Him and their stars

Afterwards, Ina carefully explained to Yu Lian the so-called URW46 ghost hunting incident and the clues behind the incident.

The beginning of the incident came from the strange and terrifying events that occurred in the star field here, such as the unmanned ghost ship floating in the universe, the strange evil shadow in the desert of the planet, the disappearance of residents in the space station, etc.

Yang Xiyi had been pursuing the truth that caused the New Yumen Incident, so he secretly issued monitoring orders to his own guard fleet, deep space exploration ships, and all observation stations. Therefore, in August last year, we successfully intercepted an alert for help from the great pirate "Red Wing General" Hromel.

This is also a famous pirate who can be ranked in the top twenty pirate bounty rankings. He is a native of Kimeyang and was born as an ace pilot of the Imperial Army. He even became a Brigadier General of the Imperial Army.

In this way, a person who becomes a general by virtue of his military exploits, even if he is a non-human race, will definitely be able to obtain the status of a lifelong noble after retirement, and he can also send his immediate family members directly into the citizen class. A soldier who was born into an ordinary family of a different race had a very successful career in the Imperial Army.

However, perhaps this was a liberal who yearned for poetry and distant places, but he launched a rebellion during an exploration operation in the New World under his leadership. He led his subordinates to steal six ships and all exploration materials, and fled.

...Speaking of this, smart people will probably know why big pirates, black (meow) giant chiefs, and some interstellar chaebol companies always have some information about the New World waterways that the officials are not clear about.

After all, this is a new continent, and there is no real-time source wave communication. All newly discovered star maps have to be sent back to the headquarters using the most traditional errand method. This naturally gives some people a chance to get their hands on it. Of course Hromel is one of them, but his play is relatively extreme.

This great pirate who has become a brigadier general of the Imperial Army may be the most professional newcomer in the industry in the past century. He gave himself the nickname "General Bloodwing" and used the loyal subordinates he pulled from the imperial army as the backbone. In only seven or eight years, he owned nearly forty ships of various sizes and two or three subordinates. Thousands of people.

Some people say that the star map that Hromel snatched contained an ancient enlightened space station that he had used the official power of the empire to find. He used this space station as a base to attract refugees and gather the stars, thus gathering a military force of this size.

He himself should be a very charismatic leader. Although he is not a psyker, there are sixteen known psykers under his command, the sixteen-winged general known as the Bloodwing General.

In short, if this development trend continues, it will only be a matter of time before Hromel grows into the kind of great pirate king who can chat and laugh at the same card table with the nobles of the imperial palace and the wealthy merchants of the alliance.

If he hadn't sent a so-called rescue alert in the first half of last year.

The alert was intercepted by the Zhang Heng scientific exploration ship that was exploring near the URW46 star field. This ship was not directly affiliated with the Community government or any company, but was supported by the Outer Rim Fleet and the Community Guard. Even the captain and chief scientific officer are Major General Azisha Mallowan's juniors in the "archaeological community".

After the Zhang Heng intercepted the information, it did not report it to Earth. Instead, it reported it to the Outer Rim Fleet Headquarters. As a result, Yang Xiyi, who was still serving as the deputy chief of staff and director of the intelligence department of the fleet at the time, naturally knew about it, and everyone in the Thirteenth Fleet also naturally knew about it.

The amount of information in this alert is still very rich. In the unknown galaxy, there is an undiscovered green planet on the background board, and a space fortress that has never been seen before. In addition, judging from the screen, the time when the Zhang Heng intercepted the rescue alert was only three to five minutes apart from the time when the other party sent it. Doesn't this mean that "General Bloodwing" may have a star field-level source wave communicator in his hands - or some other hyper-beam communication method.

In the New World, where communication basically relies on "beacon towers" and running errands, there is no need to go into details about the strategic advantages that having instant communication means means, right?

Then came the bug-shaped alien species that the Community Security Command and the Outer Rim Fleet had been searching for for more than a year.

At that time, the Imperial Lion's Den Fortress had not yet fallen, and the term "insect swarm" had not yet formed a universal consensus.

No matter which item the expected income is, it is enough for everyone to make a trip. Compared to the rewards he could get from Hromel, Wansha's treasure map was nothing.

