Chapter 1,292 Shadow City After the War

(In order to prevent power outages, we updated it in advance today...)

Several days have passed since the spaceship of the group of void smugglers was taken away by the Imperial Admiral in the cargo hold, and at the same time all the crew members were transferred to the dormitories in the Imperial Admiral's ecological zone...

The battle was fierce and the state affairs were busy. These two responsibilities made me forget about them! Now that I have finally had a little leisure time at home, I remember that there are still people locked up in the Imperial Admiral!

The eldest lady immediately became interested when she heard me mentioning this matter. Of course she knew that the Sixth Army had encountered the group of void smugglers in the far reaches of the empire, and as a prophet, I am afraid she is better than me. I should have known this earlier. It's hard for me to imagine why she didn't remind me earlier, so let's just think of it as the eldest lady accidentally forgetting it. Anyway, a few minutes later, Lin Yan and I rushed to the shadow space and headed straight for the star port.

We passed through the civilian area of ​​Shadow City. We came back in a hurry yesterday and went directly to the headquarters as soon as we arrived at Shadow City. Therefore, I didn’t have time to see the situation in the civilian area. I passed by here today and felt the civilian population of Shadow City. The area is filled with a different atmosphere than usual: a little nervous, but gradually calming down. There are fewer pedestrians on the streets than usual, and most of the entertainment street media are now closed. A giant holographic image controlled by the military slowly floats over the city of Shadow City, playing about the events that just ended. The results of the border defense battle and the announcement of the end of martial law. Pandora's recruitment advertisements once again appeared on all the propaganda screens in the streets and alleys, and they appeared denser than usual. About twice as many imperial soldiers as usual can be seen patrolling the city, and servant soldiers also appear in large numbers on the streets. They assist the imperial soldiers in carrying out civilian activities. The Military Command Command Center in the sky is now located directly above the headquarters, and is slowly drifting towards the southern district of the city. It may be that Sivis has just upgraded the Military Command Command Center: After the extremely large-scale border defense battle, the servant army The system will always expose some problems of one kind or another, and the facilities of the Military Command Center may also need to be increased or decreased. Improvement in this area will never end.

In front of an open interactive terminal on the street. The virtual announcer designed with the image of Gaia as a template is announcing that the macro world civil channel will be reopened in thirty minutes, and that the network is intact. You can check the updated version on the self-service inquiry device next to the interactive terminal. Regarding the situation of the Empire's territory (civilian version), new data shows that three worlds on the Empire's territory have been in a "post-war damaged state" and are now temporarily closed to the public and prohibited from access. It is expected that after several years of reconstruction, those three worlds will be pulled inland and open to the public as ordinary colonial worlds. I also looked up the world number of the world destroyed by Judgment Day. Now this number is an abandoned code. There is only one footnote below: This universe is loyal to the Empire. May its final flames continue to illuminate the Empire's path forward.

This is the Shadow City after the war. Everything has just recovered from the panic, and the people are gradually returning to their daily lives. The war on the border did not burn this inland universe, but only had a slight impact on its daily order: This impact is not worth mentioning to the residents of Shadow City.

This whole city is full of fighting people, the kind who saved the world at the age of fourteen...

I didn't spend too much time in the civilian area. After confirming that the order here was not greatly affected, he and Lin Xue teleported to the Royal Star Port on the other side of Gaia. The Imperial Admiral and part of the Royal Fleet are being repaired here, and the spare maintenance port of the Royal Star Port is open to warships from other legions that are in urgent need of overhaul, so that now it looks like an abandoned warship processing station, with groups of Broken battleships line up in space, waiting in line for disposal.

Among them, the Imperial Admiral is probably the one with the best situation: as the flagship of the Royal Fleet, it is closely protected. Therefore, there was basically no damage. Only some shield generators and a group of anti-aircraft positions were damaged by the enemy's jump fortress warheads. These modular facilities can be repaired in just one day. The eldest lady and I were there. At that time, the Imperial Admiral was slowly passing through the inspection section of the giant weightless gate, with hundreds of engineering machines hovering on its transverse arm for final status confirmation.

"The No. 3 shield generator of the cross-arm H-3 group is reconnected normally and the load balance is normal. The synchronization rate is normal - release the external source line of the shield generator and transfer it to the battleship system."

"The installation of the No. 4 cross-arm air defense position has been completed. The weapon system control is normal and the data link connection is normal. The response is normal. There is a small problem with the armor deformation and camouflage part. The terminal gun group sinks too slowly - No. 4 machine, go check the situation. "

"The armor transmission device has been inspected and the terminal gun group is normal. Release the external circuit of the air defense position and transfer it to the battleship system."

"The maintenance process of the Imperial Admiral is over, starship host, your spaceship can leave port."

The starport broadcast announced that the Imperial Admiral had completed its overhaul. The behemoth, hundreds of kilometers long, quickly floated out of the gravity gate at an unnatural speed, and then made a short jump into the evacuation position.

