Text Chapter 1603 Cheng Xuansu's Judgment

Two days later, at the edge of the Dragon Snake Starfield, where the Firefly was stationed.

Thinking back to the end of the Star Sea Republic more than a thousand years ago, the predecessor of the Firefly was the latest generation of deep space exploration ships.

The monks of the Republic at that time had placed high hopes on this experimental ship. They filled the round, whale-like hull with all the magic weapons of the Empire era, the relic technologies of the prehistoric era, and all the hopes of the people that the Republic could unearth.

This experimental ship was originally going to complete one of the greatest missions. Starting from the heart of human civilization, it will explore the four directions of the Star Sea to find the worlds lost in the "Doomsday Change" war that caused the Star Sea Empire to collapse, and let them rejoin the Star Sea Republic. Family, let's create a more brilliant human civilization together!

When the huge hull of the Firefly slid out of the space dock for the first time, and a total of ninety-nine power units arranged in a diamond shape burst out the most dazzling blue light at the same time, among all the cheering monks of the Republic present, no matter how proficient in deduction and calculation None of them thought of the extremely absurd fate of this experimental ship in the future.

The first official voyage of the Firefly was not for exploration and discovery, but for concealment and exile.

On the long road of exile for thousands of years, at the beginning, the Firefly did rely on its own powerful detection magic weapon to discover many worlds, and got the support of the practitioners in these worlds.

Countless cultivators who are unwilling to submit to the rule of the empire put all their belongings, supernatural powers, and magic weapons into dazzling starships of different styles, and after simple technological transformation, these little The starship is connected to the main body of the Firefly, just like a pot vine attached to a big ship, or a small fish swimming with a blue whale.

The advanced star sea jumping matrix on the Firefly can release a special protective light film to avoid collision and fusion accidents that are very likely to occur when two starships jump in the star sea at close range.

This kind of technology made it possible for hundreds of starships to closely fit together and jump at the same time, and also constructed the basic form of the Firefly for hundreds of years later.

At its peak, with the "Star Sea Republic's deep space exploration test ship" Firefly as the center, nearly 600 starships of all sizes were attached to the surroundings, forming an extremely large exile team with a total population of more than 500 million.

The good times didn't last long. The too bloated structure and redundant internal control system greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Firefly. The number of starships has also dropped from more than 600 to less than 300, and most of them are powerless, uninhabitable, empty iron coffins, barely dragged in the large army, and the population has dropped by 80% %, on the brink of collapse.

Before encountering Star Federation, Firefly was like a half-rotten whale, drifting in the depths of the sea of ​​stars, knowing that her body was slowly decaying, but unable to get rid of any "iron coffin" , because in the star sea where resources are scarce, even from completely scrapped starships, a lot of useful rags can be dismantled to help them survive for a while.

Yes, for the Firefly and the "orthodox government" of the Star Sea Republic at that time, what else could they do except linger on?

It is undoubtedly a protracted and huge project to overhaul such a starship or "a bunch" of starships that have been in exile for thousands of years, are riddled with holes, rusty, and almost scrapped. How much smaller is the ship.

Fortunately, compared to the "hillies" on the edge of the star sea like the Star Federation, the Firefly from the center of the star sea still has a little bit of undisturbed wealth.

The government-in-exile exchanged a large amount of resources from the Xingyao Federation with the excellent technology and magical secrets from the center of the Star Sea, and built a large-scale or "one" large-scale dock and floating maintenance base station on the edge of the Dragon Snake Star Field. maintenance.

They even directly purchased a large number of starships from the Federation of Stars. After a little modification, they were connected to their own bodies to increase the space for activities and improve the quality of life. No matter how toothy and grotesque the shape is, it does not affect its sailing ability.

Therefore, looking from a distance from the transport ship transporting resources, the Firefly, which is illuminated by the flame-like red light of the red giant star at this moment, does not look like a firefly, but hundreds of fireflies gathered together, surrounded by a group of fireflies. Surrounded by circular orbits, docks, floating starports, and maintenance base stations.

Hundreds of transport ships are continuously delivering supplies to them, and hundreds of thousands of maintenance engineers are wearing crystal armor, working hard in the cold vacuum outside the Firefly, like a group of desperately fighting in the sea of ​​stars. Struggling ants.

A seemingly ordinary transport ship without any markings on the outside passed through a circular orbital dock, and passed a starship that had long been scrapped and was stripped from the main body of the Firefly. It was about to be completely dismantled, and slowly moved towards the The body of the ship, that is, the deep space exploration ship that escaped from the extreme sky world more than a thousand years ago, sailed away.

