Chapter 951 The Fugitive

(Now... by the way, do you know that the empire actually has a base that is a forum? The forum of the Xiling Empire (official website?): Garden of Death, the address can be found from the custom link in the bar - because I forgot the specific address . Friendly reminder: The forum belongs to the senior area, please check your character when registering...)

The two sides have been facing off tensely from the beginning. Not only has there been no sign of easing up, but it has become even more tense because of the intrusion of another unidentified young soldier. Of course, when it comes to the confrontation, it actually seems to be unilateral to the other side. We There is no intention of attacking here at all, but... the other party obviously doesn't think so.

The alien who looks a bit like an insect evolved is named Torulu. According to his (now I can definitely use "him") his impact that has obviously exceeded the speed of sound and was extremely violent, as well as the installation on his forelimbs. It can be judged from the psionic blade that he is a melee fighter, while the young soldier holding the gun obviously uses long-range attacks. The two of them may be a combination of a combat team. Now they are ready, their faces There was a look of death on his face - I mean, the nameless young soldier had a look of death on his face. As for Torulu's expression... well, the expression was very isosceles triangle.

"Well, can you put down the weapon first? We don't really like people pointing this thing at us."

I pointed at the strange-looking rifle in the young soldier's hand and said helplessly. However, it didn't matter. The other party obviously took my action as a signal to start a war. He subconsciously activated the weapon, and a bright blue light hit me instantly. ...The energy shield in front of him was not broken at all, and then the other party shouted in surprise: "Huh?"

I looked at the almost imperceptible ripples on the shield in front of me, and rolled my eyes at the young soldier: "Just like you, you have to be imprisoned for an average of seven days a week in my army - before you shoot, Use your brain!"

"What kind of new trick is this?" The young soldier ignored my words. Instead, he tilted his head slightly and looked at Torulu with a confused expression, still holding the weapon tightly in his hand, "Why are they different from the Imperial soldiers I heard about in school? They are also different from the guys I have interacted with before."

"They are very cruel. I don't know. The things in school may be out of date. Imperial soldiers generally don't talk nonsense, and language communication is really troublesome. I have already asked for support. Don't let your guard down." Torulu answered a bunch of questions in a messy way. Something, continue to point the light knife at this side.

Shandora and I looked at each other and saw the same message in each other's eyes: maybe we are two incompatible masters.

However, even though the other party was indifferent, I still planned to find something to say first, so I showed a rather friendly smile and approached the other party: "Then you know who we are, right?"

...As soon as I finished saying this, I felt that my intelligence might be a little closer to Dingdang. No matter how the other party looked at the empire, I actually took the initiative to bring it up. This was almost a trick, and I was thousands of miles away in an instant... …

"Hmph. Of course," the young soldier did not fire again, but his fingers turned white when pinched on the weapon. His body was obviously trembling. This was definitely not caused by excitement. However, even so, the opponent still showed no sign of retreating or surrendering. The shot he fired just now could not even damage a single hair of the target. Such a disparity in power could be seen by anyone with a discerning eye. It was quite surprising that he was holding onto his weapon tightly in this situation, "You are the Empire, the Xiling Empire... the most dangerous enemy, the invader and the destroyer. Wherever you pass by, there will be no grass and no life. This is the school." That’s what we were taught! That’s what you did too! You’re going to have a carnival again today, right?”

Shandora's face suddenly turned ugly, but it was only fleeting. She soon returned her cold expression, just looked at the young soldier and asked coldly: "I'm really curious about you. What's taught in school - about 'our' glorious exploits."

"No need to ask, you know better than anyone else," the young soldier was surprisingly easy to trick out. This may have something to do with the other person's age. He looked like he was still in the dormitory at twelve o'clock at night. When jumping out of the building to surf the Internet, children in this state are most likely to tell you all the secrets with a firm face, "You destroyed the Toberu civilization, scorched the Tianpan galaxy, and slaughtered hundreds of billions of Yunade people. , as well as the Osa Empire, the Human Federation, and the Star Core Seventy-seven World Alliance, all were destroyed by you! And then you have been chasing us for so many years! Attacking the fleet non-stop! You have killed group after group of people, and now We finally decided to attack the last fleet, right! Bah! Murderer! We will die standing! And we will definitely use you as our backing!"

"It was the fallen apostle who did it..." The expression on Sandora's face was still like an iceberg, but she whispered in the spiritual connection, her voice was heavy, with barely concealed sadness, "I should have thought of this earlier. …”

"How many of those countries he mentioned do you know?"

I originally had no hope for this question, and I just brought it up to divert Sandora's attention, but I didn't expect that she actually nodded slightly: "There are a small number of people who have been in contact with each other before. In the old empire era... they used to They are also a powerful civilization that fights against the Abyss. Due to the continuous expansion of the empire's ruling area, they have gradually come into close contact with us. They are the last batch of abyss rebels who have not yet joined the front line led by the empire at the end of the old empire. Although several other countries have no impression , but it must be a similar situation... After the old empire was controlled by the abyss, they became the first batch of victims..."

"There's nothing you can do now, it's irreversible."

