ww.x.om Nothing major happened in the next few days. Everything was going 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 was no risk taking every now and then.
The emergencies that have emerged are 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 for a walk in the afternoon.
Park, if life can continue like this, I have nothing else to ask for.
The news from the Celestial 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 Merova people have stolen the precious communication array. Now all we have left is to worry about whether they have smashed the treasure and played with it. If this matter is taken seriously, Sandora will really take it.
The Merova people smashed every planet for fun.
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 tight "peace"
"State" is spreading, and everyone knows that a huge war is inevitable and can break out at any time, but at least for now, no one will act rashly. Under such pressure, all military projects in the empire are accelerating, and six
The main army and the independent royal fleet are rapidly changing their equipment. Sandora hopes to complete the strengthening and reorganization of these troops before the outbreak of the war, add new equipment and main ships to them, increase the combat effectiveness of mysterious units, and increase the number of enemies.
Targeted confrontation training of abyss 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 fast enough. Then invest unlimited power in the future war.
On the other hand, Shadow City is waiting for news about sisters Asida and Asidora.
They have been setting off 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 area" is unexplored,
There is also a blind spot in the void that cannot provide immediate support. The empire has zero power in the white area, and its level of understanding is also zero. There may be a super-large abyss gate that no one knows about, or there may be another squadron of the fallen apostle hidden there, of course.
It is also possible that there are hidden Merova rebels who are ready to move. The Space Twins only have a few Fifth Fleet immigration ships that are basically without combat power-they are all patchworks that can barely get on the road. Their only reliance is their super teleportation ability.
. Therefore, they must be infinitely cautious and double-cautious, and the longer this state lasts, the greater the chance of accidents - and we must also consider the issue of "waste", such as Asida and Asidora.
Senior military officers and their elite troops can't waste too much energy on acting as fishhooks there. If the Merova people never show up, I'm afraid they can only consider asking the sisters to withdraw. However,
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 identification sent by the ancient dormant facility.
signal, the reason why no action has been taken so far should be out of extreme caution. Well. It is expected to be cautious. After all, they found the Fifth Fleet in an extremely remote place, but after the latter escaped, it suddenly turned out to be such a "coincidence"
"The ground appeared at his door, and it seemed that the most important immigration ship was separated from the main force. No matter who this pie-in-the-sky thing appears in front of, the other party must be more careful. I just hope that
The Merova people should not be too cautious. If they wait a few more days...
Then Asida and Asidora probably don't know how to continue acting.
However, in the end, good luck was still on our side. After wandering in the White Zone for so long, the Merova people finally gave up their doubts and appeared...
They must have been following and observing the immigrant ships for a long time to make sure that there were no groups of thugs hidden near the latter. And the Asida sisters waited until the last moment and simply ordered to shut down the main engine of the colonial ship.
, and ordered people to blow up a set of shield generators on the giant ship. This was done to give the illusion that the giant ship was seriously damaged and gradually disintegrating in the void. The main engine was shut down, which meant that the giant ship could no longer escape the scene.
The collapse of the shield generator means that the order field is about to be overloaded, and the giant ship is about to be swallowed by the void. The Asida sisters are actually hidden actors. They performed a slow-moving void shipwreck in such a way that it was difficult to tell the truth from the false.
The Merova people finally lost their composure - once the colonial ship collapsed, the ancient dormant cabin might be thrown somewhere, so they had no choice but to rush 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, looking 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 more amusing than expected. After all, it was necessary to dispatch an army to intercept a few civilian aircraft... Then tell me how you defeated a small drone in the midst of 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
, it is impossible to take away all the trapped enemies according to the original plan 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 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 bridges at the front and rear of the giant ship, exposing the entrance to Gnaku.
"The Merovian assault formation attempted to rush into Gnaku in a suicidal manner to rescue the dormant capsule.
"Then we detonated all the bombs on hand, destroying the entire colonial ship in 0.35 seconds, and also ordered other escort ships to explode themselves."
I laughed: "At the moment of the explosion, you pulled the Merova spaceship that had already rushed into the giant ship Gnaku and jumped into the portal. It was a critical moment - well done. In that situation, this is really the only 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 was swallowed by the void because the order field was torn apart.
We blew up everything we could. The Merova people will not find any debris, nor will they find that there is no one in the colony ship. The void is devouring extremely fast, and the on-site explosion is unprecedentedly powerful. They will not have this
Chance. In addition, we also rescued the ancient dormant capsule... but it was greatly damaged in the explosion. This is where we made a mistake."
Sister Asida's tone was very relaxed when she said this. But I can imagine what a race against time it was at that time. In order to prevent the Merova people from discovering the truth, they had to wait until the order field collapsed before they could start the teleportation, and the colonial ship's
The collapse of the order field will also destroy the order fields of all other small spacecrafts within the range. Therefore, as long as there is a moment of delay, all the Merova spacecraft will be really gray, and they will seize this blink of an eye to destroy a
The order field collapsed, and the Merova spacecraft, which was about to be swallowed by the void, was pulled over - the crew inside was 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 plane 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 plane's shipboard computer. It is estimated that this will be a very troublesome technical job -
- Regardless of any civilization, the most confidential thing among their aircraft is the coordinates of their home world. The Merova people were single-handedly supported by the empire, and they know how important it is to protect the coordinates of their home world.
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 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 the cockpit. This small aircraft cannot be seen.
Instead of a conventional engine, there is a ring of light emitting a shimmering light along the outer edge of its oval. This ring-shaped light belt is very similar to the empire's stepless vector engine. It is estimated that they are similar things: as a person ruled by the empire
Having been an ancient vassal 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. It is a symbol of advanced civilization.
In other words, all space weapons do not rely on visual locking and launch. Therefore, any kind of painting used by space vehicles has no impact, but the act of painting a small aircraft with this seemingly meaningless and flashy golden coat of arms is quite inconvenient.
It is indeed the first time I have seen it, and on the front end of this aircraft, 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 recognizable.
It’s not to the point where it can come out anymore.
"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. This encryption device
As long as any illegal reading behavior is detected, even once, it will immediately self-destruct. Its judgment system is a modified imperial device, which is somewhat difficult to crack."
"Hey. I didn't expect the Merova people to be quite capable of doing something." I made a sound, but there was nothing too surprising in my mind. 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, then it would really be a disgrace to 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'm worried that it will take too long.
There will always be problems," Shandora 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 those lone spaceships that 'happened' to appear in front of them. After all, there are no such ships 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 clearly. My eyes once again crossed the various equipment in front of me. The side armor of the captured Merova fighter plane had been removed, revealing the dark pipelines inside. The low-level assistant technicians scanned a set of non-contact
The device is fixed 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 for deciphering. The slight hum of the equipment's operation echoed in the research room.
Suddenly, Paopao's spirited voice came from the mental link: "Don't worry about her father! It's just such a gadget. I'll deal with it myself after I finish the simulation mission of the deep-diving ship at hand.
it……"
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, 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 can stop children crying at night better than this - the human rights freezing zone.
The so-called Fourth District is a definite existence in the minds of the residents of the 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 Shadow City. It overlaps with the east city area of Shadow City. You need to go through a space door with special permissions or be guided to enter. It looks as if Shadow City was just built: dead silent.
Cold and 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 a mouth that has to be pried open with torture are both troublesome things, so even the empire needs prisons and wardens, and of course it also needs execution grounds. And the fourth area... at least is all the "execution grounds" that I know of.
It is the most extreme place in the world. Very few people are so evil that they have to be sent to the fourth area 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.