Chapter 1,141 The True Face of the Pursuer
"Why do people wearing imperial symbols appear in the communication screen?"
The commander-in-chief of the Fifth Fleet, the spirit creature called Cocokina suddenly changed his tone and said in a low and serious voice. The three eyes of this spirit became brighter than before, and there was a kind of Lilac halo, what kind of emotional changes does this performance mean? surprise? fear? anger? Confuse? Or both? We still don’t know yet, we can only be sure of one thing, the situation is getting really complicated.
None of us at the scene were wearing imperial uniforms, but Tavel's communication screen was suspended next to the "Parliament". She was in uniform. From the shooting angle of the communication equipment, it could be clearly seen from the Cocokina side. Tavel was wearing the uniform of an Imperial researcher, so in his eyes, the Parliament was maintaining contact with the Fifth Fleet while communicating with the Empire... Well, actually, this was the fact. It's just that this fact is revealed at the wrong time.
"Junade Council, I don't think those irrational monsters will become your new allies, but you do need to explain." Seemingly seeing no reply from the "Council", Cocokina finally couldn't help but break it again. There was silence, but before the "Parliament" could explain, Sandora stood up first and said proactively: "Commander Cocokina, I'm glad to meet you. Let me introduce myself, I am Emperor Xiling, Sandora La Kelvi Urasis, one of the rulers of the new empire, as you can see, the empire now stands with the Fourth Fleet, we belong to the same camp."
No one expected (including me) that Sandora would suddenly stand up. And by stating the matter so clearly, not to mention the stunned "Parliament" and the surrounding senior officials of the Fourth Fleet, Cocokina on the other side of the video was also dumbfounded. I guess he was not mentally prepared to accept this setting at all. After Sandora finished speaking, he started to dodge and dodge, and finally spread out his "hands" that were much wider than humans, and made a gesture to us. A gesture in confusion: "What's going on? Has the Fourth Fleet finally fallen into your hands?"
"Sooner or later, you have to make things clear. If you wait for the Fifth Fleet to evacuate to the border of the Empire before letting them discover those Imperial military stations, I'm afraid things will be more troublesome," Sandora turned her head and whispered to the "Parliament", and then looked at the communication again. device. "No, on the contrary, we just protected the Fourth Fleet from the monsters you mentioned not long ago."
Cocokina leaned her upper body in the direction of the communicator. His erratic "face" was enlarged on the holographic screen: "Empire, what on earth are you going to say?"
"The empire in your memory has been destroyed and completely collapsed," Sandora responded in a calm tone. "Now the country is no longer there, and the surviving Xiling apostles have been split into two parts. One part is the one who was hunted and killed in the past. You are the fallen, you are the rebels to us. We are the second force, the new empire that has been reorganized. Unfortunately, we are alone. And most of us didn't even know that until a few years ago. Awakening from a long slumber, unable to do anything about what happened to you. Now a new empire is rising, and is dedicated to destroying those rebels who have thrown themselves into the abyss, while doing what they can. For the world that has been harmed by the Fallen Provide shelter. The Fourth Fleet is already in the New Empire camp, and not long ago, they received your distress signal, which is why they have the current rescue plan. This is all the answers you want to know."
It’s hard for me to see any expression from a face that has three more lightbulb eyes than jelly. Coco Keena’s body language is also inexplicable to us, so no one knows what happened after the other party heard Sandora’s words. Is it doubt or simply refuse to believe it. The erratic spiritual energy in his body contracted three times regularly, and then he focused on the "Parliament": "Parliament of Yunad, I hope to get your testimony. The credibility of this matter is really shocking. suspect."
——In fact, his request for confirmation is meaningless. The "Parliament" has already stood with us, so of course the former's answer is yes, but he still hopes to get the personal recognition of his old friend. So the "Parliament" nodded firmly: "I can swear to the ancestors of the Nader people that His Majesty the Emperor is truthful."
At the same time, we heard the explanation from the "Parliament" coming from the spiritual connection: "For the Alan Eldar, the highest attitude to show their credibility is to swear an oath to the ancestor spirits of their own race. Regardless of whether it is to other races. I wonder if the weight of this oath is as important as that of the Allen Spirit Clan. This is already the most powerful move to express my attitude."
Cocokina's eyes flickered, and the three rays of light finally settled in a very dim state: "For many reasons, I should believe you. And it is indeed impossible for those monsters in the past to talk to me with such a rational attitude. There is no need for them to set up any form of scam... Then, trust is temporarily established, His Majesty the Emperor of the New Empire."
"Wow, the plan is so simple?" Qian Qian's voice sounded as always at critical moments. She was holding a huge ninth-level Rubik's Cube in her hand, as if she was ready to kill most of the day, "I Now that the toys are ready, why don’t you just tell me this?”
