Chapter 552 The Harvesters Are Coming?

? Shepard, Miranda, Galas, Jacob, Cayden, etc., as well as other important crew members of the Normandy II, all gathered in this not too big laboratory. After walking around in a big circle, except not to affect Dr. Modine's actions, dozens of people stood full, and almost everyone who could come came, ready to witness this historic moment!

And those who need to stick to their posts and cannot come, are also staring at the holographic image of the laboratory in different places on the spacecraft, always paying attention to what is about to happen here.

Of course, little Annie, who likes to join in the fun, must be here too!

It's just that she didn't huddle with those guys. She has a good relationship with Dr. Modine, and she is also loved by the crooked star, so she just lay down on the doctor's swivel chair like that. , hugging his little bear and watching that Uncle Modine fix those troublesome things.

In fact, as long as they come to ask Her Lady Queen Anne, she can solve the interrogation of prisoners like this with a wave of her hand, so there is no need to be so troublesome!

"It should be almost ready, Commander Shepard, I have something to report to you first..."

"Last night, I compared the DNA structure of these collectors with all currently known races in the galaxy, and then I found that they are indeed the Protos who left all kinds of relics, beacons and wisdom enlightenment to all races in our galaxy. Immortal!"

"I'm pretty sure about that!"

Having said that, Modin glanced at the crew members and marines around him, thought for a while, and then continued:

"So, if the Protheans were really wiped out by the Reapers..."

"I'm sorry! Commander, I'm relatively pessimistic about whether we can crush the Reapers' conspiracy or prevent them from invading the galaxy..."

He has been thinking about this matter for a long time since he got the result last night.

In the view of Dr. Modin, a Salarian, since the Protheans who were as powerful as the previous era were defeated by the reapers and transformed into thug-like collectors, then they, who inherit the Prothean ruins, are blessed What hope do the various races of the galaxy's castle that have developed have? You must know that the territory of the Milky Way that has been explored by the Citadel is only 3% of the total, and it must be far from reaching the heyday of the Proxians. If the Proxians were really harvested by the Reapers If genocide and civilization collapse, then this thing is really terrible.

Of course, although it can be confirmed that the collector is the Prothean, but whether the collector and the reaper are related, then,

Presumably, the most critical first-hand evidence will be obtained soon.

Because, their Commander Shepard and others captured a leader of the collectors, and the information obtained from the other party's brain must be very valuable and credible!

"I can already confirm that these collectors are the subordinates of the Reapers, and I firmly believe in the existence of the Reapers. I even understand their horror better than all of you!"

"But, no matter what, I won't compromise just because they are strong, I will keep fighting hard, just like we have always done before!"

"So, Dr. Modine, please begin!"

Shepard has long said about the existence of the Reaper, but others don't believe her very much, and those who are willing to believe in her have no ability to change anything... That's why she wasted a lot of time looking for the so-called Evidence' matter, watching the threat of the Reaper getting closer and helpless...

However, it is different now, she will soon be able to obtain the most direct evidence, if even this cannot convince some guys, then she really has nothing to do...

They have really tried their best and made everything to the extreme! Her heroic title was earned by the blood and sweat of countless classmates. Their hard work is by no means as simple as the outside world advertises!

Over the years, many of her comrades who fought together fell on the road against Saren, against the geth and the overlord...Even in the colonies of 'Horizon', they have sacrificed several members of the Marine Corps...Fortunately , they were lucky enough to win a great victory in this mission!

Not only did they shoot down the enemy's spacecraft, but they also captured many "alive" Collector captives alive. It really can't be expected that they will do better than they are now.

"I can't wait now!"

Standing directly in front of the instrument that the doctor was fiddling with, Shepard raised his hand to signal to Dr. Modine that he can start now.

"All right!"

"Now I'm starting to stimulate and activate part of the brain and nerves of the leader of the collector, putting it in a dream-like low-frequency state... and then projecting his consciousness into this holographic device, which will affect its judgment and thinking, and then you can have a normal conversation with him, basically... what do you ask, and what does it answer?"

"But you have to be quick!"

"I can't guarantee how long this state can last... Presumably you also know that the strength of this collector is too strong, whether it is physical strength, mental strength, or other abilities, etc. It is a very high value, completely beyond our imagination!"

"I think you'd better not have more than ten minutes?"

Dr. Modine, a Salarian, was manipulating the equipment he had been playing with all night, while carefully admonishing Shepard in the laboratory.

Even after a busy night, he didn't feel sleepy, because...they Salari are amphibious warm-blooded creatures with extremely active metabolism. The extremely high metabolism makes their life span only about forty years old. , It also makes their race often only need to sleep for an hour a day to ensure abundant physical strength and vigorous energy!

Calculated in this way, it seems that the waking time of the Salari clan is a little longer than that of humans?

