Chapter 504: Shepard's Suspicion, About to Face the Big Boss
"The second lieutenant is a little...seems a little sensitive..." Liana said hesitantly.
"It's actually normal for him to have such feedback." Shepard actually understood Xie Yuan's ambivalent mentality. "On the one hand, he is the same age as me, and today I am already a lieutenant colonel, but he is still a second lieutenant, and he is very unbalanced.
normal."
"This is different! You were promoted normally because you have a lot of merit." Tali felt that Xie Yuan was a little unreasonable. "He doesn't have such outstanding achievements as you, so why would he be unreasonably jealous?"
But Liana corrected Tali: "Actually, Second Lieutenant Yuan was also a meritorious non-commissioned officer on Yidian Prime, and his merits were not much worse than Shepard's.
But the only thing that seems to be limiting him is luck, and his promotion seems to be very slow."
"You really have the qualifications to be an intelligence collector."
Shepard marveled at Liana's ability, but he knew in his heart that luck was not the real reason for Xie Yuan's poor career, but prejudice.
Tully also understood: "That's right, it's really strange for a second lieutenant with such terrifying strength."
"We have a rather complicated situation, and his problem cannot be explained simply at once."
But then Shepard showed a playful smile: "Why do I feel that his sudden outburst was premeditated? He was definitely planning something."
"Don't let me catch you, otherwise... hum!"
In the corner, Xie Yuan, who had just put the Reknai soldier insect that had been beaten half to death into the space, suddenly shuddered.
"Yes! Who is talking about me?"
…
In fact, Shepard's hunch was right. Xie Yuan's outburst was indeed not unprovoked, but he deliberately found an excuse to act alone.
Even if this is a poor excuse.
The moment Xie Yuan saw this kind of Reknai soldier bug, Xie Yuan received a rare random mission from the system.
"Collection mission 1: Capture Reknai soldier bugs, worker bugs, 10 star coins (credit points) per soldier bug, and 1 star coin (credit point) per worker bug. There is no limit to the quantity."
"Collection Mission 2 (optional): Capture a Reknai Queen, collection reward: Queen Pheromone (can briefly control any swarm of Zerg species once.)"
The second Xie Yuan has to choose whether to do it or not depending on the situation, because the rewards are very average, and the insect queen is not that easy to deal with.
But the first one must be done, these are all money!
Raiknai, today you can only belong to me!
When Shepard's three-person team arrived nearby and found the switchboard of the virtual intelligence "Mira", and followed the instructions to turn on the power supply in various maze-like pipes, the road was quiet.
"It seems... there is nothing happening around, everything is so peaceful. Seriously, where are the bugs? Where are the geth?" Tully looked at the smooth road and couldn't help feeling a little chilly.
This kind of calmness is too cautious. If it is really so peaceful along the way, then why are the turrets at the exit facing directly to prevent your own people from coming out?
"I think Xie Yuan must have walked through these places, so he was so quiet." Liana gave her understanding.
"How long have we been apart? What was used to kill this?" Tali felt a little incredible, "And since he has been here, why didn't he help us restore the energy?"
"I guess he doesn't understand the operating procedures well and is afraid of making mistakes, or he wants us to be confused for a longer time."
Shepard gave her guess, but she was also curious about what kind of killer weapon Xie Yuan had hidden that could allow him to sweep this place clean and tidy as if it were an uninhabited land.
In fact, except for some geth troops who were beaten to pieces on the roadside, Shepard and the others never encountered a bug again, not even the corpse or even the remains of the bug.
There are some body fluids of the Reknai soldiers left in some places... I guess.
People can't help but wonder, what did Xie Yuan do to these bugs?
But nothing has been answered yet, even if Shepard resumes operation of the reactor, puts the automatic equipment online, and the buses resume operation.
But when they arrived at the tram, they still didn't see Xie Yuan.
Now Shepard couldn't bear it anymore. She immediately connected with Xie Yuan. She couldn't accept being left behind: "Yuan! Where are you?"
But what filled her ears at this moment was endless "squeaking" sounds, noisy and sharp.
This made her a little worried: "Yuan, please reply! Yuan, are you still there?"
Fortunately, after this reminder, Xie Yuan's reply finally came: "Lieutenant Colonel, I'm here, what's wrong?"
"Where are you?!" Shepard asked with a frown.
"Me?! I'm at the "Crack" research station!" Xie Yuan's reply surprised Sanshui.
"But...but didn't the bus just start running?" Shepard looked at the passenger car next to him, wondering how he got there.
"Oh! Leader, it's like this. The buses are not running, but there are still entrances and exits to the maintenance channel." Xie Yuan explained cheerfully, "I crawled all the way through the maintenance channel, and now I have arrived at the fissure station.
