Chapter Twenty-Five: Encounter

Ten days later, Iloh reconnected to Rocky's communication.

"Rocky City Lord, you can't delay any longer, which direction do you plan to leave the Star City space, I can maintain this passage until you can leave."

Obviously, Rocky, who was desperately busy preparing during this time, did not think about this problem, where could he go?

"I didn't think about which direction to go." Rocky felt deeply tired.

"One direction is towards the edge of the river system, I don't recommend that you lead people there, there are almost no planets to land on, no way to develop there. The other direction is in the direction of the Star Territory, and it is recommended that you return to the location of the original Cold Moon Territory and occupy a habitable star to slowly develop. ”

Iloh also had a purpose in saying this, she wanted to chase in the direction of the legion along the edge of the river system, and naturally she couldn't let Rocky also move in this direction.

Rocky thought for a while, and felt that Ilo's suggestion was feasible, after all, he was going to take away not a few people, but tens of thousands, if there was no supply, then half a year would be a dead end for everyone, and going to the edge of a deserted river system was equivalent to looking for death.

"Okay, then you open the passage facing the direction of the star sector territory, and you can maintain it for half a day, I have only collected less than eighty ships now, and I can barely take about 100,000 people."

"When the ship leaves the space of Star City, it needs to travel a certain distance with all its strength to ensure safety, I have calculated, it needs to be at least half a light-year away."

Rocky's heart was gloomy, except for warships, few civilian ships could sail such a long distance in such a short time.

But he couldn't help it, now there were more cracks in the space where Star City was located, and some of them had been cut to the location of Star City, leaving deep marks on the hull shell of the ship.

In the meantime, Iroh had already recruited the Shadow's ten men and assigned them to two destroyers, and she didn't want any of the Legionnaires to suffer.

Iloh opened a passage in the direction of the Sector's territory. The battleships of the city defense army jumped out of a dozen first, as the vanguard to arrive at the designated position and wait for the other ships, then those manned civilian ships and transport ships loaded with supplies, and finally the remaining city defense warships.

Lodge's flagship, the Black Skull, was the last to leave, and before leaving, he returned to the control center, where he came to visit Iloh and bid him farewell.

Rocky didn't know that Ilo had the ability to break away on his own.

"Elise, I'm sorry, I can't take you away, once you leave, no one will be able to control the passage, calm those cracks, and everyone will die here."

Looking at Ilo's image of Elise for a long time, Rocky was so sad that before leaving, he silently touched the statue of Elise in the control center, as if to remember it forever.

After one second glance at Iro, he hurriedly boarded the Black Skull and left through the open passage.

Seeing that there was no more ship in Star City, Ilo directly closed the passage to the direction of the Star Sector's territory. There are still more than 100,000 people struggling in the city, and the cracks and fragments in the space have increased a little, but at this time, Ilo can't take care of it, she doesn't have any sense of belonging to Star City.

She herself has always thought that she is a member of the Legion, and it is already her duty to be able to inform Rocky to save half of the personnel in Star City.

"We also need to get out as soon as possible." With that, Ilo opened the passage to the outer edge of the river system.

As the shell of an area in the upper part of the Star City Control Center opened, Lu

Out of the huge bow of the Hunting-class destroyer. With a slight shock, the Enchantress and Phantom slowly broke away from Star City and flew towards the passage.

Almost no one knows about all this.

When the Enchanting and Phantom flew out of the passage, Ilo was not in a hurry to leave, after all, she was now in control of the passage, and once she did, the passage would be closed, and Iro's corvettes would not be able to fly out of this space.

Iroh released three channel jammers at this time, which was the inspiration she had received from Elise at the beginning, and they were made according to the drawings to use for this moment.

Then she released a communication repeater to ensure that she could temporarily control Star City and the small space when she was outside, so that it would not collapse immediately.

Detached the frigate from the control center, Ilo carefully cut off all connections to the outside world and flew up the shaft, as long as it flew out of Star City, it could enter the passage, and it would be safe for the time being.

Iro, who longs for freedom, is looking forward to joining the Legion.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang from the frigate. A large hole was blown out of the control room, but fortunately there was no one inside, but the remaining air inside immediately leaked out, and the food in a storage compartment poured out of the hole.

Iroh was surprised, but fortunately, his control room was protected from accidents. She felt very glad that if this explosion had happened near the engine, then no matter how well she protected the control room, there would be no way to escape from the Star City space.

In accordance with the Legion's arrangement, all the Legions installed surveillance inside the battleships that Star City had renovated, and Iro immediately replayed the situation at the time of the explosion.

Seeing the scene on the screen made Iroh feel an indescribable emotion, both angry and confused. The object that exploded was a statue outside the control room, a statue of Elise.

