Chapter 1,195 Entrapment?

As the sun sets and twilight approaches, a group of kids have had enough of their weird games and finally settle down. Most of them gather in a pile next to their elder sister, listening to the same weird fairy tales, while a few of them Studying their own affairs. Little Medivh has five or six figure-sized mini Medivhs hanging on her body. She is running around like a carrier ship. From time to time she bends down to pull out a few weeds from the ground and feed them to the little ones lying on her shoulders. The figure-sized mini Medivhs are like fledglings. Apart from their appearance, their living habits are exactly the same as those of birds. When faced with the weeds that little Medivh hands to them, these little guys will chirp excitedly. , holding the grass stems and gnawing them happily - their diet seems to have expanded a bit again, from vegetable leaves to most green plants. Based on the observations in the past two days, I have determined that the little girl will even give it to her "children" "Feed leaves and grass seeds, and the hand-made crow gods are willing to accept all the above foods: except meat, which is still strongly resisted.

This frustrated the little crow who was still obsessed with the field mouse.

Lilina is also not interested in fairy tales - she is a professional fairy tale writer, and basically all the fairy tale books in the family are sourced from her, so this guy doesn't join the younger ones. This little dwarf seemed to be in some trouble. She set up a small chair next to me and sat there like a melancholy girl. She rested her elbows on the small round table in front of her and rested her chin on her hands. The most eye-catching thing was her head. There was also a green and tender grass on her head. I had been observing this curious scene with amazement for several minutes. I confirmed that the grass was growing on top of her head, and it seemed to be part of her body. It followed the girl's face. It was twisting and turning with various expressions on its face - this was the first time in my life that I had seen green fur, and it was visually estimated that this fur could also perform photosynthesis.

I stretched out my hand and pulled the grass on Lilina's head and found that it was quite strong: "What kind of plane are you doing?"

"The little...experiment failed." Lilina continued to hold her chin with her hands like a melancholic girl. Due to her height, her feet could only be dangling in the air. She seemed to be in a very irritable mood. "It's grown, and it's probably blooming." I couldn't get it off before...ah, it hurts!"

I gave up the urge to pull out the grass, thinking that there would never be a shortage of such weird things around me...

"It's probably because of the 'exp+5' effect." Lilina thought about it for a long time and finally came to a conclusion.

At this time, a cry suddenly came from the side: "Master!"

As soon as I heard this unique idiom, I knew it must be Little Crow. When I turned around, I saw that she was indeed standing next to me. There were two little crows sitting on each side of this girl's shoulders, plus one on her head, a total of five little crows, each holding a piece of weed in its mouth. They chewed the grass stem in uniform movements. , five pairs of small black eyes looked at their master's master curiously at the same time, looking really funny and fun - like a hamster.

The little crow was holding a small shining ball of light in her hand. It seemed that she wanted me to see this, and this thing really aroused my interest. It looked like a magical product: "What is this?"

"A letter from Vanilla!" the little crow said happily, raising the small ball of light in front of me. This action almost dropped the crow gods on her shoulders. "It came from the temple, Lily. The method Sister Na said can be used!"

I was stunned, and turned to look at Lilina on the other side who was busy feeling depressed. The latter, while stroking the stupid hair on her head that could be used for photosynthesis, explained nonchalantly: "The prayer system, it looks like a bird's Power has formed a stable system on the mother continent and has been written into the underlying data of the world. Believers can transmit important information to the gods through prayer. This is the basis of a mature belief system, just like a backbone network. It is estimated to use It won’t be long before the Crow God Sect can put an end to the current situation where blessings are like a random lottery. Well, anyway, boss, you just need to know that the little bird has grown up again.”

I glanced at the little crow in surprise, who was rubbing the little ball of light in his hand and muttering: "Master, this looks like an egg!"

"Pfft -" Lilina almost slipped off the chair. She turned around and stared at the red light flashing collar around the little crow's neck. She couldn't help but pat her chest. "Fortunately, we found this bird's hatching eggs in time." I was impulsive, otherwise something big will happen!"

I don’t know when Bingtis came over. She heard our conversation here and looked at the little crow thoughtfully: "Well, I can already accept prayers, and it seems that I have enough strength to answer any prayers, but my mind She is still too immature, and it may not be a good thing for her to establish a dialogue with believers now. This bird needs education."

"Just leave it to me," the grass blades on Lilina's head stood straight up. "Now the bird can only hear the prayer. As for how to respond, it uses the simplest feedback mechanism to respond fully automatically without involving her. , let this pope train her into a qualified god - give me one or two hundred years, and I will definitely make it happen."

"Then I will be responsible for researching an operating system for her." Bingtis also became interested, lowering his head and rubbing the little crow's face, "I am a technical geek, and I will definitely build you an operating system that even this bird can use." A management terminal that can be learned!"