Therefore, people on Earth laugh at the short lifespan of the Salaris, but in fact it is not advisable. The waking hours of the Salaris are not at all shorter than the Earthlings who have to rest for at least eight hours a day! Therefore, although he was busy for a long time last night, Dr. Modin quickly recovered due to an hour's rest in the morning, and devoted himself to today's important experiment energetically.

"Are you ready? I'm about to start!"

After manipulating on the holographic workbench for a while, Modin raised one of his fingers, turned it in front of the start button, hesitated for a moment, and then turned around and asked again.

"Trust me, it won't take that long!"

It was nothing more than a few key questions, so Shepard impatiently urged the Salarian, who had become a little slow-tempered after entering old age, to start quickly.

"..."

Nodding, Dr. Modine didn't say anything more. He checked his equipment again on the holographic display and found that there was no abnormality in the feedback signal. He took a deep breath and pressed a button representing Start button.

beep! beep!

A signal light began to flash and light up, and soon, a holographic image of a monster identical to the leader of the Collectors being held in the frozen medical bay was projected in front of an instrument in front of Shepard.

‘δζζσπ, θκλγ…’

As soon as the holographic image of the leader of the collectors appeared, he turned his head and looked around suspiciously, and then asked Shepard who was standing in front of it.

"Itti, translate my conversation with it in real time!"

Frowning slightly, Shepard gave an order to Normandy II's artificial intelligence EDI.

‘Yes, Commander Shepard! '

‘δζζσπ, θκλγ…’

'who are you? '

"It doesn't matter who we are, now, please tell me who you are, where you are from, and why you want to arrest us humans?!"

Shepard took two steps forward, almost in front of the General Collector who was in a daze, and asked with those two pairs of bright white eyes staring at the holographic image of the other party.

'I am the General of the Collectors...'

'We come from the core of the galaxy opposite the Omega IV repeater...'

'The human beings were captured...in order to build a giant Reaper in human form...'

"Sure enough, it's the reaper!"

"Now, please tell me about your relationship with the Protheans, and your relationship with the Reapers!"

Sure enough, after hearing the information he wanted to hear in the real-time translation by EDI, Shepard stretched out his hand and signaled everyone in the laboratory to keep quiet, then took another deep breath and asked loudly. road!

She believes that whether it is herself, the multi-tools of other crew members present, or the equipment of Normandy II, they are all recording what is happening now! Moreover, it is the ironclad evidence that they are about to submit to the case of the various races in the Divine Castle!

'us……'

"It's Proxian..."

'We lost the battle with the Reapers, they transformed us and gave us a mission...'

'Wait...strange...what's going on? '

After saying these words, less than two minutes later, the holographic image of the Collector General began to fluctuate unsteadily. Obviously, it seemed to have noticed something was wrong.

"Commander Shepard, my calculations are wrong!"

"Its brain thinking and neurons suddenly became active, looking at these data, it is really amazing... So, Commander, you better hurry up, this guy is too strong, it is trying to get rid of the power I imposed The dream for it?"

Seeing that things had changed, Modin quickly started to operate on his instrument.

This situation really exceeded his expectations. Originally, he thought he could control the other party for at least ten minutes, and those ten minutes were just his conservative statement, but who would have thought that the other party would be able to control the other party in less than two days? Within minutes, there was a tendency to break free from his control?

"What mission?!"

With a look in his eyes, Shepard stared at the pair of eyes of the other party with sharp eyes, and asked again sharply in a somewhat hasty tone.

'Preliminary scouting and assessment of the various races in the galaxy...'

'Get ready for the 50,000-year harvest...'

With the efforts of Dr. Modine, the holographic image of General Collector became stable again.

"Commander, please hurry up!!"

While working hard to operate this, Dr. Modine, a Salarian who has always given the image of being unhurried and unhurried, unexpectedly warned Shepard anxiously while typing the holographic buttons one by one. Obviously, He seemed a little out of control.

"Where are the Reapers? When did they harvest the galaxy, where did they come from, how many are there, and what are the Reapers?!"

Knowing the neutrality of the matter, Shepard didn't dare to delay any longer, and asked the most important questions directly! As long as they know this, they can know what they should do next, or let all the races in the galaxy know how to guard against those Reapers!

'In the dark universe beyond the galaxy...'

'Well... who are you? '

"Answer the question I just asked right now!!"

Shepard ignored the other party's question, and directly yelled fiercely again.

'The harvest... the harvest has begun...'

'The Citadel space station cannot be controlled...Reapers, will use the Batarian alpha mass repeater...'

'The Reaper... Infinity...'

"They are a race of advanced mechanical life created by Leviathan... They are the source of the nightmare of destruction for the Milky Way every 50,000 years... Their harvesting lasted for hundreds of millions of years..."

'Well……? '

'No! You primitive races, don't want to control me! ! ! '

At this time, the collector's holographic image began to tremble violently, and the data on the holographic screen in front of Dr. Modine also showed red alarm modules one after another!

"It doesn't matter, we've got everything we want to know!"

After the most critical questions were obtained, Shepard sneered and looked at the ferocious collector monster. It was too late for the other party to break free, and she had already obtained everything she wanted to know!

