Chapter 1,203 Capture
Nothing major happened in the next few days. Everything went on as usual, including all research and development projects and military preparations and increase in personnel. Although there were still many things that needed to be dealt with on a daily basis, there were no emergencies that popped up every now and then. The situation is already very gratifying. If possible, I really hope that these days can be as long as possible - studying world peace in the morning, and taking the nine-tailed husky and a bunch of naughty children to the park in the afternoon. Such a life can If you continue, you will have nothing else to ask for.
The news from Tianjie City confirmed Sandora's speculation: Alleria did not find the ancient equipment. At the same time, Gaia also checked the home planet again and confirmed that the thing was not on the technology side, so in the end everything pointed to the only possibility: the Merovans had stolen the precious communication array, and now all we have left is I'm worried that they have already smashed the baby and played with it. If this matter is taken seriously, Shandora will really smash every planet of the Merova people.
There hasn't been much movement on the Fallen Apostles side for the time being. Although there is evidence that the other party is also actively mobilizing its troops and may be doing the same war preparations as us, the frequency of their border activities has dropped significantly. This should be a deterrent. Due to the pressure brought to them by the sudden appearance of Father God last time, it is also possible that they need time to buffer the losses in the last ambush battle and to complete the research and development projects at hand. In short, no matter what, a tense "state of peace" is spreading. Everyone knows that a huge war is inevitable and will break out at any time, but at least for now, no one will act rashly. Under such pressure, all the empire's military projects are accelerating. The six main legions and the independent royal fleet are rapidly changing equipment. Sandora hopes to complete the strengthening and reorganization of these troops before the war breaks out, giving them Add new equipment and main ships, increase the combat effectiveness of mysterious units, and increase targeted confrontation training against abyssal units... No one knows how fast the Fallen Apostles move in preparing for war, so the only way is to decide that they are not enough quick. Then devote unlimited power to future wars.
On the other hand, Shadow City is waiting for news about sisters Asida and Asidora.
They have been setting out for nearly a week. Patrolling in the void area of the Far Frontier for such a long time is a very risky behavior, and as the patrol time increases, the risk continues to increase. The "white zone" is a blind spot in the void that has not been explored and cannot provide immediate support. The empire has zero power in the white zone and its level of understanding is zero. There may be a super-large abyss gate hidden there that no one knows about, or there may be another squadron of the fallen apostles hidden there. Of course, there may also be hidden the Merova rebels who are ready to make a move. The Space Twins only have a few Fifth Fleet immigration ships that are basically without combat power - they are all just tinkering with each other to get on the road. Their only reliance is their super teleportation ability. Therefore, they must be infinitely cautious and doubly careful, and the longer this state lasts. The chance of an accident is also greater - and we also have to consider the issue of "waste". Senior officers like Asida and Asidora and their elite troops cannot waste too much in that place just to serve as fishhooks. More energy, if the Merova people never show up, I'm afraid they can only consider asking the sisters to withdraw. But now this decoy fleet has been floating in the White Zone for so long. If the Merova people were really outside the Far Frontier, they should have discovered these spaceships long ago, and they should also have received the signals from the ancient dormancy facility. Recognizing the signal, the reason why no action has been taken so far is probably out of extreme caution. Um. They were expected to be cautious. After all, they found the Fifth Fleet in an extremely remote place. However, after the latter escaped, they suddenly appeared at their door like this by "coincidence", and it seemed that the most important immigration ship was also with them. The large army is separated. No matter who this pie-in-the-sky thing appears in front of, the other party must be careful. I just hope that the Merova people will not be too cautious. If they wait a few more days...
Then Asida and Asidora probably don't know how to continue acting.
In the end, however, good luck was on our side, after continuing to drift in the White Zone for so long. The Merovans finally gave up their doubts. Appeared……
They must have been following the immigrant ships for a long time to make sure there were no hordes of thugs hiding near them. The Asida sisters waited until the last moment and simply ordered to shut down the main engine of the colonial giant ship, and ordered people to blow up a set of shield generators on the giant ship. This was done to make the giant ship seriously damaged. The illusion gradually disintegrates in the void. The shutdown of the main engine means that the giant ship can no longer escape the scene. The collapse of the shield generator means that the order field is about to be overloaded. The giant ship is about to be swallowed by the void. The Asida sisters are actually hidden actors. They put a It was difficult to tell the truth from the slow-moving void shipwreck, so the Melova people finally lost their composure - once the colonial giant ship collapsed, the ancient dormant cabin might be thrown somewhere, so they had no choice but to rush away come out.
Well, two hundred and thirty-two mothership-level main spaceships and thousands of small drones rushed out...
In the headquarters, two sisters stood in front of me as if they were carved out of the same mold. The other had his head slightly lowered, and an atmosphere full of resentment lingered around his body.