Now, this deep space exploration ship has long been beyond recognition, with hundreds of traffic hoses densely connected to the outer shell, firmly connecting it with other starships around it, like a heart with countless blood vessels extending out.

The transport ship was driving unhurriedly, and now it has completely driven into the interior of the Firefly. Countless near-defense ship guns are rotating deftly in all directions, and the invisible locked black light flashes past it from time to time. There are also hundreds of heavily armed The armorer was floating in the vacuum, and all the shoulder-mounted magnetic cannons were unsealed. The muzzle of the guns flickered with stars from time to time. Behind the cold mask, there seemed to be sharp eyes staring at the transport ship.

The transport ship slipped into a secret dock a few kilometers away from the "heart" of the Firefly.

"Chi..."

The huge air-tight gate closed slowly, like the steel giant's upper and lower rows of teeth biting tightly together.

Inside the dock, there are hundreds of fully armed armor masters who look like they are facing a big enemy.

They are all the secret police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the government-in-exile, and they have come to welcome a special batch of "cargo".

The hatch at the rear of the transport ship opened downwards, revealing a ladder and a cargo conveyor belt.

Some members of the "General Election Observation Team" were tied up and escorted down, while the other part, considered to be more dangerous "traitors", was packed in special box-type restraints and sent down through a freight conveyor belt.

Among all the people present, only a very small number did not wear crystal armor.

Including a middle-aged woman wearing a black windbreaker with a stern face and a crippled left eye that was replaced with three scarlet crystal eyes.

She is Cheng Xuansu, the leader of the special investigation team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the government-in-exile, and the commander of this arrest operation.

"etc!"

When most of the prisoners were escorted to the shuttle bus inside the starship and were about to be sent to the secret cell, Cheng Xuansu suddenly called a stop, and the three crystal eyes installed on the same circular base slowly rotated and released. A faint red glow shot out at a prisoner who was locked in a box restraint.

That's... Tang Xiaoxing!

"Team leader!"

The secret police escorting Tang Xiaoxing stood at attention.

Cheng Xuansu carefully looked at Tang Xiaoxing who was in a deep sleep, and said lightly, "I will repeat the process of you arresting Tang Xiaoxing again. Such a powerless craftsman has been captured twice by you." Escape?"

"Yes."

The secret police hesitated for a moment, and said, "The first time we used the 'shock bomb' to try to arrest her after knocking her unconscious, who knew that she was not affected by the shock bomb, slipped away quietly, and even set a trap , severely injured six of our team members; the second time we had already captured her, who knew that a mysterious tactical team suddenly popped up and rescued her again; until the third time, with the cooperation of the Four Saints Chamber of Commerce, we , continuously narrowed the encirclement, and through the monitoring eyes of Fish Dragon City, according to her walking posture, she locked her hiding place."

"The other party seems to have used the strategy of 'striking from the east to attack the west'. Most of the people are outside to circle around with us. There are not many people around Tang Xiaoxing. Seeing that the situation is not good, we can only give up on Tang Xiaoxing to break through."

Cheng Xuansu asked blankly: "From the beginning to the end, how long did it take for Tang Xiaoxing to escape your control?"

The secret police replied: "No more than six hours!"

"Six hours?"

Cheng Xuansu sneered, "Besides, the other party has an 'anti-tracking expert' who has found out all the tracking and locking chips we set on Tang Xiaoxing's body?"

The secret police hesitated for a moment: "Yes."

Cheng Xuansu looked at his subordinates coldly, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "Help me prepare a sterile room, and then call two female policemen over, I want to check her body."

The secret policeman was slightly stunned and said: "When we were in Yulong City, we had already scanned everything, and there was nothing on her."

Cheng Xuansu looked at his subordinates.

The secret police officer trembled slightly, gasped and said, "I understand, prepare the sterile room now!"

After half an hour.

Cheng Xuansu came out of the sterile room, holding a small glass bottle in his hand, and inside the bottle lay a small flesh-red bead with a slight blood color.

"This is"

The secret police in charge of arresting and escorting Tang Xiaoxing were sweating profusely.

"An anti-tracking expert must also be a tracking expert. You don't understand such a simple truth?"

Cheng Xuansu frowned and looked at his subordinates, "I have carefully studied the action report you sent back yesterday. The person who was with Tang Xiaoxing at the beginning is obviously a real master, and the team that raided you later is also a training team. Veteran experts, do you really think that Tang Xiaoxing would spit it out so easily if he fell into their hands?" (To be continued.)