I interrupted Sandora's recollection, these things can be discussed later, and then looked up at the young soldier, "Take us to see your leader, I want you to be the supreme commander of the fleet."

It has been seen that this young soldier and his alien comrade named Tuolulu may be just the most ordinary patrollers. What they know is absolutely limited, and they are still two inexperienced and stubborn minds. They have already learned from them There was nothing more, so I decided to contact the other party's superiors as soon as possible - if I could talk directly to the commander-in-chief of the ghost fleet, everything would be much easier to solve.

But just as expected, the young soldier firmly refused without even thinking: "Unless you kill me! Otherwise, you can't get through this gate!"

In fact, I really want to tell this kid that Lilina alone has at least twenty ways to pass through the gate he is stationed at without any resistance, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to say this here. I was serious so I didn’t say anything.

The other party had no intention of getting out of the way, and no one was surprised by this. Sandora just frowned slightly. Then he suddenly released his extremely powerful spiritual power. This power swept through the surrounding metal barriers and spread all the way to the core of the planet. Since we are already at the bottom of the "intermediate layer" of the planet fortress, the energy interference from the starship can be ignored. Excluding. Sandora's will instantly filled the entire planet - if she wanted to, it might not be difficult to control this fortress. But she just wanted to say a few words.

I don't know what Sandora said. Anyway, the young soldier in front of him quickly glanced at what seemed to be a communicator on his chest in surprise. After muttering a few words with his superior on the other side of the communicator, he looked here in confusion: "You... You must have played some trick just now!"

"You don't have to worry about this. We can go in now, right?"

There were still little golden particles flying in Sandora's hair. She looked at the young soldier quietly and asked calmly.

The other party hesitated for a moment and nodded reluctantly: "Okay, I'll open the passage below."

Under the leadership of the young soldiers, everyone passed through the temporarily closed gate. Below the gate was a wide vertical shaft, and the original cold wind in the shaft was also stopped. I really wanted to ask what was going on with the constantly blowing wind, but the other person obviously had no interest in chatting. In fact, he was not even willing to stay within ten meters of us. He and the mantis man named Toululu ( That’s right) each rode a hovercraft and led the way twenty or thirty meters in front of us. They were speeding along as if they were trying to get rid of the pursuers behind them. I'm afraid the other party really thinks this way - for a group of exiles who have been hunted down by imperial soldiers for who knows how many years, the feeling of being followed by Xiling Apostles must be terrible.

"May I have your name?"

I sped up and ran to the young soldier and asked loudly, but he didn't expect that the person behind him would do this. I almost fell off the aircraft with a cry of surprise. I quickly helped him stabilize his direction and said earnestly in the tone of an elder lecturing a younger one, "Child, speeding is a pleasure to yourself and harms others - don't you have traffic laws?"

The young soldier looked at me with frightened eyes for a few seconds, lowered his head and muttered one word: "Gold."

Then the opponent accelerated and ran in front of me again.

It took me a long time to figure it out. "Jin" might be his name. This kid speaks very concisely. Of course, his parents named him very concisely. Anyway, if you write novels, you will definitely not like to use this name. , which is not conducive to achieving perfect attendance, so Sasaki Kojiro is more popular, and at the worst, he has to be called Ouyang Qingsong...

After a while we came to the end of the shaft that looked like a range hood corrugated pipe. It felt so good to be down to earth. In front of it is something that finally looks less twisted and like a piece of meat: it is an alloy gate with a clear imperial style, and there is even a cross dent on the gate!

Apparently that indentation was once inlaid with a set of crystals, but now the crystal as a military emblem has been removed, and even the remaining grooves have been scratched out in a mess, as if they were drawn with thick strokes into a mess. Looking at those fierce scratches, I can almost imagine how the person who did it gritted his teeth and took the knife.

Noticing that our eyes were scanning the groove, the young soldier snorted coldly and said nothing, but when he took out his identification card and prepared to open the door, he still hesitated. Obviously, the leader A group of "extremely vicious imperial soldiers" entered his home, which he thought was a bit unbelievable.

However, his hesitation did not last long, because before he could use the identification card, the metal gate opened on its own initiative - the controller above must have received a direct order to let us in.

Everyone has been very curious about the scene in front of them. In this weird planet fortress, there are so many bizarre scenes that we are all guessing how many weird things there are in front of us, such as the continuous... It was like a lair, so before the door could be fully opened, the whole family rushed over with a crash, and then... they screamed in surprise one after another.

"This is...a city?"

Qian Qian was running at the front, but there was nothing she could do, this girl really wanted to be the first. Even if you start from the Jurassic era, you can't catch her. When she sees the vast swath of lights under her feet, she immediately loses her composure.

After coming through the gate, I thought I would see a large number of war factories suspended in the air like those usually found in star battleships, or huge corridors inside the ship, or some other huge military facility. But he didn't expect that what appeared in front of him was another piece of land and sky.

