"Warning."

"Stop at the ship."

"Here it is"

"In the dark. The strong. The group belongs."

"Station."

"Tell me about your stuff right now."

"Where to come and where to go. Purpose"

Taking advantage of the Beastmaster's definite mental disturbances, the two combined bodies pieced together the information they carried sentence after sentence with only the signals transmitted by each other.

At the same time, the brain and the caster also simultaneously analyzed the encoding technique of the signal and manifested it in the light curtain;

Then, the sound and image gradually took shape in the short noise, and a white, juicy flesh worm appeared in front of the eyes, emitting an unfamiliar sound that seemed to be words.

[Gurgling! Quack, quack! 】

It has four swaying tentacles at the top, each with a bulging crystal particle at the top, and the lower part of the head is just a white flower, and the familiar eyes, nose, mouth, etc.

Although the imaginary and real crew in the fortress looked at each other in shock, the analysis of disturbances, signals, and speech never stopped, but before they could master this new language, there was already a tendency to be impatient...

In the split light curtain, the dozen or so ships that were farther away at this time seemed to show some kind of obvious attack posture, and captured bursts of spatial fluctuations in different directions;

When the perceptual circle extends later.

In sight, there were dozens of pitch-black shuttle-type ships of the same specification, which appeared in an encirclement posture in the airspace of about a million kilometers of distance between the upper and lower sides of their own side.

And the elves don't want to fight here for no reason, if they really want to fight, they have to figure out the specific situation first.

Therefore, at this time, the stump of the Beastmaster was operated in reverse, in a form that directly acted on the mind, transmitted the information that he wanted to express, and sent it to the ship that originally communicated with them through the communication system of the fortress over a million kilometers.

Previously, the casters had already discussed in an extremely brief moment, but at a time when the specific situation was unknown, they really could not come to a conclusion that would ensure that nothing was lost;

So at this moment, they can only vaguely say,

[We have no malicious intent, only because the navigation system has malfunctioned to get lost here, can you ask for some help from your group?] For example, tell us where exactly is this star field? 】

After a short delay back and forth, the state of the meat worm after receiving the message was reflected in the light curtain;

And at this moment, I saw that the originally smooth epidermis on its body suddenly cracked inexplicably, and turned into small particles like maggots, squirming densely inside and outside its body;

But in an instant, it was the same as before, and it returned to the same state of integration as before.

"What the hell is this? What the hell is going on with it? ”

Although there was no real sense of threat, Nesta experienced a physical discomfort in the instantaneous changes;

To put it simply, I just feel a little disgusting...

"A polymeric organism, perhaps? Or is it just a special ability? ”

Aishara shook her head, indicating that she didn't know, but then continued,

"Now the focus is on what exactly is meant by 'strong in the dark', and what does the suffix 'group' mean, business? Military? Or a crime? ”

"Although the Beastmaster's knowledge of all spirits is easy to use, information like this is easily distorted, but it is better than not knowing anything;" Nesta pondered, "Besides, I think something is a little wrong with this group, although the name is a literal translation of the disturbance, but it also expresses something somewhat, right?" ”

"Yes, it doesn't feel like some serious force" The Convergence of Cutting-Edge Spellcasters, Yu's current dominant consciousness seems to be Konzalo, and he also answered at this time, "But I said that you guys, did you accept the setting of 'extraterrestrial civilization creatures' so easily?" Shouldn't we be a little more shocked? ”

"What's the use of being shocked?" Nesta shook her head and replied, "Let's get over this hurdle first." ”

"'Crossing over'? Do you think they have the ability to threaten us? Aishara asked, confused.

"To be honest, I don't know, but you have to think about the bad side, don't you?"

Their communication took place in the heart, and with the extremely rapid efficiency of the exchange of information, it did not take much time for these few words, and the reply from the other side finally came again.

The unnamed flesh worm sent a message,

[You can help, provided that you disarm and unarm, and then leave the ship on our lead ship; 】

[We need to board the ship to inspect the hull, if there are no problems, the group will give you a star map and approve the release.] 】