I quickly waved my hand to interrupt Sister Bing's delusion: "Save it, you forgot that you are from the Star Realm God System? Your operating system is not compatible with the Xiling God System at all, okay?"

Bingtis was stunned and scratched his chin: "Oh, you didn't tell me that I would have forgotten! I am from the Star Realm God System."

Me: "..." We have to hurry up and get online, so what you said is enough to break it down first and ask questions later, okay?

However, Bingtis's words also reminded him that there seemed to be more things to consider: the infrastructure construction of the Xiling God System. Little Crow seems to be growing at the speed of steroids. In less than a year, she already has a religion and a godhead, but we still haven’t figured out her full set of power maps, although there is a long-term and several The temporary research team is tracking the growth of the little crow, but the pressure this bird brings to them is probably no less than that of the deep dive project. I thought that maybe I need to take time to go to the mother continent again to see the situation of the Crow God Sect and say hello to Sakina and the others. But before all this, he still had to solve another major problem.

With a thought in my heart, I made a call through my spiritual connection.

"Arjun, you called me?" Sandora appeared next to him with a burst of space distortion, and asked curiously. I handed over a small note (why do King Huron and Father God have the same problem? Are you used to using small notes to send messages?) handed it over: "Take a look, it was just sent from the opposite side of the void more than an hour ago."

"Across the void... the signature of King Huron?" Sandora took the note and swept it over, and immediately exclaimed, "Wait a minute, those people mentioned here are..."

"The Merova people," I stood up and took a long breath, "referring to the whereabouts of the Merova people."

"So you asked King Huron to help find traces of the Merova people?" Sandora looked at me in surprise, "Why don't I know when it happened? It's not that I can't deal with the Merova people for the time being. Will anyone send troops?"

"As for what happened the day before yesterday," I spread my hands, "didn't I tell you once? The last time I went to pick up the Fifth Fleet, I entered that weird 'escape' state, and then I met someone who was walking Sheila. Later, I thought it was quite interesting, so I tried a few more times. I met Sheila again the day before yesterday, and then I asked her to look for traces of the Merova people."

"Wait, so... the fifth fleet actually arrived in the territory of the Huron Protoss at that time?" Sandora immediately thought of this and looked surprised, "No wonder... it turned out to be such a far away place. Ah, then let's go We were in a hurry. I didn’t expect that we would go around the territory of the Huron Protoss. Now that I think about it, I suddenly feel a bit regretful..."

"No, not yet," I waved my hand, "it's still quite far away, but after I came back, I communicated with Father God, and by the way, I compared the Void Map in the hands of the Protoss, and found that the distance to the shelter of the Fifth Fleet at that time The Huron border is within one quadrant unit - although I don’t know why the Fifth Fleet has not been discovered on the Huron side, I think it should also be within Sister Sheila’s sphere of influence, so please ask her to stay in the world where the Fifth Fleet stayed at that time Searching around for clues about the Merova people. After all... although we can't send troops, it's not a problem to leave those Merova people alone. I feel quite uneasy. If they happen to be within the sphere of influence of the Huron Protoss - —Even if they are just next to each other, that is good news. At least we can know the whereabouts of the rebels."

Shandora nodded in understanding: "What do you mean, it turns out to be the void creature's own communication network... You three are really interesting. So in the end, no trace of the Merova people was found on King Huron's side?"

"Sister Sheila is quite practical. She searched the entire territory of Huron and then expanded the scanning range to the limit." I frowned slightly. "That is to say, all the areas where the Fifth Fleet was active at that time were scanned. No trace of the Merovans was found at all - this is completely different from what we initially guessed."

Shandora already understood what I meant, and her expression became serious: "In other words, the Merova people did not establish a force near the refuge of the Fifth Fleet at that time. Their home base was not there... Those rebels The army followed us all the way."

"Basically," I looked up at the night sky, as if I could see the Merovans' lair from there, "The possibility of the Merovans settling near the Fifth Fleet shelter has been completely ruled out, so the rest There are only two situations: first, they are in another completely unknown corner of the void, and we may never find that group of rebels again; second, in fact, their hiding place is not far away at all, just in the old city. Near the remnants of the empire..."

Sandora followed my train of thought and said: "In the blank area between the three powers of the New Empire, the Fallen Apostles and the Star Realm, there is a place that no one has set foot in... This possibility is better than the first one. The possibility is several times higher!”

"So I am debating whether to send a reconnaissance ship out to scan the entire territory," I said while scratching my hair. "I also need to contact Father God and ask him to help scan the border areas of the Gods. There are many areas where the other two races meet. The blank areas must also be investigated. In addition, the worst case scenario is what if the Merova people are hiding near the territory of the fallen apostles. I don’t think the fallen apostles will respond to our call to search for the whereabouts of the rebels. They are busy I definitely can’t take care of the great cause.”