"So, in order to seize a colonial ship and deal with two or three sampan frigates that were about to sink, they dispatched a legion of troops..." I spoke erratically and looked at the sky, "This is the rhythm of nuclear bombs hitting mosquitoes. ah……"
"I was shocked at the time," Sister Asida replied in a binary synchronized voice. "When we dispatched the decoy spacecraft, we originally considered preventing the enemy from attracting large forces, but I didn't expect them to be so... "
"It's so funny." I couldn't help but lie down on the table and put my hands on my forehead. "So in the end you captured a small plane and two prisoners, and the rest of the army ran away, right?"
"My subordinate failed to complete the task, please punish me!" The two sisters immediately said a very classic sentence - I had already guessed their reaction, so I immediately waved my hands, "Well, it's not your fault, it's wrong The enemy was even more funny than expected. Alright, is it necessary to dispatch an army to intercept a few civilian ships? Then tell me how you managed to knock down a small drone company among thousands of troops. , I feel like you are about to adapt a personal heroism blockbuster."
Sister Asida solemnly performed a military salute and recounted their heroic deeds:
"At that time, the shipboard radar suddenly detected an alarming materialization phenomenon outside the order field, and then the entire trap formation was enveloped by a larger order field. At that time, we felt that the situation might be wrong, but the order of the Merova people The field technology seems to be almost the same as that of the Empire. They completed the encirclement of the formation and the jump of their own fleet almost instantly. We were surprised to find that we were enveloped by hundreds of motherships and massive small ships. In this case , according to the original plan, it is impossible to take away all these trapped enemies without arousing suspicion in Melova. We do not have enough power. The auxiliary tactical program recommended abandoning the mission, which was indeed the case at the time. The safest choice. But later we adopted a more risky plan - after all, we wouldn't have anything to trap the Merova people out next time.
"Using the high-speed reaction capabilities of the space raiders, we created continuous explosions all over the colonial ship, giving the illusion that the crew of the ship were preparing to die together and that the ship was about to self-destruct.
“Then we blew up the connecting bridge between the front and rear sections of the giant ship, exposing the entrance to Gnaku.
"The Merovian assault formation attempted to break into Gnaku in a suicidal manner. Rescue the dormant capsule.
"Then we detonated all the bombs at hand, destroying the entire colonial ship in 0.35 seconds, and also ordered other escort ships to self-destruct."
I laughed: "At the moment of the explosion, you pulled the Merova spaceship that had rushed into the giant ship Gnaku and jumped into the portal. It was a critical moment - well done. In that situation, there is really only one way. It works. During this process, the enemy should not be aware of your existence, right?"
"Yes," Sister Asida nodded. "There is no time difference. Space transmission starts at the moment when the order field collapses. Therefore, from the outside world, the missing spacecraft is swallowed by the void because the order field is torn apart. We blew up everything we could, Melo The Wa people will not find any fragments, nor will they find that there is no one in the colonial ship at all. The void is devouring extremely fast, and the on-site explosion is unprecedentedly powerful. They will not have this chance. In addition, we have also rescued the ancient The hibernation module...but it was very damaged in the explosion, and that's where we made a mistake."
Sister Asida said this in a relaxed tone. But I can imagine what a race against time it was. In order to prevent the Merova people from discovering the truth, they had to wait until the order field collapsed to initiate teleportation. The collapse of the order field of the colonial giant ship would also destroy all other small spacecraft within the range. The order field, so as long as there was a moment of delay, all the Merova spacecraft would really turn gray, and they seized this blink of time to collapse an order field, and Merova was about to be swallowed by the void. The spacecraft was pulled over - the crew inside were still alive. What's even more crazy is that these crazy sisters actually rescued the ancient dormant cabin. I guess their APM must be at least four digits.
I asked Sister Asida to report to the headquarters and then go back to rest (of course I guess they would also stop by the canteen for a meal or something), and I got up and went to the second research room in the staff center. The Merova fighter jet that the sisters finally captured has been sent there and is now being inspected by experts. We need to find the jump coordinates of the Merova world from the fighter's shipboard computer. It is estimated that this is a very troublesome technical task - no matter what civilization, the most confidential thing among their aircraft is the coordinates of their own home world. The Lowa people were single-handedly supported by the empire, and they knew how important it was to protect the coordinates of their homeland.
Just as he had guessed, a group of experts from the Second Research Laboratory were having a headache over the captured Merova fighter jet, while Sandora was watching at the scene in person.
"How's it going? The navigation system is very encrypted?" I leaned over and asked, my eyes falling on the gravity-free platform in the middle of the room. The Merova fighter plane looked slightly smaller than the empire's individual fighter plane, and it looked like a The flattened egg is roughly oval-shaped, with one end narrower and the other wider. At the wider end, the fuselage expands into a hemispherical shape, which is probably a cockpit or something like that. There is no conventional engine visible on this small aircraft. Instead, there is a faint light belt along the outer edge of its oval shape. This ring-shaped light belt is very similar to the Empire's stepless vector engine. It is probably about the same. Things: As an ancient vassal that has been ruled by the empire for so long, the Merova people's own technology tree should have been completely destroyed in the old empire era, and the technology in their hands should all be copycat versions of Xiling technology.