Under our feet is a wide alloy platform suspended in mid-air. It is connected by a metal column with a diameter of tens of meters and the steel sky above. This metal cylinder is obviously the shaft that everyone passed through before. Looking around from the platform, the very high place above is a gray-black sky. Dots of "stars" are flickering on the sky. That is the inner wall of the starship's "intermediate layer" As well as the lights on the inner wall, and a few kilometers below our feet, there is a land lit by lights. We can see dense buildings and orderly streets, and various types of transportation are constantly flowing between these buildings.

The view is as far as the eye can see. Every once in a while on the earth, you can see a giant alloy pillar standing upright from the sky, just like the Optimus Prime used to support the sky in mythology, connecting the ground and the "sky". On those gray-black alloy pillars, bright light flows. There are spots of light, and each spot of light is a strange-looking aircraft. They seem to be maintaining these huge pillars that support the hull of the starship. All of this was shrouded in a bleak scene, and the entire world seemed to be in a polar night with no end in sight.

This is a. Wrapped by the steel sky, the twilight world!

The scenery in front of you is shocking. If you hadn't been there, you might never have imagined what a planet wrapped in a metal spherical shell thousands of kilometers thick looks like. Such a magnificent scene, but also such a desolate one. , I don’t know how long people in this world have been living in this environment, but the heavy depression and desolation coming from the whole world is still enough to move people. I was silent for a moment, tilted my head slightly and looked at the nervous man. The young soldier who was wary of our group said: "Jin."

"What's wrong?" the other party said impatiently.

"...It's okay, take us to see your leader."

"The spaceship in front is here to pick you up, but Torulu and I should definitely follow."

Jin checked the weapons and led his insect comrades to the edge of the platform. A short, fat little spaceship stopped in front of him. I noticed that this spaceship with an extraordinary mission did not bring a frigate. It was quite strange, but I soon felt relieved: If it is used to pick up our group of people, what kind of frigates do you arrange?

The small transport ship doesn't look big, but the space inside is very wide. It seems that this thing also applies some kind of space expansion technology, but it is somewhat different from the empire's space expansion. You can still feel a sense of dissonance inside the ship. , besides us, there are some soldiers in the transport ship. Some of these soldiers are humans, some are insect-like alien life forms like Torulu, and some have never been seen before. They come from other races.

Obviously, the composition of this exile team is more complicated than we imagined. I really don’t know how many races it is made up of. From what we have seen so far, perhaps such a ghost fleet will bring us The moral pressure will be no less than that of the thousands of races in the civilized community - each of them carries a history of blood and tears, and this history of blood and tears must undoubtedly be paid for by the empire.

As the transport ship flew towards its destination, we could feel that every soldier around us was looking at us with extreme vigilance and fear. Of course, there was also deep-seated hatred mixed in, and these emotions enveloped us. It was obviously not very comfortable, but fortunately everyone kept calm, which saved us a lot of trouble. I started to thank Lin Xue again for his prediction, otherwise we might not have had a violent incident at this time...

The spacecraft flew quietly for more than ten minutes in the dim twilight, and finally landed at a place... we didn't know anyway. An unusually tall and thin female officer met us on the landing platform, and the young soldier and Tuo Lu Lu was ordered to stand by near the landing platform, and a few of us followed the female officer into a building made of alloy. This building still looked like a "lump" style like a curled up piece of meat. , the only information I got along the way was that this design style was created by Tolulu’s tribe, the Toberu tribe. Those alien life forms that look like evolved from insects possess amazing super technology. They are the backbone of the Ghost Fleet.

Everyone followed the female officer who led the way and walked around this huge metal fortress. The complicated passages inside seemed like an ant nest, which made people feel dizzy. Finally, we arrived at a huge hexagonal hall, and the female officer who led us nodded stiffly to us: "This is the parliament, you are waiting here."

After leaving such words, the other party immediately turned his head and left as if running away.

"It seems like we're not very popular."

Lilina laughed dryly with her cheeks tickled. I thought to myself, isn't this nonsense? According to the information revealed by the young soldier in a few words, after the collapse of the old empire, the mad apostles caused a lot of trouble to these fugitives, and they still do so to this day. We are chasing. People who don’t know will definitely confuse the New Empire with the Fallen Apostles. If we hadn’t opened fire first and the Ghost Fleet had chosen to escape instead of fighting to the death, the brains of both sides might have been beaten out by now. , do you still expect to receive a warm welcome under such circumstances?

In fact, when Sandora and I came in, we expected it to be even worse than it was now...

"Where is the parliament that the person mentioned just now?" My sister looked around and said curiously. This hall is quite large, at least equivalent to an indoor gymnasium. The surrounding walls are not the common gray-black alloy outside, but The ordinary white color makes the whole space look very bright. I feel much more comfortable in this environment. But apart from the brightness, I don’t see anyone in the hall, and there is no communication equipment. It is a completely empty room. , people can’t help but wonder what the parliament that the female officer mentioned before was about.

After waiting for several minutes, we all began to speculate whether the other party was planning to starve us, our mortal enemies, inside - of course this was impossible, Sandora was fully capable and courageous to carve out a passage from here. We went out, but just when we were about to lose our patience, the lights in the hall suddenly dimmed, and then we saw many moving light spots appearing in the air around us. These light spots gathered faster and faster in the center of the hall. , gradually formed a human shape... (To be continued)