Confused to confused, they quickly pursued the fleeing Reaper ship. The whole chase took several days, and while the Combined Fleet of the Citadel was chasing and searching for the escaped Reaper warship, more reports came from the nearby trade routes, and it turned out that more than one merchant ship had been robbed by the Reaper warship, and there were survivors at some scenes!

Of course, the survivors were deliberately left behind by the Reapers, who disrupted the audience by allowing their minion collectors to act as pirates common in the galaxy, and eventually they hoped that the raid would completely change the perception of the Citadel race, negate their existence, and cancel the current preparations.

These new reports have made the fleet in charge of chasing the Reapers, whose ships are not as fast as the Reapers, and whose targets not only run fast, but also appear to be irregular, going back and forth between several sectors, and each time they arrive, the matter is over.

This has come and gone several times, and many people's previous beliefs have been shaken. Is this warship, which is looting merchant ships, really a reaper trying to exterminate an organic intelligent life? Further conjecture, does the Reaper really have zài?

They remembered the way the Overlord had attacked the Citadel a few months ago and had completely taken the surrounding fleets seriously. After months of preparation, they were all worried that a battleship as powerful as the Overlord would reappear and launch a surprise attack on all races.

But the one in front of them seemed to show another possibility, perhaps, the Reaper was not what they imagined, perhaps, it was just a pirate race they didn't know before, or maybe there was no reaper at all?

When this doubt arises. The Reaper's indoctrination agents have also taken action, and they have been suppressed and arrested by various ethnic government forces in the past few months, and can only hide and disguise themselves as other ordinary people.

But after this latest report came out, they went into action, using every opportunity and all the propaganda channels they had access to promote conspiracy theories. Hype up the notion that the Reaper is just a scare.

Their claims quickly gained considerable public support, and those who did not want to believe in the Reaper's existence used their imaginations to refine and disseminate the accounts of the Edification Agents, just like the unthinking reposting of Weibo in the main plane.

Of course, if Shen Chao or some veteran members of the expedition team saw this scene here at this time, they would probably remember some examples that were more similar to this situation. For example, a similar scene in the Wandering Earth plane of 062.

That plane is now at a critical juncture before civil unrest, and the belief that people have held for centuries has been overturned by a little plausible evidence to the contrary. The reason is just as simple, no one wants to suffer!

As long as there is a choice, almost all people will choose the path that looks comfortable and peaceful. and unwilling to challenge the dilemma. This kind of problem is magnified to the group and is far more obvious than the individual person.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that the Reaper is a real threat and the war for the right to life is imminent, people can become blind and short-sighted with a little negative information.

In this negative atmosphere, the Citadel Council was quickly affected, urging the fleet to speed up the capture of the Reaper and organizing a new public opinion offensive against this suspicion.

Although the collective will of the Citadel Council has always been weak, they are not idiots. At this time, regardless of whether the reaper is real or not, how the wind of public opinion is deflected. The Council of the Citadel has been overwhelmed. It is unlikely that they will be able to change their rhetoric and official position anytime soon.

Of course, this is all for a short period of time. As for whether they will play the collective rudder again in the future, that's another story. While the Reaper battleship disturbed public opinion in the space of the Divine Castle, Shen Chao's side finally found Leviathan, who had been hiding in Tibet.

I have to say that these huge "squid" (a little like a squid in appearance, more than 100 meters long) are really timid. They knew that Sister Xue was here to find them, and they also knew the general intention of the other party. It is nothing more than uniting them against the Reaper, and in the previous reincarnation they would occasionally be discovered by the person of that reincarnation and propose the same idea. But they had been hiding in the deep sea for the past few days, and they just didn't show up!

It wasn't until most of the waters of the entire planet were monitored by the sonar buoys dropped by the expedition team, and when Sister Xue led people to search for blind spots one by one, that these big guys finally appeared. They were shocked that their hideout had been discovered. One of them tried to figure out how he leaked through guò mind control.

They tried to control the thinking of Sister Xue and her entourage, but soon they found that they couldn't do what should be very simple! There is an invisible repulsion that blocks their attempts at "indoctrination" (similar to the ability to control the mind of indoctrination).