This small aircraft, which looks similar to the UFO in the old urban legend, is painted in gold, and two-thirds of the surface of the aircraft is painted with gorgeous patterns in bright colors. For advanced civilizations, all space weapons are not locked and launched based on vision. Therefore, any kind of paint used on space vehicles has no impact, but it is indeed the first time I have seen this behavior of covering a small aircraft with this seemingly meaningless and flashy golden coat of arms, and on this aircraft On the front end, we also saw the distorted imperial emblem - it was obviously deformed based on the Xiling military emblem, but it was almost distorted to the point of being completely unrecognizable.
"Their navigation computer uses an encryption method similar to that of the old empire, and the encryption is broken once," Sandora replied. "It seems that the Merova people are very careful about protecting the coordinates of their homeland. As long as this encryption device detects any illegal reading behavior, even just once, it will immediately self-destruct. Its judgment system is a modified imperial device. It’s a bit difficult to crack.”
"Hey. I didn't expect the Merova people to be quite capable of doing anything." I sighed, but there was nothing too surprising in my heart. Maybe the Merova people only inherited some fragments of the old empire, but after all, they were the If the First Familia, coupled with tens of thousands of years of development, can still be manipulated at will, it will really be a shame for the cultivation of the empire back then.
"Actually, it's not impossible to crack the navigation computer on this. It just takes too much time. Use the fuzzy computing function of the Xiling host. Theoretically, it is possible to decipher any encryption device that can be described, but I am worried that it will take too long. There will always be problems," Sandora glanced at me and continued talking to herself, "I know how the two sisters captured this fighter plane. There was no problem with the capture process itself, but the overall trapping plan still remains. There is something worthy of doubt. As time goes by, the Merova people may start to wonder what happened to the few lone spaceships that 'happened' to appear in front of them. After all, there are no such things in the far reaches. It’s too far away from the empire area back then. And it’s not too difficult to correct the coordinates of your own world.”
I nodded understandingly. His eyes once again crossed the various devices in front of him. The side armor of the captured Merova fighter plane had been removed, revealing the dark pipelines inside. Junior assistant technicians fix a set of non-contact scanning devices a few centimeters in front of these pipelines. In this relatively safe way, the data stream of the target device can be "copied" to the lower-level device and then uploaded to the host. To decipher. The slight sound of equipment running echoed in the research room, and Paopao's spirited voice suddenly came from the spiritual link: "Don't worry about the child's father! Isn't it just such a gadget? Wait until I get my hands on it." After the ship's simulation mission is completed, I will deal with it myself..."
I suddenly became even more worried...
"Okay, okay, your load is already high enough. Don't worry about this. If the mother machine fails, it will be a real disaster." I cut off the chirping voice in the spiritual link and turned to look at Sandora, "Where are the other two prisoners?"
Shandora shrugged: "Where else can it be, in the fourth area..."
Me: "...I'm going to go!"
"Don't worry, he's still alive and can live for a long time. Lilina is leading them to visit the fourth area."
I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead: "Then you have to go and take a look... Lilina's dark guy seems to have finally found something fun this time."
After leaving the headquarters, I set off directly to District 4 - the entire Shadow City... no, in the entire multi-dimensional world, I'm afraid it would be difficult to find a place that could stop children from crying at night - the Human Rights Freezing Zone.
The so-called Fourth District is a definite existence in the minds of the residents of Shadow Space, but everyone would rather regard it as a place where urban ghost stories occur. Its existence is public, but no one wants to have anything to do with this place. . The fourth area is located in the secondary parallel space of the Shadow City. It overlaps with the east city area of the Shadow City. You need to go through a space door with special permissions or be guided to enter. It looks like the Shadow City was just built: dead and cold. ,weird. This place is a nightmare prepared for the guilty and vicious prisoners of war. Entering the fourth area is equivalent to entering the gap between the living and the dead.
This kind of place is essential for an empire. Peace and justice often require a sufficient amount of shadow and cruelty as a guarantee. We cannot guarantee that every inch of territory ruled by the empire strictly adheres to the Xiling Code. In many cases, extreme crimes and mouths that had to be pried open with torture were troublesome things, so even the Empire needed prisons and wardens, and of course execution grounds. And the fourth area... is at least the most extreme place among all the "execution grounds" I know. Few people are so sinful that they have to be sent to the Fourth District to be "purified", but as long as they are sent to this place, no one will last long.
The two Merova prisoners of war were unfortunately sent here.
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