After the negotiations between the Outer Rim Fleet and the Thirteenth Fleet were completed, Earth received the news with a "slight delay." However, except for Marshal Paris himself at the Military Command Headquarters and Major General Mallowan of the Community Guard, the big figures on Earth did not pay much attention. In other words, it would be a good thing if those Gonggun princes didn't pay attention to it.

All in all, with the tacit approval of Marshal Paris, the Outer Rim Fleet sent out scientific research ships and the Thirteenth Fleet sent out escort ships. The seven-month long-term exploration operation of the entire URW46 galaxy began.

Not only to hunt for treasure, but also to explore clues about the insect swarm. Of course, it would be great if we could rescue Hromel himself and find out the truth from his mouth.

Of course, it is not a one-time exploration, but multiple explorations in a month. Although this is for safety reasons, it also takes into account the upper limits of the psychic abilities of the two underage girls who are the main force in mystical exploration.

In the first three explorations, we have cleared more than half of the unknown channels in the URW star field. And this last exploration is the harvest period of results.

"Looking at you, you should have found the galaxy where Heromel is located from here, and you have gained a lot!" Yu Lian looked at his friends in the exploration team.

After this period of battles and adventures, these young comrades have grown up a lot and know that professionally trained officers cannot laugh casually. However, Yu Lian could still feel everyone's excitement, as if they had just won the lottery jackpot.

If they had just dug a big tomb and unearthed 2 billion worth of loot, they wouldn't be so happy.

"It went very smoothly." Ina nodded: "It was even smoother than when we dug the grave."

"It's not digging graves, it's archeology." Gan Jiang said.

"Although we took away the valuables, we still handled them protectively," Mo Xie said.

"If another hundred or two hundred years pass, and the URX46 star field becomes a serious administrative star unit, with a large population, safe waterways and prosperous trade, it will be converted into a museum immediately." Gan Jiang said.

"Yes, although we are members of the Sword Man Sect, we respect and protect the civilization of the ancient gods." Moye nodded.

"So you can't get along with this swordsman sect?" Gan Jiang glared at his sister.

"It's not hard to get through. I'm obviously trying to be complacent."

Yu Lian also feels that the difference between "archeology" and "tomb robbing" is actually very big. People who forcefully think that these are the same thing must be a fool. If there is time, we still need to clear up the source, but that is not the case now. When thinking about this issue.

He asked: "And where is the Bloodwing General Horomer himself?"

"There are no more Bloodwing Generals." Miss Ganjiang said.

"Well, when we arrived, we saw his dehydrated body. Even the blood was gone, so of course there was no general." Mo Xie shrugged his graceful nose, obviously feeling a little physically uncomfortable with the situation at that time.

Yu Lian felt that this was not very reasonable. If that guy's secret base was really attacked by a swarm of insects, theoretically nothing should be left.

"He locked himself in a cabin in the deepest part of the space station and locked the door on the sixth floor. When we arrived, the bug monsters were still attacking the door and had already reached the last two floors. ." Mengjiao said.

"What kind of bug?" Yu Lian asked.

"You saw it last time." As Ina said, she operated on her communication terminal and played a one-minute short video on the projection in the conference room.

In the spacious space station alley, dozens of springtails and hydralisks are attacking the door at the end of the passage with their sharp claws, teeth and highly corrosive acid.

As we all know, the claws of springtails can break armor, and the acid of hydralisers can corrode even battleship-level armor plates. If it were a normal armored door, it might have been breached by this time. However, these bugs dug and sprayed, but at least 70% of their attacks were reduced and fused by the halo flowing on the armored door.

This is an energy shield, and it vaguely has some mystical effects that are difficult for everyone to understand.

Now, even the two major countries are not wealthy enough to carry out occult treatment on the armor plate of the space station. Looking at the gorgeous interior decoration in the corridor, it can only show that this fortress is indeed the legacy of an enlightened person.

"It seems that Heromel really got an Enlightenment space city, but I don't know how it compares with the legendary free city in the Abyss Nebula?" Eleanor said.

It's probably still far behind. The free city in the Abyss Nebula is indeed an ancient ruin, but its main body is a huge space city comparable in size to the Sky Castle Fortress. The current "controllers" are far from figuring out the function of this space city under their control, but they have already made it the only "peaceful city" in the Abyss Nebula, and accommodated 20 to 30 million residents. .

You know, there is the Abyss Nebula where space monsters are infested, underworld bosses are rampant, and all kinds of cosmic cultists are causing chaos!