"The next mothership-class spacecraft that needs maintenance enters the No. 1 large gate, and the autonomous machinery and engineering machine formations are ready."

A huge black shadow jumped to the location where the Imperial Admiral was before, and slowly floated towards the maintenance site. The giant light beam emitted from the star port tower slowly swept over the giant spacecraft, and the surface of the latter was torn apart. The huge scars and the armor layer melted by the explosion made the spacecraft look like a mutated monster slowly moving forward in the light beam. I looked up and found that it was two-thirds of the Eternal-class mothership, but it was the last The important energy-gathering section of Galaxy's main gun is gone, and the remaining bow part looks like an Alto...

The Grand Overseer carefully fixed its position in the maintenance field. I heard it communicating with the host in the Starport Tower on the public link: "Look at me like this..."

The host was silent for a while: "...Delete the account and practice again, the durability will be all red."

Then I learned that Pao Pao personally participated in programming the hosts of every tower in this Royal Star Port.

Behind the Grand Overseer were dozens of large and small Revenge Army warships. The biggest difference between these warships and other warships was that they were one man and one ship. The captains of other spaceships came here with the mentality of repairing equipment, while the Grand Overseer and his men came here with the mentality of seeing a doctor and having plastic surgery. As long as you think of this, the world will suddenly become more colorful. Quite a few...

Of course, it is not the serious military governor who more fully confirms my above theory. But another super stupid guy in the Revenge Fleet. The Warsong is currently anchored near Gaia. Looking from the Royal Starport, you can see the majestic giant starship: she is so close that when viewed from here, the Warsong is almost the same size as Hundreds of the size of a full moon, I could even see clearly the metallic canyons on her surface and the dome that shrouded the mathematical rate generator. In the battle of the first two days, the Warsong was brutally beaten by the enemy King's Lander, and now she is being groomed by the engineering team. From the public information link, you can hear that crazy guy talking non-stop: "...Hey, eh, eh, pull it up a little higher, pull it up a little bit and see where you moved that armor plate just now. Can the surface mechanical engineering team not worry about the energy release pipeline? There is a hole in the face of this ship! Who can help us fill this hole first! By the way, you guys go to the South Pole of our ship to see if there is anything dirty on it. Why does it feel weird? Isn't the monitoring system of this ship not activated... Oh? It's a meteorite. Then don't worry about it. Let's leave it in Antarctica for now. This ship likes to play with rocks when I have nothing to do... Hey, hey Hey! Hey, don't drill holes on the equator! You need to install new equipment and move to another place! This ship is keeping in shape. Now you can see what the figure looks like. Look at the waistline, it's all spherical... Close Mouth! This ship was not a star warship in the first place! Back then, this ship was..."

After hearing this, Lin Xue and I couldn't stand listening anymore. That lunatic host really can't live in peace for a moment. I hope those engineering teams can endure that shit until the end of the mission, otherwise the lunatic will have to have the bolt pulled out.

We came to the Imperial Admiral and inquired about the current location of the Yali people, and then learned that most of them were staying in the ecological zone quite happily, while the queen named Yaphelis was with her The confidants stayed on board their ship: that is, they stayed together in Gnaku. I asked the personnel responsible for taking care of Fialli's guests and learned that the strange queen was basically in her own ship. She seemed to have little interest in the superior environment in the Imperial Admiral's ecological zone. Her whole interest is counting stones in her warehouse and figuring out how much they can be sold for...

So I went to Gnaku with Lin Xue.

I first found the Gnaku guards and asked Yafeilis if she had expressed any protest in the past few days: after all, they had been forgotten for several days and were left to fend for themselves in the spacecraft, except for the unlimited supply of supplies. In addition, these outsiders are almost under house arrest on this warship, and the queen usually has a bit of a temper. The complaint letter should be in the folder by now...

As a result, the Gnaku guard thought for a while: "No, she has been busy with her own things, and it seems that she has never thought that she has been forgotten."

It seems that Ya Felice is an unexpectedly calm queen. I was immediately interested: "What is she busy with?"

"Try to remove Gnaku's gravity-free module. And sell the organic wax used to polish the carapace to the armored scorpion sergeant in Gnaku's inner area," the Gnaku guard called up the video in the warehouse. "In addition, according to your order, we take good care of our guests. In addition to not letting them leave the living area and never buying their things, we meet all the requirements of this type of person and help them in accordance with your order. They repaired the damage to the ship."

I was stunned: "...Forget it, open a position and let them out...No, let me go in."

Lin Xue and I walked together to the front of the Fiyali No. 1 merchant ship. This three-kilometer-long primary void transport ship was solidified motionless in the mid-air one meter away from the support by the fixed force field in the warehouse. It had been blocked by the engineering in the warehouse. It was simply repaired using autonomous machinery - I mean simple repair by Xiling standards. This spaceship was originally seriously damaged by the fallen apostle, but now it looks clean and new, and is stronger than before. Not only does the paint reflect a new light, but even the engine nozzle has the texture of Xiling battleship alloy. This should It was the autonomous machinery in the warehouse that, after receiving the order to help with repairs, replaced the damaged parts of the spacecraft with stronger materials according to the normal process: the Philali people made a lot of money...