Shandora frowned and thought for a moment, then shook her head decisively: "No, you can't do it this way, it will scare off the enemy."

I:"?"

"We are still not sure how much the Merova people have inherited from the old empire, and how vigilant they are," Sandora looked into my eyes, "but what is certain is that once they find out that the empire has come back, they will definitely If you don’t come up obediently and get beaten, you must flee as soon as possible - by then, it won’t be that easy to annihilate the rebels. According to my experience, what rebels are best at is usually escaping for their lives.”

I agreed with Shandora's view, and then asked her what she thought: "In your opinion, how to find the Merova people?"

Sandora thought for a while and then opened the holographic projection. What was displayed was a void territory map converted into a visual view. The territory of the gods, the new empire and the fallen apostle territory were in the center of this overlapping territory map, while the periphery was Large areas of empty space with no data. Sandora pointed to the blank areas and said: "Even if the Merova people hide here, they will not be near the three major forces. If they were a little cautious when they rebelled against the country, they would choose to stay away from their old masters. territory. So they should be in these blank areas now. These are locations that we have not set foot in. Without clear world coordinates, it is impossible to find an exact world in these blank areas even with imperial technology. Pie It is not advisable to use the reconnaissance ship to scan or overload the Garden of the Dead to scan. It is easy to be detected by the opponent before we find the rebels. They occupy the home field advantage in the speed of information response in these blank areas, and considering that they With a vast amount of heritage from the old empire at hand, they are the oldest servants who have been in contact with the empire for the longest time, and they have 70,000 years of research time. Their mastery of empire technology is absolutely high, so the possibility of their successful escape is extremely high."

I looked at the map of the void territory in front of me. This map is not what the void really looks like, but it can intuitively show the scope of the void that the empire can currently reach. Sandora is right, the void is vast, and even the gods cannot To master them all, what is in those large blank areas is a complete mystery to us, and once we start scanning these areas, the Merovans are very likely to flee after hearing the news - they have imperial technology on hand, so Maybe they also have world-drifting technology, so they might even pack up and escape with their own universe. Faced with this possibility, we must take faster, more accurate and more ruthless measures... to directly lock onto their world coordinates.

"It would be great if we could capture a few Merovas alive," Lilina listened with her head raised for a long time, and finally couldn't help but interjected, "Then the pope can be responsible for torture and extorting confessions."

"Well, it's rare that you hit the point in the first half of your sentence. Oh, and the second half is not wrong either." I casually stroked the stupid hair on Lilina's head that can carry out photosynthesis, and said casually, "The question is how to capture her alive? It has been more than four years since the new empire recovered, and the Merova people have never shown up in this area. The void is so big, maybe if we wait a hundred years, they won’t come here to seek death..."

"Then hang them out." The grass on Lilina's head shook from side to side. "How did they attack the Fifth Fleet in the first place? Boss, aren't you mentally rusty?"

I was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, I happily took Lilina's collar and shook it back and forth: "Oh, why didn't I think of it? You can do it!" The little girl's eyes rolled, she hugged my arm and said, "Let go. !Have you ever praised someone so much!?"

I reacted and put Lilina back on the chair: "Oh, I'm used to it. As soon as you open your mouth, I can't help but want to throw you out."

Lilina: "..."

Shandora immediately contacted the research center and ordered that the pile of ancient dormant cabins that had been dismantled into parts be restored to its original appearance, while I contacted the fleet commander of the Fifth Fleet, Coco Kina. The most important thing in executing the entrapment plan is that the Fifth Fleet must participate. The Merova people watched the Fifth Fleet escape from their hands with the original body. At this time, the hatred value should still be full - of course, more importantly, we They don't know how the Merova people tracked the original body's signal, and they're not sure whether the dormant capsule that was dismantled by the research institute can still send out such a guidance signal, so the Fifth Fleet itself... is also a decoy.

"The Merova people probably don't know that the Fifth Fleet was rescued by the empire." When arranging these operations, Sandora also considered this issue. I feel that this is really a convenience left unintentionally: "That's right. , fortunately, we acted quickly enough and did not directly meet the Merova people. Now the other party should not know the connection between the Fifth Fleet and the Empire. In fact, I am still curious whether the Merova people know about the existence of the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles... …”

"Most likely I don't know," Sandora showed a gloomy expression, "Those who betrayed the empire will be in panic all day long. If they knew that their old master had come back, they would probably immediately erase any traces of themselves in the void. , instead of rushing so far to pursue the Fifth Fleet."

I nodded, what Sandora said made sense. Moreover, more than four years after the new empire recovered, the Merova people have never shown up in this area. This probably means that they are hiding far away and have not been able to encounter the empire at all. The vastness and discontinuity of the void are really the best barrier for escapees, not only for the exile fleet back then, but also for those who were in constant fear——

traitor. (To be continued.