Sandora's mouth twitched visibly, and I quickly coaxed Qianqian aside. In fact, it really surprised me that Coco Keener believed our words in such a short period of time, but after a while, I understood the reason - in fact, strictly speaking, there is no mutual trust between the two parties at all. Coco Keener's current performance is entirely because - there is no choice.
His dilapidated fleet is being pursued. If he can't find a way out, it will be 100% destroyed. But on our side, we can at least give him 10% hope.
At the same time, as he said, the completely irrational fallen apostle would not set a trap for him in such a troublesome way (he still doesn’t know that those irrational lunatics back then really turned into a bunch of arrogant people). Not using extremely cunning villains), and there is a Yunad Council who is willing to use its greatest sincerity to vouch for Sandora's words. In this situation, it is of course self-evident whether he chooses to continue leading the fleet around or cooperate with us.
As for the hatred between the country and the family that was hunted down by the Xiling apostle back then - of course it will not be eliminated under this situation, but both sides are wise not to discuss this issue at this juncture. I believe that after the Fifth Fleet is successfully out of danger, it is time to put this issue on the table for study.
"Now I want to know the overall situation of your entire fleet, the working parameters of the void jumping device. Your precise location."
After the two sides established basic trust, Sandora immediately turned the topic to support for the Fifth Fleet and inquired about the other party's current situation in detail. in my opinion. It is basically impossible to rush to the rescue of the Fifth Fleet - the distance is too far, and even the most advanced void exploration team in the empire may not have time to offer incense to all the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Fleet while they are still hot.
Of course Sandora knew this too. Therefore, her question has eliminated the option of letting the imperial fleet rush over for reinforcements, and instead tries to guide the opponent to get rid of the pursuit first.
"We have started to upload the technical information about the fleet and it is expected to be completed in two minutes. I must first explain that the void jump system used by the Fifth Fleet has been in disrepair for a long time. It is difficult to guarantee how long it can operate at this full power state. Now The slowest of our large ships had an information offset correction of six percent per jump, with eight seconds between jumps, so the fleet could only move at that speed. We lost nearly half of our resource supplies in the raid - they Originally on the home planet, only a small part was moved when the attack came, so many spacecraft are now moving forward almost empty, relying on the ecosystem within the ship to maintain the lives of the crew. However, the ecosystems of large ships have all just been restarted. They have been shut down for a full hundred years before this. Although there has been no problem so far, there is a high possibility of a sudden disaster of ecological cycle downtime..."
While Cocokina was conveying the current situation of the Fifth Fleet to us, Sandora and the Tavel scientist team who were online were also simultaneously analyzing the starship data sent by the other party. Although there are many technical terms that I don't understand, I know from Sandora's face that the Fifth Fleet itself is quite pessimistic in terms of the situation of the spacecraft. She suddenly waved her hand and interrupted Cocokina's words: "I have seen your ecological cycle system data. The current status of the systems used in some of the Alpha-class starships is very dangerous. These systems account for nearly one-third of the fleet. Members provide life support.”
"...Yes, our engineers have discovered three dangerous failures. They are working hard to rescue those failed atmospheric regeneration towers, but we lack spare components and they are all left on the home planet."
Sandora frowned and looked at another set of holographic projections beside her, which displayed the working data of the Garden of Death system.
"The distance is too far, the positioning signal strength is insufficient, and you are crossing the quadrant boundary. With the current transmission stability rate, we can't even send the smallest rescue device... Unexpected transmission requires a stronger guidance signal."
Cocokina didn't seem to have the slightest expectation to receive the aid equipment from the empire, so there was no point in being disappointed. He just nodded calmly, and then said that those ecosystems could last for another day or two - the implication was , if it cannot escape the pursuit and find a safe docking world within a day or two, the Fifth Fleet will have to abandon nearly one-third of its members.
Unlike the Empire, they have the "secondary jump" technology to teleport units directly from one ship to another in the void. Their current spacecraft cannot maintain a large enough order field in the void to make use of small The transport ship has completed a large-scale transfer of personnel. Unless it can dock on a safe world, the crew members trapped in the starship that is about to collapse will have no hope. Overall, the current situation of the Fifth Fleet is countless times worse than that of the Fourth Fleet when it met us that day.
"In short, the fleet is moving forward according to the navigation information you provided. We have not found any signs of pursuers yet, but they certainly have not given up yet," Cocokina glanced at an information terminal next to him and said in a low voice. His tone showed that he was not optimistic about the current situation, "But it seems impossible to evacuate to the nearest safe zone marked by you in a short period of time. Our evacuation happened to cross the territory of your new empire. Although it was not through Completely opposite directions, but now the 'distance' between the two is too far."