[This is an ultimatum, please make a decision within three universal atomic points, and if it expires, you will be judged to be acting malicious.] 】

~~~~~~~~~

"Isn't there any sincerity, let's disarm and abandon the ship? It's full of malice. ”

After a more fluid translation between the inner and outer wheels, the dominant consciousness of the combined body of the tip caster had turned into fangs, and he said in his mind with an inexplicable meaning,

"However, the unit of time in his words just now seems to have a prefix that expresses the meaning of 'universal', right?"

"yes, I noticed it too"

Nesta responded positively to this,

"Maybe there is a situation where there is a need for 'universal time', such as... The universe is far more lively than we think? ”

"Quite possibly, and I think it's an opportunity," Sharptooth groaned.

"What do you want to say?" Aishara asked.

"You are the body of the projection, although Nesta is an entity, but in fact it is just a clone with a small proportion, and the remaining spellcasters of us have also left more than half of the bodies in the more than 100 strongholds in the rear;"

In reality, the fangs rubbed against the chin of the body, and continued to express in the mind,

"So for us, all the bodies in the ship can be discarded, right? So why not just go along with them? ”

"If it's just our malicious guessing, that's fine, after all, the traditional conventions of other interstellar societies may just be like this, so after doing the technical precautions they should have, let them board the ship and board the ship, and check and inspect, it doesn't hurt for us to cooperate, maybe we can make a friend to find a way;"

"But if it's just pure malice, then why don't we follow along and see what happens? The worst result is nothing more than giving up this body, if you can take this opportunity to have a deeper understanding of the current state of the universe, it will be a lot of money, do you think? ”

I have to say that the idea of fangs is quite attractive, and it immediately hooked the interest of the four consciousnesses on the scene.

"What do you think, Aisara? Is it to fight a battle with unknown outcome and gamble to ensure victory, but also catch alive and ask for useful information? ”

Nesta asked,

"Or do you just follow them and see who they are, where they are based, and what role the 'group' plays in the universe? Provided, of course, that they really want to capture and imprison us alive, rather than opening fire as soon as we leave the fortress. ”

"Yes, but you have to be careful"

Hearing this, Aishara pondered for a moment and finally replied in the affirmative,

"Our understanding of the universe is too shallow, and we don't know if they have the means to directly erase consciousness, and if there is even the slightest clue, we must immediately destroy this part of the body."

"Understood, we'll have an instantaneous self-destruct program in place." Nesta nodded affirmatively.

"Wait a minute. The council's decision has been formed, and the mainstream technological route of the universe is still unknown, but we still need to destroy all the equipment related to the Shroud, Divine Grace, and Inscription first, and transform the entire ship into a pure physical technology ship, as for whether they believe it or not, it doesn't matter; ”

Aishara continued,

"There is also a brain algorithm center, route records along the way, flesh and metal synthesis capsule, elven germ cell bank, and germ cell bank of other creatures. All of them should also be destroyed. ”

"If it's certain that they're malicious and show that they're going to take you away, then they'll destroy the entire fortress."

"Understood, then you can directly disperse the projection body and withdraw your consciousness, and we have to hide the ultra-long-range projection ability first."

Nodding at Nesta and the other two bodies, Azhara's projection dissipated, leaving only three large and small bodies in the entire fortress, and they also looked at each other and began to act according to the previous plan.

But Nesta did not give the other party a yes or no answer at the first time, but gambled that the other party, whether it was good or bad, should have made a confirmation inquiry before the time limit arrived;

And they did wait, and just as this series of transformations and destruction was completed, a communication entered the reserved information channel again.

[The time has come, please reply to you immediately.] 】

"It's done, the measurement target of the 'standard atomic fraction' has been confirmed, so reply to them as planned?" The collection of high-level spellcasters was reported as soon as possible.

"Send it, try to get us at least 4 more minutes." Nesta responded.

"Understood~"

[We agree to be examined, but please give twenty minutes of time for us to reassure the crew.] 】

[Yes, but we'll only wait for 10.] 】

"Promise him, it's almost enough for eight lights." The sound of fangs came from nowhere to be seen.

"Understood~"

~~~~~~

In the following Eight Lights, the fortress ship has undergone a change that can be called a 'great technological degradation', and the elves themselves have become very different.

The degenerate hull of the white dwarf star was abandoned, degraded to nanoscale materials, and returned to the 500 km diameter mode, and completely revoked all functional and controlled inscription structures, and incarnated into a hull controlled by physical science;

The propulsion system is divided into two, namely the pure technology side plasma engine, which occupies a lot of space, and the pure technology side jump system, which greatly reduces the effect;

The same is true for fusion reactors, all of which have become magnetically confined structures and have increased in size;

On the offensive and defensive ends, the inscription and charisma array systems have been replaced with electromagnetic and force field shields, and the weapons have been downgraded to plasma cannons, high-energy lasers, high-convergence kinetic energy cannons, etc.;

The intelligent brain of the central control system has also changed greatly, and has become a pure technology model of semiconductor integrated circuits combined with binary algorithms;

In the previous 'attack and defense mode', the core body of scientific research equipment that was dormant due to the collapse of the hull was simply destroyed this time;

In terms of biological samples, the germ cells and tissues of monsters, animals and plants are eaten, and the germ cells of elves are temporarily stored in the stomach pouch, and they will be directly decomposed when there is a disagreement.

