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Star Alliance, Jieshen Galaxy, Inquisition Space Station.

"Huh............"

Zhen Jiling walked out of the room, stretched, and shook his ears and tail.

"I feel a little bored staying here all the time. I don't know when big brother will take Kallen out to play again."

While muttering to himself, Zhen Jiling flipped through the personal terminal at hand.

Thanks to Zhen Jiling's efforts, the Flash Series has now become the most famous event in the Star Alliance. Many Star Alliance residents will come to the space station to watch the annual Flash Competition and cheer for the horse girls. From this point of view, Zhen Jiling's performance is quite good. Although Duanmu Huai's series of operations against the Dark Elves made the Star Alliance have a lot of resistance to the Inquisition, most people in the Star Alliance are still not resistant to the Inquisition.

Or, from a diplomatic perspective, is this the only way to go?

If Duanmu Huai gave instructions to annex the Star Alliance, then Zhen Jiling might use other means, but Duanmu Huai just said that if it didn't come to provoke the Tribunal, he would ignore it, so Zhen Jiling could only maintain a certain degree of diplomatic relations with the Star Alliance like this.

But this is also her job.

Thinking of this, Zhen Jiling turned around and planned to go to the cafe to kill time. At this time, the conversation between the two men standing in front of the vending machine across the corridor caught her attention.

"Are you still studying that strange signal?"

"Yeah, to be honest, I think it's just something made up by some entertainment news. In fact, there is no such thing... Ghost signals are all made up to scare people."

"What do you think?"

"Maybe it's the radiation interference caused by the supernova explosion? Forget it, just treat it as a job. By the way, do you know that the Quarian fleet disappeared?"

"Missing? Really missing?"

"Yes, our institute has always been in contact with the Quarian fleet. They suddenly disappeared without a trace before, and no one knows where they went. Oh, by the way, the Geth on the Quarian home planet also disappeared, which is really strange."

Quillians?

Hearing this, Zhen Jiling immediately pricked up her ears. She has been working in the Star Alliance and naturally knows the situation of aliens here. Quarians are one of them. They are humanoid creatures. Originally, the Quarians lived on a normal planet, but later the AI ​​designed by the Quarians rebelled and occupied their planet, and the Quarians had to leave their homes and wander around the universe on battleships.

When the Inquisition fought against the Reapers, only the Quarians, who had no home and wandered around the stars, barely escaped.

From a certain perspective, having no home means that your home will not be stolen, which seems to be good?

After that, the Star Alliance was the only one in power, but it had nothing to do with the Quarians. They still wandered between the stars, occasionally sending people out to travel, or buying some rare things back. Zhen Jiling had never seen the Quarians in the Inquisition's space station, and they seemed unwilling to come to such a place.

And now they suddenly disappeared...

Thinking of this, Zhen Jiling's eyes turned and he smiled and came over.

"Hello, two guests, are you having fun?"

"Ah, it's the cute Kallen!"

Hearing Zhen Jiling's words, the two men were stunned for a moment, and when they turned their heads to look at the petite and cute horse girl in front of them, they immediately showed an excited expression as if they saw an idol.

"Yes, it's Karen, hello, guests."

"No, no, no, it's our honor to travel here... We have a very pleasant time, really!"

"That's good, then what were you two talking about just now?"

"Hey? This..."

"If you don't mind, can you tell Karen?"

Facing the cute aura of Zhen Ji Ling, who was pressing on, the two mortals had no way to resist.

So soon, Duanmu Huai received a report from Zhen Ji Ling.

"The unusual movement of the Star Alliance?"

Staring at Zhen Ji Ling on the screen, Duanmu Huai was somewhat surprised, but it didn't seem to be particularly unexpected.

It must be said that Zhen Ji Ling acted quickly. After realizing that something was wrong, she immediately sent people to collect intelligence. Although Zhen Ji Ling didn't have a tough character like Lumiel who could call the wind and rain on the Internet, the charm of "cute Karen" allowed Zhen Ji Ling to get the answer directly in person without going through the Internet.

After all, full charm is really strong, and she also knows how to use it.

According to Zhen Jiling's investigation, a strange thing surfaced.

First of all, the Star Alliance received a strange signal some time ago. No one could tell what the signal was. Moreover, the signal was specially processed and extremely hidden, and the source could not be traced. The signal itself did not cause any impact on the Star Alliance. At most, it brought a little noise and interference during the superluminal communication.

It's just that such a signal appeared inexplicably, and it was encrypted, so it naturally needed to be investigated.

