their home plane, and Dr. Neville and Hargrave teaming up to overcome scientific challenges.

Damien is in charge of the fleet's internal affairs, Jonathan is in charge of all the clutter, and Todd is still in charge of all the Marine units...... In addition to the just-concluded expedition cadet exam, this qiē made it difficult for everyone to get a moment of leisure.

Shen Chao couldn't remember the last time he fought and enjoyed the thrill of tearing the enemy to pieces. The closest he's gotten to fighting in the past few months was the cold weapon contest with the exiles the other day.

"I need to get a new sandbag soon......" Shen Chao said to himself, realizing that his patience was running out as he was busy with work. In order not to let himself go beyond the critical point, he indulged himself to join this personal adventure of Sister Xue.

After coordinating the communication between the two ships, the Budapest and the Normandy began to jump at the same time, and after almost a day of jumping in a nearby galaxy, they found the nearest Mass Effect repeater, and through the transfer here in Guò, they reached the Citadel after three more long jumps.

The Citadel looked very different from what he had looked a few months ago, not that the shape of the Citadel had changed. In fact, the Citadel is still the same Citadel, with the same shape, color, and even interior rebuilding progress as it had been a few months ago.

However, the change in the scenery outside the fortress at this time is enough to be described as earth-shattering, and the change is so large that it is enough to make the old residents who lived on this large space station dare not recognize it.

First of all, the space near the Citadel was already crowded with warships of the major races at this time. The bright nebula outside the guard arm's arm was densely lined with black dots composed of battleships, and although they were separated by tens of thousands of kilometers, they could still be seen with the naked eye in a dense formation.

The formation of these warships is so large that many people who see these fleets for the first time think that they have seen some strange natural scene and not a manned fleet!

In the nebula, there are more than 8,000 fleets of humans and Touareg alone, and these warships are mixed, densely arranged in clusters of hundreds of ships, scattered to protect the outermost defensive front of the fortress in all directions.

Moreover, in such a large formation of the outer defense fleet, only a few battleships of the frigate class remained, and the battleships in the other formations were at least one weight class of light cruisers, and their firepower had also been strengthened in different ways.

The Salares and Asaregs also had more than 3,000 ships of all classes nearby, and although they were fewer in number, they were no worse than the Humans and Touareg in terms of tonnage, and guarded the innermost line of the Citadel.

In addition to them, there were also fleets of some small races patrolling nearby, and Shen Chao even saw a fleet of the Wallers, a small race that had almost no sense of zài in the galaxy, in the complex identification signal of his own ship CIC.

The combined number of these large and small racial military ships exceeded 16,000, which was more than 10 times the defense force of the Citadel before the Battle of the Divine Citadel! Moreover, they are all part of the Combined Fleet of the Citadel Council, which is beginning to take shape.

With such a fleet of extremely powerful numbers and combat power, even if a hundred Overlord-level Reapers suddenly burst out of the nearby repeaters, the fleet in front of them would be able to buy the Citadel time to close its armguards. Of course, the actual duty of such a large fleet here is not to do this.

As Shen Chao, who had actually inherited the Shadow Broker Intelligence Network, he knew that there were two reasons why so many powerful warships of so many races were gathered here, one was because it was because the Combined Fleet was preparing for an important exercise.

The long-awaited "Reaper Killer" Haidar-class super battleships have finally completed the construction of the first warships with the full support of experts from various races. Now, the fleet guarding the Citadel has 5 "Reaper Killers" that have just been commissioned, the Haidar-class super battleships.

Haidar is the name of a race that was once wiped out by the Reapers, a civilization with very little historical information, but the wreckage of a large warship has been discovered by scientists in a remote galaxy.

The giant ship of the discovered Haigel was nearly 6 kilometers long, and although the hull was riddled with holes and all the equipment had long since been reimbursed by the erosion of time, it left traces of its fierce battle with the Reapers in the galaxy where it was discovered.

In the vicinity of the planet where it eventually crashed, lay the wreckage of 11 Reaper ships, including the wreckage of 3 Overlord-class Reapers! There is no doubt that the power of this giant ship before it was killed by the Reapers' fire was terrifying, and it must have left a deep impression on the Reapers.

In order to honor and motivate themselves to this vanished race of heroic intelligence, as well as to shock the Reapers (if they can be intimidated), the Council of the Citadel has finally decided to name its newest and most powerful ship the Highger-class Super Battleship. (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the two children's shoes of "valky and Tianxin ruthless" who were rewarded after yesterday's update.

To clarify,I've already known about the name error of the chapter in the previous chapter.,But it doesn't affect the reading.,There's also a little bit of an indirect effect on the theft.,So I won't change it.。

Also, there's a second chapter tonight, so wait a minute, everyone