'Hahaha……'

'Stupid human beings! What you are doing now will only accelerate your demise! '

'My failure has increased your threat level...the harvest has officially begun...they have come...'

After a quick laugh, the holographic image of General Collector suddenly disappeared. At the same time, the holographic screen in front of Modin was full of red warning signs. Now, the other party has completely lost control.

"what happened?!"

Seeing this change, Shepard quickly turned to look at Dr. Modine.

However, without waiting for the other party to check the equipment or answer, the frozen hibernation chamber that held the Collector General burst open, and then the Collector General with several tentacled lower limbs broke free from the equipment that bound it one by one. Jumped out of it and floated under the ceiling of the not too high cabin.

"Aaagh!!"

At the same time as a roar sounded, the opponent's four pale eyes suddenly lit up with strong blue and white light!

"Kill it! No!!"

"Ugh!!"

"my head!!!"

"quick….."

However, before Shepard and the other marines present took out their weapons, opened the safety and loaded them to shoot, they, including Shepard, squatted down with their heads in their arms!

Woo~! Woo~! Woo~!

At the same time, a sharp siren sounded throughout the Normandy II, and the red warning lights were flashing wildly. Without Shepard's order, EDI issued a danger warning to the rest of the ship.

Obviously, the Collector General launched a mental attack on everyone in this laboratory, even if it cannot directly control Shepard and others, but it emits high-frequency brain waves to torture or burn those Protheans who are relative to them. In other words, the brains of low-level primitive race creatures should be more than enough!

Boom! !

With a gunshot, flying in the low air, the head of General Collector, who was only a little distance from the ceiling, was pierced through a hole the size of a fist in an instant...

Boom!

No one can live after their brains have been opened, not even General Collector! Therefore, it could only collapse in the laboratory of Normandy II aggrievedly.

"call……"

"Well done, Annie!"

After standing up clutching his splitting headache, Shepard didn't bother to ask why the little guy wasn't affected by the enemy's psychic power attack, but took a hard look at the dead man lying on the metal deck. After the dead collector monster, he breathed a sigh of relief and praised the little girl.

They were saved by a little guy again. If the other party didn't shoot in time, things would definitely get worse.

"You're welcome!"

Throwing aside the weapon in her hand that was picked up from someone else just now, Anne ignored those idiots who were squatting or lying on the deck holding their heads and howling, and ran directly to the General Collector who fell down. , kicked the opponent's head with his own foot, as if he wanted to confirm whether the opponent was dead or not?

Actually, this monster's mental attack is very powerful. If she wasn't here, I'm afraid these unlucky guys would all be doomed!

‘Commander Shepard! '

‘It has just been detected that an unknown strong bioelectric wave was emitted by General Collector! '

Without waiting for Shepard and others to breathe a sigh of relief, the artificial intelligence EDI of Normandy II immediately turned off the alarm that had just sounded throughout the ship, and reported to Shepard at the same time.

"damn it!"

"It must be sent to the reaper or the collector! Come on, clown, find the nearest repeater, we have to go back to the Citadel immediately!"

'Follow orders! commander! '

Following Shepard's order, the voice of the coxswain clown came from a certain broadcasting device in the laboratory. However, judging from the tone of the other party, they must have been shocked by the accident just now.

"No!"

"We're not going to the Citadel, we're going to the Bahak Galaxy as fast as we can!!"

Shepard, who seemed to have thought of something without waiting for the clown to execute, changed his order again.

That's right, she's going to the place where the Batari α mass repeater is located, first find a way to destroy that repeater, and stop the pace of the Reapers from attacking the galaxy! Just now, when the General Gatherer was trying to control her, she also saw many terrible things in his mind, including those Reapers of course!

"Good idea, Shepard!"

"However, I'm going to report to my chief now, you can figure out what to do here!"

At this time, Miranda, who had obviously discovered something terrible in the mind of the collector just now, staggered and walked quickly out of the laboratory, clutching her head, regardless of her own state. Report what you know and the information you just obtained to the leader of Cerberus, the Phantom Man!

"Cut! How boring!"

"Those reapers have been doing one thing for hundreds of millions of years, they are really powerful..."

"If it were me, I wouldn't have to wait 50,000 years, and I wouldn't be able to bear it if I waited a day! But they can last so long... They don't want to eat delicious food and play fun, but they want to Regardless of whether this galaxy will be ruled by mechanical life, there must be something wrong with their brains!"

After mentioning the big head of the Collector General drooping on the deck again, Anne curled her lips in disdain.

Sure enough, no matter what world, there are always some weird guys, such as those Reapers and their leaders, they must be smart, right? What's the point of harvesting advanced organic races and doing such thankless things?

This Milky Way is so big, and there are more galaxies beyond the Milky Way. If the Reapers are so powerful, they can’t go anywhere to play. Why do they have to nest in this world and do the same thing for hundreds of millions of years?