The Star Alliance immediately suspected that it was the remnants of the Geth. After all, if you want to say who is the best in the field of electronic encryption, then the Geth AI group is naturally the first choice.

But of course they couldn't go looking for the geth. After all, after the Reaper War, most of the geth were almost destroyed, and the only two or three remaining kittens were nowhere to be found. Although the Star Alliance has been searching, this star field is so large, and the geth are robots. If they really want to be cruel, they can stay on any planet.

So the Star Alliance's pursuit has not yielded much results.

They suspect that this signal is related to the geth, so the easiest way is to find their creator, the quarians.

Although the quarians wander around the world, because their fleet is huge, they need supplies and repairs. Even after the Reaper War, the quarians suffered heavy casualties, but some of their fleets survived. And their whereabouts are naturally under the control of the Star Alliance.

As a result, when the Star Alliance sent people to seek help from the quarians, they were surprised to find that the quarian fleet had disappeared.

The reason why Zhen Ji Ling suspected that this matter was related to the signal was because the Star Alliance had a clear record of the date when the quarian fleet replenished supplies. From the last record, the quarian fleet disappeared when the strange signal appeared.

Could it be that the Quarian fleet has something to do with this signal?

"I knew that this group of damned aliens was not trustworthy. They should have been killed at the beginning."

Duanmu Huai snorted coldly.

"Where did they go? The mass transmitters were all destroyed. They can only leave the system through the stargate."

"According to the Star Alliance investigation, the stargate does have the departure record of the Quarian fleet, but their destination is a coordinate point in an unexplored area... Out of caution, the Star Alliance sent the Normandy to track them."

"Any news?"

"Not yet."

Zhen Ji Ling shook her head. She was a civilian staff member in the Inquisition and was not qualified to mobilize the army. In other words, the only people Zhen Ji Ling could mobilize were the Night Guards and angel monsters in her space station. Therefore, Zhen Ji Ling was not qualified to send the Inquisition fleet to search for where the Quarians had gone. Only Duanmu Huai and Ekot had this power.

"Hmm..."

Duanmu Huai touched his chin. Strictly speaking, this didn't seem to be a big deal, but the sudden disappearance of the Quarian fleet gave Duanmu Huai a bad feeling.

As a god, his intuition is pretty accurate most of the time.

"Give me the coordinates, I'll ask Ekote to send a reconnaissance fleet to see what the aliens are doing, and that signal... well, Lumiel should be able to solve it."

"Okay, big brother."

It turns out that some things really need to be done by professionals.

Ten minutes after Duanmu Huai called Lumiel, the latter had successfully cracked the mysterious ghost signal.

However...

"This seems to be some kind of calling signal, which is adaptive, so it can't be captured accurately."

"Call? Can you find the source of this signal?"

"Of course... Although the other party was very cautious and passed through several layers of transit, it still retained the signal characteristics. I have locked the source of the signal."

"Oh? Where?"

Soon, a line of numbers that Duanmu Huai seemed to be familiar with appeared from Lumiel's mouth.

"……………I seem to have heard this number before?"

"It's the place where the Quarry fleet went before... Big brother."

Zhen Jiling was speechless. He had just explained it.

"Oh, yes, it's there. So as expected, the aliens did something weird."

Duanmu Huai patted his forehead.

"Ding---!"

However, at this moment, the alarm sounded, and at the same time, Lumiel's face changed slightly.

"What's going on?"

"The mysterious signal has been greatly enhanced!"

"Enhance? Is there any effect?"

"No, it seems to be just a simple communication signal... The communication record has been intercepted, waiting for me to decode..."

While talking, Lumiel reached out and put it on the keyboard, and then Duanmu Huai saw the screen in front of her began to quickly pop up lines of code--well, Duanmu Huai couldn't understand this thing, but he didn't need to understand it, he just needed the result.

"Decoding completed."

Lummiel reached out and tapped on the keyboard. Soon, a data packet was opened, and then intermittent text appeared in it.

[………Please ##………Please wait ###………Please wait………]

[Unexpected Enemy Protocol has taken effect]

[Unlock all functions………Assimilate synthesis units………Analyze internal database………]

[Warning: The damage to the Milky Way has reached a catastrophic level and has been infected by organic and non-compliant mechanical civilizations]

[Begin to execute Milky Way purification………Start the purification center………]

…………………

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What the hell is this?

Seeing this, Duanmu Huai was stunned for a moment, and then the next moment, he directly issued an order.

"Get ready to go, I want to see what the hell is that!"