Further back, it was Rocky's seemingly unintentional caressing as he walked......

A burst of anger suddenly surged in Ilo's heart, Rocky let himself be buried with Star City!

Iro's frigate would not be able to enter the passage with a hole, in which case the uneven spatial forces within the passage would tear the frigate to pieces.

She flew out of Star City and immediately asked the maintenance robot in the frigate to urgently block and repair the hull, temporarily patching the holes with large pieces of material like patches, and isolating the adjacent cabins.

Only then did he grit his teeth and fly towards the passage, looking back at the dark Star City from the outside with resentment.

There was no danger, and Iro's frigate withstood the pressure of the passage. As soon as she exited the passage, she connected to two hunting ships, searched for the Legion's communicator, determined the direction and flew away at high speed.

At the same time, she also briefly recounted what happened under the questioning of the two hunting ships, which annoyed the minds of the two warships.

Ilo didn't detonate the antimatter bomb buried inside Star City as he had originally designed. I don't know what she thinks in her heart, it's just full of something called pity.

Using the path formed by the communication equipment laid out by the Legion fleet when it walked, Iro calculated the fleets that could quickly converge, and then made a direction to go directly.

She didn't rush to send a message through the Legion's communication equipment, she knew that the current Legion's technology was not necessarily the best, nor was it invulnerable, although the combat capability of the Legion fleet was very strong, but the number of warships was insufficient, once the whereabouts were leaked and some forces were targeted, it would be a disaster for the Legion fleet that had been scattered.

She's waiting for her time.

It's been a month of flying along the trails, and Cold Moon Star City has been left far behind. At this point, Iroh would never care about the place that had disappointed her.

Iroh felt that it was very close to the Legion's fleet, but it was only a dozen light-years away.

The three warships were speeding through the starry sky, not paying attention to the star systems along the way. At least Iroh didn't set up a probe along the way, at least in her hurry, and didn't notice a fleet sailing ahead of her.

The fleet is not sailing in exactly the same direction as Iro, but is heading diagonally in the direction of the sector, and at the current speed of the two sides, they will soon meet, and then this fleet will sail diagonally behind Iro.

The fleet, apparently coming out of a star system in front of it, has not yet increased its speed to cruising speed.

As the distance approached, both sides had apparently spotted each other. Iloh detected that there were 19 ships in the forward fleet, and to Iro's surprise, there were 15 warships escorting the convoy, which meant that there were only three cargo ships.

What cargo needs so many warships to escort?

This thought flashed in Iro's heart, and he didn't want to pay attention to it anymore. What she wanted most now was to join the Legion, and everything else could be ignored for her.

But if you don't look for trouble, trouble will come to you sometimes.

As soon as the two sides could detect it, Ilo received a message from the opposing fleet asking for it.

Ilo saw the message from the opposing fleet, she didn't want to pay attention to it, the battleship on the screen obviously didn't look like a fleet in a regular territory, and the battleship was not clearly marked.

In addition, Ilo also noticed that the opposing warships were not as uniform as the regular territorial warships, and the 15 warships were all medium-sized warships, and he did not see the heavy warships as flagships in the regular fleet.

Moreover, the four seemingly large spaceships in the middle of the fleet also aroused Iro's doubts, this kind of spaceship was not an ordinary ship, the square cylindrical hull, and the capacity seemed to be extremely impressive. However, looking at the specifications of the warships escorted by this fleet, they were either precious minerals or important supplies.

In the current interstellar era, ordinary minerals will definitely not be transported like this, and only a larger unmanned ore carrier is needed, because most of the original ore that has just been mined is not valuable.

Most of the planets in the river system are not suitable for human habitation, and there are not many planets with indigenous races, which are basically mined as mining stars. Moreover, the application of automated mining devices, the amount of mining is amazing, which directly leads to the worthlessness of minerals.

Even if gold was used as currency in the early days of mankind, once a suitable ore star is found, it is not a problem to mine millions of tons every year, even the hard currency blue gold in the universe now is also measured in tons.

Puzzled, Iloh compares this strange, high-capacity ship with the various ships in her memory bank, and discovers something surprising: these ships are often called slave ships, and were often used to carry slaves in the early colonial era.

Slave ships?

Doesn't that mean that all four slave ships were loaded with slaves?

Iloh calculated that if the minimum guarantee was calculated, the four slave ships were loaded with close to a million slaves or more.

Iloh doesn't know much about human nature, but he just stays at the unity and closeness of the legion, the indifference and cruelty of Star City, and is abandoned by others. She could not understand the sorrow of human beings being treated as slaves and commodities.

(End of chapter)