Tens of thousands of years ago, the exile fleet decided to separate and evacuate. All fleets chose different void quadrants as targets. Among them, the target of the Fourth Fleet happened to be close to the current territory of the New Empire, so they could mistakenly enter the macro world passage. However, the route chosen by the Fifth Fleet happened to be in line with every world of the New Empire. Staggered (well, at least they didn't choose the route of the Second Fleet. According to the "Parliament", the route chosen by the Second Fleet was completely contrary to the current territory of the New Empire. If the Fifth Fleet had taken that route, I'm afraid They won’t be able to run back for thousands of years). Perhaps the entire empire’s territory today is not as far away as the “distance” between the Fifth Fleet and us.
If it is within the empire. Since there are world gates connecting various worlds, even a long void voyage can reach them almost instantaneously, but outside the empire. Without the World Gate, relying on the spaceship to jump bit by bit would take an astonishing amount of time. I called up the void territory map compiled by Tavel and input the coordinate signal of the Fifth Fleet into it, trying to find a closer route - this territory map is not a "map" or any other graphical interface that most people imagine. , it is a table-like thing composed of countless points with footnotes, because it is impossible to determine the position of anything in the void, and naturally it is impossible to draw a map-like map of the void territory. Each point in this table represents the world. The points can only express their relative position to the capital universe through "information offset", which is below the point of the Fifth Fleet. I can only see a large series of numbers, and even a series of ellipses after it...
I even doubt that they may not be able to reach the border of the empire in a few years.
"We are temporarily retreating according to the planned route. I am thinking about how to let you cross this distance without delay," Sandora curled her index finger and put it against her chin. She seemed to have an idea, "Maybe there is a shortcut... give me some time."
"Who are you being hunted by? Are you... a vassal of the old empire?" My sister certainly can't help me technically, so I can only ask other questions that we are also concerned about.
"It's them - those minions," Cocokina's voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement, but then calmed down. "I don't know who they are, but I'm sure they are vassals of the 'Old Empire' you call them. We saw something like the Crystal Crusade on their ship, but... I thought you would be interested in these images, This is different from the normal imperial mark."
Cocokina said, sending a set of pictures over. It seemed that they were taken on a battlefield in high orbit. The background was basically large pieces of fragmented ship wreckage, and some planets could be seen on one side of the picture. At the edges, due to the high-speed movement, the picture was a little blurry. I couldn't tell which ones came from the Fifth Fleet and which ones came from the pursuers. The most conspicuous among these pictures are some spaceships with arc shells and large golden coatings. These round golden battleships that look a bit like a magic weapon are the pursuers that Coco Kiner calls. My sister enlarged the clearest picture among them, and finally, we found the Imperial Crusade emblem on the bows of these battleships—strictly speaking, it looked like a Crusaders emblem.
The prototype of that logo is obviously the imperial military emblem, but its color has been changed from blue to light gold, and the sharp crystal spikes have been modified into a crescent shovel-like arc shape. On the background of the logo, you can see To the pattern of two crossed scepters.
The whole mark seemed a bit nondescript to me, but my sister frowned: "How did they turn the imperial military emblem into this?"
"They changed the imperial military emblem without authorization... A normal servant army would never do this. This is a huge taboo." Sandora woke up from her meditation and looked at the incongruous golden emblem in surprise. I suddenly felt someone grabbed the hem of my clothes.
When I looked down, I saw it was Pandora.
Speaking of which, this girl's sense of existence is really low. She came with us, but because she didn't say a word from beginning to end, she was ignored like a porcelain doll placed in the corner of the room. Her existence Her sense of presence is not as high as that of her younger sister - Viska was ordered to sit in a chair more than ten minutes ago and was not allowed to run around because she was trying to remove parts from the computer next to her. Many people were on strict guard against her, and her sense of presence was high. Still sitting.
"Brother, we know those spaceships!"
Under my curious gaze, Pandora finally spoke, concisely and to the point as always, "Merova!"
I thought about it and patted Pandora on the head: "Can you say two more words?"
"Fifteen days area, servant army, Merova people!"
Everyone fell silent—well, everyone who knew what the Fifteen Days Area was, fell silent.
I was stunned for less than two seconds, and finally reacted and directly called the chief scientist on standby: "Tavel, search the database immediately, and search for information on the Merova people in the data entries added after the concept split."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Tavel responded. A few seconds later, a large amount of data began to appear in the holographic screen around us like a spurt. Clear pictures and text data from the old empire's database were listed in detail. The intelligence of this vassal of the old empire known as the "Merovans", and those luxurious and impetuous warships with rounded hulls and golden paint occupy more than 50% of the screen.
"The Merova people are a vassal race in the Fifteenth Heaven District of the old empire. They are one of the oldest vassal races in the empire. They have experienced the great development era and survived all wars. Their comprehensive strength ranks first among all the vassal races in the old empire. Old. After the collapse of the empire, all information about this batch of vassals has been lost, and they are temporarily classified as extinct."
The system's synthesized voice read us a brief introduction about this race.
Sandora slowly shook her head: "No... they are still alive, and... may have betrayed." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes for your support, That’s my biggest motivation.)