If Hromel really had mastered such a huge inheritance, he would have either become withdrawn or died countless times.

No, Ina replied: "It's very small, less than one-tenth the size of the new Lushun Star Port."

That's just the size of a small or medium-sized space station. Generally speaking, these are used as trading supply stations on branch waterways or semi-permanent scientific research stations.

Even if it is the space ruins of the Enlightened One, if it is only a small site, it must lack sufficient weapons. What's more, Hromel and his men may not have unlocked the weapons functions on the space station.

All in all, when everyone landed, the space station was basically occupied by various insect swarm monsters. Even the last rescue hatch is about to be breached. However, the members of the "Scientific Expedition Fleet" had already made preparations. The four psykers were also equipped with four self-produced Type 2 heraldic machines sent by Major General Mallowan, and then they attacked those insects. The group's annihilation battle was considered a near miss.

"They are indeed the most difficult-to-understand creatures I have ever seen." Meng Jiao said: "Those things like armored raptors can even tear apart the armor of the hussar mecha. The attack team I lead has Two comrades had their hands cut off. The acid sprayed by the basilisks actually flew three to four hundred meters away. Although it was still unable to break the shield of the heraldry machine, it actually connected with the shield vehicle we used to attack the enemy. The front can be corroded."

He paused and said with some fear: "What's more important is that those things are clearly the appearance of living creatures, but they seem to have no fear at all."

Although Brother Mengjiao seemed to be frightened, in fact, he was the most sturdy when clearing the insect swarm. The descendant of the Hanhai Sword, holding an alchemy horse-cutting sword that was about two meters long and about the same as a door panel that he got from Mr. Grant, was leading the way wearing a heraldry machine. With Ina's cover behind him and the buffs given to him by Gan Jiang and Mo Xie, he was literally bruised and bruised wherever he went. That's what a literal one-horse rider is invincible.

It was precisely because of his efforts that it took only five or six minutes for everyone to kill the swarm of insects attacking the last gate and rescue General Bloodwing.

It's just that it's his body.

The great pirate was miserable. He only knew that the place where he was hiding was very strong, but perhaps because of the emergency, he did not bring enough food, water and supplies. In addition, although he has been entrenched in this enlightened relic space station for a long time, he has not yet understood its internal functions, and of course he does not know how to serve as a life-support device in the cabin.

"We have checked. He actually died of loss of pressure in the cabin due to extreme weakness due to malnutrition," Moye said.

"The life-support device in the cabin failed, and the temperature and air pressure were out of control. However, before he died of the extreme cold, the miracles and blood vessels in his body burst due to the loss of pressure, and the blood floated out of the body."

How miserable! A great pirate king who was among the top ten on the bounty list, died in such pain and humiliation. One can imagine how desperate he was before he died.

Meng Jiao said: "In addition, we also found more than two thousand corpses on the space station, all of which were members of the Bloodwing Pirates. These gangsters were wiped out with little resistance. They were so powerful and terrifying, but they were not yet It’s really hard for me to imagine a creature that has the slightest sense of fear.”

"Isn't this normal? Wasps and ants don't have any fear," Mo Xie said.

"But have you ever seen such big wasps and ants?" Gan Jiang asked.

"Space plankton and amoebas are much larger than those insect swarms."

"Have you ever seen plankton and amoeba with teeth and claws?" Gan Jiang just retorted, and then he immediately felt that something was wrong: "No, those things are actually more alert than herbivores when they should be afraid. Yeah. At least I haven't encountered any herbivores that can fight."

Mo Xie nodded: "So, Junior Uncle, we basically believe that this alien species should be a swarm-like creature."

Yu Lian thought to himself, I already know. And I even talked and laughed with their master.

Of course, in order not to make his niece and friends sad, Yu Lian still nodded with a thoughtful expression: "Then what?"

"They may have the ability to sail in the universe." Ina paused and said in a stronger voice: "Yes, they can sail independently and do not need to be transported by starships."

Yu Lian raised his eyebrows slightly, while the other comrades looked at each other with different expressions. Although it is a bit unbelievable, the universe is so big that it is not surprising that any strange things happen. In comparison, everyone is more willing to consider from the military perspective, what impact will this alien monster similar to a swarm have on national defense security if it really has the ability to navigate independently.