.
There are so many bugs here, it should be Raikni’s real research site, and the Queen of Bugs must be here.”
"Breathe... breathe, hold on, Yuan, I'll come to you right away." Shepard took a deep breath and immediately decided to take over Xie Yuan.
But this time Xie Yuan refused: "No, Shepard, my hiding method is quite special. Bugs can't see me. Your joining will disrupt my arrangement."
Hurry to the Rift Station to appease the local civilians. Now I have to contain these bugs for the civilians in the institute. A two-pronged approach can appease them and you can get the clues you want.
Go quickly! Maybe after you calm them down, I can come out later. "
"Hey! Yuan?! Yuan! Mad, you dare to hang up on me?!" Shepard angrily pulled the bolt of his gun and ordered directly to the two people behind him, "Let's go! If we find him, I'm going to kill him.
Beat him up!"
Liana and Tully looked at each other, smiled knowingly, and then followed Shepard into the bus.
Ten minutes later, Shepard arrived at the Rift Station and met the security captain J. Vitalis who was now responsible for protecting the surviving personnel of the Rift Station.
Not surprisingly, Captain Vitalis didn't see Xie Yuan at all.
But when he heard that his teammate was now in a place full of buzzing insects, Captain Vitalis' expression changed.
"Where is he?!" Vitalis was very nervous, because if a large number of soldiers really gathered, it would be difficult to fight against them with their small strength.
But Shepard didn't know either, because Xie Yuan just told them that he was already in the "rift" research station, but he didn't come from the bus, but from the maintenance track.
But unexpectedly, Vitalis insisted that this was an excuse: "The service from the Rift Station to the Central Research Station has always been fully automatic, and the manual maintenance channel was abandoned a hundred years ago.
If he really arrives...doesn't he want to die?!"
At this time, Vitalis had a look of disbelief on his face. He told Shepard that the only way for him to get here without a bus was to crawl along the track from the freezing cold environment outside.
But the outside is a level 1 biohazardous environment. After the operation was stopped, it did not enter maintenance mode, so there was no heating equipment along the way. Such a long journey... normal people cannot even stay in the wild for 5 minutes.
Xie Yuan is wearing protective clothing, but...how much fighting power does he really have after coming here?
It's hard for Shepard to say that he trusts Xie Yuan - in that kind of raging insect tide, even he who is in good condition may not survive.
It just so happens that Xie Yuan has maintained radio silence!
There is no other way, Shepard's three-person team can only resolve the plight of this civilian team first according to the agreement with Xie Yuan.
In fact, the Reknai crisis did not just happen recently. Double Helix Company had earlier discovered a Reknai Zerg queen egg.
Researchers focused on studying the ability of the Queen Bug to control soldier bugs and worker bugs, and used it to hatch a large number of soldier bugs and worker bugs - they wanted to gain this ability to control biological weapons.
"The Rebirth of Financial Giants"
But the result is that they screwed up!
It seemed that hatching without the participation of the queen bug would drive these soldier bugs and worker bugs into a frenzy, so they broke through the restrictions and began to wreak havoc throughout the research station.
Even though the security captain immediately restricted the operation of the bus, the insect swarm still followed the track and captured the central research station.
If it weren't for the fact that the bugs couldn't adapt to the cold winter in Novilia, it's estimated that Novilia would have become Reknai's new base camp by the time Shepard arrived here.
It was under this situation that Saren, who noticed the abnormality, sent Benicia to deal with the matter.
Shepard began to engage in heart-centered activities, first helping the poisoned and injured, and being entrusted by the attending physician Dr. Cohen, he took the initiative to act as an action team and returned to the sealed office of Double Helix employees to search for antidote.
And successfully led to a killer who has been lurking among the scientists.
Alestia Alice, a guy who claims to be studying genetic variation among scientists, is actually ordered by the matriarch Benicia to eliminate Shepard.
Because Shepard was now completely trapped in the secret room, and she thought she had found an opportunity, she hid the secret nearby. Asari commandos and geth death squads attacked and killed Shepard.
But this guy who is over a hundred years old has no age and no self-awareness - how difficult Shepard, a heavily armed Star Alliance war hero, is.
Five minutes later, the burning corpses lying on the ground were all from Alestia's side, including himself.
But unfortunately, one of the Ilanus security sergeants who was guarding the exit of the office, a Turian, was murdered like this - it is really unacceptable that an innocent person died because he blocked the road.
But the benefit to Post-Dr. Cohen after giving away the antidote was still great - Dr. Cohen was willing to give Shepard his pass, allowing him to enter the maintenance area smoothly.