"Phyllis, call Phyllis, open the hatch, we're here to see you." I found the temporary channel currently used by the Philis on the data terminal, called the merchant ship's control room directly, and then heard the message on the channel There was a rapid exclamation and a crackling sound: something seemed to fall to the ground, or a person and a bunch of things fell to the ground. Theoretically, it should be Phyllis and her precious stones. It fell off the shelf. Then I heard a young female voice respond vaguely, a moment later. The hatch of the merchant ship opened, and the strange queen of the Fiyali Empire, her strange adjutant, and a group of not strange senior assistants appeared in front of us. Yaphelice herself looked rosy and in a good mood. She happily took my hand and shook it: "I didn't expect you to come here in person - oh, look, our spaceship has been repaired. Thank you so much." The help you provided. Your engineering robot looks so advanced... By the way, what's the matter?"

She's quite familiar with it.

I really didn't know how to say this, but in the end I scratched my hair and said: "What, I just want to say... you can go out, I will take you to see what the capital of the empire looks like."

Phyllis suddenly showed a surprised expression: surprise mixed with doubt: "It's already here? So soon?"

I:"……"

I really don’t know how to tell people. In fact, I arrived at the station a few days ago. It's just that they were forgotten here for various reasons.

"Speaking of which," Lin Xue looked at the tall black-haired lady in front of her in disbelief. She seemed to be quite interested in the young Queen of Fiari. Of course, she was even more surprised that the other party had no idea what was going on outside. Wu Zhi asked, "You've been here for several days, don't you know what's going on outside?"

"What happened outside?" Ya Feilisi - or Phyllis for short - showed a puzzled expression, "No. We think it's good. We will take advantage of these few days to read through all the data disks you left behind. , The Xiling Empire looks great! By the way, I felt the vibrations in the warehouse were quite severe two days ago. Is this what you are referring to?"

Lin Xue and I looked at each other and smiled bitterly, basically not knowing how to answer this confused queen.

When Daqing fought bloody battles on the Imperial Front and his life was at stake, this vendor led his people to watch documentaries for two days in Gnakuli. They had no idea what was happening outside!

In fact, we can’t blame them. After all, the stability of a spaceship like the Imperial Admiral is too high. Its safety and stability are the highest in the entire fleet. During the fiercest battle, even when the Imperial Admiral was shot, Gnakuri and The ecological zone basically maintains external closure and internal environment stability. Phyllis and her party here are on the front line, with only a few kilometers of metal and shields blocking them from the devastating war outside, but if no one connects them to a high-level channel. They have no idea what's going on outside. Phyllis didn't even know that the spacecraft had arrived at its destination a few days ago: because she didn't expect that the empire's void shuttle technology would be so advanced that it could return to the empire within 24 hours.

To be honest, I feel quite sorry for Phyllis and her group of subordinates. Anyway, they are guests from afar: although this group of super vendors attracted the fallen apostles and messed up the far reaches of the empire, and they also tried to dismantle my spaceship. , but after excluding these, they are still quite...

I thought about it. Decided to end the recollection before he changed his mind: "Well, actually, the spaceship arrived a few days ago, but we ran into some trouble. The warehouse shook two days ago because... there was a war outside."

As soon as Phyllis heard the word "war", she immediately remembered what good things she had done when she came here. The expression on her face was quite subtle: "Um, isn't it still related to the needy child we brought here?"

"It's true that he's one of their people, but you didn't bring him here." I had no expression on my face. I was glad that this guy who wanted money rather than his life finally felt a little ashamed. As a result, the other person's next sentence was: "Great, no need to do that." You lost money, right?”

Lin Xun rolled his eyes and looked at the support frame next to him: "The guys you pick up are always weird."

Phyllis: "?"

I:"……"

Soon, all members of the Fiyali Caravan (as they called themselves) received a notice from their queen and moved to the teleportation center, preparing to go directly to the Shadow City through time and space teleportation. There are quite a lot of people in this industry: four to five hundred people. It stands to reason that merchant ships like theirs, which are used to transport cargo, do not have many crew members. Sometimes there are at most dozens of crew members on a cargo ship several kilometers long, but Phyllis explained why her There will be so many people in the caravan:

"Come out and see the world. We finally made a hole in the world, and we all want to come out and see what it looks like outside..."

I looked at her dumbfounded: "Is it true that your world is full of people who are desperate for life? It's just the first cross-world voyage without drones, but you actually organized a group to explore!"

Later, I felt that my sigh was completely unnecessary. Let alone forming a group, an empire where even the queen dared to personally explore the unknown frontier, how many fatal ones could they have...

In this way, a group of strange void vendors who wanted money rather than life (especially the leader) ended their first magnificent void adventure and finally arrived alive in the safest haven in the multiverse: Shadow City.

I hope they can settle down for a while... I always feel like I've lured a bunch of the biggest troubles into my home.