The reason for this situation is that the people they see are wearing nanosuits, and they are the latest upgraded versions! Contrary to what many people think, the expedition team has not been using the original version of the nanosuit for so long.

In addition to adding armor plates and unlocking the maximum strength and speed, the continuous upgrade of the nanosuit is always underway. With the support of the expedition's well-developed biomedical technology, they cloned Sorian and other creatures with telepathic or telekinetic abilities in a confidential chamber through the samples brought back by the expedition early on.

Scattered across the plane, research groups have been using remotely controlled machines and equipment to study the abilities of these creatures from a safe distance. So far, there have been several minor safety incidents, killing and injuring some valuable scientific researchers.

However, since most of these dangerous chambers are built in remote heterogeneous space, they can be controlled by remote control stations to crash into the sun and self-destruct. Therefore, they have not caused a large number of casualties because of these dangerous realities.

On the contrary, with continuous research, their researchers have basically figured out the basic principles of similar telepathy and control abilities, and have developed some practical countermeasures. And these countermeasures were first equipped with nanosuits.

Because the nanosuit itself is a hybrid of mechanical and organic biological tissues, and has a circulatory system separate from the wearer. Therefore, the nanosuit can be regarded as a kind of organism that combines with inorganic matter. And this biological property means that it can be modified and strengthened both biologically and mechanically.

Nearly half of the thousands of research groups under the expedition team are doing research in this area, some of which are specialized in the upgrading of the biological part of the nanosuit, and some are mainly focused on the enhancement and upgrading of the mechanical part.

The latest anti-indoctrination and anti-control techniques are the result of both types of escalation programs. All the organisms with electrocardiogram induction and telepathic control studied by the research team are directly connected to the victim's nerve center brain through guò to play a role in control.

The mechanical part of the nanosuit has been upgraded to completely isolate the possibility of direct connection between the external control signal and the wearer. However, this is still not enough, and it is also necessary to strengthen the control mechanism of the nanosuit, so as to eliminate the possibility of the biological part of the nanosuit being controlled by the outside world.

The nanosuit is controlled and strengthened in parallel by two sets of control systems, which are the neural links of the mechanical part and the biological part, respectively. Since the mechanical part of the nanosuit can only accept the brainwave commands worn by itself, and this command must be relayed by the intelligent core of the nanosuit before it can take effect.

Therefore, theoretically, as long as the biological part can be connected to this transit part and take over the control of another set of biological links, the danger of being manipulated by the outside world can be isolated. However, such a design has a great impact on the efficiency of use.

In the heat of battle, if each wearer's command needs to be tested by such a relay station before it can be transmitted to the biological tissue, its combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. More importantly, it will reduce the security of the entire nanoservice system.

Although the parallel control system has its own flaws, it is the key to the indestructibility of the entire nano service system, and with such parallel control systems, their nano service can resist almost any conceivable interference and still maintain the effective operation of the whole system.

Eventually, the solution they adopted was to transplant Sorien's nervous system into the nanosuit, allowing the nanosuit to maintain two conduction systems. Let the cloned Sorian nervous system resist any interference similar to "edification", while the mechanical conduction part continues to be responsible for regular information transmission.

Sorian's nervous system is capable of automatically fighting indoctrination, which has been proven by history. That's why the Leviathans couldn't get into each other's brains to get information directly after seeing Sister Xue and Team 102. This situation makes the Leviathan, accustomed to manipulating other races, very unaccustomed.

Fortunately, neither side is in a hurry to negotiate a result. The Leviathan had also learned about the mainstream communication mode of the Citadel race through other channels for a long time, so at a depth of several kilometers, more than a dozen mechs faced the mountain-like Leviathan in the deep sea canyon opposite, and the two sides began quite fruitful negotiations after a short embarrassment.

Although the Leviathan was not accustomed to communicating with other sapient races that they could not control their minds, they were interested in this technology. Because this means that some groups in the Divine Citadel races outside have already mastered the technology to resist indoctrination! (To be continued......)