All in all, after this series of transformations, the hull did not have a capacity surplus due to the banning of a large number of units, but was crammed with bloated central control, energy, reserves, engines and other components in the great technological degradation, and the functionality and reliability shrank to a miserable level.

In the process of the hull change, Nesta consulted with the other two casters and came to the conclusion that at least 100 people were needed to make it reasonable;

Therefore, in order to reduce their own flaws, everyone has divided a total of more than 100 male and female clones, and specially set up different appearances, figures, personalities, names, relationships, etc., as if they are really irrelevant individuals.

Since the newly promoted less than ten cutting-edge spellcasters have not yet been filled with material on a large scale due to environmental problems, even after merging, they are not as heavy as Nesta's clones, and even the remaining twenty or so high-level casters are not as heavy as they are;

In addition, the three parties are in more than 100 strongholds along the way, and they also leave their clones with minimal activity and spell casting abilities.

All in all, the total tonnage of the elves in the ship at this time is only less than 5,000 tons, so the average weight of the more than 100 new bodies this time is 45 tons and about 5.5 meters high;

These three parties are the bodies that have undergone superficial fusion before differentiating, so the elves present all have three parallel consciousnesses at the same time, among which the consciousness belonging to Nesta is naturally permanent, and the other two will change with the rotation of inner and outer consciousness;

Therefore, for the sake of the consistency of the behavior of all parties' bodies, Nesta will become the direct controller of these bodies, for him who can control even hundreds of millions of doppelgangers freely, even if each body has a different identity and behavior mode, it is still very easy to control after separating a full-time thread.

At the same time, his huge main body, which was still more than eight hundred light-years away, suddenly muttered as if sleepwalking in the training cabin,

"Let's change it again, at least not to show the appearance of an elf."

As his thoughts flowed, the clones on the Black Hole Exploration Ship, which already contained more than forty individual cells, were transformed again in a few breaths

Their purple skin, purple eyes, and purple hair are gone, their pointed ears and vampire-like fangs are gone, and the system of four lungs and two hearts that is habitually set up inside them has also been canceled;

Instead, it is almost like a human in a previous life.

The complexion is brown, yellow, black and white, the eyes are blue, green, black and brown, and the hair color is also the same, and the height is also compressed to about 1.7-2.2 meters, and most of the weight is condensed into the bones;

The body's energy-powered structure has degraded from an ultra-miniature fission furnace to its original decay mode, and there is space in the center of each bone to preserve the super-heavy metals refined to the extreme.

At the same time, the vast majority of the remaining cells returned to a normal state, and the circulation of the internal organs in the body also changed to the traditional heart, liver, spleen, stomach, kidney, and intestinal mode in the previous life.

After that, the bodies closed their eyes slightly, and when they opened their eyes again, they first took a layer of skin, a hair, a strand of hair, and a drop of blood from the surface of their bodies and took them to their hands, and saw with their own eyes that these tissues were completely destroyed to the scum in less than a millisecond, and then nodded with a little satisfaction.

The only thing that is a little difficult to deal with seems to be the more than forty magic crystals of all sizes, which are all organoids raised by the spellcasters little by little after genetic recombination, and his own is still on the side of the Republic Headquarters, otherwise the things with a diameter of several meters are really difficult to deal with.

After thinking about it and discussing it with the minds in her body, Nesta simply threw them all into the fusion furnace and destroyed them, except that the casters needed to work hard to condense them later;

When he had done all this, the time of the Eight Lantern Points would also end, and Nesta, as if he had remembered something at the last moment, directly picked up the remnants of the Beastmaster and quickly devoured them by more than a hundred splits.

At this moment, a spaceship, several times larger than the shuttle ship, slowly approached its outer edge and landed on the side of the fortress like a fly attached to a watermelon.

"Whew"

Not too nervous to breathe a sigh of relief, Nesta prepared for the new unknown that was coming before him;

As for which direction the follow-up will develop, it depends on whether these aliens are well-intentioned, cold, or malicious;

Next, after confirming the long-range self-destruction facilities again, he took great pains to put on various civilian and military spacesuits, sat on the internal communication lines of the fortress, and went directly to the direction of the landing point of the opponent's spaceship.

"Very well, we're human now."

(End of chapter)